Is YouTube dying?

I don't know if it's harder now than 5 years ago really, at that time there were less viewers and less channels. With (a lot) more viewers now, you can also say it's the best time ever to start, the potential audience has never been bigger before!
Most people though have too high expectations. It requires hard work and dedication and even then you need certain qualities in order to make it. Just cranking out mediocre content will not increase your odds to "get big" if you do it for 5 years. As Einstein said it well, "the definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result"
 
Noobzilla said:
Right, which is the opposite of YouTube dying. In 2017 with 30+ million daily visitors watching 5 billion videos a day you are competing against the 300 hours of video that are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Stay consistent and continue to get better each day and before you know it you will be on the path you want to be.
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You know the truth! :D consistency is key and bettering yourself every time is the best!
 
This is pretty much exactly the same scenario as happened with blogging about 10 years before. Everybody (including me) was making really decent money through Google ads placed on our pages with very little effort, and if you updated your blog even a couple of times a week, the money just poured in. Then, the market got incredibly saturated (I started my first blog, which we called "online diaries," in 1997, so there was basically no competition) and advertisers were able to get picky, and corporations noticed that people were reading blogs, and suddenly the money wasn't there anymore, or was very hard to come by.

Blogs are still here. Blogging platforms have changed and evolved, and I see that happening with YouTube. But more people are making over $100,000/year on YouTube now than any year prior, and that's growing all the time. So yes, it's harder to make it big, but more people are making it big. It's a smaller percentage overall, but given the number of channels I've personally subscribed to who gave up after a couple of months of work, citing how "hard" it is to make it, I'd say it's more that people expect it to be super-easy to make decent money off of minimal effort instead of the platform dying.
 
MarkRodriguez2012 said:
One side of things.... saying that it was easier to get exposed 5 years ago means you basically had 5 years to build yourself up so you'd have a loyal fanbase that would watch you no matter what. Markiplier would be a nobody if he started as a n00b today, but he's build up his fame like crazy a few years back, so even if YT got more competiive now, he's still got his huge fanbase backing him that he's built over years.

Also newcomers have to stop coming to Youtube with the mentality that they're going to live off it. You have to be super big to do that, and even then... most of the real big ones make more money off branding, their merchandise and Youtube Red and whatnot rather than just ad revenue. So unless you can somehow make something that looks like an actual tv show with a decent budget, or have a hell of a personality like Markimoo, just do it for it for the fun right now.

Have fun, enjoy yourself, viewers can tell if you're actually having fun making the video and aren't just doing it out of some obligation, or just for the money. Build your fanbase. Slowly gather views, comments, likes and subs. I mean, even Pewds was a nobody at one time.
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Yeah I'm definitely having fun on making videos because if not I would have stop doing Youtube long time ago. But right now I'm just saying that YouTube is messing up causing a lot of people not getting what they truly deserve.[DOUBLEPOST=1496852485,1496851425][/DOUBLEPOST]
KidsCorner said:
I don't know if it's harder now than 5 years ago really, at that time there were less viewers and less channels. With (a lot) more viewers now, you can also say it's the best time ever to start, the potential audience has never been bigger before!
Most people though have too high expectations. It requires hard work and dedication and even then you need certain qualities in order to make it. Just cranking out mediocre content will not increase your odds to "get big" if you do it for 5 years. As Einstein said it well, "the definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result"
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Nice one! :D
 
Youtube is so so hard.. One day I'm doing 3,000 views per hour then a week later back down to 100 per hour.. I want to give up. but I want this so bad.. I think its highly competitive and I do not see if dying out anytime soon :)
 
xingcat said:
This is pretty much exactly the same scenario as happened with blogging about 10 years before. Everybody (including me) was making really decent money through Google ads placed on our pages with very little effort, and if you updated your blog even a couple of times a week, the money just poured in. Then, the market got incredibly saturated (I started my first blog, which we called "online diaries," in 1997, so there was basically no competition) and advertisers were able to get picky, and corporations noticed that people were reading blogs, and suddenly the money wasn't there anymore, or was very hard to come by.

Blogs are still here. Blogging platforms have changed and evolved, and I see that happening with YouTube. But more people are making over $100,000/year on YouTube now than any year prior, and that's growing all the time. So yes, it's harder to make it big, but more people are making it big. It's a smaller percentage overall, but given the number of channels I've personally subscribed to who gave up after a couple of months of work, citing how "hard" it is to make it, I'd say it's more that people expect it to be super-easy to make decent money off of minimal effort instead of the platform dying.
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Completely agree. Prior to youtube I had a food blog for almost 6 years, and I didn't get anywhere near the amount of traffic and engagement than I do with youtube. And I've only been doing this for 11 months. I remember the days when page rank was king lol
 
never look at your content and assume it cannot be improved. You might look back at big YouTubers early vids and think "I'm doing better than that" but they improved and figured out what worked best for them over time sometimes many years.
 
Since there´s a lot of new channels coming up everyday, it´s getting harder and harder to get noticed. Which makes me think that people are more likely to take more drastic measures to get noticed.
I have noticed that people are thinking that it´s an instant success to do youtube, and doesn´t realise that it takes a long time to grow!
 
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