How hard is it when you first start youtube?

[Vexxy]

If you advertise and upload daily, it is still extremely difficult and does take up more time, but you can grow much faster. For instance, on my channel when I first started, I uploaded daily for the first 20+ days, then I got kind of burnt out (I'm coming back though now! ) I looked back at the progress which I made, and I realised I was a few subscribers off 100 (96 or something.) That doesn't sound like a lot, but that was just 20 days of uploading and advertising, I admit I did too much advertising, hence why I got burnt out. My point here is, spend however long you normally spend on producing content, and maybe spend some or more time advertising because it does take up more of your time, but clearly it is very much worth it! Just my 2 cents, good luck, I hope you achieve your goals!

 

[bbisafatbear]

I uploaded my first 2 videos together yesterday, got like 60 views each but not a single subscriber what am i doing wrong or is it really this hard!! ahhhhhh

 

[KWKBOX]

It is a task for the gluttons of punishment nowadays unless you have the right gimmick or support of a much larger channel.

 

[TaxOwlbear]

Not too hard. I'm patient and quickly found my niche, and there is a dozen games I would like to LP at once!

 

[CrazFrank]

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[FlashToroGaming]

In this age of Youtube starting is incredibly difficult. The first 100 is the hardest after this you will run into the occasional snowball. From what I hear after 1k is a lot easier so long as you keep your video's quality up! Youtube is all about analytics and luck for being found but to get a subscriber all about the quality. You could get 100 views but either because your video was poorly made or the rest aren't at that level ya didn't get them to subscribe sadly.

 

[XtremeConditioning]

I've been posting gaming videos on you tube for a year now but finding it really hard to gain subscribers, is it something I'm doing wrong or is this normal when starting out

You're not doing anything wrong. The problem is, everyone and his four brothers is trying to get a gaming channel going (including myself).

You have to understand that nowadays, when others have met the market share, you do have to hit the "YouTube Lottery" so to speak, in order to get big. That's really what YouTube is. A lottery that you hope you win. I know of a dozen channels off the top of my head that upload 4-7 times a week, and upload good content, but just cannot get a foothold, or make the jump over 100,000 subs, or in most cases, can't even get above 10k.

The important thing is to try for a while. And if time after time you fail, try to adapt a bit and see what works. If you keep doing the same thing over and over and expect the outcome to change, it won't.

Back in the day when there weren't many players on YouTube, if you made good videos, it was much easier to get a foothold. But when you have 20 million people trying to do the same thing as you, it's no surprise that success will be near-impossible.

 

[TranquilGeo]

I've been finding it extremely difficult to grow my channel as well, but I think of it as a learning experience. Each video, my audio production gets better, or I learn to utilize a new feature in Adobe Premiere.

Honestly, while I'd love to have a huge audience, I'm glad that most of my future audience hasn't seen my first video, because I've learned so much and gotten so much better since then haha!

Part of YouTube's draw is that anyone can upload, so there needs to be some barrier to entry. If you can be critical, improve, and stick through it, chances are you will be successful... eventually.

I can so relate to that. I'm fine with a nice slow growth. My skills need to improve before gaining too much attention. My channel is about nature, music and relaxation. The music part is not the problem for me. Been a musician for many years.

But the visuals are a different matter. My camera and video skills need to improve drastically because I've only been doing that a short time. So I'm at the point you mentioned. I'll make a nature video, and soon learn a new skill I wish I'd known the prior video. I've never asked someone to sub to my channel, not even friends and family. When I feel I've improved enough to justify it, then I'll go wild with the networking.

 

[TranquilGeo]

Massive h

Massive help, thanks, the reason they're long is because I stream, they then get uploaded to youtube automatically, agree with the talking, I do often neglect my mic

If you feel your videos are too long, just change your youtube default setting so they don't auto publish after Twitch uploads them. This way you can download them and segment them into smaller chunks and re-upload them in several parts. All the big ones do that. This not only gives you more content but delivers the average viewer with an acceptable length video, which is a win for the creator and the viewer. 12-17 minutes seems to be the norm. People like Markiplier get a lot of mileage out of the part 1, part 2 etc.. type content.[DOUBLEPOST=1446353339,1446351673][/DOUBLEPOST]

I've been posting gaming videos on you tube for a year now but finding it really hard to gain subscribers, is it something I'm doing wrong or is this normal when starting out

I wanted to mention one more thing. I have a gaming channel that I don't really push at all. I basically help other healers improve in World of Warcraft. I get thousands of views and a long list of comments from people thanking me from the bottom of their hearts for sharing my secrets. In all those views and comments, I have a grand total of 5 subscribers. Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. I don't really care how many subs I have on that channel, but it does scream the obvious. You have to tell them to subscribe or they won't. People, myself included, get wrapped up in the actual video and forget to sub unless they are asked to. In fact, when I look at all the people I'm subscribed to that are not a part of this forum, all of them have an early call to action right after they announce what the video is going to be about. Watch some of Xiovo's videos and you'll see what I mean. That dude does it right.

 

[Manicmann1986]

If you feel your videos are too long, just change your youtube default setting so they don't auto publish after Twitch uploads them. This way you can download them and segment them into smaller chunks and re-upload them in several parts. All the big ones do that. This not only gives you more content but delivers the average viewer with an acceptable length video, which is a win for the creator and the viewer. 12-17 minutes seems to be the norm. People like Markiplier get a lot of mileage out of the part 1, part 2 etc.. type content.[DOUBLEPOST=1446353339,1446351673][/DOUBLEPOST]
I wanted to mention one more thing. I have a gaming channel that I don't really push at all. I basically help other healers improve in World of Warcraft. I get thousands of views and a long list of comments from people thanking me from the bottom of their hearts for sharing my secrets. In all those views and comments, I have a grand total of 5 subscribers. Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. I don't really care how many subs I have on that channel, but it does scream the obvious. You have to tell them to subscribe or they won't. People, myself included, get wrapped up in the actual video and forget to sub unless they are asked to. In fact, when I look at all the people I'm subscribed to that are not a part of this forum, all of them have an early call to action right after they announce what the video is going to be about. Watch some of Xiovo's videos and you'll see what I mean. That dude does it right.

Thanks, will give it a go