Quality v quantity

Really depends on your channel in my opinion. A vlog channel like Casey will want more quantity. Whereas animated channels like In A Nutshell and FightMediocrity look for big amounts of quality as it takes so long to make their animations. For me personally, quality is what slightly strives ahead. Even though opinions for quality to differ, people can tell when others work hard and took their time. It's quite evident and people appreciate that
 
Johnny_Seagull said:
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.
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I put without being rude with the meaning to show that I wasn't arguing with you just putting a different opinion to you and wanted to ensure that's all I was doing. I have a tendency to put things in a way that offends people when I don't intend to, I'm working on it.

I've not seen the gummy bear one but for me if I'd made a video that got 700million views id see that as quality[DOUBLEPOST=1462268335,1462267947][/DOUBLEPOST]
Uncivilized Elk said:
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.
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No, as they go hand in hand. At the end of the day it is very similar. It is the only way we can gauge quality at the moment. If a person makes something that the vast majority of people like then it is quality, whereas if only a few people like it then it lacks quality. We build for an audience and they know their audience which is perfect video making.

It is not our fault the vast majority of people in this world are, well, you know but they are our audience.

What you do down the toilet to me is s**t, to a dung beetle it's high quality goods. I think the audience should always be the gauge of quality rather than the person making it, as the person making it can be quite biased.
 
Definetly quality over quantity,i don't think uploading daily will show your true potential unless you do something like a vlog(c'mon who would watch a 15 min vid of someone they are watching for the first time),so uploading weekly is the best option in my eyes but you have to make it unique and create your own "style" into your videos!
 
what kind of content you do determines this balance.

I can't possibly put out a 7+min animation out every day, every week or even month. I am just one person, and a lot of the time, I do get comments about how slow I work.
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But on the plus side, I also get a lot of very positive and lovely comments. it's impossible to get a perfect balance.

Do i shorten and cheapen the animation quality, to hit a schedule?
personally - no. I will never be able to make a schedule, because I want to make each animation as long as it needs to be to get the story/message/humour across.
I understand people will always make comments on how sloooooow I am in making it, but the reality is I work on the next video every single day.
There's still many that don't realise how long it takes to make videos in general, let alone animations.

(writing is hard, storyboarding is slow, getting voices is sometimes a struggle, audio editing makes my brain melt. backgrounds are tough, effects are few and far between if I can help it XD, actually animating is super relaxing, but you'd be lucky to get about 10 seconds done in a whole day.)

I could probably gain more traction If i made super short lower quality animations, but if i started doing that now? I'd probably get a ton of hate.
the best I can do is just make things the way I've always done - at my own pace. And hope that people respect that.

* I would recommend a schedule to anyone that can do one though, because at least then people will know when to expect your videos :)
 
I think that quality is more important than quantity. On the other hand, I think in the beginning quantity can be slightly more important than quality because, as mentioned by others here, if you have quality yet no views then that gets you nowhere. Once you start to grow you should focus more on quality than quantity while sticking to a schedule.
 
Lightsen said:
what kind of content you do determines this balance.

I can't possibly put out a 7+min animation out every day, every week or even month. I am just one person, and a lot of the time, I do get comments about how slow I work.
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But on the plus side, I also get a lot of very positive and lovely comments. it's impossible to get a perfect balance.

Do i shorten and cheapen the animation quality, to hit a schedule?
personally - no. I will never be able to make a schedule, because I want to make each animation as long as it needs to be to get the story/message/humour across.
I understand people will always make comments on how sloooooow I am in making it, but the reality is I work on the next video every single day.
There's still many that don't realise how long it takes to make videos in general, let alone animations.

(writing is hard, storyboarding is slow, getting voices is sometimes a struggle, audio editing makes my brain melt. backgrounds are tough, effects are few and far between if I can help it XD, actually animating is super relaxing, but you'd be lucky to get about 10 seconds done in a whole day.)

I could probably gain more traction If i made super short lower quality animations, but if i started doing that now? I'd probably get a ton of hate.
the best I can do is just make things the way I've always done - at my own pace. And hope that people respect that.

* I would recommend a schedule to anyone that can do one though, because at least then people will know when to expect your videos :)
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If you ever need a Barnsley accent in one of your animations I'd be more than happy to help. I know it's an in demand accent lol.
 
I say a bit of both! Although Quality is my focus I also want to be regular in my uploading schedule and not so sometimes video's are better then others.
 
i do say quality over quantity but at the same time people argue that if quantity is dominant then theres a lack of quality which definitely isnt true all the time.
 
On YouTube popular = quality. It may not be your taste nor something you think was well produced. BUT if it is popular then the marketplace has created demand for the product. Simple economics.

I have seen high budget videos that were well produced get no views. I have seen videos that had zero production quality get 50 million views. My opinion of quality is null at that point. The market has spoken.
TheBossman said:
I put without being rude with the meaning to show that I wasn't arguing with you just putting a different opinion to you and wanted to ensure that's all I was doing. I have a tendency to put things in a way that offends people when I don't intend to, I'm working on it.

I've not seen the gummy bear one but for me if I'd made a video that got 700million views id see that as quality[DOUBLEPOST=1462268335,1462267947][/DOUBLEPOST]
No, as they go hand in hand. At the end of the day it is very similar. It is the only way we can gauge quality at the moment. If a person makes something that the vast majority of people like then it is quality, whereas if only a few people like it then it lacks quality. We build for an audience and they know their audience which is perfect video making.

It is not our fault the vast majority of people in this world are, well, you know but they are our audience.

What you do down the toilet to me is s**t, to a dung beetle it's high quality goods. I think the audience should always be the gauge of quality rather than the person making it, as the person making it can be quite biased.
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You took the words out of my mouth!!!!!! Popular = quality on YouTube. It's that simple. That is how the ecosphere of YouTube works.
 
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