Hi-di-ho,
It's been a second since I last posted anything here but I figured I might as well stop by and say hello.
Let me start out by saying that my gaming YouTube channel is still going and I still upload a new video each and every week. I think I missed maybe one or two weeks a few months ago but I am really trying to get videos up each and every week and to actually have something to them more than just watching me playing a game. I set myself a little task or at least make the video focus on a specific aspect of the game I'm playing.
I was working on the channel today that may me want to drop by and write this down. Today I have roughly three and half hours of footage that will make my episode for this week. There is a lot of grinding and not so exciting aspects to the footage so I need to cut it down to my usual 20 to 30 minute video length. That basically means I have to watch and rewatch the three and half hours of footage and cut out the boring bits whilst still keeping the story line making sense. Once I've cut it down I then usually try and find the background music and tie it to the video so it makes sense and adds to the video. So ambient music when just kicking around, action movie music in exciting parts, and so on. Then once that's done I do the voice over and then I do subtitles. There's hours and hours of work involved.
The good news is that my videos seem to be well received and my channel is growing. At times I think my channel is growing too slowly and I'll never make anything of it and at other times my channel seems to leap forward. I've tried figuring out if it is my content or the schedule that I upload new content but I really think it is just the YouTube algorithm figuring out who my viewers are and then it is targeting that demographic and seeing if it makes a difference. It would be a bit of a balancing act for YouTube as if they don't promote new creators then they'll go stale, but the new creators can't monetise their videos so YouTube wouldn't be making anything much from their videos.
Anyway, I now think about what it would have been like trying to make motocamping videos and cringe. The effort involved in finding the time to get away, camp, film it all, then get back and edit it all would probably be too much for me. Not to mention if I spent all that effort to make a video and no one watched it, that would be very disheartening.
There's a motocamping channel that I used to follow when I thought I was going to do it myself, he hasn't uploaded anything for over a year now and he videos are pretty good and somewhat similar to what I wanted to make. His early videos are now at something like 60,000 views but his more recent ones are lucky to be at 400 views. I'm not sure what happened to his channel but I'm betting he just found it too hard to keep making content on a regular schedule. His channel was active for around 4 years so he really put in a solid effort and he wasn't really rewarded for it. He would have been lucky to make $200 a year from his channel for all that effort. Whilst that's still $200 more than I've ever made from YouTube I would hope that after four years I'm at least making that every month otherwise it's not really worth it apart from it being a hobby.
Recently my channel has taken off a little, I grew by around 50 subscribers in the last couple of weeks so I'm now at just over 300 subscribers. A video I made several months ago suddenly took off and got a couple of thousand views which is amazing, yet I have some videos with only 40 or so views on them which I think are just as good if not better. So it's a little interesting seeing how it is all working out.
I don't really do any promotion of the channel anywhere, I occasionally post something on Reddit but that's very rarely and I've really been letting YouTube do all the heavy lifting for me.
On to other matters, I still want to change jobs and I almost walked off the other day but that's a whole blog in itself, I've basically had enough and my care level is completely gone, which could be a good thing as I'll just do my own thing and to hell with everyone else. I'm really starting to plan my long service leave now and looking at possible dates.
Which leads me on to the new house, well it's still getting built. The build itself is moving along, it's going slower than my wife would like but I think we're still on track for moving in the week before Christmas. The plan is to take a month or two of long service leave once we're in the new house to sort out a few things and just enjoy the new place.
Thanks for stopping by!
Bomber
Still doing the same things as always
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