Is there such a thing of being too broad in video creation?

RichGuitarGamer

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Morning people (if your in UK its morning)

Im in trouble (no i havent gotten somone preg lol) since ive done/do a wide variety of videos im having trouble marketing myself in the appropriate fashion. How in Lehman terms would you market a "youtuber who does video, challenges, omegle, tv shows, vlogs"??
 
Technomania said:
i dont understand the lehman part but about the market, you need to spend money to gain to gain views and be original (talking on a camera is not original).
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Lehman terms is a british expression meaning simple terms - agree with the whole spending to gain views (there are services out there that will share your videos with thousands) however dont agree with the "talking on camera isnt original" comment - as i sometimes do vlogs i need to be on camera (actually the videos i made on camera are my most popular).
 
RichGuitarGamer said:
Morning people (if your in UK its morning)

Im in trouble (no i havent gotten somone preg lol) since ive done/do a wide variety of videos im having trouble marketing myself in the appropriate fashion. How in Lehman terms would you market a "youtuber who does video, challenges, omegle, tv shows, vlogs"??
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The best way to market your kind of material would be to find like minded videos and just chit chat in the forums with people. This is something I'm recently starting to do and its showing some pretty great results. Just adding a goofy comment to another challenge video, or a nice comment to your favorite gaming channel. It may seem like you won't get noticed, but if its funny/genuine people tend to respond. Hopefully that helps!

@Technomania didn't always use to be that cranky...not until...the coconut up the butt incident, it was terrible...truly terrible. The image is still burned in my retina.
 
JTMulcahy said:
The best way to market your kind of material would be to find like minded videos and just chit chat in the forums with people. This is something I'm recently starting to do and its showing some pretty great results. Just adding a goofy comment to another challenge video, or a nice comment to your favorite gaming channel. It may seem like you won't get noticed, but if its funny/genuine people tend to respond. Hopefully that helps!

@Technomania didn't always use to be that cranky...not until...the coconut up the butt incident, it was terrible...truly terrible. The image is still burned in my retina.
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Great advice! :D

and whats this about the but?.....looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool!!
 
RichGuitarGamer said:
Morning people (if your in UK its morning)

Im in trouble (no i havent gotten somone preg lol) since ive done/do a wide variety of videos im having trouble marketing myself in the appropriate fashion. How in Lehman terms would you market a "youtuber who does video, challenges, omegle, tv shows, vlogs"??
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I market individual videos to appropriate places. I wouldn't post my dog videos in a Navy forum, and I wouldn't post my weapon system shooting down a missile in a dog forum. Watch this trailer Creative Collective did about my channel and you'll see how random my s**t is lol.... I have hundreds of thousands of embedded views, a lot of these are from sites sharing stuff I shared with them. You probably won't get many subs with that type of channel though, but subs aren't everything. I have 622 subs and I'm closing in on 2 million views.
 
RichGuitarGamer said:
Lehman terms is a british expression meaning simple terms - agree with the whole spending to gain views (there are services out there that will share your videos with thousands) however dont agree with the "talking on camera isnt original" comment - as i sometimes do vlogs i need to be on camera (actually the videos i made on camera are my most popular).
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Yes i definitely think there is such a thing as being too broad. I think the most convenient way to manage your content is to build your channel(s) around niches. So as to avoid showing people content that they are not interested in. However that being said some niches can be pretty broad and it definitely doesn't mean that a niche can't contain several types of content, like: vlogs, reviews, etc, as long as it's all, at least to some extend, related to your main subject/niche.

I think you are referring to the term layman's terms. When I see Lehman (especially with the capital L) the first thing that pops in my mind is Lehman Brothers, the bank that went bust in 2008.
 
Kelkschiz said:
Yes i definitely think there is such a thing as being too broad. I think the most convenient way to manage your content is to build your channel(s) around niches. So as to avoid showing people content that they are not interested in. However that being said some niches can be pretty broad and it definitely doesn't mean that a niche can't contain several types of content, like: vlogs, reviews, etc, as long as it's all, at least to some extend, related to your main subject/niche.

I think you are referring to the term layman's terms. When I see Lehman (especially with the capital L) the first thing that pops in my mind is Lehman Brothers, the bank that went bust in 2008.
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Exactly!!

And thanks for the correction! :D
 
Personally I'm now getting to a point of considering splitting my channel, as I want to go down a different line of videos. Having that broad channel structure can work if each video gets large amounts of non-subscriber views as a standalone. Once you have a fanbase/decent amount of susbscribers though, I sense it becomes more of an issue, as subscribers generally find you through searching for one of their particular interests, or watching a similar video.

A lot of my own subscribers like my story-based animations and have just stumbled on them from other similar material, whereas my sports-based ones generally get views from me promoting via twitter etc. The story-based subscribers generally aren't too fussed on the sports stuff, and visa-versa. So I'm thinking that if I split the sports off into it's own dedicated channel, I can keep subscribers happily in their own niche without them seeing videos popping up that don't interest them.

So that's one option, to split the channel.

If you want to keep it all in one channel and broad, I'd promote on a case-by-case video for each video, rather than your channel as a whole. So promote the vlog videos to a relevant crowd, and then the challenges to a different crowd.
 
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