Views Dropped Very Badly!!

ShanSR

ShanSR

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Hey guys! I'm here again with the views issue :( I was getting 30-40 views per video, usually average 1 view/hour in the first day. But I don't know how, the views coming in very slowly for me now :( In my recent videos, they just reached 10 views/day, or worse! I don't know why this is happening. Maybe my videos are not getting better, but I'm pretty sure that they are not getting worse :( And sadly that this happens to me just after I reached 100 subs :( Can you guys share your idea, I'm very need them! Thanks for reading guys!
 
I'm confused by your videos' views, you have two videos over 500 views, yet the rest of the series (both of them are part 1) are receiving much smaller amounts of views.
 
UltimateKirbyBoi said:
I'm confused by your videos' views, you have two videos over 500 views, yet the rest of the series (both of them are part 1) are receiving much smaller amounts of views.
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Actually it's just one of them is the first episode of a series. And the time I uploaded the video, it's a very new kind in Minecraft, so my video is on the second page of the Youtube search with a single key word. And it's new so everyone wanted to check it out, so it has a lot of views.
 
ShanSR said:
Actually it's just one of them is the first episode of a series. And the time I uploaded the video, it's a very new kind in Minecraft, so my video is on the second page of the Youtube search with a single key word. And it's new so everyone wanted to check it out, so it has a lot of views.
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Ah, I understand.
 
Okay so I watched some of your most recent video and these were my immediate thoughts (could be reasons as to why people have stopped watching your videos and new audiences aren't being brought in). I'm going to be quite honest, so please don't be offended, as my intention is to be constructive :)

I watched your video for the first 4-5 minutes, and all that happened was you dying over and over and over. It was repetitive, and a little boring to watch.

Perhaps it was just a bad map to choose, who knows.

As for commentary: You weren't really saying anything other than generic reactions like 'fail', 'noooo', 'omg', etc. The lack of actual talking isn't going to encourage comments and interactivity. Not to mention repetitive content like that will make folks switch off.

The key to great commentary is to engage your viewers. Speak to them, or at least banter with your multiplayer friends.

Here is a good example of GREAT Minecraft multiplayer commentary. It's a matter of taste, but I personally lol'd all the way through this.


I'm not saying your videos are bad. I've only watched this one, but first impressions are very important, and if you put people off, you risk them not coming back.

I hope that helped :)
 
Frankie said:
Okay so I watched some of your most recent video and these were my immediate thoughts (could be reasons as to why people have stopped watching your videos and new audiences aren't being brought in). I'm going to be quite honest, so please don't be offended, as my intention is to be constructive :)

I watched your video for the first 4-5 minutes, and all that happened was you dying over and over and over. It was repetitive, and a little boring to watch.

Perhaps it was just a bad map to choose, who knows.

As for commentary: You weren't really saying anything other than generic reactions like 'fail', 'noooo', 'omg', etc. The lack of actual talking isn't going to encourage comments and interactivity. Not to mention repetitive content like that will make folks switch off.

The key to great commentary is to engage your viewers. Speak to them, or at least banter with your multiplayer friends.

Here is a good example of GREAT Minecraft multiplayer commentary. It's a matter of taste, but I personally lol'd all the way through this.

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I'm not saying your videos are bad. I've only watched this one, but first impressions are very important, and if you put people off, you risk them not coming back.

I hope that helped :)
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Yes!! You are right!! About the commentary :D Thanks very much for the feedback :D And the reason why I died so many times in that map is because it is made for die-ing until rage xD I actually cut out 3 to 4 minutes of die scenes, there are many more of them in the footage xD
 
I'm suffering under the same ailments as well, but my guess could be the content being bland. I might suggest making a slightly different video once in a while (aside from gaming related videos) to maybe add variety to your types of videos (don't do it too often; since you want to keep your focus on whatever your channel's main theme is).

Frankie said:
Okay so I watched some of your most recent video and these were my immediate thoughts (could be reasons as to why people have stopped watching your videos and new audiences aren't being brought in). I'm going to be quite honest, so please don't be offended, as my intention is to be constructive :)

I watched your video for the first 4-5 minutes, and all that happened was you dying over and over and over. It was repetitive, and a little boring to watch.

Perhaps it was just a bad map to choose, who knows.

As for commentary: You weren't really saying anything other than generic reactions like 'fail', 'noooo', 'omg', etc. The lack of actual talking isn't going to encourage comments and interactivity. Not to mention repetitive content like that will make folks switch off.

The key to great commentary is to engage your viewers. Speak to them, or at least banter with your multiplayer friends.

Here is a good example of GREAT Minecraft multiplayer commentary. It's a matter of taste, but I personally lol'd all the way through this.

​
I'm not saying your videos are bad. I've only watched this one, but first impressions are very important, and if you put people off, you risk them not coming back.

I hope that helped :)
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I think you raise a lot of good points, that could be the root (or one of the roots) of many problems with commentary-based videos, especially for people who are small.
 
I hit a ditch as well last week. I thought that because half of my subs are Americans most of them were away for the July 4th weekend. Now its over, my views are slowly going back up :)
 
Views are like the stock market- they go up, they go down. Anything from weekdays vs weekend, viewer demographic holidays or special events, new competition to keywords can effect it. Sometimes it's really tough to gauge and sometimes you get a video in when the keyword is HOT and wonder why your views are plummeting. Take it all in stride and do your best to optimize the things you do have control over, Title, Desc, Tags, Marketing and then focus on making really good content people what to watch and share.
 
There is also always the possibility of YouTube's errors occurring. It's somewhat common for videos not to show up in peoples subscriptions. I hear people complain about it all the time.
 
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