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[Hugo Drax]

Looks like it's time to give up on your YouTube career, move out of your parents basement get a job.

 

[Ethorbit]

You need to get a Swedish accent and say stupid things like that other famous video game commentor on YouTube pewdpie.

It also helps to be one of the first to build your audience when there is less competition.

I hate PewDiePie soo much. And i'm not even swedish.

 

[Ethorbit]

Looks like it's time to give up on your YouTube career, move out of your parents basement get a job.

Alright, i'll get a car too, I am sure it won't be impossible, because i'm like fourteen years old, dumbass.

 

[brianmanahan]

Alright, i'll get a car too, I am sure it won't be impossible, because i'm like fourteen years old, dumba**.

 

[Ethorbit]

I have a blog I occasionally post to, but although I actually made a pathetically tiny amount of money with amazon associates, I've given up on it getting big because it will take huge amounts of effort for a long time, and even then it probably won't do it. I do keep it alive and occasionally post to it, though, basically so that if somebody googles me they will see it; it's kind of a weird resume builder. Might put it on linkedin at some point, for example.

The key is to try and do things others haven't; if you want a gaming channel, play games nobody else has up there (difficult to do). The only post on my blog that has ever gotten any real hits is now top on google search because strangely enough nobody else ever posted about this apparently fairly obvious to me question.

What I'm saying is: Before you post something google it. If it's already got tons of results, yours probably won't ever get much visibility, at least not until you're a huge ranked site.

Yep, I have to get the games before anyone really plays them. The most views on a video, is a video of fnaf1 before Markiplier even had it recorded. I am sure the games I love are games everyone plays, but if I am the one playing it early, I get the views early before there is any other videos of that game to watch! Thanks for your post.

 

[Ethorbit]

You don't really need to be good at games and there's no real sure fire technical/artistic/dialogue to it. Timing seems to be important, but often that's just playing the right game when interest in it is heightened. That's why so many Youtubers made a career from Minecraft, it was just something everyone wanted to see. That's waning now and many have been moving away from it, such as the Mindcrackers who most still do it, but some have stopped outright, almost all of them have been doing other games far more.

One guy, Quill18, is someone I found while looking for Banished gameplay around the time it was released. That game pushed Subs to him enough that <6 months later he was able to go Full time into Youtube.

Some people may actually like your videos, if they saw them. That's a big problem with so much competition. It's really hard to get noticed and find those people. I think playing the latest games is probably the best way to try and get some exposure. I suspect that a small channel would have difficulty Monetizing many of those games, I really don't know though, but even if you couldn't do that you could maybe grow your Subs.

That said, I think some people are just good fits with this type of thing and some people are not. Some people have limited shelf life, some are good under certain circumstances etc etc.

I know of the 20-30 Gaming channels I have subbed to over the years, some I really liked for awhile, then eventually unsubbed because I lost interest for various reasons. Even the ones I have stayed with I am inconsistent in watching them, they stop playing games I am interested in or their personality/persona just starts to annoy me. Even many very successful Youtubers are fully aware that their career is likely to be time limited.

I watched one of your vids for 10 minutes or so and thought I'd mention one thing: I don't think Face Cams really work for Youtube. There are some Youtubers who use it, but usually because their audience has requested it. Of the ones I watch a few of them occasionally use a webcam, one of them only because he uploads some of his Twitch Streams(where Face cams are more common and IMO natural). I usually find face cams on Youtube to be awkward though, they are distracting and unless the person is really naturally expressive in their face(even on Twitch) it makes it difficult to watch. Most people playing games usually have a blank stare that just detracts from what is happening. Like reading a book, it's usually better to let the viewer fill in the blanks and let the Game and player dialogue be the foundation the viewer builds upon.

I'm no expert, just some know it all on the Internets. So take with salt.

Thanks for your time-put reply, I really do appreciate it!

That's right. I have tried this before when I wanted traffic to my YouTube channel, long before I was ready to give up. Though, it took so much money and, my voice was high pitched. Everyone that watched either quickly left or made a hateful comment saying I was some little lovely human kid. Obviously those people are either kids as well or very ignorant and immature grown adults.

 

[brianmanahan]

the thing with youtube is this:

you have a much better chance of making money if your channel offers a niche content that doesn't have a lot of competition, yet that a non-zero amount of people are still search for

generic gaming videos? you're up against dudes with millions of $'s to compete for views

maybe try to find a space that you are interested in that doesn't have a massive saturation of applicable videos, and if you can find such a space, roll a new channel for that

 

[brianmanahan]

another thing i have found:

certain types of content will be very popular for a limited time - eg, at the time of release of a game/movie/album, or around a certain holiday, or something else like that.

the payoff is potentially higher for videos of that type but they have a much shorter shelf life. if you do videos like that, be prepared to have to make them more frequently to get people to sub and to keep the views and adsense rolling in.