Man, you are just a firehose of misinformation. It's really impressive. I started on Udemy with 0 people in my audience, and I still have 0 people outside of m

Man, you are just a firehose of misinformation. It's really impressive. I started on Udemy with 0 people in my audience, and I still have 0 people outside of my Udemy audience. I don't do any marketing or drive any external traffic. When you launch your course, you have a 30 - 90 window that you get scrutinized on. The biggest metrics the system is looking for are thumbnail CTR, enrollment rate (%), total minutes watched, and average rating. For most courses, the system doesn't need a lot of time to figure out that your course is not better than ones it already has (fewer people click it, fewer people are compelled to buy it, the ones that do watch less, and then fewer people feel compelled to rate it). No, they do NOT heavily favor people who drive their own audience, that makes no sense. They sell their courses for $10-20, so no one in their right mind is sending large amounts of hard earned email traffic to such a low ticket sale. You can literally go into the Marketplace Insights tool and see where they list the % of sales from "Instructor Promotions". It's rarely ever over 5% of total sales and most of that is from internal promotion emails to your other course students. One thing they DO favor is instructors who have multiple courses, because they know that your pool of students is more likely to buy other material from you so its an easier sell for them (remember, they spend $ to acquire the student and they do not breakeven if the student only buys 1 course). Talk to any successful Udemy instructor and they'll tell you that no they do not drive their own traffic. If they could drive that much traffic, they would make their course independently, charge a lot more, and make way more money.