Old Youtubers vs New Youtubers

WilBajamas

WilBajamas

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Quite recently I've been studying Youtubers 3 - 5 years ago, and and New Youtubers now... I understand some old Youtube Channel ( 3 to 5 years ) have become very successful now. And many New Youtubers ( Started on 2014 & 2015 ) are struggling to become like them. But knowing the algorithm of Youtube now, is it possible to succeed using the same strategy and momentum of Old Youtubers now? I've heard many successful Youtubers say just make great content, content is king, put proper tags etc... But for New Youtubers, they said promote your videos on Social Networks, forums. Make great content, be part of the community etc... Some Old Youtubers I've watched aren't as entertaining as New Youtubers but of course just some, I'm not saying all Old Youtubers are not entertaining. Many of the people kept saying " keep making content and eventually you'll get there " But those Entertaining New Youtubers don't get traffic as much as Old Youtubers did back in the days. Is it because of how over-crowded Youtube is now? I've seen many New Youtubers quit, some are just now motivated enough and some are demotivated because of all the wasted hard work they've done. Some think that "LUCK" is a very important role in Youtube, but is it true? Just because someone has Luck but not as entertaining as someone without Luck so they can succeed while the others without Luck are wasted. Of course I believe content is king, and you have to promote your videos well, make friends and everything in the community is effective for your channel to grow now. ( I'm sorry if I'm not making sense, I tend to get off-topic when I write long posts like this. But I hope you're still keeping up with me ) So, as my question to these long post. Do we have to use the same technique and strategy as the Old Youtubers. Or do we have to use a different strategy?
 
The easy things that can be done to make certain kinds of successful videos is also sleazy, putrid, and gross, and cuts into the moral fiber and integrity of one's being.
Also the videos themselves inevitably suck too because they're so easy to make, assuming you also have super high-quality recording devices and set-up (that's really the only hard part, but it's not even necessary really. Well, the audio is, video no assuming you don't star in the video yourself).

Making it now with NICHE content though, and stuff you can actually be proud of even if nobody ever sees it, I'd say for sure that is MUCH harder to do now than 5 years ago.
 
Honestly? A lot of popular youtubers today are cookie cutter creators. Sad to say. They all make the same type of content a lot of the time. Originality is hard to come by sometimes but in the long run its worth it.
 
A new french youtuber has earn a lot of subs by making a serie on a old trending game : GMOD Dark RP.

This game was very popular on french youtube at the beginning of the year, but all the big youtuber playing this on their channel became bored. And they has just stopped.

They was a public but no content.

You have to study the trend to become successfull :)
 
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A new french youtuber has earn a lot of subs by making a serie on a old trending game : GMOD Dark RP.

This game was very popular on french youtube at the beginning of the year, but all the big youtuber playing this on their channel became bored. And they has just stopped.

They was a public but no content.

You have to study the trend to become successfull :)
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Well yeah I agree following a trend is one of the key to grow, but what if everybody follow the trend? Therefore small channels will be covered up by bigger channels....so it's still a lose for us, I think we just have to make better content....
 
Any platform is going to be easier to succeed on for the early adopters. Think about eBay. Back when it first started, you could earn quite a bit of money by selling just about anything on it, by going to yard sales, cleaning stuff up and selling it online, because nobody had figured out how to do that easily before then. (I realize I may be dating myself here.) Now, it's really, really difficult to do the same thing unless you have a lot of business acumen and more ways of calling attention to your stuff.

Same with Etsy. Same with Twitter. Same with every platform online. Get in early, and you'll stand out, just by being one of the first. However, that doesn't mean that you can't be successful on that platform, it just means you have to figure out new ways of doing it.

The folks who started out on YouTube way back in the day weren't even earning money on it. I uploaded my first video in 2007, and it wasn't until a year later, when that video (which I uploaded just to share with my family, because I was in another country and couldn't email big video files) passed 10,000 views, that YouTube offered to put ads on it. That was the only video I could put an ad on, because my other two videos (I had no interest in doing YouTube for money, because that wasn't a thing back then) didn't have as many views (still don't, actually). So people were uploading to YouTube mostly for the fun of making videos, and that should be the primary reason you do it, unless you have a real business plan on how to utilize the system, or you happen to get lucky.
 
I believe it is a bit of a cop-out to say it was easier back in the day... yes there was less competition but there were less viewers. Yes content could be a bit crude (campy) but there was not HD, cheap editing software or high quality video on phones. And yes everything popping up on YouTube back in the day seemed new and exciting, where as now do we really need another tweener with makeup review vlog... But that first tweener to come up with sharing makeup ideas with her friends... Brilliant!

Saying it was easier back then is like the 1899 patent office saying "Everything that can be Invented has been Invented".

What is becoming clear is the Average Joe who finds niches and produces good original content (even if it overlaps others) will develop a strong following but it takes time. And these days "Good" and "Original" mean an entire video package... the talent is appealing to the audience and draws people in... the content has something different for audiences that the others in the niche don't, the video quality is clear, framed up, not shaky or filled with with poor edits and bad sound. The sound in video along with appropriate music clips and background foley has to be a part of the total video package. Yes the bar has been raised but it is always being raised.

Then there is the truly innovative, that come out with something different or produce their video in a different way (that first tweener makeup vlog). They break the mold and become the one others are chasing to catch up. This is hard.... failure is a big part of it... and it takes guts to keep trying until you find the next big thing (if you ever do).

Of course we all know sex, stupidity and violence sails right to the top but it requires a certain causal moral flexibility that not everyone has the stomach for.

We've never had more analytical tools to evaluate what works and what doesn't. The audience size on YouTube is 10x what it was just a few years ago (even the smallest niches have a good size audience). Examples of what works, in order to build off of (not copy) are everywhere and the amount of advice (good and bad) that can be found on how to make great videos is tremendous. If new YouTubers are ambitious, put in the hard work and look for the things in a video that make it popular, working to emulate that in new and different ways the new YouTubers will kick a** on the old timers. New YouTubers aren't saddled with years of investment in "this is how I do my channel" and they have the opportunity to breakout way beyond what we call successful today.

It aint getting any easier... although I would argue it never was really easy, it just looked that way when we have the luxury of looking backwards instead of forwards.

Hey you kids... Get Off My Lawn.

Rant over :)
 
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As a guy with over 1500 videos on YouTube across my 3 channels, I will tell you that succeeding on YouTube is all about hard work. I didn't even look at my analytics until I had 30 videos live. I just kept my nose to the grindstone and kept publishing new good quality videos and promoting them on social media.
There's no secret formula. There's more content being released on YouTube now as opposed to before, but there are also more viewers.
Honestly, people come to me all the time complaining that they aren't succeeding. I don't even give them the time of day if they have fewer than 50 live videos.
Produce at least 30 great quality videos that are either entertaining, educational, or both...promote them on social media, and KEEP DOING IT. Get some content out there. Looking at analytics is the FUN part...success doesn't happen because someone was only having fun...grinding out videos is the hard part....do the hard stuff now so that you can do the fun stuff later :)
 
With millions of videos on yt, originality will eventually get you views. I have some videos that just get a few hits but then that subject matter hits a vein a couple of thousand views over a couple of days.
 
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