Read this, and understand this: YouTube is a business, and businesses are there to make money. Why spend your resources on a wannabe when you can spend them on the actual real deal? The labor cost is the same, but the gains are widely apart. (Hell, I think YouTube would probably loose money trying to promote the likes of you and I).
So no. Just no.
Yes, because the YouTube Creators channel, the Google+ change & that
amazing music tab they added that I don't know of anyone using at all have been such "great" places to dedicate their resources to so far.
I think they need to have a section called something like Future YouTubers dedicated for the us good smaller channels to help us grow. What do you think?
I think they should do something like this, I have for a very long time. A simple page that automatically & randomly displays people under 10k subs or even allows viewers to filter people under 100k subs. Really all they'd have to do is apply the same algorithm of the "Popular channels on YouTube" section, I mean really even in theory when I think about it, all you'd have to do is place it on it's own page and expand it to display more channels then add something that filters stuff below <100k, it'd require a few tweaks but is very, very doable, considering you'd be recycling code the costs wouldn't be as high. Unfortunately though, it's true, YouTube are a business and while money is a factor for them it's not actually their issue, there's also the issue of having it run by a bunch of idiots who don't like to think outside the box so basically there issue is that they don't know where to spend the excess money properly. If you've worked in retail before, you'll see it on a day to day basis, the big dogs have tunnel vision, they see a solution to their problem and 90% of them implement it without looking at other options, usually if they've worked their way up the chain from the bottom, it's a very rare case to see that.
That would be awesome but the problem is there are too many small youtubers, that list would be looonnnggggg
Possible Solution: randomise the list each time it's visited. Even better possible solution, use a similar system Steam uses for their discovery queue, that system has allowed me to weed out so much crap that appears in my Steams suggested feeds/specials. They could even do what they already do with search results and put in a few promoted channels in the mix or a few promoted videos/ads so they could earn revenue off that little tab/page. Like I said, if they put thought into it, they could make it work in both our favors and so god damn well.
A bunch of us aren't even monetizing our videos
Because when we do, the same company who wants us to monetise is the same company who will ban you without a 2nd thought regardless of whether you're innocent or not.
That's jumping way too far. Nobody's asking them or expects them to change the algorithm or anything like that. Something as simple as a mention on the YTCreators Twitter account or something would be nice once in a while. They have done here and there the past couple months but I hope they increase it. Of course only people with high quality content earn their way into a mention like that. It's not impossible, but of course not guaranteed. Just last week or so a guy with 40-something subs got mentioned from an interesting, but different, news comedy video he made. Now had he been tweeted by YouTube it would have been another thing.
Actually changing the algorithm would be jumping far less further than expecting them to tweet something out. It'd cost them more to actually pay someone to look through a bunch of channels than it would to pay someone once off to implement an automated system that literally already exists, right in front of our eyes which we see every day when we visit our channels. It could easily be done, everyone's talking about these massive costs from something that already basically exists, most of the work is already done, they just need to tweak it. The feature wouldn't cause everyone to explode of course but it'd definitely give people a significantly better chance to get some exposure than the current system of just relying on retention that doesn't magically appear out of nowhere, combine it with a system similar to Steam's discovery queue and it'd work nicely. In fact not only would it stand a chance of benefiting smaller YouTubers, it would give viewers who actually want to find smaller channels the ability to actually find them. If I didn't know YTTalk existed I'd know of no way to find smaller creators but even now that I do, I'd still have to go through a bunch of the same channels every day, implement the discovery queue system and I can remove certain channels from popping up in the list each time. In theory if they did implement that "upcomming channels" page without the discovery queue, your only option to not see the same channel again would be to block it :S The queue would be the part that costs the most and probably the part to consider heavily before implementing because of those costs.