How'd your channel do in May?

[ThioJoe]

May was a little bit... unexpected?

 

[TheDutchTexan]

+6.51% for views, -2.70% for subscribers vs april 2015.

So I guess I am growing and not growing at the same time? But overall it's still +144 subscribers and +15,697 views. I am not going to loose sleep over it, but I think it's fun to share my view/sub numbers anyway. You can clearly see that there was a day I lost 3 subscribers, and another couple that I did not gain any at all. But then I was present in a Monday night meetup and gained 27 subscribers in one day. My views seem pretty consistent, the peak at the beginning of the month due to my Cars and Coffee video dropping.

 

[David Stoll]

I had my best month for subs in May, which was really nice. My views are down, but my retention is up. So overall, I am happy!

 

[Furry Gurus]

Subscriber count went up, views went down, but you can't always have a 'viral' video

 

[babyteeth4]

Without getting too specific (because of adsense TOS), can you give us a very general idea of how your RPM has been over the course of this year and compared to this time last year (up vs down, consistent or fluctuating, etc)? Thanks.

Actually I can't access that information easily any more because we joined a network last September and you lose historical data on earnings and RPM (it doesn't wipe the views or subs though).

Anyway, a year ago we were pretty much an entirely different channel, we had done less than 10 candy reviews and we were still doing animation.

When I want to check long-term historical CPM trends, I've found Hank Green's growth chart to be handy, even though his channel is very different from ours (source: http://www.tubefilter.com/2014/10/06/hank-green-youtube-ad-rates/):

 

[Shendijiro]

Here is mine Got a few new subs and my minutes went up up!

 

[markkaz]

My channel dropped in views and subs about 30% from January to April. Much of that is due to me not uploading 'big-view' videos and basically doing what I call 'maintenance' or 'hobby' videos. The reason for that is because I was moving into a new warehouse/studio. Now that I have everything ready to go in the new place, I started making my money-making videos again.

While it is an arbitrary number, I was concerned that I was going to drop below 10 million views a month. Thankfully, it didn't go under 11 million.

Unfortunately, my monthly subs did drop under 10K. I'm not complaining though =)

I look forward to June being back on the upswing for RaceGrooves!
That being said, I will be creating content for my new channel and I look forward to the growth of that one. It's kind of funny having about 3K subscribers on the new channel and I haven't made any videos over there yet

 

[WilliamRayWalters]

Actually I can't access that information easily any more because we joined a network last September and you lose historical data on earnings and RPM (it doesn't wipe the views or subs though).

Anyway, a year ago we were pretty much an entirely different channel, we had done less than 10 candy reviews and we were still doing animation.

When I want to check long-term historical CPM trends, I've found Hank Green's growth chart to be handy, even though his channel is very different from ours (source: http://www.tubefilter.com/2014/10/06/hank-green-youtube-ad-rates/):

What made you decide to join a network? What do they give you that you couldn't get by yourself?

 

[Sabrina]

It's kind of funny having about 3K subscribers on the new channel and I haven't made any videos over there yet

I can imagine. You have that power. When you 'liked' my (unlisted) Manhattan video it went from ~10 to 150 views.
BTW I recently saw you in an old Tim Schmoyer video. That was a nice surprise.

 

[WilliamRayWalters]

While it is an arbitrary number, I was concerned that I was going to drop below 10 million views a month. Thankfully, it didn't go under 11 million.

Big channel problems :-/ LOL