What I've realized about YouTube

There are many stories here and on other forums related to YouTube of creators who have had a MASSIVE viral video, and it raised their view and sub count for a few weeks or months, then everything basically went back to where they were before. Viral videos are not the be-all and end-all that you may think. Consistency, smart SEO, growing an audience, and making videos people will search for and stop on is just as, if not more important than getting that one big hit.
 
a lot of good stuff already mentioned so I won't say much other than that you may need to re-evaluate your approach whether it's more branding, social media but most importantly, improving your videos quality. a viral video will definitely help but it's not going to guarantee long term success.
 
I get tons of love on my videos once they're reached and found. However I play indie games which gaming in general is an over saturated category. I have found one of my problems which is playing games that no one knows about and barely any one searches, these are new games on gamejolt etc. I am planning on making a series on a main stream game in a certain style to give me a ton of publicity and hopefully it works out well.
 
Gaming channels are ten to a penny these days. It's an incredibly over saturated topic. That may be a reason for lack of growth. But then you either work twice as hard as the channel that has 1 million subscribers, or give up. With every video of mine I try to make an improvement in some way so my videos are better each time. But then I have only been doing it for just over 2 months
 
TheDutchTexan said:
How wrong you are. Viral is only one piece of the pie. And if it is a one trick pony you won't get anywhere. It takes dedication, it takes effort and it takes exposure. A viral video is one of those things that gives you that, but a fellow YouTuber with a big following or a website that shares your video is just as helpful. If your viral video has nothing to do with your regular content you will not gain any subscribers from it. Casey Neistat recently talked about his $21,000 dollar plane seat video going viral. But if you check out his channel all of his videos have the same production value, and most of his videos break 1,000,000 views. If you have that same viral video but have content with 300 views you aren't inspiring anyone. They will watch that video, and then move along. He gained more subscribers because all of his content is of the same caliber.

Go for gold, produce the heck out of EVERY one of your videos. Perhaps you'll make it big, perhaps you'll be at 3.5K subscribers and 650K lifetime views after 3 years like yours truly. All that matter is that you are having fun, and the people that watch your content and comment on it are having fun too.
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Yea. If you want a million subs you have to act like you already do or you never will
 
There are loads of thriving successful channels which have never had a viral video. Real viral videos (millions of views in a matter of days) are very very rare. I've been on YTtalk for over 3 years and I've seen about 3 members at most report a real viral video. But in those same 3 years, I've seen plenty of very large and successful channels.

Slow and steady is the key to longterm stable growth on YouTube. You need patience and a longterm plan and that is where many new YouTubers fail because people are used to instant gratification on the internet and they start taking shortcuts and cheating the system and getting frustrated before giving up.

I think we can all agree that a video getting 100 views per day isn't viral. In fact it's a below average view count for a video right? Well if a creator can create 1 quality video per week that "only" gets 100 views par day, then after a year he has over 5,000 views per day. If he can increase the frequency and / or quality, then he could have 10,000 per day. That's a great starting point.
 
TheKingCranee said:
What I've realized about YouTube...

It's serious not possible to grow on YouTube without videos that go some what viral.

To get a video to go some what viral is luck... YouTube is luck. I may seem pessimistic about this but it's the ugly truth and I'm sorry.

Please if you differ or think other wise let me hear it.
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said this myself from nearly day one. right place at right time...
 
Sometimes you gotta play dirty. People don't wanna give you numbers if you don't have numbers in general. Even if you do show up in search, the numbers around you influence where the person will click if they got higher numbers so you gotta get them another way. You probably respect the platform more than you have to.

I don't know if you seen the Zoie Burgher situation but i personally find it funny that all these''big'' channels are speaking out against her because of the speed she grew and how she did it, and go as far as saying she is single handedly ruining youtube.

All she has done is confirm where easy views come from in the first place. Everyone already knew it worked like this but now people are mad and threatened because they just got 1up'd on their clickbait game, so leeching hype was the next best thing for them.

I'm not even subscribed to the girl but considering all the other ''cancer'' that exists on youtube already, i absolutely think she deserves to exist if they're still around. But ya, you gotta find something to claw your way through with it seems until you get that ball rolling.
 
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