Competition On Youtube

WilBajamas said:
Hey there, I've been making Youtube Gaming videos for about 2 and a half months now and I'm just wondering whether the competition has heated up compared to 3 to 5 years ago??
I know gaming videos has been popping out a lot too...
Let me know guys, thanks for reading ^^
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Well gaming has been an over-saturated market for quite a while now. About 2-3 years ago, it seemed as if vlogging was an over-saturated market (or at least to me, it did). It's like now I'm really happy just to see a vlogger lol. In general, there's always going to be competition, no matter what you do. But there's more people now than ever on YouTube, so it will seem as if there's a ton of competition. The more people that are on the site, the more competition there is. However, that doesn't mean that you can't beat the competition. It just means to have to work harder and have the passion to go along with it. As long as you have fun doing it, it won't matter about the competition because you won't be competing anymore. It'll be about being unique and standing out because of the way you do videos. Everyone can do any type of video, but it takes a special person to make it worth watching. For example, I'm not much into gaming videos (unless it's retro games), but the way that Markiplier does his videos is why I'm still subscribed to him.
 
V3XL0R said:
Well gaming has been an over-saturated market for quite a while now. About 2-3 years ago, it seemed as if vlogging was an over-saturated market (or at least to me, it did). It's like now I'm really happy just to see a vlogger lol. In general, there's always going to be competition, no matter what you do. But there's more people now than ever on YouTube, so it will seem as if there's a ton of competition. The more people that are on the site, the more competition there is. However, that doesn't mean that you can't beat the competition. It just means to have to work harder and have the passion to go along with it. As long as you have fun doing it, it won't matter about the competition because you won't be competing anymore. It'll be about being unique and standing out because of the way you do videos. Everyone can do any type of video, but it takes a special person to make it worth watching. For example, I'm not much into gaming videos (unless it's retro games), but the way that Markiplier does his videos is why I'm still subscribed to him.
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Well, niche is really the one that get people to like you. But, even though you have a niche that people will like, and there's so many channels out there that covers up what you do....
So having attention now is getting harder and harder by the second...
 
V3XL0R said:
Well gaming has been an over-saturated market for quite a while now. About 2-3 years ago, it seemed as if vlogging was an over-saturated market (or at least to me, it did). It's like now I'm really happy just to see a vlogger lol.
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I think people see the success of the big gaming YouTubers and think "I can do this, I can talk over a video game. Success beckons!" without realising that the guys who have made it big are the innovators. The followers of the herd very rarely do anything that would gain them notoriety. Problem is, there are always a handful of innovators and vast armies of followers who think that mimicking an innovator will bring them success.

The niches need to be spotted and exploited for success to follow. Unfortunately, there are no niches left in gaming (IMO) so it's just thousands of Let's Play YouTubers trying to make it big where others already have the market cornered.
 
My attitude is - make gaming videos because I adore the game I play, so why not share that passion with anyone who cares to watch. That may be 1 person or 1,000,000.

The moment you've lost is when you make videos to be successful. As soon as you don't enjoy it anymore, give it up.

Personality, content, consistency and passion will reap at least moderate rewards in time. Maybe.
 
DJBenz said:
I think people see the success of the big gaming YouTubers and think "I can do this, I can talk over a video game. Success beckons!" without realising that the guys who have made it big are the innovators. The followers of the herd very rarely do anything that would gain them notoriety. Problem is, there are always a handful of innovators and vast armies of followers who think that mimicking an innovator will bring them success.

The niches need to be spotted and exploited for success to follow. Unfortunately, there are no niches left in gaming (IMO) so it's just thousands of Let's Play YouTubers trying to make it big where others already have the market cornered.
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I would have to agree with you 100% on this. I mean, back a few years ago, it was the same way with vloggers. They saw people like iJustine, the Shaytards, and even Charles Trippy and thought that they could do it too. Every market starts with the innovators. Gaming is no different. I don't subscribe to a majority of gaming channels because they don't have anything to really offer. Those that I do subscribe to is because of their commentary. The reality of the people following those innovators is that if you copy what other people are doing, people won't find that unique at all and they won't subscribe. And here's the thing about the gaming niche. I think one of the problems is that everyone's playing the same games and that gets boring very quickly, especially if there's nothing unique about them. I primarily deal with music on my channel, so I don't make my gaming videos a priority whatsoever. I'll often do these YouTube livestreams of retro games and retro games only. I do it for the fun of it, though. It's just people have high hopes of making it big and making a ton of money from this niche and it's just not going to happen if you can't offer anything unique to the table.[DOUBLEPOST=1447618879,1447618499][/DOUBLEPOST]
WilBajamas said:
Well, niche is really the one that get people to like you. But, even though you have a niche that people will like, and there's so many channels out there that covers up what you do....
So having attention now is getting harder and harder by the second...
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Yes it is the niche that gets people to like you (only in some cases is this actually true, though), but if you're not unique, then no one is going to like you. Simple as that. That's the point I'm trying to make here. You can post in a really good niche and not get anyone watching your content because that person is not presenting anything worth watching. It is not that hard to get the attention that you desire. Just make it different and better from what others are doing. That's the reason people get covered up by other channels.
 
I had somebody ask if I would do Minecraft videos. It doesn't make sense for my channel and I don't have the time to play that type of game. Besides, it would be like me opening a burger joint and on the other three corners were In-And-Out Burger, McDonald's and Burger King.
 
There is not such thing as competition on YouTube. It's not like everyone is fighting for a time slot. Viewers can watch videos any time they want to watch us. Sure Joe and Cindy are subscribed to PewPie. They can also watch you, little mike, Yugi, and Game Theory.
 
Franklin said:
There is not such thing as competition on YouTube. It's not like everyone is fighting for a time slot. Viewers can watch videos any time they want to watch us. Sure Joe and Cindy are subscribed to PewPie. They can also watch you, little mike, Yugi, and Game Theory.
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So, what do you mean??
 
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