Comments by "Keri Szafir" (@KeritechElectronics) on "Depressed about your YouTube channel? Here is what worked for me." video.

  1. I've been running my teeny tiny channel for ca. two years, can't seem to take off as fast as I would, so I don't care about numbers that much. Many factors affect views, not all of them are in your control. There's law of diminishing returns at play here: at certain point the amount of work you put into making the videos stops getting views or subscribers. It's especially hard for small channels that don't get a large coverage area unless they put effort into promoting their videos on social media, or make it big somewhere (like, posting a project to Hackaday and getting featured there, video included). Youtube seems to localize content, ie promoting videos mainly in the creator's own country rather than worldwide, regardless of language. This vastly limits coverage. There's one more thing to cover here, important in my opinion: building communities, both between the creator and viewers, and among creators (collaborative projects etc.). It's especially important in niches, like vintage electronics afficionados etc. As for taking care of audio first... I learned this the hard way, haha! Fortunately, decent quality mics can be bought secondhand for a low price. Same with webcams. I run my channel on Behringer C1U mics, and Razer Kiyo, Kiyo Pro and Logitech Streamcam webcams. All second hand. My software of choice is OBS running under Debian GNU/Linux; after some configuration work, it's very reliable and consistent, and can be controlled remotely which is a useful feature for my kind of content (mainly doing stuff on my electronics workbench, with "talking head" intro and outro). Speaking of intros and outros... they can make a channel very recognizable and help building relations with viewers. Don't let routine eat you thouth - releasing a new intro is always a big surprise!
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