Why am I getting small views in youtube if my content is good?

What is the content of your videos? Do you just sit in one place talking or is there any variety? Can the audience see your face clearly? Do you have a lot of special effects?

But to be fair, I sometimes find that the videos with little views can be one of the most interesting one. That said, the quality isn’t the only thing that come into play. It’s just like some lesser-known celebrities that you think should deserve more attention. So don’t fret over views, just continue making the best videos you can make.

Also I think 1200 subscribers aren’t something to be sneezed at, given how competitive Youtube is.

You’ve asked the question in General, meaning you want serious responses, so I will give you some serious, blunt answers – which you may not like.

1. You haven’t promoted your videos well enough. Look at that question you asked. Where is the link to your videos or to your channel? That’s terrible, awful promotion. You have to be known in the first place to be followed. You can’t miss easy opportunities, especially with friendly audiences.

2. Aside from the fact that people haven’t found you because you have failed to adequately promote or link to them, I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the videos probably aren’t appealing if you have any spoken or written content in them because your English is not very good. You have “few” views, not “little” views. You have written run-on sentences. You have misspelled words in your question. You made one statement that contains a contradiction within the sentence: “I … live in a country that does not appear on youtube list … yet I reside in the states”. Well, which?

3. You have not even said what is in the videos. If you have videos of middle-aged men dressed in cat suits practicing fly-tying in the dark while drunk, then I would say that you’re doing damned well to have even 50 to 100 views. But if you’re posting videos of bikini car washes and rockin’ music, then I’d agree with you: that’s not many views.

But I’m not trying to be mean or disrespectful here.

Here’s my advice, for what it’s worth, because I have never posted a video to YouTube, though I watch a lot there. (Except those bikini car wash things; they just get me all excited and crazy, and who needs that, right?)

1. Work on your English. I realize that “this is the internet, and no one speaks or writes well, and everyone spells definitely with an ‘a’, and punctuation and syntax hardly matter and all” … but it’s still all about the content. Your content has to be clear, comprehensible to its target audience and logical in its way – unless it has a lot of T&A, and then no one seems to care. But apparently you do, so work on your spoken and written English if your target audience is American.

2. Promote yourself sensibly and well. I’m not saying that you need to send out spam (although it does seem to work, I’m not going to recommend it) or that you advertise “everywhere”, which would annoy more people than it attracts, if your target market is not very broad. So you have to go to where your target audience is. Since I have no idea what you’re trying to promote, I can’t say whether your audience might be on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Tumblr, porn sites or wherever. You have to find them and you have to provide links. I’ve seen writers promote themselves very well on Facebook, but they don’t always do that “directly”, as in “Buy my books!” What the successful writers that I’ve seen do is to host channels of “other content” that displays some of their expertise, whether that is engineering, music, weapons, military life and tactics, construction, racing, sailing – whatever. They post interesting content that makes people want to follow them into their professional endeavors.

3. Learn what works from the source. Examine the successful channels on YouTube, especially those who post videos in the market that you want to attract. Post thoughtful, respectful comments in the comment threads – and ALWAYS leave a link to your own channel. (As long as that is permitted, anyway.)

4. Oh, I almost forgot: Show some cleavage, and smile. That is, if you’re in the videos. If it’s those middle-aged men in the dark, then all I can suggest is that you make those very, very short videos. And very dark. Darker.

@cwotus LOOL I do speak English yet I’m human and I can make spelling mistakes, I make beauty, makeup and fashion related videos.I do not live in the states I study abroad in the caribbean yet I do reside in florida.and the country that I have listed my youtube channel is united states Maybe thats a mistake and I should put the country that I’m really at, I REALLY DON’T KNOW!

A: Either your content isn’t good

B: you mention it’s beauty channel, there’s a fuckload of those, and those ones spam enough as it is

C: too many competitors, see above.

Share your links on fluther and so that we can see what it is really. That way you will have enhanced viewership and honest opinions of your contents.

If you look at the youtubers who have been the most successful, you’ll notice that they have something unique; either their point of view on things or the creativity of their content.

Simply having accurate and well presented beauty/fashion content, as good a quality as it is, unfortunately is not enough to make something a viral success. As already mentioned, there’s a ton of other websites with the same.

I think the numbers you have are pretty respectable considering how many similar channels there are with beauty and fashion advice.

And young women are kind of a fickle audience constantiy looking for the next new thing. So, unless your last name is Kardashian, you’re just not going to get the HUGE numbers that you want. There’s just way too much competition in your category so unless you can come up with something that really makes you stand out from the crowd, things will continue as usual, which isnt really horrible, but just not the huge numbers you want.

I forget where I read it and the actual numbers, but there are literally THOUSANDS of YouTube clips posted every few minutes. Think about that for a minute. That’s a WHOLE LOT of competition.

So, you have three choices as I see it:

1.) find a super creative way to be truly outstanding.

2.) Content yourself with what you do have and slow but steady growth and enjoy this as an outlet of communication or simply as an enjoyable hobby for it’s own sale.

3.) Decide that all the time and effort you put in isn’t worth it for so little reward and quit doing it.

Sorry, that’s the situation but, if you really enjoy doing it, then contimue to do so regardless of numbers. Are people giving you good feedback in their comments? Do they seem to be appreciative? Can that be enough for you? I mean, there are over a thousand people who regarded it well enough to follow your chamnel.

Its your choice.

FWIW:I only subscribe to about five or six channels myself because I just don’t want to be overwhelmed and I imagine that most people are somewhat selective. They aren’t just clicking the subscribe button willy nilly. So if you have that many people sticking with you, there must be something of value to them in what you’re posting.

There are lots of fashion and beauty channels on youtube, so you have to be unique. Maybe do a giveaway once in awhile. Two videos a week is a good start but you should upload more than that if you really want to be popular. Infrequent uploading may cause your viewers to lose interest altogether.

@AshlynM

Really? Upon what are you basing that?

If I had a channel to which I subscribed regularly sending me MORE THAN two videos per week, I’d be hitting that delete button really fast.

One of my channel subscriptions is “Ask the Android Guy” and even tho I’m interested in the subject, i personally would consider eight to ten or more vids a week to be way too much.

I have a hunch I’m not the only one.

But I’d be interested in what others think about this.

Just my personal experience and opinion. I’ve had to delete many subcriptions because they just weren’t uploading anymore, while others were uploading one to two vids a week.

That’s interesting. Perhaps I’m just too much of a curmudgeon and don’t want to be pestered constantly :)

Now, I’m really interested to see how other people see this. I just posted a Q about it in Social.

After multiple suggestions you haven’t shared any links… are you really serious about this stuff?

If she shared the link here, it would be removed and @cecilia09 might be banned. That’s not smart promotion, you guys. What’s smarter is asking the questions and telling people to PM her for the link if they’re interested.

@cecilia09 A lot of channels grow slowly, and the vast majority never see major success. I think that 1200 is pretty good for a little over a year considering that it’s your first year. I do agree that you probably need to promote yourself a little more, though. Where I disagree with other jellies is that I don’t think you ought to spam anyone to get more followers and/or views.

Instead, you might think about becoming more involved in the community you want to attract. Do you have a presence on other social media sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Snapchat? Are you commenting on popular beauty channels? These are all ways to make your existence known without spamming.

Perhaps the market is saturated?

I’d like to see the videos, so I could tailor my response directly for the content in question, and not hypotheticals.

Re: your location: If you are currently eating, breathing, working, and sleeping in Florida, than your location is the United States. “Reside” and “live” are synonyms. If you live in the Carribbean and only visit Florida sometimes, you do not “reside” in Florida.

@cecilia09 – Is this your channel? Name Cecilia, 1200-ish subscribers, etc.

That channel, though, is stated as being centered in Mexico.

Either way, the person making those videos is doing two major things wrong:

1) – The videos are recorded in Spanish, which is fine. However, while there are an estimated 550 million people who speak Spanish as either a first or second language, there are 1.5 billions who speak English as either a first or second language.

If you want people in the US, India, the UK, the Netherlands, etc. to watch your videos, you should at the very least provide English subtitles. People are not going to watch videos they can’t understand.

2) Even the video thumbnail tells me that these videos are an extended advertisement for specific brands of cosmetics. There’s nothing wrong with affiliate marketing, but people don’t want to be advertised to, so try to be a bit more subtle about it.

@Seek while I agree that she needs to make subtitles for more people from other countries to understand, I don’t think it’s a must. I know a handful of channels in my language (I don’t count those shockers) that get more than a million views and more than 100k subcribers, even though many don’t attempt to translate their videos. So the point isn’t really about the language. If her videos are good many people will come to her.

And I agree that the videos look like spams.

@cecilia09 actually the situation isn’t as bad as you think. There are some videos of yours that get more than 1000 views. I’d say a channel with some 1000-view videos is getting sonewhere. But to be fair, I think the reason why your videos don’t get as much attention as you want is because they aren’t so original. It looks like thousands of other make-up videos out there on Youtube, just someone sitting in one place putting up make-up and the results. So when someone sees your videos they may think: “Aw, just another make-up video. I’ve seen better”. You need to add something more into your videos that will make them stand out. Maybe doing some unusal make-up or something like that?

And finally, you need to consider this carefully: why do you make videos? Is it because you genuinely want to help people or because you want views on Youtube? If you want to help people then just go on making the best videos that you can. If you only want views, change your strategy, or set up a new channel with a brand new content, and good luck finding your way in such a competitive environment like Youtube.

@CWOTUS It’s a bit unfair telling the OP she should provide a link to her channel in the details, given that this would violate Fluther’s “no self promotion” rule! The question would have been modded off without anyone having a chance to give advice. Also… recommending that she show cleavage? You don’t even know her age. I just… don’t know what to say to that.

@cecilia09 I agree with those who say that the market is saturated. Have you tried any cross-promotion from other social media platforms like Tumblr or Twitter?