A little bit irritated and trying to get off the ground.

javacentral

javacentral

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I've tried my best to share my videos out to other people. I am active as a member on reddit, twitter, facebook, google+, and tried my hand at a coffee forum (I make coffee videos, btw). I try to like other peoples content, share comments on their stuff, and get involved with each website as well. I even got a bunch of views from posting one video on that coffee forum but got shot down quickly from there and a bit discouraging.

I know my types of videos aren't for everyone but I'm wondering if there is any other place or websites I can share my content that won't get mocked or ignored.
 
I am not sure which coffee site you are talking about. Best place to share your videos are social medias and reddit. You should join FACEBOOK YT groups, it works for me and helps a lot.
 
Sounds like you're doing everything right. Don't let yourself get discouraged by someone who is just being negative for the sake of being negative. You know your videos are good, so keep on keeping on! You can also share videos here, people don't really judge at all in my experience.
 
1.) Your channel is only 3 months old. Many people stay under 100 subs for a year.
2.) Your thumbnails need to look more appealing. Right now they look like you just took one of the 3 default choices YT provides where it's merely a screen-capture of your video.
3.) Your intro is 15 seconds long. That's too long. Especially since you have a guy shaking his hand on loop for like a whole 7 seconds.

I skimmed your most recent video briefly:
4.) You need to find a way to show what you're doing if you're actually making something; your hands go below the camera frame and you're mixing contents the viewer can't even see.
5.) It's a sad fact, but this is 2016, and if you're going to be doing vlog-style videos in 2016 (and are actually expecting to get somewhere in terms of viewership) you need a great camera that picks up details and provides a super crisp image. Your video quality does not provide that (and I understand, my camera isn't capable of that either except in perfect lighting conditions that I can't even achieve in my home, but I also stopped doing face-cam for the most part for a variety of reasons).
 
Ok, from my experience, posting your videos to a forum, even if they are 100% relevant and helpful will still make people flag you as spam, ridicule you, dislike your videos, etc. It can definitely be frustrating starting out. It is a losing battle 99% of the time. If you really wanna succeed you just have to push past that. I think this is especially so in a niche genre of coffee. It is all gonna take time. A lot of time for the vast majority of us. I think it is really important to remember the small stuff. I have a gaming channel that is new, and my view count is extremely low. I've been doing a walkthrough series of a game. The last episode I posted about 4 days ago was episode 9. Has been a hectic week and although previously I uploaded a new video daily, I haven't in the last week. I looked at analytics today and saw 2 or 3 viewers had watched my episode 9 video. I was honestly cursing at myself for not having made episode 10, 11, etc, because there is a chance they watched the 9th one, looked for the 10th , and it wasn't there. Possibly lost some views. If your a huge channel 2 views means nothing. For a very small new channel though, those potential 2 views can be everything. The main thing is keep your content consistent, and always look for ways to improve your quality even if you have low views. Share when you can but don't freak out if your not well accepted somewhere. Just keep pushing. To me, having a new channel as well I think that is the most important part. With the amount of videos uploaded daily to youtube, you have to push yourself even if you don't get the views you want. There are thousands of people trying to make their new channel grow big daily, and I'd assume the vast majority give up after a few months when they don't have 1 million subs. Unless you get extremely lucky and have a vid go viral, you have to 100% be in it for the long haul. If your not, you are better off just quitting now. What I have done is given myself a goal. I want to hit X number of viewers by a certain month. If I don't make that, I will take my leave. When I started my gaming channel late jan I had about 10k views from random videos. That was 9 months time to get that many off random crap. I'm now just a bit over 15k. My goal is 50k by June 15th. I'm gonna have to work hard, very hard to get to that number. If I don't reach it I will probably throw in the towel. But in the meantime I'm gonna push forward with everything I got until then.
 
I am a fan of coffee and food. Not a fan of vlogs but thats just my personal preference. Plenty of vloggers doin very well. Anyways i think food related category is very visual. And i will take a few seconds to look at picture of food or video related to food. On fb there are a few food related pages that ive liked like buzzfeed food and some cooking pages. So i see a lot of videos as i scroll down my newsfeed and i see lots of colorful food clips in the preview. Makes me want to watch the video more.

With that said, i wish you did a closeup of coffee butter as you made it. And your french press video i was looking for a demonstration of the french press in action. Thats how all the food shows do it.

Now that i think of it. If youre targeting coffee lovers then good luck. Ive noticed lovers of anything are quite finicky and not very forgiving. Theres a popular girls toy called shopkins and ive gotten the most thumbs down and negative comments from very picky shopkins lovers on our shopkins alphabet video. Its almost funny how passionate they are.

it sounds like your doing the right things like reaching out through social media. But if they shot you down in coffee forum then maybe need to re-focus on the content. Check your "retention rate" in analytics to see how much of your video people are watching. It is a pretty solid indicator of how appealing the video is.
 
In terms of sharing and being active I think you are doing everything right. Might be time to look at improving the quality of your videos itself. There are a lot of courses on the YouTube Creator Academy that can help with that. Also, look at channels with similar content (doesn't necessarily need to be about coffee) that have a substantial subscriber base and look at what they do in their videos that you could improve on, e.g. lighting, video quality, different shots, frame choice etc.

Best of luck to you!
 
javacentral said:
I've tried my best to share my videos out to other people. I am active as a member on reddit, twitter, facebook, google+, and tried my hand at a coffee forum (I make coffee videos, btw). I try to like other peoples content, share comments on their stuff, and get involved with each website as well. I even got a bunch of views from posting one video on that coffee forum but got shot down quickly from there and a bit discouraging.

I know my types of videos aren't for everyone but I'm wondering if there is any other place or websites I can share my content that won't get mocked or ignored.
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I'd try and search for other YouTubers that do the same things as you do, but with a much larger audience. There I'd leave genuine comments and try to get involved in that community.
For sure you'll get subs and views that are interested in your content
Best of luck !
 
The biggest thing I can see is what has already been mentioned further up.

When preparing the beverages, you should have the camera on your hands. It will make your viewers much more engaged.
 
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