Promotion/Discoverability/Getting noticed?

[-DK-]

Hello everyone!
So, I've been struggling with the idea of promoting myself lately. I've only been at this whole vlogging thing for about 5 months now, and I know that it comes slowly. I've hit 5k views and am at about 165 subscribers at the moment. I'm quite active on twitter and facebook , though I haven't branched into tumblr (probably will be doing so soon.) I've also tried reddit, but I can't seem to garner any traction there at all.

I'm pretty confident that my content is top-notch, so what can I do to help my audience grow? What has worked for you guys?

 

[TheWillBox]

Hello everyone!
So, I've been struggling with the idea of promoting myself lately. I've only been at this whole vlogging thing for about 5 months now, and I know that it comes slowly. I've hit 5k views and am at about 165 subscribers at the moment. I'm quite active on twitter and facebook , though I haven't branched into tumblr (probably will be doing so soon.) I've also tried reddit, but I can't seem to garner any traction there at all.

I'm pretty confident that my content is top-notch, so what can I do to help my audience grow? What has worked for you guys?

Back when I was vlogging it was a lot of cross promotion with vlog channels my size. We'd do mutual tags or collab. Even being an active member of their audience will get you attention.

The social network stuff works if you have a topic or video that's worth talking about. Something controversial or super funny or something. But if it's a standard vlog then it's going to get crushed by everything else. Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr all require an active audience that is willing to share your stuff. Reddit/Funny Junk etc... is all a crap shoot if people upvote it or not.

 

[zebracrunk]

I checked out your new video and gave you a few comments (I'm signed in to another channel at the moment). The editing is pretty slick and you have a nice way of speaking clearly and getting to the point, even though I disagreed with much of the video. I'd recommend using different thumbnails, maybe a picture of yourself along with a picture of what you're talking about, as opposed to similar text to your video title obstructing your face.

 

[themuffinzmanz]

I did alot of collaberating with other youtubers on my other channels which i will be applying to my current channel. But what grew my old channel so much is when i got lots of shout outs. Getting shout outs are pretty easy as long as you make good content consistently then it will be easy to get shout outs.

 

[-DK-]

I checked out your new video and gave you a few comments (I'm signed in to another channel at the moment). The editing is pretty slick and you have a nice way of speaking clearly and getting to the point, even though I disagreed with much of the video. I'd recommend using different thumbnails, maybe a picture of yourself along with a picture of what you're talking about, as opposed to similar text to your video title obstructing your face.

Firstly, thank you for the thoughtful disagreement instead of the atypical "Everything you believe in is wrong" comment. Also, YouTube could think about extending that character limit... oi.

I think you may be right regarding thumbnails, I could probably use much more compelling ones - For the particular video in question, I'm not quite sure what I'd do with it. Thanks for taking your time to respond!