Thoughts on my channel?

Hey, so like I said, the content I'm currently making is at a level of quality which I feel is decent for starting out, but I have no idea how to increase my view count. I have recently gotten back from a long break of YouTube and I understand that probably has a lot to do with it, but even before that I still had very little views. I would just like to know if there is anyway I can increase my view count or if there is anything I am doing wrong? All tips and constructive criticism is welcome :) Thanks!
 
So I've just started my channel back up, and I'd just like some feedback on what I'm doing right and wrong.
All tips and constructive criticism is welcomed. Thanks :)
 
Welcome to my life..
We (clearly) make the best videos in our niche yet we struggle to get a few thousand views per video while some clown will post junk and get 10k views in a day or two.
Just keep up the good work, do all the suggested things and dont give up. We are seeing a good upward trend - each video gets more views and we are slowing growing subscribers - it's just slow and frustrating.
 
Regardless of content quality, I believe it has more to do with market saturation. There's something like 1,000 gaming channels created every day, with hundreds of thousands of hours of gaming content uploaded daily. Yes, gaming is a huge niche, but how much content can actually survive and rank? At what point would viewers rather PLAY the game than just watch someone else play the game? Unless there is some amazingly different angle, a gaming channel is gonna be buried in sheer quantity.
 
There's definitely more things you can try. With a number of your videos I think a main issue is people being able to find those videos. A lot of the lets play videos don't really have anything in the title that people could search for other than the name of the game which would be likely very competitive. I do a lot of lets play style videos but I never title them lets plays I always go after more specific keywords. I started my Castle Crush series with 10 lets play videos that did okay, but I started getting the real views after I switched to more specific video titles and themed challenges.

So just looking at your most recent video, opening loot boxes is in theory a great video idea and something people would search for. However Overwatch is so competitive content wise that unless you were very prompt about making the video after they release you might still have trouble getting seen. Making those videos as soon as possible after the boxes release is what I would try to do. With the text in the thumbnail the key words that might make people click are Summer Loot Box and you have those which is good, but the word "Loot" is covered up slightly so I would try to avoid that. People are more likely to click because they see the word loot than the characters you have next to it.

Looking at the video tags for the loot box opening, I would avoid using one word tags like "summer", or "pack" or "event", because you search the word "event" and you are competing against 59 million results and most of the people searching that are not looking for Overwatch. If I search "overwatch summer loot boxes 2017" you only have 170,000 results to compete with although it's still fairly competitive. However, look at the search results. Nobody on my first page of results used that exact keyword in their title. I would find multi word keywords that you think people are searching for and base your video titles around those. If you use the exact keyword in your video title and nobody else does then that's an advantage to you for getting videos ranked.

In order to rank for these longer keywords, most of what you have to do is just make sure it's in the title, description, and video tags. And make sure what's in the video relates to it.

If I were going to craft a video around opening the loot boxes just as a challenge here, I might title it "Opening 12 Overwatch Summer Loot Boxes 2017" or just "Opening Overwatch Summer Loot Boxes 2017" because 12 doesn't sound like that many, and then include "overwatch summer loot boxes 2017" as a video tag and also put the exact keyword in description(use it in the context of an actual sentence).

I can't say any of that would help after the video has already been posted but for future videos I would consider trying to work keywords that will be easier to rank on or doing video topics that may have less competition like tips/guides/weapon or new hero reviews rather than gameplay. Overwatch is tough but other games with less competition might be easier. BTW I know you play other games than Overwatch but it was a good example.
 
Thanks for all the advice! I'll be sure to take it all into consideration, and start marketing my channel in a different, more productive way.
 
In my opinion the thumbnails will blend in with all the other gaming channel thumbnails. Needs some kind of channel recognition or uniqueness added to them.

Other then that, it looks fine.
 
What I learned is that when making a youtube video, you have to be engaging practically the whole video! I'm not saying you're boring, but there are some dry spots. Don't compare yourself to established channels because they have an audience that loves their personality more than the video, so they will watch whatever they produce. So what I suggest doing is to be more active when you watch youtube videos and notice points when you personally get bored. If you're not bored, then ask yourself if it is because of the video or the person in the video. Then make your video and critique in the same way. That's why on my channel I made a show surrounding bits! Meaning I do something different every couple of minutes to keep the audience engaged, and at the same time trying to show my personality within my bits! Makes the video process more fun in my opinion too! Good luck!
 
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