gamerslockerslife
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I started youtube with 0 intention of it ever going anywhere. It started because my wife and I buy storage lockers and everyone would ask of it was really like the tv shows. After awhile we decided to show people what it was really like instead of having to tell the same story over and over. In late 2015 we recorded our first video and posted it. We tagged everyone on our facebook that would ask us about it. To our shock the video ended up getting 500 views pretty fast. People also began to sub and ask for more videos.
Jump to a year later we had a few videos get lots of views. Including 3 over 100k and 5k subscribers. We never thought this would happen. We also never changed how we operated and just made videos and posted them. It was fun, stress free and natural growth. Every video would do well and we started doing storage locker stories and looking at lockers. We were about to kill our channel growth because we never cared to really learn about youtube. This was going to be a hard lesson.
We love our hardcore fans and wanted a way to interact with them more. We decides to start a series called guess the price. It is what killed our channels growth. It was a game where we would post pictures of the locker we bought. And our fans guess and earn points for prizes. It was only popular with hardcore fans though and brought our views per video down. At first it wasn't noticeable but as time went on it started to show. My daily subs and views began dropping and my views on new videos started to go down big time. For me it really is not a big deal because I do youtube for fun and love my hardcore fans.
I do warn you guys though. If you are doing this and trying to make it a career or grow it for more than just love be very careful. When a video type isn't doing that well you need to make sure you are will to take the loss of it .I learned a big lesson about youtube from this. I hope it helps someone not make the mistake I did. It would be devistating for me if youtube was my career.
Jump to a year later we had a few videos get lots of views. Including 3 over 100k and 5k subscribers. We never thought this would happen. We also never changed how we operated and just made videos and posted them. It was fun, stress free and natural growth. Every video would do well and we started doing storage locker stories and looking at lockers. We were about to kill our channel growth because we never cared to really learn about youtube. This was going to be a hard lesson.
We love our hardcore fans and wanted a way to interact with them more. We decides to start a series called guess the price. It is what killed our channels growth. It was a game where we would post pictures of the locker we bought. And our fans guess and earn points for prizes. It was only popular with hardcore fans though and brought our views per video down. At first it wasn't noticeable but as time went on it started to show. My daily subs and views began dropping and my views on new videos started to go down big time. For me it really is not a big deal because I do youtube for fun and love my hardcore fans.
I do warn you guys though. If you are doing this and trying to make it a career or grow it for more than just love be very careful. When a video type isn't doing that well you need to make sure you are will to take the loss of it .I learned a big lesson about youtube from this. I hope it helps someone not make the mistake I did. It would be devistating for me if youtube was my career.
I have changed my videos a lot since I started my channel about two years ago so I kind of know what you are talking about. Especially subs dropped pretty fast right after I started to change direction but they are getting back now slowly
But the point is that I feel this new content is more "me" so I want to stick to that because that´s the kind of videos I like making
