I want to talk about starting a YouTube channel with zero subscribers. In the video I discuss how we got our first thousand subscribers and how it’s taken off exponentially since then. We’ll take a look at our analytics and see how much money you can make on YouTube, how to get views in the very beginning, and how become suggested more often on the “what to watch” page.
The growth of our channel has been incredible, but it’s neither the fastest nor the slowest I’ve witnessed. I think our results are very repeatable if you’re just starting on YouTube. We would love to go full time, and we have a very loose plan to do that. But even if that never happens, we’ve consider everything so far a huge success.
UPDATE: Tim Schmoyer at helped us with a couple of corrections. Thanks TIm!
From his comment below:
1) The “recency factor” that you mentioned is 48 hours long is actually 7 days long. Unless something has recently changed that I’m not aware of (which is always very possible), you get more time than you thought, so that’s good!
2) You don’t actually get paid based on how many views you have. You only get paid whenever a viewer engages with an ad in some way. It sounds like splitting hairs, but the difference is that not every view is a monetized view. In fact, many of them aren’t. The reason I bother to mention it is that, going along with what you were saying, most active subscribers are not the ones who are engaging with ads. You can have a lot of views and subscribers and still not make much money. You’ll earn far more money from ads on searchable, evergreen content like what you guys are doing where someone searches for a solution to a problem, finds your video, and sees a targeted, relevant ad with it. They’re far more likely to engage with the ad (watch it, click it, etc.) than an active subscriber who’s just trying to skip so they can get to your video.”
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It is very informative video. I am still learning how to promote my channel.
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Nice vid 🙂 thanks
Any small YouTube r wanna help each other
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This was super interesting and cool
Asking for some help reaching my goal by the end of this month.
Goal: 500 Subscribers!
Comment and I'll sub back.
Any small youtuber to help each other ? 😮
You getting $11 for a video with 3,100 views. I get $5 for a video with 19,000 views. 😏
Very interesting, thanks for the tips, advice and sharing, much appreciated.
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great speech I like youe commentary. Thank you mike and lauren. God Bless
Your great, no one has done this, I watched in full, not lying!!!
Great overview and congrats!
Who did used the socialblade to search PewDiepie's monthly earning?
I enjoyed this and subscribed thanks for the tips I hope my channel will get to 10k it’s. Milestone I’ve been wanting for s long time
Mike, You mention a couple of times to spend some time figuring out what people are searching for….i.e. Copper Cup vs Copper Mug. How do you go about that kind of research? Naming my videos is always a thought process, I just don't think I'm doing it well. ~P
Amazing video, very helpful.!
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I will sub to anyone who subs to me and is active on my channel
Thank you for this video! I found it very interesting 👍
Hi this is really interesting thanks for lots of info and your channel looks like my new tech channel I have about 300 view a day and Iam on way to 100 sub I hope one day my channel will grow but best of all I do that for fun and I like make video but I wish day have more than 24h 🙂 to do all I want
Thank you for talking about point number 3. Everyone always tells me I need to pick one kind of video to do and stay in that niche.. but I want to do everything!
good thing to know as a you tuber
I'm starting to post daily funny videos. The problem is that the only views I get is from me, lol. I know because I watched my video views and nobody watched them other than me. Perhaps the hardest time is the initial subscribers/views. It's even harder to achieve those first subscribers/views if you want to remain anonymous w/o the use of friends/family. If people viewed my channel videos, I would know how to improve and what people like. The challenge is getting those first viewers anonymously.
I honestly would love to get people to come to my channel, view a video, then leave if they are not a big fan. This way I get some sort of feedback to say my videos are sh!t, and I needa change them. Of course I would love it more if they would subscribe, but, getting analytical data is much more important…. to me… at least.
wow 9 months first 1k subs! mine was 200 150 subs 12 months XD
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand you have 112k subs now
it's just like time travel
I just recently hit 1,000 subscribers!! Let's hope I'm on my way to 1000
And then there's me with 300 subscribers and making around 30 cents a month 😂
very interesting