it required flawless, on trend backend execution to grow and maintain traffic after the initial viral surges have subsided. It's got a lot to do with traffic levels and maintaining your traffic rankings against other channels, each one hungry and eager for growth.
Would you be willing to elaborate a bit on this point? When you say "on trend backend execution", are you referring to your use of adwords?
On trend = doing what's popular, where Yt is sending the mass traffic, where the channels with the top traffic are focused, ex surprise eggs and toy unboxing are pretty much dead but wacky skits are in (for the most part).
Backend = all else you do behind the scenes - tags/title/description/CC/intl translations/playlists strategies/branding/home page design/thumbnails/adwords/etc
You're always competing with your fellow channels with similar rankings. If others improve while you stand still, the views will drop as you deliver less views than others with similar ranking. Things are becoming increasingly competitive and you need constant improvement/adoption to keep things steady and/or grow. If you drop the ball, the next upcoming will step in quickly and take your spot.i dunno, everything sound pretty hopeless for now, even if I only aim to make some extra money. I read other post, people get only like a few hundred even tho they had over 1mil views. I managed to get over 10k view in the last couple of years, just past the adsense requirement, for unknown reason i got 9 sub in the last several years, and 1 more in last month. I only have 10 subs and 15k views total now. I really cant spend a lot of time on this. is it pointless to just keep posting videos?
Nothing wrong with doing it for money, as long as you will not think it's going to be easy money. I started this thing as a business, not for fun. Doing it for over a year now and don't despise it, still full with energy to make it work.first off, it should be for fun / not for money