Anyone just made videos without marketing/promoting?

Thanks mates. Yes I should do the simultaneous Facebook, Twitter whole social media thing.
Any tool to automated it all when a video is released on YouTube?
Just wondering.
 
I had a music channel that worked like that. I stopped being active after about 20 videos so it never blew up but the tracks reach a couple of hundred to thousands of views each. Some people were also asking me whether I'd make music for their films after that. So I guess it worked as a self promotion, too. :) The only thing I did was trying to find a good title, create a good thumbnail and fill out tags + description.
 
SEO is helping but there is a very important factor, especially for small channels: "Channel Authority" and "Watch Time". If you do not have lots of subscribers and almost zero watch time, YouTube is not going to rank you high in the beginning. So, your channel will develop slowly.

Social media and marketing help you get the initial watch time, as well as social cues that YouTube uses in its algorithm. I'm afraid, small channels HAVE TO do some marketing if they want viewers. Personally, I also do not like promoting. It is very boring to copy-paste the same text in Facebook into different groups, pages, etc. I also sent personal messages to my friends, whom I thought would be interested in my video. CTRL+V is your friend.
 
I'm promoting on here, Twitter, Sometimes on Reddit and I'm actively replying on comments in Youtube.
Although my videos are never found and my channel is never visited because people "found it".
I don't know how and I really need to get a change in this...
 
only started to post on social media over the last year or two, channel has done fine, but i must admit, i believe one of my viral videos only got there because of me posting it to a related website.

promote, but keep it to closely related places. I would not post my pokemon videos in gaming, but i would post them on a pokemon site.
 
I agree with what has been said. With the reviews i do most of my views come from Youtube search or recomended videos. Just get title, tags and description right and they will come.
The above is the biggest thing i need to work on after reading on here about tags etc and hopefully get my views up.
 
Yes I need to work on my tags. They are repetitive with name of track, source etc.
But I do want to make them more uniformed instead of looking great just for SEO..you get what I mean. Oh well.

As for social media, oh wow that's a whole other story. A lot to learn. Thanks everyone. Learning lots.
 
I share them on this forum, facebook, twitter, instagram and sometimes reddit and other sites related to the content that I created but that's it. No sense in trying to do anything else or worse, spam it where it does not belong. If you are going to make it big other people besides yourself need to start sharing your content. Big sites need to share your content because someone in the loops happened on it.
 
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