r/NewTubers

For my past few uploads, YouTube has barely given me any traffic through Browse features. Instead, it's pushing them via Suggested videos, giving me up to 4.5k impressions but totally killing my CTR because the audience either doesnt see my videos this way, or isn't a perfect match.

How can I fix this and get back into Browse features? I feel like my content is being tested in the wrong places and it's getting really discouraging. 🙃

I keep seeing this every time I hear advice for new YouTubers.

"You have to use an aged account and warm it up before posting to avoid shadowbans, yadada yada"...no you don't. YouTube themselves have never confirmed this was necessary step to start a channel, and they likely would if this was an essential feature.

I opened a brand new channel 13 days ago, and posted minutes after its creation. My first short had 30k views, and I've since cumulated 100 subscribers and made 300 thousand views across all my videos in this period.

It's anecdotal, but it does reinforce the idea that this "warm up" advice is just nonsense.

And my theory is that it's pushed by scammers who want to sell "warmed up" accounts to oblivous people that think this will make a difference. It won't.

If you want to start a youtube channel, stop overthinking; go on youtube, create it, and start posting!

Hello everyone, hope you're having a good day. I have always had a hoarse and raspy voice due to mild vocal cord paralysis. It's something I'm self conscious of but I want to create content especially with voiceovers and I don't want to use AI because I want my content to be authentic to me so if anyone has went through this experience, how did you gain the confidence to record your own voice?

the points i made in my old post were all related to editing, gathering clips from the internet to reuse them, and it took a lot of time due to doing a faceless channel, which made me think i was only doing it for views & attention.

I was wrong, what i hated was myself being incompetent at making a great video, in my videos something has always felt off or wrong, i speak well but it doesn't keep my attention for the whole 5 minute benchmark of the video, i felt bored while watching my own content. until i understood the importance of a lot of things, learned from a specific short film cinematic content creators, i understood so much of what i missed, until i made a great video which gave me an insane high dopamine while i watch it, keep in mind i didn't even post it yet and i felt happy. honestly i feel like today i fell in love what the creative process of making a video feel fun and i felt fun. i no longer care about views(to a certain extent obviously) but my full focus is now on improving the creative process on what i know now.

welcome to my ted talk. lol

I have a tiny channel mostly about my silly electronic projects, they seem to get around 300 - 3K views. I've only recently started making "proper" videos, the rest just being 30 seconds pointing the camera at the finished build.

I've just received an email after my latest video from PCBWay, offering me free PCBs for my next build in exchange for a link to them in the description.

It's taken me by surprise - do people get offers like this with such low numbers? There's no guarantee I'll even make another video, let alone for it to receive even 1K views, what's in it for them?

I am, of course, aware of the possibility it may be a scam / malware. But the email came from their domain, was well written, and they seem like a genuine company.

So I posted my first video a few months ago, it didn't get any views at all even though I've spent so much time to edit and write the script for the video. It's a long form content, and I was planning to make a second part of the video. But because I don't get views or attraction, I got burned out and never starting to make the new video even though I really want to make it. I know that my video quality is shit. Bad audio, sloppy editing, and shit script. But it was my first ever video, I don't really mind about the quality. It just saddened me that nobody can appreciate my efforts and gave me any feedback especially since I spent so much time making that video.

Lately I'm thinking of starting to make videos again, but I'm contemplating whether I should make a part two of my video or I should move on and make a new video about something else. What do you guys think?

Hi everyone! I started a fresh channel and got 2 videos up so far. Im not really looking for feedback on the content just wanna hear if anyone else went through the same thing

My whole idea is making beats while riding my ebike that I basically turned it into a mobile music studio. Im still pretty new to live looping so its not about making insane beats but more about the whole experience. People walk by, react, some stop to chat, some start vibing and thats what I wanna build the channel around.

The plan is one video every 2 weeks and maybe one Short from each video with the finished beat and the best moments

Right now the long form videos have reached basically nobody. The few views are mostly mine and honestly I dont really care at the moment. I feel like once new people actually find the videos theyll be enjoyable to watch...

Just curious if anyone here had a similar start especially if you stuck to one niche from the beginning

How long did it take before YouTube actually started showing your videos to the right people ? Was it after a certain number of uploads or was it just random?

I'm a teacher of Social Studies and English from West Bengal - in a small town - I teach Geography, History, Pol Sc., and English Literature and Grammar

I've a channel - but not well published or maintained - so, I'm starting again from this week seriously

please guide me - how can I monetize that channel? I've given myself a time or target of 1 year to monetize this channel

and I need help in editing the videos - can anyone help me?

Anyone know what I'm talking about? I'm looking at easiest way to make these, if anyone can advise

I created Channel about two years ago and I just upload 30 video+shorts and I have only 22 subscribers, my question is , what if I deleted all past videos and short from channel cuz I want to change niche. Does will its impact my channel reach or recommendations?

So my first video got 1,2k views, then flatlined, 21 likes, 0 comments and 6 subs

My next video got.900 views, 16 likes. 0 comments and 4 new subs.

Awful, poor, average, good or great start??

I started a brand new YouTube channel on a new Google account 2 weeks ago. My plan was to mainly post Shorts while working on larger long-form videos to build an audience and figure out what content performs best.

My Shorts seemed to be improving over time. They were getting roughly 300 → 700 → 1,000 → 1,500 → 2,500 → 5,500 views, so I assumed my content was getting better and YouTube was learning my audience. (Consistent 100 AVD and sub 20% Swipe away rate)

Then I made what might have been a mistake. I deleted a bunch of old private uploads from the channel (they were public but i felt they were bad videos and would dirty my channel rather than enhance it). Since then, every new Short I've uploaded has received 0 views from the Shorts feed(Only generating views from ppl visiting my channel page (10 views max)), even after 24+ hours.

What's confusing is that my older Shorts, have almost completely stopped growing and are only getting around 100 views per day now, even though they seemed to still be in the middle of being pushed.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Could deleting private videos have affected my channel's distribution, or is this likely just a coincidence with the Shorts algorithm?

if this turns out to be a serious distribution issue with my channel, would you recommend starting over on an older Google account that's 4+ years old, or is the age of the Google account/channel basically irrelevant? I don't want to make a bad decision by abandoning a channel if this is just temporary, but I also don't want to waste weeks or months if the channel has somehow been negatively affected. Has anyone here actually experienced something similar?

I created Channel about two years ago and I just upload 30 video+shorts and I have only 22 subscribers, my question is , what if I deleted all past videos and short from channel cuz I want to change niche. Does will its impact my channel reach or recommendations?

What do you use to pick niches? Are you guys paying for anything?

I have 756 subs that i got from shorts. Now that I am trying to get monetized, I am starting to post long-form content. However, these long form videos get basically no views (29 atm from my oldest one) obviously because my shorts watchers dont watch my long form videos. (BTW, 5% of my audience watches long form, I just checked

I’ve always wondered how YouTube channels that use lots of clips from movies, TV shows, documentaries, or interviews deal with copyright. Do they get permission, rely on fair use, or just risk getting claimed? How does it actually work?

I am a small channel, I have 855 subs on one channel and 450ish on another.

I have been using Photoshop to create thumbs, I rarely use PS for much else. I have grown tired of the monthly fee for something I barely tap into deeper than creating said thumbs.

Do you think it's beneficial to switch to something like Canva for thumbnails?

Would love to hear what the creator community has to say.

Honestly, writing and recording is great, but I am losing my mind spending hours doing the exact same manual tasks.

For me, it’s the endless cycle of editing that doesn't seems to end.

I got so fed up that I actually started cobbling together a basic browser tool for myself where I can just type in what I want and get the edits automatically, but still manually tweak the cuts myself.

How are you guys surviving the editing grind? Are you just outsourcing it?

Hey guys!

I think I'm confusing the hell out of YouTube's algorithm.

I've been aiming towards a left leaning/youtube drama channel with a few pieces of horror movies/books stuff sprinkled in.

I don't think YouTube knows what to do with me? I posted a couple of videos covering drama that did better than ever since I've started a couple of months ago- almost three thousand views and a ton of comments and likes. I really thought I was getting some traction.

Then, I posted a movie video that also got tons of positive feedback in ratio to the views, but YouTube barely pushed it. Like just a bit over a hundred. I was confused, because the feedback was so positive.

On top of that, I think I've attracted some right wing bros to my channel who are now being turned off, seeing where I lean. I'm not overtly political, but I make fun of a lot of right wing YouTubers. Similarly, I make fun of a lot of left wing grifters (maybe what got those viewers interested in the first place).

I'm also female, and I think my personality makes me seem more right wing? The whole busty, abrasive, anti-PC kind of attitude. I thought I could attract viewers that are, like me, left leaning but get frustrated with online hypocrisy. But instead, I think I got the algorithm for right wing bros who now hop on to insult my channel while I'm getting barley one view a day.

SO, I think both my movie content, and my personality are skewing the numbers. I hope this makes sense, it's hard to explain. I want those views back but I also still want to talk about what I want to talk about and not compromise my content for the views. I started doing this because I was tired of faking it in the real world. I don't want to sell out just the same to get some income on YouTube.

I'm now sitting at just a handful of views a week, as opposed to a thousand or so a day last week. Moreso, my shorts views are now stopping at a couple of hundred when they were also reaching a couple of thousand, before. And that's even though their analytics were good (people stayed to watch the whole thing around 80%, likes, comments, etc. One short 85% viewed the whole thing and after three days it is at a whopping ELEVEN views.

Is YouTube just still figuring me out? Or have I corrupted the trajectory for good? Has anyone experienced anything similar when they first started? Waves of lots of views and then nil?

Hey guys, as the title states, I've been wondering why it is some people will have a high volume of content (1k-2k videos made) but barely break past like 50k subs. (Or however many, the number itself is not the point.)

Every so often I'll just click on a chanel and peruse what they got goin on. Some, I can see how it's successful for what they do. Others, yeah, I can see why they don't have many subs.

Then there's that 3rd category of "fine but confusing," where the quality is good (audio, visuals, topics, etc.) but they don't have many subs. Is this just a case of them not "blowing up," is it it more logistical stuff like SEO, tagging, maybe their content is too mixed in terms of subject, etc.

Curious to hear what you guys think.