Has ANYONE recieved views from fan finder?
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Daemon White
Your friendly neighbourhood Canadian!
I might... if I had one...
I'll make one over christmas break I think.
I'll make one over christmas break I think.
jRandyAnderson
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So I did at one point try to promote the video using an Adwords campaign, but the video wasn't approved. I tried setting it up again, and it never said it was approved. Well guess what! It was and I didn't know it this whole time! Wow! So Tarmack you were correct!
I thought that I was getting those views from the Fan Finder when in fact I was paying around $30/day for an Adwords campaign! I just stopped the campaign and paid Google $200 for the clicks... ha! Add that to my stupid tax for the year.
Tarmack, thank you so much for suggesting that, cause it was going to keep billing me $30 a day! Apparently, they don't bill you until you reach a bill of $200 (I was literally at $199.13), or 30 days since the campaign started. so if you wouldn't have suggested that, I would have been wondering why in the word my bank account had dropped by $200 tomorrow.
To everyone else, I was wrong! My Fan Finder hasn't been working like I thought it has! Oops! Sorry for the misinformation.
Tarmack
Rhetorical Porcupine
Glad to be of help. Now, if you can just get your cost per view down to $0.01, you can rake in serious views with a campaign like that.
I have a campaign running at between $3-$5 daily. which is a cool 300-500 views. 
jRandyAnderson
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Glad to be of help. Now, if you can just get your cost per view down to $0.01, you can rake in serious views with a campaign like that.
That sounds great! But I think I'm going to hold off on campaigns for a while, haha.. the rapid views and growth was nice, but the cost isn't sustainable when I'm not even getting paid from my videos yet.
Tarmack
Rhetorical Porcupine
I have to be honest. More than once I've thought about just dumping $2000-$3000 to jump to 10K subs. Seems to me that the road to fair enough income would be much shorter starting from there.
jRandyAnderson
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I have to be honest. More than once I've thought about just dumping $2000-$3000 to jump to 10K subs.
Would it work, though? What sort of returns do you get on ads (meaning how many subs do you get out of them)?
I guess we're getting off-topic, but let me do some math for my situation. I started the campaign unknowingly around 35 subs or so. I think. I now have 155. So that's a gain of 120 subscribers, and the total cost of the campaign was closer to $250. So comparatively, if I spent $3,000 I would gain somewhere around 1,440 subscribers. Of course, my cost per view is probably high, and this is just guess work. Hmmm.
markkaz
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I know some large YouTube channels who have spent thousands of dollars on Adwords campaigns. The word is that it is not cost effective to promote a YouTube channel that only earns income from Adsense.
You need lots of subs and lots of views long term in order to recover those costs. The reason that Adwords/advertising works for somebody who is advertising goods or services is because when they get a customer, they can translate that to dollars. With YouTube subscribers, one customer is worth a certain amount of views. You know that we make PENNIES on views, not dollars.
You need lots of subs and lots of views long term in order to recover those costs. The reason that Adwords/advertising works for somebody who is advertising goods or services is because when they get a customer, they can translate that to dollars. With YouTube subscribers, one customer is worth a certain amount of views. You know that we make PENNIES on views, not dollars.
Tarmack
Rhetorical Porcupine
Well, two issues. Your campaign was poorly optimized. For those of us not in a huge rush, if you spend the time, you can likely get the view cost down to $0.01 per. Now, if you spent about $250 and got the 4046 views from your previous post, that puts your per view cost around $0.06. So, you got 120 subs. For the same spend, without any other changes than optimizing the campaign, you can estimate that at $0.01 per view, you would have gotten 720 subscribers. Then if you work on making your trailer even more engaging, that could otherwise increase the amount. Extrapolating that up to $3,000 would be 8600 susbcribers. Now, these are all guesstimate numbers but they pretty closely mirror what I'm doing on my end of things.
From what I gather, Adwords has two main purposes for YouTube channels who are concerned with subscriber conversion rather than product sale conversion. The first is what I'm doing, where it's being used to jumpstart a channel. I don't get enough views through the organic search due to my videos being topical news. They get views for a short period and then nobody searches for that topic again. The theory is that if I can get up to 10,000 subscribers through adwords, by that point each video should be pulling around 1000 views within the first few days and the likes/shares etc will encourage continued growth beyond that point.
The second method is a burst campaign. This is done to boost a particular video up to 50K-100K views in a very short period of time, cementing it's position in the search rank. The video will then get solid organic views after.
For a channel like racegrooves, you're already gaining 5K subs a month and you probably wouldn't notice the increase of adwords until you were spending multiple thousands a month. But for me, where my normal monthly sub increase is around 10-20, getting 200+ in a month is excellent growth.
