OK.
This will be the last lecture less official lecture of the Intermediate section.
And here we're going to talk about realistic growth time.
So you created already your YouTube channel you're already probably pretty familiar with our YouTube
channel.
You have done some videos you have done some editing.
You are already into it and now you have a question.
How long it will be that I will not have any views or held if your views or no subscribers or just a
few subscribers.
How long it will continue until I will grow.
And this the question that is very very very very difficult to answer because every single channel is
completely unique and completely different and every single channel has one thing that is unique to
those channel.
Only one thing that is completely unique to this channel as only one thing is you the creator.
No two channels can have the same creator and they're completely different.
And it's very difficult to say what is the realistic growth time but let's just try to answer this first
things.
Let decide let's define what growth is.
So many people are very very focused on subscriber numbers.
OK.
Like maybe my channel will grow when I will have hundreds subscribers or when I'll have a thousand subscribers
or hundred thousand subscribers.
They have arbitrary goals of subscriber numbers but it is very very wrong because subscribers are not
indicative of your channel's growth your views and your watch time is because there are a lot of channels
that have a lot of views but not a lot of subscribers.
And there are a lot of channels with a lot of subscribers but not a lot of use.
So your channel when you have a lot of views your subscribers will come.
Subscribers are coming with the viewers but use does not come come with subscribers.
So you need to understand that views are far more important metric for you and watch time than the subscribers.
So focus on how many views maybe daily views or month of views if we want to focus you get and then
watch time because watch time is more like what YouTube is focused on views it what you can be focused
on the user potentially how many times you are exposed to subscribers and what time is for how long
you're exposed to subscribers and you divide the growth.
It should be positive and accelerated.
That means it should be in plus and you have views and watch them cannot be in minus.
You cannot lose use and watch them.
It's practically physically impossible.
You can lose subscribers though and what why what I mean.
And the third case in here is that positive and accelerated and should not be just one positive.
Accelerated means that we should get more and more views with every single coming months that it is
going through.
For example if you get 100 hundred used your first month your next month you should get 200 views not
cumulatively but separate in the second month and each year together it should be 300 views and just
given an example just an example I should not.
I'm not saying that you could have the certain amount of views or subscribers and like that just an
example you see.
To tell you what acceleration means that month you should get 400 additional views.
Then another eight hundred etc. etc..
In this case we're talking about doubling every single month it's accelerates by 2 every single month
like doubling every single month.
That's what it should be like not doubling but it should accelerate growth every single time more you
have more you should gain.
This is what growth means and here is the answer of the question about a realistic growth time you see
every channel will grow at its own pace and no two channels even with identical content will have the
same growth.
So that means no one and I mean no one can tell you exactly how long it will take for a channel order
to lease on average how long it will take for a channel to grow.
No one can tell you if someone will give you some prog prognosis or some like that they're just git.
They're just coming up with the numbers they don't know exactly.
Nobody knows because again there is one variable that no one can predict and it is you one variable
that nobody can predict.
I can't give you some things that you can expect but and I can't tell you what effects your growth.
But nobody can tell you when you can grow when you can have hundreds subscribers or hundred views per
day.
Nobody can tell you that until you will already get there but I can tell you for sure but it will take
multiple months or years to realistically see any growth on your channel that any growth that you might
consider as a good.
Because 10 views a month you will not consider good results maybe a hundred views a month you'll not
considered good results and in many cases 10 views a day you will not consider yours as a good results.
You may consider good results maybe a thousand views a day.
Maybe I don't know maybe 10 subscribers a day that might be was considered a good results and you will
not see good results multiple months and by multiple months.
I don't mean 2 3 months I mean 6 8 9 months minimum.
I mean an absolute bare minimum.
If you're doing everything correct and if you're lucky which is very rare for the beginner You Tubers
in many cases YouTube YouTube's just leave the YouTube of the first three months of YouTube because
they see very little if any growth on their channel and they just completely turn off and just leave
because they are focused on numbers more than a producing content.
That's what kills the youtube channel numbers.
I need these numbers.
I want these amount subscribers.
I want this amount of views.
This is what kills your YouTube channel.
You are not focusing on something some numbers because all that you consider as an achievement.
No we just want numbers.
You are not focusing on the videos and channel itself.
You need to create something you wanted to become father or mother not because you want to have an 18
year old child.
No it's a process of being a parent of growing together of learning the things together.
This is the process and the more time will go more time you spend with your child with your kid and
friends will understand this you are not parent this might be a bit difficult to understand but parental
consent is more time you spend with your kid the more valuable it becomes and more you know less you
think about the numbers with this care father how old he is or how heavy he is or how how tall he is
you don't think about those things.
Think about the time span you think about what you brought to this world and this is the U.S. should
treat your YouTube channel in this way as well.
Yes you want the results.
Yes.
And when you work on it when you really work on it really not spending an arbitrarily arbitrary amount
of hours.
No just improving with every single video that you will create.
Then you will have your results.
You will have your results when you approve and try to improve with every single video that you create.
You will have results.
This is guaranteed.
I know that I'm not allowed officially to just give you a realistic petitions but you will grow if you
put work and if not enough work.
If you put work constant work plus your first 6 months to a year your videos will still be crappy enough
for it to be considered good video so to spend some time in improving them.
And let's talk about what effects your growth just to give you a realistic understanding of when you
go through this.
I came up with five different things that can affect your growth and from red from the get go you will
see that some things is very difficult to achieve for the beginner YouTube channel.
And that's why it is difficult to grow the channel.
Let's just go through them one by one.
First is that affects your channel growth is of course your channel topic.
So what your channel is all about and if the channel is about everything and all over play all over
the place of course it's worse.
So don't make a channel that is all over the place.
You need to be very certain topic but the broader the topic is and more popular the topic is more potential
viewers topic has more competition you will have as well.
So it will be you will have a lot of potential audience.
But this a lot of potential audience is already served with a lot of potential creators.
So we will be very very difficult for you to be seen.
But if your potential audience is small me the topic is not competitive and or is is very small.
You will reach your maximum and then you can go nowhere.
Meaning that if your topic has potential audience of hundred people when you get to hundred people let's
say one hundred views for your videos.
There is nowhere else to go and your deeds grows very very slowly locked.
Audience of the topic not the views.
There we are slowly.
Your views will go slowly as well.
So you need to find a perfect balance between three things.
The thing that you like and you know that it's together the thing that is that has quite a big audience
and think that is not competitive.
That said we need to find and that's most difficult thing in the beginning of the YouTube channel.
That is a very difficult thing but I'm pretty sure you will find something like that.
You will not find a perfect thing that you love completely love to do that has no other people creating
any content and has millions of audience.
You will not find something like this but you can get as close to perfect as you can.
Next thing is your skill.
It's not a skill of the video creation.
It's a skill of whatever you're doing in your videos.
If it's an into entertainment meaning how entertaining you are if it's an education how knowledgeable
you are on a certain topic etc cetera it's your skill the better do you know how to do the thing the
better it will be for you because your audience will see this right away and they will come to you for
the advice and for entertainment or civil or whatever you're doing they will know that you know this
stuff better than most of the people so they will come to you.
And this affects your growth.
The next is the quality.
It is not as big a fact as you might think but it still affects your growth and quality I mean that
how good your videos are.
Are you recording with a webcam or Black Magic Pocket cinema 6k.
Are you recording with the webcam microphone.
Or let's say sure S.M. 7 be one of the best microphones in the market right now it affects you because
the higher quality your videos are more tolerant your viewers are too whatever you're doing in your
video.
It's not that effective that you might think but it's still had some effect.
The next is that next to probably.
Let's start with the number four is that very very difficult thing at first to achieve it.
It's a number of videos.
How many videos you have on the channel being that how complete your channel is.
It is very important thing for your growth being that when people is coming to your video when people
are somehow stumbles upon your video and first things first.
Less videos you have it's harder for the people to stumble upon your videos and more the people the
videos you have it's easier for people stumble upon the videos when people some of a person would stumble
upon videos and like it and then go go to your channel and see that you only have four videos they will
immediately think that your not that you were channel is new and you're just creating something they
will think that you are not creating enough videos.
These subconscious think right away and they will just go and never come back until you have enough
videos maybe so you need to have enough videos.
You need to have constant stream of videos.
That's why consistency is the key.
For example we choose to do one day.
What we do week every single week in just a year will have 52 videos and 52 videos is very very good
no and more videos you have again more entry points you'll have more search terms you can rank for more
people.
More people will find the videos that are interesting they're interested in your topic.
And higher the chance you'll have more growth and in a first few months you will not have a lot of videos
as a time will pass as the years will pass.
You'll have more and more and more and more of your videos that every single video of yours.
Oil First things first will become better as time will go because you will learn a lot of things and
you will start seeing and watching your videos in a completely different manner and every single video
that you created will drive audience.
Every single video separately will draw audience to your channel as a whole.
So that's why the number of videos is important and what is very important.
Which weird enough it is the size of your channel.
The smaller your channel is the less likely people will subscribe to your channel.
It's completely nonsense right.
Like it should not be like that because the big channels they don't need a lot of subscribers but still
they get thousands of subscribers per day maybe tens of thousands of subscribers that per day and you
would zero subscribers or very few subscribers you barely get any subscribers in months.
Is it fair.
No.
Is it because YouTube is unfair.
No.
It's because human mind is unfair when people are coming to your videos and see a lot of use they subconsciously
think that OK.
This might be good because a lot of people are watching this and they're very very forgiving of whatever
flaws that your videos have.
And when they see that a lot of videos have a lot of views they are most likely to subscribe to your
channel because if it's a topic that they want to know about if they come to your channel they're more
like to subscribe.
But when they see your video with very little views no matter what the quality.
No matter how good the video is they see the video that has very little views and they say OK something
is wrong with this channel.
Why nobody is watching this videos and they will just not subscribe.
It's not about everyone.
Not everyone does this but many does it.
So counterintuitively you need to have a large channel to grow faster and the smaller channel goes slower.
That's what kills a majority of the channels in the beginning because a lot of people seeing that bigger
channels are getting a thousand subscribers.
They at least expect to get few subscribers a day when they start in a way they do not get it.
They just completely turn off just do not want to do this anymore.
Even for a single second because they think that this is a scam and oh nobody can do this or they are
lying with the numbers blah blah blah blah blah blah view boarding etc etc. because they couldn't do
it.
The thing is the truth is is that beginners have the hardest time to grow on YouTube perhaps because
they are so sold so many people starting on YouTube all at the same time.
All together and it's like being in a very being seeing very very very very very very very crowded place.
It's difficult for you to grow and bigger you become less crowded.
YouTube becomes for you the less crowded.
So that's why the size affects your growth and overall my friends just don't focus on numbers only focus
on numbers only reason while you're allowed to focus on numbers is when numbers will help you to grow
or will help you to understand what is wrong or what is right.
With your videos because numbers shows you whatever is wrong or right video that's getting more views
is right.
Video is getting with with more much time is right.
Video getting more subscribers is right.
That's what Europe must we must focus on.
Comparatively only between your videos between your videos not anyone else's videos your videos its
overall growth.
Time is depending on whatever work you are going to put in to your videos and that amount of work.
But what kind of work and for how long.
So this will be it for this one.
Let's go to the next one.