How to get my channel noticed?

In my opinion covering the most popular fields such as Minecraft, Halo, and Call of Duty aren't going to get you anywhere. The amount of people covering the same information and/or the same concepts in the videos you create will be high. Unless you can come up with a very unique and interesting video for the certain popular market you're trying to get into (besides let's plays, etc.) then you might not make it anywhere. Tutorials or tips and tricks videos can often appeal to the average Joe as people are often looking for quick information for improving their play-style or easy tips about the game. For getting more noticed, posting your video on the appropriate section of reddit, the forums for the game you are covering, and even the Steam community hub can increase view counts. Also, if you have such connections, external gaming blogs receive tons of views and getting your video posted on one will increase view counts. If you find no luck in covering the big AAA titles. It may be time to try and find an untouched market where you see a certain category in a certain video game seems unpopular or not really on Youtube at all. My last tip is professional content. People really adore a well made video more than you think. High quality audio (which you seem to have) and branding. This is where you would want to start in my opinion. Please note this is just my opinion.
 
I'll give you an example of a channel that has done incredibly well for the short amount of time it has been up.

There is this channel called TeraGaming. Its a small gaming/ vlogging channel that is on Youtube and it got over 100 subs in 2-weeks to a month.

I asked her about her growth and she gave me a few techniques that I will just copy-paste here for ya. Make sure you check Tera out btw, there is really good content on there :-)

"I tried a lot of different methods of advertisements and promoting, only two of them really worked out for me. When I used reddit I got a troll, when I tried twitter I got lots of followers but only 1 subscriber, when I tried adword I spent 17$ on promoting my channel trailer to guess what... get no subscribers at all.

One method that worked pretty well for me was to just go to a large content creator's video that is in a similar field as yours and to leave comments on their videos. Do not self-promote on their videos leave meaningful feedback or a relevant comment to the video portrayed. Most of the time if people like your comment it will boost up to the top of the comment list, which leaves people a click away from going to your channel. I actually have a ton of +1's on google+ because of how good the comments I leave on peoples videos are.

The second method I used takes a lot more work (A TON MORE WORK). It was just to email people who seemed to enjoy the type of content you are creating. I made a pre-made message and went to a popular YouTubers video's comment section and clicked on each person individually sending them a email. The email I sent them just asked for feedback on my channel and nothing more, I didn't ask them to subscribe or to even like my content just for feedback (the feedback has helped me out a lot). I have sent over 2k emails out using my memory to try and not send duplicate emails out to an individual. Some of my subscribers came from this method and the ones that did come from this method are much more talkative than the latter. It does take a long time to send out this many emails though.

So yeah those are the two methods that I have been doing, and only those two methods recently. I tried many other methods and none of them seem to work for me. The first method is how I got to 100 subscribers and I didn't even use the second method until after I passed 100 subscribers. Anyways I hope that helps you out a bit!"
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It is a long grind though. I've been active for a couple of months and I only have 63. Try different techniques than Tera did, its different for everybody. There isn't a specific formula to getting noticed on youtube. But I think if you can get connections, you may be able to get up there. Ty collabing.

But top tip

DO NOT SPAM!
Its the worst thing ever and people will not pay attention to you

good luck :-)
 
You seriously think that a review on CoD2 would get views??? And don't even try Miencraft unless you have something very specific to share.
I'm doing reviews on camera gear and what I discovered: Making reviews about things that just entered the market recently get many many times more views.
This has two reasons: 1. More people search for it. 2. (And this one seems to be even more important) There are no other videos of the same kind that have like 20.000 views so I have a chance to be at the very top of the search list.
I also watch a lot of videos from other youtubers about camera gear and answer the tons of questions people write in the comments. That makes them curious about my channel.

So far I got in my first 2 months 10k views.
I know I am working in a different field but I think it still applies to everyone.
 
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