The death of YouTube?

I think treating your channel like its your business is good even when its not, as long as you maintain that personal side and dont come across as someone who only cares about themself when it comes to making money, getting views etc technically this forum could be classed as a business in a way but I dont treat it like one where I am some figure who doesnt talk, have a personality or bothers to get involved. I think thats one of the best ways to succeed on there and with anything, be yourself at the same time and remember youre human.

I dont think YouTube will ever die off but I can see a lot more people becoming less interested because its a community driven website and without the community it is nothing and right now they are not listening to masses of demands, that is really messing with your business not listening to those who make it what it is, its not like theirs nothing valid in what people are saying, they are genuine points and worries.

At the end of the day though, the ones that will pay if it all goes kapoot at some point is Google, they need to acknowledge their community and address things.

One thing I have noticed is that almost all of the old community has died off on YouTube, people used to be on there to socialise and make a video now and then and nowadays the only way you can be on there is if you are a content creator, it seems that way to me and that will have made them lose a lot of people on there, loads of regular subs and viewers. It does mean less spam on there though so I do get that its not necessarily a bad thing.
 
Michael said:
I think treating your channel like its your business is good even when its not, as long as you maintain that personal side and dont come across as someone who only cares about themself when it comes to making money, getting views etc technically this forum could be classed as a business in a way but I dont treat it like one where I am some figure who doesnt talk, have a personality or bothers to get involved. I think thats one of the best ways to succeed on there and with anything, be yourself at the same time and remember youre human.

I dont think YouTube will ever die off but I can see a lot more people becoming less interested because its a community driven website and without the community it is nothing and right now they are not listening to masses of demands, that is really messing with your business not listening to those who make it what it is, its not like theirs nothing valid in what people are saying, they are genuine points and worries.

At the end of the day though, the ones that will pay if it all goes kapoot at some point is Google, they need to acknowledge their community and address things.

One thing I have noticed is that almost all of the old community has died off on YouTube, people used to be on there to socialise and make a video now and then and nowadays the only way you can be on there is if you are a content creator, it seems that way to me and that will have made them lose a lot of people on there, loads of regular subs and viewers. It does mean less spam on there though so I do get that its not necessarily a bad thing.
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You're right, good people do good business, and that's how I run my channel. Not all about yourself work hard, be dilligent and when the time comes where you can give back do it. That's good business and that's how a business and a channel should be ran.
 
Ray The Video Guy said:
Thats because it is a business, plain and simple.
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Obviously.

My point was the actual content from creators are now starting to reflect that in a bad way, with things like blatant sponsored videos, and whatever else. Basically all what Michael said. 'Back in the day', it didn't always have that sheen of 'This is my sole mean of making a living' that a lot of the videos today do. It's unfortunate.
 
The reason YouTubers have been losing subscribers is due to a recent 'glitch' on YouTube. This glitch makes people unsubscribe from YouTubers without them even clicking the button. Because of this, many top YouTubers are losing a lot of subscribers and this is showing as thousands of people. I will be talking about this in the next episode of TWOYTT.
 
I made a video about all the problems I've seen on YouTube. I'll embed it below.
I also brought it to the attention of youtube creator's official G+ under their post linking to a blog about the recent changes. I did get a responce, give them a bit more information, and since then I've not had the issue.
My suggestion is to set your social networking links to your twitter and facebook and encourage your subscribers to follow that feed. That's the only way I was able to keep up with my subscribers and subscribies... sunscribees?... spelling, ugh.
 
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