1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours. Why is this important? This is the critical level you need to reach in order to have a chance at monetizing your YouTube channel by putting YouTube ads on your videos.
We started our Tangerine Travels YouTube Channel about three months ago and just reached 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours watched. We've learned a lot over the course of those three months and would have been able to reach that mark faster had we known more about the ins and outs of YouTube.
In this post, we're going to share a few tips and tricks that are going to help you reach 1,000 subscribers fast!
We have two previous posts that will help you grow your channel, so if you didn't see those two posts, you should check those out as well:
Add each video to a playlist and share those playlists
We reached 1,000 subscribers a few days before getting to 4,000 watch hours, so we would have been able to hit the goal a few days sooner had we put a little more focus on getting those hours watched.
If you add each video to a relevant playlist, you can share playlists instead of just sharing videos. This way, people might watch 10 videos of yours instead of just watching one. We now have all of our videos in playlists but we weren't doing this for the longest time.
One of our more-popular playlists is now our Mazatlán, Mexico playlist.
Join niche Facebook groups and share your videos
For us, we're two people from the US who are traveling throughout Mexico. So that means we are in 6-10 Facebook groups that are dedicated to US and Canadian citizens who are traveling throughout or living in Mexico. We write a Steemit post for each YouTube video, then share the Steemit posts in these Facebook groups.
In sharing these Steemit posts, we are able to gain new subscribers, get a lot of watch hours, and send well over 1,000 unique visitors to Steemit every week.
Often times, in addition to sharing the Steemit posts in these Facebook groups, people will have questions about moving to a particular city, say Mazatlán for example. In replying to these people who are asking about a particular city, we send them the link to our playlist for that city (which contains all of the videos that we made in Mazatlán), and that's going to get us a lot more watch hours than just sharing a single video.
Get on Tinder
This might sound like a weird tip to get subscribers, but it worked wonders for us! We created a couple's profile on Tinder "Just looking for friends," put our job as "YouTuber at Tangerine Travels," and watched the subscribers pour in. What can be better than free advertising to tens of thousands of people?
Find popular channels in your niche
Figure out who has the popular channels in your niche and subscribe to their channels. Be sure to click the bell so you're notified the moment they post a new video.
As soon as they post a new video, watch it, and leave a great comment. People will see your comment, click on your channel, and sometimes subscribe.
When commenting, your goal is to get voted to the top of their comment list because the higher you get, the more people who are going to see your comment. This tactic is how we got most of our first 500 subscribers.
I hope you can use these tips to get your channel to 1,000 followers and 4,000 watch hours more quickly. We have more tips that we'll post about at a later time, so be sure to stay tuned for those posts.
Without good content on your YouTube channel you can do whatever you want but still will be hard to get followers...
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Okay this is completely legit. I could see it in the first glance.
Also how does steemit community fair on the you tube following? I mean to ask if someone were to use his you tube videos on steemit - would they have a substantial increase in subscribers ?
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We've gained some subscribers from Steemit but not a lot. If I had to guess, less than 100 of our 1,600 have come from Steemit.
However, Steemit is indirectly responsible for helping our videos rank higher on YouTube. YouTube loves backlinks. So putting our YouTube videos into high-quality blog posts from a high-authority website is going to rank our vids higher. It's impossible to figure out exactly how much it has helped, though.
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Making videos is not my thing but it is definitely interesting to see the effect of steemit on other platforms particularly the non-blockchain ones - that are out of the ecosystem,so to speak. Gives a good idea of what kind of power steemit is wielding out there. Thanks for the info :-)
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When I saw the post you made about reaching 1,000 subscribers few days, I was wowed.
Its so amazing seeing you grow so fast. Its really rare @tangerinetravels. And thanks for writing this to guide and help out the novice amongst us. #smiles
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Great to see you growing so well. Thanks for writing up this guide and helping out beginners. Didn't realize you had a youtube channel but I'll definitely make sure I check it out!
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That's awesome, thanks for checking it out!
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Wow! 1000 youtube subscribers in 3 months is pretty awesome @tangerinetravels. That's a great hard work.
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Good recommendations, I have a channel and I had not started looking for subscribers but I will take it into account, to see if I generate more population and can be applicable to Dtube
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To get more subscriber on youtube, sharing posts on facebook is very important.
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That's one way that we gained some subscribers. Facebook was definitely better for getting watch hours than it was for gaining subscribers though.
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Thanks for the tutorial on youtube channel.Commenting is the useful strategy to get Subscribers
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Commenting on similar channels is the single best way to gain high quality subscribers when you're a small channel in our experience.
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This is really smart. The playlist part got me. That is really a smart move. Ilove this too:
What you are sharing with us is a valuable lesson, so we wouldn't repeat your mistakes and also achieve things faster. This speaks a lot about your kind of person; adorable and selfless. Thank you so much.
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nice post, success is always for you friend
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Greetings friend, great tips to monetize content on networks, there is a lot of money on the internet and it takes very few people, we certainly need a piece of that cake. Thanks for sharing.
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Gracias por las sugerencias. Buen Post.
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Thanks for the tutorial
Great post @communitycoin
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Congratulations for reaching such a milestone in just three months. I'm sure some people would still consider it a great accomplishment if they reach such an height in a year... Smile
This is the summary of all we've been learning from you so far, thank you for your simplicity and sincerity. All the principle learnt are not meant for YouTube alone, it can also be implemented in other spare of life, that's the beauty of your teaching.
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You reached 1000+ viewers in Just view months and I'm sure you will still get More and more because you too understand YouTube. And it's features including term and conditions
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Bhāla prastābanā, āmāra ēkaṭi cyānēla āchē ēbaṁ āmi grāhakadēra sandhāna śuru karini kintu āmi ēṭi bibēcanāẏa nitē pāri, āmi ārō janasaṅkhyā uṯpanna karē kinā tā dēkhatē ēbaṁ Dtube ē prayōjya hatē pārē.
Āpani ēta bhāla kramabardhamāna dēkhatē grēṭa. Ē'i gā'iḍaṭi lēkhāra jan'ya dhan'yabāda ēbaṁ natunadēra sāhāyya karāra jan'ya dhan'yabāda. Āpani ēkaṭi i'uṭi'uba cyānēla chila upalabdhi nā kintu āmi spaṣṭabhābē āmi ēṭi cēka ā'uṭa karatē habē!
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