How To Start (And Grow) a Youtube Channel!
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2019
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Do you want to start a UA-cam channel? Do you already have a channel but are struggling to grow? Today Xisuma hits us with some hard truths about making watchable content and staying focused. Making videos is not all fun and games, if you are ready to put the work in and make better videos, sit back and watch this!
Taken from the Hermitcraft Livestream 10/10/19
• Hermitcraft Livestream...
Edited by Adam Aarts
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My issue with growing is: how to appear on people's screens?
The issue with promoting yourself somewhere is that it's usually prohibited in almost every single community.
E.g. in Xisumaverse discord, self promotion is allowed in a specific channel nobody visits aside of for doing their own promotion.
Relying on people searching on a topic of your videos doesn't work properly as well, because it's usually covered by a large channels.
If people will search for let's play, they'll find Hermits or pewdiepies or something.
If they search for update notes, they'll find you or Cubfan.
If they search for redstone, they'll find Mumbo or Ilmango.
I've managed to find 3 uncovered redstone ideas, but there are only that many videos you can make out of them.
Also, in my experience as both viewer and a small youtuber: people usually subscribe if they've stumbled on you multiple times on different occasions.
Do you post them in Minecraft subreddits?
Posting them to friends/friendly communities actually helps, people know you are more likely to just have a watch
Also tagging videos is really important and having a good thumbnail/title as well
@SurpriseTea
Excuse me for being so blunt but I don't want to put in the 30 minutes it would take me to say this in a really nice way.
I have watched the first minutes of your newest upload.
It is not easy to understand you.
First, the volume is pretty low compared to other channels.
This is not too much of a problem but it would be nicer if I didn't have to turn up the volume all the way.
Second, you talk quite fast and in an accent i do not know well so it is really hard to follow what you are saying.
Since you seem to be an "educational" channel (you share knowledge), understanding what you are saying is the most important thing.
People are lazy. They will not listen to you if it is hard to understand you. They will rather listen to e.g. xisuma who is always really easy to understand.
I am guessing you have the mic up too close and are not speaking loud enough.
Again, sorry if this hurts your feelings or whatever but it is just reality. A video with bad audio will rarely be popular.
Depending on the content I will watch a 480p potatovision video but I will not watch a 4K video with bad audio.
I think rather than promoting your channel, possibly suggesting a video that you've made instead. And i think he meant more like everytime you upload a video you post a link on Twitter, insta, whatever and like allow more people from different social media platforms to see it.
As a channel thats struggling to find veiwers, this helped me massivly. thank you X
I’m trying to grow on UA-cam and I’m gonna try this video to see what I can do, Good luck man
Everything said in this is correct.
I started a little over a month ago and I've joined some communities of small channels starting off. The main thing I see are people making videos to be big and rake in the money while not enjoying themselves. It's incredibly stupid when people say "I hate editing." "I don't want to do this." and so on.
Recording videos, editing videos and UA-cam in general is a hobby until it's a job.
I'm doing all the mistakes. I'm making lame thumbnails, my 'personality' it pretty bland, and I'm sticking to a single series so every video I make isn't a hook for a new viewer.
But I'm having fun and that's what matters in a hobby.
This gave me a huge confidence boost, i am edditing my first video currently
Pac thanks, it means a lot to me
UA-cam has been a really fun hobby and I've been doing it for about 4 years, but last year I started my current channel and when I put effort into topics I'm interested in, I honestly feel very very accomplished with what I spend my sometimes 4-12 hours creating!
I've been making videos since 2012 and consistency in uploading is definitely the most important thing. Very often, looking at my past I can point out many moments when if I just spent a few weeks more on something, uploaded regularly for a longer period of time (instead of wasting time, it's not like I didn't have the time to make videos), I might have gotten somewhere with my channel. I think I'm experienced enough to have some vaild thoughts to share, so for people that are here looking for advice, here's some, so you don't make the same mistakes I did.
You might make really good videos. Like, if you had hundreds of thousands subscribers people wouldn't see the difference between you and others with simillar fanbases. But you are probably not going to make the best videos in the world. There are some channels out there that upload a few videos a year and still have massive success just because they are THAT good, but there's only so many people with such a talent. It's much safer to assume that your videos won't be the most interesting thing in the world for people to watch. This is where consistency makes a difference: a person who uploads often constantly builds their community up, whereas another person, producing videos of a simillar quality, but much more rarely, is not. People will not watch every video they are interested in, because they don't have time to watch it all. People are people and over time, they become less and less interested in something, they forget what exactly was in a video they watched. So being presented a choice, a video from a series they are up to date with, invested in, and a video from a series the episodes appear every once in a while, they will most of the time pick the first one (given both of them are on simillar quality level). Another thing consistency helps with massively is having a breakthrough. Today it is much more difficult to reach big audiences than it was a few years ago, just because youtube is so saturated. Good videos just drown in everything else that is uploaded. It's pretty obvious, but still worth having in your mind: the more videos you make (given that they are all good videos obviously, always prefer better videos over uploading often) the more chances you have of one of these videos gaining some traction. You never know who will stumble upon your video or whether the algorithm picks it up. There's obvioulsy many more things, like how exactly does one make a good video, everything else that goes with it: titles, thumbnails, promotion strategies etc. You have to have all that worked out if you want to be successful, but the consistency thing often gets omitted. Hope it helps :D
TL;DR: Don't be discouraged by the fact you don't have many viewers, upload good videos consistently and at some point people who want to watch it will come.
I said that you have been making videos since 2012 but you joined 2 years ago 🤔🤥
The like ratio on this video says it all, incredible advise.. I couldnt figure out what to make as my next video but when you said "would you watch the video?" i knew exactly what video I wanted to make! Thank you Xisuma!!
Ther's a word for consistency: fitness. You don't have to get all that creative to get in shape. And that same discipline helps make consistent quality videos doing the same sorts of things. The creative part is mixing things up a little bit. You love Minecraft? Do different Minecraft things, it's a really huge game when you think about it. Can't play video games well to save your life in front of an audience? Play to the crowd! That's what JSE does, he's a modern jester he is!
I have been making video’s for about a year now and I kinda like it, but I sometimes seem to struggle with stuff, because I prioritize other things
Thank you X
To people who are finding starting out hard (like me), this is really helpful
Ur so extremely smart and I'm glad I found this channel
3:10 Well actually you can advertise your youtube channel on your planet Minecraft profile page, you just have to actually get people onto that page.
In terms of the whole ‘finding a niche idea’ thing, something I’m planning to try is combining two ideas. I’m a Lego channel, but I wanted to originally make redstone tutorials, so I’m trying to combine those, and since there really isn’t much out there that is in both those categories, it should work well. I’ll let everyone knows how this goes, if people still read these!
Very helpful video.
This is very helpful as I have uploaded lots of videos and not much of a view or subscribers, but as you said, the numbers doesnt matter as if you enjoy what you were doing, it doesnt really matter, because I enjoy what I'm doing and thats whats important
Thanks for the advice x
Thanks for all the tips x ur such an inspiration! I’ll take your advice and continue to enjoy the journey :)
As a new channel myself this is actually really helpful! Thank you a million!
Thank you X, i've been trying to make vídeos for 4 years, this will probably help :)
I'm proud of my 97 subs youtube channel and even tho i don't have alot of experience with youtube i still have one big tip and that is that if you want to be a youtuber then act as if you are a youtuber with milions of subscribers (i don't mean that very litteraly) Make content that is worth subscribing and watching too. But the most important thing is that you enjoy making videos :))
Great advice as always. Enjoying what you do is the most important thing, of course.
One other little piece of advice: Look at your statistics to see which of your videos is doing better. Do more of that. (as long as you enjoy it). I was making survival vids for my daughters and did a Seed video that people liked, and now I do more seed videos. Do what people like, and they'll watch.
this is gonna help me
Heya! Love this channel :D
(part 2 of my first comment - adding a bit more thoughts after watching your vid)
compare UA-cam in 2019 with 2016, 2013, 2010 and 2007. I can't do last 2 obviously but comparing 2013 and 2019 is enough. You'll see what's different. People looks at UA-cam as a regular job, not as a hobby anymore. and that sucks, I don't like this situation both as a retired creator and as a hardcore UA-cam consumer
Nice!
Heck I’ve been making videos for almost 7 years. In fact my sub count pretty much hasn’t moved in 3 and a half years. Did the traditional “Let’s Play” style stuff for years and found myself getting bored and discouraged by the seemingly insignificant results I was getting, so for a little while I said I quit. Came back some months later with the same kind of videos, but just early last year I pretty much did a complete 180 with the content I make, and I enjoy it much more now. To the point where I simply make them because I find it fun! Every now and then I get a video that I consider to be a smashing success (passing 10k views), and the people who watch them always leave me nice positive comments or ask very worth while questions. At the end of the day, that’s plenty for me :)
yes
If you look at the videos on my channel you'll see most of them are sub-100 views. There's one with 1.2k though (the Zero X one). I think the reason why is a collection of factors:
- I posted it on reddit
- It's almost totally unique on youtube
- It's fuelled by nostalgia so people want to watch it when they see it
- I really wanted people to watch it
Though I don't think any one of those things would do much on their own.
I'm also not pursuing youtuber as a job, so I don't worry about putting out loads of videos. If you are, you gotta be careful about burnout (even now) because it's caught up to a lot of people and can single handedly kill your career.
Im happy to see there are 230 likes and 0 dislikes, keep up with the good content
UA-cam is a zero sum game at this point basically, it has become quite stabilized like many other traditional industries. To succeed now, you don't just have to be good, you literally have to convince a large number of people to come over to you and watch your content instead of something else, by being better.
My main struggle is getting to people’s recommended and also none of my subscribers watch my videos I’ve spent two years and I wasn’t expecting to have 34 subscribers already but no one watches my videos other than my friend who is also a youtuber
How timely. I've been thinking about doing Let's Play videos simply because they seem like they're fun to make. =^.^=
the aspect ratio thing got me lol
The thing is, I’m trying to make videos, but it’s VERY difficult to enjoy making these kind of videos because it’s so doom-and-gloom. It’s hard to enjoy something when you’re pointing out the issues in the world :/
I enjoy what I'm doing but don't have time anymore to make the big projects I want too
Haha that end was funny
I've been doing it for a few years. Only at 274 so far. And I have pretty decent content ig
You have very small videos which is not great for growing a channel with the current algorithm.
@@diogogomes5201 small videos as in length?
Televisionary shorter videos typically get suggested less, I believe. But it’s not a total obligation to make longer videos
@@---ng7ke ohhh.
I personally find your content to be quite bad. It’s short and unstructured. At least from what I watched. I found it uncaptivating and I didn’t wanna keep watching. Of course when I watch any UA-cam video I normally want to learn something from it as well, and I didn’t seem to be able to learn from it. Figured I’d give an honest review, it’s what I’d want to hear if it was me.
Hey X I got a lot of passions for things I'd want to do on UA-cam but I don't have the things to do it ._. Know of any good ways to get started?
Hey X, I mentioned this in another one of your videos, I'm copy/pasting it here in case you didn't see:
What are the long term effects of intermittent fasting? Are they positive or negative? I tried doing some research, but couldn't find much information at all. The thing is, I can't help but feel that it'd be somewhat negative...
Maybe it's just me overthinking it, maybe not, I just felt that I had to say all this at some point or another.
Then again, I have no evidence to support my claim, but it isn't a claim, it's just a thought.
But is it the right thought? I honestly don't know, which I wish I do.
Tell me bro that how I improve my channel fast 😣😣
It's cool for me that my channels shorts get a lot of views compared to my videos and my videos take more time to make
Xisuma i have thaugt To create minecraft Chanel Will you have eny advise how To record whit obs
Thanks for having many times cheays me up
PS if spelling errors tell me
many spelling errors...
"Xisuma I have ~thought~ to create Minecraft ~channel~ will you have ~any~ advise how To record ~with~ obs"
as well as grammatical errors, poor capitalization, and poor sentence structure.
hope this helps you :)
Dude if English is not your first language don't be afraid, it doesn't matter if your spelling is not right as long as people understand you, just keep practicing you'll eventually adapt to it like I did
Am i #early? Yes i am!
2:06
Kinda harsh if you ask me 😕
ive made a website for my videos is that a good idea?
I actually only make videos bc it is fun lulz
Does anyone know what X was getting terracotta for in the video
Probably for one of his crazy projects. He doesn't always say what he is collecting items for in livestreams so it may be unknown! I'm guessing it's for IDEA.
I have made templates intros and outros template for newly youtube channels you can re-edit them without having much editing knowledge .. #KrownCreatives
Dude, my editing is spot on (once I was asked to edit ads outside yt cause they saw my channel 😳), I create tech content that's ORIGINAL & CREATIVE (I'm majoring in CS, and sometimes I literally create software products for my videos), stuff that I would watch myself cause it's really useful (not only to me, but to everyone in that nieche). But I'm not growing! I think that's due to:
1) I'm doing this in Italian, not the same quantity nor quality of audience. I was thinking to switch to eng, but it's not my native language, I wouldn't be as spontaneous
2) I don't upload really frequently (I have to study for exams, do projects for work, you know)
The problem is that I like to create videos about the stuff I'm passionate about. I don't grow, but at the same time I can't just quit, and that's really frustrating🤬.
If anyone wants to give me suggestions about how to change my videos after watching them please comment here with your opinion. Thank you ❤️
Try in English, see what happens! As you get more and more practice, you will become more spontaneous in the language :)
well, here's my advice;
if you start never give up after you got some traction going on. I stopped doing shit videos for a while, 4 years ago when I was 14, for some exams. Ahhh you stupid 8th grade, I don't uploaded for a few months. after that my 250k views per month for quick shitposts, went down all the way down to the 5k/mo after one year, even though I somehow figured out how to use after effects properly.
I ended up deleting most of the disgusting edits so I'm kinda happy most of my friends did not see that stuff but idk maybe i should have kept it going.
And now I have 9k subs, probably all of them are literally died, went to the university, some of them maybe married. not sure about all that but what I'm sure is they're virtually dead on the website. this channel is acting like I have 200 subs even though UA-cam says 9220. that's why I deleted a few of my last videos, they were under 1k views.
when you have 500 views you can think hey I'm a good tuber we have some people let's keep it going, but you won't think like that when you remember you had 500 views in 20 minutes bak in 2015, when I was like %100 copy of Morty from Rick and Morty, just being more stupid, having no adventures other than playing Minecraft.
and yes my grammar sucks I know I'm not native at least I'm not uploading English tutorials with Indian accent or writing on notepad.
4 likes and 0 views, nice
have Tom Scott explain this to you:
uk.video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-dcola-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=dcola&p=tom+scott+why+youtube+cant+count+sometimes#id=1&vid=7e51037723a70c896f6f7446d4539b2a&action=click
How do you look in those Chulker Boxes??? Can you make a tutorial about it??
I think it's a resource pack, but I'm not sure what.
it's a light modification. i'll see if i can link you to his video about it
There are datapacks that do it, but I believe he's using a mod with Fabric
ua-cam.com/video/fJgoRbePneE/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/gBno_rE41vg/v-deo.html
I mean like you see in the video. The hole inventory of the Shulker, not a compacted version.
WHOOO 0 DISLIKES.
my posts also helps beginners grow their channel.
Is this a no haithers chanal?
I love making the editing but the editing is very annoying.
"uploaded 51 seconds ago" 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
i think he talks a tiny bit too much... srry