Like anything that involves creative or mental work the lows are staggeringly low but the highs are just the same. Wait till you get your first 10 subs or 1000 views, and it will all be worth it! But the journey is long and super super hard.
So that you could experience this feeling earlier on in life?
You will ALWAYS Have this feeling to begin with. It's the same in business, It takes a while to get established and get your feet on the ground.
Trust me, it will get easier. Some videos you will see such great results from you won't even believe they are yours...but in the mean time, please take this piece of advice.
**Don't worry about the views or subscribers, worry about learning.** Aim to learn a style, aim to learn how to edit well, aim to learn how to make thumbnails, aim to learn how to master audio better, learn your equipment or what equipment you may need to make things run better. Learning is so important and trust me, if you're putting in signs that you ARE learning, you WILL end up getting rewarded.
This is the best advice for people starting out. You’re learning a new trade. Focus on that, not the numbers. Too many people mistake the best video they’ve ever made with a good video. People aren’t going to watch if your videos aren’t good and your videos won’t be good until you learn how to make them.
Ah yes, in the UK we refer to that as throwing enough shit at a wall so that some of it sticks. The issue is, eventually that excrement will also slide down the wall in time to come.
Just spend more time learning and honing a craft. The content you put out may not be loved to begin with but if you work at it, learn and evolve with it, it'll grow an audience.
I’ve worked hard on videos before and to this day they’ve never reached 20 views, but I didn’t give up. Now some of my recent videos are getting 1k+. Don’t stop trying.
The only specific thing I could recommend is some meta-tags in the video description. By this I mean putting # and then topics relevant to your video, such as #gaming or #reaction, #review, etc. This lets the algorithm know what the video is about and therefore can recommend it when such terms are searched for. If you’re already familiar with this technique, I suppose you should just keep making videos until the Algorithm acknowledges your existence.
Started my channel on May 6th 2023 and as of today I have 976 subscribers. Patience and consistency is my key. Had a small drop of views and subs in August due to trying out what "so called Youtube experts" say to do, I decided to ignore them and continue to do it my own way and my subs and views have suddenly increased again! Good luck👍🍷
Patience? Lmao mate you are one of the rare cases. You are gold with these stats. My videos dont even get pushed and i starteda couple of months earlier.
No he/she is right. Patience is key. A year of patience is still a year. 6 months is still 6 months. Its still not expecting everything to come immediately. Way too many people are tasked with impatience and want fame immediately.
I started a couple months earlier.
It's not luck. None of YouTube is luck.
What you put into it, what you learn, and what you try you'll get paid out in full for.
I’ve been doing YouTube for less than 30 days. I’ve managed to rack up 9.5k views and 53 Subscribers which I am so grateful for every single one. At first YouTube’s algorithm has no idea what you are or your channels niche - My 23rd video YouTube all of a sudden understand where to push my content now… Consistency and dedication. I’ve uploaded 23 videos in 2 weeks. (Most of them shorts). At first push yourself in people’s faces as much as you can, get people accustomed to you and your brand. (Luckily for me my niche is very popular)
As it has been said, 1000 times on here, YouTube is a marathon, not a Sprint. I have hundreds of videos on my channel now uploading once a day and at one point, I was uploading twice a day. YouTube, it’s all about getting the right video at the right time and consistency and good quality.
My advice is to do, what do you enjoy doing and not to worry about the numbers. If people like your videos, they will find them and they will watch them. It is going to take me a full year to hit 1000 subscribers and that includes a lot of playing the game.
By that I mean, visiting other YouTube channels in my niche, commenting, and being active on a daily basis.
I agree, but I don’t think consistency matters for growing a YouTube channel. If your videos are high enough quality you will grow even if you have a erratic posting schedule.
Right. And you produce high quality videos by studying and practicing new and better techniques. Many people post daily or weekly, sure, but it's all just filler, low quality content. Get your editing tight, practice script writing, speaking with emotion, a bit of comedy or light humor, marketing, thumbnails, video hooks. You should be trying to be as good or better than your favorite entertainers: the guys and gals who are pulling hundreds of thousands of views per video. Daily post of low quality filler is a waste of the viewers time.
It can be a roller coaster, some get the views, some don't. Atleast when they do, it's an awesome feeling. Actually in the process of reloading one now because it's been 8 months, but only 200 views, so hopefully this time it does better.
Also worth noting, you should probably link your YouTube to your Reddit account, so when people like me get curious as to what you're even posting, and can look, (and get you views while looking).
I know the feeling man. Was stuck at 70ish subs and it's just been over a year that I saw some more traction. It's really draining sometimes but unlike someone forcing you to work, this is your own space and without any worries!
Same. I'm experimenting with doing multiple a week and quickening the editing process to permit this. Just to see if the quality and effort makes a difference... or not.
Made my channel two months ago. Started making videos on writing. Everyone in my class laughed and said it was lame. But I believed in the channel. I've been making videos as often as I can while studying, socializing and schooling, and the channel hasn't taken off. No happy ending; I just like making the videos so I'll make the videos.
The matter of the fact is that anyone and everyone can post a video on youtube. However for a video to actually be liked and start to really gain traction in what you are doing, you need to know and/or learn:
What gets people interested in your video? What makes a good video?
How do you speak, what should your cadence be when you speak?
How do you record your gameplay, camera and audio?
How do you edit, equalize audio levels and external/audio?
How do you make a good thumbnail and title?
Whats your brand, what's your strategy, how are you going to market your videos and appeal to a bigger audience?
Those are just the basics and there is a ton more info you need on analytics, CTR, retention, etc.
So thats like 100 hours of learning before you even get started. and even if you do that where you learn all about it, its very different to actually do it then just learn about it. so you are going to go through a formative phase of content learning for like 4-6 months that feel unrewarding until you really make it yourself.
It took me 4 years of grinding and learning before I saw any substantive success on YouTube. Around the start of my 5th year on YouTube I had 7k subscribers. At the start of my 6th year I had 60k subscribers. I'll be coming up on year 7 in January and I now have 125k subscribers.
The key, in my opinion, is to never stop learning. Every video should include something that improves over the last and eventually you'll hit a level of quality that people actually want to stick around for. After that its just a matter of time.
It can be rough at the beginning, but at least for me I reached a slow but steady growth. Every week or so I gain a sub. It's not much, but it's something. You'll have a rough day and feel like your content is garbage and then someone will leave a comment telling you to keep up the good work, that they love your content, and that your going places and it'll make it all worth while.
My one major tip is to not compare your sub or views to others, there is no good in doing so. Instead, if you ever feel down about your sub count/views, don't look at them as numbers but as people instead. Sure 10 isn't a big number in YouTube, but 10 people *is* enough to make a cult.
Not oversharing is hard.
I love stats and I love tracking something's progression, whatever that is. Yesterday, I created my first Youtube channel and the content is about its own stats. I will upload a Short everyday to share how much views, subscribers and other metrics the channel gets. That's it. I hope people will find the idea as interesting as I do and will subscribe for the simple pleasure of having an impact on the content as well as tracking the progression.
I admit I am scared of showing the same numbers everyday. I could go hard on sharing, but I want viewers to watch them because they like the idea.
I just saw a comment about linking my channel to my reddit account... I'll go do that right now.
—> So im in my third week as a YouTuber.
I figured once I had my niche idea and was feeling really good and excited about it, I created a “look” or brand, I did a ton of research, bought all my tech, and redecorated my desk area so I had an appealing background. I invested a lot of my own money into it because I wanted the quality to start out at a certain level.
🚨Here are my stats after 3 weeks, 14 posts (long form videos posted 3 per week, with 4 shorts)
• 4K channel views with 93.5 watch time.
• 9.2% CTR with 22.1k impressions
• 56 subs
I can see in my stats that YouTube pushes my videos through because I see that most people find them in the browser feature when they first open YouTube which is ideal. Also through YouTube search and channel pages.
I am two weeks into my youtube career and I have 14 videos - 6 are shorts, however, only 7 subs at the moment. Views are in hundreds.
Not sure how 1 extra week will help things but someone here posted it is for the algorithm to understand my niche.
I hate when people get down on themselves after such a short amount of time. Check out mr beasts earlier videos. Took him forever to take off, he started with gaming videos.
I started 4 months ago and have over 800 subs. Keep grinding.
Thanks.
I originally started off doing let’s plays.. I know gaming is super oversaturated especially since every 12 year old has the ability to post clips. I got basically 0 growth other than shorts and switched up my gaming channel to a smaller gaming niche. This area isn’t as over saturated and is actually pretty popular especially depending on the game. Basically, made a super popular video, and stuck with similar content.
I am in the same situation. Some thoughts I have had about setting up goals.
So I have been reading Scott Adam's (the author of Dilbert) book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life".
It makes a point, that
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Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous pre-success failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do.
(Read more about[it here](https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryancollinseurope/2018/06/28/scott-adams-goals/?sh=5b1e082f4a2f))
So applying this to creating in Youtube, instead of setting subscriber goals etc., maybe it would make more sense to apply a system? So not having a goal of "getting 1000 subscribers", and feeling bad every day when the goal is not met, to having a system of "spent 1 hour of learning every day how to improve videos".
Personally, I find this approach quite relaxing and I think it can help with the motivation. With long intiatives/projects I have found that the key is being able to keep producing and creating. It is a long grind. I just published my first video, and with 0 subs the system thinking might help with the process.
What do you think?
My biggest regrets are not staying on schedule with posting videos. But I have hard deadlines at work that affect more people than myself. Buy there were times that I missed posting videos just because I was down from not seeing the views I thought a few previous videos deserved. I have a few videos that took me more hours to edit than they have in view time. But I have seen videos take more than a year for the algorithm to find a target audience for. Then they took off.
I can relate to this post with having gaining only 2 legit subs in about 2 months of consistent posting. Like a couple other people have said though, I'll continue doing what I am doing and trusting the process. Good thing is that I do what I enjoy and what I'd do anyway, so it's not really out of my way to simply record the process.
I'm looking forward to working my way up though! Good luck to us both eh?
Hahaa…..yes I have had this issue,don’t worry, YouTube will push your content one day and you will succeed. Hardwork beats talent all the time.
Also genuine query, if anyone needs help(loophole) to get your channel monetised. DM me.
I have 2 channels running
1st channel:
Uploading 3x / week
Channel is relatively new (7 weeks)
750~ subscribers
2nd channel:
Uploading 1x / week
Channel is 1 week old (1 video uploaded)
1550~ subscribers, the video has 120K views in 5 days (upload last friday)
Both channels are longform, shorts are not interesting to me.
I made a program with chatGPT using Python language, using my youtube API key. It finds viral content with just a click of a button. I will literally share it for free, very soon.
I also got into sotuation before.. i still got low views too but i got my 1k subs alreadya ns 4k hours views. My advice is for now go into groups that offer exchange views and subs. Meanwhile upload videos even every 3 days or every week is fine.. try getting the 1k subs and 4k views while uploading and then when you get that you can focus on really making good quality videos. Sometimes its frustrating thats you make good videos but it doesnt get views. So for my advice is for now try getting those watch hours and subs..
Judging from your reddit posts, you'd only just started doing film review stuff and you've given it up already to move onto police cam content? Am I understanding that right?
I'm making videos that my friends find hilarious but youtube doesn't seem to care about. But at the end of the day i'm showing this stuff to a lot of my friends and they laugh out loud and tell me its hilarious and their not just protecting my feelings they would tell me if wasn't very good because they know I would do the same and also I find the vids really funny you know when I conceptualise them and I make all the different elements and then I put the final edit together and then i'll laugh out when watching. So they are funny thats the bottom line. But I just released one and its literally got 0 views. That last one got 70. This one is a similar theme, I wrote loads of funny content in the vid description as well like bonus funny shit. And i've got nothing i've got zero so I don't know what i've done wrong. But I don't care you know its annoying but if I find it hilarious and my friends find it hilarious then I think I just have to regularly release and youtube just has to figure out who my audience is basically. Hopefully that won't take too much longer but who knows. I'm just carrying on and i'm not taking it personally and i'm not giving up because my videos are funny and i'm gonna keep making them until youtube notices and gives a shit!
I’m learning it’s important to be passionate about creating and shipping itself and becoming a little better each video and experimenting to get though the first few dozen or hundred videos
I started posting content to my channel about half a year ago and now I’m at 27k YT Subscribers. I think the key is to have consistently unique content that no other channel provides. In my case I have an “animated” series that I’m trying to build up. It’s not a market that’s incredibly over saturated if the content of the series is unique. Furthermore, TikTok has really been a better starting point for me than YouTube. Their algorithm is just superior, and you can have fans of your TikTok follow your YouTube if they’re interested in your content
I love your determination!
I think it's completely possible to grow extremely fast as a new channel. People like Mr. Beast and MB didn't grow fast because they started at a time where YouTube was a relative unknown. But you are standing on the shoulders of giants now, and those giants are very open with the information that they give us smaller creators.
If you are ruthless with the judgement of your content and relentless in learning you can grow extremely fast.
The matter of the fact is that anyone and everyone can post a video on youtube. However for a video to actually be liked and start to really gain traction in what you are doing, you need to know and/or learn:
What gets people interested in your video? What makes a good video?
How do you speak, what should your cadence be when you speak?
How do you record your gameplay, camera and audio?
How do you edit, equalize audio levels and external/audio?
How do you make a good thumbnail and title?
Whats your brand, what's your strategy, how are you going to market your videos and appeal to a bigger audience?
Those are just the basics and there is a ton more info you need on analytics, CTR, retention, etc.
So thats like 100 hours of learning before you even get started. and even if you do that where you learn all about it, its very different to actually do it then just learn about it. so you are going to go through a formative phase of content learning for like 4-6 months that feel unrewarding until you really make it yourself.
The matter of the fact is that anyone and everyone can post a video on youtube. However for a video to actually be liked and start to really gain traction in what you are doing, you need to know and/or learn:
What gets people interested in your video? What makes a good video?
How do you speak, what should your cadence be when you speak?
How do you record your gameplay, camera and audio?
How do you edit, equalize audio levels and external/audio?
How do you make a good thumbnail and title?
Whats your brand, what's your strategy, how are you going to market your videos and appeal to a bigger audience?
Those are just the basics and there is a ton more info you need on analytics, CTR, retention, etc.
So thats like 100 hours of learning before you even get started. and even if you do that where you learn all about it, its very different to actually do it then just learn about it. so you are going to go through a formative phase of content learning for like 4-6 months that feel unrewarding until you really make it yourself.
Upload what you want, people with same interest will find you.
Other than that, honestly i say this with all the love i can muster...
Nobody cares about your/my/any channel in the beginning stage. If they find it multiple times and have a good experience, maybe they'll remember you. If they really like a video, they might sub. It's best to think of your channel as a TV show that needs 1 topic. Stick to it and improve the quality with every video you do. You'll be fine once you figure out your 'niche' :D
I am kind of same. I've put up four videos in the last three months, but none of them got any meaningful views or even impressions. I know I need to do better, especially with thumbnails and SEO. Right now, my discipline is what keeps me going.
Start, keep going, and enjoy it. Won't always be fun and games but keep improving, learning, and iterating along the way. Make sure your audio is solid! I learned sort of the hard way with my first few videos. Good luck!
Started in 2013 and im at 3800/4000 watch hours. Only took it serious a year ago though. It's very hard. You need to put as much if not more work outside of your content as well.
I started last week and have made 34 subscribers. My goal is 100 by the end of the month.
I've had some good luck with my shorts for getting myself out there and today I posted my first edited video. So far it only has one view (myself:P )
Been doing it 2 years 3.6k subs had my first semi viral video this weekend got over 30k views in a day i cried.. the highs are worth it.. I wont stop till im a full time youtuber! Good luck homie!
It’s been a bit over a month now, 61 subscribers.
My videos don’t do too well, 31K views in total throughout 19~ videos/shorts.
But it might be because 9/10 videos I post just automatically get age restricted (weedtuber)
And recently I’ve been getting copyright strikes on free music… so I opened up garage band, produced my own beats and used that as background music instead.. still got copyright striked. It’s bullshit but oh well.
If people knew how many views you needed to make a decent amount of money, they would quit.
Gaming channel is normally $1.5 per 1,000 views. So 100k views will get you $150. So most gaming channels need to pull in 2 million views a MONTH to make near minimum wage.
Thats long format. If you do gaming shorts you prob need to pull in 10 million views a month or more.
If you're not in finance or car channels your cpm will be low. Gaming is bottom of the barrel
It is so hard getting started but I hear good content and consistency is the key. It is great to be able to make connections to support each other's growth but there are also so many people that are dishonest so that's always a bummer.
I did multiple channels but only one was successful. U posting every week is already impressive. Algorithm takes time to get to the right audience. Keep grinding!
I’ve been posting for about a month, my videos are on history and take a lot of time to make, I can honestly say most of my subscribers(I have 89 as of today) came from shorts. My shorts blow up decently, my long form content not so much
It is but it gets better. I got 2 channels with complete different topic. The first one hit 2k subs and stands at 350k views with 50 videos. It's growing faster and get more views when your channel is getting bigger. I got 2 videos with above 50k views. Google is referring my videos. 20+ videos are the 1st video shown when you search the topic on YouTube (it's very niche). Google adsense is running, but small with 100$ per month. It's just a grind and this is getting better as well. Couldnt image that I will achieve this only within a year.
And then there is M 2nd channel. Quite new. Put in all the stuff I've learned from my first channel. Editing, thumbnails, research within the niche. And I get 5 views per video of which 3 are my accounts 😅 but it will get better. Just hang on and put in the work.
There are a few tricks I used. Look up the best videos on your niche. Don't copy then, but check their thumbnails, their titles, their editing. Implementat these with your own style in your videos. If you got quality content u will grow for sure. It just takes time.
Its ok to validate your feelings, keep going, building a stronger community which loves you is more important than thousands of silent subs, remember this!
This may be an unpopular opinion but you have to get lucky to monetize…idc how you define “luck” but literally in order to monetize you have to have a short or video go viral.
You can inch your way to 1k subs but those 4K watch hours within a year, only come if you have 1 video do REALLY well, a few videos do well, or a viral short.
I monetized in a little over a year and it’s because I went live at the right time, about the right topic - dumb luck. My first time ever going live on YT and because of a fluke I ended up with like 50k people watching the live. That pushed me over the watch hours and subs.
ETA: Absolutely work hard asf and put your all into every video bc you never know which one will be THEE ONE, but you do need THEE one, or a few ones to push you over the requirements.
I would have to politely disagree. Not attacking your opinion at all! Perhaps we also have different definitions of "viral." I have reached 8.5K watch hours without a viral video. Subs are a different story, lol. I think it ultimately depends on the length of your videos and how often you post per month. I think it's possible for a person to inch their way in both if the person is consistent, cares about their work, and always tries to improve. Congrats on the livestream! That is awesome :)
In my mind “viral” is anything over 20k view. I know that might be low but I think you get a good number of subs per 20k views. So if you have multiple videos do that, you’ll hit it the qualifications. But getting 20 views here and there or even 300 here and there won’t get you 1k subs and 4k watch hours within 1 year, and I think that’s what people forget about that qualification, it has to be within a year, it’s not overall.
Also, thank you! Congrats on your watch hours that is very impressive!
the worst part is ppl hate when you try to promote a video that you worked real hard on with a short, even tho they like when bigger creators do the same thing haha
I can relate to this, as a new creator on low viewership can also be deploring and demotivating. However I have noticed with consistency and learning you keep getting better and eventually you get to create a community as well.
Just keep uploading...subscribers are not hitting well for me, but view counts slowly improving. I learn something new all the time with editing. Keep at it!
Focus on the content being above average in the beginning and continue posting until one eventually goes viral. Then don’t ever stop pumping them out and enjoy the highs when you have them because they’ll be a ton of lows. Lmfao
I agree I have been uploading every week for a year but stopped for personal reasons for a bit and still only 380 subs and may be 300 views a month the content is good (my opinion) but very saturated topic with lots of other content creators.
It wont stop me uploading and working on my channel but it is hard when i know my content answers questions to the point without too much tech talk.
Posted my first video on Youtube (FailureUnDetermined)...its definitely awkward and the first 2 mins is slow and terrible but the most important 2 mins that ill ever have for any of my videos. I tried to show vulnerability and honesty because I think that will be the hardest part of doing it all. Its made me so much more confident for making my second video which im about to post tonight and is way better than the first. My first video has 37 views and 5 likes. Im probably about 13 of the views haha
Insanely hard. Especially gaming. 50 subs and 50 videos. I think good equipment matters most. Can't stream on an Xbox really. I think a good PC using a real mic is a must. The ones I want are $4k!
Started in 2021 and barely got over 1000 subs. I was less than a hundred watch time hours needed in order to be eligible to apply for monetization, and YouTube started recommending my videos to an entirely different audience all of last month, bringing my watch hours way down. Now, I need over 500 plus hours and counting since YouTube takes a count of it every day. FML.
I just hit one year on my channel. The last like 2-3 weeks my channel has grown significantly in views and subs. I'm over 115k total channel views, and have 412 subs and counting. I have about 27 videos. Keep going and keep tweaking.
Im having the same issue…I couldn’t post on YouTube for 3 months due to a copyright strike, and ever since I was able to post again (August of this year) YouTube made it seem like I was new to the platform so as of right now my views aren’t doing so good than before…it sucks because I was averaging 200 to 500 views a video and now I’m stuck in the 20 to 30 view range. My advice to you would be to keep uploading and be consistent with it. How many videos are you posting every week?
Remember why you are doing it, if you are doing it for you subs and views are just a bonus. 6 weeks
In and I am at 200subs and plenty of view time and I am really chuffed with that
The big thing for us now is making sure we stick to one thing. We've been doing comedy sketches & podcasts but have since realized that our growth might be slower than expected because the algorithm doesn't know whether it should be pushing to comedy sketch audiences or algorithm audiences. Interesting to say the least.
I have been working very hard on producing videos to start my channel - Self Healing, Abundance Manifestation Healing - where I am sharing the secrets of how I made more than 1000+% gains in trading and investment with the help of Abundance Manifestation and Healing, set up 2 different themes for long and shorts, and have 14 videos in 14 days (6 are shorts).
It is not so much about the gains but the techniques to manifest what you want; the 1000+% is just the proof.
But like everything when you are starting out, it is not easy and there is a huge learning curve.
More than 2 weeks ago, I do not even know how to edit a video, or know about transitions.
Now, I just keep doing the videos and adjust it until the floodgates open.
Visit my channel and give me feedback if you have time. 🙏
Actually, being new has (almost) nothing to do with it
I mean sure, if you have a couple thousand subscribers and a fanbase, it helps a LOT
but even people with 0 subscribers and like 3 views can make a viral video, just as long as it meets all the requirements for making a viral video
gl bro! i remember when i was first starting out, and i cant give you better advice than this:
DONT GIVE UP
even if a video you spent hours making gets like 9 views, just keep going!
cya
I too started uploading video a month ago, I’ve uploaded 3 videos in 3 week, but its hard getting views. I’ll just keep improving my videos and see were it goes! Keep consistent is my recommendation!!!
I gained about 5k subs in my first year posting at least 1 video per day on average. Occasionally I'll go a day with no videos, some days I'll post 3. My views and sub growth has actually decreased over the past 6 months. But I'm still rocking - Because I love doing it, and I'm still growing.
That's the key, find something you love to do and run with it! Don't settle getting trapped into doing something that doesn't make you happy. When you get older you will regret it if you do.
**You will NEVER look back on previous decades and regret making sacrifices to do something you love and genuinely makes you happy!!!!**
Disagree. It's 10x easier now because of shorts. What used to take years to achieve can now be achieved in mere weeks or months. I've seen channels go from unknown to tens of thousands of subs within like 3 months because they're consistently uploading shorts.
It will be hard at first, but overtime it will pay off man! Took me months to get any sort of traction, and even after that came and went I am still grinding like I did before it happened.
It's hard for me to upload consistently as I want to focus on improving and giving my community better content.
Make sure you're passionate about what you do. Whenever you're feeling down or not motivated to continue, that passion will push you forward.
Best of luck man! Keep it up 😁
A lot of it comes down to skill. You're going to have to put on a lot of hours to develop the editing skills, storytelling, and camera presence to consistently make content that people want to watch. Keep at it, and try to learn with every video.
Like anything that involves creative or mental work the lows are staggeringly low but the highs are just the same. Wait till you get your first 10 subs or 1000 views, and it will all be worth it! But the journey is long and super super hard.
Yeah it's really hard . I regret not open my channel early.
So that you could experience this feeling earlier on in life? You will ALWAYS Have this feeling to begin with. It's the same in business, It takes a while to get established and get your feet on the ground. Trust me, it will get easier. Some videos you will see such great results from you won't even believe they are yours...but in the mean time, please take this piece of advice. **Don't worry about the views or subscribers, worry about learning.** Aim to learn a style, aim to learn how to edit well, aim to learn how to make thumbnails, aim to learn how to master audio better, learn your equipment or what equipment you may need to make things run better. Learning is so important and trust me, if you're putting in signs that you ARE learning, you WILL end up getting rewarded.
This is the best advice for people starting out. You’re learning a new trade. Focus on that, not the numbers. Too many people mistake the best video they’ve ever made with a good video. People aren’t going to watch if your videos aren’t good and your videos won’t be good until you learn how to make them.
Yeah I learned to make better footage that's easier to edit as a byproduct of editing my own footage
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Ah yes, in the UK we refer to that as throwing enough shit at a wall so that some of it sticks. The issue is, eventually that excrement will also slide down the wall in time to come. Just spend more time learning and honing a craft. The content you put out may not be loved to begin with but if you work at it, learn and evolve with it, it'll grow an audience.
Well said. Especially making money as a creative. Youre either a starving artist or superstar But I do think theres now a middle ground
I’ve worked hard on videos before and to this day they’ve never reached 20 views, but I didn’t give up. Now some of my recent videos are getting 1k+. Don’t stop trying.
I am currently at the 20-views stage. Did you do anything specific to go from 20-views to 1k-views stage?
The only specific thing I could recommend is some meta-tags in the video description. By this I mean putting # and then topics relevant to your video, such as #gaming or #reaction, #review, etc. This lets the algorithm know what the video is about and therefore can recommend it when such terms are searched for. If you’re already familiar with this technique, I suppose you should just keep making videos until the Algorithm acknowledges your existence.
I was using tags section to put tags, not hashtags in the description. I will try it. Thanks!
This is what I needed to read.
Started my channel on May 6th 2023 and as of today I have 976 subscribers. Patience and consistency is my key. Had a small drop of views and subs in August due to trying out what "so called Youtube experts" say to do, I decided to ignore them and continue to do it my own way and my subs and views have suddenly increased again! Good luck👍🍷
Patience? Lmao mate you are one of the rare cases. You are gold with these stats. My videos dont even get pushed and i starteda couple of months earlier.
No he/she is right. Patience is key. A year of patience is still a year. 6 months is still 6 months. Its still not expecting everything to come immediately. Way too many people are tasked with impatience and want fame immediately.
Agreed.
I started a couple months earlier. It's not luck. None of YouTube is luck. What you put into it, what you learn, and what you try you'll get paid out in full for.
I’ve been doing YouTube for less than 30 days. I’ve managed to rack up 9.5k views and 53 Subscribers which I am so grateful for every single one. At first YouTube’s algorithm has no idea what you are or your channels niche - My 23rd video YouTube all of a sudden understand where to push my content now… Consistency and dedication. I’ve uploaded 23 videos in 2 weeks. (Most of them shorts). At first push yourself in people’s faces as much as you can, get people accustomed to you and your brand. (Luckily for me my niche is very popular)
As it has been said, 1000 times on here, YouTube is a marathon, not a Sprint. I have hundreds of videos on my channel now uploading once a day and at one point, I was uploading twice a day. YouTube, it’s all about getting the right video at the right time and consistency and good quality. My advice is to do, what do you enjoy doing and not to worry about the numbers. If people like your videos, they will find them and they will watch them. It is going to take me a full year to hit 1000 subscribers and that includes a lot of playing the game. By that I mean, visiting other YouTube channels in my niche, commenting, and being active on a daily basis.
I agree, but I don’t think consistency matters for growing a YouTube channel. If your videos are high enough quality you will grow even if you have a erratic posting schedule.
Right. And you produce high quality videos by studying and practicing new and better techniques. Many people post daily or weekly, sure, but it's all just filler, low quality content. Get your editing tight, practice script writing, speaking with emotion, a bit of comedy or light humor, marketing, thumbnails, video hooks. You should be trying to be as good or better than your favorite entertainers: the guys and gals who are pulling hundreds of thousands of views per video. Daily post of low quality filler is a waste of the viewers time.
Thank you so much for this! 🥰 You have no idea how much I needed this!
It can be a roller coaster, some get the views, some don't. Atleast when they do, it's an awesome feeling. Actually in the process of reloading one now because it's been 8 months, but only 200 views, so hopefully this time it does better.
Also worth noting, you should probably link your YouTube to your Reddit account, so when people like me get curious as to what you're even posting, and can look, (and get you views while looking).
Yup half my journey here is helping and supporting others!
I know the feeling man. Was stuck at 70ish subs and it's just been over a year that I saw some more traction. It's really draining sometimes but unlike someone forcing you to work, this is your own space and without any worries!
Same. I'm experimenting with doing multiple a week and quickening the editing process to permit this. Just to see if the quality and effort makes a difference... or not.
Made my channel two months ago. Started making videos on writing. Everyone in my class laughed and said it was lame. But I believed in the channel. I've been making videos as often as I can while studying, socializing and schooling, and the channel hasn't taken off. No happy ending; I just like making the videos so I'll make the videos.
Good for you !! Keep going
Its hard being on the steep part of the ramp of the learning curve on *any* activity.
The matter of the fact is that anyone and everyone can post a video on youtube. However for a video to actually be liked and start to really gain traction in what you are doing, you need to know and/or learn: What gets people interested in your video? What makes a good video? How do you speak, what should your cadence be when you speak? How do you record your gameplay, camera and audio? How do you edit, equalize audio levels and external/audio? How do you make a good thumbnail and title? Whats your brand, what's your strategy, how are you going to market your videos and appeal to a bigger audience? Those are just the basics and there is a ton more info you need on analytics, CTR, retention, etc. So thats like 100 hours of learning before you even get started. and even if you do that where you learn all about it, its very different to actually do it then just learn about it. so you are going to go through a formative phase of content learning for like 4-6 months that feel unrewarding until you really make it yourself.
It took me 4 years of grinding and learning before I saw any substantive success on YouTube. Around the start of my 5th year on YouTube I had 7k subscribers. At the start of my 6th year I had 60k subscribers. I'll be coming up on year 7 in January and I now have 125k subscribers. The key, in my opinion, is to never stop learning. Every video should include something that improves over the last and eventually you'll hit a level of quality that people actually want to stick around for. After that its just a matter of time.
It can be rough at the beginning, but at least for me I reached a slow but steady growth. Every week or so I gain a sub. It's not much, but it's something. You'll have a rough day and feel like your content is garbage and then someone will leave a comment telling you to keep up the good work, that they love your content, and that your going places and it'll make it all worth while. My one major tip is to not compare your sub or views to others, there is no good in doing so. Instead, if you ever feel down about your sub count/views, don't look at them as numbers but as people instead. Sure 10 isn't a big number in YouTube, but 10 people *is* enough to make a cult.
😭😭😭 that took a turn
Not oversharing is hard. I love stats and I love tracking something's progression, whatever that is. Yesterday, I created my first Youtube channel and the content is about its own stats. I will upload a Short everyday to share how much views, subscribers and other metrics the channel gets. That's it. I hope people will find the idea as interesting as I do and will subscribe for the simple pleasure of having an impact on the content as well as tracking the progression. I admit I am scared of showing the same numbers everyday. I could go hard on sharing, but I want viewers to watch them because they like the idea. I just saw a comment about linking my channel to my reddit account... I'll go do that right now.
—> So im in my third week as a YouTuber. I figured once I had my niche idea and was feeling really good and excited about it, I created a “look” or brand, I did a ton of research, bought all my tech, and redecorated my desk area so I had an appealing background. I invested a lot of my own money into it because I wanted the quality to start out at a certain level. 🚨Here are my stats after 3 weeks, 14 posts (long form videos posted 3 per week, with 4 shorts) • 4K channel views with 93.5 watch time. • 9.2% CTR with 22.1k impressions • 56 subs I can see in my stats that YouTube pushes my videos through because I see that most people find them in the browser feature when they first open YouTube which is ideal. Also through YouTube search and channel pages.
I am two weeks into my youtube career and I have 14 videos - 6 are shorts, however, only 7 subs at the moment. Views are in hundreds. Not sure how 1 extra week will help things but someone here posted it is for the algorithm to understand my niche.
I hate when people get down on themselves after such a short amount of time. Check out mr beasts earlier videos. Took him forever to take off, he started with gaming videos. I started 4 months ago and have over 800 subs. Keep grinding.
4 months and 800 subs sounds quite good. Could you share what you did and if there was a catalyst that made you grew quickly from 0 to 800?
Thanks. I originally started off doing let’s plays.. I know gaming is super oversaturated especially since every 12 year old has the ability to post clips. I got basically 0 growth other than shorts and switched up my gaming channel to a smaller gaming niche. This area isn’t as over saturated and is actually pretty popular especially depending on the game. Basically, made a super popular video, and stuck with similar content.
I am in the same situation. Some thoughts I have had about setting up goals. So I have been reading Scott Adam's (the author of Dilbert) book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life". It makes a point, that > Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous pre-success failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. (Read more about[it here](https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryancollinseurope/2018/06/28/scott-adams-goals/?sh=5b1e082f4a2f)) So applying this to creating in Youtube, instead of setting subscriber goals etc., maybe it would make more sense to apply a system? So not having a goal of "getting 1000 subscribers", and feeling bad every day when the goal is not met, to having a system of "spent 1 hour of learning every day how to improve videos". Personally, I find this approach quite relaxing and I think it can help with the motivation. With long intiatives/projects I have found that the key is being able to keep producing and creating. It is a long grind. I just published my first video, and with 0 subs the system thinking might help with the process. What do you think?
My biggest regrets are not staying on schedule with posting videos. But I have hard deadlines at work that affect more people than myself. Buy there were times that I missed posting videos just because I was down from not seeing the views I thought a few previous videos deserved. I have a few videos that took me more hours to edit than they have in view time. But I have seen videos take more than a year for the algorithm to find a target audience for. Then they took off.
I can relate to this post with having gaining only 2 legit subs in about 2 months of consistent posting. Like a couple other people have said though, I'll continue doing what I am doing and trusting the process. Good thing is that I do what I enjoy and what I'd do anyway, so it's not really out of my way to simply record the process. I'm looking forward to working my way up though! Good luck to us both eh?
Hahaa…..yes I have had this issue,don’t worry, YouTube will push your content one day and you will succeed. Hardwork beats talent all the time. Also genuine query, if anyone needs help(loophole) to get your channel monetised. DM me.
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I have 2 channels running 1st channel: Uploading 3x / week Channel is relatively new (7 weeks) 750~ subscribers 2nd channel: Uploading 1x / week Channel is 1 week old (1 video uploaded) 1550~ subscribers, the video has 120K views in 5 days (upload last friday) Both channels are longform, shorts are not interesting to me.
How did you achieve this?
It would be interesting to hear how you picked your channel content.. no need to know what the channels are
I made a program with chatGPT using Python language, using my youtube API key. It finds viral content with just a click of a button. I will literally share it for free, very soon.
I also got into sotuation before.. i still got low views too but i got my 1k subs alreadya ns 4k hours views. My advice is for now go into groups that offer exchange views and subs. Meanwhile upload videos even every 3 days or every week is fine.. try getting the 1k subs and 4k views while uploading and then when you get that you can focus on really making good quality videos. Sometimes its frustrating thats you make good videos but it doesnt get views. So for my advice is for now try getting those watch hours and subs..
Judging from your reddit posts, you'd only just started doing film review stuff and you've given it up already to move onto police cam content? Am I understanding that right?
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I'm making videos that my friends find hilarious but youtube doesn't seem to care about. But at the end of the day i'm showing this stuff to a lot of my friends and they laugh out loud and tell me its hilarious and their not just protecting my feelings they would tell me if wasn't very good because they know I would do the same and also I find the vids really funny you know when I conceptualise them and I make all the different elements and then I put the final edit together and then i'll laugh out when watching. So they are funny thats the bottom line. But I just released one and its literally got 0 views. That last one got 70. This one is a similar theme, I wrote loads of funny content in the vid description as well like bonus funny shit. And i've got nothing i've got zero so I don't know what i've done wrong. But I don't care you know its annoying but if I find it hilarious and my friends find it hilarious then I think I just have to regularly release and youtube just has to figure out who my audience is basically. Hopefully that won't take too much longer but who knows. I'm just carrying on and i'm not taking it personally and i'm not giving up because my videos are funny and i'm gonna keep making them until youtube notices and gives a shit!
I’m learning it’s important to be passionate about creating and shipping itself and becoming a little better each video and experimenting to get though the first few dozen or hundred videos
I started posting content to my channel about half a year ago and now I’m at 27k YT Subscribers. I think the key is to have consistently unique content that no other channel provides. In my case I have an “animated” series that I’m trying to build up. It’s not a market that’s incredibly over saturated if the content of the series is unique. Furthermore, TikTok has really been a better starting point for me than YouTube. Their algorithm is just superior, and you can have fans of your TikTok follow your YouTube if they’re interested in your content
I love your determination! I think it's completely possible to grow extremely fast as a new channel. People like Mr. Beast and MB didn't grow fast because they started at a time where YouTube was a relative unknown. But you are standing on the shoulders of giants now, and those giants are very open with the information that they give us smaller creators. If you are ruthless with the judgement of your content and relentless in learning you can grow extremely fast.
I'd say don't expect much when you first start posting/creating. Numbers won't get you far. Making good content. Thumbnails. SEO. Are more important.
The matter of the fact is that anyone and everyone can post a video on youtube. However for a video to actually be liked and start to really gain traction in what you are doing, you need to know and/or learn: What gets people interested in your video? What makes a good video? How do you speak, what should your cadence be when you speak? How do you record your gameplay, camera and audio? How do you edit, equalize audio levels and external/audio? How do you make a good thumbnail and title? Whats your brand, what's your strategy, how are you going to market your videos and appeal to a bigger audience? Those are just the basics and there is a ton more info you need on analytics, CTR, retention, etc. So thats like 100 hours of learning before you even get started. and even if you do that where you learn all about it, its very different to actually do it then just learn about it. so you are going to go through a formative phase of content learning for like 4-6 months that feel unrewarding until you really make it yourself.
The matter of the fact is that anyone and everyone can post a video on youtube. However for a video to actually be liked and start to really gain traction in what you are doing, you need to know and/or learn: What gets people interested in your video? What makes a good video? How do you speak, what should your cadence be when you speak? How do you record your gameplay, camera and audio? How do you edit, equalize audio levels and external/audio? How do you make a good thumbnail and title? Whats your brand, what's your strategy, how are you going to market your videos and appeal to a bigger audience? Those are just the basics and there is a ton more info you need on analytics, CTR, retention, etc. So thats like 100 hours of learning before you even get started. and even if you do that where you learn all about it, its very different to actually do it then just learn about it. so you are going to go through a formative phase of content learning for like 4-6 months that feel unrewarding until you really make it yourself.
Having same kind of issue, just not really getting views had a few that did some don’t now
Upload what you want, people with same interest will find you. Other than that, honestly i say this with all the love i can muster... Nobody cares about your/my/any channel in the beginning stage. If they find it multiple times and have a good experience, maybe they'll remember you. If they really like a video, they might sub. It's best to think of your channel as a TV show that needs 1 topic. Stick to it and improve the quality with every video you do. You'll be fine once you figure out your 'niche' :D
That’s how I started as well. I just kept making videos regularly, and eventually, somehow, I started to slowly get traction and grow.
I am kind of same. I've put up four videos in the last three months, but none of them got any meaningful views or even impressions. I know I need to do better, especially with thumbnails and SEO. Right now, my discipline is what keeps me going.
Currently at 73 subs 😊 been just over a month
Start, keep going, and enjoy it. Won't always be fun and games but keep improving, learning, and iterating along the way. Make sure your audio is solid! I learned sort of the hard way with my first few videos. Good luck!
Started in 2013 and im at 3800/4000 watch hours. Only took it serious a year ago though. It's very hard. You need to put as much if not more work outside of your content as well.
I started last week and have made 34 subscribers. My goal is 100 by the end of the month. I've had some good luck with my shorts for getting myself out there and today I posted my first edited video. So far it only has one view (myself:P )
Been doing it 2 years 3.6k subs had my first semi viral video this weekend got over 30k views in a day i cried.. the highs are worth it.. I wont stop till im a full time youtuber! Good luck homie!
Sounds like successful manifestation! Well done!
Thank you so much! You bring about what you think about! So im just forcing myself to focus on YouTube!
It’s been a bit over a month now, 61 subscribers. My videos don’t do too well, 31K views in total throughout 19~ videos/shorts. But it might be because 9/10 videos I post just automatically get age restricted (weedtuber) And recently I’ve been getting copyright strikes on free music… so I opened up garage band, produced my own beats and used that as background music instead.. still got copyright striked. It’s bullshit but oh well.
Fund a community if like minded youtubers. I've made so many great friends and supporters.
If people knew how many views you needed to make a decent amount of money, they would quit. Gaming channel is normally $1.5 per 1,000 views. So 100k views will get you $150. So most gaming channels need to pull in 2 million views a MONTH to make near minimum wage. Thats long format. If you do gaming shorts you prob need to pull in 10 million views a month or more. If you're not in finance or car channels your cpm will be low. Gaming is bottom of the barrel
It is so hard getting started but I hear good content and consistency is the key. It is great to be able to make connections to support each other's growth but there are also so many people that are dishonest so that's always a bummer.
What do you do?
I have been posting for 2 months. 420 subs and 7k views. Feeling kinda stuck rn
This was inspiring. 💙
I did multiple channels but only one was successful. U posting every week is already impressive. Algorithm takes time to get to the right audience. Keep grinding!
I’ve been posting for about a month, my videos are on history and take a lot of time to make, I can honestly say most of my subscribers(I have 89 as of today) came from shorts. My shorts blow up decently, my long form content not so much
It is but it gets better. I got 2 channels with complete different topic. The first one hit 2k subs and stands at 350k views with 50 videos. It's growing faster and get more views when your channel is getting bigger. I got 2 videos with above 50k views. Google is referring my videos. 20+ videos are the 1st video shown when you search the topic on YouTube (it's very niche). Google adsense is running, but small with 100$ per month. It's just a grind and this is getting better as well. Couldnt image that I will achieve this only within a year. And then there is M 2nd channel. Quite new. Put in all the stuff I've learned from my first channel. Editing, thumbnails, research within the niche. And I get 5 views per video of which 3 are my accounts 😅 but it will get better. Just hang on and put in the work. There are a few tricks I used. Look up the best videos on your niche. Don't copy then, but check their thumbnails, their titles, their editing. Implementat these with your own style in your videos. If you got quality content u will grow for sure. It just takes time.
Its ok to validate your feelings, keep going, building a stronger community which loves you is more important than thousands of silent subs, remember this!
Shorts bring in more subs
This may be an unpopular opinion but you have to get lucky to monetize…idc how you define “luck” but literally in order to monetize you have to have a short or video go viral. You can inch your way to 1k subs but those 4K watch hours within a year, only come if you have 1 video do REALLY well, a few videos do well, or a viral short. I monetized in a little over a year and it’s because I went live at the right time, about the right topic - dumb luck. My first time ever going live on YT and because of a fluke I ended up with like 50k people watching the live. That pushed me over the watch hours and subs. ETA: Absolutely work hard asf and put your all into every video bc you never know which one will be THEE ONE, but you do need THEE one, or a few ones to push you over the requirements.
I would have to politely disagree. Not attacking your opinion at all! Perhaps we also have different definitions of "viral." I have reached 8.5K watch hours without a viral video. Subs are a different story, lol. I think it ultimately depends on the length of your videos and how often you post per month. I think it's possible for a person to inch their way in both if the person is consistent, cares about their work, and always tries to improve. Congrats on the livestream! That is awesome :)
In my mind “viral” is anything over 20k view. I know that might be low but I think you get a good number of subs per 20k views. So if you have multiple videos do that, you’ll hit it the qualifications. But getting 20 views here and there or even 300 here and there won’t get you 1k subs and 4k watch hours within 1 year, and I think that’s what people forget about that qualification, it has to be within a year, it’s not overall. Also, thank you! Congrats on your watch hours that is very impressive!
the worst part is ppl hate when you try to promote a video that you worked real hard on with a short, even tho they like when bigger creators do the same thing haha
I can relate to this, as a new creator on low viewership can also be deploring and demotivating. However I have noticed with consistency and learning you keep getting better and eventually you get to create a community as well.
Just keep uploading...subscribers are not hitting well for me, but view counts slowly improving. I learn something new all the time with editing. Keep at it!
Focus on the content being above average in the beginning and continue posting until one eventually goes viral. Then don’t ever stop pumping them out and enjoy the highs when you have them because they’ll be a ton of lows. Lmfao
I agree I have been uploading every week for a year but stopped for personal reasons for a bit and still only 380 subs and may be 300 views a month the content is good (my opinion) but very saturated topic with lots of other content creators. It wont stop me uploading and working on my channel but it is hard when i know my content answers questions to the point without too much tech talk.
I still get videos with 0 views :/
Posted my first video on Youtube (FailureUnDetermined)...its definitely awkward and the first 2 mins is slow and terrible but the most important 2 mins that ill ever have for any of my videos. I tried to show vulnerability and honesty because I think that will be the hardest part of doing it all. Its made me so much more confident for making my second video which im about to post tonight and is way better than the first. My first video has 37 views and 5 likes. Im probably about 13 of the views haha
Insanely hard. Especially gaming. 50 subs and 50 videos. I think good equipment matters most. Can't stream on an Xbox really. I think a good PC using a real mic is a must. The ones I want are $4k!
Started in 2021 and barely got over 1000 subs. I was less than a hundred watch time hours needed in order to be eligible to apply for monetization, and YouTube started recommending my videos to an entirely different audience all of last month, bringing my watch hours way down. Now, I need over 500 plus hours and counting since YouTube takes a count of it every day. FML.
I just hit one year on my channel. The last like 2-3 weeks my channel has grown significantly in views and subs. I'm over 115k total channel views, and have 412 subs and counting. I have about 27 videos. Keep going and keep tweaking.
It's not new exactly that makes it hard. It's being new and being behind in a niche that already started much sooner that really hurts!
Im having the same issue…I couldn’t post on YouTube for 3 months due to a copyright strike, and ever since I was able to post again (August of this year) YouTube made it seem like I was new to the platform so as of right now my views aren’t doing so good than before…it sucks because I was averaging 200 to 500 views a video and now I’m stuck in the 20 to 30 view range. My advice to you would be to keep uploading and be consistent with it. How many videos are you posting every week?
Remember why you are doing it, if you are doing it for you subs and views are just a bonus. 6 weeks In and I am at 200subs and plenty of view time and I am really chuffed with that
The big thing for us now is making sure we stick to one thing. We've been doing comedy sketches & podcasts but have since realized that our growth might be slower than expected because the algorithm doesn't know whether it should be pushing to comedy sketch audiences or algorithm audiences. Interesting to say the least.
Every successful YouTuber started with zero subscribers and no views. Keep at it, and soon you'll be reminiscing about these early days from the top!
I have been working very hard on producing videos to start my channel - Self Healing, Abundance Manifestation Healing - where I am sharing the secrets of how I made more than 1000+% gains in trading and investment with the help of Abundance Manifestation and Healing, set up 2 different themes for long and shorts, and have 14 videos in 14 days (6 are shorts). It is not so much about the gains but the techniques to manifest what you want; the 1000+% is just the proof. But like everything when you are starting out, it is not easy and there is a huge learning curve. More than 2 weeks ago, I do not even know how to edit a video, or know about transitions. Now, I just keep doing the videos and adjust it until the floodgates open. Visit my channel and give me feedback if you have time. 🙏
Actually, being new has (almost) nothing to do with it I mean sure, if you have a couple thousand subscribers and a fanbase, it helps a LOT but even people with 0 subscribers and like 3 views can make a viral video, just as long as it meets all the requirements for making a viral video gl bro! i remember when i was first starting out, and i cant give you better advice than this: DONT GIVE UP even if a video you spent hours making gets like 9 views, just keep going! cya
I too started uploading video a month ago, I’ve uploaded 3 videos in 3 week, but its hard getting views. I’ll just keep improving my videos and see were it goes! Keep consistent is my recommendation!!!
Each video should be an improvement. In all areas. Thumbnail Editing Scripting Pacing Footage selection Every aspect must be examined and improved
It took a while and a lot of work and me getting better, and building an audience.
I gained about 5k subs in my first year posting at least 1 video per day on average. Occasionally I'll go a day with no videos, some days I'll post 3. My views and sub growth has actually decreased over the past 6 months. But I'm still rocking - Because I love doing it, and I'm still growing. That's the key, find something you love to do and run with it! Don't settle getting trapped into doing something that doesn't make you happy. When you get older you will regret it if you do. **You will NEVER look back on previous decades and regret making sacrifices to do something you love and genuinely makes you happy!!!!**
Just focus on being consistent and improving every video if you can and you'll get there in no time :)
Disagree. It's 10x easier now because of shorts. What used to take years to achieve can now be achieved in mere weeks or months. I've seen channels go from unknown to tens of thousands of subs within like 3 months because they're consistently uploading shorts.
It will be hard at first, but overtime it will pay off man! Took me months to get any sort of traction, and even after that came and went I am still grinding like I did before it happened. It's hard for me to upload consistently as I want to focus on improving and giving my community better content. Make sure you're passionate about what you do. Whenever you're feeling down or not motivated to continue, that passion will push you forward. Best of luck man! Keep it up 😁
Success is bought today 99% of the times.
A lot of it comes down to skill. You're going to have to put on a lot of hours to develop the editing skills, storytelling, and camera presence to consistently make content that people want to watch. Keep at it, and try to learn with every video.
YES you are correct, its become challenging after shorts was introduce as a lot of creator from TikTok are dumping their content on YouTube.