having "a huge fanbase" in terms of amount of subs is useless, I can show you big channels that are stuck with very few videos, for instance:
https://www.youtube.com/user/OMGcraftShow/videos
He struggles to get to 15k views in many videos with 1 million subs, and this is even worse:
https://www.youtube.com/user/howtoprankitup/videos
3.15 million subs and cant even get to 10k views in many
Just by sheer statistics, with that amount of subs he should get an higher amount of views. But seems like having subs is useless, its all about getting recommended.
Also, this "daily grind" is I think dumb too. Just because you upload daily doesn't mean you get recommended. In fact, im very paranoid about uploading daily, because I think the algorithm may also consider how much you upload. If you upload a lot and underperform this may fuck up your uploads : performance ratio of sorts. Consider that everytime you upload something you cost money to youtube, they have to host your videos. So if you upload a lot and they get no money, its not really smart on their part.
Of course the people that consistently do 1+MM views with frequent uploads are the ones getting rich. But those are usually famous people, like Logan Paul and stuff. Then you have certain channels that for some reason rank a ton of views consistently and they aren't doing any thing remarkable compared to competition that isn't doing that good. Seems like a crapshot at times.
I have never tried promoting a video (I mean clicking on the "Promote" stuff and buy ads). I don't know how that works, but I suspect channels that thrive don't do that, they just get recommended because the algorithm likes their videos. I have considered using this Promote stuff for the videos that don't organically get recommended but I can't be bothered to spend money. What kind of money you have to spend to get good returns?
