Gmork
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Im literally a combination of both lolol. Basically the other thing i post on FB are cute kitty videos lol
Show Me Your YouTube Channel! Let's Scratch Each Others Backs
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Gmork
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Ok i just went and hit up all you lovelies posting your vids, now be nice considerate lovelies and go spam my crap lol and u will have a spam fan for life in me lol
Haha I felt weird liking some of your posts.
You: I like your guitar!
Me: Thanks! I Like your wife! And your cat. The kid too.
Gmork
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Who said anything about my wife and cat? LolHaha I felt weird liking some of your posts.
You: I like your guitar!
Me: Thanks! I Like your wife! And your cat. The kid too.
Sumsar
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So again if we wanna try to learn stuff from each other instead of just posting our vids, lets do some 'My dick is smaller than yours!' and post up some stats of our channels! Here is the last 90 days from my channel:
I recently had somewhat of a 'hit' for me anyways where a looot of people from a danish guitar group on FB watched my vid. Btw visning = views, visningstid = viewingtime, abonnenter = subs.
Btw I currently have 65 subs for reference
I recently had somewhat of a 'hit' for me anyways where a looot of people from a danish guitar group on FB watched my vid. Btw visning = views, visningstid = viewingtime, abonnenter = subs.
Btw I currently have 65 subs for reference
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Sumsar
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Also to discuss the hows and whys of youtube, I talked with a collegue of mine that has a gaming channel, getting close to 40k subs. Think he is 3 or 4 years into it.
He basicly told me that it took him a year to go from 0 to 100 subs. Then half a yeah to go from 100 to 1000 and then another year to go from 1000 to 10 k. So it seems you just gotta grind grind grind for some time before you start to see any effect. You can be good / lucky and have a video go big early on, but for most people it is a grind to get above the 'noise' that is the millions of other people than have done 10 - 20 vids.
Ofc you can't just post 100 shitty vids and expect to get big, quality also comes from grinding for a while
He basicly told me that it took him a year to go from 0 to 100 subs. Then half a yeah to go from 100 to 1000 and then another year to go from 1000 to 10 k. So it seems you just gotta grind grind grind for some time before you start to see any effect. You can be good / lucky and have a video go big early on, but for most people it is a grind to get above the 'noise' that is the millions of other people than have done 10 - 20 vids.
Ofc you can't just post 100 shitty vids and expect to get big, quality also comes from grinding for a while
Luafcm
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I think this video is old enough to drive! I stopped posting vids because so many do it so much better (and with proper gear)!
Sumsar
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^ nice one, maybe many have better quality, but your playing was great all those years ago dude!
nice one, maybe many have better quality, but your playing was great all those years ago dude!
TonyFlyingSquirrel
Cherokee Warrior
I have a bit of everything going on on my channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW0yu2j4Iy5AqA276tSTk7g
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW0yu2j4Iy5AqA276tSTk7g
Hey guys! I'm back with another song! Super simple but I really had a ton of fun with it! It's my first multi clip video, Still need to work on my editing though! My free video software kind of sucks haha
ZXIIIT
XIII
That was insane.
Awesome riff at the end.
My YouTube channel is a mixture of Pro-Wrestling theme covers, travel vlogs to wrestling events, music covers, spamming my band Morphesia and original music that has no real place.
Gmork
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Thanks zombie. Check out my other latest vids if youre there! Ill check out yours when i have time (its midnight here)
Sumsar
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I did another one! It seemed that lessons gives more subscribes but less views then gear demos, so now I am trying to do more of those to grow my channel.
I like this thread. It is kinda similar to the other post your youtube videos thread, but this seems to be a bit more working together, rather than just posting.
Btw anyone on here ever did a collaboration? I now it is kind of an old school way to get views n stuff, but I am thinking about trying it.
I like this thread. It is kinda similar to the other post your youtube videos thread, but this seems to be a bit more working together, rather than just posting.
Btw anyone on here ever did a collaboration? I now it is kind of an old school way to get views n stuff, but I am thinking about trying it.
Drew
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Sure, I can help a bit here. This is my last 30 days. I haven't posted a new video in a couple months (it's cycling season), and my channel is 1,035 subscribers.
What I can say for what's worked and what hasn't.
I do maybe four basic sorts of videos:
*pickup A/B comparisons, playing similar lines with two different pickups in the same guitar and same signal chain
*lessons, though I've only done a few
*backing tracks to jam along to
*live playthroughs.
Those get views in roughly that order, in my experience. And, the way they get views is loosely correlated with how "popular" a pickup is, with a secondary factor being how hard it is to find info on it. So, my Fender or Fender-to-Dimarzio or Fender-to-Suhr comparisons have done the best, roughly in that order, but the Suhr ML vs V60 and V60 vs V60LP did pretty well too since there aren't many comparsons out there. Likewise a Dimarzio neck Evo vs PAF Pro did pretty well since somehow I couldn't find one on Youtube. Little gaps like that tend to get more exposure, and A/B comparisons of one pickup to another do a lot better than "demos" where you play something with a pickup but offer no basis of comparison.
Backing tracks are tricky - the last video I posted was the backing for one of my own songs, and I've gotten like 60 views in the last three months. At the same time, they do seem to be gaining a bit more traction over time, and most of my other ones are now averaging about a thousand views a year, not remarkable but stable contributors.
My most successful video from an "impact" standpoint was a lesson I did on making the move from a six string to a seven string guitar, back in 2012. It was getting a lot of favorable comments and some interest anyway, but the Ibanez facebook page picked it up a couple years after I posted it and shared it, and in short order I got a ton of views and a whole bunch of new subscribers. These days it's the second most watched video I've done, behind a Dimarzio Area 61 vs Texas Specials comparison video (which at 125k views is the most viewed video I've done, though the 7 string lesson has 260 comments so it's generated a lot more discussion).
I guess beyond that, I reply to virtually every comment I get, even if just to say "thank you." That seems to help, but if nothing else I feel like it's good manners.
The other video that got a surprising amount of attention was a comparison of a Strat with and without a capacitor in its treble bleed circuit - in four years it's gotten about 30,000 views for a video I didn't think would generate any interest but mostly did just to have something to go along with a blog post on the subject.
Descent
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stevexc
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I very rarely do shitty covers
littlebadboy
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So cool! I already have probably more than 10,000 accumulated views but just 63 subscribers. Would you mind giving us tips on how you made 1,035?
Sumsar
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Thanks Drew, that is pretty great insigts!
Also I guess that $1.09 has made you quit your day job and became a full time youtuber right?
But seriously thanks. It is very helpfull to see how things might be years down the line.
I find it interesting that you haven't posted much since 10 months ago, still you generate quite a bunch of views. Would you mind posting the stats from a month where you have posted videos?
Also do you ever put your videos other places like here, fb, instagram etc, or do you just post to YT?
littlebadboy
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Thanks so much Gmork! Your last comment on mine got deleted because I took off the video for corrections.
Hey everyone! I could use some love too! My latest video is this project experiment guitar I made. My intention was to come up with a guitar than can play bass at the same time and because I'm a nerd.
It has a part 2 too isolating the bass sound.
Thanks!
Drew
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I mean, I kinda already did.
Just keep the quality of your videos consistent - I shoot with a DSLR so video quality is pretty good, but I also record audio separately through my DAW and blend in mixed, CD-level audio in place of my camera's video capture, so sound quality is excellent. The real thing here though, is while I did get a bit lucky with Ibanez sharing one of my videos, I'd already built up enough of a channel to get it in front of them in the first place, and it's worth noting here that my oldest video was from 2010. It's just a matter of producing several good quality videos a year that people are going to find useful and helpful, for a LONG time now.
No shortcuts I'm afraid. Idunno. I guess the only thing I can really suggest is reverse how you're thinking about this question - forget "how can I get my videos to be seen?" Instead, ask yourself "what sort of videos are people likely to search for?" And then make those videos, and do it as well as you can.
Not even close to full time.Thanks Drew, that is pretty great insigts!
Also I guess that $1.09 has made you quit your day job and became a full time youtuber right?
But seriously thanks. It is very helpfull to see how things might be years down the line.
I find it interesting that you haven't posted much since 10 months ago, still you generate quite a bunch of views. Would you mind posting the stats from a month where you have posted videos?
Also do you ever put your videos other places like here, fb, instagram etc, or do you just post to YT?
This was all of 2018. Note that for most of this period I was no longer monetized because I was under 1,000 subscribers. You can see a few spikes when I posted videos but for the most part it's pretty stable, which is what you should expect when you have maybe two dozen videos that are still getting searched for and watched pretty consistently. About half the time I post them here or at a couple other guitar sites if I think it's something people are going to be interested in, but the rest of the time I just post them and let subscriptions/youtube algorithms do their thing. I just do this for fun, so the last thing I want to be doing is spending all my time spamming content.
