Getting my channel noticed is difficult :/

[Shobzy]

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Well that's the downside about gaming, it's hard to be unique and not do things that's already been done. With gaming being the most over saturated genre, finding something new is difficult.

The best thing to do is to do what others aren't. Don't play games that everyone else is playing. (Minecraft, Call of Duty, Happy Wheels, Amnesia/Slender, FIFA, GTAV, etc).

When you create content that is on 95% of gaming channels on Youtube, it makes it very difficult for your channel to get noticed. Sure there is a large audience for those games, but you're battling with hundreds of thousands of content exactly the same.

Thing I don't undertand is for example people sub to me for minecraft so they dont usually watch my other vids. For MC it's alright because I upload it more but if people sub to me because of a one-off game that I played, the person would probably never watch my other vids = Inactive subscriber

 

[soulred12]

Well that's the downside about gaming, it's hard to be unique and not do things that's already been done. With gaming being the most over saturated genre, finding something new is difficult.

The best thing to do is to do what others aren't. Don't play games that everyone else is playing. (Minecraft, Call of Duty, Happy Wheels, Amnesia/Slender, FIFA, GTAV, etc).

When you create content that is on 95% of gaming channels on Youtube, it makes it very difficult for your channel to get noticed. Sure there is a large audience for those games, but you're battling with hundreds of thousands of content exactly the same.

See, there's an interesting conundrum with that. You'd think that doing something others haven't done would make you more likely to get noticed, because there's no bigger youtuber overshadowing you. But the bigger youtubers tend to do the more popular stuff. So by doing stuff they aren't doing, logic dictates that you're doing less popular stuff that, although you may be the only one doing it, people won't bother to watch. It's frustrating.

 

[Team Sinister]

Asking for somebody to check out your videos gets pretty annoying after tons of people ask you... Especially if you send the same exact message as you send to someone else... And if you compliment the person's channel without even looking at it... Those messages are really annoying.

 

[KGATV]

See, there's an interesting conundrum with that. You'd think that doing something others haven't done would make you more likely to get noticed, because there's no bigger youtuber overshadowing you. But the bigger youtubers tend to do the more popular stuff. So by doing stuff they aren't doing, logic dictates that you're doing less popular stuff that, although you may be the only one doing it, people won't bother to watch. It's frustrating.

Yes, that's true. But when you do the same content as big youtubers, and 95% of gaming channels out there, your videos end up in a pile of hundred of thousand videos exactly the same. Nothing differentiates your content from theirs. When someone goes to search for games such as Minecraft, Happy Wheels, Fifa, or any other popular game, they are going to be faced with hundred of thousands of videos. The chances of someone finding your video, and clicking on it becomes very very slim.

You also can't necessarily say that people won't bother to watch the content that everyone else isn't doing, because if that was the case, most games wouldn't be popular on Youtube. Someone had to start Minecraft, Happy Wheels, Call of Duty, Fifa, etc.

Gaming is the hardest genre on YouTube to get noticed, and grow. 95% of gaming videos are exactly the same. If you look at most gaming channels, you will see the same things. Same games, same game types, same series, etc. Some even go to copy the same looking thumbnails, avatars, sayings, etc.