My YouTube Theory

[laurenzside]

I've been wondering lately if the key to YouTube success is simply continuing with your channel. I've been looking a lot at people's "date joined" versus their subscriber count and the majority of people with high sub counts have been on here for an average of 3 years. Some less, some more, but the majority of them for 3.

My question is, do you think if anyone continually uploaded decent quality videos that they would eventually get up into the higher thousands in terms of subs and views? Or do you think at some point unless their content is above average in quality that they will hit a wall and won't gain anymore subs?

 

[Kristen Is Calm]

If they have average quality, they might get a sub now and then. If they have great quality, they might climb up slowly. This is actually a bit of a teaser.

 

[Kyrie]

Keep doing what you love.

 

[Masuoka101]

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I've been wondering lately if the key to YouTube success is simply continuing with your channel. I've been looking a lot at people's "date joined" versus their subscriber count and the majority of people with high sub counts have been on here for an average of 3 years. Some less, some more, but the majority of them for 3.

My question is, do you think if anyone continually uploaded decent quality videos that they would eventually get up into the higher thousands in terms of subs and views? Or do you think at some point unless their content is above average in quality that they will hit a wall and won't gain anymore subs?

Really interesting question. I had a YouTube channel about 5 years back where I got quite a lot of views but my videos were all a bit random (for example one was me playing an arcade machine, another was about my favourite cars). I never really got any subscribers despite about 10,000 views in total. This was way before I started YouTube seriously (well not seriously but you get what I mean ).

Now on my new channel I have a niche (zombie video games) and have been uploading regularly for about year and a half and I have got 360 subs.

I think people will subscribe if you have consistent quality and consistent videos so people know what they are going to get from your channel. Also if you like doing it, then there is no reason not to continue, the problem comes when people just want the YouTube money

 

[Wreckless Eating]

The amount of time someone has been on youtube only matters if they learn from their experience. I've seen people who have been uploading since 2006 that haven't been able to get anywhere because they refuse to adapt with changing times. To answer your question, if someone simply uploaded good quality videos, they would eventually grow larger, but their growth level would probably stay linear. There's so much more to growing a youtube channel than simply making/uploading videos and doing basic promotion. Without learning how to work the system-and work your audience, you're not going to see massive growth that larger channels have. We've been at this for 3 years, but it's only in the past 6 months that we've really started to understand how complex the youtube machine is. And while we are still putting more time into making better quality videos, we've shifted a lot of our focus towards other things that have helped at least as much (if not more) than simply making videos. That's helped us pick up more than 80k subs since the beginning of the year.

 

[Grant Casual]

A lot of factors come into play, but yes i would say continue, sometimes peoples success is almost entirely on their username believe it or not, others it may be their thumbnails or their appearance, whatever floats your boat will work!

 

[SimplyRodney]

Back then, it was also easier for people to see your content as well because Youtube was smaller and there weren't so many content creators.

 

[FantasyGamerX]

It's so funny that you mention that because on the trailer thread camille posted I saw your post and checked your channel out and was like 600 subs.. WOAH awesome! and I checked out the date and was like ofc 2007

 

[SamTochelliDesign]

I've been wondering lately if the key to YouTube success is simply continuing with your channel. I've been looking a lot at people's "date joined" versus their subscriber count and the majority of people with high sub counts have been on here for an average of 3 years. Some less, some more, but the majority of them for 3.

My question is, do you think if anyone continually uploaded decent quality videos that they would eventually get up into the higher thousands in terms of subs and views? Or do you think at some point unless their content is above average in quality that they will hit a wall and won't gain anymore subs?

Yeah YouTube blew up huge in 2010, so that date joined seems about right. Specifically for gaming, late 2010, early 2011 were where things hit off, and I'm sure that is the same as many other genres.

 

[Camille Montpetit]

By the way the join date might be wrong. It says I joined it 2006. It's true but I didnt start posting videos until about 3 months ago.