What's the best way to become known in the YouTube community?

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I've just started making YouTube videos, but I'm as aware as any that it's difficult to get off the ground when making videos. Besides friends and family, getting viewers can be tough, especially as promoting on other peoples channels is profusely frowned upon and often leads to dislikes. So, can anyone give a basic, solid answer to this question? What are the factors that result in YouTube channels taking off? If anyone has advice for me or anyone else on these forums, please, help.
 
Social Media; share/promote your stuff
Have an edge over other creators: You need an edge so audiences will keep coming back to your channels. You can think of some aspects; choose one: Creativity; finding niches; your appeals; charisma; being funny; epic video editing; networking, etc etc
If not: determination and persistence. Keep going on, setbacks won't stop you doing your stuff
Or like the lottery: Get lucky. For example Youtube servers going rampage, leading all the viewers to your most ugly vid.
 
Squeal Cat said:
Social Media; share/promote your stuff
Have an edge over other creators: You need an edge so audiences will keep coming back to your channels. You can think of some aspects; choose one: Creativity; finding niches; your appeals; charisma; being funny; epic video editing; networking, etc etc
If not: determination and persistence. Keep going on, setbacks won't stop you doing your stuff
Or like the lottery: Get lucky. For example Youtube servers going rampage, leading all the viewers to your most ugly vid.
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The lottery one is funny, haha!

To the TS, maybe you can just keep sharing your vids on Facebook, then build it up from there. That's my plan
 
Making great videos is the key. Just because you made it doesn't mean it's great. Making a good video is very hard and time consuming. It's takes time to get good at it. Great videos will get noticed.

A lot of the big YouTubers have set a high bar. It's hard to compete when some of these channels are dedicating multiple people to make videos. SciShow has about 9 people in the credits.
 
Harry Of All Trades said:
Making great videos is the key. Just because you made it doesn't mean it's great. Making a good video is very hard and time consuming. It's takes time to get good at it. Great videos will get noticed.

A lot of the big YouTubers have set a high bar. It's hard to compete when some of these channels are dedicating multiple people to make videos. SciShow has about 9 people in the credits.
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I agree with the content quality approach. I'm not saying I've got that figured out yet, but that's my goal and I think it's ultimately what will win out. It seems like every now and then a pretty vacuous channel gets traction, but if you look at the stuff that is really finding an audience, it all seems to be better than the stuff that isn't. I'm biased, but I also believe in the power of the niche.
 
TMBH said:
I also believe in the power of the niche.
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Niche definitely helps, but it only gets you so far. For example, there is a channel I'm subscribed to called MakerJ101. It's pretty much a super smart kid doing a "technical vlog" which equates to him making and hacking all kinds of stuff. It's definitely niche, but he isn't unique. There is another channel similar to his called Applied Science.

MakerJ101: 5K subs. His camera work isn't the greatest. Seems like he's using his phone for a camera and sometimes you can get dizzy from him bouncing around with his camera as he pans from one part of his shop to the other. The information and the projects he works on is solid and it definitely fills the niche very well. The video quality isn't quite there and I think it's holding his channel a bit. He probably needs to work on his editing a bit too. He's a college student so I don't think he has a whole lot of time to do much about it.

Applied Science: 120K subs. Same kind of videos as MakerJ101, but the quality of videos is significantly better. It definitely shows when you look at his subscriber count. Granted, this channel does some more impressive type projects.
 
Harry Of All Trades said:
Niche definitely helps, but it only gets you so far. For example, there is a channel I'm subscribed to called MakerJ101. It's pretty much a super smart kid doing a "technical vlog" which equates to him making and hacking all kinds of stuff. It's definitely niche, but he isn't unique. There is another channel similar to his called Applied Science.

MakerJ101: 5K subs. His camera work isn't the greatest. Seems like he's using his phone for a camera and sometimes you can get dizzy from him bouncing around with his camera as he pans from one part of his shop to the other. The information and the projects he works on is solid and it definitely fills the niche very well. The video quality isn't quite there and I think it's holding his channel a bit. He probably needs to work on his editing a bit too. He's a college student so I don't think he has a whole lot of time to do much about it.

Applied Science: 120K subs. Same kind of videos as MakerJ101, but the quality of videos is significantly better. It definitely shows when you look at his subscriber count. Granted, this channel does some more impressive type projects.
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Yeah, I can't argue with you there. Even a little bit of attention to presentation seems to go a long way in differentiating otherwise similar channels, and finding the right mix of topical vs. niche I'm sure is important as well. It seems like we're saying the same thing though, that good is generally better than bad.
 
Respond to your comments. That always helps. People want to share and talk about your videos if not only they enjoyed them, but they also feel like their views get heard by you. I've had a couple of channels respond to my comments and it really boosts my respect for them. :)
 
Concentrate on your quality of your videos that way you can stand out from the rest. Also another tip is to keep posting videos you want to build your channel library.
 
I'd really focus on creating videos that can be optimized for search at the beginning when you only have a few subs. You don't really have to change your content, just make sure you're titles are good and searchable. Most of my videos are just my daughter doing cute stuff. But instead of calling it cute kids or funny kids which is a really hard term to rank high in because there's so many videos or taking the opposite approach and calling a video Kaylee playing with her toys (which get's no searches). Do something specific that is a searched for topic but not so searched for you won't rank on the first few pages. For example, I shot a video of her just riding around on her barbie jeep and called it something like "Barbie Jeep Power Wheels Kids Truck Video". Then I tagged it with different variations of that title. "Barbie Jeep, Barbie Videos, Power Wheels For Kids, etc." It gets about 20 views a day from search terms like "kids barbie jeep" "barbie jeep" "power wheels" etc. Still not a ton of views but it's coming from search not from subs.
 
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