The reason why you won't succed

Maybe because improving audience engagement is relative to each person's channel? Or that retention time is not as important as watch time? Heck, the only thing retention time is good for is to know how long your videos should be. And finally, there are plenty of advice given here talking about call-to-action and retaining viewership.

Not everyone does YouTube so that they can grow at high levels or look for financial freedom. There are plenty of people here that do it for a hobby, for enjoyment, and for seeking out their passion. No amount of views or subscribers should stop people from doing that.

Instead of trying to put people down for their own intentions and their motives, how about you spend some time sharing your own experience in being successful?

 

This is a very good point. I am perosnally focused mostly on the content of my videos and I always try to fugure out why did or didn't something work and learn from it. I don't have any clickbait titled videos yet or anything like that although I am gonna experiment with that one, too.

 

That's not true, everyone grows at their own pace! I know a YouTuber who has 1 million subs it took him 3 years to get 1,000 subscribers I've only been on for 1 year and I'm so close to 3,000! It doesn't always mean they don't have good content there's plenty of YouTubers who have amazing content and they don't get a lot of subscribers/ views

 

That's not the point. The point is that overall watch time is more important than retention. It's been tested quite heavily now. Follow the YouTube figureheads and you'll see what I mean. 10-minute watch time for a 30-minute video (33% retention) is better than a 5-minute watch time for a 10-minute video (50% retention). There's a reason why watch time is shown in your analytics dashboard and not retention.

Proof?

This is all based on speculation. Again, there are people and channels that have dissected the algorithm much more extensively.

 

Wrong. Everyone has a limit. If your limit is 500 views it is 500 views. And it isn't the content either. You can make stellar high quality content, but if the person in that stellar content is not "follow worthy" you will never gain traction. Source? Me myself and I. Sure, I have a video approaching 100K views and am closing in on a total million channel views. But this took me 4 years to get to. And then there is the simple fact that there are people out there that create for the sake of creating. Anything that comes with it is bonus.

 

I had one channel which I've deleted (because it was in the gray area of copyright and I didn't want it to affect my main channel) and it had the highest watch time around (here). It was the content that people liked and they asked for more. Everytime I upload a video which were 6-12 hours long , I saw the watch time skyrocket over and over. I even saw two skyrocketed watch times hitching on top of the other. It's the content. Every video build on the next, so the user had to watch it from beginning to end. It was barely a month old with barely any subs but the few subs made watch time in the 80,000 min range. It was amazing.

My main channel's watch time isn't that bad either.

Sorry, I pushed the publish button before finishing typing.

 

I understand where you are coming from. I disagree that 500 views is a bad thing, if the size of the audience is 500 and you get 500, then you have 100% of it. But there are thousands upon thousands of channels with videos that never break past 100 views (many of those channels somehow have 1000-5000 subs from some reason) and they put videos up without thinking clearly of how they will turn out. Usually younger and more inexperienced people(nothing wrong with that) see a video of some big channel talking about their lives, and think they can do it too and get exactly the same result. Of course once you do that, then you've cracked the code for being rich without having to "work", the dream of all millennials, but thats besides the point.

though, one never knows what the "next big thing" will be and it could very well be one of us.

I have 1,325 subscribers right now and average about 4000-5000 views per vid. if I went about 5-6 videos in a row that got only 50 views, I would definitely quit. If there wasn't any growth from the start, I'd also quit as well.

 

Ever work in a warehouse or retailer job? Crappy pay and it takes years to make something decent. Don't expect YouTube to work a different way. Every first step in anything is going to be a struggle. This is what they call the build up!!!