YouTube channel growth requires a balanced approach combining live streaming for watch hours, quality content creation, proper video categorization, and consistent engagement with viewers; creators should try live streaming even on new channels as YouTube actively promotes it, and while shorts can help reach 1,000 subscribers quickly, long-form videos are essential for monetization and sustainable growth.
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>> Hi, good morning.
Thank you for doing this live stream.
>> Happy weekend, guys.
It's another beautiful weekend.
Hi.
Okay, let me fix this.
Don't mind everything. You're still here. I'm actually baking. Let me go get my Okay.
Hi, good morning.
Hi's everything. Hi YouTube.
How is YouTube treating us all?
Okay, let's have this here.
Hi. Daily prayer with Wendy. Good morning. How you doing?
How is everything?
Hello.
I guess I know today Saturday actually people will be very busy.
Um, hi D. Um, daily prayer with Wendy. How's your channel?
How is everything?
I'm trying to bake cake for we all. It's weekend.
Okay.
So these here I'm doing good. How are you doing today?
I'm fine.
I'm doing very fine.
I'm doing very fine. Come and join me.
I'm baking. Want to make some cupcake.
Yes.
Wow. I love to have a bit.
You're welcome.
Don't worry. Once I finish baking, I just finished mixing it actually. So, I'll be fixing it in the pan and bake it.
Okay. So, here's our cupcake.
Our cupcake arm and um Thank you guys for joining this live stream. How are we all doing?
Let me nice.
I'm coming, baby.
Okay.
Yes.
Okay. Do we have any baker in the house?
Because I want to have a I want to have a mix of um is it sponge cake and red velvet?
Something like that.
So, I'm just going to mix going to add this red velvet powder.
And besides, nobody is talking. How you guys doing now?
Yo guys, you guys are not talking.
I can go over there.
And voila, we have red velvet.
Is this not what bakers actually do?
They'll just add um red powder to it.
And they're going to call it red velvet. Red velvet cake.
Red velvet.
So, we have our red velvet already. So, let me just add this.
Yeah. So your bread Okay, my channel is good, but I've not gotten my watch hours. So, what's the current watch hours?
What's your current watch hours? I mean, and another thing is how about the views? Are you getting views on your on your videos?
Because if you're getting views, right, you're going to see that you'll be having watch hours also. So, what's your current watch hours?
Um, let me stand on this.
Hi. Okay. Worship leader. Good morning.
How you doing?
Thank you for joining this live stream.
Come and join us. We're making cake.
We are making cake.
How are you doing?
Man, the smell is so nice.
Oh, I'm doing fantastic. Praise God. How you doing today? I'm fine. I'm very, very fine.
I'm very, very fine. How is everything?
Hi, grow with good to have you here.
Happy weekend.
At the end of this live stream, we're going to be sharing cake. So, you want to stay on this live stream, right?
Okay. So, I'm done with the first set.
We're going to be baking this and every one of us will be having a piece of this.
Okay, now let me fix the second one. I'm just going to Oh, oh my god. I think I have a lot of messages. Wish you the same. Wow. Good to have you here.
I'm I'm only getting 20 to 40 views. My views are still at 40.
Wow. Okay. Another thing is, have you tried live streaming? Because I guess you're into you're a fitness channel, right? Have you tried live streaming? A lot of people are getting watch hours from live stream. I started a channel a like I opened a channel wasn't last month and today is the first time that I'm going to be going live on that channel and I was so surprised with the amount of views and engagement I had.
You understand? So you should have you should try live stream on your channel.
it will come and then you should also keep uploading on your channel. The views will definitely come. Okay, just make sure that what you're uploading is actually very good content that people can engage and relate to it and the views will come. So I also advise that you try live streaming as well. Okay, there are a lot of prayers channels that are that are actually um that are actually going live. Let me take this thing.
So there are a lot of live I mean a lot of prayer channel that are also going live without even having to show their face and I've made a video about it on my channel. So if they're into the prayer niche is very very easy trying to go live. YouTube is actually going to push it. When I tried I just said let me try it on my new channel because I've not uploaded one single video on that channel. Like I don't have any videos.
So, I just named it. I've not even even optimized the channel. I've not done anything that a creator is supposed to do. You understand? And I was so surprised immediately when I went live.
I had over over 14 people joined the live stream. This is a brand new channel that doesn't have videos, that doesn't have any optimization. So, I was surprised to see that YouTube is actually YouTube actually pushed the live stream and people were subscribing right from my live stream. that that is on the other channel not this one and people really engaged because I was engaging with guys people were you know dropping comments and I was like wow it's like this channel has potential you understand so you should try that okay I am songwriting that means you write songs wow look good thank you so much I'm trying to reach 1,000 subscribers okay let me fix the tripod so that I can do other things and also talk to you guys.
Okay, I'm trying to reach 1,000 subscribers.
All right, I'll be trying. But you see, you want to subscribe very very fast for subscriber, you want to make sure that you're uploading shorts. But still I don't really encourage uploading shots all the time. You understand? Because if you upload more of shots alone and then you want to start uploading your long videos, it is going to affect your channel. You understand? Like I always say, there's a balancing to everything.
Okay.
And you can al yeah I'm even going to be dropping a video probably this evening you understand. So okay if you don't mind if you don't mind if you don't mind. I got a lot of views but enough but I got a lot of views but enough subscribers. Okay that means you got views but it's not converting to subscribers. Right? If it's not converting to subscribers, you see the main thing is for you to be getting views. If you're getting views, definitely to convert to subscribers. It may actually look slow, but you're going to see that to convert.
Okay.
So, it's going to convert.
Okay. Then, okay. Yes. I've been doing a lot of shorts.
Is it just short you're doing on your channel?
Like is it just short you're doing your channel or long videos or you're just focused but you just want to be a short creator.
It's going to be a short question. In fact, that's the fastest way for you to get on if you want to be a short.
But if you're hoping to, you know, do long form videos, you want to make sure that even as you're doing the long form videos, I mean, if you want to make long form videos, you want to make sure that even as you're uploading shorts, you're balancing in the long.
It's actually going to do somehow when you want to start uploading a lot of videos. You understand?
Okay. I've been I I Okay, I do some I've been uploading a lot of videos.
All right. Another thing I'm going to advise you is look for someone that similar to what you're doing people that write to this. And another thing, make sure that you're categorizing your videos properly before uploading it. You understand? There's a particular category that goes into that kind of Okay, let me turn off the light.
Thank you for updating. Yeah, you're welcome, guys. You guys are welcome. We have 16 people here. Let me see. We have how many cupcakes? This is a cupcake of 12.
So, 12 12 - 16 - 12. We still need more cupcakes. But don't worry, just stay on the live stream. We going to build more cakes for you guys.
Okay.
All right.
Let me see.
You're welcome. You're welcome. Please help me like this live stream.
I would have loved to but but I only have one cupcake.
Let me see.
Okay.
So, YouTube treating you guys. I don't know if anyone has noticed the algorithm is really something else recently.
like the way you normally video no longer video like that. And this same thing happened around late December last year. I noticed it. I noticed it like you're getting views before it just drop and a lot of people have been complaining because I've seen a lot of people talking about it. Yes, I've seen a lot of people talking about it that there's something going on with the algorithm. I don't know.
I'm coming, guys.
Sorry for keeping you guys with me. I had to go and Oh, that's maybe I did. Okay, that's maybe I did a lot of shots when I started the channel earlier February though I was able to get more than 2k subscribers but I became more consistent a lot. So how is the turn of so the turn of people just So it's up to 3 months of consistent posting of long form videos. Yes, I've not completed. Yes, the thing is completing of watch hours depends, right? There are some channels that that don't rely just on long form just like mine. I didn't rely just from my long form video. I was doing live streaming.
I was doing puzzles. This restream thing. I'm going to be see there's one brand new method people are using now for 4,000 watch hours. I'll probably drop the video by Monday. Okay. So, for me, I'm going to be honest. I didn't just rely on my long form videos to, you know, give me if I was relying on my long form videos, probably I wouldn't have been able to monetize my channel in just 30 days. So, I didn't rely just on that. So my videos were giving me um watch hours. My live stream was also giving me watch hours and I was also doing the stream at that time. So and it really worked for me. It really I mean it really really worked for me. So I'm going to be dropping another update on how you can get 4,000 watch hours. So you want to try um live streaming if you're showing your face. In fact that's nice. It will be very espec if you're not camera shy try to go live on your channel especially you see Saturdays I noticed for my own channel when I was doing um this live streaming I noticed on Saturdays and if I'm doing restream also I there were some days that I noticed that people used to engage so I mean so much that from one live stream you can get more than 200 watch you can get more than 300, you can get 100 depending, you understand? So these were the things that helped me. So you want to try live stream also because if you rely on just your nonform videos except if you have a viral video maybe you're lucky to get a viral video then that way you're going to you know quickly accumulate the watch hours because one video alone also can give you can also give you that 4,000 watch hours you're looking for. But you it has to really get a lot of views like like a viral video and has to get a lot a lot of engagement.
You understand?
Okay.
I have spent 8 months here still not close to monetization. Okay. What niche are you? Because some niche there are some niche that actually struggle. So I actually wanted to do I think when I start when I started this channel I've said this several times when I started this channel I was actually doing um lifestyle lifestyle like something like this just like I'm baking baking I make videos you know a lot of things like that driving out those things stuff like that but I was just getting five views in a month and out of those five views probably two were from my other channels because nobody knows me and who cares to watch what I'm doing. Do you understand? So there are some niche that really struggles except if you have other social media platform except if you have other social media platform that people know you very well.
So probably you're influential and then you come to YouTube and that way you can start getting engagement. You understand?
Okay. My channel Okay. Okay. Okay. I didn't get that gold. Oh, fitness.
That's fitness. I'm not going to lie.
That fitness. Anyways, fitness is actually a very good one.
What I advise cuz I don't watch fitness videos so I can't say right. What I advise you do is look for those into the fitness niche also. See what they are doing and see what you are doing differently. You understand? Just compare their channel. see how they are doing their things and check your own and see where you're not getting it right. You understand? So I think that should help.
Okay. Daily prayers. Sure. I knew when I heard the name I already knew that your channel is actually faceless channel.
Yes, you can go live. You can go live on your faceless channel. I made a video recently on how to get um 4,000 watch hours even as a faceless channel and how to go live on your faceless channel even without having to show your face. You understand? So you want to you want to try that?
Hey madame ify where have you been?
It's been a very very very Let me let me drag the very very well.
very very very very very very very very very long time. Did you travel? It's been a while we saw you on YouTube. Good morning. How are you doing?
It's been to have you here. Yes. So, I had to drag you very because you you are just so scared like we can't we didn't even see. I was even thinking maybe you travel because it's been a while I saw your videos.
How you doing? How's the weekend?
Is everything I'm baking cake? I'm baking cake in my front. This is it.
Honestly, the very very supposed to Oh, no wonder. Yeah. So, have you finished the exam? How's the exam?
How did the exam go?
That exam sitting down for exam is you actually need concentration. Well, I understand.
So, how was it now? Have you finished anyway network? Please be nice.
I don't know. It seems like this thing is hanging.
Please, if you can see me, please help me um either like this video or just drop something so that I know that I'm not the one talking because seems like something is hanging that big.
Okay. Okay. Okay. I can see comments.
Okay. Thank God. I'm combining so many things with YouTube. Yes. Done for now.
Yeah, I understand.
It's not easy. May God make it easy for all of us.
Oh, that's nice. I wish you success though.
Okay. Thanks, Puky. You're welcome.
Daily prayers. I'll be waiting to hear from you. Um, daily prayers. I'll be waiting to see the results. Okay. Let me know how it goes. If you try the live stream, okay, there are times if you try the live stream probably for the first time, you may not you may not get that much views, but if you are consistent with it, just like I said, my own channel, the channel that I even had any video that this today is the first time I was actually going live on that channel and I was surprised with the way people really really engaged and you know, I even got subscribers right from the live stream. Okay, so you want to try that.
You want to eat cake? Don't worry. The cake is on fire. I'm going to share cake for everybody here. Don't worry. Don't worry.
Let me put this one.
Okay.
I send my Okay, you can hear me. I don't worry. Everybody's having A a cupcake. Everybody's going to be having a cupcake. Yeah.
Oh my god.
Let me show you.
I just want What's up now? Nobody's talking again.
Nobody's talking. Nobody's talking.
What's going on? What's going on? What's going on?
Please, did anybody notice the game that these people are doing right now? I mean, YouTube, they are very nice. They're currently very very light today.
Currently very very nice.
A thank you so much sis. Thank you so much.
Honestly as in ah everyone I saw a particular video that the guy was just complaining they said even Mr. Beast self guy's view has dropped like I say a whole Mr. Here I'm what's going on they so what's like people are complaining so like just I don't fear let me not say too much yeah but we keep pushing anyways we keep pushing keep pushing Keep pushing.
And one thing that surprised me despite the fact that we are really seeing demonetization channels, demonet I saw one particular channel, fucktail channel. This channel is not even up to two months and this channel is already monetized. If you see the heavy views, like I don't understand. They are demonetizing faceless channels, but yet they are pushing this channel so so much. Like it's so so heavy that you're going to be seeing hundreds of views, 500 views. In fact, I saw one 2 million. The person uploaded the video in just few hours and the video already has over 360 something,000,000 views.
them. I they still demonetizing them and the way they are pushing their videos heavily is just so surprising.
Hi Clifford.
Good to have you here.
Good to have you here.
I don't know probably we are missing out something about this because I don't understand.
I don't understand.
I really don't understand what was going on when I I was contemplate just understanding you understand they demonetizing them and they also see massive views even ordinary channel where they struggle do optimization do everything like that still struggling things. Yes, they do. So we keep pushing regardless. Exactly.
They keep pushing.
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