Does Anyone Else's Youtube Channel Seem Dead?

daniel burgio

daniel burgio

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Mine does. It seems like no matter what I put up and no matter how well I tag the videos and try to share them, I can't really get to even 20 views on a lot of my videos. The ones that are in the triple or quadruple digits got there using Google Adwords. The views stop completely afterwards. I tried encouraging people to subscribe and all that malarky too, and thought I was getting a steady stream of subs working my way up to 80, but then I lost 3 and I'm stuck. I'm thinking Youtube's system has given up on my channel since it's 3 years old and never even broke 100 subs. Anyone else have an issue like this? Were you able to get out of this rut?
 
I'm sorry you're feeling this way. The main thing to do is to see what your channel is focused on, and to see how you fit into that niche. So if you're not gaining the views or subscribers you're expecting, then you need to either:
  • Change your content (your content isn't gaining enough subs)
  • Change your approach (your content type gains subs and views on other channels, so people aren't finding yours). This could mean changing your approach to tags or thumbnails or descriptions or titles, etc.)
  • Improve your content (your content type gains views on other channels because other channels make your type of content better. So you may want to improve your equipment, your ways of speaking/acting, your effects, whatever it is you do on your channel)
  • Improve your promotion (your content is solid, your approach is solid, but nobody is finding you. This would mean you need to find places inside and outside of YouTube to aggressively promote and make friends and collaborators who can get the word out)
Good luck!
 
xingcat said:
I'm sorry you're feeling this way. The main thing to do is to see what your channel is focused on, and to see how you fit into that niche. So if you're not gaining the views or subscribers you're expecting, then you need to either:
  • Change your content (your content isn't gaining enough subs)
  • Change your approach (your content type gains subs and views on other channels, so people aren't finding yours). This could mean changing your approach to tags or thumbnails or descriptions or titles, etc.)
  • Improve your content (your content type gains views on other channels because other channels make your type of content better. So you may want to improve your equipment, your ways of speaking/acting, your effects, whatever it is you do on your channel)
  • Improve your promotion (your content is solid, your approach is solid, but nobody is finding you. This would mean you need to find places inside and outside of YouTube to aggressively promote and make friends and collaborators who can get the word out)
Good luck!
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I definitely need to work on all of those. That last one specifically. I can't really tell where to put my content. I wasn't very good at keeping up with forums and I'm afraid to join now because it would ultimately just be to get views lol. I do gaming a lot and some scripted "reviews" of games, and the main problem with the first is that I'm up against "shouty" youtubers while I'm a little more reserved. And I definitely could improve the equipment and writing with the scripted stuff. It's just kind of discouraging at the moment, but I'll keep trying. Thanks!
 
I am so sorry to hear about this! I wish you the best of luck:) I would work on great editing and some new, fresh content to reel in an audience! I hope all goes well :)
 
daniel burgio said:
. I'm thinking Youtube's system has given up on my channel since it's 3 years old and never even broke 100 subs. Anyone else have an issue like this? Were you able to get out of this rut?
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That's actually a very interesting observation. Sorry to hear you are having this conundrum, but it does make sense from an algorithmic perspective. The algorithm is designed by programmers with management direction. What's the key thing for YT management? Growth! Growth of the platform, user base, revenue, share price, income, etc. It makes sense that the algorithm is programmed to favor and promote growing channels, and penalize those who have stagnated.

I don't think the normal strategy of improving content, thumbnail, etc, works, because unfortunately you channel may be flagged as non-growth (I'm assuming such a flag exists int he algorithm).
Since there is nothing much to lose, why not start a new channel?
Alternatively, you need to muster up some subs, and quickly. Your sub count needs to explode, to the point the algorithms goes "whoa baby! what's going on with this channel?" How to do that? The only way may be sub4sub at this stage. S4s has specific pitfalls you should be aware of if you do engage in it, but that's the only way I see to add 50-100 subs/day and force some exponential growth. But it's only a short term strategy, after that you need to switch back into normal sub mode.
 
daniel burgio said:
I'm thinking Youtube's system has given up on my channel since it's 3 years old and never even broke 100 subs.
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I can feel you buddy! Sometimes I encounter these stagnation moments ( not that I ever had a burst of growth anyway). At the very beginning I was thinking the same as you but then I thought " can something like that being a serious thing"?
It's possible that if you achieve a certain growth in a set amount of time your entire channel is doomed to oblivion?

I actually don't know, also because I'm running mine since 6 months, but watching other people who achieved a good growth during the first months and now grow steadily without promoting can make me believing that theory could have a fundament of truth! But before being a downer try to harder to improve the channel and I guess one of the crucial points is the social media aspect, something I'm not so good at yet, because nowadays networking should be one of the best way to grow. I say should because the same tips can't obtain the same results for 2 similar channels (every channel is his own microuniverse).
 
I feel the same! I've been dealing with this the past 4 or 5 years. A lot of it is my fault I believe though, I never post consistently. When I do I've been lazy in the past about thumbnails and spreading the message of the video. Can't get any where hoping your video just naturally spreads. Logically people won't even bother to click on your video if it only has a few views. No way for a natural spreading these days, Unless you get lucky and someone posts it to Reddit and they like it. I'd say take to heart some of these comments and really dig into the reasons. That's what I'm doing, you only fail when you give up.
 
daniel burgio said:
Mine does. It seems like no matter what I put up and no matter how well I tag the videos and try to share them, I can't really get to even 20 views on a lot of my videos. The ones that are in the triple or quadruple digits got there using Google Adwords. The views stop completely afterwards. I tried encouraging people to subscribe and all that malarky too, and thought I was getting a steady stream of subs working my way up to 80, but then I lost 3 and I'm stuck. I'm thinking Youtube's system has given up on my channel since it's 3 years old and never even broke 100 subs. Anyone else have an issue like this? Were you able to get out of this rut?
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You should try to increase your audience retention and watchtime. Then, it will bump your SEO and move you up in the search, therefore getting you more views.
 
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