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I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

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Re: I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

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Post by CM30 »

YouTube is definitely a platform where posting very often on a consistent basis is the easiest way to succeed there.

But at the same time it's also one where becoming successful often means suffering from crippling burnout, since it's very difficult to keep that schedule up without sacrificing everything else in your life, and forcing yourself to post content when you really didn't have any good ideas left. I know a lot of people that quit altogether because of that, or because of related issues (like getting RSI style hand injuries from working on stuff too much).

Re: I Posted on YouTube Consistently for 1 Month. This Is What Happened

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Post by r0fl »

dncornholio wrote: post #18

YouTube does not care about the audio or video quality itself. It only cares about the numbers of views, likes, etc.

Youtube cares about click through ratio on the thumbnail + % of total video watched more than everything else combined.

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Post by ElijahLynn »

Big thanks for writing about your experience here, I've been thinking about doing this at some point for passive income, including livestreaming open source SaaS apps I want to build. This gives me a little hope! It was also good to know I need at least 1,000 subscribers!

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Post by CM30 »

dncornholio wrote: post #18

YouTube does not care about the audio or video quality itself. It only cares about the numbers of views, likes, etc.

This is true of any platform to be honest. You could be a terrible writer and still do well on sites like Medium or Substack. Be a terrible musician and do well on Spotify or SoundCloud. Be a terrible artist and do well on all sorts of platforms.

Whether people like it or not, the production values involved in a piece of work have only the loosest correlation to whether it'll do well.

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Post by criddell »

cmeacham98 wrote: post #12
criddell wrote: post #10

> I have been trying to improve engagement Does YouTube expose that metric? What does it mean?

"Engagement" on YouTube typically means likes/comments on your videos. It is well understood that the YouTube algorithm treats engagement as a significant positive signal to recommend your video to non-subscribers (or even, with enough traction, on the home page).

Does YouTube give you a numeric score for engagement?

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Post by nonethewiser »

dmix wrote: post #3

I found the same thing when I was blogging and also running marketing for my small business. How successful it was was almost directly dependent on my time commitment. These sorts of things almost always have a compounding sort of growth that benefits from lots of attention in a consistent timeframe. The algorithms are also primed to show users something they already recently searched for or a profile you recently wa…

This seems to encourage quantity over quality. I just imagine writing frequent blog posts and think the quality of insight (not writing, necessarily) would be inversely related to frequency of publishing.

This makes me think a text generating AI would (sadly) be a highly effective tool. I say "sadly" because I think about the front page of google's search results for something and all you see are meaningless blog posts which are written with buzzwords to satisfy SEO.

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