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Cheers my friend! May your adventures find you fame and fortune!
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Thanks for all the great content. Merry Christmas.
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You've fast become one of my top favourite skyrim channels! I really enjoy your editing, storytelling and commentary. And the secret word is....coffee!
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my first coffee! Thank you! I don't remember my first RL cup of coffee. I only remember that I started drinking coffee black, no milk, no sugar, because it made me feel like James Dean on the poster where he wears that rain coat. Anyway, thanks a lot.
Always a pleasure! However I must admit my surprise at being the first, I expected to wait in line to get into the coffee shop. That is to say, the quality of your videos show a great deal of time, effort and talent going into their production and feel they rate a much wider audience. Would you be open to a few friendly suggestions?
With pleasure! First off, enter "Skyrim Anniversary Edition" into YT search. Click the 'FILTERS' icon at the top and choose 'Channel' under 'TYPE'. This will give you a listing of your competitors. OK? Scroll to find where you're listed. It's placement tells you how relevant YT feels your channel is to the search term (Note who's #1!). You're not too far down the list but it's way too low. The idea is to move it up; the more relevant the Channel within a niche, the more likely YT will serve up its videos as suggestions to viewers it's identified as having an interest in it. And YT's Suggested Videos is one of the most effective ways to reach your target audience. Follow? Now, notice that all of the Verified Accounts (those with a checkmark icon after their Name) are above you in the listing, without exception. So, the very first thing I'd suggest is for you to get your account verified, YT obviously feels it's important and is using that Status in its ranking algorithm. I believe in working/playing smarter, not harder.
thank you for the suggestions. My account is verified. Otherwise I could not upload videos longer than 15 minutes.
You're speaking of phone verification, which gives you the option of custom thumbnails and few other Features. But that doesn't give you the Verification Badge, the grey checkmark icon next to one's Brand Name. Now, THAT requires 100K subscribers to obtain! So, what is it I'm suggesting when I say that's the First Step? Well, every successful journey first requires correctly determining the destination. Otherwise one risks meandering around in circles. My suggestion is, before proceeding further, you first set a goal, maybe not that- perhaps you'd be more comfortable with just getting a thousand subs and 4K viewed hours to monetize the channel. Fair enough, but define it as well as possible and only then begin charting the path to it. Does that make sense?
Well, in one of my next videos, there is an epilogue line: I am not playing the youtube game. I am playing Skyrim. You are right. The question, where does, where should the journey go, is an important one. And I have an answer: as far as it can go with as little bending my principles as possible. I am not interested in clickbait. It bores me to continously ask for subs, so I decided to keep that to a minimum and be happy with what I can achieve. Now I know that support from other website is pretty important, or else no one knows your channel even exists. Reddit would seem like an obvious choice, but they make it pretty hard to self promote. I am on a forum and if I find new and interesting places, where the content of my channel would fit, I would put it out there. The other thing is to buy subs and views, to actually invest in channel growth. I don't want to do that either. Does that make sense? IDK, but it feels right this way so far.
Yes, I understand what you're saying, especially about playing the YouTube game. It can seem to be much more daunting at first than it actually is. Well, the second thing I'd suggest is to decide who it is that will make this journey. Either "Boon TWENTYTHREE" or "Boon TWO THIRTYEIGHT". I'd choose the first since it's much easier to change the Channel Name at this point than all the videos where boon23 is used.
Very good, you now have a consistent Brand Name and it would've been much more difficult to correct later. Be certain to update your Patreon, Coffee Club and other accounts to reflect the change. You may have to redo some from scratch, better to do so now than after you've formed a community. Next, I'd do YT Search for "Skyrim Anniversary Edition", filtered by 'TYPE'> 'Channel' and, from now on, use it as a Leaderboard because, in a very real sense, it is. I'll point out that, since the time we started this conversation, you've moved up, passing "MxR Mods". a channel with that Verified Badge. This progress tells us that YT is considering you more relevant to the Search Term. A good thing!
I think you might find this enjoyable... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwhCE_HL570&list=PL4FvpWtvq31Rawq25j_uTdXzq0bmDx8j8&index=1
I am about to change all that to make a consistent channel. Thanks so much for your help and support so far. That Deepfake Joe Biden video: simply great!
Great! You've corrected a problem that would've come back to haunt you later or, worse, would've kept your Channel from ever getting off of the ground. I trust you have set a reasonable Goal for yourself. You don't have to tell me what it is but I will say if it's to convince your significant other your playtime is really, really worthwhile- forget it. It'll never happen! hehehe
Seriously, my next suggestion is much more important and that is to consider your target audience. This is critical because unless you correctly identify who you're trying to reach, you'll never address their needs properly and will fail to gain traction in a very competitive landscape. And what is the target audience for a "playthrough"? It's mainly people who are considering purchasing the game and their needs are to know if the game is fun, challenging and going to be worth getting. Now, we're both fans of Major Slack, right? Consider my own story and see if resembles yours. I love RPGs and have been into them since the heyday of D&D in the 70's but even more so when video games took up the genre. I followed the Elder Scrolls series from the beginning, thought Skyrim finally got it right and played it daily for 2 years. But then I got bored, it became too easy to develop an OP character and all the quest lines became too familiar. Then, last fall, I began to hear of the Anniversary Edition, with tons of new content. And, before spending the $20 upgrade on my Steam account, I started looking for walkthroughs to see if the hype was deserved. And, of course, found the Major. He not only convinced me to make the purchase but got another Subscriber because he was both entertaining and informative. I binge watched his videos for over a month to not only get a handle on the new content but to familiarize myself again with the basic game after being away from it for 8 years. Not so much now though, because I'm spending a lot of my time playing the game and there's only so many hours in a day. Does that sound anything like your story?
Indeed it does. I got inspired by MajorSlack to REALLY play the game. I found my own strategies for that and being an artist anyway, I thought I could try and do my own take. Well, my target audience are actually not people wanting to learn the game, but the small group of people enjoying to watch a Skyrim adventure that is challenging and focused, maybe something they wouldn't do, because it sounds crazy and impossible. I started calling my videos walkthrough, but realized that I am not interested in that, so I switched to playthrough. The things I like about MajorSlack are of course his style, his humor, his skill. The things I don't like are his mechanized way of playing the game and leaving out the adventure. So this is where I wanted to come in. And the goal is: give my best effort without becoming youtube's bitch, stick to my way and see how deep the rabbit hole is.
I might point out that the "crazy and impossible" market has been pretty well captured by this guy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmpXf0nFCII :)
And Major Slack's rabbit hole is nearly 14 years deep. He started with FPS coverage (Bioshock and Far Cry 2) and a web site (http://majorslack.com, still up but long abandoned). Along the way, he formed a second YT channel (MSA), abandoning the first (MSV) but came back to it a year and a half later to develop both (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFfYIdOnsH4 & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpvy_v6bpDg). In the meantime, he started a FaceBook group (now defunct) and a Twitter account (still active). Consider that throughout it all, he's published well over 7,500 videos (he's known to have deleted quite a few as well, including at least one walkthrough in its entirety) and you might get an idea of the effort he's put into it. The Major certainly is one of the hardest workers on YT, for sure! In contrast, the collaborative efforts of Scott and Matthew (FudgeMuppet), who targeted the role playing community and those interested in the lore of the Elder Scrolls franchise shows what can be accomplished with 1,600 videos when working smarter. Just saying...
wise words again. It takes time. It takes work. It takes effort. And probably a lot of endurance and not letting it go. As for the vidoes my next 2 playthroughs are already planned and for now I am keeping to that exhausting 1 video per day schedule, because it really gave a big push to the channel. I will also continue to let 2 series run at the same time. It seems to be a good idea, considering that the series are long. I want to thank you very much for your input.
It's been great talking with you and I'm pleased if I might have helped you along. I hope your hard work results in many more coffees, you certainly deserve them! But if you ever tire of the grind and decide to go about it differently, please keep me in mind.