How can I be more successful on YouTube?

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[–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

First off: Forget everything you hear about subscriber counts. Subscriber counts dont matter. Subscriber counts have NEVER mattered on YouTube. My channel had 40 subscribers for 7 years and then ended at 249 subscribers when I was banned. The only thing YouTube really cares about are referrals (How did people find your video?), watch time (how long do people watch your video for?), and repeat viewing (how many people return to watch your videos?)

So, as I mentioned in an earlier post: Reaction Channels are the easiest way to generate views.

I wanted to watch the failure of Rain Furrest video and while searching google it came up with the reaction video as the 2nd top result. This lead me to this channel which is nothing but reaction videos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZT76Za5gfeletpXWC7B-ug

Complete and utter garbage content. But it is views. And views are money. 55 million views over 3 years in fact. They only have 179k subscribers. As a note, the general formula for subcribers to viewcount is about only 10% of your viewerbase will watch all of your videos. They have 2,289 uploads so their average views per video is 24,313 which is around 13% of their subscriber base per video. Not bad.

This classes them as a B tier YouTuber https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCZT76Za5gfeletpXWC7B-ug

Their best video has 719k views. In general, your best video should have 10x the number of subscribers. This is why subscriber counts are pointless as they are meant to reflect how engaged your audience is. But only 10% of your audience ever watches you and then 10x the normal number of people come along to watch your best video.

And you'll never know what your best video will be, you can usually exclude best videos from the view count to figure out what your 'true' views per video count is.

They have about 60 videos which exceed their subscriber count. And they are from a year ago. Their lengths vary from 20:41 to 4:22 so they must have been hit by the YouTube algorithm change possibly around october 2018.

In any case: I hope I have made a good case for making a reaction channel. They easy to do, require absolutely no editing or setup at all. You dont need to write a script or even prepare anything. You literally sit there and watch someone elses video.