Tech Youtuber next steps..

Looks like you haven’t updated your YouTube channel in a while. I just checked out some of your videos. Pretty cool.

Hi 👋

I have youtube channel with JavaScript too.
It has 22k subscribers already, but main language is polish. So obviously the market is smaller accordingly.

Since last month I have almost 30% increased stats because of improvement I made.

Here's some tips:

1. Title and Thumbnail are most important at first.
2. Then take care of description and tags with keywords (ahrefs.com really helps).
3. And lastly but not least: engagement. Make your content as quality and as engaging as you can.

Imagine that: on facebook or other social media you have to pay them to display your ads ... which contains some graphic and title. Do you notice something similar? YES! Your video thumbnail and it's title are recommended by youtube for FREE. You just need make them more attractive to users in order to encourage them to click. It's called "CTR - Click Through Rate". It's also pretty important metric you need to think about.

Also take care of your Playlist - give them proper names, with keywords and spend some time to write good description. Treat them as single video.

You have to understand one thing - youtube wants from you two things:

1. Get users to youtube platform (so external sources are important)
2. And keep them there as long as it's possible.

The other thing are ads. If video has over 10 minutes, youtube allows you to show more ads across it. Then keep in mind to create at least 10 minutes videos. It's really important when it comes to monetizing.

So to summarize this:

1. Improve your titles and thumbnails - those are crucial.
2. Add keywords in titles, descriptions and tags.
3. Keep creating quality, engaging content.
4. Make playlists and create connections between movies (encourage people to watch your another video and things like that).
5. Encourage people to subscribe/comment/like durning a video.
6. Create at least 10 minutes videos to get more monetizing options.

And the last thing: I'm not a youtube expert. I just read a lot of guides from for ex. vidiq.com and I'm paying attention to my channel's stats.

If you want to check, here's link: https://www.youtube.com/overment

P.S.: Try to reach some Svelte fans on forums / fb groups / etc.
P.S.2: Check your stats weekly and try to get some insights. Ask questions: "why this video did better?". Keep in mind that subscribers count is just one of many numbers you should think about. There're Views, CTRs, Retention Rate, etc.

Hi,
I completely agree with @overment thumbnails are key. My channel is about Arduino, Blender and Fusion 360 and I invested quite some time to design distinguishable thumbnails see https://www.youtube.com/basontech They are consistent but show immediately the subject.

See the description of your video as if it is a website page. Explain what you are going to talk about. Also give timestamps to the chapters in your video. Since a few weeks YT creates chapters in the video time slider when chapters are defined and your video is longer than 10 mins. See for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFQaFnqpOtQ and hover over the time slider.

What I keep reading is that the YT algorithm looks for percentage of video watched. I find it quite hard to tackle this one. As you can imagine, the longer the audience looks your video, the more interesting it seems. It is better to have 1000 viewers which look 80% of your video, than 2500 which look 10%.

Another thing which helped me getting views is a website. For example my Arduino tutorials have their own website https://arduino-tutorials.net/ this helps search engines to find my content, and when linked from other sites, increases the number of views.

I would keep working on the foundation and create great thumbnails for every video you put out there. You could also level up the production quality to attract a few more people. Other than that, just continue to provide relevant tutorials that people lookup using the YouTube Search feature.

I'd say if you make it from 0 to 3000 in a year, you can also make it to 10k or 20k in the second year.

Keep in mind that subscriber count is not an important metric when it comes to monetization. Every company (also AdSense) is interested in the number of people who watch your content (video views).

16k page views a month isn't that bad.

I'm 18 months into the game and I'm sitting around 10k views per month. I have fewer videos than you. I put in a lot of work into production quality and I have a regular job that consumes much time. Everyone is different.

If you want to make 2000$ a month take out the calculator and use simple math: 2000$ / 2$ CPM = 1000k = 1M views per month.

If you assume a higher CPM it is a bit lower, if you assume a lower CPM it is a bit higher.

If you don't enable monetization you'll not know your CPM which makes forecasting a lot harder. Also, keep in mind that Google wants to make money on YouTube. If you disable ads, maybe Google serves another video than yours to the audience, because they can make money that way.

I'm not saying I know they do that, but keeping their business model in mind, I wouldn't be surprised about that. So, I'd enable the ads for at least 2 months to find out about the CPM to calculate towards your goal and also to see if that somehow drives more views to your content because of the theory above.

Also, most YouTubers that I know that are part-time or full-time YouTubers have sponsoring instead of relying on AdSense. Almost all sponsoring deals should result in a higher CPM that AdSense provides you. It also has the advantage that you know what company's ads are served in context with your video.

Conclusion: Everything is possible. Keep working on it and tell us in a year how things turned out. Maybe it takes more patience than just a year, but I definitely believe if others can make it (e.g. Traversy Media), we can do it too.

Out of curiosity, how much are you making per month with the ~3000 subscribers you have now?

I'm interested in this because I'm also thinking about making youtube videos, however although i think the CPM in that niche isn't low, i assume most people watching tech videos use some form of AdBlock.

Thanks, and I'm sorry I can't really help you with your question :)