YouTube: How to get my videos noticed?

[Kyle1527]

I mean, I make videos of Skyrim at the moment and they hardly get any views(100-500), do views just come naturally...do
I have to wait for them? Every time I upload a really good video it gets ignored for the first two days - yes I know it's difficult to get noticed but how can I get people to notice my videos. I mean they aren't commentaries of anything, just short funny or cool skyrim clips at the moment. So do I have to make enough videos or something...I don't know; any help would be greatly appreciated. For those of you who want to know the name of my channel (hint: it's in my avatar)

 

[Phlakes]

Make something original that lots of people are interested in and want to share. There are already thousands and thousands and thousands of Skyrim videos out there. Hell, if it wasn't Skyrim, you probably wouldn't even break 100.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

What use is throwing water into a lake?

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

First off, and don't take this the wrong way, how do you know your videos are really good?

I would consider myself an above average guitarist, but I've uploaded nearly 80 videos, of which only three have gone past 1,000 views, and two of them took four years to do that. However, videos with a girl in a tube top playing Three Blind Mice (badly) get 3 million views in a week.

There are hundreds, possibly even thousands of people making Skyrim videos right now. Do you have anything in yours that makes them unique? If you're just doing the same thing that every other user is doing then you're not going to get high views.

And then there's just luck. Sometimes you'll never get noticed, no matter what you try. I uploaded one version of Blaze of Glory which hit 8,000 views recntly, the version I uploaded a month later was technically more proficient but hasn't even broken 200 yet.

 

[HerbertTheHamster]

spam reddit, /v/ and shitty forum sites

it's what most people do

 

[ToastiestZombie]

Ok, heres a thing to try. Go on every video you post and put a comment saying how you are an up and coming star and you are ashamed to have to spam like this! GOD I hate the people who do that!

OT: Just make things that are ew and unique, like this guy who is doing a pacifist run of Skyrim. I'd rather watch his videos than just a normal skyrim playthrough, because if I wanted to watch that I would just play the game!

 

[TheHorribleSmell]

Getting noticed on YouTube is almost entirely about luck. I'd say concentrate on providing good, quality content, but that's actually entirely optional most of the time.

 

[Giest4life]

Tits. Find creative ways to put tits on your video.

 

[JoJo]

I've found on YouTube attention can simply come from how easy a video is to find, whether it's the best among a certain niche of videos and how popular the topic is... out of 12 uploads I've made they range from over 530K to just 99 views, simply depending on the subject matter.

 

[ReinWeisserRitter]

Make something unbelievably stupid.

Works for damn near everyone else on that site.

 

[Kyle1527]

First off, and don't take this the wrong way, how do you know your videos are really good?

I would consider myself an above average guitarist, but I've uploaded nearly 80 videos, of which only three have gone past 1,000 views, and two of them took four years to do that. However, videos with a girl in a tube top playing Three Blind Mice (badly) get 3 million views in a week.

There are hundreds, possibly even thousands of people making Skyrim videos right now. Do you have anything in yours that makes them unique? If you're just doing the same thing that every other user is doing then you're not going to get high views.

And then there's just luck. Sometimes you'll never get noticed, no matter what you try. I uploaded one version of Blaze of Glory which hit 8,000 views recntly, the version I uploaded a month later was technically more proficient but hasn't even broken 200 yet.

You assume my videos are utter shit, which they aren't. I do a different things with each video and trust me, the stuff is pretty unique. They are better than most videos I've seen with like 10k views - which are entitled "Dragon riding" - which is just the part where you fly to Skulfdan on Odahviing. Okay, they arent better than some of the songs people have made of Skyrim, but they deserve more views than a video recorded on someone's TV with a phone -_- , which get like 100k views.

 

[SidingWithTheEnemy]

Make something unbelievably stupid.

Works for damn near everyone else on that site.

May I add something:

Make something unbelievably stupid, and pretend it was very smart and you would do that all over again if necessary.

 

[demoman_chaos]

I've got a few with some high view counts, but most hit the 50-100 range. The ones that have high view counts are my VS videos, like Sonic vs Shadow (in SSBB), Roman vs Immortal, etc. Since Deadliest Warrior went big, people like those kind of match-ups.

 

[Bvenged]

They need to be one or both of two things:

They need to be informative & interesting; this is video, not a report - make the most out of motion picture.
They need to be entertaining to your target market.

Hit both or either of these with a dose of originality & you'll get more than a few thousand views. IE make a tutorial to something a lot of people don't know how to do, adn there aren't many up on Youtube already.
Making a CoD montage, or pretty much anything game related, these days is not the way to go - there are already too many "popular" gamers on Youtube on the first 3 pages, with hundreds & hundreds of nobodies after that. Go for something different; but with it outside gaming, your chances would be improved.

Youtube: Bvenged505 [http://www.youtube.com/user/Bvenged505]
60k+ total views, 15 videos. Most are shit & it's all down to 3 videos of which follow my 3 points above.

EDIT: A link to your channel would be nice. On a related note, it doesn't matter how good your video is; just think of how many other videos of similar content there are. You killed a whole town in 2 minutes? I could load up my game & do that myself.
You managed to herd several guards off the side of a cliff without ever brandishing your weapon? Now that's got to have taken some time & would be worth watching for the lols; and it's not been done before & not something I could easily & mundanely replicate.

There you go; that's how gaming videos work. Damn I need to get back into the game (more competition for you, see?).

 

[JimmyC99]

put them up at SomethingAwfull.com, they, also keep making content, eventually people will watch in the numbers if the content is good. hell i took even the biggest years to get where they are,

 

[Claptrap]

Make something original, Keep at it, Don't expect to make 20 videos and get 1000's of subs in a matter of days, And yeah, they're are 1000's of skyrim videos going out at the moment.

 

[Kyle1527]

I just uploaded a video of me killing all the guards in Riften - all at once, in two minutes, alone...with a sword and no healing spells....is that impressive/good enough?

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

What did Yahtzee say? Throwing a message in a bottle into a sea made entirety out of messages in bottles?

For your videos, I don't see a way. But it will be a video people will probably watch for many years, rather than just now.

 

[Kyle1527]

What did Yahtzee say? Throwing a message in a bottle into a sea made entirety out of messages in bottles?

For your videos, I don't see a way. But it will be a video people will probably watch for many years, rather than just now.

Thanks for the encouragement man.

 

[Jesus Phish]

Have a personality that people will like.

I watch Total Biscuits videos because I like his personality as he presents himself. I'll watch videos of games he puts up that I'm not very interested in, just because I enjoy his view on things and his witty persona.

Your videos could be amazing, but if you don't have a good personality you're boned.

I suppose it could also help to try get your videos liked by more well known youtubers, though how you'd go about doing that without being obvious I dont know.

I'd also suggest don't mark Skyrim videos.

Every time I upload a really good video it gets ignored for the first two days
I mean they aren't commentaries of anything, just short funny or cool skyrim clips at the moment. So do I have to make enough videos or something...I don't know; any help would be greatly appreciated.

How do you know they're really good? And as I stated above, I watch Lets Plays or video game footage by people for the commentaries, not to see something like a funny bug or the person pretending to teabag an npc. I'm not saying you have these in your videos, which leads me to probably the most important point.

If you want people to watch your videos, where are the links to them? How can I judge your video unless you provide me a link? I could be a lazy or busy man. Had you provided a channel link in your OP I might have clicked it, then I might have subbed.

You've got to advertise yourself