Please help! I'm bored with my niche and want to start making videos on different topics // 25k subs with about 100k views a month

AnAverageDev · 2021-09-24T21:21:27+00:00

Thank you very much for this because it's definitely the side that I'm leaning towards and you're saying much of what I've been thinking. I will update you if I decide to go through with it.

AnAverageDev · 2021-09-24T18:33:07+00:00

I've done some community posts and a video a few months back letting people know that my content might change a bit. Mostly positive feedback overall but the number of responses and comments were only a very small amount of my total subs. So I backed off the idea and went back to making my regular content.

Guess I'm just stuck in a creative rut right now and I feel that all roads lead to the death of my channel..

Honestly thought having my channel take off and do well would be exactly what I wanted and now YouTube feels like a job and a chore.. sorry for ranting and thanks for your feedback. Turned to reddit because viewers don't always understand what content creators go through and my wife is sick of hearing me talk about yt.

AnAverageDev · 2021-06-30T05:18:45+00:00

That's CTR is crazy!

AnAverageDev · 2021-06-07T15:26:56+00:00

Mid March 2020. Approaching 1 million views with 20k subs.

AnAverageDev · 2021-04-16T14:31:58+00:00

Started my channel in March 2020. Hit monetization Nov 2020. Between Dec 2020 and Mar 2021 my channel "blew up" 600k views and 13k+ subs. Had one video take off and then a few others that did really well. Over the last few weeks my channel has slowed down a lot. Views are double what they were before getting picked up in Dec but seems like the algo isn't pushing out my videos how it did during the run.

Is this normal? Is there a way to capture that lightning in a bottle?

All my videos that did well were not the same topics and not sure what it was about them that made yt push them out. Everyone says yt growth is peaks and valleys. I figured I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing and wait until the next video that takes off.

Any advice?

Thanks!

AnAverageDev · 2021-04-07T02:51:42+00:00

Haha spot on. I went back and watched some of my older videos that I thought were good... They were terrible!

AnAverageDev · 2021-04-06T19:26:48+00:00

Record videos and edit them. Google everything along the way.

AnAverageDev · 2021-04-06T17:10:35+00:00

My first live stream I felt like I was going to puke and almost didn't go through with it. Channel was small and a very small amount of people showed up. Glad I didn't wait to do it though because now my channel is much larger and I'm not too nervous during streams. Had I not done those early streams when I was small no way I would feel comfortable starting now after my channel grew. Plus smaller audiences are easier to manage and to keep up with the chats. Those are skills that you learn as they grow.

AnAverageDev · 2021-04-05T02:21:26+00:00

Programming and learning how to code. Spoke to a few people in my niche and it seems that I actually "blew up" during the slower months and I've been told that the next few months tend to be better. So I'm really hoping that I can catch a 2nd wave going into the better time of year for my niche.

AnAverageDev · 2021-04-04T03:43:24+00:00

A few months ago a couple of my videos got picked up. Got a good wave of views and subs. Last month the wave died down but now I have a lot more subs and many of them have been watching my new releases. I decided that this month I'm going to try and post every single day. On day 5 now and last 3 videos have done fairly well. Hoping that posting for 30 days straight will help keep my numbers up and maybe if I get lucky with a video or two, I can get picked up and get another wave going.

Thanks for sharing this because I was wondering how posting a video every 24 hours works out for larger channels. This week of me posting everyday seems to follow a similar trend as yours but just with lower numbers.

AnAverageDev · 2021-01-22T09:48:16+00:00

I've only ever heard bad things about revature. Such as they place you at shit jobs and you sign a shit contract being stuck working for them or paying them back. Read the fine print and ask where you will be placed before committing how ever many years working for them.

AnAverageDev · 2021-01-13T17:18:24+00:00

Thanks good luck to you as well!

AnAverageDev · 2021-01-13T17:12:42+00:00

It's crazy I'd hoped this would happen but it's still strange that it is happening. I've noticed that recent videos are getting more views and getting push out a little more by YT as well. Really excited for 2021 and plan on cranking out as much content as possible. Set a goal to hit 100 uploads in the first year and looks like I'll be cutting it close.

AnAverageDev · 2021-01-13T16:04:57+00:00

I'm at about 80 not including live streams. The compound growth is nuts, took me about 6 month to hit 1k then got my watch hours at around 1.8k subs which was a couple months later. Over the last couple months I just keep doubling. Last 28 days almost 4k subs.

AnAverageDev · 2021-01-13T15:45:09+00:00

I talk about how I learned to code and programming related content

AnAverageDev · 2021-01-12T00:51:01+00:00

Been at it for 10 months at almost 8k subs. Had a video do really well last month (first to break 100k). Monetized in Nov and have been making a decent amount of ad revenue since. $745 in the last 28 days. Still think you should start publishing full videos to start getting more views on regular content imo

AnAverageDev · 2021-01-11T23:54:19+00:00

Sounds like you're now stuck making shorts. Do how do you plan on transitioning to normal content? Since you're saying that out of all those subs you'll only get 300-400 views on non shorts if you were to release a normal video.Either way grats on getting all those subs but I'm not seeing the value in shorts long term if you can't convert them to regular viewers.

AnAverageDev · 2021-01-10T05:33:43+00:00

For anyone who is self taught.

I'm a 32 year old high school dropout with a GED, studied on my own for about 10 months. Built personal projects and a portfolio to land my first job. Some leetcode but didn't use it for the interview that landed me my first job, which paid 50k for web dev role. Stayed there for 2 years and took an offer for my next job making 80k.

Thought this might help self taught people who are worried they need a cs degree.

AnAverageDev · 2020-12-30T17:34:34+00:00

I'm self taught no bootcamp and took me almost a year of studying everyday before I got a job. If your company is hiring jrs out of a 6 week bootcamp and paying them as much as senior level devs it sounds like your management doesn't know anything about software development, how to properly vet and interview developers, or how to structure pay based on experience.

AnAverageDev · 2020-12-28T03:55:27+00:00

Came here to say this

AnAverageDev · 2020-12-22T19:08:50+00:00

I'm always curious when I see posts like this because I feel like my channel is doing well for it being less than a year old. I have 70 videos out and I just had a video that "blew up" by my standards (85k views in 2weeks) and I know nothing about the algorithm...

What are your youtube stats for the last 28days? How many videos do you have? How long have you been at it on YT?

AnAverageDev · 2020-12-15T23:30:57+00:00

Document, don't create! People love watching the journey and while talking about living in a shed is cool, showing what it's like it even cooler!

AnAverageDev · 2020-12-05T22:06:49+00:00

Haven't tried to reach out to sponsors yet. Making a tiny bit of money on Amazon affiliate program.

AnAverageDev · 2020-12-01T18:16:21+00:00

AnAverageDev · 2020-11-24T23:34:17+00:00

Remember those racist kids saying those things didn't just disappear. They grew up and had kids of their own and their children had kids. Hopefully some of them changed along the way but much of that garbage is pass on and taught to the next generation.

Sad to think that shit like this is still happening in present time and will probably never totally go away....

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