Channel Declining

Franklin

Franklin

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Hello everyone!

I have been operating my YouTube channel for six years. The channel's theme is trading card games. My channel saw slight improvements in views over the first five years. The channel is slowly declining this year. Viewers rarely comment in videos and this has been a problem for two years. I am not interacting with most viewers. So far, I have earned 8,400 with only 14 comments in this year.

My job can be very demanding. I cannot have a schedule for videos. I am only able to upload at least five new videos every month. Videos are upload on random days.

Promotions on Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter have yielded very little success. Only one video has ever gained attention on Reddit and that was over a year ago. I have more Twitter followers than subscribers on Youtube and Facebook. Only 33 people follow the Facebook page and over 500 people follow me on Twitter. I suspect the majority of followers on Twitter are bots (I do not pay for bots). My blog's decline hasn't help either. I was averaging 300 readers a day, and that has now dropped to 40 readers a day since April.

I'm also subscribed to many channels in the same genre. I genuinely enjoy these channels. I don't see what I am doing wrong compared to those channels.

What about I doing wrong? Is it my videos' quality, my personality, or inconsistent upload schedule?
 
It all just depends on what people want to see. Maybe it just isn't as popular as it used to be, but an upload schedule will help you out more.
 
First off, your channel's life span has gone through 6 years! That's a lot of time for things to change and I am sure a lot has changed not just for you but for your viewers. Maybe they liked cards when they started with your channel and now they like playing games on their phone. Another thing is your schedule for sure!

If you don't have a proper schedule you are hurting your chances. People like consistency and knowing that who they subscribe to will deliver. If you post videos sporadically they can't be sure that you will just up and stop one of those long gaps.

I'd say find people in your niche, which is cards, and see what they are doing to be successful, then remix their work and do similar stuff but put your own style on it.

Good luck and remember to have fun and have positive energy.
 
iGuys said:
It all just depends on what people want to see. Maybe it just isn't as popular as it used to be, but an upload schedule will help you out more
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I agree. And a lot of things can happen in 6 years dude..Who is to say what a guy who who subbed your channel 6 years ago is interested in now????:)
If you have subscribers who are still interested in your content a upload schedule will help for sure:up2:
Best of luck to you and by the way cool that you still have you´re channel after 6 years
 
Interaction is what stands out to me, and I think the schedule thing falls under the same umbrella. My guess is there's a number of people that have started creating similar content over the past 6 years, and so are competing for the same viewership. If you want people checking out your stuff rather than someone else's, you need to remind people that you exist, and that there's something they'll enjoy on your channel. That's achieved with consistent interaction, you're looking to keep yourself in your audience's consciousness, that's why consistent scheduling is recommended, it provides the "I know Awesome Card Games will come up with something dope next Monday", so people are readily aware of that.

If your job is too demanding for that, then I guess it can't be helped, other than having someone manage social media and stuff for you. A person doing YouTube full time is naturally going to have an advantage in such matters over someone with a steady job, that's just the hand you're dealt...
 
Thanks for the feedback everyone.

Dig said:
Interaction is what stands out to me, and I think the schedule thing falls under the same umbrella. My guess is there's a number of people that have started creating similar content over the past 6 years, and so are competing for the same viewership. If you want people checking out your stuff rather than someone else's, you need to remind people that you exist, and that there's something they'll enjoy on your channel. That's achieved with consistent interaction, you're looking to keep yourself in your audience's consciousness, that's why consistent scheduling is recommended, it provides the "I know Awesome Card Games will come up with something dope next Monday", so people are readily aware of that.

If your job is too demanding for that, then I guess it can't be helped, other than having someone manage social media and stuff for you. A person doing YouTube full time is naturally going to have an advantage in such matters over someone with a steady job, that's just the hand you're dealt...
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I upload new videos every month. Subscribers are getting new content. They just are unable to expect a particular date. My plan is to film a bulk of videos and schedule on particular days for the next few months. Hopefully my channel will see slight improvements.
 
Franklin said:
Thanks for the feedback everyone.



I upload new videos every month. Subscribers are getting new content. They just are unable to expect a particular date. My plan is to film a bulk of videos and schedule on particular days for the next few months. Hopefully my channel will see slight improvements.
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I think that's a good idea. My point regarding the scheduling was that if you post say, every Monday at 6 pm, your subs will now that a new ACG video is coming at 6pm. So with enough consistency, they'll have that in mind, and Monday at some point they'll think "I should check out ACG this evening". By creating predictable patterns with your schedule you get people to expect a video at a certain time, thus making a mental note to check it out. Whereas they don't know what to expect with random releases, there is no mental note, and chances are they completely forget at some point, maybe remembering that you have cool videos months down the line (since a lot of people are also vying for their attention). Your idea of preparing videos in advance might very well do the trick, "borrowing" some time so you have more leeway in the future, enabling you to hit deadlines. Again, I don't think scheduling is necessarily a HUGE deal, but I hope you see improvements regardless :)
 
Franklin said:
Hello everyone!

I have been operating my YouTube channel for six years. The channel's theme is trading card games. My channel saw slight improvements in views over the first five years. The channel is slowly declining this year. Viewers rarely comment in videos and this has been a problem for two years. I am not interacting with most viewers. So far, I have earned 8,400 with only 14 comments in this year.

My job can be very demanding. I cannot have a schedule for videos. I am only able to upload at least five new videos every month. Videos are upload on random days.

Promotions on Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter have yielded very little success. Only one video has ever gained attention on Reddit and that was over a year ago. I have more Twitter followers than subscribers on Youtube and Facebook. Only 33 people follow the Facebook page and over 500 people follow me on Twitter. I suspect the majority of followers on Twitter are bots (I do not pay for bots). My blog's decline hasn't help either. I was averaging 300 readers a day, and that has now dropped to 40 readers a day since April.

I'm also subscribed to many channels in the same genre. I genuinely enjoy these channels. I don't see what I am doing wrong compared to those channels.

What about I doing wrong? Is it my videos' quality, my personality, or inconsistent upload schedule?
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I am not expert on these sort of stuff, but you might want to improve on your tags in your videos, by maxing out the 500 limit and have them ranked in the search results. In order to see if your tags are ranking or not, hey Tubebuddy is your best friend and you should check that one out.

Another thing you could do, is to look back at one of your most popular videos such as your rpg maker vids and create more videos based off of that,

If that doesn't work, just look at things that are currently trending based on trading cards or something, you can do that by typing in the Youtube/Google search engine and it'll show you a list of phrases or sentences and make a video that its title, description, and tags matches whatever you choose from that list in the search engine. You can also check out Google Trends
 
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