How Long Till Your First 1000 Followers?

HippoDrone · May 24, 2017

I think I'll be lucky to hit 1000 in a lifetime.... my other channel has taken 4 years+ to get 100 subs!

R-Rated · May 25, 2017

I got the 100+ subs down but that was due in part to being asked to be a videographer for a sizeable riding group.

The views are what is impressive to me because I have heard tales of buying subs or subs not viewing. My little 148 subs surely has not completed all 60k+ views. Part of that is when I did a couple motorcycle reviews and then published them on forums specific for those bikes.

All this done in one year, so I am not a guru yet.

Reize · May 26, 2017

I don't know if I'll be able to hit 1000 by the end of this year.

I started my personal Youtube channel, that became my motovlogging channel, in late 2014, managed to hit 500 subs last December, and am sitting at 840 subs as of now.

I opened another channel to cover Cosplay conventions and videography, as well as anime figure unboxings and reviews around late 2016, now sitting at 100 subs.

It's incredibly difficult to punch through the first few hundreds honestly, once you get up to a certain mass it'll just roll on it's own accord, assuming you have decent content.

SighBored · Jun 6, 2017

I'm wondering when I can get the Silver YT Play Button plaque, dreaming for a few more years probably.

HippoDrone · Jun 6, 2017

EDcase said:
At my rate I should hit 1000 by next millennium easy

Honestly it really doesn't bother me and I'm glad I don't have thousands of subs because then it would feel like there's more pressure to keep producing stuff.

Motovloging will very rarely bring the high numbers. My most viewed video isn't bike related at all but of course involves guns

wowzers, 224,000 views aint shabby!

lupin · Jun 7, 2017

Looks like 4 years 3 months for me. Challenge accepted.

HippoDrone · Jun 8, 2017

that was the view count for that vid only, your channel is higher than that!

Elke0602 · Jun 9, 2017

Wow, and I'm sitting here being all happy and *** with 5 subs I got in the last few days :3
You guys are doing great!

Elaugh Vax · Jun 13, 2017

Still no idea when i will hit 1000 followers ...... must be a long way

mcpro · Jun 13, 2017

I think the reason most people have a large number of subs is the time element. Interestingly most well established channels tended to have built their channel around 3-4 years ago and that's when I think youtube was at its strongest. There are some great vloggers out there, especially with motorcycle content, which just remember compared to other areas of interest, it's actually reasonably small. When you think about it, that smallish group of potential subs only have so many hours of the day. So unless, people are either new or just killing time browsing motorcycle content, only then is it likely that your newbie channel will get discovered amongst all the other truck loads out there. If your lucky, and that viewer likes what they see you may just gain a sub. So I think it's really about a community thing, if you are involved and engaging not just from a video churner of content perspective but in engaging with others and their content through commenting etc., and just really getting involved, then I think if you are not doing this it will be a long slow road, but what does it matter when we are here for the love right?

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shift_love · Jun 14, 2017

mcpro said:
I think the reason most people have a large number of subs is the time element. Interestingly most well established channels tended to have built their channel around 3-4 years ago and that's when I think youtube was at its strongest. There are some great vloggers out there, especially with motorcycle content, which just remember compared to other areas of interest, it's actually reasonably small. When you think about it, that smallish group of potential subs only have so many hours of the day. So unless, people are either new or just killing time browsing motorcycle content, only then is it likely that your newbie channel will get discovered amongst all the other truck loads out there. If your lucky, and that viewer likes what they see you may just gain a sub. So I think it's really about a community thing, if you are involved and engaging not just from a video churner of content perspective but in engaging with others and their content through commenting etc., and just really getting involved, then I think if you are not doing this it will be a long slow road, but what does it matter when we are here for the love right?

MCProcrastinator

im happy to have reached 60 the other day and 62 today, but you make a really good point. youtube exploded in popularity a few years ago, a lot of the vloggers with giant views and subs also have tons of videos out there, theyve been doing it for awhile. also, ive noticed that some of these vloggers have tons of views, but not a lot of subs, so they might have paid a lot to promote a video, gotten a lot of views off of it, but then they may not have garnished very many subs. when i see channels with 961k subs, but only 50-100k views per video, thats probably a better expectation. subs do matter. sure you get views, but when looking at the other vloggers, small subs+large views they either struck gold on a particular video or they PAID to promote it through google

mcpro · Jun 17, 2017

shift_love said:
im happy to have reached 60 the other day and 62 today, but you make a really good point. youtube exploded in popularity a few years ago, a lot of the vloggers with giant views and subs also have tons of videos out there, theyve been doing it for awhile. also, ive noticed that some of these vloggers have tons of views, but not a lot of subs, so they might have paid a lot to promote a video, gotten a lot of views off of it, but then they may not have garnished very many subs. when i see channels with 961k subs, but only 50-100k views per video, thats probably a better expectation. subs do matter. sure you get views, but when looking at the other vloggers, small subs+large views they either struck gold on a particular video or they PAID to promote it through google

Yes agree totally. You can have vast quantities of views through advertising, however not gain subs. I would also say another limitation, channels which have been around a while also have established overtime and perfected a skill set for formatting there videos to better engage with the audience and they tend to be more eloquently delivered compared to the laymen who is just starting out, which if course can be a limiter from the offset. I think that Fail fast and fail fast is probably a reasonable approach. If you have a little money, test your content, gauge it, views vs subs etc....and reflect on that information, don't take negativity to heart instead try to refine your content to meet the platforms expectations. This is another good point, no one likes to be told what a load of crap you are right? What you think is good, others may not, welcome to the reality of conforming to a platform and its expectations. However, being more positive, just imagine youtube like some sort of script or format, the closer you get to that format, the more successful and higher the marks you will get and in return the more likely your channel is to grow, but this is just my thoughts.

AVBB · Jul 6, 2017

RiderInRed said:
Be that on FB or youtube? How long didi t take you to get your first 200 likes, then 500, then 1000? I'm very curious if I'm doing it right or wrong and I don't have any metric to compare to.

Also, I've always found first few hundrends/thousands the most difficult to get. I'm mainly working on FB since my target audience (local people, local language) is mainly on FB, rarely has a youtube account.

Give me your tips, motovlog masterminds and FB gurus.

Im currently sitting on 18 subs been running the channel for about a month is that good ? getting ok numbers of views but its hard getting subs

mcpro · Jul 7, 2017

AVBB said:
Im currently sitting on 18 subs been running the channel for about a month is that good ? getting ok numbers of views but its hard getting subs

How man videos do you have AV?

Elke0602 · Jul 7, 2017

AVBB said:
Im currently sitting on 18 subs been running the channel for about a month is that good ? getting ok numbers of views but its hard getting subs

You have 19 now

The subs don't really matter yet. Yes, it's nice to have loyal followers, but focus on the content and views for now

My first vlog was posted a month ago, so looks like we're on the same track!

AVBB · Jul 7, 2017

mcpro said:
How man videos do you have AV?

13 so far new ones released every Tuesday and Thursday

SighBored · Jul 7, 2017

Two videos a week? Is it a schedule? If you can commit to it, that's fine, but make sure you can keep that commitment for long term. Otherwise perhaps cutting it down to one a week or one every 2 weeks gives you time to gather various shots/content and edit them nicely giving better all-round quality per post.

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