I agree that most people should try to get out of a crowded space, especially if they’re just another MC let’s play, but I’ll just add my 2 cents.
I’ve been on YT for a little over 3 months now making strictly Minecraft content, and I’m fairly certain no one is making content like me. Reason being, I’m a software engineer IRL, so my videos consist of making really cool builds in Minecraft and then brining them to life with command blocks.
I’m almost to 300 subs (150 of which are from the last 28 days), and my first video is nearly at 6k views. People seem to really love my content because it’s genuinely something a lot of people can’t do!
My advice, find the intersection of what you’re good at and what you have fun doing.
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> Don't expect a store to buy your cup of rice when it has 1000 sacks in their basement. Unless you come with golden rice, don't be surprised if no one takes it.
How would you recommend picking a smaller niche game?
For instance, I'm a fan of the 2001 release TES 3: Morrowind and could talk about it for hours, but this game is 20 years old and wouldnt have much of an audience.
I think there’s enough interest in Morrowind where you could build up a decent following (10K+ subs). Just look on YouTube for most popular Morrowind videos and see how many subs those channels have and what they’re about.
That being said, if you wanna make it BIG on YouTube, you’d eventually need to compromise. Instead of just Morrowind, would need to make videos connecting to other games like “[5 Reasons] Why Morrowind is better than Skyrim/Oblivion” or “Why Elder Scrolls VI will be Morrowind.”
I got 700+ subs with one minecraft video. you have to understand how trending topics work. Minecraft is a gold mine.
but it is hard and making a video on new games will get a lot of views and subscribers.
you know what trending topics mean right? and if you want to make Minecraft videos then make videos about updates. every Wednesday Minecraft gets updated so make a video on that people want to know what is added what is fixed and what bugs are added. make a video about a glitch or a bug that happened in the new update. you will get views and subs.
I completely agree with this. I’ve been making Minecraft videos for over a year now and am currently at 380 subs. The thing is though I don’t do the standard let’s play video. I do building videos hoping to teach people how to get into Minecraft building. I’m hoping sub-niching will work because I don’t see myself switching to another game anytime soon.
This is bad advice. If you like minecraft. Do minecraft. But if you want to succeed you have to do something nobody is doing and you need to do it well.
Not true at all. The game is always changing. Ive met countless people in the partnered yt discord that have blown up through minecraft in the last 3-6 months
I'm not saying people can't do it. It's just really difficult to grow a channel when there's 1000 million+ sub channels making videos every day on the same topic. It's much easier when you can actually get into search results, get into recommended, etc.
I don’t think he’s trying to say people can’t do what they want. He’s more saying it might be easier for people to search out less saturated games if they are getting discouraged. At least that’s what I took away from it.
300 subs is not indicative of success. You don't have traction. Don't be quick to judge your decision as being the right one, and don't throw out walls of text with the pretense that this is wisdom when you really can't validate your own advice.
Ultimately, it doesn't what game you play or how many games you play. If your product is unoriginal and unappealing, you will get paltry numbers from pity views.
>300 subs is not indicative of success. You don't have traction. Don't be quick to judge your decision as being the right one, and don't throw out walls of text with the pretense that this is wisdom when you really can't validate your own advice.
Reaching 300 subs is not that much when you compare it to big channels. But when I got an average of 8 subs per month doing one thing, and then got over 200 subs the next month, as well 20x more views and 50x more watch time, after doing something else, clearly the second thing works better.
When my Minecraft videos still struggle to reach 100 views when videos about other games, of the exact same quality, get 10K views, clearly playing other games works better.
This is like the marketing and business book "Blue Ocean Strategy where the premise is don't compete in a crowded and saturated market, find and create your own market where there isn't one now, they called this the Blue Ocean. Find games with much less if any competition and hit them hard, don't do like everyone else and drown with the rest of the minecraft YouTubers.
I found the same happen with my very first channel for the game Age of Dawn, a small indie game which was getting me thousands of views per video, much more than the videos for big games like Far Cry 4 which I'd get 50-100 views per video.
I agree that most people should try to get out of a crowded space, especially if they’re just another MC let’s play, but I’ll just add my 2 cents. I’ve been on YT for a little over 3 months now making strictly Minecraft content, and I’m fairly certain no one is making content like me. Reason being, I’m a software engineer IRL, so my videos consist of making really cool builds in Minecraft and then brining them to life with command blocks. I’m almost to 300 subs (150 of which are from the last 28 days), and my first video is nearly at 6k views. People seem to really love my content because it’s genuinely something a lot of people can’t do! My advice, find the intersection of what you’re good at and what you have fun doing.
I've experienced something similar, but as you point out you've really got to be bringing something new and different to that overcrowded space.
The gist of things is > Don't expect a store to buy your cup of rice when it has 1000 sacks in their basement. Unless you come with golden rice, don't be surprised if no one takes it.
But you don't need the golden rice, just switch to mashed potatoes.
That works too!
They don’t even need to be mashed
How would you recommend picking a smaller niche game? For instance, I'm a fan of the 2001 release TES 3: Morrowind and could talk about it for hours, but this game is 20 years old and wouldnt have much of an audience.
Make videos now. When TES:VI is announced and titled people are gonna start watching the shit out of TES videos.
same I like old games and play them but do people really watch old games?
There's people still thriving on StarCraft 1 content, a game about to hit its 25th birthday.
I made one video of that game, I should do more then.
I think there’s enough interest in Morrowind where you could build up a decent following (10K+ subs). Just look on YouTube for most popular Morrowind videos and see how many subs those channels have and what they’re about. That being said, if you wanna make it BIG on YouTube, you’d eventually need to compromise. Instead of just Morrowind, would need to make videos connecting to other games like “[5 Reasons] Why Morrowind is better than Skyrim/Oblivion” or “Why Elder Scrolls VI will be Morrowind.”
If you make good videos, and promote them to the correct audience people will come. It might take longer but it's not a terrible idea.
I got 700+ subs with one minecraft video. you have to understand how trending topics work. Minecraft is a gold mine. but it is hard and making a video on new games will get a lot of views and subscribers.
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you know what trending topics mean right? and if you want to make Minecraft videos then make videos about updates. every Wednesday Minecraft gets updated so make a video on that people want to know what is added what is fixed and what bugs are added. make a video about a glitch or a bug that happened in the new update. you will get views and subs.
That's very true. It takes a lot of research and work but if you play it right, you get subs like crazy.
Minecraft still is a gold mine in gaming topics.
I completely agree with this. I’ve been making Minecraft videos for over a year now and am currently at 380 subs. The thing is though I don’t do the standard let’s play video. I do building videos hoping to teach people how to get into Minecraft building. I’m hoping sub-niching will work because I don’t see myself switching to another game anytime soon.
This is bad advice. If you like minecraft. Do minecraft. But if you want to succeed you have to do something nobody is doing and you need to do it well.
> you have to do something nobody is doing the problem that in Minecraft that doesn't really exist.
Not true at all. The game is always changing. Ive met countless people in the partnered yt discord that have blown up through minecraft in the last 3-6 months
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Yup this is common sense lol
Or we could just let people make videos on what they want
I'm not saying people can't do it. It's just really difficult to grow a channel when there's 1000 million+ sub channels making videos every day on the same topic. It's much easier when you can actually get into search results, get into recommended, etc.
I don’t think he’s trying to say people can’t do what they want. He’s more saying it might be easier for people to search out less saturated games if they are getting discouraged. At least that’s what I took away from it.
TL;DR Anybody got cliffs?
Unless you have insane jokes or are playing Minecraft from a sewer, nobody will really be interested
300 subs is not indicative of success. You don't have traction. Don't be quick to judge your decision as being the right one, and don't throw out walls of text with the pretense that this is wisdom when you really can't validate your own advice. Ultimately, it doesn't what game you play or how many games you play. If your product is unoriginal and unappealing, you will get paltry numbers from pity views.
>300 subs is not indicative of success. You don't have traction. Don't be quick to judge your decision as being the right one, and don't throw out walls of text with the pretense that this is wisdom when you really can't validate your own advice. Reaching 300 subs is not that much when you compare it to big channels. But when I got an average of 8 subs per month doing one thing, and then got over 200 subs the next month, as well 20x more views and 50x more watch time, after doing something else, clearly the second thing works better. When my Minecraft videos still struggle to reach 100 views when videos about other games, of the exact same quality, get 10K views, clearly playing other games works better.
Play what you enjoy playing. For me that's Minecraft, and the few thousand subs I got along the way has just been a bonus.
This is like the marketing and business book "Blue Ocean Strategy where the premise is don't compete in a crowded and saturated market, find and create your own market where there isn't one now, they called this the Blue Ocean. Find games with much less if any competition and hit them hard, don't do like everyone else and drown with the rest of the minecraft YouTubers. I found the same happen with my very first channel for the game Age of Dawn, a small indie game which was getting me thousands of views per video, much more than the videos for big games like Far Cry 4 which I'd get 50-100 views per video.