GeekyNet
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My channel has just hit over 700,000 total views. I'll hit 1 million before the spring is over. I'm getting over 100,000 views per month. However, here's my main concern.
All of my biggest hits are guides. These guides are relevant, but then become irrelevant a few months later due to the game changing.
This plays out like this:
- Release guide
- Guide ends up getting 2,000+ views per day
- Content in game changes
- Guide dwindles down to around 0 views per day after a few weeks
For example...I had a guide just a few weeks ago that got up to 23,000 views at a rate of 1,000-1,500 views per day. Content changed and boom, it dropped down to 100 views per day.
I realllllly hate this because it means I have to constantly release new guides and can't rely on old guides for views or new subscribers at all. I understand this is the pace of the game and that I should always have to work on my channel - That said, I want to be creating content that lasts, not content that is a huge hit and then disappears a few months later.
I REALLY want to start focusing on content that revolves around my personal gameplay and endeavors in the game instead of just guides.
Here's the problem.
95% of my views are from search results, not subscribers.
97% of my views are from suggested videos, not clicks on my channel.
My best video got 165,000 views and I spent no time at all on it (literally less than an hour). One of the videos I spent the most time on has 491 views. Why? Because my best video is a guide that answers what people are searching for.
I need some encouragement & suggestions on how I should go about promoting my personal endeavors in the game so that I can gain subs that are fans of ME instead of subs that are fans of my guides. It's sad that when I upload a video that isn't a guide or something absolutely crazy in the game, it is lucky to get a couple hundred views.
All of my biggest hits are guides. These guides are relevant, but then become irrelevant a few months later due to the game changing.
This plays out like this:
- Release guide
- Guide ends up getting 2,000+ views per day
- Content in game changes
- Guide dwindles down to around 0 views per day after a few weeks
For example...I had a guide just a few weeks ago that got up to 23,000 views at a rate of 1,000-1,500 views per day. Content changed and boom, it dropped down to 100 views per day.
I realllllly hate this because it means I have to constantly release new guides and can't rely on old guides for views or new subscribers at all. I understand this is the pace of the game and that I should always have to work on my channel - That said, I want to be creating content that lasts, not content that is a huge hit and then disappears a few months later.
I REALLY want to start focusing on content that revolves around my personal gameplay and endeavors in the game instead of just guides.
Here's the problem.
95% of my views are from search results, not subscribers.
97% of my views are from suggested videos, not clicks on my channel.
My best video got 165,000 views and I spent no time at all on it (literally less than an hour). One of the videos I spent the most time on has 491 views. Why? Because my best video is a guide that answers what people are searching for.
I need some encouragement & suggestions on how I should go about promoting my personal endeavors in the game so that I can gain subs that are fans of ME instead of subs that are fans of my guides. It's sad that when I upload a video that isn't a guide or something absolutely crazy in the game, it is lucky to get a couple hundred views.
