Why Do People Fail In Youtube

I think most people "fail" at YouTube because most people "fail" at most things. I'm not being flippant or too harsh, I think, because YouTube is part art form, part startup business, and in both areas (art and business), there are far more failures than successes.

If you think about it, nowadays we each have the ability to create "movies" or "tv shows" or whatever you want to call the video content we create on YouTube. This is an entirely new thing that's only been around for about 10 years. To think that everybody who attempts it is going to be successful (either in being able to create something that other people want to watch, being able to maintain a schedule of doing so every week, or finding viewers) is overly optimistic, I believe.

I think a lot of people believe that the successful YouTubers started out successful and don't realize that they were uploading and connecting entirely for free for most of their YouTube "careers." Most successful YouTubers have been at it for a long time, and they're only well-known because the platform was much less saturated even just a few years ago.

So I don't think at all that YouTube is somewhere that anyone can succeed, and now that more people are trying, it will be even more difficult. But that just means that it's even more of an accomplishment for those who do find a level of success, in whatever capacity they define success.
 
It depends on what you mean by "fail.." We are all going to quit YouTube eventually, so we think quitting is failing, then everyone is destined to fail. =/ But there are also a lot of people who quit early. I think they stop YouTube mainly because they set unrealistic long-term goals.

Saying you will post a video every week forever is an unrealistic long-time goal. When you miss a week, you feel like you've already failed! =( Even saying that you will post a video every week for an entire year is a bit ambitious. Keeping milestone-goals at more manageable intervals so that you can actually measure your success at accomplishing them is important and will help drive your motivation. Making a goal, "to post a video every week for the month of April" would be a better goal because if you accomplish it, you feel more motivation to tackle your next goal.

But making goals of weekly videos is setting stuff up to become a chore. Creating slightly longer-term "fun rewards" are important so you always have something exciting to look forward to. A fun reward might be something like, "If I get X amount of views/subscribers/videos made/etc. by [time], then I'm going to vacation/buy/do/etc [something]." Stuff like that. ^^ I think the most important thing is to keep yourself motivated! : D
 
Already good points made but I'll quickly chime in...

So what causes people to fail Youtube? I guess first you have to define what fail means. But to keep things simple, the person who pumps out a few videos for however long then quits is probably considered a failure, if that person's intent was to make it big on Youtube. But if that person is simply doing Youtube as a hobby and no longer is interested in uploading, I wouldn't say that's necessarily a failure. That person may have simply shifted gears in terms of hobbies.

Also, a lot of people want or expect instant results. Someone will post a few videos or be inactive for months on end and wonder why they haven't made it big yet. And when they don't see immediate results, they quit.

One last thing I wanted to mention is that just b/c you don't make it big on Youtube doesn't always mean you're a failure. You could be putting in work as they say and still not reach your goals. It's just not possible for everyone to make it b/c there are just too many channels out there. That is why it's important to do Youtube for the right reasons; artistic creativity etc.
 
What about time?
All the easy ways to make kids channel viral are unacceptable for us because of legal and ethical reasons. All the good ways (state of art editing and scripting) are behind reach simply because we all go to work/school and we can not spend too much time on making movies.
 
Omgitz Herp said:
I ask myself that every single time.I wonder what do they do so wrong because to tell you the truth if you set yourself up to fail in the first place then why did you try.i understand the whole youtube is not easy but is not impossible, they never said its not possible well unless you cant afford internet i guess.I guees what im trying to say is when you enter youtube what positive things do you need to not fail in youtube
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You need one thing and one thing only. Passion for creating the content you want to create. Numbers come secondary. And you should never be led by them. Far too many people look at the 100K< subscriber number and stare themselves blind on it. When people realize that those numbers don't come easy and might never come they get desperate. Put more content out, not realizing their content is more of the same, and stuff that people don't want to see. I personally have been at it for almost 3 years and am at 2.5K subscribers. Hardly a success story. 100K? probably never. 10K? seems impossible. But then 100 and 1000 seemed impossible too. All I know is that I am having a blast creating content, and will continue to do so. Passionless need not apply.
 
Omgitz Herp said:
I ask myself that every single time.I wonder what do they do so wrong because to tell you the truth if you set yourself up to fail in the first place then why did you try.i understand the whole youtube is not easy but is not impossible, they never said its not possible well unless you cant afford internet i guess.I guees what im trying to say is when you enter youtube what positive things do you need to not fail in youtube
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In my opinion I don't think anyone fails in YouTube. You have some people who don't have the patience to succeed in it or they just don't have the time to be consistent uploading videos.
 
Mostly everybody has said it. People are impatient. They want 100 subscribers after 2 weeks and 500 views on their videos. If nobody knows who you are, you won't get that. It could take months to get to even 150 subscribers. It's hard, and a long road, and most people are just too impatient.

I think also people are unsure of what methods to use to get viewers and subscribers. Great headings, short videos, nice thumbnails, etc. And then theres the sharing on social media. Some people think if they post a video, it should be flooded with views. Unfortunately, those videos are stuck at 30 views after 6 months.
 
I don't really think you can fail on youtube, it is a creative outlet (at least to me). Like anything involving creativity it has to come from you, you have to want to do it because it makes you happy, not because you want views, not because you want subscribers or an army behind you. The only way you can fail on youtube is if you let it corrupt you. Be yourself and your creativity will be rewarded.
 
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