Sunday 30 August 2015

Youtube and youtubers

So i have been making Youtube vids for a few years and it has always been a hobby as much as i would love to make money doing it i know the chances of that are pretty remote,

And here is a cute owl for no reason

I am part of a network but to be honest they are beyond useless i really thought once i got accepted to one of the big networks it would jumpstart my channel earn money and get better equipment but in the end they have done nothing and after the contract expires i will leave. But that puzzles me i always thought it would be in the networks interest to promote as many channels as possible as when the creators make money then the network does but in the end it does seem like they rely on a few select channels.

Having been part of many groups and communities i do feel that it is getting a bit saturated with click baits and using sex to get people to look at the videos , it does seem like everyone and there dog is making a channel and i guess what bugs me is some channels i really do not know why they have so many followers and there are some channels which i wonder why they are not massive. I have noticed though with a lot of channels they almost seem very desperate to be come a success and would bombard other channels with sub 4 sub requests and that drives me mad as i would not expect anyone to sub to my channel who was not interested in the content as i would not sub to channels i did not like.



Now when it comes to youtubers one of my big bugbears is interaction or rather lack of, if you are small youtuber it is very simple to interact with fans and i understand if your running a huge channel with millions of followers then it is not possible to reply to everyone but what annoys me is when they do not interact at all and you might as well be watching a Tv show. I have seen that with a few channels that started small and then got bigger there interaction really dropped.

So i thought i would highlight channels that i really think they engage with the fans and cool content

https://www.youtube.com/user/Cobra89Reviews
https://www.youtube.com/user/ImKnomad
https://www.youtube.com/user/AlphaOmegaSin
https://www.youtube.com/user/boogie2988
https://www.youtube.com/user/AdamKoralik
https://www.youtube.com/user/Yakumo1975
https://www.youtube.com/user/HappyConsoleGamer
https://www.youtube.com/user/realhksmash

And my channel is here https://www.youtube.com/user/eastyy and for the ladies here is my wifes channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ4RLCzEDENWNH4oGDORG6w

If you want to create a youtube channel start of with perhaps using a phone camera and then learn editing and try to do something different or in your own way if you have a money to spare can get a better camera later on. Practice , as it will take a while to get confident i would highly suggest have two people as playing of another person makes things more natural. And i would say if people comment then engage with them and hopefully they spread the word.


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