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

[coliwob]

Yeah, like others have said you are doing well for a channel that is so new.

And yeah, intro needs some work I.e., shortened at least.

But I liked it, I don't think you need to worry too much about getting a super crisp image and all that, people understand that small youtubers are small. Not that having perfect image quality won't help grow slightly faster. So long as you improve over time the people that subbed to you will see that and more people will come. It's going to be a long road tho.

At the end of the day it is about your presentation and that has personality, which is good.

You could try resetting the camera for the mixing part of the show, it's what I did when I only had one camera - its a pain and it can interrupt your flow a little bit - but once you are used to it the viewers might really appreciate seeing what you are doing with he coffee.

Anyway, keep at it.

 

[RichGuitarGamer]

This is were you have to analyse your views comments and general interaction with your videos, i advise taking a step back analyse what youtube videos you want to do and how you can be creative in making these videos, sometimes less video making more time in the real world i.e a job/study e.t.c is whats needed to move forward in video creation, hell ive done that. If you try too much you will get burnt out. Take my advice bro! head up!

 

[javacentral]

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.

Thank you for the encouragement. It can just be a bit of a struggle trying to get your content out there when there is very little response.[DOUBLEPOST=1457446605,1457446422][/DOUBLEPOST]

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.

It really is a grind for sure. I'll have to keep plugging along like you were saying and keep rocking with what I got. Thanks for the encouragement man. I appreciate it.[DOUBLEPOST=1457446724][/DOUBLEPOST]

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.

A lot of that is some really good advice, thank you! I know I've had it mentioned that I should do more closeups on what I'm doing but haven't even taken a second thought on it. I'll have to do that on my next video. Coffee lovers are definitely finicky for sure! But I'll need to check out the retention rate. Did not know that was even a thing. Thank you for your advice and encouragement.[DOUBLEPOST=1457446859][/DOUBLEPOST]

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 !

I've actually contacted local coffee companies to review their coffee and that's a great idea. I'll have to see if I can collab with people in the same kind of subsection of videos.

 

[xingcat]

You have a niche channel that's pretty young. You seem to be doing all the right promotional things, but it's going to take time. Time is the ingredient most people forget about when it comes to success on YouTube (or most other endeavors). Just give it more time to catch on/take off.

 

[Marc_Covers]

Thumbnails are really super important its mostly the first thing that people are looking at, they dont even read the video title, so take a huge spot on good thumbnails is very important for youtube

 

[LuiC]

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.

Why were you shot down for making a coffee video? What did they say?

 

[javacentral]

Thumbnails are really super important its mostly the first thing that people are looking at, they dont even read the video title, so take a huge spot on good thumbnails is very important for youtube

I'm planning on working on my thumbnails. I never really put much thought into them but I'll have to work a bit harder on them. Thank you for the tip[DOUBLEPOST=1457536788,1457536638][/DOUBLEPOST]

Why were you shot down for making a coffee video? What did they say?

I posted to a British coffee forum and I got a decent amount of views from it. They didn't like the video though, I guess partially because the quality wasn't as good as it is now and they were a bit more serious into their coffee making (which I think taking a morning drink serious is a bit silly but that's just like, my opinion man.) I may put another video on there but I'm pretty hesitant as of right now.

 

[LuiC]

I'm planning on working on my thumbnails. I never really put much thought into them but I'll have to work a bit harder on them. Thank you for the tip[DOUBLEPOST=1457536788,1457536638][/DOUBLEPOST]
I posted to a British coffee forum and I got a decent amount of views from it. They didn't like the video though, I guess partially because the quality wasn't as good as it is now and they were a bit more serious into their coffee making (which I think taking a morning drink serious is a bit silly but that's just like, my opinion man.) I may put another video on there but I'm pretty hesitant as of right now.

I don't understand, why they would shoot you down for offering your opinions about coffee? That's really unkind and stupid of them.
If anything, that happens dude. Big YouTubers all the way to the small ones have their downfall and trends (look what happened to Fine Bros).

 

[javacentral]

I don't understand, why they would shoot you down for offering your opinions about coffee? That's really unkind and stupid of them.
If anything, that happens dude. Big YouTubers all the way to the small ones have their downfall and trends (look what happened to Fine Bros).

True! and the Fine Bros lost a bunch of subscribers and are still getting millions of views on their channels. I figure you live and you learn.

 

[projectorgaming]

I wouldn't worry about it too much. A large portion of the internet will hate on you, just to hate on you, even if they like your video, they will still put it down, just because they have nothing better to do. I know there are some forums out there that take stuff to the extreme because they want nothing except the 100% expert opinion on anything. Im a vaper, and I've been on a couple forums looking for DIY recipes. If you post anything even remotely like a "beginner" question on those forums, they will flame you to death, report your post, etc. They feel they are the "elite" and they don't want any posts on "their" forum that isn't "elite", if any of that makes sense. Basically they have too much time on their hands to be jerks instead of helping someone out.