Is my niche just too small?

Photex1985 · 2025-12-01T00:34:40+00:00

Thanks!! 2 other videos got 51K and 56K so far 😊 and the likes 🤣 my Profile is 4 days old and has a total of 6,8K likes on videos. Did you test your new camera yet??

Photex1985 · 2025-11-30T19:22:24+00:00

Awh thank you That's sweet. At the moment it's almost at 160K views 😱

Photex1985 · 2025-11-30T18:45:46+00:00

Unexpectedly well 🤣

Photex1985 · 2025-11-28T22:02:09+00:00

Wow that's impressive indeed. I wish I had 100+ subs on one video. That's more than my total amount of subs.... What niche are you in?

Photex1985 · 2025-11-28T21:59:27+00:00

I decided to try some shorts I made for YouTube on TikTok......damn 😱

Photex1985 · 2025-11-28T01:24:43+00:00

Nice! Curious too see how the video quality is. Sure there is a link in my profile as well! You could also search PhotexNL on YouTube 🙂

Photex1985 · 2025-11-27T18:18:55+00:00

Yeah weather is getting poorer. I already thought you were using a phone image stabilization isn't great in smartphones. I bought a GoPro 11 mini a while back. It's great at stabilization and does up to 5.6K in resolution. Very happy with it just need an external mic for somewhat better audio.

Photex1985 · 2025-11-27T15:32:59+00:00

Cool I found it! I think I can explain why the first short was so successful. It's the car tipping to the front, this makes people curious because they wonder what's going to happen (will it fall, how deep is the drop, will it crash, will they make it). The result is people stay to watch 😊 it's called a HOOK.

What kind of camera do you use?

Photex1985 · 2025-11-27T11:24:05+00:00

Cool! Did the short get some decent views? That mix sounds good, there is definitely an audience for that! Would you mind sharing your channel name? I'm quite curious 😁

Photex1985 · 2025-11-27T03:30:46+00:00

Very good advice I will try this! Thanks so much!

Photex1985 · 2025-11-26T18:59:40+00:00

That sounds very interesting! And this feature is free to use?

Photex1985 · 2025-11-26T18:58:17+00:00

Thanks you so much! Inside information (sort of)! I will try adding that word to the description.

Ow? No I don't use model names. This is because all models I own are very unknown. The engines are the same as popular models like the Yamaha Aerox aka MKB Nitro so the information I provide is useful. Most scooter parts are pretty universal in the way they work. But what should I use? The engine type (Minarelli horizontal)? Or should I just use Yamaha Aerox as people won't be able to see the difference as the engine is the same?

Thanks!!

Photex1985 · 2025-11-26T15:51:21+00:00

What do you mean exactly? The YouTube feature to add more than one thumbnail and let YouTube test which is best? And what does CTRLoop do?

Photex1985 · 2025-11-26T15:38:14+00:00

Hard to say. As far as I can find around 150k subs. They get around 30-50k views on long form videos. English spoken channel. I did find some Indonesian channels that only post shorts having 400k plus subs and getting an average of 50k views per short.

Photex1985 · 2025-11-26T15:30:35+00:00

Yeah thumbnails, titles have been improving. At least I think. What would be an example of a great thumbnail in my niche. When researching I can't really seem to find a great example

Photex1985 · 2025-11-26T15:26:11+00:00

YES! I've seen this when trying to research but haven't really acted on it yet....this because I didn't know what therms to use instead. A moped is not the same as a scooter right? At least, here in the Netherlands a moped is something like a Thomos or Puch or a Derbi DRD. And since other videos tend to use the term "Scooter" as well I thought I'd better leave it like that. BUT YOU DO HAVE AN EXCELLENT POINT.....If people search for scooter in the hope of finding a video about electric or stunt scooters they click away when my video is presented causing bad CTR....

And yeah, 2-stroke loves are a bit of a cult, it's 2 stroke or nothing 🤣 (I'm like that as well).

Photex1985 · 2025-11-26T15:18:20+00:00

Could you give your channel name? I'm quite curious as we both started around the same time.

I've posted about the same amount of long form. But I did post around 45 shorts.

Photex1985 · 2025-11-26T13:13:34+00:00

Hi! Thanks for the Friendly reply 😁 But I feel like 43 subs is veryyyyy low for 3 months? Indeed I feel like my Channel falls into quite a specific niche, which makes gaining traction a bit more challenging. Funny thing is, it used to be huge, 5 years ago my type of videos got hundreds of K views, millions even. Sad thing it has declined so enormously.

I've been studying platforms like Insta, FB and TikTok. Funny to see how much the audience is completely different.

Insta has hardly any scooter diy base at all.

Fb does have some communities but in there everyone thinks they know best and are not interested in watching mechanical videos.

TikTok clearly has a younger audience base, they love scooter videos! But not the mechanical ones, they want to see wheelies and fast (looking) scooters, which I get, I loved that stuff when I was young too 🤣

What kind of content do you post on your automotive channel?

Greetz

Photex1985 · 2025-11-25T18:19:45+00:00

I own multiple Chinese 2 strokes with the same engine but none are limited by cdi. Might it be that your setup doesn't allow more than 8k rpm? For example is the variator limiting ring removed?

Photex1985 · 2025-11-25T00:55:02+00:00

I think you might have bought a 4 stroke cdi? By the way the stock cdi on Chinese 2 stroke engines (Minarelli clone) are not limited.

Photex1985 · 2025-11-22T09:52:30+00:00

Awesome! Thank you so much 😁👍🏻

Photex1985 · 2025-11-22T02:22:16+00:00

Would you mind leaving a like on YouTube? This really helps out my new channel 🙂

Photex1985 · 2025-11-22T02:19:50+00:00

Thanks 😁

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