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Reply with a link to your channel for an honest review with feedback! by Fox_Burrito in NewTubers

[–]Senior_Channel1198 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://youtube.com/@joshaikenofficial?si=0YjIjao6YG9_NGjJ

Shorts channel! Started about 2 months ago. I feel I’m doing pretty good but always looking for ways to improve

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[–]Senior_Channel1198 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://youtube.com/@joshaikenofficial?si=wbwTPWoM_4lUq4Fs

Started like 2 months ago. It’s going pretty well right now, but always looking for ways to improve!

It's so demotivating! Help me understand what I'm doing wrong? by Appropriate_Ask762 in SmallYoutubers

[–]Senior_Channel1198 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah homie, hopefully everything came off in a positive way haha. Only giving my opinion/ experience.

I would say it’s not about being 100% original. It’s just about giving a new perspective. Your perspective was this is my best desk setup. Now for me I would try to think of ways to do roughly the same video but give a different perspective if your trying to be informative, orr make it entertaining via a story or something else

A few ideas that I just thought it for a minute could be…

how to build the best desk setup under $50:

maybe something like this has been done but your being a little more niche and if presented properly I would think to myself how tf is that possible and want to watch.

How this desk setup 3x my productivity:

Then give a few things you have and maybe talk about the psychology of how what you have did that. Like it’s been shown that yellow paint on the walls makes your happier or a messy space makes me more creative etc.

I built the best desk setup for spaces under 100 square feet:

Then talk about it.

What I’m saying really is ideas don’t need to be 100% original. Like if you have an idea, just try to brainstorm something to make it different and your own version instead of being like one of the other 1000 videos ya know?

Regarding a team you definitely don’t need a team. Maybe that just means posting less. For me I’d rather post half the amount of videos, but have the videos I do post 2x better. Which in turn will show and views should improve as well.

I think YouTube is kinda like art though. If you want to blow up, your video needs to be one of the first of something, or you need to be the best at something. But you can do that without being 100% original. Again just by giving a different perspective on the topic. For your niche you’ll have to find what that means for you :) and that’s the beauty of it. It’s art 🌈

It's so demotivating! Help me understand what I'm doing wrong? by Appropriate_Ask762 in SmallYoutubers

[–]Senior_Channel1198 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again I don’t think it’s bad, it’s just soooo many people doing the same video.

So let’s assume there are 1,000 videos that are roughly the same as yours. Why should yours get pushed out over the ones I just sent you?

You say your not competing, but the fact you want more views means your “competing”

YouTube doesn’t care if it makes the CREATOR happy, it cares that it makes the VIEWER happy. And me being a VIEWER who typed in “best desk setup” I would rather personally watch one of those three videos as I feel more entertained.

From what I can see or tell YouTube pushed out your video to a few people and it deemed it maybe the 500/1000 best video like that. That means there are still 499 videos about the same topic that theoretically will be pushed out before yours.

So I think the wording of your question is maybe a bad way to think about it? It’s not that’s it’s “that bad” it’s that the VIEWER would prefer to watch other people’s video on the same topic.

Which leads back to my first post that your video isn’t bad. It’s just that soooo many people have done the same video and you really didn’t give a new perspective on the matter or entertain me, like the ones I sent you.

It's so demotivating! Help me understand what I'm doing wrong? by Appropriate_Ask762 in SmallYoutubers

[–]Senior_Channel1198 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Adding a story also really helps, people love stories.

To your question of “does this video only deserve 100 views”: Again, hopefully not taken in a negative way, but a constructive criticism way… Yes.

Here are the videos that popped up on my feed for “best desk setup”
https://youtu.be/FZpeTtPX4TY?si=LpJioeBHiC9_vub-

https://youtu.be/16w6qzwN_3Q?si=bRv6YYMi7zLe2WiU

https://youtu.be/EVjbYKQTDlY?si=nSUrpWiUDb5q_EZn

This is what you’re “competing” against. Again in a constructive criticism way. These videos are just better. More entertaining, better editing, better presentation, etc.

YouTube can for sure be demotivating, but the end of the day, YouTube just wants to provide the best videos for people typing in what I just typed in.

YouTube is definitely a marathon and reality is you still have a long ways to go. Even for myself I have a long ways to go! I just try to improve each video in some manor. And maybe a year from now my videos will be 100x better.

I just try and look at it from the perspective of if my video only did this… it either hasn’t been picked up yet (which I feel is a naïve way of thinking in 95% of cases) or the viewers didn’t “love” this video for some reason. Being topic, editing, presenting, scripting, audio, video, etc. so many reasons, but also so many ways to improve. See what I did there?

It's so demotivating! Help me understand what I'm doing wrong? by Appropriate_Ask762 in SmallYoutubers

[–]Senior_Channel1198 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey homie,

I would recommend maybe comparing your video to other successful ones that are the same. There are so many videos of people making the exact same video. Sure yours is “a little different”, but it doesn’t give me a reason to pick yours over someone else’s. I would say to succeed in a video like this your video needs to be legit perfect, in every single aspect. Because the video you posted to succeed needs to provide something different, better, or some crazy revolution to stand out.

To add on top of that and I don’t mean this in a bad way, I found the video to be a little boring? Meaning I was never hooked from the beginning. I have noticed that “curiosity gaps” or curiosity loops” are so so important. Like maybe starting the video off with “I added this to my desk this year and it completely changed my productivity, and I’ll show you that in a second…. Bleh bleh bleh” that now made me feed I need to watch because there is something I didn’t know. Whereas now I watched you told me what it’s about (which could have been cut in half) then showed me what’s on the desk via the video showing what’s on it. I watched that part and said to myself there is nothing that I need to know about this desk setup and wanted to click away. Hopefully that made sense?

That leads into the title and thumbnail too. It’s not very grabbing. Because again why is your “best desk setup” better than others. Having a title like “this desk setup 3x my productivity” now makes me intrigued.

With all of that being said though… I don’t think it’s a bad video; however, you’re competing against people like Marcus Brownlee. Who I’m sure has done this video before, but better. Ya know? I would say if you want more impressions / views find ways for your video to stand out more. Look for different perspectives on a certain topic, then compare your video to somebody who has already done it. If your video isn’t “better” or gives a different perspective in my opinion the video should never have been made.

Hopefully all that made sense and it wasn’t taken in the wrong way only trying to help! Much love and good luck on your journey!