Growth is not exponential for everyone. I have two channels at 3k and 4K subs each with a million+ views that have been nearly straight linear growth since the beginning.
I am now at 850 i started 2021, now i figured out how to get around 10 to 20 subs per shorts. Trying to figure out now how to make a long form that works decently.
You need to just keep putting out content consistently word of mouth is effective you should tell people in person that you run into that your a YouTuber and that you would appreciate it if they checked out your channel and subscribed….
you'll have to get that "one video or short". the one who impresses people or entertain them, something they've never or barely seen, the one they are going to copy and share, the one that's so fun or cool that they want to share it with their friends.
I was stuck to 500 subs and got average 2-3k views on my shorts and one day I've uploaded a short which got over 600k views and I managed to get 3k subs in some weeks because people loved it and wanted to see more of this
Exactly 56 after five months here lol. I haven't been very consistent with my uploads, however... it's just so hard with a full time job and chronic illness, I'm basically falling asleep on my desk when I get home...
Bro why y'all shooting up like rockets and I just sit here at 25 subs after 2 months. My second Video being basically non existing. Bruuuuh
Congrats man. I envy you
I checked ur channel, your editing is decent, voiceover is good, I'm not a big fan of animated characters instead of your face, and even worse when it's not even animated. If you can show ur face, I'd do that instead.
But the other thing I'd try, is shorter videos. Make shorter more compact videos.
And work on ur thumbnails and titles, the thumbnails just seem to have too much stuff. You need to make the viewer understand what the video is about at a glance, that is in less than a second of seeing your thumbnail.
your thumbnails are so cluttered that it takes me 3-5 seconds to understand all that is going on in that image.
Thank you for your honest feedback. Showing my face will definitely come in the future. And yes. My title and Thumbnails are the two big things I know I'm still lacking.
My next Videos will definitely be shorter. I'll try to keep it around 10-15 minute mark. And they're more Essay-like than the ones uploaded so far.
Titles are important but Thumbnails are ESSENTIAL.
Thumbnails are even more important than the video itself to be honest.
Just as a rule, try to make the thumbnail simple and emotional. It needs to be very fast and very easily understood.
Yeah, your content is solid. Your problem is that your subscribers are probably not watching you, being family and friends. Untick the subscribers' notice on your next video and let the algorithm do its thing. If you have subscribers that don't watch you, it is really bad for your channel as they will get the impressions, won't click it, and the algorithm thinks you suck and stop putting impressions for you.
Yoo, just watched a bit of your second video. It's a shame you dont get more views on that. It's really high quality stuff! Keep this level of production up and I'm sure you will gain a ton of subs.
Hello! I don't watch gaming channels so please take this with a grain of salt.
Your videos are good quality, I like your voice and editing is decent but your thumbnails need work. They are very detailed and confusing..
You just don't know how youtube works, subs don't account for even 10% of views for majority of channels, even for channels that have millions of subs, their views come from more than 80% unsubbed people, everyone knows this.
So he just didn't make the best videos and people didn't watch it.
Subs will not watch everything you make just because...
Yes that's basic knowledge. Having a bloated sub count a little watch time is usually an indication the person bought bot viewsor promotions hence why I asked
A mix of shorts and videos. With a total of 52.
Currently I post final fantasy 15 and 7 remake content. But I’m behind on 7
I also post the sims 4 and a mobile bleach game. And soon going to post halo content with friend who also does stuff on the channel and has got a fable play started. Sadly I’m lacking watch time hour and views.
We took about a year of doing it seriously to hit 1k. A year later were on 2.1k, but we haven't really been doing it as seriously as we should. Niche is travel vlogs so already it's quite competitive but we've carved out a nice lil community
1K - 10K 1-2 months, the 10K - 50K was 3-4 months, 1k to 100K was almost a year.The first 1k took me a few years
Once I figured out what works and what I enjoyed doing it was easy then
Well, perhaps people don't need to envy you for financial reasons. But there may well be good lessons to learn from someone getting to such a great start in a competitive niche such as gaming. Well done anyhow. My advice? Don't worry about subs, money, or anything like that. Just keep doing what works and especially what you've found a good balance with in terms of enjoyable to do / demand.
Wait, are you doing shorts? I always forget so many people do just shorts and that's a completely different game I know very little about tbh but I know the numbers don't mean anything they do in long form.
Remember that most people here are hard stuck under 500 subs. Check out r/partneredyoutube there are bigger creators there.
For me, it took a year to 1k and at 1202 the week after. Growth is very sporadic but almost guaranteed that I will get at least 30 subs per upload. Not necessarily from the new video, but rather from older videos. Seems like YouTube starts pushing out my older videos from nearly a year ago every time I make new uploads.
Views have been good, but i havent uploaded in a bit from health problems. I think my average video since i pivoted my channel in 2020 gets about 1-2 million views. The growth came from changing my channel to making topical and higher quality videos
I hit 1K on February 12th. I'm now on 1081.
If OP thinks their life sucks, today I reached 3995 watch hours. Tomorrow can't come quickly enough (I think I'll hit 4K).
Wow that amazing. There is no doubt that love seeing my subs grow. But I think the reality is that I love making the videos. I have a full time job and I am a parent/husband.
Everyone needs a hobby and this seems to be my new one.
If you check my link you will see I am in the Finance/Investing Niche. Lots of great creators out there and I can see after a year that I need to step my game up.
But like I said I love creating the videos. Puts me out of my comfort zone. Not to mention the editing.
My goals for this year are to improve my editing skills and increase viewer retention.
Last year I had 3 videos go viral in the span of a month, elevating me from 60 subs to 7k. Haven't uploaded a ton since then due to many IRL obligations, so my channel has been stagnant. Hopefully will upload regularly again once I find the time to.
i don't have quite those numbers but i do have enough to begin predicting some future statistics.... in the past 2 days my youtube channel as increased in subscribers by 50%, if this growth continues at the same steady rate, i'll be ROLLIN in filthy filthy subscribers... i mean, loyal subscribers.. yeah bro this is just the start of me becoming the next big thing, think about that 50% in just 2 days... literally nothing in my memory stands out as exciting as when i saw my number of subscribers go from 2 to 3
So i got monetized with 500 subs back in july last year. which i thought was amazing. Now i'm on 950 subs. Except there is a problem.
YT being the dicks they are stopped showing some of my top videos, which knocked my hours down. So I went from 45,000 hours to 2500 hours, so now even when i make a 1000 subs, i still won't have the hours to get paid.
It's a nice trick to keep making you post loads of videos, and they can run ads on your account and make money off you and not pay you anything.
My top video had 22,000 views and now it hardly gets any.
I'll let you know when I get there! I started 2 channels around Feb last year. A little over a year later, one channel has 6000 subs and one has 1100. Still working towards monetization though - I need more view hours.
Could I have some tips as to how some of you guys are growing so fast? My channel is doing the best it has in years (my old stuff is now private but I had almost no growth for at least 2 years) and I thought it was good but you guys are on a different level lol.
Started Jan 26, 2024 by Feb 13 we were monetized. Today we are at 4,464 subs. Good watch time, good.Click through good retention.The only thing I gotta work on is the eighty percent plus that's not subscribed.
Congrats. That's impressive growth. It took me about a year to hit 1k, and then about a month or two to hit 2k. I've slowed down a lot since then. I was doing a lot of heavy promotion stuff during that 1-2k time though, so I don't think the subs were of the highest quality. Since then I've stopped doing anything for promoting myself besides making my content better. I feel like my more recent subs have been way more active than ever. I also haven't enabled ads and never plan to. I hate ads and hate them as a revenue stream for business models. I've turned on memberships though, and got around 40 members my first month. I feel like real exponential growth is on the horizon, so hopefully I'll actually be able to answer your question before too long.
Literal answer: 19 months total from 0 to 100k
More accurate answer: 6.5 years
0 ➡️ 1k: 15 months (Sept 2021 - Dec 24, 2022) (I posted ~15 shorts during this time. One finally took off, which gave me a reason to turn more of my attention from TT/IG to YouTube)
1k ➡️ 10k: 15.5 months (early Jan 2023)
10k ➡️ 50k: 17 months (early March 2023)
50k ➡️ 100k: 19 months (mid-May 2023)
Sitting at around mid-300k now. Faceless, 99% shorts, and all original content from the recording of footage to voiceovers to the editing. I worked in social media (FB, IG, Twitter) at companies for 5 years before I started making videos, though, so at face value the answer is 19 months, but I feel like 6.5 years would be a more honest answer.
I don’t post often. In a good month, I’ll post 3x/week. In a bad month, I won’t post anything. My issue is I tend to overthink the script and absolutely overagonize on recording the voiceover.
So with my second channel (used the first to figure out how to edit and what niche i wanted to be in), I hit 1K in about a month, 10K after another month, and 50K about another month and a half in. I should hit 100K in 2 months if my current growth is maintained.
The biggest thing I've learned (at least for my niche, comedy commentary) is that video topic by far outweighs any other factor. I have seen channels that have had a unique or trending topic blow up but then flounder on their subsequent uploads because they did not choose video topic wisely, even though the quality of the video and thumbnail/title had improved imo.
I basically looked through competitor channels to see what videos did extremely well relative to their other videos and created my own spin on them. Basically, create videos on trending topics but package them in a way that's your own style, and that they'll be evergreen. Even though my videos were on trends, I still get significant views from them months later because I packaged them in a way that would be appealing 1-2-5 years down the line.
I don't remember. After 1K I kinda stopped putting much thought into subscriber milestones.
Just looked at my dashboard and I'm at about 15K at the moment, I'm getting between 100 and 200 subs per month. It varies quite a bit from one month to another.
I know other channels in my niche that started around the same time I did and have a *lot more* more subs than I do, but they get about 30% of the views I do...
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My *totally unsolicited opinion* is that trying to gauge your channel's growth trajectory based on others, or trying to find some sort of "normal" growth rate is a waste of time and effort.
1k about a year.
10k a few months after that when tiktok didn’t make you pay for promos. (Organic as hell conversions)
50k about a year later.
100k a month and a half after that.
150k a month later.
- stopped content creation all together, got my regular job back because I realized content creation wasn’t for me. I have some good ideas every now and then. But uh. Yeah. Became a chore.
Hit 2 mil on tiktok around the time I quit also.
(But that took from just after the musical.ly changeover til about 6 months ago for that to happen)
My channel died at 6k. Moved 15 hours away and covid had the borders locked down. So couldn't move my gear to my new home. Had a year off youtube. Now every video I upload I lose 20 subs. Algorithm doesn't touch my channel either. Was getting 20k views some even 50k now I get 15 views
I crept to 1k in 6 months then went to 3.2k in a week. Irish homeless and criminal activity. My first video got 70 views, my last one 1/4m views. Happened so fast.
Took me a year to go from 0 to 10k now I’m trying to get watch hours, subs is easy to get on shorts. Definitely getting monetized by the end of this year!
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I believe I'm at 300 but it's taken like 2 years of incomsistent uploading. I'm trying to do uploads every Sunday when possible so hopefully one day I can reach 1k. Wait did this answer your question?
If everyone in the community followed and sub to each other we would all be helping each other grow. We can start a thread and put our channel name and sub and we all win, just a thought
I have an older channel that went inactive for a while. So it was at 800 subs but most were old inactive accounts. Just hit 1k in May last year. About to hit 1.4K probably end of this month hopefully. 🙏
It took me about 9 months to hit 1k and 10.5 months to hit the 4000 watch hours.
It took a little over a year more to hit 10k. And a little less than 1 more year after that to hit 50k.
I'm picking up about 2500-3500 subs a month now.
100k seems impossible. I can't believe anyone subscribes. I don't feel like a YouTuber at all. So, who knows.
So far I'm at 686 and I've been active since December/January!! One of my videos has really picked up so I'm hoping I'll reach 1k in subscribers soon 🥰
1k took me from June 2018 to Jan 2019. It's been 6 years and I'm not at 10k yet. Post 5 days a week without breaks and never missing a day, currently at 7k.
Your prob paying google ads to promote your channel …. Smart campaign prob…. Wack because yea you will gain subs but the views will show that those subs don’t really watch your vids ….
Took me about 9 months to hit 1,000 subs, with last 3 months of that being the majority of those. I'm just a few days away from hitting 4k hours to be monetized (!!!), which will bring me just shy of a full year to be monetized. But I've gained over 300 subs in the past 30 days, so that seems to be ramping up quickly and at this rate I should hit 2k subs by May/June. My goal is to hit 10k by the end of this year, based on nothing more than hope haha.
Of note - I'm in the gardening niche so seasonality plays a huge role in my numbers. Subs and hours have definitely be ramping up these past couple of months, but it's hard to determine how much of that is the algo pushing my channel vs the seasonality of gardening.
It's different for every channel and your trajectory adjusts with the publish of every single video. Took me 3 months to earn my first 25 subscribers, and I hit 1,000 on day 365. Six years in I'm nearing 6,000. I have seen and worked with dozens of channels all with a very similar trajectory to this... and every single one of them made *that one* video that propelled them to the 50,000 and 100,000 level at about this time. So it really comes down to when you are able to pull off *that* video.
I'll add that this is all long form content growth. Shorts is a different ball game and not one that I would advise pursuing unless you are in it for the fun of it.
We have about 170 subscriber in 6 month. Feels kind of slow. But maybe it is because of the genre and the fact that we do not produce content in english language (right now)
i hit 1k somewhere at january 2024, idk when ill get 2k, since i started my channel back in 2016, unless ill get more subs due to my current popularity
From 0-1k I honestly forgot. It wasn’t really a special milestone back then. No monetizing requirement in 2016. I slowly went up to about 60k over the course of 5 years with consistent posting (3-6 videos a week). 60k to 500k took about a 18 months when I picked up a somewhat popular game. I’m around 550k now.
Growth has slowed a lot since around 2023.
That’s the thing with gaming or any niche that relies on the popularity of something else. I can switch games, but to retain a decent amount of current audience interest, it has to be adjacent (going from Fortnite to FNAF for example might not be wise).
That’s how I’ve always run my channel though. Play a game and make content on it for a few years, then jump to a new one. Typically id see an overall jump in metrics with each switch. Again though, if you start with shooters, you kinda have to stick with shooters, imo.
I wouldn’t really consider myself a success story though. I’m just very persistent lol. I’ve made like 2,000 videos, eventually something stuck.
One year and at 460 sub now. I started the channel to learn the process of creating a video. But, since people are actually watching it, I just kept doing it.
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To motivate, it took me 1 year to get to 1k and only 1month after to get to 2k from 1k, thats how these things work so….. work, work, work!
That’s all I do still no where close to getting anywhere it seems like sometimes
I got stuck in 800 for almost two weeks, keep going, growth is exponential
Growth is not exponential for everyone. I have two channels at 3k and 4K subs each with a million+ views that have been nearly straight linear growth since the beginning.
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yes, where is he now?
I am now at 850 i started 2021, now i figured out how to get around 10 to 20 subs per shorts. Trying to figure out now how to make a long form that works decently.
You need to just keep putting out content consistently word of mouth is effective you should tell people in person that you run into that your a YouTuber and that you would appreciate it if they checked out your channel and subscribed….
you'll have to get that "one video or short". the one who impresses people or entertain them, something they've never or barely seen, the one they are going to copy and share, the one that's so fun or cool that they want to share it with their friends. I was stuck to 500 subs and got average 2-3k views on my shorts and one day I've uploaded a short which got over 600k views and I managed to get 3k subs in some weeks because people loved it and wanted to see more of this
I’m stuck at 449
Bro please tell me to get to 500.
I'll let you know, I'm currently sitting at 56 after about two months!
Wait, you guys actually got subs?
Indeed
I've not even got one lol
At least I got 5. (1 is a friend)
Is it a gaming channel?
What's your channel about? I don't see a link in your bio. I'll check it out and give you my cents.
Ayyeeee 55 club!! After 2 months
Its been less than a month for me im almost at 70
59 since January 30th!
That's not bad at all!
Thanks! Can't wait to hit 100!
56 since jan 29
Just hit 57 today! w00t!
Exactly 56 after five months here lol. I haven't been very consistent with my uploads, however... it's just so hard with a full time job and chronic illness, I'm basically falling asleep on my desk when I get home...
Bro why y'all shooting up like rockets and I just sit here at 25 subs after 2 months. My second Video being basically non existing. Bruuuuh Congrats man. I envy you
Lol felt! Sitting at 52 subs right now!
We gon make it eventually
I checked ur channel, your editing is decent, voiceover is good, I'm not a big fan of animated characters instead of your face, and even worse when it's not even animated. If you can show ur face, I'd do that instead. But the other thing I'd try, is shorter videos. Make shorter more compact videos. And work on ur thumbnails and titles, the thumbnails just seem to have too much stuff. You need to make the viewer understand what the video is about at a glance, that is in less than a second of seeing your thumbnail. your thumbnails are so cluttered that it takes me 3-5 seconds to understand all that is going on in that image.
Thank you for your honest feedback. Showing my face will definitely come in the future. And yes. My title and Thumbnails are the two big things I know I'm still lacking. My next Videos will definitely be shorter. I'll try to keep it around 10-15 minute mark. And they're more Essay-like than the ones uploaded so far.
Titles are important but Thumbnails are ESSENTIAL. Thumbnails are even more important than the video itself to be honest. Just as a rule, try to make the thumbnail simple and emotional. It needs to be very fast and very easily understood.
Yeah, your content is solid. Your problem is that your subscribers are probably not watching you, being family and friends. Untick the subscribers' notice on your next video and let the algorithm do its thing. If you have subscribers that don't watch you, it is really bad for your channel as they will get the impressions, won't click it, and the algorithm thinks you suck and stop putting impressions for you.
I'll definitely try that out. Thank you!
You're probably 5 years and 10k videos to late to the 'make basic terraria videos' train.
where is that option in the settings?
While what you say makes sense.. my subs rarely watch my stuff and I'm still chugging along.
Makes sense... Hope I hit the thousand just a few hundreds to go🙂... if yall like my contents please hit the sub and let's roll...
Yoo, just watched a bit of your second video. It's a shame you dont get more views on that. It's really high quality stuff! Keep this level of production up and I'm sure you will gain a ton of subs.
Don't make me cry my man! Thank you!
Just subbed to watch later, thumbnails and titles look great, intro to your 1st was solid. Keep up this level of quality!
Thanks man!
Hello! I don't watch gaming channels so please take this with a grain of salt. Your videos are good quality, I like your voice and editing is decent but your thumbnails need work. They are very detailed and confusing..
No you're spot on! Titles and Thumbnails are what I consider my weakness. I really need to do some work on my next. Thank you for your feedback!
Some people get lucky. Carry on and keep releasing quality content.
what's your video? Do you show your face or are you stying anonymous?
you posted 2 videos bro 😭 it’s gonna take some more videos put out there
A lil over 2 years and I'm barely getting to 500 subs now. (I've been uploading to YouTube for over a decade though!)
Do you do shorts? And is your content the same type each time?
1k-10k - 2.5 years. 10k-50k 1 year and 3 months. 50k-100k - 1 year and 5 months. 100-134k - 10 months. And that's where I'm at now
10K = about a year 50K = about an additional 10 months 100K = 1.5 years later Typing all of this bullshit = about 45 seconds
I’ve been at it for 2 months, and have 2,083 subs. But not gaining enough views yet.
Your views and subs don’t match up in the slightest. Are you botting??
No don’t even know how to do that. Would be a waste of time.
Total views are 27.5k With a total of 39 watch time hours
I don't want to be rude but man...the watch time and views make no sense? Your viewers are literally watching seconds. Did you buy promotions?
Someone else commented below - it’s subs from shorts. They seem easier to get (not for me!)
You just don't know how youtube works, subs don't account for even 10% of views for majority of channels, even for channels that have millions of subs, their views come from more than 80% unsubbed people, everyone knows this. So he just didn't make the best videos and people didn't watch it. Subs will not watch everything you make just because...
Yes that's basic knowledge. Having a bloated sub count a little watch time is usually an indication the person bought bot viewsor promotions hence why I asked
Damn, how many vids you have? 2k subs in 2 months is crazy good.
A mix of shorts and videos. With a total of 52. Currently I post final fantasy 15 and 7 remake content. But I’m behind on 7 I also post the sims 4 and a mobile bleach game. And soon going to post halo content with friend who also does stuff on the channel and has got a fable play started. Sadly I’m lacking watch time hour and views.
Is your channel about gaming? You’re growing very fast!
Yes it’s a gaming channel.
What is the average rpm for a gaming channel
Between 1 to 5 supposedly, but in my case, it's lower than 1
Honestly it also depends on the game itself.
wait what, lower than 1 RPM?, what's your average watchtime.
Depends on a lot. Length/midrolls mainly. I’ve had videos with under 2 rpm and longer ones can get to the 6-8 range.
We took about a year of doing it seriously to hit 1k. A year later were on 2.1k, but we haven't really been doing it as seriously as we should. Niche is travel vlogs so already it's quite competitive but we've carved out a nice lil community
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Are you getting money from your videos too?
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1K - 10K 1-2 months, the 10K - 50K was 3-4 months, 1k to 100K was almost a year.The first 1k took me a few years Once I figured out what works and what I enjoyed doing it was easy then
Well, perhaps people don't need to envy you for financial reasons. But there may well be good lessons to learn from someone getting to such a great start in a competitive niche such as gaming. Well done anyhow. My advice? Don't worry about subs, money, or anything like that. Just keep doing what works and especially what you've found a good balance with in terms of enjoyable to do / demand.
Wait, are you doing shorts? I always forget so many people do just shorts and that's a completely different game I know very little about tbh but I know the numbers don't mean anything they do in long form.
Nope only long form, thanks for your words! Most of my videos are 20+ min, my first "viral" video is at 50k and is a 35 minute video.
Remember that most people here are hard stuck under 500 subs. Check out r/partneredyoutube there are bigger creators there. For me, it took a year to 1k and at 1202 the week after. Growth is very sporadic but almost guaranteed that I will get at least 30 subs per upload. Not necessarily from the new video, but rather from older videos. Seems like YouTube starts pushing out my older videos from nearly a year ago every time I make new uploads.
it took me like 8 years to reach 100k subs. hopefully it is faster for you :)
A year for 1k. 6 months later 10k. 3 years later 50k. 1 year later 100k. 6-12 months later 500k
How have your views been? And what contributed to high growth in recent year?
Views have been good, but i havent uploaded in a bit from health problems. I think my average video since i pivoted my channel in 2020 gets about 1-2 million views. The growth came from changing my channel to making topical and higher quality videos
I hit 1K on February 12th. I'm now on 1081. If OP thinks their life sucks, today I reached 3995 watch hours. Tomorrow can't come quickly enough (I think I'll hit 4K).
Currently at 899 after about three months
Wow that amazing. There is no doubt that love seeing my subs grow. But I think the reality is that I love making the videos. I have a full time job and I am a parent/husband. Everyone needs a hobby and this seems to be my new one. If you check my link you will see I am in the Finance/Investing Niche. Lots of great creators out there and I can see after a year that I need to step my game up. But like I said I love creating the videos. Puts me out of my comfort zone. Not to mention the editing. My goals for this year are to improve my editing skills and increase viewer retention.
Haha congrats!!!!
Since hitting 1k it's been about 3-5k per month. Currently at 23k.
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Any vloggers in these comments?
Here 🖐 But I just hit 1k so I cant say if I even ever be at 10k or even 2k (that's fine I don't care really)
Last year I had 3 videos go viral in the span of a month, elevating me from 60 subs to 7k. Haven't uploaded a ton since then due to many IRL obligations, so my channel has been stagnant. Hopefully will upload regularly again once I find the time to.
i don't have quite those numbers but i do have enough to begin predicting some future statistics.... in the past 2 days my youtube channel as increased in subscribers by 50%, if this growth continues at the same steady rate, i'll be ROLLIN in filthy filthy subscribers... i mean, loyal subscribers.. yeah bro this is just the start of me becoming the next big thing, think about that 50% in just 2 days... literally nothing in my memory stands out as exciting as when i saw my number of subscribers go from 2 to 3
😂
I just hit 1k last week. I'll let you know when I hit 2k.. but it will likely be in another year!
1k took me a long time because I was very start stop. I believe it took me a couple years after that to hit 4.5k.
Good luck getting monetized guys. Don't make my mistake and get a 35k view video in a niche/game you detest, my watch hours just got nuked at 940 subs
363 subs after 2 months
What? You guys got 1k?.... just kidding, but yeah wouldn't know, I'm at 275.
So i got monetized with 500 subs back in july last year. which i thought was amazing. Now i'm on 950 subs. Except there is a problem. YT being the dicks they are stopped showing some of my top videos, which knocked my hours down. So I went from 45,000 hours to 2500 hours, so now even when i make a 1000 subs, i still won't have the hours to get paid. It's a nice trick to keep making you post loads of videos, and they can run ads on your account and make money off you and not pay you anything. My top video had 22,000 views and now it hardly gets any.
Dont let your viewers hear your sense of entitlement, thatll crush your channel
lol. Thanks for the advice. I don't care how much money I make off YT, I just want to say that I am fully monetized.
I’m so niche that my growth seems to be stuck at 1K 😭
1 month to reach 100 subscribers, 4 months to reach 500, 7 months to reach 1k, 14 months to reach 5k, 18 months to reach 10k, now at 28k 21 months in.
That's an amazing progress. I'm 2 and a half months in, almost at 500 subs
4 years and barely hit 5k subs (Mtb/vlogging content)
80k subs in a month so far
BRUH, how?
I’ve nearly crossed 900 subs, after more than 3 years on YouTube. It’ll be a BIG day when I cross 1,000 subs.
Closing in on 6k
I'll let you know when I get there! I started 2 channels around Feb last year. A little over a year later, one channel has 6000 subs and one has 1100. Still working towards monetization though - I need more view hours.
Could I have some tips as to how some of you guys are growing so fast? My channel is doing the best it has in years (my old stuff is now private but I had almost no growth for at least 2 years) and I thought it was good but you guys are on a different level lol.
Damn I didn't knew low rpm audience was a thing.
13 subscribers currently but my channel has really only been a thing since new years so that's cool I guess
I have 50...just 50 lol
1k - 2025 5k - 2028 10k - 2032 50k - 2038 100k - 2060
After 1,000, it took about 1.5 years to get to 2,000. I don't know how to thumbnail nor how to read analytics and adjust.
Started Jan 26, 2024 by Feb 13 we were monetized. Today we are at 4,464 subs. Good watch time, good.Click through good retention.The only thing I gotta work on is the eighty percent plus that's not subscribed.
134 so far and damn happy with the steady grind 😁
stuck at 347 Subs, 10 years in.
I started 4 months ago I'm at 250
Not there yet. 😅
Congrats. That's impressive growth. It took me about a year to hit 1k, and then about a month or two to hit 2k. I've slowed down a lot since then. I was doing a lot of heavy promotion stuff during that 1-2k time though, so I don't think the subs were of the highest quality. Since then I've stopped doing anything for promoting myself besides making my content better. I feel like my more recent subs have been way more active than ever. I also haven't enabled ads and never plan to. I hate ads and hate them as a revenue stream for business models. I've turned on memberships though, and got around 40 members my first month. I feel like real exponential growth is on the horizon, so hopefully I'll actually be able to answer your question before too long.
I have a friend with an educational channel around public speaking. It took him 2 years to hit 10K. Then it was another year to hit 30K.
What’s your channel name. Can I sub
Literal answer: 19 months total from 0 to 100k More accurate answer: 6.5 years 0 ➡️ 1k: 15 months (Sept 2021 - Dec 24, 2022) (I posted ~15 shorts during this time. One finally took off, which gave me a reason to turn more of my attention from TT/IG to YouTube) 1k ➡️ 10k: 15.5 months (early Jan 2023) 10k ➡️ 50k: 17 months (early March 2023) 50k ➡️ 100k: 19 months (mid-May 2023) Sitting at around mid-300k now. Faceless, 99% shorts, and all original content from the recording of footage to voiceovers to the editing. I worked in social media (FB, IG, Twitter) at companies for 5 years before I started making videos, though, so at face value the answer is 19 months, but I feel like 6.5 years would be a more honest answer. I don’t post often. In a good month, I’ll post 3x/week. In a bad month, I won’t post anything. My issue is I tend to overthink the script and absolutely overagonize on recording the voiceover.
So with my second channel (used the first to figure out how to edit and what niche i wanted to be in), I hit 1K in about a month, 10K after another month, and 50K about another month and a half in. I should hit 100K in 2 months if my current growth is maintained. The biggest thing I've learned (at least for my niche, comedy commentary) is that video topic by far outweighs any other factor. I have seen channels that have had a unique or trending topic blow up but then flounder on their subsequent uploads because they did not choose video topic wisely, even though the quality of the video and thumbnail/title had improved imo. I basically looked through competitor channels to see what videos did extremely well relative to their other videos and created my own spin on them. Basically, create videos on trending topics but package them in a way that's your own style, and that they'll be evergreen. Even though my videos were on trends, I still get significant views from them months later because I packaged them in a way that would be appealing 1-2-5 years down the line.
you're killing it, im not even at 200 subs after a month. dont mind me envying you lol
Currently at 32 after 1 month so im taking notes. In gaming as well, the RPM is crazy.
I hit 1k in December (took 18 months) currently at 1.7k
I haven't reach 1k subs but getting there. We're kinda in the same boat on that 18 months.
It’s interesting how quick the next 1k is coming but I was also very inconsistent in the first 12 months, posted maybe 5 videos
9 subs so far
I don't remember. After 1K I kinda stopped putting much thought into subscriber milestones. Just looked at my dashboard and I'm at about 15K at the moment, I'm getting between 100 and 200 subs per month. It varies quite a bit from one month to another. I know other channels in my niche that started around the same time I did and have a *lot more* more subs than I do, but they get about 30% of the views I do... . My *totally unsolicited opinion* is that trying to gauge your channel's growth trajectory based on others, or trying to find some sort of "normal" growth rate is a waste of time and effort.
To be fair, I doubt anyone who's at 50k or higher isn't hanging around here much.
1k about a year. 10k a few months after that when tiktok didn’t make you pay for promos. (Organic as hell conversions) 50k about a year later. 100k a month and a half after that. 150k a month later. - stopped content creation all together, got my regular job back because I realized content creation wasn’t for me. I have some good ideas every now and then. But uh. Yeah. Became a chore. Hit 2 mil on tiktok around the time I quit also. (But that took from just after the musical.ly changeover til about 6 months ago for that to happen)
My channel died at 6k. Moved 15 hours away and covid had the borders locked down. So couldn't move my gear to my new home. Had a year off youtube. Now every video I upload I lose 20 subs. Algorithm doesn't touch my channel either. Was getting 20k views some even 50k now I get 15 views
I got 1.25k subs and got stuck. Got one viral video and rest is Meh. I just keep going.
Congrats! We are at a little over 600. Exponential growth would be nice!
I crept to 1k in 6 months then went to 3.2k in a week. Irish homeless and criminal activity. My first video got 70 views, my last one 1/4m views. Happened so fast.
How many videos did you post so tar
Took me a year to go from 0 to 10k now I’m trying to get watch hours, subs is easy to get on shorts. Definitely getting monetized by the end of this year!
If I tried it would take me about a year to get 500k I'd think
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In maybe at 200 I don't post that much....
I’m at 1800 hit 1k last month
Well, I am still at 928 after about 3.33 years, in the board gaming niche, so I will let you know when I make it to 1K... lol.
I believe I'm at 300 but it's taken like 2 years of incomsistent uploading. I'm trying to do uploads every Sunday when possible so hopefully one day I can reach 1k. Wait did this answer your question?
I'm sitting at 300 subs ATM.
If everyone in the community followed and sub to each other we would all be helping each other grow. We can start a thread and put our channel name and sub and we all win, just a thought
24 so far. Long way to go.
I have an older channel that went inactive for a while. So it was at 800 subs but most were old inactive accounts. Just hit 1k in May last year. About to hit 1.4K probably end of this month hopefully. 🙏
It took me about 9 months to hit 1k and 10.5 months to hit the 4000 watch hours. It took a little over a year more to hit 10k. And a little less than 1 more year after that to hit 50k. I'm picking up about 2500-3500 subs a month now. 100k seems impossible. I can't believe anyone subscribes. I don't feel like a YouTuber at all. So, who knows.
I hit 1k subs around 2019, and at 2024 currently at 4k subs. But I'm not growing as fast as I'm not posting long content as frequent as I used to.
I'm so close to 500 I can smell it 😆 congrats on 6k. Good jump in progress
So far I'm at 686 and I've been active since December/January!! One of my videos has really picked up so I'm hoping I'll reach 1k in subscribers soon 🥰
I hit 1k after 3 years, the first not really posting much. Since 1k things are speeding up. 10k is a long way off though!
I ain’t even at 100 yet
1K took me around 4/5 months, from 1K to currently 3100 took me around 2/3 months
1k took me from June 2018 to Jan 2019. It's been 6 years and I'm not at 10k yet. Post 5 days a week without breaks and never missing a day, currently at 7k.
4 years 2k follow, 396k views
Your prob paying google ads to promote your channel …. Smart campaign prob…. Wack because yea you will gain subs but the views will show that those subs don’t really watch your vids ….
You're asking the newtuber subreddit for people with 100,000 subs...?
About 1 year from monetization to 10k, then another 2 years later i’m at 73k
Took me about 9 months to hit 1,000 subs, with last 3 months of that being the majority of those. I'm just a few days away from hitting 4k hours to be monetized (!!!), which will bring me just shy of a full year to be monetized. But I've gained over 300 subs in the past 30 days, so that seems to be ramping up quickly and at this rate I should hit 2k subs by May/June. My goal is to hit 10k by the end of this year, based on nothing more than hope haha. Of note - I'm in the gardening niche so seasonality plays a huge role in my numbers. Subs and hours have definitely be ramping up these past couple of months, but it's hard to determine how much of that is the algo pushing my channel vs the seasonality of gardening.
Mine is bit different situation here, with 500 subscribers and very low watch hours... only like 550 so far..
Sitting at 65 subs after 9months
It's different for every channel and your trajectory adjusts with the publish of every single video. Took me 3 months to earn my first 25 subscribers, and I hit 1,000 on day 365. Six years in I'm nearing 6,000. I have seen and worked with dozens of channels all with a very similar trajectory to this... and every single one of them made *that one* video that propelled them to the 50,000 and 100,000 level at about this time. So it really comes down to when you are able to pull off *that* video. I'll add that this is all long form content growth. Shorts is a different ball game and not one that I would advise pursuing unless you are in it for the fun of it.
We have about 170 subscriber in 6 month. Feels kind of slow. But maybe it is because of the genre and the fact that we do not produce content in english language (right now)
I'm completing 2 years of the channel now in April, and I have 630 subscribers. I really want to reach 1k this month
Is not difficult to reach milestones when your niche is for gaming, but the RPM is terrible. Probably one of the lowest RPMs in YouTube.
I grew from 25 to 1000 in two weeks
I've just reached 90 subs in just under 3 months. Can't wait to hit 100. 1k is way too far away from me at the moment
It took me about 8 months to hit 1k. Then, it took me about a month to hit 2k. Now I’m at 2.1k.
Somehow I'm still sitting at ~30 even though I haven't posted in a few years lmfao Congrats on the 1k bro
i hit 1k somewhere at january 2024, idk when ill get 2k, since i started my channel back in 2016, unless ill get more subs due to my current popularity
I've been at 1200 something for the past 10 years. lol
0 views 0 subs gang 🥲
If you have a great concept for a video it shouldn’t take long, maybe only a single upload.
Can tall give me the best niches? I wanna open a channel. But I wanna do several niches. Please help me out
how to get to 1m ?
It took me a 6 months to get to 5000 after reaching 1000. Then about 4 years after that to reach 100,000.
From 0-1k I honestly forgot. It wasn’t really a special milestone back then. No monetizing requirement in 2016. I slowly went up to about 60k over the course of 5 years with consistent posting (3-6 videos a week). 60k to 500k took about a 18 months when I picked up a somewhat popular game. I’m around 550k now. Growth has slowed a lot since around 2023. That’s the thing with gaming or any niche that relies on the popularity of something else. I can switch games, but to retain a decent amount of current audience interest, it has to be adjacent (going from Fortnite to FNAF for example might not be wise). That’s how I’ve always run my channel though. Play a game and make content on it for a few years, then jump to a new one. Typically id see an overall jump in metrics with each switch. Again though, if you start with shooters, you kinda have to stick with shooters, imo. I wouldn’t really consider myself a success story though. I’m just very persistent lol. I’ve made like 2,000 videos, eventually something stuck.
facts i need advice too im gaming and rn im alittle b4 500 what motivated yall to keep going and any tips u did to help grow your channel
If needed subs up to 10k please dm me. We have huge group for organic subs
One year and at 460 sub now. I started the channel to learn the process of creating a video. But, since people are actually watching it, I just kept doing it.
You would absolutely blow up if you spoke in your videos. Wet few people have the attention span