i don't know where to post this at. But Over the summer I've grinded from around 100 subscribers to 300. But ever since I've came back from Atlanta and lost Xbox gold, my channel has been flopping. I've lost view counts on videos and I've been losing subscribers. I know about YouTube deleting subscribers, but this hasn't happened all at once. One day I would lose 2 the other day I would lose 3. I'm sitting at 296 and I was going to make a 300 subscriber video and give other smaller channels a shout out. But I can no longer. I don't know what to do. It's really bringing me down and I'm really thinking about quitting. I've worked so hard and I've kept my mind open to video ideas, i thought I made good videos but it no longer seems like it. If you want to check me out my channel is Jetstream19. I really need advice or help.
My Channel Is Dying
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Hi Jetstream.
First and foremost; do not be disheartened. We have all experienced something like this in one way or another; myself included. If you let it get to you, you'll lose the drive, post less content and that will ultimately push your channel further into the ground. We all have to remember with so many of us making videos, Youtube is extremely diluted. This doesn't mean we have no hope, but rather the effort put in is now much greater if we want to get anything back.
I've had a little look over your channel and I have a couple of suggestions you may wish to look into;
First and foremost; do not be disheartened. We have all experienced something like this in one way or another; myself included. If you let it get to you, you'll lose the drive, post less content and that will ultimately push your channel further into the ground. We all have to remember with so many of us making videos, Youtube is extremely diluted. This doesn't mean we have no hope, but rather the effort put in is now much greater if we want to get anything back.
I've had a little look over your channel and I have a couple of suggestions you may wish to look into;
- Change your banner/avatar.
- From what I can tell, you only have five Pokemon related videos (at least in a playlist), so you're more of a multi-game content channel. A banner focusing on a single game gives the impression your a single game focused channel. I learned this when I used to be a Minecraft only channel, but since slowly moving into a more Sandbox focused channel I had to change my Banner. I'm still looking for a new Avatar mind you. I appreciate artistic talent isn't something we all possess, myself included, but if you look at my banner, I simply took a nice looking screenshot (in-game) of something I built, added a white rectangle, changed it's opacity and then added some text over it. Simple, but I think it looks okay. I used The Gimp to achieve all of this.
- Make use of Playlists more and display them on your front page.
- At the moment your front page just displays a bunch of uploaded videos making it very hard for anyone to find the content they want to see. For instance I have a particular taste in Sandbox games and I had to scroll a considerable way down just to see you had a Minecraft video. If I missed this I would have discarded your channel as not being to my particular tastes. If you look at my channel you'll see my most popular playlists right on the front page.
- Join more communities.
- I use Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Player.me and Votable. I post every video I make to all of these platforms. Remember that even if you don't appear to get many results, like or comments on these platforms doesn't mean they're useless. All of these link backs to your channel will help with SEO. Remember to add the links to your channel banner links area.
- Don't ask people to Like/Sub at the beginning of the video
- I don't know if I like the video yet, It's only just started. In fact, blabbing on too much at the beginning will make people either skip forward in the video looking for the actual content they came for; or worse, click on another suggested video that isn't yours. Get to the action quicker, engage quicker, keep em' watching. Ask for the like/share at the end. If they didn't make it that far they probably didn't like the content anyway.
Just keep pushing yourself man. There are plenty of secrets to SEO... make sure you check them out.
It is normal that you lose some subscribers over time, especially when your taking a break and don't produce any content.
You need to grab your things together and continue with your work like you have have done before and then the counter will go back up again with time.
And a small tip, since your a small channel doing a shoutout has nothing to offer for both you and the other channel so i would skip that part.
You need to grab your things together and continue with your work like you have have done before and then the counter will go back up again with time.
And a small tip, since your a small channel doing a shoutout has nothing to offer for both you and the other channel so i would skip that part.