Small Channels: DON'T GO VIRAL... Do This Instead!
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- Going VIRAL is TERRIBLE For Small Channels!
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0.00 - Going VIRAL on TH-cam is TERRIBLE For Small Channels!
0:51 - The internet is unpredictable
1:16 - Attracting the wrong audience
1:51 - Create a negative reaction
2:33 - It's dangerously addictive
3:13 - Viral content can be risky
3:51 - Quantity Vs Quality
4:55 - Who are you going viral for?
5:35 - It creates pressure
6:30 - What IS a viral video?
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I must say, I accidently made a "viral" video few years ago and it destroyed my channel. Like the video said I gained a bunch of subscribers who wanted more of the "viral" content but my channel was quite the opposite. Everything he said is pretty accurate.
Same thing happened to me but it wasn’t intentional. so how did you recover from it?
@@nummynom it’s been 4 years and I haven’t yet. I lost all viewership and have been battling against TH-cam removing subscribers.
@@erakir bro I'm ngl, it's probably time you just start a new channel. 4 years of work for little to no return is crazy
Just happened to me, I uploaded a video and its now at 24k views and I gained like 31 subs but I know that they dont like my content
i also got a viral video once but it was just by chance and it was just the type of content i make. some of my old videos got a few more views but it mostly affected my new videos wich always got a bunch more views than the ones before the viral video.
I imagine going viral is so demotivating. Sure you're super happy when it blows up but after that you keep seeing your channel decline which just messes with your head.
Yep, it's tough to mentally deal with.
@@vidIQ yeah happens to me
sadly this happened to me, i had videos getting 100k+ views now i get under 50
@@vidIQ hi i make videos about a game and like i just wanted to ask that how often should i post videos because i go to school so like yeah
@@StarGameTutorials_Yt try to record videos after school if you have time then edit all of the recordings on the weekends
As a current small creator, I have realized this and I wanted to go viral but I had noticed the downslides. Thanks for sharing this with more people!
Agreed .
Are you serious ! ?🤔
Still recovering from the last kinda viral shorts I made (one 320k and one 450k in a month) last time, it was getting better until a month ago I did 35k views in one random short, than back down
Yay agree it has happened
I'm very small lol only 136 subs
Totally agree with the pressure to replicate! Your focus would shift from your normal content to just trying to replicate your viral one. I'd definitely prefer slow growth.
Boom!
AGREED!
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This literally happened to me. I didn't get hundreds of thousands of views, but I got a LOT compared to my normal videos. Now it's completely cooled off. Thanks for the reality check! Gonna work on building a community more.
That’s what happened to me
Your embrace christianity video?
Take your time and you will get there one day👍Best of luck to you all📈😁
Thank you so much I hope you have the best day ever :)💗
This kinda happened to me this last July. One of my videos went way above my usual norm (20k views) as a small (minuscule) channel that I am. That is not "viral" per se, I know, but comparatively speaking, for a channel of my size that was a very huge spike. It didn't happen because I pursued or I intended it. Actually that one video was just like any other I make and I've kept making my next videos in the same style and theme. So maybe it just was that the algorithm decided to push that one video. In fact I had the feeling that what makes a piece of content go viral or stand above other is the algorithm, not the audience. The audience will watch whatever TH-cam pushes them. After that said video, the algo didn't push any of my other videos that hard. So some people stuck around, but innevitably after the huge spike came the downfall. I would very much prefered more steady progress and not going "viral" or these sudden ups and downs. That is what actually makes all of this frustrating.
Woah look at you now, seems steady now good work
I don't think my channel can ever go back to that big moment again since my channel focuses on gaming. It was that one time, but I'm happy people are still coming back.
This is something that has unfortunately happened to my youtube channel. I went semi-sort viral, got a bunch of views and subs, and then no one stuck around after that. I'm trying to find a way to save my channel.
Hello
how is it 13 days ago....
13 days ago??
@@ScratchUFO this video was unlisted. But can be found over their playlists.
@@ScratchUFO maybe the video was unlisted at first and only available to certain people?
I love this. As a growing creator I agree to all you’ve said. I once had a viral video and that led to my monetization but it was only on that video and didn’t transform to my other videos or to my targeted audience and I wanted more but didn’t get it sad. Thanks for sharing this
Hopefully you're getting back on track!
@@vidIQ nice
@@vidIQ please how can I contact you personally
Hi Sindy, Your makeup channel is fab. Wishing you all the best of luck, I’m not an expert but wondered if you need to add some extra hashtags relating to make up. You have a good niche there and the talent to do well
@@Behappy62 thank you so much….I’ll take this into consideration 😊
As someone who has had several YT shorts get over 10m views I agree totally with this vid. however my shorts were definitely not "trying to go viral" they were just the "best bits" taken from my long content. The comedown has been massive though. my long videos only get a tiny amount of views compared to the amount of subs I have. I won't deliberately stop myself going viral but I've had to come to terms with the fact that 90% of the people subbed to my channel have 0 interest in my long content.
oh same thing happened to me last year, shorts are not linked to long form content at all, youtube hasn't implemented the connection yet. 10k of my 21k subs are from shorts that don't watch anything lmao, they're like fake subs
Oh yeah, if a 'normal' video goes viral, take it as nice bonus, maybe figure out how you can leverage that idea some more, as long as it doesn't distract from the long term goal and focus of your channel.
@@vidIQ thanks for the reply. Extremely good channel, you have to be honest
One of the first things I heard from VidIQ when I first started, and it stuck. Going viral would be the worst thing that could happen to my channel. I have focused on slow, steady growth by improving my content, editing and style 1% per video. No exceptions!
Actually needed this video. First vid got 100k views, but next 2 got 1500 and 130. A little soul crushing and I’ve been stressing way too hard each vid.
Sad
Well I reminded for you to make a different topic while still sticking to your content
I’m not sure if I’ve gone “viral” but I’ve been getting 1k views with only 164 subs not really viral but I feel like that’s one of the stepping stones of going viral
1k views on each video is what you want. Do more videos like that
Wow
@@EE-hi4re oh I’m trying lol takes me a day or 2 to edit so it’s just kind of hard and I have a full time job as well lol
I pray everyone watching this video level up financially physically and mentally! Let’s all keep working hard and one day we will all make it on TH-cam
I had a viralish video on a different channel, but it actually helped my channel grow from an algorithmic perspective, despite nearly everyone who subscribed from the video eventually unsubscribing, the few who stuck around were some extra viewers who enjoyed my content. Which therefore grew my channel to other people.
Just go with your pace fellow creators, you'll soon build your fan base who'll be loyal to your channel.
This video came in at the right time. I made a Kenobi Review that hit 69k views literally out of no where!
Remembering to be slow, patient and to just be social and have fun with it is something I constantly need to remember.
Thanks for the timely video mate!
No problem Connor Stace, thanks for watching! Make sure you 👍 the video if you haven't already 😉
Not that one of my regular length videos went viral, but one of my shorts about my pets got 1k views overnight. I checked and the view count wasn’t that high, and then the next day, I wake to check and see it’s suddenly passed 1k views, which shocked me haha. To say that was when I felt a “video/short go somewhat viral” is a bit much, but it felt great to know lots of peeps really enjoy that short, so yeah. And yes, after that short, none of my other shorts, except for one, came close to the viral-ness that was the one short, but even I knew that it would only be one short that got a lot of clicks. I still haven’t had any of my regular videos go viral yet, but I’m sure one it could happen. Still gotta keep pushing and improve myself, as long as my drive to do so is present. Otherwise I just end up not doing it. And if a video of mine went viral again, I’m still gonna make sure to not let myself indulge in it for too long
This is exactly what happened to me. I had viral moment out of nowhere. For a period of time it felt like everything I touched would turn to gold. I let myself get way to high on it.
Then the downslide started. Now I'm at the point where I'm destroyed mentally and thinking of quitting.
Mr beast was doing this for years before he finally made it, keep doing what your doing mate you’ll get there eventually
So sorry about that, please don't quit, you will get there
Try to benchmark yourself. Where were you before the viral moment, where are you now? Chances are a little better off.
Don't quit!!!
I will buy your channel if u decided to quitting your channel
Steady does it. If my content goes "viral" I happily accept the increase in subs. However my type of content is very specific so I would expect people who see a "viral" video know what they are getting.
So I'm not searching to go viral. The content doesn't allow for it anyway I feel.
This is exactly why I don't want to go viral its just not sustainable ,or at least not for someone like me who just started and is still figuring things out. Really good advice here keep up the good work.
Thanks for sharing this!
Also it’s nice compare the stats to your own personal channel growth/views growth. Having 400 views instead of the usual 100 is a big win 🏆
Excellent video, you covered the viral topic perfectly. We have seen many channels with 1 or a few viral videos and it does hurt their channel. Lots of subscribers but hardly any views overall. In terms of how many views are viral, as Rob said consistency is key. We still consider ourselves a tiny channel and although we have a few videos with 100k+ views, none of them went "viral". Instead it was just slow, steady but consistent views over time. That is, none of them got a lot of views overnight or even quickly. Hope this gives other small creators motivation and hope. Just be consistent with your work and the views will come. Good luck all.
This has happened to me. I've got 2 videos that hit over a million that got kind of blessed by the algorithm out of nowhere. Then attempting to chase those view counts was honestly impossible, yet I felt bad about videos I did make or deviated from that style of videos regardless.
Now I started looking at what content truly makes me happy. While it's not performing amazing yet and it's far from perfect, it's content I believe is good qualtiy. That can only get better the more I make. Which can get better by educating myself and learning a new trick for every video and thumbnail.
And this is what will keep you creating for years to come!
That make sense now, making a viral video for a small channel is probably not a good idea at all. But that just my opinions.
I hope this will help everyone on here. I wish everyone the best of luck and may you learn and grow from it 😊
It is a good idea if you make consistent content. Think of the biggest TH-camrs. Their videos are consistent
Y'all, I just found your channel in Spanish and I am so impressed by the great job y'all have done 👏
honestly such a good example of this, it happens a LOT on tiktok. going viral then crashing. makes sense, thank you!
Thanks a lot for the advice!!
I've myself been on TH-cam a little more than 2 years and haven't reached 70 subs yet, let alone being monetized. But ever since I've found ur channel, I've always learnt something new that helped me.
Seriously, thanks a lot, and plz keep on posting more new videos, we need more people like u🙏🏻
Thanks for reading till here😊
You're welcome MuiNoel appreciate the support :)
Great video as always! It's not about chasing a huge amount of views trying to go viral, but to instead slowly grow your community and to be consistent with the content you're making. This seems to be how a lot of youtubers become successful.
It's funny I got interviewed the other day about how to go viral on TH-cam. A much as I provided them unique and interesting ideas, they decided not to publish it when I mentioned that I don't want to use these techniques myself on my channel. I've seen so many channels completely tank after viral trending content for the exact reason of attracting subs that aren't interested in their other videos.
great work on this video - Something that doesn't get said enough !
7:19 actually happened with me! I’ve seen that the better ur content is in the “niche” the higher chance of channel to go viral.
This is a really insightful video that made me think about why I even want to go viral in the first place. I will admit I've tried so much to go viral, and almost everytime the "success" was short-lived.
I can confirm this with my 3-4 month experiences. When i first started only 100 or 200 views could make me so happy! But after some of my video goes viral my channel boosted so fast and I used to get almost 50k-100k views per day. But after some day my channel got downfall. Believe me this time was very difficult to allow. I was so demotivated and almost quitting youtube. But maybe 2 or 3 weaks ago I found I have really some loyal viewers and they enjoy my contents. So instead of trying to go viral I started making content for my little viewer base. Nowadays I dont get so much views but I am happy with my core viewers. So I feel very much relatable to this video. However best of luck to every hard working content creator!
I am also making my videos because of five people that I like very much.
They encourage me.
Love the video. Been working for almost 18 months and over 350 videos on our growing channel. We always believed in a long growing process than a quick hit.
00:27 I gotta say this, I also have those and it did give a huge laugh what you did right there. Thank you for that. Love the props.
This brings real insight on going viral and how it can impact your channel thanks for this 🕸️🤟🕸️ appreciate you Vidiq
I am kind of going through this issue right now. A couple of videos brought me 100x times the usual views and since then the rest of my content, that was slowly growing views and engagement, flattened. Seems it attracted the wrong audience … But well, this is a journey and a lots to learn… and Rob helps us on that :)
As a tiny channel with meager views, my "viral" video was almost 300 views in 24hrs.
The excitement was there, and then at the drop of a hat the views stopped.
But it did teach me things.
My viewer retention is horrendous, so I reviewed my video and took some points from some of these videos. I believe I have a plan to fix my retention.
So true! Good things take time and great things can take a little longer sometimes. I remind myself of that often to keep me grounded. Thanks for the confirmation!
As a small creator that BLEW UP with 2.2M views, I COULDN’T AGREE MORE. It screwed up my entire audience, and now youtube thinks that it needs to compare a lot of my analytics to that. It took me almost 6 months to recover from the low click-through-rates!
Yeah, I was expecting him to mention "low click through rate" without mincing words.
I have a similar problem. YT is always recommending my videos to a wrong public. Is there a way to fix this? I'm not using any of the key words that could be related to that public, but still, YT is recommending my videos for the public where one of my videos got "viral". Thanks
@@VirtualRunningZone how do you know that they are wrong audiences? Except if you've made a viral content that's completely different from your niche.
Secondly, your thumbnail and Title matters greatly.
Meanwhile, thank you Vidiq. My click through rate minimum is now around 15%. And this is currently helping my small channel a great deal.
@@VirtualRunningZone Use keywords that relate to YOUR audience if you haven’t already. Also, be sure to make your thumbnail appeal to your target audience and not all audiences, if you know what I mean. A part of this is consistency in thumbnails like the same font of text and general structure. Either way, eventually YT WILL eventually filter out the wrong audience, you just need to post consistent topics that match who you want to see it, and it will get better
The 4th video I made on my channel went viral relative to my standard channel traffic. I didn't do anything special I just happened to make a good video and be the first to do a video on the particular product. I lucked out and was able to keep some decent content flowing for about 2 months to retain that audience. After 2 months that viral video calmed down and I saw my numbers go way down almost as low as they were before the video. I lost a lot of steam at that point due to self imposed expectations for my content. My growth on my channel has been consistent ever since then and I am glad I didn't give up after that viral video started to dwindle away. Luckily I gained a good number of subscribers who have stuck around from that video.
I feel this is exactly what shorts do to channels, gives them a quick week of fame and then the views fall flat , at least in my case 1 age restricted video tanked my whole channel
This is 100% true. in late 2020 my channel got viral and that was the end of stable, yet accelerating growth. In this very moment TH-cam basically stopped suggesting my content to new vierwers
Virality is definitely different for each person. For me since my best video has 11k views, any video that gets 20k+ would feel like a viral video. But the thing about my 11k video is that those views came slowly over time so it’s been a video that has people coming back and slowly growing my channel over time. That’s something I’d like to replicate.
Evergreen content for the win!
Growing steadily, applying your advices 💪😎
My first video has gathered over 160k views so far (not really a planned thing). It helped me to get past 1000 subscribers and 4k watch hours quite fast but when the steam ran out, it was like hitting a brick wall.
On the other hand, it was motivating and helped me to get into YPP fast. But it wasn't nice after the steam ran out. I fully expected it to happen but it was much bigger crash than I really expected. Now I really need to continue building my audience that is interested in what I produce.
If I could choose it, I'd still go for it naturally. It was a nice start for my channel. But yeah, getting one video going viral really doesn't mean you'll be reaching a large audience in the future. Now I'm getting something like average of 4-5 new subscribers / day. I still have to remind myself to be thankful for that. While not even close to numbers I got at the beginning, it's still great for thing young gaming channel by non-native English speaker.
I'm a small creator that makes wild camping videos that usually only get around 1.5k views max! One of my videos recently blew up with over 60k views in 5 days and is still climbing. Luckily it's similar to my other content but with a twist and since this vid has been blowing up, all my other vids have been climbing up past 3k views also and still climbing 🤩
Going viral largely depends on your channel size. If you only have around 150 subscribers like us, then going viral would mean getting like 75,000-100,000 views. On the other hand, that many views super small compared to a lot of channels so going viral really depends on the channel's size.
I agree I made 30000 views in a short and it’s my highest and I stream fighting games .I didn’t expect it to do so well
@@Tre4life100 yeah
You are right
I think they get associated with what they went viral for so they can't branch into different things for the channel and they can't get out enough content while they are viral to be considered a youtuber to people.
This hits home. Coz it's what happened to my gaming channel that caused me to jump from about 300 or so odd subs to over 4000 subs, got 1m views and 2m views on two videos that generated all the subs and traction and then it never translated to the rest of my content. But it wasn't me chasing virality, it just happened that two of my Detroit Become Human videos gained traction. None of it translated to the rest of my channel so my gaming channel still only has those 300 or so odd subs engaging in the content outside those two videos and the funny thing is those two videos where I was funny is generally not my content style 😂 coz I do video essays, playthroughs and gaming news and those two viral videos happened to be "highlights" from a playthrough where I happened to be funny in that moment.
Good topic! It’s clear how much changing from your passion directly correlates with how much disconnect you’ll see with your core audience.
Interesting to hear the answers as our first vlog went very unexpectedly viral! 200+K views and 4K subscribers It was actually very stressful being bombarded with comments, although wonderful to read them all. We monetised really quickly because of it, which has been great, but I’m sure loads of those initial subscribers do not transfer into views for our subsequent videos.
you need new pictures
@@SoulSootheStory New thumbnails?
@@onedaymoreaboard yes. the text colors are difficult to read. the real life pictures you use as the base are too bright & look over edited & fake to viewers. your 200+k video picture looked best. it is hard to grow new viewers when every video is series. new viewers will not click on part 7 randomly. hope to help you have nice boat and nice people
That video went 'viral' because it's very accessible to a large audience who are likely curious about touring a canal narrowboat, but not necessarily the day-to-day journey, or routine. BUT you have a solid core audience turning up for all your videos. Continue to focus on them. Importantly your viral moment was in line with your topic. In the long run I'll think you'll do great!
@@vidIQ it sounds like you want people to fail and stay small channel to watch more of your videos...
Trust me yall, it's way more fun building a community up!! Go that way, and before you know it, that community is gonna be gigantic!!!
Good luck to you all💪🏾💚
And you're just 4 shy of a major community milestone. Congrats in advance!
@@vidIQ THANK YOU!!!!
@@Villainz I’ll subscribe!
@@evilsandwich2525 Woah thanks!!!!! I really appreciate it!!!💪🏾💚
I think 100k views is what I consider viral. Which I haven't gone viral at all.
And I'm happy with that. I want authentic viewers to watch!
As someone who started a family vlog channel last month, this is good to know! Thankyou
You really break it down and it all makes sense. Appreciate the information again. Was fun to watch. Great video
Glad you enjoyed it!
This happened to me. I had one video gain over 600K views in only 4 months and took my channel from like 700 subs to almost 17K subs. That while I am still trying to figure out my video format and learning about thumbnails and titles and descriptions. I also had old videos of irrelevant topics to my current aim that pulled in the wrong subscribers who then unsubscribed when they watched my new videos.
You might have a title formula there though.
"12 Typical Behaviors Of A ______ Narcissist."
How could you run with that?
@@vidIQ hi. It is a list title. I tried the opposite to that video as that one was females so I tried male and it did not get the attention. Then I tried a bunch of other lists like 5 things never to share, and so on. Each video is just getting worse in views and I don’t know why. I changed video format and thumbnail format that many say looks better. I made my into shorter and eventually dropped my into and have on newer videos over 70% retention on 30 seconds and 50% and higher average watch time on long videos. CTR are around 5 to 8% that is average. But views just keeps dropping. I am wondering if maybe my descriptions suck and TH-cam don’t know how to categorize my videos or maybe I am using too many tags and are being flagged as spam.
Yeah this happened to me. I had multiple videos do amazing, then it just stopped. And none of them stuck around. Not gonna lie I still feel really stuck.... but this did help!
I got lucky with my semi viral video. The gaming animations I do I was doing them for a year and one finally got viral. Now every video does good since but it's like VidIQ said... if the viral video is like your other videos then it's a win.
i have had ten viral videos in a row(they were a daily series), and i believe the reason they did was because other people wanted to try to do what i did, as it was generally incredibly hard. I might try to replicate this, as my audience enjoys it and often sticks around
If you can repeat it, do it! Often viral moments are hard to repeat!
100k is viral level to me...💯This happened to my channel. One video got over 120k in less than 3 weeks. I gained 5k subs and cleared my watch time. Got monetized... then crickets. I've got great followers but I've never achieved the highs of a big hit since. My core viewers are solidly engaged, I've had every up and down in the mental Rollercoaster you've covered. I March on.
I like your channel
@@EE-hi4re 😁👍
You are doing well, keep it up
As a channel that got an original viral video (30m) I agree alot with this video
Well don't give up guys, I started my channel just a month ago and alredy 120 subs, Keep trying all of u never give up! Thanks for the tips VidIQ ❤🙏
I actually agree with that, especially if you got viral not even because of your own effort, but because of a bigger channel shouting you out
You get an audience that you don’t know how to manage as well (yet, maybe)
tôi là kênh nhỏ, thật viral điều là khủng khiếp đối với kênh nhỏ chúng tôi. Vì thế khó khăn để lan tỏa, khi thị trường khán giả luôn đòi hỏi ở video mà họ muốn ủng hộ là: lượt xem phải cao, chất lượng video phải cao , đẹp, hấp dẫn...Trong khi kênh nhỏ chúng tôi, chưa hề có sự chuyên nghiệp, chưa có vốn đầu tư máy ảnh, để tạo hình ảnh bắt mắt, và đặc biệt chúng tôi chưa có nhiều kính nghiệm để lan tỏa cho mọi người. Cảm ơn VidiQ
I was just starting to brainstorm ideas that could be viral video topics within my niche and then I see this video lol.
I’m 90% with you, but I can’t shake off that last 10% feeling that a viral video (within my current niche and relevant for my current audience) would put my channel on the map.. it’s a tough call!
I like when Rob said focus on small progressive growth. Your audience will come back again and again.
That “teeth-filing” pop up hurt my soul. I’ll never understand why anybody did that
I’m a shorts creator. So I don’t think it can effect me as much considering I only post short clips. And I wouldn’t really say I’ve gone viral before. My most viewed video is only 7.2k haha. But I can see where you’re going with this. Yet again you could just replicate the video that went viral. But I can see how it effects some people. If that one video that went viral has nothing to do with your actual content, when people see your other content it won’t blow up. Always good tips tho!
I would argue it's much MORE like to happen with Shorts. Be prepared if it does!
@@vidIQ haha we’ll see!
I had this kind of effect on my channel. I posted a Short that got 24k views, at the time it was great, but was also terrible for the growth of the channel. It's crazy that it got to that point 24k is a lot for a small channel, but in terms of those who subscribed is rubbish. I had 30 new subs from it, so about 800 views per sub. I have switched up my content since then, getting rid of the older shorts, and replacing them with newer and longer shorts more related to my long form content. Getting somewhat traction/ viral is just not good for your channel. However, I think further down the line as a much larger channel it could benefit you more.
I totally agree with you. With time, every small channel like mine will yield great result.
sadly this happened to me, i had videos getting 100k+ views now i get under 50
Well that explains a lot...
Thank you for addressing this, as I have experienced this, and you are totally right. It gets addicting, and it separates your audience from your core audience. I only noticed a few months after I published that video that I need to grow organically, and not to go viral. Now, I tell myself "Please don't get too many views" whenever I publish, It sounds wrong, but slow and steady wins the race! My channel is currently healing from that massive spike, and is doing better than any month!
I went viral on a video I never wanted to go viral. I just uploaded it as a practice edit.
It sucks man
You speak a lot of truth. I have remind myself to just Endeavor to Persevere. Thanks for sharing these thoughts.
thanks for sharing this Rob, viral or not viral video i will keep going creating more videos.
congrats VIDIQ on the Video Creators purchase! 2 great youtube forces coming together...can't wait to see what happens 🙂
some real talk. i feel everything you said in this video. it helpend me also to look at my self and get back in the game thanks for the good content.
I have a question.
Could you do a summary/analytic breakdown based of channel genre/niche?
I run real footage on dark, bizarre, and somewhat morbid reality topics. Like a true crime/horror channel.
I think it would be interesting to summarize and separate our stats bases off niche.
Examples: Gamers, personalities/influencers, animations, etc.
Thanks.
Thank you for sharing the helpful truth that can be hard to hear. We need this! Thank you
Love the Darth cutaways haha!
This is such a gem and so true.
That dopamine rush with viral content is an amazing feeling. We had a video that went viral on our STEM channel. It was recommended as a related video on a big channel and it got thousands of views overnight. It was a nice feeling while it lasted.
Kinda made it harder to stick with the slow and steady approach with this main channel so can definitely imagine how tempting it is to chase the rush.
I always love the more slow climb to the top instead of instead of sprinting then falling once you get there.
I totally agree with you, but many big creators doing this.
If you are a small TH-cam creator design their content around people. Think about who is watching the channel, what they’re interested in 🙌😊 Your channel is gonna do great 🥰
You rigth! Thank you for this! 🙌
This goes for any content on your channel that does not align with the value prop for channel it will have the same affect on growth. I have removed almost 400 videos with 1.4 million in views from my channel a couple years ago. It helped a lot, but it was hard to just turn off the money they were making also...but the long game is what we are doing here.
In one of our channels we got a viral video. It got to 1.3M views in 3 months. Now, we make similar videos to sleep and relax, so most of our videos are doing well. We have all our videos over 20k views within a week of published. Some of them were published 1 month ago and are already 55k views. But we did have a big drop in views, thought we believe it could be because for a month we uploaded twice a week instead of weekly. But it could be that our viral video stopped being recommended so much 🤷♀️ who knows. We went from 65-75k daily views to only 20k.
This exact thing happened to me last year. Before I posted my video, my previous highest-viewed video was around 2k views... this "viral" video is now at 155k views (compared to my 328 subs). What's funny is I made another very similar but higher quality video, hoping that it would gain the same - or at least similar - traction, and it ended up getting less than 100 views. I am now working on another video more similar to my regular uploads that I hope will do well.
Totally agree, it happened to us. Such a great advice on strategy for small channels
This is completely truth, I got a viral video, and even it was about my niche, it brought me the wrong audience, and now is harder to reach the same audience that I have before my viral video.
This is kind of what I experienced. My very first video got 300k+ views and the rest are now sitting at a couple thousand. My plan is to keep uploading and hopefully build on those numbers consistently
I would like to say thank yuu, I have genuinely been worried if I should just stick to one game like all the other gameplay channels, change my style, and or do something / be outrageous like speed to grow, hearing again that steady and slow growth is possible if yuur content is good makes me feel a bit better about my content. I will stick to the videos I enjoy doing then (that also aren't boring). I needed this video. Thank yuu
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Wow, your content is excellent! Love your sense of humour too! Thank you!!!
Great video as always!!! Can you or someone else please tell me what's that mini led screen behind? And have a good one!!!
I joined 3 weeks ago, all I can say is, build a community 📈📈📈📈 and don’t worry about slow progress, this is TH-cam, you will get a good niche and that’s it🙏🏿♥️
Love to all small and big TH-cam creators
Let’s not give up
Right, you need a way to get viewers to stay and watch your other videos.
Thank you for the excellent reminder to stay true to who we are. I appreciate this video, thank you! ❤️
question what if the video that goes viral is related to your channels niche
I completely agree...I had my viral (for me) moment when a larger channel happened to boost an RPG I had a tutorial on. Huge growth comparatively for about three weeks then...back to the trickle because I wasn't prepared for it to happen and didn't know how to capitalize on it. The sudden drop after killed my motivation for a while, so I actually ended up in a worse place due to it.
Happily now I'm getting back on track, and back to the slow but steady growth. Currently getting less views than the semi-viral moment, but more subs and more viewers watching multiple videos - so more value!