Are you new to Youtube? How was your first year!?

Ocean Chan said:
I started in June this year. It was really great. It was very spontaneous, hadn't given it much though. I wanted a place to share some of my dive videos, and it ended up taking a new life.
I started off with weekly uploads, but it became very exhausting, so now I do fortnightly uploads and getting into a good rhythm.
I wish I had used social media like instagram better. I started using it 3 months ago to promote my channel, and its been really good.
I still have yet to get a hang of twitter.

Originally it was pretty much gopro footage (the first 9 videos), eventually my sister leant me her canon dslr, and I started doing more commentaries and instructional videos. Its a constant learning curve.

My channel is based on a hobby, so it always takes second place. I'm just hoping I can do more freediving in 2018 and hoping the weather holds up over the Summer.

How bout you? what are you answers to your questions?
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Hey sorry about the late response, I posted this and then went of vacation.

I started YouTube because I saw the content out and was inspired to start making my own.

I really didn't know what to expect but I'm happy about the way things have gone so far.

I promote my stuff on facebook, twitter, and insta. I make an effort to tweet my favorite creators when they drop videos, in addition to youtube comments of course.
Sometimes I post of Reddit, but I don't think there is really a point, at least for me. Looking at the numbers Facebook drives most of my traffic.

Id say that my biggest challenge is keeping up with the algorithm, but it is also a blessed because it keeps me motivated and focused. As a movie reviewer I need to keep up with the latest films, and make sure that I have videos up while they are relevant.

I love Youtube and I dream about making better vids in 2018!
 
I started youtube in about march this year. I guess my channel's done pretty (i got 50 subs) well but I was still hoping for better (I was going for 100). Either way a good year becuase I learned lots and know how to approach youtube better next year.
 
I started three months ago and I now have eight videos under my belt.

This stuff is not easy to do. I'm seeing progress in the past eight videos that I've done. I'm also seeing that I have a long way to go in terms of how I can improve.

It really is a lot like learning an art, isn't it?
 
i started in January of last year and did fairly decent. approaching 3k subs and have had a couple videos hit over 10k views. My goal is to have 10k subs by the end of 2018
 
I'm coming up on a year of content creating in February, and it's certainly been an interesting ride.

More or less I make videos for myself, and hope as a by product others get something out of it. I earned some subs & people who seem to be interested in what I create, and for now that's good enough for me :thumbsup2:
 
Even though it wasn't my first year (was my 4th year) my channel is still growing at the rate of a new channel, so I guess I get to comment here.
 
I started my channel on October 14, 2017. I've now got 6 sub4sub (down from 8 a week ago), 1670 views. Currently averaging 29 views per day. Social blade projects my yearly views is +10.3K. I am confident that I can prove them very wrong. ;)
 
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I started June of 2017, and I hit my goal of 50 subs before the end of the year, and actually just made it to 70 a week into January! I feel like I'm growing pretty slowly, but I'm also in the style/ beauty genre of YouTube which is highly saturated with content creators. But for a personal goal, I now upload 2 times a week and have been doing so consistently for about a month and a half, so I'm pretty proud of myself! :D
 
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