This is not luck, this is youtube's algorithm, you have not mastered it, so you only see the surface.
When you master it, you can also get 1 million plays
Luck has nothing to do with this mate. Keep focused on creating engaging content (high retention rate), and YouTube will promote your videos, and you'll start seeing a snowball effect. If viewers drop off after 20 seconds, your video sucks, and YouTube knows it, hence they won't promote it. With that said, most of the time you do need a push in terms of promoting your video, and getting views and engagement so the algorithms can measure your videos metrics.
I was thinking this way ~10 years ago. Why is my biz growing slow while all other SAME bizs around me are blooming?
Turns out that there are many many factors in everything you do - not just YT.
But luck - as it is - is to get a single video on a random channel that you uploaded 15 yrs ago goes viral.
If 2 videos go viral - there is a pattern and they are doing something right.
You keep talking about luck and "garbage same thing all of them are doing" - do the same if you think that's as easy.
Also, in 97% of the cases, you need to understand how humans work and not algorithms.
So much negativity, go take a pill.
ill have to disagree with every one of you. i have done enough testing across multiple channels.
what
@Tribulations is saying is true to an extent.
i have done tests which inculde, testing the exact same content , not even different video, exact same, across multiple channels.
however certain channels performed like way better than the others.
there is infact to some degree luck associated with certain mails/channels.
some are given better luck than the others.
there is no logical reason why, one channel should explode with millions of views, while the other channels should only get like 10k views or like 100k. etc, with the exact same content.
note here that content quality has no dropped, changed or become better or worse.
its carbon copy.
so to analyse this problem and get to its roots, ill tell you what i have understood from this.
every mail/channel gets different amount of luck.
some mails have better trust factors, example if someone owns a huge authority site for adsense, and the google account is aged and trusted.
when he makes a channel on youtube there is a chance of better "luck" within the first few days, to go viral.
there are 2 cases where i saw this happen with friends.
another case to increase luck/channel viralness, if you own a big authority channel that you grinded and got to that level, that mail that owns your brand account or channel,. will get higher trust factors , aka mail p score sort of thing.
now under that mail if you create a new channel, the channel has a better chance of going viral, quickly.
i have tested this many times and seen quick results.
My point is that I can point to a set of channels of similar size doing THE SAME and some are stuck and others are getting a ton of views. The content is same niche, and in fact some of the channels with stuck views have better quality. There's no logical explanation as to why beyond the algorithm favouring some channels for unknown reasons unless you work at Google and can see the code. It's like trying to explain how a closed source program works, we can only take guesses and speculate but ultimately we don't know wtf is going on behind the curtain, we are just testing some get better results doing the same.
exactly i agree based on tests.
thats my point BUT check the reply to the guy below. he is right in some way too.
Luck is only for half-baked creators, leechers and spammers.
millions of views from a solid plan is not a surprised nor "luck". Do you believe the NBA channel is just a luck?
although i disgaree with the rest of the people above i have to agree with you aswell, since what you are saying is also right .
to be honest its the anonymous cjannels that might suffer this fate.
however theres a lot of good quality channels that also experiences what i said.
some channels get more views than others even with worse content due to "luck".
example ive seen some film making channels get less views with epic content and some other channels got viral views with worse content, out of the blue due to luck, clearly not because their content is better.
but anyway for the last part,
YES !! to conclude if you have a solid plan, like Mrbeast, logan paul etc.
no matter how bad luck your luck is, in the algorithm, you can grind our way out and build your luck/score, to higher levels.
this is true without a doubt.
a combination of strategies, right marketing and promtion plus grinding with super HQ, viral content, will surely let your channel get to big levels, and you can overcome the "lower luck" factors that your channel began with and beat even the luckier channels.
