A question on Subscribers

Being realistic, failure is extremely possible. No matter how active you are and the quality of your content, you might just be a person that people generally don't find interesting. This doesn't mean your personality is bad or anything, but there's some people I meet that just generally turn me off and you could be one of those kinds of people ( not talking about YOU in specific, using it in a broad term ). However I don't think you should start YouTube with the purpose of being successful or it'll never reach you, but rather because it's something you just have fun doing, and it'll find you itself.
 
ThreeProng said:
Being realistic, failure is extremely possible. No matter how active you are and the quality of your content, you might just be a person that people generally don't find interesting. This doesn't mean your personality is bad or anything, but there's some people I meet that just generally turn me off and you could be one of those kinds of people ( not talking about YOU in specific, using it in a broad term ). However I don't think you should start YouTube with the purpose of being successful or it'll never reach you, but rather because it's something you just have fun doing, and it'll find you itself.
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A really good example he brought up with unfortunately when you are "a person people don't find interesting" sadly there are people like that out there who will never make it, it's like saying EVERYONE can be an Actor like Brad Pitt or something, not everyone has that charm/charisma/skill/ etc whatever you want to call it.
 
Well I've been a member of YTtalk for over 3 years during which time I've seen thousands of creators come ...... and go. My estimation is that less than 5% actually become "big". A huge proportion don't and give up.

Go to the introductions forum and look back at the threads from a year ago. Check out their channels and make your own mind up if they became "big" or not. You could even do the exercise from 6 months ago. Many have already quit.

(I'm not judging or criticising anyone but I'm being very objective based on my real observations. But the statement that everyone can grow a "big" channel and be successful on YouTube is definitely false based on actual results.)
 
Well yeah you're gonna fail. Regardless of how well you do your videos or how much time you put into them you're gonna fail at some point. But this happens to everyone and the only thing you can do is keep pushing out new content and bounce back!
 
I'm not under any illusion that my channel would become profitable, never mind hit it big. Does that mean failure? I don't think so. In gaining an audience for my videos, which are a delight to make, in gaining a group of people with whom I stay in contact through the platform, and in challenging myself to create new creative videos a few times a week, I've achieved the goals that I set for myself already. Sure, I can gain more audience, and I expect I will (slowly), but if I wanted to find a larger audience than I think I can gain with what I'm doing now, I'd most likely go in a completely different direction, and that's not something that would satisfy my creative urge or make me happy, so that's not worth it to me.
 
Once again It's not about "Tags" Tags are 4% of the SEO equation

What I know the key is?

1. Create Shareable content = content that invokes STRONG emotion (example: Ah HA moments, Hilarious, makes you cry, makes you angry) Nobody shares videos that made them say "that was ok"

2. Search Engine Optimize your videos Before creation, during filming and editing, and After posting (as stated, a lot more goes into it then tags, or even simply title and description)

3. Quality content to the best of your abilities (audio and visual) posted consistently at the right time (MIDNIGHT because it's what's best for SEO)

4. Being dedicated to making every video better than your last in ALL areas

^THEN you can not fail!
 
You just have to make the content you believe in and like making and hope you achieve greatness. Just like in any other career fields, there are no guarantees. Good luck!
 
PrettyKeli said:
Once again It's not about "Tags" Tags are 4% of the SEO equation

What I know the key is?

1. Create Shareable content = content that invokes STRONG emotion (example: Ah HA moments, Hilarious, makes you cry, makes you angry) Nobody shares videos that made them say "that was ok"

2. Search Engine Optimize your videos Before creation, during filming and editing, and After posting (as stated, a lot more goes into it then tags, or even simply title and description)

3. Quality content to the best of your abilities (audio and visual) posted consistently at the right time (MIDNIGHT because it's what's best for SEO)

4. Being dedicated to making every video better than your last in ALL areas

^THEN you can not fail!
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Wow...I keep hearing different thing about the posting time.
 
pizzaboynizza said:
Wow...I keep hearing different thing about the posting time.
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The absolute best time to ever post, hands-down is midnight PST.

That's the point that google starts counting the day. You want your video to have a full day to marinate and do whatever it's going to do and you give it a fighting chance in the search engines if it's up there for an entire day. People make the mistake of posting later and it messes them up in the search.

Example: If I posted a video at 11:32pm and it only got 5 views? YouTube will look at that video as only able to attain 5views in a day, not the fact that it's only been 30 minutes even though the time may say "posted 1 hour ago" on your end? To the world and the spiders it says "posted on 29th of july"

Social media marketing? that's another story. Example, if you want to market on twitter to your audience of teens? You would want to post around the time they are most likely to read it... like when they get out of school etc.

but YouTube? Midnight, guaranteed!
 
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