Self-sustained channel

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My channel itself is not self-sustainable and I get a thousand views per video. There is no certain sub count where your channel becomes self sustainable. I know a 20k channel. He posts good content regularly and he gets less views per video than I do. Sub count does not matter at all. It's your view count. Your view count pulls in subs and the subs watch your videos and then guess what? You get more views. If you want to be self-sustainable you need to have a video that gains mucho views each day. Sort of a viral video. If not, you will have to continually promote yourself until youtube begins to promote you which is nowhere near the 100 sub, 1k, even 10k spot. A channel with 10 subs might think 10k subs is a freaking lot but in reality that is still a small channel.

U have point. You and Crown... I'm starting to think that views are much more important than subs. Although one goes with another...

 

[MiketheDbacker26]

Pewdiepie and shaycarl don't really promote lol. By having such a big fan base people share the videos, and that's why they grow, not because of connections.

"I don't know many big YouTubers that simply put a video on YouTube and do nothing else." ... If you look at pewdiepie, that's pretty much what he does... He's big enough to do that, and I know many people who are at the 100k+ sub level that do the same thing. You don't necessarily need to promote when your big because your subscribers will promote for you essentially.

But they do. Call to actions, selling t-shirts and other merchandise, and some channels even having their own subreddits is a form of promotion. Plus, they tweet a ton and are constantly communicating with their viewers. It's not promotion in the way we know it, since if I decided to make a t-shirt, I doubt even 1 person would buy it, but it's still promotion.

 

[Crown]

That is what I'm trying to say... There must be a spot,where you just upload and your video and video find a way trough without much effort. That SPOT that MARK must have some number... I know it depends,but roughly we can agree it's at...???

No, it's a gradual process. I see a lot of threads on here of people saying their goal is to get 100 or 1000 subs because after that "it's easy" or "growth is exponential".

The reality is that if a channel is growing naturally, then its growth will be exponential at every stage of its growth. By that I mean, if it takes 10 weeks to get to 100 subs and 10,000 views, then it should take less time to get to 200 subs and 20,000 views etc etc at every level.[DOUBLEPOST=1406032866,1406032639][/DOUBLEPOST]

U have point. You and Crown... I'm starting to think that views are much more important than subs. Although one goes with another...

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Concentrate on views not subs, because that will make you concentrate more on improving your content and less on promotion. You will find that promotion isn't even needed when the snowball effect kicks in. And yes, views will drive subs