Does YouTube Favor Larger YouTubers?

PictureFIT said:
Don't blame YouTube. Blame the fact there are so many people trying to join the same genre while making sub-par videos with sub-par attempts at SEO. You are your own undoing. Put in the right work, promote, improve your videos, find trending topics, and improve your searchability. People need to do those before laying blame elsewhere.
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Exactly. A lot of people are self-entitled and think if they put in hardly any work, they should be rewarded.
 
Tuurngait Gaming said:
Hello there YTTalk! I am Tuurngait!

So I hear a lot of smaller YouTubers talk about how YouTube is "s**t" because their videos get hardly any views. So most of the time when I see a small YouTuber complaining about this, I check out their videos and I see content I'm not really impressed with. Either it's low quality, not engaging, no edits or cuts, bad thumbnails, weird titles, put no effort into learning how to edit and reform their videos, or they just poop out content and expect to get large. Now is this every small YouTuber? No, of course not! Some of US small YouTubers try to put out the best content we can without overriding our channel with crappy content we don't enjoy ourselves!

Now to get on with things. Do I think YouTube favors LARGER YouTubers? Well of course! You know why? They're the FACE of YouTube! Of course it's hard to grow as a small channel. It takes time to build it up and lots of learning and experimenting! The reason YouTube showcases so many large YouTubers is because they want NEW users to see channels that have EXPERIENCE, pop out and make good content! BUT the point of YouTube is for ANYONE to express themselves and put their content out there and there are definitely people out there who love to go check out smaller YouTuber content!

Think of it like Twitch.tv. They highlight HIGH UP THERE streamers because they want new people to see streamers who "the masses" find entertaining. Not someone with 0-1 viewers. Sure though, you could make great content and some people solely won't check you out because your view count is extremely low. That's fine though, you don't want a viewer who watches you solely because you had a high view count!

We all start small. We all improve. We all learn. We all grow.
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I wish there were something to feature small YouTuber's who have amazing content, small YouTubers who put their all into video's and have original content, that would be so helpful for the small youtube community, it would give those who try a chance at being seen more on youtube. I know so many great small youtube channels that have amazing original content and it sucks because not everyone can see them, because since they are such small YouTubers they are hard to find or stumble upon but I guess that's where growth comes into play haha you gotta start somewhere right?
 
Just come to this forum, there's plenty of people who pass thru making bad videos. I could list 100! They've all given up and faced reality. Then there's the undying wish for the "discover" tab! The panacea to all of what's wrong with YouTube. Where the "little guys" get featured! Yea, except there's several million of them and 99% of them aren't interesting. So if something existed like that, it wouldn't change anything. I wonder what miss anthropy and Dr. Bj would say about this post?
 
YouTube doesn't favor big channels. They give all new videos, regardless of the channel's sub count, a boost for the first week or so, and after that place it according to how it did. Other things factor into that (title, tags, description), but the point is that even though they treat big channels well because that's where the money's at, they exclusively prefer them. If they did, no one would grow from the bottom.
 
I don't agree with the argument that YouTube favours big YouTubers because of money:

CPMs aren't related to channel size and YouTube's % cut is the same for everyone. YouTube will earn the same $$ regardless of who is getting the views. Sorry about the over mathematical answer but it's a "zero sum game" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game )There are only a finite number of views possible in a day due to there being a finite number of minutes in a day and a finite number of viewers online at a given time. Therefore if one channel suddenly starts getting a huge increase in views (and $$), then that means that other channels are getting a corresponding decrease in views (and $$) but the total possible amount earned by the all the creators (and therefore YouTube) at a given time remains constant.

Coming back to the original discussion, everyone starts on day 1 with:

Videos: 0
Subs: 0
Views: 0

What happens after that is up to each creator. :)
 
PictureFIT said:
Don't blame YouTube. Blame the fact there are so many people trying to join the same genre while making sub-par videos with sub-par attempts at SEO. You are your own undoing. Put in the right work, promote, improve your videos, find trending topics, and improve your searchability. People need to do those before laying blame elsewhere.
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Exactly. A lot of people are self-entitled and think if they put in hardly any work, they should be rewarded.[DOUBLEPOST=1479951849,1479951803][/DOUBLEPOST]To grow on YouTube, you have to be determined and do the best you can! You can't just poop out the content and expect results! Ignorant.
 
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