Since I recently made a commitment to starting a YouTube
channel, specifically a Gaming channel, things haven’t being going as smoothly
as I had hoped. Starting a YouTube channel seems to be a daunting task when you
take a step back and look at all the things involved in creating one. Of course
I am not aiming to be the next pewdiepie or anything of that sort, but it would
be nice if the videos I spent time creating could be watched and appreciated.
This all sounds quite simple, but I assure you that this is
not the case and these days everyone and their grandmother has a YouTube
channel meaning that the market is somewhat saturated. The number of Gaming
channels has also increased exponentially since the fame of YouTubers like
pewdiepie, markiplier, ksi, ali-a and many others. Since there are so many existing
YouTube users as well as daily new users (I think over 1 billion YouTube users
in total), creating a channel is all well and good, but getting the exposure
and a strong fan base seems to be a real struggle.
I think that anyone thinking about creating a YouTube
channel or anyone the recently created one may be a little late to the party
and as such it is more than likely that the new channel will get buried under
the billion or so existing channels.
BUT, I have not lost faith (yet), I still believe the tried
and true method that creating genuinely interesting content alongside consistent
uploads will pave the way for a successful channel.
I am determined to not let a few road bumps prevent me from
uploading the videos that I want to share with the world.
Although I will admit that having uploaded a video that I genuinely
thought was ‘pretty cool’ or that I spent quite some time editing and seeing
that it received little to no views is a little disheartening. This can then
sometimes deter me from creating or uploading my next video. Hence the
challenge to constantly create and upload new and interesting content on a
regular basis.
I think a good way for me to be consistent regardless of the number of views I get on my videos is to upload videos of games that I enjoy playing or I
actually want to talk about. I think that doing this over time will be
beneficial to my channel in the long run. I have also started this Blog as a
complimentary tool to my channel to keep a track of how things go, as I think
this will also be quite useful. I can look back on the things that worked well
and the things that didn't work so well and use that to improve my channel
slowly over time.
I often tend to look at all the more successful channels and
psych myself out the majority of the time thinking that I can’t be like them.
The funny thing is I really don’t have to be like them at all and no matter how
big a person’s channel is even they had to start somewhere. I just have to give
it a shot and commit to learning and improving on a regular basis and I am sure
everything will be JUST fine, or at least I hope so.
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