When did you notice your channel started to grow?

[Loki Doki]

it depends if you go viral which is 50/50 chance that might happen and as for growing it takes 2-4 years.

none of that makes any sense lol, the chance of going viral is tiny. and you should never focus on that because its more down to luck than anything else. as taking 2-4 years to grow? whats your definition of growing? its also different for every genre, every niche, every upload schedule, every country, its impossible to put a timeframe on it

 

[GamingwithNick]

Honestly there's some key things you need to improve on.

1. Your making videos on games that have been out for years, they have millions of videos already made, and people are genuinely already watching better Gary's mod, and superhot videos. I'd try to find a new game to latch on to and make videos on.

2. Your thumbnails don't seem to fit the frame. Half of your "PART1,2... Lettering is cut off.

3. Overall thumbnail design doesn't pop off of the screen. Ask yourself, what will make someone click on this over someone who has 100k subs?

4. I'm on my mobile, so I can't see your keywords. I recommend VIDIQ (chrome extension) to everyone. This allows you to see what other people are using as keywords. It will help you learn.

5. Looks like your being fairly consistent. I'd learn to use a program like Inkscape (it's free). It's like photoshop.

Keep it up brother. Your going to be there in now time. Just keep improving! To answer your question directly. When I hit 200 I started growing about 100 subs a month. Use social media,tell your friends and family .

 

[ChaseAndFriends]

My channel grew from the second video. The first one I ever did was more a test to figure out video editing and YouTube system. Only friends and feedbackers watched it. There were no decent tags and became unsearchable. This was when I was planning the second video, I knew I had to put it where people could find it without me telling them. It's the only way to have a channel work on its own. Otherwise everytime you make a video, if you tell 20 people to watch it you'll only get 20 views.

So I got too it. I found a topic that was being searched but not very crowded. I watched those videos and made notes about what they did wrong. Like audio quality, cg, and lighting. I then set out to make the best video about this topic. It had to be better than the others as much as I could make it. Otherwise there's no point. They'll watch someone else. So after making the video I looked into SEO to ensure it was searchable. And so that first video got under 20 views in the first few days but the second video got 400. From then the focus fully changed to making sure I could rank in some search in some way and so I sought out low search terms and made videos about them. I filled up the title tag and description with relevant text as much as is allowed and back link each video. All of these help your videos show up more often. I'm up to about 50 views a day on these older videos without any promoting at all. And getting bigger will increase that number too.

I also refused to sub anyone right away too because too many subbed channels looks like you sub4sub and looks less professional. I sub no famous channels because it makes you look like a wannabe. It also makes others more open the bigger channels will be to talking to you. At least I've found.

If you want a better idea of what I'm talking about you can check out my channel especially the descriptions to see how I did it.

Thank you very much for the advice! I'll check your channel out [DOUBLEPOST=1467328402,1467328341][/DOUBLEPOST]

Hi could you check my channel out please and give me some pointers? Sounds like you know what to do! Haha

Sure! I'll comment what I think Would you mind checking out my channel and giving some feedback as well?? [DOUBLEPOST=1467328513][/DOUBLEPOST]

i made a thread called understanding subscriber growth, found here that talks about my subscriber growth and journey, that might help

Thank you very much! I'll check it out [DOUBLEPOST=1467328560][/DOUBLEPOST]

it depends if you go viral which is 50/50 chance that might happen and as for growing it takes 2-4 years.

I wish one of my videos would go viral - lol I'm soooo impatient :/[DOUBLEPOST=1467328607][/DOUBLEPOST]

I really didn't start to get improved engagement until I made an upload schedule. After I got into a routine for a couple of months people started to come in.

I've been uploading daily for a week or so. I'll keep it up and see what happens thank you for commenting

 

[Pedals & Stuff]

Thank you very much for the advice! I'll check your channel out [DOUBLEPOST=1467328402,1467328341][/DOUBLEPOST]
Sure! I'll comment what I think Would you mind checking out my channel and giving some feedback as well??

It's heart warming to see how threads end up with people doing sub4sub.
3 weeks later a new thread emerges: "Why do I have 200 subs but only 25 views per video?"

 

[ChaseAndFriends]

Considering you have 116 subscribers, that could be a problem. You might not be releasing the videos at the right time. If you use the TubeBuddy extension for Chrome it will tell you when the ideal time to release a video is.


You have a 50% chance of a video going viral?! lol, where did you hear that one at!

If I got daily subscribers at a steady pace I would consider that a successful channel.

It's mostly the series videos that happens on. I would assume that the low view count is because people haven't been watching from the beginning so they don't want to go back and start watching the series. Thank you for the advice I don't use crome though..unfortunately :/[DOUBLEPOST=1467328847,1467328790][/DOUBLEPOST]

It's heart warming to see how threads end up with people doing sub4sub.
3 weeks later a new thread emerges: "Why do I have 200 subs but only 25 views per video?"

That's not sub for sub, it's giving feedback.[DOUBLEPOST=1467328895][/DOUBLEPOST]

I know right? When I wake up and see that number go up overnight it makes my whole morning

Me too! I got my new sub overnight, so today is a good day so far [DOUBLEPOST=1467328944][/DOUBLEPOST]

A year ago a simple video I made kinda mini blew up and it got me al motivated to make more video's! So I did and it took of from there!

Thank you for commenting! hopefully one of my videos blows up - lol [DOUBLEPOST=1467329250][/DOUBLEPOST]

Honestly there's some key things you need to improve on.

1. Your making videos on games that have been out for years, they have millions of videos already made, and people are genuinely already watching better Gary's mod, and superhot videos. I'd try to find a new game to latch on to and make videos on.

2. Your thumbnails don't seem to fit the frame. Half of your "PART1,2... Lettering is cut off.

3. Overall thumbnail design doesn't pop off of the screen. Ask yourself, what will make someone click on this over someone who has 100k subs?

4. I'm on my mobile, so I can't see your keywords. I recommend VIDIQ (chrome extension) to everyone. This allows you to see what other people are using as keywords. It will help you learn.

5. Looks like your being fairly consistent. I'd learn to use a program like Inkscape (it's free). It's like photoshop.

Keep it up brother. Your going to be there in now time. Just keep improving! To answer your question directly. When I hit 200 I started growing about 100 subs a month. Use social media,tell your friends and family .

I'm gonna reply to each tip like you wrote them just so it's less confusing

1. That is a very good point. I knew that when I made the videos, I guess I just lost sight of that over time.

2. Which videos do that? All of my most recent videos look fine on my computer.

3. I guess my thumbnails are pretty basic - lol :/

4. What are keywords? Tags?

5. Gonna go look it up right now

Thank you sooooo much for the kind words and advice!

 

[Pedals & Stuff]

That's not sub for sub, it's giving feedback.

Well...if you say so

 

[ChaseAndFriends]

Well...if you say so

When did either of us suggest sub for sub?

 

[Pedals & Stuff]

When did either of us suggest sub for sub?

You didn't. Most people usually don't, it's implied.
But...maybe I misunderstood.

 

[Idec Sdawkminn]

I started my channel 10 years ago and it was mainly inactive until the end of 2013. 2 subscribers at most at any given time. In January of 2014 I made a video that got really popular in April, and I got a bunch of views and subs in a short period of time. It died down quite a bit afterward but it has been steady ever since.

 

[ChaseAndFriends]

You didn't. Most people usually don't, it's implied.
But...maybe I misunderstood.

I try and stay away from sub for sub because it results in inactive subscribers, like you were originally saying.[DOUBLEPOST=1467334928,1467334866][/DOUBLEPOST]

I started my channel 10 years ago and it was mainly inactive until the end of 2013. 2 subscribers at most at any given time. In January of 2014 I made a video that got really popular in April, and I got a bunch of views and subs in a short period of time. It died down quite a bit afterward but it has been steady ever since.

Teach me the ways of creating a viral video!!!