Quality or quantity?

its all about finding a good balence between the two, to where you and your supporters are happy with the outcome
 
TheEdBoys said:
Think about how it would effect a show on television if they just didn't put out the new episode when they usually do lol
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True, but on the other hand it's not like you have to catch a video or you miss it entirely. It just shows up at a different time. Heck unless you habitually STARE at YouTube and go exactly when new videos are out you probably won't notice.

YouTube is just tricky to work with. Getting started requires basically being a pro-level channel right off the bat and then fighting to be seen. It's not like in its early days when you could be more "amateur" and build up, improving as you go. With things being as they are, it's like you gotta nail it from the get go haha.
 
Both are important for growth but if you have really awful videos, its not gonna matter much. So quality but as everyone else said, balance is good :)
 
SomeGuyDude said:
True, but on the other hand it's not like you have to catch a video or you miss it entirely. It just shows up at a different time. Heck unless you habitually STARE at YouTube and go exactly when new videos are out you probably won't notice.

YouTube is just tricky to work with. Getting started requires basically being a pro-level channel right off the bat and then fighting to be seen. It's not like in its early days when you could be more "amateur" and build up, improving as you go. With things being as they are, it's like you gotta nail it from the get go haha.
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I don't necessarily think you have to be a "pro level" channel to start. Of course that would help, but my channel definitely started at an amateur rate, which meant slow growth, but I think we are making good progress now.
 
If you upload a video every week, but it's garbage, no one will come back. If you have one great video, and never upload again, no one will come back. Lose lose. Why bother? I quit.
 
Quantity but only if it is accompanied with above average for the appropriate YouTube niche quality.
 
I personally think quantity over quality because you never know who's watching that video that you don't really care for and that could be their first/only opinion of you. I let my viewers know what my posting schedule will be like during my videos and keep them updated on Social Media should anything change. At the end of the day it's really up to you and what you feel the most comfortable with :)
 
It all depends on the kind of content you are trying to create. If you are creating vlog type content then it definitely helps to have a large quantity of videos and it mostly just matters that you keep the content interesting through personality and relevant banter on topics of interest. If you are a tech news channel the same is true. Search and suggested views will be where you get the bulk of your viewership and having hella streamlines SEO/Titles/Thumbnails will be your key. Getting 50-100 views per day on 10 videos is a lot easier to do than getting 500-1000 views per day on 1 video.

This, however, this is NOT true of all sorts of content. For instance, I do a ton of production on the videos that go up to my channel BeyondSlowMotion. The same can be said of my good friends over at KumaFilms. It takes lots of time, effort, and money to create the videos that we create. So we do not post anywhere near as often as the aforementioned news & vlog channels. On the flipside, we get WAY more views per video as an average result. I only have 83k subscribers, but in 2014 I averaged 240k views per video only posting once per month as an average. My friends at Kuma Films average over 390k views per video with only just over 100k subscribers to their name.

So again, it really just depends on what kind of content you are trying to create and how you much time, effort, money needs to go into production to make it. Obviously if you can maintain top quality and still get more out it would be highly advantageous, but really you just have to evaluate what your goals are and whether or not your market minds the quality of content you produce. Make sense?
 
It has to be both on YouTube. They can't all be winners and a common marketing rule is 80/20, in the fact that 20% of your work will bring you most of your success whilst 80% will end up being ordinary and just end up with your loyal fans.
 
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