What is more Important: Quality Vs Quantity

Quality, but if you can add a large quantity interaction with your audience on other social media, that's a plus too.
 
Said this 100 times before and I'll say it again. Quality > Quantity. If a user goes to your channel and sees bad videos, they most likely won't be around again. Everyone has times were they make videos. I always go back and re-watch some of my older videos and ask myself if I want to keep them up. When you're uploading to youtube your mindset should be (this video HAS to be good). You shouldn't upload on a day that you think "oh I'm just going to upload something to have a video up."
 
throwing s**t together and then posting it up would completely ruin the experience of youtube for me. i do all of it because i genuinely love to create things that i'm proud of. if i'm posting just for the sake of having something to post up, what's the point? make things you're proud of and success will come to you, passion (and lack thereof) is so easily recognized.
 
I thing it depends.It depends on what exactly we’re talking about, and in what context too. For example,"would you rather have 50 average tasting bananas, or 1 banana that tastes better than any other banana you’ve ever had before."
 
I agree with most people in this forum: quality is highly important!!! However, there are some arguments in favor of quantity:

  1. learning-curve effects: if you produce a large number of videos you will learn much more faster how to play the youtube game (i.e. you have more opportunities to test different SEO strategies and so one...). Also, your quality will go up faster due to learning effects.

  2. Unpredictability of 'viral' videos: On YTalk you will find different discussions regarding the randomness of which video will go 'viral'. Some people try really hard to make a 'viral' video which usually does not work. On the contrary, in these discussions people often report that some average videos suddenly picks up and go 'viral'. With a large number of videos the probability that something like this will happen is much higher.

  3. Visibility: more videos probably (!) mean that the likelihood of being found on YT is much higher.

  4. Do you guys know any other arguments in favor of quality? let me know :)
I do not aim to increase the quality to a maximum because of the 20/80 rule. However, I try to further increase my quality until I reach a point where I consider my quality as much higher than the average quality in my niche.
 
If you have the time and energy to pump out 5-6 videos a week by all means go for it but these guys must have some other form of help or at least have another form of income to allow them to record 7 days a week.

If I could I would record 7 times a week no problem but thats just not possible with things such as education and your job.

I personally feel like a balance between quality and quantity is key here. A YouTuber who pumps out 5-6 videos a week? Hell yeah, but then you go and their commentary sounds forced, they don't sound very enthusiastic and almost static in their commentary. That aint fun to watch.

I rather watch someone who's posting 2 videos a week who has the energy and motivation to play the game and actually have something to say rather than someone whos posting a video just for the sake of having content up.
 
iMSaiyan said:
Not sure why this is a question to be honest.......You want 10 videos that are crap or 1 this is pure gold? You want to eat 10 meals that a bird s**t on or 1 juicy burger? *slams head*
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Very real man haha

Feel like most people miss this point and got caught up too much on the "big YouTuber" comment and are messed up on the "quality" comment.
Quality doesn't mean that your video is terrible just not quite as good.
For example let's look at Casey Neistat:
Uploads AMAZING QUALITY CONTENT (Took WAY Longer per video)... only once in a blue moon, tons of viral hits: 5 years = 500,000k subs
Uploads REALLY GOOD CONTENT (Take way less time to make, quality drop).... uploads daily though. 1 year = 4 Million subscriber

Do you see what I'm saying!?!? Quality dropped by 20% for an output increase by 80%. Videos still good, just not quite as perfect,

To Quote Casey:
"YouTube isn't like making a movie, you can't go in make something great, disappear for 3 years and expect people to still remember you, you got to be consistent and always coming out with new content"
 
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