Is it harder today to become big on YouTube than 5 years ago?

Ludos said:
Yeah I mean really biiig so yes like a million subs :D But back then you had to be creative too and come up with new ideas. I think its just hard to have a new idea and thus stick out of the competition :D



I think its not that hard. It just takes a lot of time.
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Well my goal for the end of the year is 30k subs but being in month number two i see its not possible unless i have tons of money and people connected with me to promote me every video i post to get the maximum use out of everything and be at 30k
 
I think due to all of the advancements in technology in the past five years alone, we've really made people lazy. I think this is the best time to be a YouTuber. Not a whole lot of people are really willing to put in the work it takes to make it, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. We've got all these new social media sites now that make it easier and a little more fun to promote our videos like Vine, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
 
Yes and no.

5 years ago there was a lot less people on YouTube, and even less created videos. Now there are more people on YouTube watching videos.

Sure, there's more people making content then there was 5 years ago, but it doesn't change that much in the long run.


I personally think it's easier. More people on the site watching videos, more people watching your video.
 
mcfluffers said:
Ive seen more youtubers go from 20k subs to 1m in the past year alone then all the channels who started 5 years ago. Its actually crazy how fast people are growing now ha ha.
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There are currently 567 channels with 1 million subscribers, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say your math is way off. It is way easier to grow a channel larger now. It also doesn't take a ton of subscribers to make a living from YouTube.
 
It truly depends on how you define "big" on YouTube. To me, a BIG channel is anywhere between 50,000-100,000 subscribers. That's a BIIIIIG channel in my eyes.

I don't think it's "harder" to grow, any successful channel has put in a lot of work to grow. If anything, I think it's become harder to stand out from the masses of creators that are now on YouTube. You've really gotta be a unique personality to make it anywhere. Sure, there are a LOT more people on the platform then there was 5 years ago, so there's a larger audience waiting to find you, but you've got to hold up a big sign that says "HEY, OVER HERE" for anyone to notice you.
 
Wreckless Eating said:
There are currently 567 channels with 1 million subscribers, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say your math is way off. It is way easier to grow a channel larger now. It also doesn't take a ton of subscribers to make a living from YouTube.
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well Ive seen 5 go from 50k/100k range to 1m in like the span of 5 months. (one did it in like a week 0_0 ha ha) But I still want to get my point across that you didn't see that happening 5 years ago XD. even if I did exaggerate a bit.
or maybe they did... I don't really remember :/

uberdanger said:
That's a solid point, but the people who DID have subscribers back then, have a TON now.
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I was being a bit sarcastic XD ha ha I don't actually know how many people were on back then. I know it wasn't me, I didn't really watch youtube till like 2-3 years ago.
 
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