superloki
Junior Member
- Oct 2, 2016
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I started a faceless YouTube channel one year ago (motivational channel). To be honest, I started it as a way to learn how to make videos and get skills in editing, using IA tools to create the videos, etc. At the beginning, I was making long and short videos, but the ones that were really getting traffic and growing were the short videos. The long ones weren't getting any traffic (maybe 100 to 200 views, if lucky). So I focused mainly on short videos. Once in a while, I made long ones, but they all failed. On the other hand, some of the short videos were getting viral (I have one with 800k views).
So now I have a channel with 21.6k suscribers, but still strying to monetize it. It seems that the YT algorithm assumes my channel is for shorts and ignores my long videos. The problem is that it's almost impossible to monetize a short channel, even with viral videos. The numbers to reach the monetization point is ridiculous (10 millions visualizations for shorts). I tried making only long videos for two weeks to "tell" the YT algorithm I don't have only a short video channel, but it's not working.
So now I'm thinking about doing something else, because it takes a lot of time making these videos (even if they are short). I create the videos carefully and try to make them interesting and with good quality (it's not one of those softwares that make the video for you). What would you do at this point?
I was thinking about buying visualizations to reach those 4000 hours that I need to monetize the channel. I know it's not the advisable thing to do, but I don't want to waste more time creating long videos that nobody will see. The good thing is that I've learned a lot in the past year, so I could start a new channel about anything (maybe I should do that). But with a channel with almost 22k subscribers, I think it's a shame to let it go. Thank you.
So now I have a channel with 21.6k suscribers, but still strying to monetize it. It seems that the YT algorithm assumes my channel is for shorts and ignores my long videos. The problem is that it's almost impossible to monetize a short channel, even with viral videos. The numbers to reach the monetization point is ridiculous (10 millions visualizations for shorts). I tried making only long videos for two weeks to "tell" the YT algorithm I don't have only a short video channel, but it's not working.
So now I'm thinking about doing something else, because it takes a lot of time making these videos (even if they are short). I create the videos carefully and try to make them interesting and with good quality (it's not one of those softwares that make the video for you). What would you do at this point?
I was thinking about buying visualizations to reach those 4000 hours that I need to monetize the channel. I know it's not the advisable thing to do, but I don't want to waste more time creating long videos that nobody will see. The good thing is that I've learned a lot in the past year, so I could start a new channel about anything (maybe I should do that). But with a channel with almost 22k subscribers, I think it's a shame to let it go. Thank you.
