My Journey into the YouTube and Game Industries… Month 60
Hi Guys
Here is the update for the last the month!
First off, I’d want to mention that previous articles have always had the following…
“I live in South Africa and there is a problem with the electricity provider (ESKOM)!!
However in my new office we now have an inverter and battery pack. I should be able to get more work done with little downtime!!…
SO HERE ARE THE DAYS!!…”
This will be the last time I will be writing this post.
Since I always wanted my readers to be aware of the circumstance I find myself in at the moment, this will be the final time I will be posting this paragraph as I’m writing it. I’m convinced that the bulk of my readership is aware of my present situation, which hasn’t changed and in some cases has become worse, because I’ve written about it in the majority of my prior articles. I’m grateful that you read and have followed my journey.
I’d want to try to streamline and simplify this article as well for all my readers!!
So lets get to it!!
03/08/23 — New comment on the post:
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Began the day off by posting the Medium article to Socials.
Status thus far
As you can see, things aren’t always improving, which is depressing. But you simply have to keep going.
This only goes to demonstrate that the road to success is not necessarily a straight one.
04/08/32 — New comments:
It’s in Russian here’s the translation:
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Voice class channel liked
My response:
Thanks
Though I’m not really clear what he meant by this.
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You are the coolest blogger ever. I watched.
My response:
Thanks!!!
I could understand this one.
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Very interesting indeed)) Cool video!))
My response:
Thank you very much!!
05/08/23 — New comment:
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06/08/23 — New comments:
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Well done you play well. Good luck with your views and viewers.
My reply:
Thanks a lot!!
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07/08/23 — New comment:
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08/08/23 — New info!!
I’ve begun downloading videos that are educational material.
Later on, I’ll go into more detail about this.
The first comment on my mother’s channel has now come in.
Here it is:
08/09/23 — New comments:
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good video
My reply:
Thanks!!
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Very interesting indeed)) Cool video!))
My reply:
Thanks!!
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It was interesting to watch
My reply:
Thanks for all the great comments!! means a lot man!!
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So yesterday I tweeted the YouTube Team @TeamYouTube
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I got the following message from them:
And this is how I responded to them:
Hopefully they’ll add this new technology to their infrastructure.
11/08/23 — New Comments:
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I wish you many subscribers)
My Reply:
Thanks!!
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Shikardos
My reply:
I don’t know what Shikardos is.
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Topovo
My reply:
Thanks!!
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There are no cons with editing and there are no cons in this video
My reply:
Thanks!!
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12/08/23 — New milestone hit today:
801 valid public watch hours.
Now over 800 this is a great achievement.
New comment:
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13/08/23 — New comment:
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Milestone:
For the first time in an hour, I received 100 views that weren’t the result of a single quick video.
This means that the typical views I’ve now accumulated from subscribers were also the reason for these views.
Comments:
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14/08/23 — New comments:
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Hi you are top
My reply:
Thanks!!
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But I will say that you play well
My reply:
lol Thanks so much for this great comment!!
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15/08/23 — New achievement hit today:
Just reached an Average of 6.07 on hours of valid public watch, which is the highest so far.
Although this is simply an average, the rising trend indicates that the channel is expanding nicely so far.
New info:
14:57 — New comments:
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And here is another comment I made regarding this video:
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Regarding a separate comment on the same link:
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After all of this, this commenter has decided to subscribe again. I’d want to thank him for understanding my content and how I’m trying to develop my channel and community after just a little conversation about the material I create and my ability to engage with positive comments made this commenter want to be a part of my community and follow my content.
16/08/23 — New Comment:
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I checked 🙂
My reply:
Nice!!
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17/08/23 — Another excellent day for contemplating how to increase community involvement.
My sister posted a video on how to obtain subscribers quickly yesterday.
Normally, I am familiar with all the guidelines, but this video introduced a few fresh ideas that I will be implementing starting with the pinned comments today.
As of right now, I will now be changing all new video pinned comments from this:
If you enjoyed watching this video, please consider subscribing, leaving thumbs up, and even sharing with your friends…
To this:
Pls consider subscribing, leaving a comment (even a simple “hi”), giving this video a thumbs up, and even forwarding it to your friends if you have liked it.
Including a new section for the comments…
I intend to encourage community involvement.
Hopefully, increased participation will result in more subscribers.
This new pinned comment will be for both long form short content except for the shots having the link to the 16 by 9 video. As you can see in the following:
Here is a link to a 16:9 video to see an example in the comment section:
New comment:
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I have improved the YouTube channel’s banner.
This is it:
You may view the channel by clicking the following link:
I needed to make my page much more appealing to the people who I hoped would become subscribers later on, so I utilized Canva to help me create this new banner.
17:54 — Just modify the Display image to this:
Soon there will be more modifications!
Just published a new post on the new logo and banner. Ideally, it will pique more people’s interest in this channel.
This is the post:
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20:35 — update:
With the new branding, logo and the banner. I have increased with two more subscribers without any additional views. Therefore, the new branding, logo, and the banner, have helped to slightly expand the channel.
I will keep you guys updated on this as time will tell if this has worked…
My mom’s channel RGS Cooking has begun to do well.
Here are some details I received.
It’s amazing to notice that 2 hours have already been watched on this channel.
19/08/23 — New Comments:
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Laika 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
No reply:
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Thanks for the heartwarming video
My reply:
Thanks for the heartwarming comment!!
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Super gun bro 👍👍👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
My reply:
Thanks!!
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20/08/23 — New comments:
I’m receiving some constructive feedback from this comment.
I’m hoping this person can provide some feedback.
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21/08/23 — New comments:
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22/08/23 — New Comments:
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New milestones hit today:
Lowest 48-hour view count is 73 This demonstrates that although the channel is now developing very well, much more work is still required to maintain this peace.
New info:
14:26 — I recently changed my channel’s layout, so I anticipate it will appear much better. And please new viewers in the hopes that they would become subscribers
17:07 — New comment:
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23/08/23 — New comments:
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This was a little different comment, so I’ll give it to you.
here:
Comment:
wow what an amazing video, you clipped 1 line from the game and that was it
effort amirite
amirite = am I right
my reply:
hey man thanks for the comment.
Well, I’m Not sure whether you are being sarcastic or sincere. I will answer your question either way.
1st why make a video with only 1 line from god of war… well I came across a YouTube channel called batgirl sometime ago
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This channel has been growing at an exponential growth rate. It only does 1 line video of assassin creed videos and been growing really well the effort put into these video is not a lot by the looks of it but I really don’t know how much real effort is put into it…
At the moment this channel has 3.09K subscribers with only 116 videos.
This channel is doing really well.
I have tried to the same thing with God Of War.
The effort to make this video is not a lot… but with this small amount of effort I have been able to get 559 ( at the time of writing this) extra views with hopes that some of these views will become subs…
I hope this answers your question.
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Today, many significant milestones were achieved.
The first was 897 valid public watch hits for the day of August 21.
This number by itself has little significance, yet…
20th August has just 857. That’s a spike of 40 more valid public watch hours, which is a significant jump for only 1 day and something I wasn’t prepared for.
It brings me to the following accomplishments.
The second milestone of 40 valid public watch hours was reached in a single day (really, it was over the course of the previous two to three days’ worth of watch time).
YouTube waited that long to validate the viewing hours, and the result was released today.)
Third milestone reached at 7.3333'
This is currently the monthly average for the number of valid public watch hours.
This is a clear sign that the channel is beginning to pick up valid public watch hours.
Fourth milestone reached: 154.
The total number of hours of valid public watch for the full month is 154.
I have now surpassed my goals for the previous month, which were 147 valid public watch hours.
My goal of 893 watch hours has also been passed now reached 897 watch hours, which is an increase of extra 4 watch hours.
I still have 10 days left, but I should have much more by the month’s end… I’m hoping that it get much more. (it does)
I won’t be able to reach my goal of 588 subscribers for this month since not enough viewers are subscribing.
I still need 30 substitutes to score; I am at 558.
Unfortunately, in my constant effort to reach these goals, I have been working so hard that I have jeopardized my health.
I won’t be able to work as much since I need to take some time off and let my body heal.
Therefore, until I am fully recovered, I won’t be uploading as many movies as I typically would.
My daily uploads will be capped at six videos. I haven’t figured out how to edit videos yet. That portion is still unclear. Probably. I’ll resume editing whenever I feel like it. I still have videos to post, though, so for now.
UPDATE: 08/09/23 — As I write this article.
I have not had rest.
Unforeseen circumstances which you will read later on…
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My last day until I came back was on the 24th August…
06/09/23 — Well, it’s been a while; yesterday was the first day that the PC was turned on again after 13 days of being off, and today is just hectic. Currently catching up on work. There is a ton of work to catch up on after 13 days.
I’ll post images of the office’s new design later.
SO…
What happened??
You could be thinking, “right?”
Well… I recently relocated to a brand-new office complex as I mentioned in the previous articles.
The workplace I’m at right now is just a few months old and was recently constructed.
Additionally, the walls have several fractures and other issues all of which can be repaired…
In light of the fact that the building takes time to settle, the contractor did inform us of all of these issues.
So on the 24th of August the contractor did come in and repaired all of these issues.
I used this opportunity to organize my workspace and address any PC issues I was having, such as cleaning the fans and so on…
During this period, I upgraded the workplace with a new desk and improved cable management in the office.
More on this later on…
Here are the days from the previous two weeks:
25/08/23 —
The office is now not in use due to some cracks in the wall from yesterday, so I had to clean the interior of the PC because it was filthy and needed a good cleaning. Until I can finish all of this, there won’t be any new updates on the channel.
On the 29/08/23 — Reached a new record of 200 valid public watch hours.
This means that even without my uploads, the channel is performing well.
Unfortunately, it is unable to flourish on its own, which is what I had hoped it would do.
30/08/23 — New milestone hit
950 valid public watch hours now hit
Milestone 950: only 50 more to reach 1,000!
01/09/23 — New info about the Entire month of August.
43559 views overall for this month
cumulative watch time(watch time not valid) 318 hours.
47 subscribers overall this month
The information about the valid public watch hours is as follows:
This month, the average valid public watch hour is 6.677. Additionally, I completed 207 valid public watch hours, bringing my month’s total to 950, which is higher than I had intended.
These significant accomplishments for this month are far better than I had anticipated.
And we are back on the 06/09/23 — with new info:
As you can see the stats here are 37 likes and 1 share
this is not good at all…
That concludes this month.
Here are photos showing how the workspace is now set up.
I still need to build a box for the subwoofer to fit inside. The cable management will be finished once I get that.
07/09/23: I recently visited RGS Cooking and discovered some new milestones.
Here they are:
New comment, too…
The comment was sent a few weeks ago, but I have only now completed catching up on all the work I missed over the previous two weeks.
here it is:
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07/09/23 — Now that I’ve completed all I needed to do, I need to return to work today, It’s 15:35, so I’ll start editing the article to prepare it for upload. This should take me about a day, so by tomorrow afternoon, it should be done!
I should also say that since I have not had rest… I will be keeping to my schedule of only 6 or so videos uploads a day… till I feel more energized.
So Here Are The Stats.
Total for the month of August is 207 (valid watch hours).
August = 207
July = 147
207- 147= 60 extra (Good)
Subs
Total 560
Did not reached my goal of 588 this month (deceed it by 28 subs).
Working out the new goal for next month (with calculation).
47 subs this month
72 Subs divided by 31 days
1.52 * 31 days for October
That amounts to 1.52 subscribers per day, but this will change over time (hopefully for the better).
47.12+560 total subs at the end of the month
Equals to 608 subs goal
If all goes as planned, the objective for the following month will be 48 extra subs.
Goal subs 608. This might change as I am 8 days into this new month and have not started any work as of yet.
Update: (31/08/23– 950 hours of total “Valid Watch Time”) (207 extra “Valid Watch Time” since last month)
Update: The 1000 sub mark will be reached on June 8th (lost 139 days) last estimate was January 21st. (This is using the info I have gained over this month, a better month will drop the projection… and a worse month increases it — last month was BAD!!).
My end goal is to try to get to 1000 subs before year end!! (Even with this bad month I might just hit it)
As for valid public watch hours:
So far the Goal is 1150 valid public watch time for the end of October.
I had just added 200 to the valid public watch time as my goal to hit next month as it had done well. I hope that I can keep this up…
I need 333.33 per month in order to obtain the required valid public watch hours.
I need to work hard to reach this objective because I need an additional 126.33
Let’s see what happens next month!!!!
For this Month:
This is what I managed to achieve:
I was able to hit the target of 893 and pass it by 57extra. (valid public watch time)
As for subs
I was unable to reach my goal of 588 and only got 560 a loss of 28 subs.
Update:
New milestones hit…
Update On New YouTube Channel: RGS Gaming
Subs : 560 (+47)
Views : 377,998 (+45528) “YEAH”__ This will be the last update on this stat, as it has become irrelevant.
Watch time (hours) : 974 (+231) (Valid Watch Time) (September 6, 2023)
This is from the 19/10/22 to the 08/09/23
So far this channel is growing very well…
If you are a gamer and like to watch these videos…
Please consider subscribing to the channel and to get the notifications 1st, make sure to hit the Bell Icon!!
Here is a link to the channel:
Read Head Gaming Studios:
RedHeadGamingStudios (RGS)
RGS Gaming:
RGS GAMING (RGS)
And that’s it!!
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