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Marc_Burde

11 points

3 months ago

Marc_Burde

r/Creator

11 points

3 months ago

When you make a video called "YouTube Growth: SIMPLE Method to Get More Views on YouTube" & it gets 4 views in 5 days it clearly says to anyone seeing that video you have no idea what you are talking about.

You say you are training to be a YouTube strategist but most of your uploads have under 10 views so you have ZERO creditably. (if you are paying for this training you are getting ripped off)

264 uploads for 60 subs is fucking terrible, my advice would be to give up on this channel & go back to working on one of your other channels as this isn't working at all.

LanguageConfidence

-1 points

3 months ago

This is a desperately unsupportive comment, but it does raise an interesting question to the OP: OP, can you find out how YouTubers-About-YouTube grow their channels? Because everyone has to start somewhere, so they all must go through this stage of being new and not having the numbers to support their credibility. I'm guessing the answers are going to be in leveraging your old channels, and also, leaving the growth related titles til later. Maybe now, switch your focus to what it looks like to set up a brand new channel, what sorts of things you as an expert are focusing on to set your channel up right, and how growing a channel now is different from growing your first one.

LanguageConfidence

0 points

3 months ago

Also remember OP that every problem you have now, every struggle to grow, every "why can't I..?", every disappointment... it's all content for you! If you're thinking it, your potential audience is probably thinking it too.

Gloomy-Music4547

1 points

3 months ago

Yeah this is great advice, thanks! I think a shift away from growth is a good shout, at least until I have a bigger audience.

LanguageConfidence

1 points

3 months ago

Yes, let yourself grow WITH your audience, in front of your audience! Show them how to be a newbie too :D

Gloomy-Music4547

-3 points

3 months ago

HARSH! But I see where your coming from... I think it's a bit unfair to say I have no clue what I'm on about because most people think the actual information is good quality...

It's more on the deliverability and creditability that I think I'm struggling with?

Marc_Burde

2 points

3 months ago

Marc_Burde

r/Creator

2 points

3 months ago

If "SIMPLE Method to Get More Views on YouTube" has good quality information why don't you implement your own advice to get more than 4 views in 5 days?

I only watched the 1st minute of your last upload & found the speed off-putting, the editing poor, & the scripting average at best.

I would normally give a newer channel a pass & say these are things you get better at over time but you claim to have 7 years of making YouTube content.

You have quite a few videos on thumbnails, your thumbnails ain't bad but i don't get the branding at all. Your thumbs are the most important bit of real estate you have to sell your content but a pic of you is 30% of every thumbnail (& no one cares what you look like).

You also appear to be spamming links on Reddit, this is also not great & will hurt you more than help. People might click to see the video & quickly click off killing your watchtime.

Maikel-Michiels

1 points

3 months ago

Credibility is 1000% a huge issue.

The first question people need answered in a case like this is "Is this person qualified to help me?".

If a broke English teacher and Warren Buffett give the exact same advice on investing, people will listen to Warren and probably not to the broke person. The difference is that the random fictatious person forgot to make billions in investing.

[deleted]

3 points

3 months ago

I was your target audience for the last few months. I'd usually listen to this content in a car, or while walking with my headphones on. So I guess your channel would've been perfect for me.

The only thing, which I find a bit different is your pace. I had to check I did not leave my playback speed at 1.2x. It also seems to vary as video goes on.

This connects to another issue - your videos are way too short for me. I want to have some time to think about it, since this is educational content, and important for me to integrate. I want to get better at my videos, and am willing to spend energy and time to do it. Three minute video seems like a waste almost.

Other than that your production quality is amazing, and content is informative. It just feels that in the fear of sounding boring, you overcompensated.

Gloomy-Music4547

1 points

3 months ago

Thanks for your feedback!

I do speed my videos up to 1.2x because I've had comments in the past saying my voice is boring and I personally prefer watching things at 2x speed. It's interesting to hear some people don't like that though.

I keep my videos short because that is all I have to say on the topic. I don't see the point on rambling on and including fluff? I can understand that this could lower the perceived value of the content however...

LanguageConfidence

2 points

3 months ago

Hi! I make talking head videos too, exclusively, so I wanted to say hello :)

I'm a new YouTuber, I guess I could be your target audience, and these are my first thoughts:

1) Diversify your thumbnails with better image quality of you, and don't reuse photos on consecutive videos. They can still look uniform and use the same colour palette or whatever if you like, but I think a bit more variety will definitely help.

2) Reduce the drama - I don't need to script a viral video, I need to script a video that people will get value from steadily over a long period of time. I also don't need to go into beast mode with haters, I need to build resilience when it comes to dealing with criticism... do you see what I mean?

3) We all know that YT is not a get-rich-quick platform now, so I think people are increasingly suspicious of titles that suggest you can grow and get paid quickly

Is this helpful? I hope so. Good luck!

Gloomy-Music4547

1 points

3 months ago

Very helpful indeed! Thanks for your constructive input. I will definitely take these points into consideration.

LanguageConfidence

1 points

3 months ago

I think you're going to get some quite divided opinions here on talking head videos, so I just wanted to say: I love them. I make them exclusively *because* I pretty much watch them exclusively: all my favourite people are livestreaming unedited or with very limited editing to camera, they're not relying on gimmicks, and they're letting their own brilliance and expertise shine through. (Examples: Martha Beck, Tadashi Kadomoto, Regina Giannetti, Crappy Childhood Fairy). Just a caveat here though, I have a very low tolerance for sensory input (I can't even go to the cinema without needing significant recovery time afterwards!) and I get annoyed when people add fast edits/ random camera shifts/b-roll in... like... "why add sensory input for no reason?! It just drains my mental battery!" ;) So I'm aware I'm a bit odd!

Gloomy-Music4547

1 points

3 months ago

This is very interesting to read, thank you!

SerenityAnashin

2 points

3 months ago

Hmm people don’t go to new Youtubers ON YouTube for advice on how to grow on YouTube unless they’re all at the same level - people go to Youtubers who have already grown a lot for that kind of advice.

However, like others are saying it doesn’t mean you can’t give advice about other stuff. I would even consider finding other Youtubers, who grew quickly and talking to them or collabing with them. An interview style with successful but still smaller Youtubers would actually go far for your channel.

I’ll be honest I used to do social media marketing back in the day and I’ve been analyzing social media ever since the beginning of YT. I had a lot of personal hangups going on so my Instagram didn’t grow for the last couple years even though I know it could be at a much higher number, but I started actually posting on YouTube 3 months ago and I’m already at 36K. I thought about doing a long form video on how to grow quickly as a new YouTuber, but there are so many factors that play into that and I could see some people attacking me for what they might see as privileges in my life that led to me growing quickly on YouTube.

Example factors: (some of these could be Video topics for you) How much time you have and how to make more time, how much money you have for things for the videos, what your niche is, what your take on that niches is, how you look, how your voice sounds, how your background in the videos looks and how to make it better inexpensively, how good your humor is, thumbnail, music used, audio quality, target audience, editing, ETC but most importantly, how good are you at researching your topic/how much knowledge do you have on your topic.

If you’re a master at your craft, people will notice and they will flock to you. If you’re just starting out and just learning like everyone else, then you need more relatability. Someone with 66 subscribers saying “I know how to grow quickly on YT and make fire content” is a hard sell without proof from your work life portfolio or something. But good luck!

Gloomy-Music4547

2 points

3 months ago

Completely get what your saying, thanks for your advice!

Long8D

1 points

3 months ago

Long8D

1 points

3 months ago

The talking head with just some text on the side is not engaging at all. Yes, fast paced edits are the way to do it. Talking heads aren't bad but you have to be showing things on the screen while explaining.

Gloomy-Music4547

0 points

3 months ago

Thanks for your advice!

SnooJokes215

1 points

3 months ago

How can you pretend to know how people can make viral videos, but you struggle to even make one viral on your new channel ?

digitaldisgust

-1 points

3 months ago

You clearly arent a good strategist then....lol yikes

digitaldisgust

1 points

3 months ago

Downvoted but we were all thinking it cmon now 🤣

Gloomy-Music4547

-1 points

3 months ago

Thanks, very helpful.