Honestly, trying to find the right avenues for promoting my videos has been one of my biggest struggles as well, a lot of places fall into a sub4sub category or are so over saturated with people promoting and not actually watching other people's videos. While my channel is still very small I have found that even jut talking and getting to know people in these forums have helped me grow the most.
I know what you mean, and I don't want to do sub 4 sub, because it's against youtube policies for one. And for 2, it's a useless sub as that person will likely never look at your channel again or comment or like anything on it. Then that is also the next problem I'm facing, if I do find a good place to promote, I can promote sure, but it's only filled with people trying to promote and nobody looking for creators to watch or sub to. So, yeah it feels like, just the more people I talk to like on here or the ones that do happen to comment on my video on youtube or facebook or wherever are more prone to subbing or sharing my stuff with people they know, because we had an actual bit of conversation.[DOUBLEPOST=1541039282,1541038460][/DOUBLEPOST]
I might be wrong. I still have a very small channel. But learning from other successful individuals on the platform I would concentrate on building a good library of content first and not stress too much about promoting or subs. Just my 2 cents.
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That's actually very true when I think about it. Because even the most successful youtubers that I currently watch on a regular basis didn't have all that much content on their channel when they were first starting out. Some only doing 1 video a month or every other month. Although there are others I've seen that have 100's of gaming videos in their library and they only have something like 50 or less subs, and the content looked pretty good, so I'm not really sure one way or the other. It would still be good to know suggestions on better than here or there places to promote and try to grow. Currently I'm just using things like facebook groups, my own FB feed, twitter, and now here.