marurun wrote:PretentiousHipster wrote:prfsnl_gmr wrote:These videos are great, PH. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much. Showed them to a few coworkers (the Vampire Diaries video) and was told that there's nothing really wrong with them and they seem super professional. They seemed shocked that I have such a small amount of subs.
Where are you hyping your work other than here? That audience has to come from somewhere, not just YouTube's unfathomable algorithms.
A few subreddit discords, but I find that promoting like that isn't the best. Even if you are a well known user there you will only get like 3-4 views.
It's funny because admittedly I joined here and a discord for self-promotion, but ended up finding a great community where doing that is secondhand.
Promoting one's work on places like reddit seems disingenuous to the point that a lot of them ban that act, calling it "self advertising". I think it's because there are an abundance of users that keep trying to use that avenue.
So to put it shortly, I am at a loss and am not sure about the proper avenues for it. I have tried putting in like $10 advertising for a few videos but you just get a few hundred people watching it for like 10 seconds and a few dislikes, the former really hurting the algorithm's system.
I know of around two users that got a huge promotion from the algorithm and now have it as a full time job. They are members from a small youtubers discord, so there is a chance, albeit super small.
The zelda video I plan on doing might do well simply because of its sheer length which will make it a meme, and I do plan on doing a collaboration with a youtuber that has 2k subs, so those might help. I honestly think if I have a chance to get promoted from an algorithm it'll be for this Christian game since I can see it being a super infamous game. I guess we'll find out when I make it public next week.
I am given lots of advice on how to make my videos "better", but I find that a) they mostly have advice for having a younger audience, when 40% of my audience are 35-44, and b) the videos that teach you this stuff have the same format to the point that you can predict its format before watching it.