If YouTube Shutdown Today Would You Tell People You Had a Successful Channel?

[FunWithTheBugs]

If your channel was shutdown today would you say you had a successful YouTube channel. What would you base it on to measure it as successful. If not, where would you need to be the day it stopped for you to consider it successful.

 

[markkaz]

Yes.

 

[UltimateKirbyBoi]

Yes.

Of course.

Anyway, I used to judge my success by the number of views/subs/likes, whatever. But while it's hard not to look at the numbers, I find that my success should be based on the quality of my videos. The storytelling, the editing, the real content.

So no, my content isn't successful because I haven't told the stories that I wanted to, yet.

 

[FunWithTheBugs]

Yes.

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Of course.

Anyway, I used to judge my success by the number of views/subs/likes, whatever. But while it's hard not to look at the numbers, I find that my success should be based on the quality of my videos. The storytelling, the editing, the real content.

So no, my content isn't successful because I haven't told the stories that I wanted to, yet.

I agree as a personal success we want our videos to be the best they can be but that is different then your channel being successful.

If you quite YouTube today, do you consider your actual channel successful?

 

[adams eats]

Can't really say what I'd do to be honest. I think I'd just say I had a channel and thats it

 

[KiddieToysReview]

If You Quite YouTube Today Would You Tell People You Had a Successful Channel? Why or Why not?

If I quite today I would tell people I had somewhat of a successful channel. Having over 500 subs with almost all of our videos over 100 views and some over 1K I think that might qualify as being somewhat small of a success on a tough platform. Not sure where that would sit in the percentage rankings of YouTube channels.

But currently still going today, I don't consider my channel successful at all yet.

What do you guys think? What do you consider having a successful channel and do you feel successful yet?

Probably not. They would ask 'are you crazy?'
If something is successful, why would you quit, if you enjoy it?
Unless you get super successful and achieved everything you want and then it doesn't motivate you and you don't get pleasure from it, then sure, I would quit. Then I can reminisce about the days of old sipping Long Island Ice Teas on Koh Samui. Sure!

What's successful? For me, it's being able to support the family with income from YouTube, get my teeth fixed, buy a new pair of shoes, fix the oil leak under the car, go to a hairdresser to get my hair cut instead of hacking away myself, those would be sweet. We're still a long way off that, but that's the end goal.

 

[MechaJake]

I would say that it was a success in that I had a ton of fun making my content and was proud of it but was it a success in terms of exposure? No probably not

 

[FunWithTheBugs]

I would say that it was a success in that I had a ton of fun making my content and was proud of it but was it a success in terms of exposure? No probably not

So look at it this way. You can play baseball and have fun but that wouldn't make you a successful baseball player. Getting signed in the big leagues would make you successful. So where is the success level on YouTube. What measures channel success? Can a small channel be considered successful just as much as a large channel. What would make you say you had a successful YouTube channel the day you retired without saying millions of subs and dollars. There are many channels that are extremely successful with 50,000 subs. Where do you need to be to feel success here?

 

[Rafij Rahman Rohan]

Of course NO.I mean what I will say to anyone "Hey!! I have a great YouTube channel.Basically it's doing very well & that's the reason I quit it"...lol...nobody quit success.Again success is something that is not equal for everyone.Everyone success is in different level.Just for an example "For a small youtuber like me success is getting your first 100 subs"..while...for a big youtuber success is to reach 100k subs.So the main thing is how you receive your success

 

[FunWithTheBugs]

Of course NO.I mean what I will say to anyone "Hey!! I have a great YouTube channel.Basically it's doing very well & that's the reason I quit it"...lol...nobody quit success.Again success is something that is not equal for everyone.Everyone success is in different level.Just for an example "For a small youtuber like me success is getting your first 100 subs"..while...for a big youtuber success is to reach 100k subs.So the main thing is how you receive your success

Maybe I should change the title. I am not looking at it as you want to quite because you reached success but if you were forced to quite or if YouTube was shut down.

***Okay, title changed.