YouTube, Help Us Small Channels

I can literally type my channel name verbatim in the search box on YouTube, and my name does not appear in the search results. I feel your pain, but I don't think there is anything that can be done.

When i type my Channel name(BillyVlogsTV) in the search bar, my YouTube channel and my videos comes up on the 1st page right at the top of the search page. :)
 
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When i type my Channel name(BillyVlogsTV) in the search bar, my YouTube channel and my videos comes up on the 1st page right at the top of the search page. :)
thats good! You may have started your channel a little while ago. I just started mine last month. When my channel get's a little more popular then I'm sure it will pop up when I put my name in the engine.
 
Your best bet is my tip for getting subs... GET TO KNOW PEOPLE. Sub to people's channels, message them, get to know who they are and form a relationship with them and they will sub you!
 
To be honest youtubes changes are only there to make it harder for small youtubers, they want to get rid of small users and turn youtube into an online TV channel that sells advertising and makes money.

Why do you say/think Youtube is going become a Only TV Channel thing and all of the sudden get rid of small Youtubers(Vloggers,Gamers, lots more.)?


I am sorry mate but i don't see Youtube will ever doing this anytime soon simply because there are millions of people who are small Youtubers making videos and they don't want to go on Youtube the next day and all of the sudden that there channel and videos has got deleted on Youtube

I GUARANTEE YOU if Youtube do this and make a only online TV Steaming thing like Netflix and get rid small Youtubers then There will be lots of Small Youtubers(including myself) be very mad/p****d and disappointed at Youtube for doing such stupid thing.


So i really hope Youtube won't make into a only online TV streaming site Netflix and keep it the way it is.
 
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thats good! You may have started your channel a little while ago. I just started mine last month. When my channel get's a little more popular then I'm sure it will pop up when I put my name in the engine.
It took me about six months to get my name close to the top searching heather w
There are several heather wells's on youtube too. I crept creeping up little by little :) It does take time[DOUBLEPOST=1424547719,1424547354][/DOUBLEPOST]
Why do think Youtube is going become a Only TV Channel thing and all of the sudden get rid of small Youtubers(Vloggers,Gamers, lots more.)?


I am sorry mate but i don't see Youtube will ever doing this anytime soon simply because there are millions of people who are small Youtubers making videos and they don't want to go on Youtube the next day and all of the sudden that there channel and videos has got deleted on Youtube

I GUARANTEE YOU if Youtube do this and make a only online TV Steaming thing like Netflix and get rid small Youtubers then There will be lots of Small Youtubers(including myself) be very mad and disappointed at Youtube.


So i really hope Youtube won't make into a only online TV streaming site Netflix.
Hmm... The top dogs make a huge amount of money, but as far as how many channels they are represent less than 1% of youtube channels. So even though google would make a lot of money off of that 1% why would they cut off 99% of the channels to push 1%
Plus there are new up and coming channels each year, and without leaving the site open how would that continue to happen. I think that would be pretty short sighted if they were to do something like that.
 
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thats good! You may have started your channel a little while ago. I just started mine last month. When my channel get's a little more popular then I'm sure it will pop up when I put my name in the engine.


Yeah it deffo depends on how long you started your Youtube channel and started making Youtube videos.

I started in February last year, i have about 246 subscribers on Youtube.

I am sure in the next 4-9 months when you search your channel name it will pop up in the search results(may be in the 1st page you never know). :)[DOUBLEPOST=1424552288,1424552029][/DOUBLEPOST]
Your best bet is my tip for getting subs... GET TO KNOW PEOPLE. Sub to people's channels, message them, get to know who they are and form a relationship with them and they will sub you!


I do all of that and it is working very good for me! :)[DOUBLEPOST=1424553041][/DOUBLEPOST]
You don't need YouTube to help you, if you have great content and consistency you can grow your channel, it's not impossible.

Completely Agree! :)

If you keep making great videos consistently and putting the effort and time into your videos and promoting your Youtube channel/videos on social media(Facebook, Twitter, more) and talking and making friends with other Youtubers then you will there at the end.

I know it is getting harder every year to get big/successful on Youtube, BUT It is NOT IMPOSSIBLE.
 
Hmm... The top dogs make a huge amount of money, but as far as how many channels they are represent less than 1% of youtube channels. So even though google would make a lot of money off of that 1% why would they cut off 99% of the channels to push 1%
Plus there are new up and coming channels each year, and without leaving the site open how would that continue to happen. I think that would be pretty short sighted if they were to do something like that.

The 1% rose OUT of the 99%. Under no circumstances would YT ever do anything to hurt small channels because they're not like a TV network. You don't audition, you don't get hired. It's democratic and grassroots. All the biggest names climbed up from the bottom. It would be insanity.

YT doesn't want to hurt small channels, but they definitely want to reward the people who put in the work and rose to greatness. Nothing wrong with that.
 
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.
 
Why do you say/think Youtube is going become a Only TV Channel thing and all of the sudden get rid of small Youtubers(Vloggers,Gamers, lots more.)?


I am sorry mate but i don't see Youtube will ever doing this anytime soon simply because there are millions of people who are small Youtubers making videos and they don't want to go on Youtube the next day and all of the sudden that there channel and videos has got deleted on Youtube

G'day mate, theyre actually doing it right now they started it in 2013. Googles corporate goal and direction for youtube is to turn it into an online cable channel. Its not my opinion, its Googles business plan. I tried to post a link for you but the site wouldnt let me. Youtube paid 53 channels to set up as cable channels where users paid 99cents a month to view their videos... pretty sure it's totally failed, not sure how many are still doing it but my mate no longer is... Still thats the long term goal, to get rid of small users, they want viewers, not users.
They wont come out and say this publicly but they have cut out all the best ways to build your channel like video sharing and channel messages where people could talk to each other, promote and grow their channels. If you want to promote your channel now they want you to pay. They know exactly how small channels built their channels in the past for free and they have stopped you and I from doing that. I know because I built very big channels for many famous people in the past. I didnt buy millions of views, likes and fake subscribers like the Biebers and Mahones, I did it legit but youtube has blocked and stopped every single technique I used to use.
 
G'day mate, theyre actually doing it right now they started it in 2013. Googles corporate goal and direction for youtube is to turn it into an online cable channel. Its not my opinion, its Googles business plan. I tried to post a link for you but the site wouldnt let me. Youtube paid 53 channels to set up as cable channels where users paid 99cents a month to view their videos... pretty sure it's totally failed, not sure how many are still doing it but my mate no longer is... Still thats the long term goal, to get rid of small users, they want viewers, not users.
They wont come out and say this publicly but they have cut out all the best ways to build your channel like video sharing and channel messages where people could talk to each other, promote and grow their channels. If you want to promote your channel now they want you to pay. They know exactly how small channels built their channels in the past for free and they have stopped you and I from doing that. I know because I built very big channels for many famous people in the past. I didnt buy millions of views, likes and fake subscribers like the Biebers and Mahones, I did it legit but youtube has blocked and stopped every single technique I used to use.

Maybe we see in 10 years time(not in 5 years) to see if it does actually happen or not............

Even if Youtube do this and get rid of small Youtubers, As i said There will be millions of Small Youtubers(including myself) will be very p****d/mad and disappointed that there videos all there hard/effort putted into there videos/channels will be gone and all there hard work will be nothing at the end which is terrible and sad! :( :(

I doubt YouTube will ever do this and turn into a Online only TV streaming site like Netflix becuase they will be very(very) bad after affacts for Youtube and Google, So i can't even imagine Youtube doing this stupid thing!


And anyway there are lots of Online TV streaming sites like Netflix,Hulu, and they do good enough job for watching TV online and There are lots of people(and me) who don't want Youtube to become one of them because YouTube was not created for TV Streaming and it was created for people who want to share there videos with other people on the internet.


If you want to watch TV online then go to Netflix/Hulu, I would rather make Google make there own online TV streaming website like Netflix instead of turning YouTube into a online TV streaming websites like Netflix.
 
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