Better channel discovery/exposure option?

Beastby

Beastby

Designer, gamer, lion tamer
Hey guys and gals,

On my long commute to work I got to thinking about Youtube and smaller channels.

For obvious reasons Youtube promotes the big channels while leaving all of the small channels in the depths for them to scrape their way to success.

And I thought, "I wonder what would happen if 1 million people saw my videos or channel" Out of those million people there must be a bunch who would enjoy them and subscribe. I've been visiting this forum for a while now and I think a lot of people on this forum make great videos and works really hard on their channels, and if they got that sort of exposure, even for 10 minutes all that hard work would pay off.

Imagine if there was a way for that to happen.

I remember a story where a gaming channel, for some technical reason, filled the entire recommended video column of one of Pewdiepie's videos and within a day he had 10 times the subscribers.

If that happened to all of us, just once... :happy:

Beastby
 
I think this is pretty much every creator's dream. I mean, who wouldn't want to be discovered by a larger audience?! But it's not like this is an impossible thing...you never know what could happen, so we all just gotta keep on going and growing our channels :)
 
That would be epic for me, for instance i was in a scenario where i was making World of Warcraft videos 2 weeks ago, and 2 days ago a made a FIFA 15 video, however getting 4 videos up 1 of FIFA and 3 of WoW, i made a single Day Z video, I promoted it accurately on a Facebook group and people was asking for more, they got laughs out of me being a entire noob, they made me feel welcomed to the youtube community as a viewer, and they urged me to create more content. I grew from 9 subscribers to 15 from that one video, it also has 126 views and is my best video yet on my channel.
 
It's great when you get that video that you release at the right time right place and it does well.

For my old channel, I made a Five Nights at Freddys video before any of the big Youtubers got a hold of it and I got nearly 3000 views and gained 10 subs from it. It was a great feeling definitely.

I just wish it was easier for us to reach more people.
 
Beastby said:
It's great when you get that video that you release at the right time right place and it does well.

For my old channel, I made a Five Nights at Freddys video before any of the big Youtubers got a hold of it and I got nearly 3000 views and gained 10 subs from it. It was a great feeling definitely.

I just wish it was easier for us to reach more people.
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Totally agree there, it defo gave me a lift and next episode is processing as we speak to cannot wait to see what their actions are!
 
Oooh the aticipation, I'm at work at the moment but I'll be sure to check you out when I get the chance!

Beastby
 
I got more exposed due to the way livestreaming used to work on YouTube. I livestreamed GTA V Campaign almost every day soon after the release. At the time, YouTube had a live channel page and it would show you all the live channels currently, and what type aka Gaming/Educational/Comedy etc etc. I got around 70 livestream viewers at a time almost every livestream. GTA Online came out, with the servers being really bad of course, and was lucky enough to actually be online. I livestreamed that and once the stream ended it was on the front page of YouTube's search "GTA 5 Online" for a day or 2. After that it was on the first few pages which currently has like 12,000 views. YouTube got rid of the live channel page for some odd reason. If they didn't get rid of it, I guaranteed would have gotten at least 15,000 subscribers by now just mathematically putting together the scenario at the rate at which my channel was getting exposed. It was a nice run, but I lost interest in livestreaming after that. Now I just make videos whenever the time arises, as in, whenever the mood for recording has been set. After that I have to acquire a mood to edit as well. Currently have 860+ subscribers because of the live page. That was my story of "exposure", at least, to some extent.
 
HoraryHellfire said:
I got more exposed due to the way livestreaming used to work on YouTube. I livestreamed GTA V Campaign almost every day soon after the release. At the time, YouTube had a live channel page and it would show you all the live channels currently, and what type aka Gaming/Educational/Comedy etc etc. I got around 70 livestream viewers at a time almost every livestream. GTA Online came out, with the servers being really bad of course, and was lucky enough to actually be online. I livestreamed that and once the stream ended it was on the front page of YouTube's search "GTA 5 Online" for a day or 2. After that it was on the first few pages which currently has like 12,000 views. YouTube got rid of the live channel page for some odd reason. If they didn't get rid of it, I guaranteed would have gotten at least 15,000 subscribers by now just mathematically putting together the scenario at the rate at which my channel was getting exposed. It was a nice run, but I lost interest in livestreaming after that. Now I just make videos whenever the time arises, as in, whenever the mood for recording has been set. After that I have to acquire a mood to edit as well. Currently have 860+ subscribers because of the live page. That was my story of "exposure", at least, to some extent.
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Wow that's really cool man, it's all about falling into the right moment.

I'm always looking for new indie game releases that will interest me but I'm never going to play anything that doesn't.

Like I've just mentioned, I had some success with Five Nights at Freddy's and the sequel had just been released yesterday. If I wanted I could have made a video the moment it was released but I didn't enjoy the game enough the first time to justify playing this one for the sake of views. A part of me regrets it but I'm not about to do it for the views and subs.
 
I guess it all takes time really, I noticed when I first joined YouTube on my old channel, it was very slow, but I eventually made it to 1,000 subs! It's just a case of promoting yourself in the right places at the right time, and really working hard to make your content stand out :)
 
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