how is that working for you? cuz eveybody says that you should post your videos on a regular schedule... I don't do that either, and I don't know if that is affecting my views....
So far it seems to be working for me. Most of my traffic is search driven. Right now, most of my videos are repair or setup videos. Generally, people are only looking for and watching those when they need to fix what I'm showing. I don't think a schedule is going to help much in my case (at least for now).
The kind of videos that I do, I just can't throw up a camera and start talking. There is a lot of prep that needs to go into them. In some of my videos I do car repair and that can be time intensive. Once you throw in filming, it significantly increases the time it takes to finish a repair. Also, there are a lot of surprises that can pop up, like a stripped bolt, parts not coming out easily, or having to do run a auto parts store. Any one of these things can throw off a production schedule. My last video had about two days of filming and about took about a week to edit after work. That doesn't even include the half day I spent driving to a parts salvage place to get the new part.
I would rather delay a video to make sure it was a good quality video instead rushing it to make a schedule. I believe the quality of the videos is what will attract more viewers than just cranking out a regular series of average videos.
I think there are few reasons why people saying why you need a regular schedule.
1.) The full time YouTubers need to make money and they need to be regularly publishing stuff, or they don't get paid (or at least not enough to live or pay bills). Other people see the regular postings and assuming that's what you have to do to be successful. They are successful to begin with because they put out high quality stuff.
2.) Again people assume that since they had a regular schedule that is what made them successful. I think it's because they have 100+ quality videos. I think the idea is, the more videos you publish, the more likely people will see them. If you have a weekly schedule, that's 52 videos a year allowing you to quickly build a library of great videos that could potentially be seen by viewers. It will take me longer to grow. I only have 18 public videos over the course of the year. Half of those are my very first videos and so they obviously suck. I just need to build up a good library of quality videos. Some of my videos take a while to get noticed. I found that anywhere from 45 days to 6 months after publishing that they start to gain a higher number of per day views and it starts trending upwards. At that point, they have gained enough watch time for the YouTube algorithm to eventually pushes them up to where they are more likely to be seen.
3.) People say that subscribers come to expect videos to come out on a certain day. That's probably true to some extent, but I've learned from my own stats and input from some big YouTubers on this forum that most of their traffic comes from non-subscribers. It is possible that people don't subscribe and just manually search the channel each week, but I would suspect this would be a small percentage of viewers. If most of your traffic is just people stumbling across your videos, why would it matter if you kept to a schedule?
