How did you get your audience?

I am a VERY small youtuber compared to everyone else here, so like 99% of my subscribers are friends and family. It's always great hearing success stories though. Congrats to those who blew up :)
 
I owe nearly all of my channel's success to my Balkan viewers and Youtuber friends. To show my appreciation, I'm also learning their language (Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian) and have been making light use of it in my videos, even though my channel is in English.
 
Most of my audience comes from facebook groups Reddit and that I joined to get my channel more views and subscribers I'm thinking of joining an Google plus youtube group next. I have 52 subscribersand over 20000 views thanks to these.
 
YouTube Search, Suggested Videos, Google Search.
Never did any promotion. But of course that doesn't work for every kind of channel.
 
Consistency and patience, for the most part. I've been uploading regularly for about 2.5 years and stayed on schedule religiously. I also respond to every comment on every video I upload, make friends with other YouTube creators, post on social media whenever I upload and participate on Reddit and on other forums like this one.
 
My audience comes from here and google searches (according to my analytics). Also some from social media as I post my videos they are linked to twitter. I also upload my thumbnail to instagram.

Cheers,
Scott
 
SOIVIDZ said:
Have you just slowly been gaining an audience over time or was there one certain video that allowed you to blow up? Or maybe your friends and family have been giving you support too. I'm just curious as to how some of you have been getting success on YouTube. Personally on this channel it took us a long long time to get over 1k sub's.
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S4S, friends, adwords and mostly normal people after crossing the 1000 sub mark. Most important thing in my opinion for growth is that you make good content exactly on trend. Good content off trend will not work well and bad content on trend neither.
Another big hurdle to take is that there are a lot of skills to learn before you can make good on-trend videos that people enjoy and are able to find. Most creators highly overestimate the quality and trendiness though, myself included when I started. I think the 10.000 hour rule applies very well here too, it takes a long time to master something and most people are not willing (or able) to put in the hours needed when it comes to youtube.
 
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KidsCorner said:
S4S, friends, adwords and mostly normal people after crossing the 1000 sub mark. Most important thing in my opinion for growth is that you make good content exactly on trend. Good content off trend will not work well and bad content on trend neither.
Another big hurdle to take is that there are a lot of skills to learn before you can make good on-trend videos that people enjoy and are able to find. Most creators highly overestimate the quality and trendiness though, myself included when I started. I think the 10.000 hour rule applies very well here too, it takes a long time to master something and most people are not willing (or able) to put in the hours needed when it comes to youtube.
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It seems everyone here is against S4S. Would you do S4S again if you had to start over?
 
ToysForKids said:
It seems everyone here is against S4S. Would you do S4S again if you had to start over?
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It's tricky for sure, I would not do it as the only means of gaining subs and need to support growth with adwords subscriber gain. What I do like is that you get quite a lot of engagement on the likes and comments from them, but the retention is quite bad and therefore I think the adwords campaign with gaining real subs simultaneously helped to separate from the rest. People are a bit like sheep sometimes in my opinion so if people see more than 1K subscribers they are more willing to subscribe too?

As with all things, there are too many variables in this YT thing so difficult to say if it helped me, didn't do anything or actually slowed me down.
 
For me I was slowly gaining over the first 2 years and then I got my 'gateway' video and everything 'blew up' for me.
There is nothing special about my 'gateway' video either..
 
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