Br00tal
No Mercy For The Weak
Keep your subs active by posting often. I have 3 series active + speedarts, sometimes it gets like 3 vids a day.
What the hell am I doing wrong? My channel is going nowhere.
- Thread starter Koonetz
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Just keep it up - how long have you been making videos? From experience, it takes about a year for a channel to start picking up properly (if you have good quality content) but from there, the growth is pretty exponential (ie. you get bigger, quicker).
But this is not just about the content - you need to be active in the Youtube community, (DON'T SPAM) more like just commenting on videos, making video responses, chatting on forums like these and responding to your viewers. You'll be surprised how this increases your popularity. Create an interactive evironment for your viewers and they'll keep coming back
Hope this helps! Keep it up! -Cazz
But this is not just about the content - you need to be active in the Youtube community, (DON'T SPAM) more like just commenting on videos, making video responses, chatting on forums like these and responding to your viewers. You'll be surprised how this increases your popularity. Create an interactive evironment for your viewers and they'll keep coming back
Hope this helps! Keep it up! -Cazz
Koonetz
Loving YTtalk
Been doing vids for like...4 years almost, have 3 channels, the first one was just music stuff, second channel was my first LP channel and now I'm with this one!Just keep it up - how long have you been making videos? From experience, it takes about a year for a channel to start picking up properly (if you have good quality content) but from there, the growth is pretty exponential (ie. you get bigger, quicker).
But this is not just about the content - you need to be active in the Youtube community, (DON'T SPAM) more like just commenting on videos, making video responses, chatting on forums like these and responding to your viewers. You'll be surprised how this increases your popularity. Create an interactive evironment for your viewers and they'll keep coming back
I should really try participating more in the youtube community, I almost never really comment on videos for whatever reason. Thanks for the tips!
Cool, yeah that's a good place to start, and your subs should go up! Make sure to just be activeBeen doing vids for like...4 years almost, have 3 channels, the first one was just music stuff, second channel was my first LP channel and now I'm with this one!
I should really try participating more in the youtube community, I almost never really comment on videos for whatever reason. Thanks for the tips!
You're welcome!
Flammy
Shooting Down Idiots
I don't really like any of the advice that other people are posting.
What you're doing clearly isn't working, and telling you just to keep chugging along is stupid and a waste of your time. I believe Einstein said "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." I think that definitely applies in this situation.
There are several factors here, but the biggest is no one will ever find out about your content. Plenty of search traffic, but too much competition.
You can try to fix this by innovating, being creative, and trying something new. I haven't played Bioshock Infinite, but there are all sorts of things you can do in any game just to be different. Find relatively unheard of easter eggs. Record glitches or bugs or unintentional things. Find references/story elements that are hinted and publicize them. Gotta be different. Post this unusual content to bioshock fan sites (reddit, forums, etc).
You don't have to change anything major. Just post your next series video every other day, spend the time working on some 'flagship' content for your channel. Or just spend a bit of extra time making it on the side, so it doesn't cut into whatever your regime is.
What you're doing clearly isn't working, and telling you just to keep chugging along is stupid and a waste of your time. I believe Einstein said "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." I think that definitely applies in this situation.
There are several factors here, but the biggest is no one will ever find out about your content. Plenty of search traffic, but too much competition.
You can try to fix this by innovating, being creative, and trying something new. I haven't played Bioshock Infinite, but there are all sorts of things you can do in any game just to be different. Find relatively unheard of easter eggs. Record glitches or bugs or unintentional things. Find references/story elements that are hinted and publicize them. Gotta be different. Post this unusual content to bioshock fan sites (reddit, forums, etc).
You don't have to change anything major. Just post your next series video every other day, spend the time working on some 'flagship' content for your channel. Or just spend a bit of extra time making it on the side, so it doesn't cut into whatever your regime is.
Koonetz
Loving YTtalk
You couldn't have put it in a better way. So far I'm doing a 1999 mode playthrough of the game and I'm trying to explain small details of the story people might have missed, I also try telling people about the references they might have missed (cause the game has plenty of those).
Does variation help? by this I mean, having more than one series of videos going at once, there are many underrated games I would like to show but I don't want to spam the hell out of everybody's feed.
Andrew Flint
Adobe Certified Associate & Post Student
You've only been going for 2 months you can't expect these things to grow fast considering the amount of people that make the same kind of videos. But also, if you only have 10 subscribers you clearly haven't tried to sweeten up your friends and people you know IRL to subscribe to you and help you out with promoting yourself.. always start but asking friends to subscribe, start close to home and move out
ChunkeyPanda
I play video entertainment thats interactive.
To the OP I know exactly how you feel, I started in January this year, and I'm at 37 subs, YES I am very happy with subscribers I currently have, but feel like I could be doing a lot better, I too compare myself to a lot of other channels. I also get very annoyed when I see people posting things like "I have 200 subs in 2 weeks of youtube, what am I doing wrong?" "I used to average 1,000 views on youtube now im only at 500 what should I do?" Just makes me angry! 
I do like the advice you are being given, yes its always good to be patient, never give up, etc. and Sir Derpington is right on the dot, I wouldn't suggest Bioshock Infinite though, I mean its a new game so I would assume there are tons and tons of other channels doing a LP and not to mention some big youtubers as well (Cryaotic and CinnamonToastKen to name a few). But other that you got to give your viewers a reason to want to watch your videos. I bet I could type any game you've played on your channel (havent looked at your channel atm.) and find 5 (or more) other channels of people playing that same game. Whats going to make me want to watch you instead of someone else?
Try to stand out with your personality, through commentary, maybe you're funny, maybe I could like the way you act out character dialogue, maybe I like the moral decisions you choose, or maybe I just like how you play a game, or explain a story.
And yes, variation can widen your audience a bit, maybe try to stick to one genre but it is definitely up to you and how you want your channel to be represented. I would recommend just 2 different series at time and alternating between them each day, 3 is too much as I am finding out. Some of your subscribers that are there for a particular game have to wait longer for a new episode.
Hope I and the YT community were able to help you out, I don't think you should quit on your channel, don't let it stress you out, just have fun with the games you play.
Oh yeah, one last tip that really helps is collab with other youtubers, play co-op games together or just co-commentate, best way to get new subscribers and make friends!
I do like the advice you are being given, yes its always good to be patient, never give up, etc. and Sir Derpington is right on the dot, I wouldn't suggest Bioshock Infinite though, I mean its a new game so I would assume there are tons and tons of other channels doing a LP and not to mention some big youtubers as well (Cryaotic and CinnamonToastKen to name a few). But other that you got to give your viewers a reason to want to watch your videos. I bet I could type any game you've played on your channel (havent looked at your channel atm.) and find 5 (or more) other channels of people playing that same game. Whats going to make me want to watch you instead of someone else?
Try to stand out with your personality, through commentary, maybe you're funny, maybe I could like the way you act out character dialogue, maybe I like the moral decisions you choose, or maybe I just like how you play a game, or explain a story.
And yes, variation can widen your audience a bit, maybe try to stick to one genre but it is definitely up to you and how you want your channel to be represented. I would recommend just 2 different series at time and alternating between them each day, 3 is too much as I am finding out. Some of your subscribers that are there for a particular game have to wait longer for a new episode.
Hope I and the YT community were able to help you out, I don't think you should quit on your channel, don't let it stress you out, just have fun with the games you play.
Oh yeah, one last tip that really helps is collab with other youtubers, play co-op games together or just co-commentate, best way to get new subscribers and make friends!
jenjbboutique
I've Got It
I know every category is different so ignore me if Im talkin s**t but one of the biggest things I have been advised is not to upload daily. Upload 1-3 times a week to keep your subs wanting more. I do know however that with vlogging for example people do months of vlogging everyday.
I find that the quality of my videos, the editing and such like on both my channels jenjbboutique and jenjbblife are better for not uploading everyday. My second channel is taking a while to grow but think the first channel will make the second grown if that makes sense.
Also becoming part of the community is a massive piece of advise. Do you support others doing the same thing as you if not then do that.
I think everyone has said the same thing time is key. Im sure you will get there :-D x
Flammy
Shooting Down Idiots
The biggest issue with doing a series in my opinion is that many people see video #8 suggested randomly in their related videos sidebar and they are like "nah, I would want to start at #1" but are too lazy to search out #1.
The great part about doing random "strategy" or "tips and tricks" or "glitch!" or "bugs!" or whatever is that it doesn't have this issue when featured in the related videos sidebar.
I watched the start of episode 1. The game audio and your voice especially is too quiet. Try to have it easily understandable when volume slider is halfway up and my computer volume is the same. It also sounds like you're playing around with marbles or something briefly at the start... little things like that are very important especially in the first episode. If the series does take off, episode #1 is going to be the most watched video. You will seriously wish you had spent 10x as long working on episode #1 compared to all the other episodes. Other than that, I wouldn't talk about stuff in the game that has yet to happen. If someone is watching, they probably don't know about it so let them experience it uninfluenced.