My channel has been going through huge growing pains since it started 4 years ago. It started off ok, yet things went stale quickly. I only reach 100 subscribers after 3 years, and even though I am now just 1 off 200, the general viewing of my videos has been going down. In my first year I made my most viewed video to this day, which got 300 view. Then when I started recording Minecraft on my channel in late 2015, all my videos were doing ok, with around 40-50 views each. Yet despite to huge improvements to quality, my current Minecraft videos get around 10 views each.
Then a few months ago, I started a new series, of me opening Pokémon cards, and it way better then I expected. The first video got around 30 views just 1 hour after uploading. Since then I released a lot more Pokémom card opening videos, all of them, except for the one I uploaded two days ago, did really well. However they don't grow my channel at all, no extra subscriber growth nor extra views on all my other videos. The only thing I noticed is that I get more comments. I used to get around 3 a month, but now I get at least 1 per video.
On top of that my viewer retention time is awful, with 20% for the past week, 15% for the past 28 days, 6.6% for the past 90 days, 6.8% for this year so far, and 8% for the entire history of my channel, suggesting there is an disconnect between what people were expecting and what there was.
So I am looking for feedback on what could've caused my channel to be in such a state after 4 years of consistent uploading, and feedback on how to improve to get out of this hole. Is there even still hope for my channel? I mean I haven't even hit 10k views yet which you need to start advertising.
Then a few months ago, I started a new series, of me opening Pokémon cards, and it way better then I expected. The first video got around 30 views just 1 hour after uploading. Since then I released a lot more Pokémom card opening videos, all of them, except for the one I uploaded two days ago, did really well. However they don't grow my channel at all, no extra subscriber growth nor extra views on all my other videos. The only thing I noticed is that I get more comments. I used to get around 3 a month, but now I get at least 1 per video.
On top of that my viewer retention time is awful, with 20% for the past week, 15% for the past 28 days, 6.6% for the past 90 days, 6.8% for this year so far, and 8% for the entire history of my channel, suggesting there is an disconnect between what people were expecting and what there was.
So I am looking for feedback on what could've caused my channel to be in such a state after 4 years of consistent uploading, and feedback on how to improve to get out of this hole. Is there even still hope for my channel? I mean I haven't even hit 10k views yet which you need to start advertising.
