code_five_art

103 Subscribers
1,362 views
57.8 hours watched
40.6k impressions made
13 videos made

This is a lot of work! I have gathered that relying on the youtube algorithm to market your channel, it will take a lot of volume (35+ videos), so marketing your channel is important.

I've currently exhausted all my social networks, with the most recent boost was a video directed almost directly to my Facebook friends. I did a video in dedication to my alma mater: University of Iowa, and most of my FB friends are Iowan. I got a lot of support and a large spike in subs and views. Now I have an established Linkedin page, a facebook page, instagram account, and I tweet here and there.

I feel like this is the foundation for the ability to get out my videos before the channel becomes "self sustaining". Self-sustaining to me is when you'll get a large amount of dedicated views, and youtube will continue to market your page to people that youtube thinks will like your content, AND you have enough content for them to dive into for a long time (screen retention = advertisement real estate).

Still fun and still learning!

Most of them are friends, but I think nearly half are organic subscribers that I have never met, so that suggests the content is what they are interested in! Here are the stats:

54 Subscribers
548 views
22.5 hours watched
22.3k impressions
8 videos

There are many people who do much better in this time span, but that's not healthy. I'm just challenging myself and this is an amazing feeling!

I've realized that there is a lot of market research to understand what kind of youtube channels are out there already. What works, what doesn't, etc.

This has shaped how I want approach my channel and how I want to eventually monetize and start creating products to sell.