Help me promote my YouTube channel

[andrewthomas]

Hello Guys,

Here's what I need your help with: a few months ago, I've started a YouTube channel. At the moment of writing, I have 16 videos and will try to publish two per week from now on.

My best video currently has 5,244 views, the second most popular one is at 3,849 and I have a few right around the 1,000 view mark. Not too shabby, especially for a channel that hasn't been promoted properly yet but I want to take things to the next level.

When I'm not actively promoting the channel, it averages one new subscriber per day.

The only meaningful promotion I've done so far has been submitting some of the videos to Reddit. One of them (the fractional reserve banking one) ended up on page 1 of the bitcoin subreddit, had some on page 1 of less popular subreddits. While none of them went amazingly viral, they did ok.

What can I do to promote the channel aside from the Reddit thingy?

1) Any decent Reddit alternatives you can recommend?

2) What else have you done to increase the traffic of your YouTube videos?

3) Are there any decent paid services you'd recommend?

 

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[emse7en]

Hello Guys,

Here's what I need your help with: a few months ago, I've started a YouTube channel. At the moment of writing, I have 16 videos and will try to publish two per week from now on.

My best video currently has 5,244 views, the second most popular one is at 3,849 and I have a few right around the 1,000 view mark. Not too shabby, especially for a channel that hasn't been promoted properly yet but I want to take things to the next level.

When I'm not actively promoting the channel, it averages one new subscriber per day.

The only meaningful promotion I've done so far has been submitting some of the videos to Reddit. One of them (the fractional reserve banking one) ended up on page 1 of the bitcoin subreddit, had some on page 1 of less popular subreddits. While none of them went amazingly viral, they did ok.

What can I do to promote the channel aside from the Reddit thingy?

1) Any decent Reddit alternatives you can recommend?

2) What else have you done to increase the traffic of your YouTube videos?

3) Are there any decent paid services you'd recommend?

Reddit can be good if done right. I certainly could be a lot better about that. I have content that has made it to the top of all of reddit and still sits on the top posts of all time. But it was a gif of my video and didn’t drive much of any traffic to my YouTube. Reddit is one of the few platforms that doesn’t frown on linking to outside websites. Other big social media companies will throttle your exposure if trying to link away from their platform.

2. The best way I’ve been able to increase traffic is to collaborate with other youtubers. Be creative on how you can add value to them.

3. I don’t have any recommendations on paid services. Maybe you pay a YouTuber to mention you.


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[EricFromCanada]

Hello Guys,

Here's what I need your help with: a few months ago, I've started a YouTube channel. At the moment of writing, I have 16 videos and will try to publish two per week from now on.

My best video currently has 5,244 views, the second most popular one is at 3,849 and I have a few right around the 1,000 view mark. Not too shabby, especially for a channel that hasn't been promoted properly yet but I want to take things to the next level.

When I'm not actively promoting the channel, it averages one new subscriber per day.

The only meaningful promotion I've done so far has been submitting some of the videos to Reddit. One of them (the fractional reserve banking one) ended up on page 1 of the bitcoin subreddit, had some on page 1 of less popular subreddits. While none of them went amazingly viral, they did ok.

What can I do to promote the channel aside from the Reddit thingy?

1) Any decent Reddit alternatives you can recommend?

2) What else have you done to increase the traffic of your YouTube videos?

3) Are there any decent paid services you'd recommend?

I created a Youtube Channel that got to around 2,500 subscribers, and around 300k total views a while back as a summer project. Some of the growth was hit and miss with the videos. However I do believe that have a decent understanding on the subject of growing a channel.
1. Here's a video that I found quite useful on how to grow when I was creating my own channel that I recommend you watch.
2. Also recommend checking out this plugin, which I found useful in running my channel. It helps give you tips on ways to improve your video's SEO and helps to show what other channels are doing in your niche. Free version works just fine.
3. Last tip I can give is to comment on videos with similar content to your own. Don't comment asking for people to subscribe to your channel, but instead provide an insightful or valuable comment that people will like. When I used to do this, I got around 20 new subscribers a day if I commented good value on 10 related videos. The idea is that they read your comment, like it, and then they choose on their own to click your channel and check it out. Also one thing to note, don't comment too frequently or Youtube will flag your account as spam. That's why I stuck to about 10 videos a day.

Best of luck, and let me know if there's anything else I can do to help!