[00:02] that takes creators years and years to master but if you're willing to put in the work get your reps in and get some experience it may not take you years and for on YouTube I've studied tons of gaming channels that have grown from0 to
[00:16] 10,000 subscribers in their first month now they're shooting past the 50k 100K and even 300K Mark like this one and this one and this one I've gone out of gaming creators there are such as spiffing Brit to trying and figure out
[00:30] some of their strategies on how they would grow if they had to start all over a new gaming channel or you've been at this for quite a while and you're just we can help you out here before we dive into the advice of someone like spiffing
[00:42] on the algorithm for anyone who's kind of new to this whole YouTube scene first it The algorithm and I want you to think of it from now on as the audience the more an audience watches your videos the longer they watch those videos the more
[00:57] YouTube audience really YouTube's end goal is to make sure that viewer has the viewer is saying hey I like this then they're going to be like cool maybe more viewers do this means that you have to meet the audience's demand so you can
[01:10] make the best video ever about Farming Simulator 2017 but guess what we're well looking for that game you can't expect to get millions of views covering game one's really thinking about anymore but okay what about playing a game like
[01:24] Minecraft something that is kind of old but everyone still owns it and still a different problem because now you have to make the best video in the world because Minecraft is a very saturated Market how are you supposed to stand out
[01:36] there is a much easier and much faster way to get that first thousand for and it doesn't involve you having to become the best Minecraft player in the world you need to play smart and fight battles that you know you can win I
[01:48] would say the fastest way and to get like a th subscribers it's it's not to copy the content of say your favorite creator that you're watching if your goal is only to get th000 subscribers just find something that is a gap in the
[02:03] market that people want to watch but can't see how do you do that well there are a number of ways really you could pick up a game that you absolutely love that the tips and tricks and guides out there are insufficient and maybe you can
[02:16] do what a lot of new creators do and try and find a new upand cominging Emerging Market it could literally be a brand new game is coming out just go harass a developer for an early access key make a few videos on that game get them out
[02:30] the start of it and suddenly you've got an audience appearing out of thin air you don't even have to be interested in the game but trust me that will easily get you to 1,000 subscribers that's what I did it's a walk in the park I promise
[02:44] more people if you don't have a lot of to be maybe an existing audience waiting for somebody to serve them what they're far as to say that's a walk in the park or is it we'll come back to that
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[04:18] example is trying to cross a video game from end to end in one single straight line from tears of the Kingdom to Grand Theft Auto to Skyrim this is something that is starting to become more and more popular as people find it to be a really
[04:30] of different games and scenarios and this trend actually originated from outside of the gaming space itself so for your first attempt if you want the best results here I want you to take an existing format of maybe some kind of
[04:42] bring it to a game that you're already familiar with and that is popular that make sure to study the title and the a similar thing because those can give you guidance I'm not saying you should
[04:56] spin on them it doesn't have to be crossing a map a straight line though it an iconic game like doom and try and do a pacifist run you could speedrun a honestly this is where the creativity part of YouTube comes in the sky the
[05:10] now is give you ideas to avoid making the biggest mistake that I've seen gaming creators make since the dawn of YouTube I call it off-the-shelf content any person can take a video game that they bought online or at a store and sit
[05:22] down and play it so when a YouTuber does it what's the big deal do not post a video where it's just you playing a game exactly how someone else would play the picked it up themselves if you want to stand out take this really popular game
[05:35] and bring something new to it maybe you're really really good at it or you're practicing to do some kind of tournament that's coming up maybe you don't take the game seriously at all channels like let's game it out do this
[05:47] all the time they take a brand new game and they play it in an unintended way so when you start ideating your next gaming video sit down and come up with a solid be cautious here because there is a big Pitfall you do not want to fall into
[06:00] voice on YouTube one of the biggest mistakes that gaming channels make and I partially blame myself for this is that they tend to start with just one game from that one game back in the day I used to tell creators this is a great
[06:14] part of me still believes that because if you are just starting out it's good start to get used to the idea of making videos you really got to be thinking game you're playing is long since dead focus on a certain category of game for
[06:28] example instead of of just one game forever you need to be strategic here you could be the news guy for example but that's a nich market maybe 90% of for that specific game then what this is still a solid strategy from starting a
[06:41] YouTube channel from scratch but keep in mind your total addressable Market here is just small going for gaming challenges opens up that total lead to more competition and basically a total addressable Market is well think
[06:54] is a total addressable market right you want all of the people on YouTube to can't make everybody happy so that's not really possible so you have to Niche Mario games would be a more specific Market Mario speedruns would be a very
[07:10] still pretty big however a really awesome challenge where it almost in people can just sense that it's going to be entertaining now that's a very big longer focuses on just one game anyway there's a lot of nuance around the
[07:24] Market but what you're trying to do as a Creator is cast the widest net possible and one that makes sense what happens if you've already casted too small of a net situation that I'm describing right now where you're just doing one thing and
[07:37] you've succeeded you're getting views or motivation you might be struggling to find a path to grow and you might be got to do something else well it's time to Branch out this is probably the
[07:50] biggest issue branching out from your one audience or your one game is really really challenging because so many creators attempt it and then they feel immediately burnt like they'll go okay I make uh Minecraft content but I really
[08:07] like playing csgo so I'm going to make a csgo video Once the issue is your from that they they're not going to watch that it's going to get 10 out of 10 the Creator will panic and they won't try any new kind of content again for
[08:19] like six months and they'll just keep burnings out on this one game that they don't want to play so if you're going to Branch out there's multiple ways to do it and I think the the best way to do it is to either find another popular
[08:32] is to either find another popular adjacent market so if you play say one popular strategy game play a different popular strategy game Canadian guy a who something similar happened on his own channel he started out by focusing on
[08:44] Crash Bandicoot but he found a way to Pivot and slightly open up his total adressable Market by also covering Spyro he's also found other games that cater like crash and Spyro they already happen to have a lot of crossover themselves
[08:57] is total addressable Market but what if you really want to do Minecraft I mean earlier I said you have to be the best Minecraft player in the world but you've and have success of their own and you don't think they're the best in the
[09:11] world right so yeah maybe you can do it right if you're going to go into a right if you're going to go into a saturated Market it can 100% be done you can do it believe in yourself but also do not just do what other people in the
[09:26] find the Emerging Market inside of that saturated game do you remember the example of the started to pop up a while back these days that concept of spending a 100 days
[09:40] when it first emerged though it was seen as revolutionary and it didn't even begin with Minecraft in the first place 100 days content had been popularized by Indie Games strategy games games like stard Valley creators realized that you
[09:55] saturated but not a lot of people are just trying to spend 100 days straight they brought it into Minecraft and lo and behold it just continued to snowball from there and so if you're going to break into a saturated market like say
[10:08] Minecraft you've got to ENT up with either an established hook that people interesting that is proven to have worked or you've either just gotten a has ever done and it's going to shake
[10:21] hats off to you but that's like a one in a million shot so yes with YouTube you strategic if you want to grow but that doesn't mean you have to do videos that doesn't mean you have to only play a couple of things even if you want to
[10:35] make content about a lot of stuff let's take another look at Canadian Guy this but if you go over to his live streams he's blowing off steam being opinionated let's look at someone like Josh dri ha he's on Twitch but on YouTube he has
[10:50] different purposes and scratch different itches that he has as a Creator a lot of have something in common they build channels about themselves and what makes them unique as people this protects them in case inevitably one day they decide
[11:04] becoming a gaming personality is not easy but in this video here we talk a on a number of different subjects if you're trying to grow a gaming channel you're trying to grow a gaming channel right now