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Hey everyone, hope you're doing alright and motivated for 2017!
I would like to share my craziest week of 2016 with you guys because I hope to motivate some people.
I started doing YouTube in August. I had been following YouTube and wanting to do YouTube for what must have been close to a decade but never really pulled the trigger. In August I finally did and uploaded my first video, an Overcooked let's play (without Facecam).
I planned on testing various formats in my first few video's to see what sticks and what didn't. Against all odds my first vid did very well. I let my brother (who's been working with the most famous YouTubers for ages Ricegum, FaZe members, MrTechnicalDiff ... etc) be the judge first because frankly I had no idea if my vid was any good. Him giving me the green light and then some was the final push I needed to upload.
From that vid I gained 46 subscribers the first week(!) Immediately I felt like I could be onto something and was super motivated to upload my next video. After 2 months I reached 100 subscribers and to be honest it slowed down a lot from that point on...
It was around the same time the vids of the new YouTube algorithm were popping up. I was getting dramatically less views and subscribers and although I never changed my schedule or made lesser quality vids, I must say I felt a lot less motivated to keep going.
I pushed through the tough times and I'm now sitting at 1000 subscribers in 4 months (850 subs overnight from a colab). I'm extremely happy to have reached this milestone because I can focus so much more on my content rather than sticking to popular games/topics because you need to establish an audience. Also the feedback/comments/interaction with the viewers is something I wanted for a long time.
Moral of the story things will be tough but stick with it no matter what if it's something you love doing. Not everyone will blow up in a short period of time like I did, but hard work pays off no matter what!
My advice
- Set up a schedule when to upload and try to stick to it (Viewers love it)
- Interact with (potential) viewers as much as you can: Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat
- COLAB COLAB COLAB! There's millions upon millions of video's out there, your chances of being found are slim. Getting a colab will easily build your audience (my channel for example)
- Invest in yourself. Don't have editing skills? Get them! Don't have good thumbnails? Get them! You can't expect people to invest their time into watching your vids if you don't invest yours into making them.
- It's about the journey, not the destination
I would like to share my craziest week of 2016 with you guys because I hope to motivate some people.
I started doing YouTube in August. I had been following YouTube and wanting to do YouTube for what must have been close to a decade but never really pulled the trigger. In August I finally did and uploaded my first video, an Overcooked let's play (without Facecam).
I planned on testing various formats in my first few video's to see what sticks and what didn't. Against all odds my first vid did very well. I let my brother (who's been working with the most famous YouTubers for ages Ricegum, FaZe members, MrTechnicalDiff ... etc) be the judge first because frankly I had no idea if my vid was any good. Him giving me the green light and then some was the final push I needed to upload.
From that vid I gained 46 subscribers the first week(!) Immediately I felt like I could be onto something and was super motivated to upload my next video. After 2 months I reached 100 subscribers and to be honest it slowed down a lot from that point on...
It was around the same time the vids of the new YouTube algorithm were popping up. I was getting dramatically less views and subscribers and although I never changed my schedule or made lesser quality vids, I must say I felt a lot less motivated to keep going.
I pushed through the tough times and I'm now sitting at 1000 subscribers in 4 months (850 subs overnight from a colab). I'm extremely happy to have reached this milestone because I can focus so much more on my content rather than sticking to popular games/topics because you need to establish an audience. Also the feedback/comments/interaction with the viewers is something I wanted for a long time.
Moral of the story things will be tough but stick with it no matter what if it's something you love doing. Not everyone will blow up in a short period of time like I did, but hard work pays off no matter what!
My advice
- Set up a schedule when to upload and try to stick to it (Viewers love it)
- Interact with (potential) viewers as much as you can: Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat
- COLAB COLAB COLAB! There's millions upon millions of video's out there, your chances of being found are slim. Getting a colab will easily build your audience (my channel for example)
- Invest in yourself. Don't have editing skills? Get them! Don't have good thumbnails? Get them! You can't expect people to invest their time into watching your vids if you don't invest yours into making them.
- It's about the journey, not the destination
