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

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Post by t3hGrandPoobah »

swighton wrote: post #66

I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency. This is because there’s a nonlinear relationship between views & quality. For example a video that is twice as good might be capable of getting 10 times as many views. If that’s true it implies that (within reason) spending more time to make a better video is the best strategy. Intuitively this makes sense: would it be better to make 1 m…

yes, agreed the "consistency" thought leadership is mostly published by Mids who have never done any real work themselves

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Post by chinchilla2020 »

Stop obsessing over subscriber growth.

Youtube is comprised of one big ocean and a land with millions of tiny lakes: 1. A homogenous demographic that drives the growth of most major channels 2. A heterogenous demographic of niche hobbies and educational material

Your channel can never go viral if you cater to group 2. Each interest group is tiny. At best, you will get some of group 1 watching your niche channel out of osmosis.

Group 1 is mostly children. Despite what youtube reports, most billion-view videos are kids videos. Most users are children. There is a reason Beluga, pewdiepie, and Mr.Beast are top channels. If you aren't hawking that sort of thing, youtube is not a good market for you to grow in.

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Post by DustinBrett »

In 2021 I did a live stream every Saturday for 52 weeks straight. It was actually a lot of fun as I was working on my side project most weekends anyway and I wanted to start streaming it. By the end of the first year I had about 1K subscribers, but most live streams still got the same viewership, if not less. I'm closing in on year 2 now and passed 2K subs recently.

I echo some of the comments here about posting videos about things you want and not trying to play the YouTube game. Every time I have tried I've felt greasy, and it rarely helped.

Even for my non-live stream videos, I almost always do them all in 1 go with no editing. It helps me get good at speaking, is more natural and take a lot less time to finish.

My biggest problem has been motivation and time. I feel like I have a lot of videos I want to discuss, but doing the videos requires a certain energy that I've had trouble firing up lately.

For anyone interested in checking out my channel/vids: https://www.youtube.com/c/DustinBrett

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

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Post by wingworks »

steveklabnik wrote: post #111
swighton wrote: post #66

I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency. This is because there’s a nonlinear relationship between views & quality. For example a video that is twice as good might be capable of getting 10 times as many views. If that’s true it implies that (within reason) spending more time to make a better video is the best strategy. Intuitively this makes sense: would it be better to make 1 m…

As someone who spends a bunch of time paying attention to the YouTube meta, "consistency" is a virtue that's been professed for a long time, but YouTube has been pretty clear that it's not a factor in how recommendations work. I still think it's decent advice for new YouTubers, because you only get better at a thing by doing it a lot, and over time. The value of consistency isn't in the algorithmic properties, but in…

I would agree with that. I've been posting consistently every day, at the same time for 8 months and hasn't seen much return. But my vids are highly automated and pretty niche weather content, so wouldn't expect it to go crazy either. https://www.youtube.com/@aussiefromspace

I'm pretty happy, as a user that YouTube no longer pushes constancy over quality.

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Post by obmelvin »

fiat_fandango wrote: post #61
obmelvin wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've watched and judged for myself - I disagree. How is he using "poor people"? Everyday people are "poor people"? I think that says more about you than him. Yes, the views fund what he gives away. But until you or I start dedicating our lives to making money to give away, I don't think either of us has a leg to stand on and criticize him [for this specifically].

https://youtu.be/YhRRny_sHYw?t=45

If you watch the larger section of the video, you can see there's a whole section labeled as his 'Evil Mr. Beast' persona. Literally at the end of the teaser section he says "I could keep going, but they might believe it" https://youtu.be/YhRRny_sHYw?t=92.

They also hit on subjects such as people claiming Mr Beast ruins people's lives by giving them gifts for which they can't afford to pay the associated taxes. And he makes it clear how he will buy back items so the person just ends up with cash, to pay the taxes and keep. Or they can keep it or sell it themselves.

You can certainly argue his satire was in bad taste. I'm not trying to gas up Mr Beast or claim that he doesn't engage in attention-seeking behavior. Such as this, look at how we're over here talking about him, spreading his brand.

But, as long as he's using that brand to drive views, to have fun making videos and engage in some sort of neo-grassroots philanthropy I don't see how he's the plague of video content.

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

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Post by fiat_fandango »

jerf wrote: post #121
fiat_fandango wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an educated person, it's actually insane how hard it is to create click-bait / engaging thumbnails and titles.

You may be doing it wrong, no sarcasm nor insult intended. You shouldn't be sitting down and racking your brain to generate one from scratch. You build up a set of functional templates, then poke over the templates for which one happens to fit this video best. It's one step up from the classic Mad Libs game [1], except you can tweak the stock phrases a little bit, too. I fully expect that all the biggest YouTubers ei…

I couldn't agree more ;)

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Post by pentagrama »

swighton wrote: post #66

I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency. This is because there’s a nonlinear relationship between views & quality. For example a video that is twice as good might be capable of getting 10 times as many views. If that’s true it implies that (within reason) spending more time to make a better video is the best strategy. Intuitively this makes sense: would it be better to make 1 m…

Maybe if you are starting is good strategy to have consistency with weekly uploads? And later when you build a small audience, yes, you can apply your strategy of quality over quantity.

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Post by syntheweave »

swighton wrote: post #66

I’ve found that content quality is much more important than posting consistency. This is because there’s a nonlinear relationship between views & quality. For example a video that is twice as good might be capable of getting 10 times as many views. If that’s true it implies that (within reason) spending more time to make a better video is the best strategy. Intuitively this makes sense: would it be better to make 1 m…

More and more, Youtube's algorithm seems to surface a mix of newer and older stuff. The "Caipirinha" and "Caramelldansen" meme videos from the late 2000's have reappeared on my recommended's, and Gen Z accounts are commenting on them too.

So I agree that quality is an important factor. While there has to be some weighting to favor the needs of advertisers in play, it's not as strong lately as it has been.

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Post by asicsp »

majewsky wrote: post #54
asicsp wrote: post #11

I started posting videos regularly from March this year (probably had 10-20 subscribers before, now have 150+) > If you watch some of my earlier videos there are a lot of “um’s” and “ers”...started with writing full scripts I trained myself to go silent instead of ums/aahs/ers. I then changed how I recorded videos a bit so that I can simply use https://github.com/noisetorch/NoiseTorch to remove all the silent portion…

> I trained myself to go silent instead of ums/aahs/ers. As someone struggling with the same affliction, might I ask how you trained for that?

Not sure if there's some technique to it. I got very conscious about the ums and aahs and practiced forcing myself to stop and stay silent. I was recording short videos (1-15 minutes) about 3-5 times a week and I guess just delibrate practice helped me.

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Post by HWR_14 »

HaZeust wrote: post #80
poulpy123 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Almost all channels, even the ones technically focused, are now using clickbait thumbnails to the point that I installed a firefox add-on to replace the original thumbnail by a random thumbnail from the video. Not always at the advantage of the youtuber... > "To become the Mr. Beast of X" Not knowing Mr Beast this sentence sounds more like a pornhub advice :D

I think Mr. Beast is a billion-dollar brand now, I'm surprised his name hasn't crossed ways with you before.

I just saw an article about how he averaged $1 MM a week in profit on his videos last year. He's probably not a billion-dollar brand yet, but he's probably at more than half way there.
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