I paid 50$ for a youtube promotion for 3 days. I got views and subsribers but non of these actually watched my video. Half of them are probably just bots. I got 100 subscribers at least and a couple of likes but this isn't what I wanted. I wanted genuine opinions and banter. Now I feel like I fricked up.
If you pay me $50 I'll say something on your youtube channel to cheer you up
frick off indian bro I already spent it. All I wanted was for youtube to actually give me impressions and show my vid to people who might watch it. But not like this. I don't feel like these are actually real. I unironically lost my will to continue
Out of 100 new subs nobody clicked on any of my other videos? Yea right
start uploading shorts where you react to internet dramas and call everyone a piece of shit butthole
Good job moron, you fell for their scam. It's like someone who can't get matches on a dating app paying for more exposure - it isn't going to do shit no matter who you get put in front of.
I stopped almost entirely. Spending months working on a single video only to BTFO myself with one I spent probably a week tops making just made me feel like shit. Won't post it here. I've done it a few times already and I'd rather not milk for more subs/views
i love when people whine about muh its not fair i got no views. you know from their having this manner that their video would be them mumbling incoherent burble over some game footage, or something else that absolutely nobody needs.
or maybe you are projecting? My first video got 900 impressions for 2 months. With all my shilling here and going to various subreddits.
It has nothing to do with the quality of a video.
The lack of confidence you have to even post your channel here is very telling. You know damn well everyone is going to laugh even harder when they see the bullshit content you create.
They dont charge you $5,000 min to advertise on youtube anymore? Howd you do it? Couldnt you theoretically pay like $300 or whatever and get enough subscribers to get partner and then just use that to make more money over time?
I don't think you can. Because I don't think these are real lol. Unironically. So you wont get watch time. My vid is 20 minutes long and out of all of these I got only 5 hours of watch time. So yea I guess you can get subs but no watch time
Going well.
My gamedev channel.
A few months ago I went from 2 to 8 subscribers after two videos.
Pretty exciting.
I've been covering a lot of different random indie games I got keys for over the last few months. I try and post a video every few days or so. I picked up enough subs to get the new first level of partner. I normally only get about 2-4 subs a month, but this month I got 33.
If you didnt know you can apply for keys from game companies on different websites. Theres not a lot that give out stuff to small channels but its worth the try. Theyre in order of amounts of keys they've given me.
https://www.keymailer.co/
https://www.lurkit.com/
https://www.terminals.io/
https://dashboard.indieboost.com/authinfluencer/login
https://rainmaker.gg/
My favorites out of the ones I played lately were
Starship Troopers
Doomsday Hunters
Hi-Fi Rush
Soulvars
Spire of Glory
They've given me around 100 games over the years so its worked for me.
planning to do a bg3 review
channels more of movies/vidya tho
I did a game review, vid for Ganker and one book review. Now I'm stuck cause I promised Onimusha 2 review but I can't match the quality of the first video (to my humble standards lol)
ill check it out anon
I'm not the OP. I do it cause it's frankly fun and the only reason I shill the vid here is because i enjoy the banter. In fact posting your vid to Ganker is a sure way to get dislikes.
People uploading to youtube as a job is what made the website so shit.
Well that and also the inability to say a lot of words due to censorship.
hell most video games titles even get you blacklisted
you cant have say dying light because of the word dying in it.
this makes tons of video games not eligible for viewership based on names alone and this causes a lot of video games to lose SEO ranking in the google platforms and search engine which is why you never hear about them.
then you add in all of the cursing and words like gun in video games and that ai algorithms even more stuff out of the search engine.
forget those games that curse.
sure maybe you can filter out these things and then get a clean video, but who wants to edit like that so much things listening to every single possible word and trying to think of how it could be possibly offense to a machine in every single concept now and in the future.
Its mentally draining.
thats also assuming that even if you did this an ai doesnt just mark dying light as offensive no matter what you do like talking about hitler.
I have a .txt file with probably 6 different shitty video essay ideas that I'd actually like to write and produce, but I've never done it before so I frankly have no idea how the workflow looks like
I figured it's better than getting sucked into making multiple 2000 character posts about game design in doomed threads every other day
If you ask me, the guy with the Total Overdose vid, just do it. It's fun. You will at least learn how to edit if nothing else.
I learned stuff as I was doing them. The biggest problem is doing everything alone. From what I learned, to grow you need to be able to produce at least one vid per week, and doing that is actually impossible if you have a daily job and want to do essay format.
I have a genuine question to you and all anons making review/essay/etc channels of games and other media - what's your plan? Why would anyone sit through your video instead of some other in the sea of review channels that are talking about the same things you're covering? Are you essentially gambling on the chance that the algorithm will pick one of your videos up and kickstart your channel growth?
I don't mean this as a discouragement, just curious about the thought process, because, from my viewer perspective - the odds of me clicking on a video that has 500 views and covers a game that has been discussed for 20 years are pretty slim, even if it somehow pops up in my recommendations.
If they are sponsored videos, most gaming companies dont want you to make shorts videos and specifically tell you not to do that even if its supplemental on top of a regular video or if you make a lot of them even if you get more views doing them.
They seem to favor reviews and guides. Some also refuse in the nda to allow silent videos and want you to talk. Ive even had a few companies sponsor a video and then delete it from their own discord.
My genuine thought process was to learn how to do it. To see if I can make someone chuckle. It's one thing to be entertaining to your friends and family but an entirely different thing to make some stranger laugh. Theres no plan. It's supposed to be fun. I'm not delusional I'm gonna make money. It's too late for that.
Some anon posted here ages ago that people who spend a lot of time alone, tend to think they are smarter than they really are because they spend a lot of time internalizing. So just because they THINK a lot about stuff, they think they know more...if you understand what I'm saying... but in the end they reach the same conclusion that normal well-adjusted people reach within 5 minutes.
Well, I'm a loner and I internalize a lot so I wanted to prove to myself that I'm not that guy.
sorry for blogging
So it's basically a creative/emotional outlet for you, gotcha. Godspeed to you anon.
Cant decide if based or gay. That being said , since you are ESL, you are never gonna make it
>workflow
it starts with file structure my man.
01_Script
02_Shot List / Storyboard, if required
03_Footage [vidya gameplay, movie footage, meme clips, whatever it is in here AND in sub-folders so it’s easier]
04_Audio
05_Images / Graphics
06_Premiere and/or project files for your editing software
07_exports
Keep a nice file structure on a micro and macro scale and you will be thanking yourself.
is that one folder per project with those folders inside?
What I wrote is an example of a very basic file structure for just one project, I will add 01/02 could be rolled into a single folder as a Pre-Production or Planning folder.
Learning file structure is easy
Step 1. Steal someone else’s file structure
Step 2. Change it as you figure out what works better for you
Congratulations you have your own file structure.
So in the example I wrote it would probably be like
HDD>Youtube>[video title here]>and here would be the 01 to 07 folders.
i made vidya related cartoons for a bit, they got a lot of traction, and then i learned that watch time is the only thing that matters when it comes to making money. frick this gay earth
If I started streaming when Justin.tv was a thing I could have been a multimillionaire.
I started a Let's Play channel in 2013-14 and averaged 1k views a video every third day. Then quit because it was hard to grow beyond that. Shit sucks.
I think I’ve identified a gap in the youtube market that I could move in on, non-vidya, I’m gonna script 4 videos and see how it feels. But I do not wanna get into Shorts, or at least not have that as a main focus. Is Weekly uploads still the king or is there more important metrics these days?
>Is Weekly uploads still the king or is there more important metrics these days?
Yea I just answered that
Probably multiple daily Id assume with how much garbage gets sent out.
I know creator insider said max 3 get pushed out to subs every day.
I dont know if that also means max 3 get pushed out in general a day.
So I'd assume 3 daily.
are you talking about shorts or videos anon?
all content I think. not sure if posts are included in that count.
>I paid 50$ for a youtube promotion for 3 days.
You paid $50 to frick your channel. Youtube isn't moronic, they can clearly distinguish between organic and inorganic viewership. boosting a channel's metrics with bots will flag it and remove it from the algorithm.
>Youtube isn't moronic,
It's their own option bro. He paid youtube. Not some indian on fiver
honestly I wouldnt put youtube's laziness to either flag their own botted inhouse content or to ignore botted content entirely
I would think it more likely that youtube universally hates all gaming content while simultaneously wondering why livestreaming isnt popular on their platform like it is on twitch
>youtube universally hates all gaming content
How is this the case? I get recommended gaming content literally all the time.
>paid for views
what compels a man to do this
He wanted video game discussion in his comments. Because there's no place on the internet to talk about video games for free
>he
Yeah I'm sure lol
It's maaam!
>actually paying for the promotion
Bro didn't you see the british larper guy's video, that shit's algo suicide
>british larper
tell me more anon
post channel before whining about the views you """deserve""", if your pussy ass is too scared then you probably know deep dpwn, your videos suck ass and no one wants to watch them.
>paying for views this early in the game
Your complete lack of creative integrity is probably why noone gives a shit about your videos, all the best videos on youtube come from people just having fun with making videos, you're just a money and fame hungry homosexual who will never ever make it. Quit nkw and get a real job, this scene is not for you.
Does having various types of content on a single channel will hurt it ? I have several ideas for videos but they don't really are in the same niche.
from what creator insider said, you should follow what your audience enjoys. typically if its different kinds of content youd make a separate channel.
ESLtard
I've been thinking about actually working on my channel but I'm confused as to what I can do to make it "special". I have a channel rn it's just mostly clips I've gathered over the years with literally no effort put into any of them.