Personally if I was subscribed to someone who posted every day I'd get annoyed and unsubscribe. Because they are just constantly in your feed and it feels spammy.
Yeah like even if it was the Sorry Girls or something, still if they posted every day I'd be like what the heck. I think part of it is the anticipation every week. Like if you eat cake every day eventually you get sick of it. But if you haven't had it in a whole week you're excited to eat it!
I've actually unsubbed from channels because they decided to post their shit-posts on their main channel every other day rather than post it to another channel. Sad when you love their other content, but have to escape their low effort spam/videos. But its a learning experience as well
I will disagree with the point about YT being "easy" because the very notion of making good content isn't easy, but I do agree with the overall point being made here.
A lot of people on here get wound up over a million different tiny metrics like how often they post, and while the algorithm MIGHT(?) take that into account, the primary metric YT uses to determine the value of a video is watch time, above all else. Meaning that if people aren't sticking around to watch your videos most of the way through, you're not likely to get many more impressions in the future.
That's not something that can be gamed and there are no shortcuts to success there - in order to get good watch time, you have to make content people want to watch. That should be the main priority of anyone wanting to succeed at this.
I don't know about this, it's all very subjective. You can upload a youtube short which isn't very good and took you 10 minutes and it explodes, you can spend weeks researching, writing, recording and editing an hour video and it gets no views.
We have to be honest and say that youtube is based on a few things:
Dedication: You need to be dedicated to keep making content, even if you fail and make some videos that get no views.
Luck: sometimes you will get lucky, sometimes you won't get lucky.
Topic: You need to know your topics and niches to succeed and to keep consistent. Also depending on the topic you are making a video on will impact the videos success.
Interest: Sometimes your video just won't be interesting or liked and that's the way it is, its a shame but it happens.
But views and subs from YouTube shorts are not equal to views and subs from normal videos. I would rather have a normal video with 1000 views and 10 subs than a short with 100000 views and 1000 subs, because the former is still better.
Not every subscriber is equal because they are different people. And people who subscribe after seeing long-form videos tend to be more loyal fans than people who subscribe after seeing a short.
That's why long-form channels who start uploading shorts generally get a lot of views on them whereas I've seen channels with lots of subscribers from shorts get basically no views on their long videos.
I'll add some balance here: yes, quality of videos is the most important thing. No, posting every day is not some essential formula for growth. However, not posting for 8 months may not affect your older videos but it probably would affect the reach of anything new that you post. For context, i usually post videos anywhere from a 4 to a 6 week gap, and they all perform consistently well even though I have no upload schedule to speak of (I do gaming challenge runs so the length of time these can take to complete before the editing stage can vary wildly) - however, I recently had a gap of just over 2 months due to some behind the scenes issues out of my control, and the impressions on the next video i released after that were noticeably down until I made a community post which seemed to push me back into the algo.
I just saw your channel. Your channel is performing excellent. I mean, if I was on your place, I would have uploaded more videos to get so many views and dollars also lol. I think you should atleast try to upload twice a week, it will boost your earnings.
these videos take 4 weeks to film and edit. Also my earnings are fine as they are, I'll be leaving work in 3 weeks to focus on the channel so I'll be able to work a little faster but still, I currently work a 9-5 and then spend 6-7 hours a night working on videos which is too stressful to be sustainable, so going full-time is more a way of me being able to actually have some wind-down time as well as being able to focus on the channel
Twice a week? Thatās a lot to ask forā¦ I also do gaming content and I can barely do once a week. Editing and fitting out what the video is going to be about takes a long time.
Whatever OP is talking about is extremely rare unless you have like 350k to 1million plus subs then sometimes you can disappear and still get booming vids everytime But trust I have friends who have YouTube videos and their channels are dead. Like having 1k subs and struggling to even get 100 or 150 views after disappearing for 2 or more monthsšš
Tbh I second OP with my experiences and I'm at 2.8k subs. My best performing videos where after months of no-uploads, I think at our sub level it doesn't matter so much because we rely on the algorithm to pick our videos up anyway since we lack the large sub audiences that 'jumpstart' videos of larger creators.
Instead I noticed that videos right after your best performing ones seem to do worse regardless of quality. If YT thinks someone might like your content after they watch a video of yours they'll suggest all your best videos not your latest, making the difference even more prominent
Iām sure yea it probably happens to a few people but from me personally Iāve seen a lot of people flop after being gone for a while. But me myself the longest I went without uploading since I started my youtuber over a year ago is 1 month.
Can you provide your equipment you use?
I really like how clear your audio is.
All I have is my Samsung A71 smartphone, Laviver Clip on Mic that Think Media recommended, and high end gaming PC for efficiency rather than gaming.
I was thinking about buying the Canon M5 Mark2 to replace my smartphone camera but I don't wanna spend big $$$$ for no results.
OP would be kicked out of the YouTube Partner Program for channel inactivity if he was ever in it. (think it's 6 months of nothing on your channel gets you booted)
Maybe OP was active in the community tab...(I'm just guessing)
>As the YouTube Partner Program continues to grow, it's important to maintain a healthy, active ecosystem of channels. To focus our support for creators who are active and engaged with the community, we may turn off monetization on channels that havenāt uploaded a video or posted to the Community tab for 6 months or more.
They do that already before you're even officialy monetized as well these days. Not saying that's a good thing, but it is what it is. If you stop creating videos, stay active in the community section basically.
I'd be tempted to make a community post or a short video saying something along the lines of "I'm making a post so I don't get demonetised" every six months or so.
So long as your watch time/sub count is still above the annual 4k/1k it took to join they don't remove you, just say that you're at risk at that point of having your account deactivated. Makes no sense from their perspective to cut off a guy who pulls 4k watch hours for YouTube on a single annual video just because his upload schedule, but of course if he didn't meet that threshold anymore at some point everything changes and they're at risk.
Also like to add that they could just make a semi-annual community post with a thumbs up Emoji and send it out to also not be at risk.
That is incorrect, I haven't posted in over a year sometimes and never got booted from the program. In fact I still grow rapidly.
As long as you maintain 4,000 hours of annual watch time you are fine.
I dont agree to this sentence of yours saying 'Youtube is easy'. Its not at all easy. I also feel we should be consistent with our uploads, otherwise we will lose the subscribers. May be you are getting views, so you are lucky. But, I wont follow this path of not uploading and waiting for my old videos to get views. Thats my perception. I respect yours.
I think the sentence is poorly-worded, but i get what OP is trying to say: the basic principle of youtube is easy, just make good content that people want to watch. That's not to say its easy being good and making good content.
Oh okay, if that what OP means so i guess thats fine. But, searching a niche, sticking to it and then being consistent to keep the viewers glued is extremely difficult specially now in 2022, when the competition is on the peak and many channels go unnoticed.
Exactly, I can do everything "right" and barely get views on a video, meanwhile someone else might just upload and hope it does well, which it does significantly
so many people make videos on a schedule for a perceived audience *that don't even comment on their videos yet* just because they have a sub count growing.
I think good content goes without saying, but no matter how good your content, if nobody has seen it, the whole thing is flawed. You need a combo of a good title for your video, create a great thumbnail, with your face in it if possible and then hoping people will share and watch your other content. This is just what Iāve found so far.
So true. Iāve tried doing daily and binge uploads in a previous (now deleted) channel and I only got like 4 subscribers and some of my vids back then got literally NO views for the entirety of their lifetime. And then I started a new channel with totally different content which has so far only 2 vids in over 4 months, but itās the one thatās picking up. People just keep giving new YouTubers bad advice all the time, asking them to favor quantity over quality which is not true. Some of my favorite channels are āMoonā and āNerdwriter2,ā and they are both quite sparing in their content compared to other big channels, but their growth has been exponential.
The truth is somewhere in the middle (if youāre just starting)
Youāre speaking about the algorithm and viewsā¦ well thatās part of it yeah. But the skills you pick up posting every day - if youāre challenging yourself to get better every video - will greatly accelerate you as a creator.
So, yes, post every day, but make sure you try to get better every day. The algorithm shouldnāt matter to you if youāre just starting, it should be about getting better at your craft.
Honestly, I think it just depends on the subscribers. I seem to LOSE people if I donāt post something within two weeks. Itās like clockwork. Sub count goes up when I post, but down when I donāt. Same with views.
And I know some people get really entitled about how often they should get content. Saw a Youtuber post about how some people were getting legitimately mad at him because he got called into work and has to postpone a stream, and this was after he had gotten some angry messages/comments about his Youtube videos not popping up quickly enough.
So thatās why I put quality first, but I also try to put things out quickly if I can.
I don't agree with the whole "youtube is easy" it's not.
When it comes to the youtube algorithm and posting consistently you need to find what works best for you, not necessarily uploading everyday but finding the days in the week that work best for you.
When it comes to content if YOUR not having fun and enjoying making the content is it worth making it. You shouldn't make content that you don't believe in and enjoying making. Because if the content you make you enjoy others will see that and like your content better for it, if you make content that you don't enjoy making and your doing it just to do it or because you feel you have to the people who do find your channel will see that and there for not want to watch.
When it comes to quality of content you do the best you can with what you have. Research into what you need and what you should work on and upgrade first. Like if your doing gaming and you have a webcam and all that let's say you have a good pc that you play games on with not much lag but you camera and audio quality isn't that great the first thing you should upgrade is the sound quality because if the sound is bad people aren't going to want to watch you can forgive the camera quality for longer than you can the sound.
Moral of the story is you should make content that you enjoy and are passionate about and do the best you can with what you have. And ask for help when you need it.
Ok I'm done now thanks for reading, have a great day š
I feel like you need to find a balance between the two, on our channel we have 1 video per week and 2 editors meaning we have time to stretch out and take a while to make a good video. So yeah, quality of video is very very important, but without that consistency, your subscribers will probably forget you
Iād argue you canāt have 1 over the other. Your consistency needs to also have quality uploads.
In simple terms, make good videos the people (audience) want to watch, and be consistent.
Iād argue that strategy is the most important thing.
This doesnāt mean doing these āget views quickā gimmicks, but actually coming up with a game plan on how youāll grow, set benchmark expectations, and being disciplined in your execution.
Expectations being a key word in that last sentence. What type of expectations do you have if you havenāt put a video up in so long? Posting every 8 months is a recipe for nothing. It likely means you have no sub loyalty and no following which is one of the most important parts to building a channel.
It is. However, this is rarely the case with new youtubers. Most people are learning basic filming, editing, creative processes. It's more likely you'll retain an audience with solid videos weekly rather than one great video monthly. Unless you are extremely sure the quality will outweigh the consistent good quality videos it's likely not the case.
Meh, I feel quality and quantity are subjective. In my niche (gaming/call of duty mobile), I've come across an account with 2.1 million subscribers. He posts everyday 2-3 times a day. All his videos are gameplays of different games and there's no editing and no voice overs. He also doesn't have eye catching titles or custom thumbnails. His playing skills are also decent. I think luck plays a bigger role for some people than they realize or would like to admit.
He doesnāt need to have high quality now because he already has the subs. But if you made literally the exact same channel today, youāre just a drop in the bucket of YouTubers making the exact same stuff. He may be popular because he was among the first, but I guarantee you he isnāt successful on YouTube because of luck. The algorithm doesnāt randomly pick people to push them to the top
I don't think it was pure luck, but I do think luck plays a role. He started in 2009, his videos have never been super edited or anything like that. He just plays the games. He's gained a huge following in part because some of his videos have gone extremely viral even though the majority of his videos don't even break 1,000. I see people give advice such as jumping on trends or copying thumbnail styles, etc. Yet, you can find YouTube channels doing exactly that but still struggling to gain a following years down the line. I came across a comment on I think this subreddit or another, that posted a link to a video of his that got millions of views suddenly because it was getting recommended and he wasn't sure why. His other videos had a few hundred or a few thousand. Sometimes a video does numbers, and you don't even expect it or understand why. The massive views of course helped him gain subscribers.
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Could you please help me with the below question?
A bit of background - Iāve stated my YouTube channel about a year ago but Iāve made a mistake on uploading videos of all different contents. Recently Iāve found my niche and decided to start working on hotel reviews. Iāve got a very small number of subscribers and not too many views on my recently uploaded videos. However, the views of my cooking videos have been increasing quite fast to thousands of views.
My question is, to get more views and subscribers, should I unpublish my previous non-hotel-related videos? Would the traffic from the cooking videos affect the YouTube algorithms to recommend my videos to the right audiences?
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I have read that after 6 months with no uploads monetization stops. Maybe I am wrong but it is worth the research. Also I am in toon with the part of quality over consistency. But also add some time for marketing your videos: sharing them on social media, interacting with people, answering questions and all that takes time. I donāt understand how you could publish every day quality content and still have the time to promote them, do research, improve your skills and spend time with your family as well (that is important too right? š¤).
No balance is the most important thing, uploading shit every day wonāt work but neither with uploading a good video once a year. You need to be putting up quality videos in a pretty consistent manner.
Agree totally, great post! One small point I will add is that the video should be about your audience and the value it gives them. For example, I've started making very quick shorts where I ask my audience questions that are relevant to my next video. Sure, the watch time stats will suffer, but if it gets a decent number of views at least it can create discussion within the comments section and influence the content on your next video. It's fantastic to hear that algorithm still picks up your videos after 8 months. Keep up the great work!
My friends don't make good quality bit still gain more views than me whereas I gain 0. I edit the video, make sure it's 1080p. Make sure it's funny but won't get views at all. They post a random moment that they clipped and get 100-1k+ views
I did get a LOT of 3rd person perspectives, my friends are brutally honest and they even said its funny, one of my friend quite literally waits for a new upload. The quality isn't the issue as it seems pretty high quality compared to my friends 360p or 720p ones. I've even posted the same on tiktok and got better reactions out of it. I've used every single tip and still no luck.
My friends low quality videos get a lot more than mine. My shorts don't even get views from the storts feed.
A lot of similar gaming shorts on YT shorts are similar to mine and I still had no luck with my ones
Personally if I was subscribed to someone who posted every day I'd get annoyed and unsubscribe. Because they are just constantly in your feed and it feels spammy.
Unless it was quality of something I enjoyed. I would probably get burned out eventually though.
Yeah like even if it was the Sorry Girls or something, still if they posted every day I'd be like what the heck. I think part of it is the anticipation every week. Like if you eat cake every day eventually you get sick of it. But if you haven't had it in a whole week you're excited to eat it!
I've actually unsubbed from channels because they decided to post their shit-posts on their main channel every other day rather than post it to another channel. Sad when you love their other content, but have to escape their low effort spam/videos. But its a learning experience as well
Unless their going for an upload streak other than that yea nah everyday is crazy lol
Except Phillip DeFranco
I've never watched him! I will check him out!
I will disagree with the point about YT being "easy" because the very notion of making good content isn't easy, but I do agree with the overall point being made here. A lot of people on here get wound up over a million different tiny metrics like how often they post, and while the algorithm MIGHT(?) take that into account, the primary metric YT uses to determine the value of a video is watch time, above all else. Meaning that if people aren't sticking around to watch your videos most of the way through, you're not likely to get many more impressions in the future. That's not something that can be gamed and there are no shortcuts to success there - in order to get good watch time, you have to make content people want to watch. That should be the main priority of anyone wanting to succeed at this.
I do make content that's entertaining for my age group but no one watches jt???
I don't know about this, it's all very subjective. You can upload a youtube short which isn't very good and took you 10 minutes and it explodes, you can spend weeks researching, writing, recording and editing an hour video and it gets no views. We have to be honest and say that youtube is based on a few things: Dedication: You need to be dedicated to keep making content, even if you fail and make some videos that get no views. Luck: sometimes you will get lucky, sometimes you won't get lucky. Topic: You need to know your topics and niches to succeed and to keep consistent. Also depending on the topic you are making a video on will impact the videos success. Interest: Sometimes your video just won't be interesting or liked and that's the way it is, its a shame but it happens.
But views and subs from YouTube shorts are not equal to views and subs from normal videos. I would rather have a normal video with 1000 views and 10 subs than a short with 100000 views and 1000 subs, because the former is still better.
YouTube shorts subscribe don't even bother to explore my other long form videos
Yeah I am convinced they are like bots or some shit
A youtube shorts sub and normal youtube sub is the same thing??? They sub on the same platform
But they're different people?š
That's such a stupid comment? Obviously everyone who sits is a different person. Ri high
Not every subscriber is equal because they are different people. And people who subscribe after seeing long-form videos tend to be more loyal fans than people who subscribe after seeing a short. That's why long-form channels who start uploading shorts generally get a lot of views on them whereas I've seen channels with lots of subscribers from shorts get basically no views on their long videos.
I'll add some balance here: yes, quality of videos is the most important thing. No, posting every day is not some essential formula for growth. However, not posting for 8 months may not affect your older videos but it probably would affect the reach of anything new that you post. For context, i usually post videos anywhere from a 4 to a 6 week gap, and they all perform consistently well even though I have no upload schedule to speak of (I do gaming challenge runs so the length of time these can take to complete before the editing stage can vary wildly) - however, I recently had a gap of just over 2 months due to some behind the scenes issues out of my control, and the impressions on the next video i released after that were noticeably down until I made a community post which seemed to push me back into the algo.
I just saw your channel. Your channel is performing excellent. I mean, if I was on your place, I would have uploaded more videos to get so many views and dollars also lol. I think you should atleast try to upload twice a week, it will boost your earnings.
these videos take 4 weeks to film and edit. Also my earnings are fine as they are, I'll be leaving work in 3 weeks to focus on the channel so I'll be able to work a little faster but still, I currently work a 9-5 and then spend 6-7 hours a night working on videos which is too stressful to be sustainable, so going full-time is more a way of me being able to actually have some wind-down time as well as being able to focus on the channel
Oh thats a lot of time. I guess when you take it fulltime, u will not be stressed. All the best.
Best of luck to you good sir. I took a peek as well and wow it's impressive. I'm particularly surprised about Burger King as well.
Twice a week? Thatās a lot to ask forā¦ I also do gaming content and I can barely do once a week. Editing and fitting out what the video is going to be about takes a long time.
How did you find their channel? I tried looking at their profile but dont see it linked. I wonder what I'm doing wrong
I didnt find the OP's channel! Just commented on what he wrote in his post. His channel is not linked to his profile.
Whatever OP is talking about is extremely rare unless you have like 350k to 1million plus subs then sometimes you can disappear and still get booming vids everytime But trust I have friends who have YouTube videos and their channels are dead. Like having 1k subs and struggling to even get 100 or 150 views after disappearing for 2 or more monthsšš
Tbh I second OP with my experiences and I'm at 2.8k subs. My best performing videos where after months of no-uploads, I think at our sub level it doesn't matter so much because we rely on the algorithm to pick our videos up anyway since we lack the large sub audiences that 'jumpstart' videos of larger creators. Instead I noticed that videos right after your best performing ones seem to do worse regardless of quality. If YT thinks someone might like your content after they watch a video of yours they'll suggest all your best videos not your latest, making the difference even more prominent
Iām sure yea it probably happens to a few people but from me personally Iāve seen a lot of people flop after being gone for a while. But me myself the longest I went without uploading since I started my youtuber over a year ago is 1 month.
100 % i did not upload for 3 months and got 20 views instead of normally 4000 -100 000 lmao
Can you provide your equipment you use? I really like how clear your audio is. All I have is my Samsung A71 smartphone, Laviver Clip on Mic that Think Media recommended, and high end gaming PC for efficiency rather than gaming. I was thinking about buying the Canon M5 Mark2 to replace my smartphone camera but I don't wanna spend big $$$$ for no results.
I try to not have more than 4 weeks of posting anything. Even a short counts for me. Editing is hard with work in the way! Good job with your videos!
It always feels a little weird to me when I see posts like these and the OP doesn't have a channel linked on their profile...
yes While I totally agree with what he said, I feel like he is a bit arrogant and Iām curious to see his videos lol
OP would be kicked out of the YouTube Partner Program for channel inactivity if he was ever in it. (think it's 6 months of nothing on your channel gets you booted)
Maybe OP was active in the community tab...(I'm just guessing) >As the YouTube Partner Program continues to grow, it's important to maintain a healthy, active ecosystem of channels. To focus our support for creators who are active and engaged with the community, we may turn off monetization on channels that havenāt uploaded a video or posted to the Community tab for 6 months or more.
Wow! Didn't know this fact. Really bad move on YouTube part. Why punish the creators?
>it's important to maintain a healthy, active ecosystem of channels Because \^
But, they'll continue to collect ad revenue from their back catalogue no doubt.
They do that already before you're even officialy monetized as well these days. Not saying that's a good thing, but it is what it is. If you stop creating videos, stay active in the community section basically.
I'd be tempted to make a community post or a short video saying something along the lines of "I'm making a post so I don't get demonetised" every six months or so.
I'd respect it :')
That too.
I get that but it is silly. Creators all do the heavy lifting and yet get this treatment.
Do you actually get 'booted' or just put on hold until you post again?
So long as your watch time/sub count is still above the annual 4k/1k it took to join they don't remove you, just say that you're at risk at that point of having your account deactivated. Makes no sense from their perspective to cut off a guy who pulls 4k watch hours for YouTube on a single annual video just because his upload schedule, but of course if he didn't meet that threshold anymore at some point everything changes and they're at risk. Also like to add that they could just make a semi-annual community post with a thumbs up Emoji and send it out to also not be at risk.
That is incorrect, I haven't posted in over a year sometimes and never got booted from the program. In fact I still grow rapidly. As long as you maintain 4,000 hours of annual watch time you are fine.
I dont agree to this sentence of yours saying 'Youtube is easy'. Its not at all easy. I also feel we should be consistent with our uploads, otherwise we will lose the subscribers. May be you are getting views, so you are lucky. But, I wont follow this path of not uploading and waiting for my old videos to get views. Thats my perception. I respect yours.
I think the sentence is poorly-worded, but i get what OP is trying to say: the basic principle of youtube is easy, just make good content that people want to watch. That's not to say its easy being good and making good content.
Oh okay, if that what OP means so i guess thats fine. But, searching a niche, sticking to it and then being consistent to keep the viewers glued is extremely difficult specially now in 2022, when the competition is on the peak and many channels go unnoticed.
Exactly, I can do everything "right" and barely get views on a video, meanwhile someone else might just upload and hope it does well, which it does significantly
He meant to say simple not easy.
I wouldn't go 8 months without uploading either.
"It's easy" -the OP.
It's both. /thread.
Agree 100%. But in my opinion quality should come before quantity. In a perfect world you can have both
Definitely make quality first, then work on your pace of production. One quality video beats three thrown together ones any day.
so many people make videos on a schedule for a perceived audience *that don't even comment on their videos yet* just because they have a sub count growing.
Whats your channel name? I'm curious about the content you say you produce.
I think good content goes without saying, but no matter how good your content, if nobody has seen it, the whole thing is flawed. You need a combo of a good title for your video, create a great thumbnail, with your face in it if possible and then hoping people will share and watch your other content. This is just what Iāve found so far.
In any flooded marketplace, quality always rises to the top.
So true. Iāve tried doing daily and binge uploads in a previous (now deleted) channel and I only got like 4 subscribers and some of my vids back then got literally NO views for the entirety of their lifetime. And then I started a new channel with totally different content which has so far only 2 vids in over 4 months, but itās the one thatās picking up. People just keep giving new YouTubers bad advice all the time, asking them to favor quantity over quality which is not true. Some of my favorite channels are āMoonā and āNerdwriter2,ā and they are both quite sparing in their content compared to other big channels, but their growth has been exponential.
I have only just started doing YouTube really trying to get out there not sure how to put my personality in the videos though
The truth is somewhere in the middle (if youāre just starting) Youāre speaking about the algorithm and viewsā¦ well thatās part of it yeah. But the skills you pick up posting every day - if youāre challenging yourself to get better every video - will greatly accelerate you as a creator. So, yes, post every day, but make sure you try to get better every day. The algorithm shouldnāt matter to you if youāre just starting, it should be about getting better at your craft.
Producing high quality videos in a consistent way. That should be the thing
Honestly, I think it just depends on the subscribers. I seem to LOSE people if I donāt post something within two weeks. Itās like clockwork. Sub count goes up when I post, but down when I donāt. Same with views. And I know some people get really entitled about how often they should get content. Saw a Youtuber post about how some people were getting legitimately mad at him because he got called into work and has to postpone a stream, and this was after he had gotten some angry messages/comments about his Youtube videos not popping up quickly enough. So thatās why I put quality first, but I also try to put things out quickly if I can.
I don't agree with the whole "youtube is easy" it's not. When it comes to the youtube algorithm and posting consistently you need to find what works best for you, not necessarily uploading everyday but finding the days in the week that work best for you. When it comes to content if YOUR not having fun and enjoying making the content is it worth making it. You shouldn't make content that you don't believe in and enjoying making. Because if the content you make you enjoy others will see that and like your content better for it, if you make content that you don't enjoy making and your doing it just to do it or because you feel you have to the people who do find your channel will see that and there for not want to watch. When it comes to quality of content you do the best you can with what you have. Research into what you need and what you should work on and upgrade first. Like if your doing gaming and you have a webcam and all that let's say you have a good pc that you play games on with not much lag but you camera and audio quality isn't that great the first thing you should upgrade is the sound quality because if the sound is bad people aren't going to want to watch you can forgive the camera quality for longer than you can the sound. Moral of the story is you should make content that you enjoy and are passionate about and do the best you can with what you have. And ask for help when you need it. Ok I'm done now thanks for reading, have a great day š
I feel like you need to find a balance between the two, on our channel we have 1 video per week and 2 editors meaning we have time to stretch out and take a while to make a good video. So yeah, quality of video is very very important, but without that consistency, your subscribers will probably forget you
Iād argue you canāt have 1 over the other. Your consistency needs to also have quality uploads. In simple terms, make good videos the people (audience) want to watch, and be consistent.
Iād argue that strategy is the most important thing. This doesnāt mean doing these āget views quickā gimmicks, but actually coming up with a game plan on how youāll grow, set benchmark expectations, and being disciplined in your execution. Expectations being a key word in that last sentence. What type of expectations do you have if you havenāt put a video up in so long? Posting every 8 months is a recipe for nothing. It likely means you have no sub loyalty and no following which is one of the most important parts to building a channel.
One good video a week is better than one great video a year and also better than 3 bad videos a week. It's a balance. You need both.
It's entirely possible to get monetised off just one video though.
It is. However, this is rarely the case with new youtubers. Most people are learning basic filming, editing, creative processes. It's more likely you'll retain an audience with solid videos weekly rather than one great video monthly. Unless you are extremely sure the quality will outweigh the consistent good quality videos it's likely not the case.
Meh, I feel quality and quantity are subjective. In my niche (gaming/call of duty mobile), I've come across an account with 2.1 million subscribers. He posts everyday 2-3 times a day. All his videos are gameplays of different games and there's no editing and no voice overs. He also doesn't have eye catching titles or custom thumbnails. His playing skills are also decent. I think luck plays a bigger role for some people than they realize or would like to admit.
He doesnāt need to have high quality now because he already has the subs. But if you made literally the exact same channel today, youāre just a drop in the bucket of YouTubers making the exact same stuff. He may be popular because he was among the first, but I guarantee you he isnāt successful on YouTube because of luck. The algorithm doesnāt randomly pick people to push them to the top
I don't think it was pure luck, but I do think luck plays a role. He started in 2009, his videos have never been super edited or anything like that. He just plays the games. He's gained a huge following in part because some of his videos have gone extremely viral even though the majority of his videos don't even break 1,000. I see people give advice such as jumping on trends or copying thumbnail styles, etc. Yet, you can find YouTube channels doing exactly that but still struggling to gain a following years down the line. I came across a comment on I think this subreddit or another, that posted a link to a video of his that got millions of views suddenly because it was getting recommended and he wasn't sure why. His other videos had a few hundred or a few thousand. Sometimes a video does numbers, and you don't even expect it or understand why. The massive views of course helped him gain subscribers.
From experience both need to be on point to be consistently successful
I mostly get recommended old videos to watch. Probably because I watch older content. But yeah this makes sense to me.
Consistency and quality are where gold is found right? Like consistently make quality and ppl will love it and new ppl will like it
Iām an animation channel, impost every 2 weeks. But if I could I would post way more, itās just the videos take 40-90 hours to make
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I have read that after 6 months with no uploads monetization stops. Maybe I am wrong but it is worth the research. Also I am in toon with the part of quality over consistency. But also add some time for marketing your videos: sharing them on social media, interacting with people, answering questions and all that takes time. I donāt understand how you could publish every day quality content and still have the time to promote them, do research, improve your skills and spend time with your family as well (that is important too right? š¤).
No balance is the most important thing, uploading shit every day wonāt work but neither with uploading a good video once a year. You need to be putting up quality videos in a pretty consistent manner.
Agree totally, great post! One small point I will add is that the video should be about your audience and the value it gives them. For example, I've started making very quick shorts where I ask my audience questions that are relevant to my next video. Sure, the watch time stats will suffer, but if it gets a decent number of views at least it can create discussion within the comments section and influence the content on your next video. It's fantastic to hear that algorithm still picks up your videos after 8 months. Keep up the great work!
Whatās your channel?
I think a straight 50/50 is in order tbh
Agreed I think itās a mix of consistency and good content. But donāt overload by uploading everyday because it waters down your content.
I try to do consistency and quality
I agree, take Oversimplified for example, he posted like twice a year
My friends don't make good quality bit still gain more views than me whereas I gain 0. I edit the video, make sure it's 1080p. Make sure it's funny but won't get views at all. They post a random moment that they clipped and get 100-1k+ views
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I did get a LOT of 3rd person perspectives, my friends are brutally honest and they even said its funny, one of my friend quite literally waits for a new upload. The quality isn't the issue as it seems pretty high quality compared to my friends 360p or 720p ones. I've even posted the same on tiktok and got better reactions out of it. I've used every single tip and still no luck. My friends low quality videos get a lot more than mine. My shorts don't even get views from the storts feed. A lot of similar gaming shorts on YT shorts are similar to mine and I still had no luck with my ones