Problem: no one watch my videos

norton88

norton88

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Few days ago I started a new channel about a gameplay niche, these videos are speachless, I put just some captions here and there, videos last around 10 minutes.
I'm paying close attention to video seo, I'm helping with a couple of tools, TubeBuddy and vidIQ.
I built social pages on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Reddit. I upload at least a FHD video a day, I share them on my socials using catchy preview pics and captions.
After 5 days all that I gained is just 3 subscribers and around the same amount of unique views.
I'm worried to upload others videos because I fear my poor engagement rating may sink my channel definitively.
What else should I do?

P.S. I avoid black hat seo on YT.
 
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I really need tips, not motivation.
 
Gameplay is saturated, plus without the voice, people can get easily bored. If it's just 5 days and you want to give up, tips are not going to help you tho.

Since you're going full white hat and with a competitive niche, you will not make great results very soon. You said you have Instagram, then grow the page with a bot too (care, this means going blackhat). As I said, gaming niche is competitive, so unless you find something that can go viral, results won't be awesome anytime soon
 
Keep uploading videos, Youtube is not stupid enough to penalize a brand new content creator for low engagement, after 2-3 months of regular upload (1 vid a week, maybe 2?) you will see a noticeable increase in viewers, should be in the 100s at that point at least, many of my friends have gaming channels and all of them started getting 100-200 views per vid after 2-3 months, all complete whitehat. I can remember 2 of my friends' channels off the top of my head right now, but I'm sure more members can confirm that this is how it usually works for whitehat gaming channels.
 
The trouble with the gameplay niche is your need a twist to gain view momentum. Most of the gameplay youtubers these days will set up a live gameplay stream and promote this stream event across their social media outlets to gain viewers and traction on their Youtube accounts.

You also need to be on the ball with future video game releases and be one of the very first to create video content when that game is released to rank. But the most popular gaming youtubers usually get early access and can create and publish their videos first.

I would try to be controversial with your video content to engage video gamers interest like for example: Why I Think The New Resident 2 Isn't As Good As The Old Version or I Actually Like Playing Fallout 76 And Here's Why.

Review the feedback from the gaming community for a particular game to inspire an edgy twist to your gaming youtube content.
 
Only 5 days? I made a million overnight and was worth a billion by the end of the week...

Things take time, nothing happens without work. You have chosen a heavily saturated niche, without something that makes you stand out you are not going to get far, focus on something that's unique to you or what you could offer and grind from there.
 
Nowadays all niches are saturated, any idea you can have was already designed by someone else. Isn't that the problem.
There are a lot of gameplay channels without commentary that have hundred of thousands of subscribers.
I think I didn't do anything new, but I chose a particolar gameplay niche that doesn't involve the usual triple A games.

Gameplay is always a trending topic on YouTube. Will never lose.
 
norton88 said:
Nowadays all niches are saturated, any idea you can have was already designed by someone else. Isn't that the problem.
There are a lot of gameplay channels without commentary that have hundred of thousands of subscribers.
I think I didn't do anything new, but I chose a particolar gameplay niche that doesn't involve the usual triple A games.

Gameplay is always a trending topic on YouTube. Will never lose.
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What's the difference between you and the silent gameplay channels with 100k+ viewers? Try to reverse engineer what they are doing. I'd imagine that they are either using botted subscribers, OR, they are completely whitehat, but they have been publishing for years, whereas you are just a couple days in.

Gameplay is a huge topic, sure, but it's also incredibly saturated. You are competing with other marketers AND a legion of teenagers who are uploading their gameplay just for fun.

Targeting non-AAA games is fine, but they're probably still saturated, and with less traffic to go around...

You are very confident for someone with no results. This is both good, and bad. Don't let your confidence blind you to the fact that you need some sort of angle, especially if you're doing whitehat, to compete in the saturated niches. If you can make it work, the traffic is huge, but until you make it work, you're probably not going to see any results whatsoever.

You may also want to consider if a gameplay channel is even worth it. Say you're getting 100k views per month after uploading completely whitehat for 1 year -- what's the CPM for gameplay videos? Seems like it would be pretty low...

Just some things to think about
 
Just keep posting content,
Youtube will not rank your videos right away, especially if your channel is new.
I have a channel in the bodybuilding niche that would get only 10 views per day with 10 to 15 videos posted in the beggining, then suddenly one video got ranked #5 in a medium volume keyword and started bringing 1k+ videos per day, at wich point ranking other videos became a hell lot of easier.
 
I'm confident because I know how it works, but you never stop learning. If I could speak english fluently I would have put commentary, but it's not my case.
 
Unless you already have traffic, or a following of some kind, channels nearly always take a bit to build up traffic. It's common across youtube, soundcloud artists, etc.

No speech is probably a big factor. I don't like videos without any audio or speech and wouldn't watch them.

Bad english is better than the computer speech some people use.
When you record audio, normalize the recording to -1dbm

Other things that make a big difference to traffic.
- titles & descriptions
- thumbnails
- time of day you post your videos
 
norton88 said:
I'm confident because I know how it works, but you never stop learning. If I could speak english fluently I would have put commentary, but it's not my case.
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Your English is fine. You write very well, so type out a script and read it.
I'm a native English speaker, and I don't care if someone's English is a bit rough or they have an accent. Most people really don't care.

I skip videos with 0 audio, or a robot reading text 100% of the time.
 
i think that a gameplay niche channel is a perfect way to generate unique and own-content, but like anything in life the beginning is hard...
my suggestion to you is to try to livestream your gameplay - not really actual live sessions but stream the recorded session using a VPS with OBS installed
the SEO benefits are huge, youtube will "promote" your live stream across the site, so if you do some basic SEO already, you will see the difference.
live audience are attracted to live broadcasts, and you don't have to add anything, sometimes the game sounds alone are better than some annoying kid that talk to much during the game...
this is the best way to gain real subscribers and grow the channel organically.

if you consider to add some BH advantage you can find live-stream audience on many SMM panels on BHW marketplace* (full disclosure - we provide them)
since it's the proven way to boost temp ranking (BTW if you ever decide to start your own journey here i can help you with free live stream viewers as a case study)
 
If you are a monster in the game you're playing then just keep uploading videos, I remember years ago a gameplayer had a huge success just because of his skills in the game, he didn't put cam or comentary. If you're not that godd then it becomes harder. Anyway 5 days are nothing.
 
Like mentioned above, I watch a lot of my favorite youtubers for their personality. You'll lose out on a lot of subscribers if there is no voice in the video.
 
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