Reached 1000 subs after 4 years and 134 videos

Just want to share some stats on what it took me to get 1000 subs.

I still cannot believe it but this might put things to perspective for someone starting today.

Stats:

134 videos - 11 shorts, rest long form

236K views, 4K likes, 546 comments, 700 shares, about 300 views a day now.

It has been 4 years since I posted first video and through time channel became variety after experimenting with too many content types.

Starting with reaction videos, to programming tutorials, lets play, unboxing, to now traveling vlogs.

Being variety definitely hurt my growth, but you never know what type of content you enjoy doing until you do it few times in a row.

Additionally not having english as my native language and introverted anxiety made creative process longer than necessary. What takes someone extroverted 2h to make, I spent 10 hours cutting out messed parts.

Anyway what I learned through the journey is this:

- Make videos people want to watch (helpful or entertaining). I got most views from tutorials on ever green topics that were personal to me, but also to viewers.

- Make videos series if content is not helpful (people are interested in long journeys however boring, its why tv shows like passage of time is so popular). I got most subs from these. It starts slowly, but if niche is relatable, subs will start trickling in. They want to see your progress, they want you to succeed. Eventually you get enough fans, that will watch every video on that topic. The cons is you get pigeonholed and branching out will make viewers unsub.

- Quantity over quality. I regret spending too many hours on L-cuts and sourcing b-rolls right of the bat. Instead, I should have just do talking heads and improve one thing per video. Like saying: "next video I will make zoom transitions a little bit better"

- Unless you do skits and tutorials, gear matters. Not only will be AVD better, but you will enjoy creative process more, because its so pleasing to watch. If you dont enjoy your content, your viewers wont either.

- You dont need to post every day. Each channel has certain number of allocated impressions each month and when reached, YT wont show your videos anymore. So its ok to post less.

All of these are obvious and repeated over and over, but I just wanted to share another data point, that confirms theories behind YT algorithm.

I am not monetized btw. Still missing 500 watch hours. However reaching 1K milestone made me believe in one thing and that is:

To never ever give up.