Appeasing the YouTube - Quick Thoughts

Proud that I've been able to keep up on my don't starve series but I don't think honestly that's going to do anything on its own.  It's like filler with nothing to stuff it into, I need something that some people can actually use for these games. 

If you want to get more views on YouTube you need to do a few things.  While granted I always feel proud and want more subscriptions I also just want to put out something people will find entertaining or maybe engaging.  Here's my short list of collected thoughts on how to help a channel thrive.

1. Regular Updates - It seems so simple but at the same time I have struggled immensely with it.  You need to be predictable, be consistent, keep people engaged and not stagnate otherwise you're going to end up dropped when someone decides to clean out all those 'dead channels' they watched.

2. Real Content - This is what I've been mulling over for a while.  I like my don't starve series and I'm getting better just by doing it but it doesn't offer anything other than a chuckle here or there.  If you want to engage more people you should consider offering a little more.  Offer up advice or how to guides.  Just think of how many people go threw the wiki every day and in some cases the wiki's link popular how to guides.  That could be your how to guide link!

3. Participate - There are threads out there that discuss these games, and there are other you tubers who make videos and roam the net.  Leaving comments on other channels or participating in forums is a good way to get traffic.  I don't mean spamming 'check out my channel' on every other channel you visit.  Sadly that may work but it might just get you more negative attention being a dick move really.  Simply leaving a good comment and participating can help.  A good profile picture and signature couldn't hurt either.

4. Interact - This is just something new I'm thinking about.  It seems important that you need to engage and interact with your audience.  Figure out how they heard about you and find out what they like.  Keep in mind you shouldn't ever slave to their interests as its more important that you stay interested in your channel than anyone else.  If you can do something special for your viewers they might help bring you more traffic.  Simple things like engaging with questions, doing pulls, or offering to put someone or some idea into the video.  Anything fun really will work.

5. Go Pro - Don't release any personal garbage.  Nobody wants to hear your drama unless it winds up on cable or better yet the six o'clock news.  So unless you're screaming 'leave Britney alone' and want people to laugh at you, you're really just unloading drama onto people who ultimately have nothing to do with it nor really care for the most part.  Though I will grant I've seen a very select 'few' cases where people need to discuss something semi serious or explain a lack of content.  They can end up better off for it but that's still risky to unload on the collective mind that is the internet.  I'm thinking mostly high school level 'he said she said' drama should be avoided.

And that's where I am on this right now.

6 days off in a row?  Yup, back to school is over and I have to get something done.

I recently got into Don't Starve again for a lets play and kind of realized two things.  Finish what I start.  Not going to cut the series out after 3 episodes this time, gona keep going till I explode.

Second, I love Don't starve.  Games have developed this cool trend that works like free expansion packs.  Getting games early, via indie developers, kickstarter, etc, games keep growing and growing as they're being worked on.  I have a game that just keeps getting better, keeps changing and the replay value has gone threw the roof!

Already I play this game Don't Starve and have found so many things that I've never seen before.  In the famous words of Honeydew from Yogscast, "It's like a WHOOOOLE new game"