Quality v quantity

I think it depends entirely on what you're trying to do.If you're looking to get eyeballs on your content no matter what, then perhaps uploading like a fiend works for you. If you're making videos for reasons other than just gathering up subscribers like crazy, then I'd say concentrate on making the best videos you can.
 
xingcat said:
I think it depends entirely on what you're trying to do.If you're looking to get eyeballs on your content no matter what, then perhaps uploading like a fiend works for you. If you're making videos for reasons other than just gathering up subscribers like crazy, then I'd say concentrate on making the best videos you can.
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My main thing is to be succesful while enjoying myself as much as possible. I game for at least an hour a day so putting up a 15-20 minute video of that per day falls perfectly naturally in to what I do.

I mean it goes on my preferences with what I watch too. I love watching a bunch of gamers just play games and be fun. Especially when they collab (which I have been unable to do so far due to social anxieties and computer/health issues).

I am not saying anyones way of doing it is wrong though, I just knew this would get a lot of people talking and people need to see the other side of things too. I do have videos which I spend a week working out and making sure they are what I want while almost faking the natural feel I like on my channel to make sure it is line with my whole channels identity. But then I find the filler inbetween is fun to do and people seem to enjoy it (or did before I got ill etc).

Youtube gaming kind of has its own completely different formula to any other type of channel out there though. I think that may be the issue with this whole subject as it was a gamer who put it out there.
 
TheBossman said:
so vikkstar123 has just posted on Twitter, "everyone has has different perception of 'quality' so sometimes quantity is the best option."

What are people's thoughts on this? (I don't mean anything about him or his channel just this thought)
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I prefer quality. Some of my favorite channels like Cyriak and Dave Firth post maybe only a couple times a year, but when I see their videos pop up I get excited. I do have a few channels I like that post multiple times a week, but their content remains good so it doesn't bug me.
 
Johnny_Seagull said:
Absolutely not. Balance is what's important. I'd rather watch a channel that does weekly, hell, even monthly videos of high quality than one which releases poor quality videos daily.
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This is my approach. If the audience knows when and what is coming they will stay for it
 
TheBossman said:
Without being rude, you are not the entirety of Youtube. If I found 5 people who enjoyed my daily, poor edited videos to the 1 person who enjoys high quality monthly videos then I will be aiming for the 5 views a day over the 1 view a month any day of the week.

EDIT: In fact that would actually show that the poor quality videos to you were actually higher quality in a lot of ways. In a 30 day month that would be 150 views to 1. Surely the only true gauge of quality we have on this site is views? Well view time but you know what I mean.
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Dude, chill, it's just my opinion. No, I'm not the entirety of YouTube, but I am a piece of it, so I gave my thoughts. I can't speak in regards to channels like yours changing things up with cleaner edits and less videos; sure maybe daily uploads work nicely for gaming videos, but I don't know because I don't watch them. Some people are just better at loose, sparcely edited content, and it sounds like you were exactly that.
I'm speaking only from my own experience seeing channels make the shift to daily videos, only for me to completely lose interest because suddenly instead of sporadic well-crafted content, there's now an oversaturation of lower quality videos that I just frankly don't enjoy anymore. As for your point about views=quality... well the gummy bear song has over 700million views, so there's that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ haha.

Anyway man, I respect what you're saying, things just look a little different from my perspective.
 
I think they should balance each other out honestly. I'd rather watch someone who makes mildly entertaining videos and uploads on a schedule than otherwise.
 
TheBossman said:
Surely the only true gauge of quality we have on this site is views? Well view time but you know what I mean.
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We have a word for that characteristic described by views (or as you put it, "view time but you know what I mean"). It's this obvious word: popularity.

Why people continue to try and make "quality" a synonymous word to "popular" on this forum is beyond me. Like seriously, cut that out. They're not the same.
Unless these people actually think the Transformers films are a cinematic masterpieces sure to go down in time as some of the most brilliant cinematic creations of the past couple decades.
 
Quantity for more initial, one-time views, quality for repeat-viewers and steady growth over time. With quantity, there is a better chance one of those videos could still become a hit for some reason and higher quality videos don't always mean people will like them more. But higher quality videos have a better chance of becoming a hit.

Consider the extremes. With all quantity and no quality, you have millions of videos of just static. You'll get a lot of one-time viewers just because they are seeing your videos everywhere, but they won't come back. But with all quality and no quantity, you have 0 videos.
 
I think Quality is more important. If you rush things, people are not gonna like that. If you just take your time, record in the best settings you can and just have patience, the rest will follow.
 
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