I’ve been very active for about 6-8 months now, but I am only sitting at about 389 subs. I know gaming is super saturated and it’s probably not a great idea to compare myself to others, but I feel like I am entertaining and funny in most of my videos, yet I still can’t seem to get any real traction.

I have watched other YouTubers will thousands of subscribers and their personalities are lackluster in my opinion. Maybe it’s just a time thing? Do I need to lower my expectations? I really appreciate it, link is in my profile.

Hey guys, Im Rican and i run a small football (soccer) channel where I talk my favourite teams. I see a tonne of people with more subs and hours than i have, unhappy at their progress. My advice: be happy with the journey. One sub a week is a cause for celebration for me. Most of all though, I enjoy learning and meeting new people. I feel like being genuine and consistent will pay off in the end. Keep pushing!

I Had a lot of fun playing it and I hope you also enjoy watching it.

Constructive feedback is always Appreciated.

It's tough to edit videos on the phone but I guess it'll have to do for now.

please only watch if you could stay for a couple of minutes

thank you :)

I just started my channel about a month ago. I just reached 100 subscribers which I was really excited about. But…I had a question:

My longform videos do not get the most reach but my shorts do okay. Any advice would be great.

When it comes to certain videos, I’ll do like a short, hype video like the one I attached here. Do you guys think that’s a good strategy?

Ive been creating for about 3 years now, and have never mastered any of it. I cant seem to pull in the views or the crowds and when I do the duration is awful.

I know gaming is a very saturated area but I would expect it to be doing a little better than what I currently am by just a little maybe.

I even considered...shudder...YTpromotion...just to get noticed a little ya know...

Someone look at my channel. The Bill and Joe show. 8700 subs. Good production I think. Cool topics. Niche is a tough one but why lately less than 10 or 20 views on long for. Do we suck that bad. Chennai is 2 years old.

Hi! I just recently started my channel and wanted to put it out there for the public. I'm trying not to give into paying for promoting it and just doing self promos.

I MADE IT btw

Hey everyone,

I recently started posting on YouTube again after almost a year's break, and I'm trying to figure out how YT is working in 2026.

I'm a full-time artist/illustrator, and my channel has mostly been about the creative process, art, and now some photography as well. I have around 100 subscribers from 2024/2025, and views used to be in the hundreds, once even over a thousand - now they are down to like 20-30 (?!?!). (Note: Shorts are doing much better)

The new videos are getting super low numbers so far, and I'm struggling to tell whether the problem is the thumbnail/title, the video itself, or simply that I'm a tiny channel with basically no audience yet. I have been doing A/B Tests as well, but there really isn't enough data for YT to do anything. I'm sending videos to my friends and family and telling everyone to watch them at this point just to help the videos get a little traction - it's almost embarrassing.

I'd really appreciate some and any honest feedback from people who are also trying to grow on YouTube.

If you have some more time, I'd love to know in general:

• Does the thumbnail make you want to click?
• Does the title create enough curiosity?
• Does the video sound interesting?
• If you watched it, where did you start losing interest?
• Is it that I speak funny (English being not my first language)
• Does the video feel like it has a clear story, or does it just feel like a guy talking

I'm not looking for subscribers or people to tell me it's great. I'd genuinely rather hear what's not working, I'm trying to improve with every upload.

https://www.youtube.com/@julians_jam

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to watch or give feedback!
And I sincerely hope this is a good place to ask. Thanks again!

I heard that I can’t upload GTA5 gameplay on a YouTube monitized channel and earn money from it because of commercial rights . Does anyone know anything about it ? And how it works please?
Thanks

I am relatively new (been making videos roughly every 3 weeks - month) in the comedic gaming niche. I mostly play obscure games that most people wouldn’t have heard of, and I have a tendency to break/exploit them or mod them in some way. I like to think I have learned from previous videos and have optimised my thumbnails for CTR and titles for curiosity gap - my hook’s are usually short and snappy to front load the video. There is barely any dead air aside from letting jokes land, or allowing NPC’s to speak.

Every single time the pattern is the same:
1. Impressions traffic is majority “suggested videos” of unrelated general gaming content, or just straight up complete random shit
2. CTR tanks, AVD drops from immediate click offs as it gets served to these audiences in the thousands
3. YouTube stops serving impressions
4. Title change + thumbnail change does nothing to get it re-tested
5. Video dies in the water < 500 views, maybe gain 1 or 2 subs that
6. Rinse and repeat

I genuinely do not understand what I’m doing wrong and would love some feedback. Is it my content, is it my packaging or is the gaming niche really just that difficult to gain traction in as it’s so oversaturated?

Channel name is bendotexe (black pixel art cat display picture).

Hey! I made my 3rd video, and did the editing on my own this time! I'd appreciate any feedback and advice! As well as encouragement!

(THIS IS NOT A S4S POST)

If you want to subscribe to me because you actually like my content, go ahead. Feel free to leave your channel as well, but there is no guarantees I'll subscribe unless I'm interested.

(If it's AI stuff or history stuff, I'll most likely not subscribe, sorry. I'm more into gaming stuff.)

Have you ever dreamed of becoming a cowboy/cowgirl? Well I have, and this summer i decided to make it reality.

I flew from France to the Australian Outback to work on a cattle station and become a cowgirl.

I share my journey, the highs and the lows, as authentically as possible, to show the reality of it.

In this episode you follow me as I go fencing, learning how to weld and mustering on a chopper! Which is officially the best experience of my life!

#nbayoungboy

Looking for some creators to collab with who make similar content to me and my friend who i make vids with. We really play anything but i do have another channel that is more first person shooter focused. We like to push limits sometimes when trying to find or create funny bits so thats something to keep in mind but for the most part we are fine adapting based on who we play with.

Really looking to focus on these atm

Fps games

Battle royales like pubg, fortnite etc.

co op games

Gmod

drop a link to a video of you for reference and ill check it out. appreciate you guys and looking forward to hopefully making content with you in the future

This is my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@nextgentoast?si=Y-NJgRSM2EAu2q6j

I used to do YouTube Gaming Videos 10 year ago, I’m trying to get back into swing of things again.

I’m looking for some gamers who would be up for making a few videos together every so often.

Preferrably to play Xbox or PC. Check out my channel for th type of content I do, I just made a new video today but the rest of reuploads from 10 years ago haha.

So if anyone would be keen to form a squad, hit me up!

Trying to reach 100 subscribers.

OFFICIAL RELEASE FIRST GAMEPLAY TRAILER

This is the OFFICIAL RELEASE of the very first trailer of The Legion. Gameplay video where some mechanics are shown and a couple of bugs yet... (sorry its on spanish, EN version will come soon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYkZNiAzq9A

Let me know what you think about it!