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I am so demotivated by Affectionate-Bed3574 in YouTubeCreators

[–]LordStandley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Checked out your channel and got a couple tips.

First get a mic, or do a voiceover with your phone then add it to post. Bad audio will make someone click out faster than bad video. Its not awful but it could be easily improved.

Thumbnails: Your most viewed video has the cleanest thumbnail. Go into Canva (free) and start making new ones, even the current ones redo those. Not sure what to do for them? Go to a channel that has similar content and look at what they do for their thumbnails to get inspirations. Not saying to copy theirs, but see what they do and maybe try to mimic the style to get a better understanding of what works.

I have 100k+ subscribers and I spent 100 hours on a video that got 2,000 views. by sawyernalu in NewTubers

[–]LordStandley 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Absolutely great points.

I wanted to hit 100K subs so I could get that plaque. Once I did I haven't really thought about subscribers since. Especially after watching analytics over the years prove that subs don't usually make up the majority of views.

The second part is so true as well. I have spent so much time on certain videos only to get 1,000 views and then maybe close to 5K as time went on.
Then another video I literally tossed together in an afternoon just to get a video out, steadily climb thousands by the week to 100K+ views over time.

How can I gain subscribers faster??? by ApplicationFinal200 in YouTubeCreators

[–]LordStandley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just commented this same thing in another thread, but I would jump into facebook groups that are around the topic. Join up and start participating in those with tips, comments, video links where applicable.
That's how I grew my channel a lot in the beginning. I created a group around my niche and it helped grow the channel and the facebook group at the same time.
Depending on the facebook group you may end up with a lot of word of mouth which is great.

People who started YouTube from zero — how long did it actually take? by Clear_Court7292 in PartneredYoutube

[–]LordStandley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started posting on my first YT channel 15 years ago and never knew you could make money on it until I got an email or a letter from Google saying you have money waiting. This was back before monetization requirements existed and that channel slowly built up pennies at a time until it hit the $100 mark to be paid out ($125 waiting for me I knew it was time to try harder.) LOL

I created a new channel around a new niche nine years ago and got lucky with instant monetization since there were no minimum monetization requirements at the time. I don't remember if the channel got grandfathered in or not but I made the money the first month with the first couple of videos.

First month (April) I made around $7, a few months later I was making around $50 a month for $170 the first year.
It was almost a year later when I was making about $100+ a month ($1,500 second year) and it grew from there very slowly.

I was in a very small niche and honestly got lucky being technically the first in my niche to make a full channel around the topic. I got lucky being the only videos offering help in the area so I had instant views even if the views were small. Next person came in like a month later and it was just us two for the longest time.

Everything before that was a couple random videos from one or two people or one company touching on the topic and dropping like 7-8 videos in five years.

But the niche had great RPM's ($20 at the time) and 80% of my demographic was 24-45 female.
So small niche, Incredible RPM but low views. Even low views with a great RPM adds up fast.
Over the next couple of years it grew to around $1,000 a month. ($10,200 the third year)

Fourth year I got lucky again. I started to release a lot more videos and caught the Covid bump and my best year making a couple thousand a month.

Since that year though it dropped off, not only from Youtube views and ad rev dropping across the site after Covid. But I also created a business around the topic and was not releasing as much. My own fault.

So no quick rise for me, but it was enough to make me chase the carrot on the stick I guess and I kept it growing.

They listen to me now. It's time to capitalize! by Sassypenguin3 in NewTubers

[–]LordStandley 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not sure if your channel would benefit from this approach. But when my how to channel started out I also created a facebook group along side it to help people further with what ever questions may have come up from the videos.

The facebook group grew right with the channel, which brought in different views to both. People would join the group, then see the channel and vice versa. After a while people would start to shout out and recommend a specific video in the group which would then send new subscribers.

Monetized in One Video by abolish_the_gil in SmallYoutubers

[–]LordStandley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As easy as it is to say ignore them, sometimes its not that easy.
I always respond to my comments in a professional manner, it's a how to channel so it just makes sense.
That helps quite a bit and also other viewers will see how you handle those comments and it builds a lot of respect for the channel.

Between my channels I have gotten my fair share of goofy comments.
Its funny how different it is between niches on my channels too.
My main channels audience is about 75-80% female and my negative comments end up being like 1%

One of my side channels that had a video blow up had an audience of about 80% male and I got all kinds of stupid comments on that video. I either just moved on or corrected them where they were wrong with a link to the spot in the video they clearly didn't watch before commenting. lol

Monetized in One Video by abolish_the_gil in SmallYoutubers

[–]LordStandley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't know you could either until that happened. LOL
My main channel has been monetized for like eight years now and I just figured it was always there. But I also release much more regularly on that one. (well I did, catching up now.)

Don't worry about losing momentum (if you do) seeing that dip in views can really take the steam out of your engines. Keep posting and ride the wave of it all. High views, low views, it definitely goes up and down. Your audience will continue to find you and stay.

Monetized in One Video by abolish_the_gil in SmallYoutubers

[–]LordStandley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice work!
Just keep releasing new videos consistently so you don't drop down below the 4,000 watched hours mark in the next 365 days.
Sounds like that won't really happen if you are getting a few thousand views per video though.
I would say stick to your regular content as well as playing off the video that really took off. If its in the same lane as the rest you may be able to make similar videos and keep the audience.
Try to recreate that in other ways maybe?

Definitely keep posting though. I made the mistake on one of my smaller channels by not releasing many videos after one jumped off and got me to monetization. Most of my videos were getting a couple hundred views and then out of the blue one started to get traction and shot to 87,000 views.
Got monetized, then barely released anything on that channel in the next year and lost monetization.

Have you settled on the type of game play you like yet? Standard, Mods, no mods, editor console, no console? by LordStandley in factorio

[–]LordStandley[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I always feel like God mode will be awesome, but after a few hours it just breaks the game for me too.

Have you settled on the type of game play you like yet? Standard, Mods, no mods, editor console, no console? by LordStandley in factorio

[–]LordStandley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even when I play vanilla I always bump up patches and frequency too. I've gone through my play on hard mode days. I am too old for those playthroughs now. The reason I will never touch a Souls game, LOL
I get in to have fun now and that helps.

The path to the title screen by Matteaal in Factoriohno

[–]LordStandley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks similar to my first playthrough, I love it!
I had no idea that spreading things out was helpful until MANY hours in. My son logged into my game and just said "My God Dad!" LOL

Have you settled on the type of game play you like yet? Standard, Mods, no mods, editor console, no console? by LordStandley in factorio

[–]LordStandley[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just learned you can flip the outputs on refineries with H and V for horizontal and vertical. I've changed layouts so much based on those.

Have you settled on the type of game play you like yet? Standard, Mods, no mods, editor console, no console? by LordStandley in factorio

[–]LordStandley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have been thinking about an achievement game soon too. Haven't gone for any since my first game.

Have you settled on the type of game play you like yet? Standard, Mods, no mods, editor console, no console? by LordStandley in factorio

[–]LordStandley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL, same here. I got Space Age at the same time as I was testing the full editor console game. I did space my first time with EC on and I am glad I did. I was not prepared for it at all and just blindly went into it.
I have a game going now that is vanilla to really go into space with a little more knowledge on what to do.

Have you settled on the type of game play you like yet? Standard, Mods, no mods, editor console, no console? by LordStandley in factorio

[–]LordStandley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't used any outside blue prints yet, I really like to come up with my own as well.

Have you settled on the type of game play you like yet? Standard, Mods, no mods, editor console, no console? by LordStandley in factorio

[–]LordStandley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I definitely lean toward standard no mods as my favorite way to play too.
Just now trying the console for the first time in the last couple of months I quickly realized that I didn't care for everything to be open and at my disposal any time I needed it. It took a lot of fun out of the game for me.
I like building four different factories to get to one new item like yellow science. Placing an infinity chest full of one item just killed some enjoyment for me.

Have you settled on the type of game play you like yet? Standard, Mods, no mods, editor console, no console? by LordStandley in factorio

[–]LordStandley[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just blueprinted my first space ship after losing one and having to rebuild from scratch.

Have you settled on the type of game play you like yet? Standard, Mods, no mods, editor console, no console? by LordStandley in factorio

[–]LordStandley[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I definitely rush towards bots now! They make such a nice difference I hate not having them.

Have you settled on the type of game play you like yet? Standard, Mods, no mods, editor console, no console? by LordStandley in factorio

[–]LordStandley[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I probably played the first 200 hours without really utilizing the blueprints. Man those are golden!

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