what helped you to grow on youtube?

[Olaf]

Okay so I want to talk a little bit about youtube. First of all I will give my secrets away, for me the best way to grow is to use someone famous in a niche and have some drama about them or involve them in a subject. This is working well to get maybe 1k to 4k views. Especially when I edit it well and work on the thumbnail etc. Now what has helped you to grow on youtube? and what are some things that helped you to get more reach? I am curious to hear. Even if you are in a different niche then me, I think I can still learn from you and also the other people on this forum.

Edited Sunday at 10:15 PM by Olaf

[Lyubov]

I make travel vlogs. It’s not easy at all. Every place has been visited before. It’s challenging to be original. I don’t think it’s necessarily so easy to put out consistently original and excellent content in huge volumes. It’s possible to either put out more shallow shit often or better content but it takes more time, energy, etc. 

[Olaf]

I have two questions for you. What do you specifically mean by more shallow shit? Also what do you mean by making better content specifically? 

[Lyubov]

On 8/4/2026 at 4:07 AM, Olaf said:

I have two questions for you. What do you specifically mean by more shallow shit? Also what do you mean by making better content specifically? 

So I am one person and I have to balance my other responsibilities while making videos. 

In order to grow on YouTube you need to produce decent content people wanna watch. Your videos need to be both good and hold people’s attention + be consistent in output since the platform is driven by frequent production of new videos. You usually don’t make one video then have a successful channel with a million subs.

You need to put out lots and lots of videos. Therefore you need a system for your content in order to make it sustainable. As a single person you can put out weekly videos but they will usually be shallow and not very good if you are producing one a week. Because you only have one week’s worth of time to make it. If you are publishing once a month you have more time to produce the video and refine it but you are not keeping up with the algorithm.

The big channels either A) earned the right to publish infrequently by having built up a core audience over the years posting frequently or B) still post frequently but have a whole production team that is able to bridge the gap between algorithm and quality. 

I do travel vlogs which is largely a passion thing. It’s one of the harder niches to consistently publish in and it’s difficult to sustain frequent travel. I’m not sure if it’s viable for the long term financially but there are views in it and hopefully a way to meet like minded people. 

[LordFall]

Feel free to link your channels and I'll subscribe! Here is mine

https://www.youtube.com/@Kyle_Fall/

I'm not great at Youtube but my most viewed video got 100K views in 24 hours when I posted it on the league of legends subreddit and got me the 400 subscribers I have overnight. So my recommendation would be similar to yours but to use other platforms and distribution channels to push your content as solely relying on the Youtube algorithm for growth is like canoeing across the ocean. 

[Xonas Pitfall]

On 03/08/2026 at 0:11 AM, Olaf said:

Okay so I want to talk a little bit about youtube. First of all I will give my secrets away, for me the best way to grow is to use someone famous in a niche and have some drama about them or involve them in a subject. This is working well to get maybe 1k to 4k views. Especially when I edit it well and work on the thumbnail etc. Now what has helped you to grow on youtube? and what are some things that helped you to get more reach? I am curious to hear. Even if you are in a different niche then me, I think I can still learn from you and also the other people on this forum.

What niche are you in?

To be honest, a lot of YouTube is about finding what has gone viral recently. Look for outliers. Find channels where one video or title massively outperformed the rest. For example, if a channel usually gets around 1,000 views but one video gets 50,000, that's worth studying. Then recreate that idea or make a better version of it, and do the same with the thumbnail; copy the title/topic. VIDIq is a cool extension for finding these "outlier" videos. You can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CvaITrXKwQ Editing is also worth investing in, whether that's learning the style yourself by recreating these kinds of videos or hiring a good editor. Retention is huge, especially the hook.

That said, it heavily depends on your goals. If you're trying to sell something, for example, it's often better to have a smaller audience that's highly aligned with your niche than to go viral just for the sake of going viral.