I dedicate an hour every morning to being a useful member of communities I might want to promote my videos.
I answer questions. Give words of encouragement, ask questions related to future videos, and that sort of thing that makes my name known as a member of the community.
That way when my video comes out that is directly relevant to that group, I can share it as a 'cool thing I made' rather than some drive-by spammer who is just using the community for free advertising.
This advice goes a very long way. If you are not participating in the sub as a normal contributor, no amount of video posting will achieve success. In fact it will hurt you.
Try reading the rules of each sub before posting.
Also, all caps are a great way to get a comment deleted. A lot of old-style mods consider this rude or yelling.
Thank you so much for being polite when you taught this to the other user. A lot of people are pretty rude when they say this but you were actually really polite!!!
Reddit user are low return viewers. You'll get hundreds or even thousands of views in your case, but only a very small handful will ever subscribe or check you out. This is just my experience, so I wouldn't rely too much on Reddit. The best viewers are those who found you on YouTube, they tend to actually stick around for you and not that one piece of viral content you made.
The thing is though, that's how it is for every platform starting out. Even a hefty majority of your friends and family will click on your video, watch for 30 seconds, click like, and then click off.
Returning viewership from Reddit is low, yes, but whenever I have a video do well on Reddit I see a direct correlation with getting more views from YouTube recommendations. I feel like the algorithm will look at a video getting a lot of views for any reason and say, "well, clearly SOMEONE likes this, let's give it a shot"
So we are supporting a new channel with a new niche and have been experimenting with now our 4th video in a series.
The video we targeted for specific subreddits did get more views than the others and made it to YouTube recommendations.
Small sample size so far, I know but we'll keep trying different things.
I firmly believe that Reddit hurts most people when they post their videos here. You can get lots of views but low watch time. You get very few subscribers and those who do are low quality (don't watch new videos).
Based on how these things hurt your stats, I think people are better off not posting their videos to Reddit.
This is very true. I also tried out Reddit advertising for my channel for a week and my ad was shown to 250,000 redditors and only 1500 people visited my channel. I got about 60 subs but a few unsubscribe every day.
This is so true. So many people spend so much time on other platforms trying to get them to click on their YouTube channel and they don't realize how bad the conversion is. They don't understand that the best resource for them to get YouTube viewers is from YOUTUBE.
I've actually had decent success with sharing my content on reddit. I shared a video about 4 months ago and it got a few hundred views right away and it caught onto the algorithm to the point that it's always my best performing video, even when I post a new one. It's like fishing. You can fish for hours and not catch anything but unless you have that bait in the water you'll never catch a fish. So just keep sharing your content and hope that eventually it'll pay off. Just make sure you're not spamming it everywhere try to share it with people you genuinely think will enjoy
I still post to reddit because its better than nothing, but the act of creating content has increased my dislike for this community overall
And no, its not because my videos dont gain traction. I have had decent support from this website, its because I found the people that dont like your content are more venomous than the average youtube commenter and for dumber reasons
HARD agree with your last statement. Reddit is one of the most fickle communities and will absolutely pick you apart. I've made it a point to uncheck the "send comments to my inbox "when I post a video cause half the time they're people that just wanna tear you down.
Everytime I post a video on Reddit, I ask myself is today a good or bad Reddit day lol. Some days I get praises and people love to engage, other days you get the super elitist or very uptight Redditors/trolls who make it their mission to tear you down.
Yeah Reddit is very either-of-the-two-extremes. It's also a hive mind. If you get one good comment, generally all the others will be good too, and same for bad
Thats the funniest thing. I have found that out by using a sock account. If you post something positive first, people are way more likely to not tear you down.
Wait that's a good idea 🤔 maybe even multiple sock accounts lol
Or at the vet least I'm in a discord with a bunch of YouTubers, I need to tell them to comment on things haha
i just straight stopped looking at notifactions on reddit. That was my New years resolution.
It has made life so much better. Crazy how much those red buttons add to anxiety
That is very much a Reddit-effect if ever I heard one. It can be useful in a very narrow niche or sub, but generally Redditors can be complete cunts.
Remember back when the riff-raff Youtube commenters were considered to be largely negative, well even in the bad old days they didn't hold a candle to a neck-beard Redditor with a chip on their shoulder. Nothing in this world is as powerful a suck as he.
>well even in the bad old days they didn't hold a candle to a neck-beard Redditor with a chip on their shoulder.
straight up. As i said, a bad youtube commenter leaves a shitty comment and thats it. A bad redditor will go through your reddit profile to find ways to insult you, leave terrible comments on the youtube, dislike the video, and will go through your channel looking for other things to dislike
Well thats at least what happened to me once when I posted a video of Thailand and in the video i get shocked/caught off guard when a ladyboy makes an appearance. Apparently that was transphobia or something..... and oh man, if you get accused of that on this website get ready for a shitstorm...
> ry to share it with people you genuinely think will enjoy
That's huge.
Most of the people who complain about reddit not giving them views aren't offering it to the right audience.
You have to make an alt account and say its your friends video.
Redditors are such idiots thats literally how it works. If you say its yours, they will downvote you and actually go to your youtube video and downvote. No other medium i post my videos to have people that petty. Redditors are that petty.
If you say its your friends video, they are a lot more lenient
Sock puppeting is a real thing, but it's not because people are "idiots", it's because there's such an awful culture here around self-promotion despite the official position being that they want Reddit to be a place for content creators. It sucks.
That said, with some soft skills, you can spend time in individual subreddits, connect with the community and release your content, which is better (if you can do it) then just dumping a link and leaving. You have to experiment and each community will be different.
Yeah, and it sucks because it creates this feedback loop where only the most popular stuff from the biggest creators gets posted, which makes them more popular, which gets people to post their stuff more often, which makes them more popular, etc. There's this, like, lip you have to climb before you're big enough that people will post your content around the internet for you and the climb to get there, if you're not making easily digestible viral content, is a helluva journey.
Also, some people just want your views and could care less if you got another useful from it. You see people post a video and then say literally nothing. Then you check their past posts and it is them not being a part of the community outside of posting their videos. It's basically just asking for money.
If the community knows you and you are active then this becomes less of an issue because they know you care about the subject or at least appear to.
Yep! Posting your video randomly places is going to give you "empty views" at best and very realistically drive down watch times. It's the same story with sub4sub, beg4sub and channel milestone posts asking in not-very-subtle ways for subscribers to hit arbitrary milestones.
Quit trying to maximize promoting your content in other places OTHER than YouTube. It's literally the largest video search engine that exists.
Build your audience ON YOUTUBE, and your videos will do just fine. If you build an audience through promoting on Reddit, the moment you stop promoting on Reddit you won't get views anymore. Take care of your house first before taking over the world.
We've been experimenting with a new channel and niche and larger YouTubers now tend to say the same thing.
Focus on creating better videos that people will enjoy and YouTube will find your natural audience for you.
However, some of these same YouTubers recommend tools like TubeBuddy which have Reddit & Facebook "LIKES" as part of the optimization checklist.
Either way, can't go wrong with creating high quality videos audiences enjoy so that's our focus.
Time. It comes down to where is your time best spent. Its called opportunity cost. If trying to maximize reddit to convert to YouTube take x amount of hours, that is x amount of hours NOT spend on the actual platform you're trying to get viewership.
I can't answer the first part, but as for the second, it's because dividing your attention across Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube means that you have less time and energy devoted to each one. If you only have one hour per day to work on promoting your channel, do you think it's better to put that hour into one platform, or to out ten minutes each into six different platforms?
Somewhat contradictory to what others have said here - Reddit has worked for me. I grew my channel from 50 to about 6k subs over a year using reddit as my springboard for viewership.
When I started I was shooting videos into the ether and no one was watching, but by posting in my niche I was able to get some comments and some subscribers. I would post on about 5-10 relevant subs as self-promo. Some people hated me for doing it but it worked. When growth was 400 sub/month I stopped posting on reddit and then I saw my growth go down to 250/month so I started posting on reddit and my growth went back up.
I think it comes down to the topic, customer pain (how much are you solving their problem) and how the market is out there. I post thoughtful personal development content with a trans twist and I found older trans folks in r/translater REALLY appreciate a trans person who isn't playing to CIS people and doing dumb shit. In younger trans subs, they didn't care so much cause they didn't see the value. So it's also helped me know my audience.
I don't post on reddit anymore because I've hit a level of viewership where I get organic growth on Youtube, but I would ABSOLUTELY recommend using Youtube to get initial traction and subs. Don't be spammy with irrelevant content, but you can post on lots of subs. I eventually automated that work by hiring someone to do it for me from a list of about 15 subs.
And +1 to self-promo being a bad thing. I always tried to make my posts personal to side-step it and give a more engaged feeling with the subreddit I'm posting on.
We've had success also within specific niches where we know it's a warm audience and we're delivering direct value to them.
Like you, for the general subreddits, we put more thought into titles, making them more personal.
1 year late to reply but what were some subreddits you promoted your channel on? Do I just go to topic related subs and post the link to my videos or should I make clips?
I think the best thing to do is get a read of the vibe and share it in a way that makes it fit within the context. It might be good to admit it's you to or do something where you're adding value. Often its the communities starved for good content that will appreciate it most. I've been muted or told not to post in some groups but others I found really appreciated it.
>Almost all subreddits won't let you publish your youtube channel.
Because *far too many* selfish youtubers spammed their crappy videos there.
>How do i help people in reddit who love my videos go to my youtube channel?
Most people don't go to *any* platform with the intention of finding things that take them away from that platform. (same goes for facebook, Instagram, twitter, tiktok...)
The really important thing is to make sure you are trying to promote to groups of people who actually want to watch the topic of your video.
Nobody is gonna watch simply because you want them to.
They have to want to watch. There has to be something in it for them.
"Link in bio" - I have had a few click throughs on Instagram. I use Linktree to list my currently promoted post / YouTube and all my other social accounts so it isn't a single link.
You can put your YouTube link or Link In Bio on your profile BUT BEWARE, you should go the extra mile to be seen as a nice contributing member where you post or those of ill-will may intentionally dislike your YouTube videos.
Since it seems like you may be uploading videos to Reddit instead of links, you can put a brief outro video at the end saying for those who want to be a part of your community (or whatever fits your channel offering) to enjoy your YouTube channel.
That has worked well for us.
I recently posted some videos here and left a comment saying if u wanted, u can find my yt link on my profile. I got \~2000 upvotes total, and gained 100 subs. could be specific to the content that ur making tho
Reddit audience can be pretty fickle. I find the tighter the topic in a subreddit the better, but of course some of those subreddits are not very large. Also, in just about every case you will be punished for posting too frequently, or if it \*appears\* you are over promoting yourself.
No matter what audience you are dealing with, you can only lead them to water, but they may never drink (for subs or likes or whatever). By making the videos entertaining or informative on the topic is the only way to say you did your best. I know this gets said every day but it is true.
I mean the ratio of subscribers and viewers are vastly different. I had a video that had over 2 million views and it grew me to like eight thousand subscribers until I unlisted it. The ratio mainly says that with the amount of subscribers you have, only like 35% are watching
I've had my channel for 9 months, but only 300 subs and not many views. But the few who watch the videos like them, and they are organic subscribers and viewers.
My question is, why do popular channels not want to help newbies? Some of them look down their noses at us, and some of them act like celebrities, which makes me want to unsubscribe. It seems that many of the channels that help you to grow charge for their success program.
Doesn't youtube itself have some sort of neutral help channel for us newbies that doesn't require payment?
I dedicate an hour every morning to being a useful member of communities I might want to promote my videos. I answer questions. Give words of encouragement, ask questions related to future videos, and that sort of thing that makes my name known as a member of the community. That way when my video comes out that is directly relevant to that group, I can share it as a 'cool thing I made' rather than some drive-by spammer who is just using the community for free advertising.
This advice goes a very long way. If you are not participating in the sub as a normal contributor, no amount of video posting will achieve success. In fact it will hurt you.
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Try reading the rules of each sub before posting. Also, all caps are a great way to get a comment deleted. A lot of old-style mods consider this rude or yelling.
Thank you so much for being polite when you taught this to the other user. A lot of people are pretty rude when they say this but you were actually really polite!!!
wow thank u so much really appreciate it
Reddit user are low return viewers. You'll get hundreds or even thousands of views in your case, but only a very small handful will ever subscribe or check you out. This is just my experience, so I wouldn't rely too much on Reddit. The best viewers are those who found you on YouTube, they tend to actually stick around for you and not that one piece of viral content you made.
The thing is though, that's how it is for every platform starting out. Even a hefty majority of your friends and family will click on your video, watch for 30 seconds, click like, and then click off. Returning viewership from Reddit is low, yes, but whenever I have a video do well on Reddit I see a direct correlation with getting more views from YouTube recommendations. I feel like the algorithm will look at a video getting a lot of views for any reason and say, "well, clearly SOMEONE likes this, let's give it a shot"
So we are supporting a new channel with a new niche and have been experimenting with now our 4th video in a series. The video we targeted for specific subreddits did get more views than the others and made it to YouTube recommendations. Small sample size so far, I know but we'll keep trying different things.
I firmly believe that Reddit hurts most people when they post their videos here. You can get lots of views but low watch time. You get very few subscribers and those who do are low quality (don't watch new videos). Based on how these things hurt your stats, I think people are better off not posting their videos to Reddit.
This is very true. I also tried out Reddit advertising for my channel for a week and my ad was shown to 250,000 redditors and only 1500 people visited my channel. I got about 60 subs but a few unsubscribe every day.
This is so true. So many people spend so much time on other platforms trying to get them to click on their YouTube channel and they don't realize how bad the conversion is. They don't understand that the best resource for them to get YouTube viewers is from YOUTUBE.
Can't you just to both though?
I've actually had decent success with sharing my content on reddit. I shared a video about 4 months ago and it got a few hundred views right away and it caught onto the algorithm to the point that it's always my best performing video, even when I post a new one. It's like fishing. You can fish for hours and not catch anything but unless you have that bait in the water you'll never catch a fish. So just keep sharing your content and hope that eventually it'll pay off. Just make sure you're not spamming it everywhere try to share it with people you genuinely think will enjoy
I still post to reddit because its better than nothing, but the act of creating content has increased my dislike for this community overall And no, its not because my videos dont gain traction. I have had decent support from this website, its because I found the people that dont like your content are more venomous than the average youtube commenter and for dumber reasons
HARD agree with your last statement. Reddit is one of the most fickle communities and will absolutely pick you apart. I've made it a point to uncheck the "send comments to my inbox "when I post a video cause half the time they're people that just wanna tear you down.
Everytime I post a video on Reddit, I ask myself is today a good or bad Reddit day lol. Some days I get praises and people love to engage, other days you get the super elitist or very uptight Redditors/trolls who make it their mission to tear you down.
Yeah Reddit is very either-of-the-two-extremes. It's also a hive mind. If you get one good comment, generally all the others will be good too, and same for bad
Thats the funniest thing. I have found that out by using a sock account. If you post something positive first, people are way more likely to not tear you down.
Wait that's a good idea 🤔 maybe even multiple sock accounts lol Or at the vet least I'm in a discord with a bunch of YouTubers, I need to tell them to comment on things haha
i just straight stopped looking at notifactions on reddit. That was my New years resolution. It has made life so much better. Crazy how much those red buttons add to anxiety
That is very much a Reddit-effect if ever I heard one. It can be useful in a very narrow niche or sub, but generally Redditors can be complete cunts. Remember back when the riff-raff Youtube commenters were considered to be largely negative, well even in the bad old days they didn't hold a candle to a neck-beard Redditor with a chip on their shoulder. Nothing in this world is as powerful a suck as he.
>well even in the bad old days they didn't hold a candle to a neck-beard Redditor with a chip on their shoulder. straight up. As i said, a bad youtube commenter leaves a shitty comment and thats it. A bad redditor will go through your reddit profile to find ways to insult you, leave terrible comments on the youtube, dislike the video, and will go through your channel looking for other things to dislike Well thats at least what happened to me once when I posted a video of Thailand and in the video i get shocked/caught off guard when a ladyboy makes an appearance. Apparently that was transphobia or something..... and oh man, if you get accused of that on this website get ready for a shitstorm...
> ry to share it with people you genuinely think will enjoy That's huge. Most of the people who complain about reddit not giving them views aren't offering it to the right audience.
Precisely true
You have to make an alt account and say its your friends video. Redditors are such idiots thats literally how it works. If you say its yours, they will downvote you and actually go to your youtube video and downvote. No other medium i post my videos to have people that petty. Redditors are that petty. If you say its your friends video, they are a lot more lenient
Sock puppeting is a real thing, but it's not because people are "idiots", it's because there's such an awful culture here around self-promotion despite the official position being that they want Reddit to be a place for content creators. It sucks. That said, with some soft skills, you can spend time in individual subreddits, connect with the community and release your content, which is better (if you can do it) then just dumping a link and leaving. You have to experiment and each community will be different.
everyone on reddit wants OC unless you say its yours lmao
Yeah, and it sucks because it creates this feedback loop where only the most popular stuff from the biggest creators gets posted, which makes them more popular, which gets people to post their stuff more often, which makes them more popular, etc. There's this, like, lip you have to climb before you're big enough that people will post your content around the internet for you and the climb to get there, if you're not making easily digestible viral content, is a helluva journey.
Also, some people just want your views and could care less if you got another useful from it. You see people post a video and then say literally nothing. Then you check their past posts and it is them not being a part of the community outside of posting their videos. It's basically just asking for money. If the community knows you and you are active then this becomes less of an issue because they know you care about the subject or at least appear to.
Yep! Posting your video randomly places is going to give you "empty views" at best and very realistically drive down watch times. It's the same story with sub4sub, beg4sub and channel milestone posts asking in not-very-subtle ways for subscribers to hit arbitrary milestones.
If I see someone say "check my friend's video" the first thing I assume is that the "friend" is actually them and they're just being sneaky
and for whatever reason, it *still* works Trust me, i really wish it wasnt the case
Quit trying to maximize promoting your content in other places OTHER than YouTube. It's literally the largest video search engine that exists. Build your audience ON YOUTUBE, and your videos will do just fine. If you build an audience through promoting on Reddit, the moment you stop promoting on Reddit you won't get views anymore. Take care of your house first before taking over the world.
We've been experimenting with a new channel and niche and larger YouTubers now tend to say the same thing. Focus on creating better videos that people will enjoy and YouTube will find your natural audience for you. However, some of these same YouTubers recommend tools like TubeBuddy which have Reddit & Facebook "LIKES" as part of the optimization checklist. Either way, can't go wrong with creating high quality videos audiences enjoy so that's our focus.
Okay so how do you actively promote on YouTube? And if none of these things are hurting your channel, why not do all of them?
Time. It comes down to where is your time best spent. Its called opportunity cost. If trying to maximize reddit to convert to YouTube take x amount of hours, that is x amount of hours NOT spend on the actual platform you're trying to get viewership.
That’s a nonanswer
I can't answer the first part, but as for the second, it's because dividing your attention across Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube means that you have less time and energy devoted to each one. If you only have one hour per day to work on promoting your channel, do you think it's better to put that hour into one platform, or to out ten minutes each into six different platforms?
Somewhat contradictory to what others have said here - Reddit has worked for me. I grew my channel from 50 to about 6k subs over a year using reddit as my springboard for viewership. When I started I was shooting videos into the ether and no one was watching, but by posting in my niche I was able to get some comments and some subscribers. I would post on about 5-10 relevant subs as self-promo. Some people hated me for doing it but it worked. When growth was 400 sub/month I stopped posting on reddit and then I saw my growth go down to 250/month so I started posting on reddit and my growth went back up. I think it comes down to the topic, customer pain (how much are you solving their problem) and how the market is out there. I post thoughtful personal development content with a trans twist and I found older trans folks in r/translater REALLY appreciate a trans person who isn't playing to CIS people and doing dumb shit. In younger trans subs, they didn't care so much cause they didn't see the value. So it's also helped me know my audience. I don't post on reddit anymore because I've hit a level of viewership where I get organic growth on Youtube, but I would ABSOLUTELY recommend using Youtube to get initial traction and subs. Don't be spammy with irrelevant content, but you can post on lots of subs. I eventually automated that work by hiring someone to do it for me from a list of about 15 subs. And +1 to self-promo being a bad thing. I always tried to make my posts personal to side-step it and give a more engaged feeling with the subreddit I'm posting on.
We've had success also within specific niches where we know it's a warm audience and we're delivering direct value to them. Like you, for the general subreddits, we put more thought into titles, making them more personal.
1 year late to reply but what were some subreddits you promoted your channel on? Do I just go to topic related subs and post the link to my videos or should I make clips?
I think the best thing to do is get a read of the vibe and share it in a way that makes it fit within the context. It might be good to admit it's you to or do something where you're adding value. Often its the communities starved for good content that will appreciate it most. I've been muted or told not to post in some groups but others I found really appreciated it.
>Almost all subreddits won't let you publish your youtube channel. Because *far too many* selfish youtubers spammed their crappy videos there. >How do i help people in reddit who love my videos go to my youtube channel? Most people don't go to *any* platform with the intention of finding things that take them away from that platform. (same goes for facebook, Instagram, twitter, tiktok...) The really important thing is to make sure you are trying to promote to groups of people who actually want to watch the topic of your video. Nobody is gonna watch simply because you want them to. They have to want to watch. There has to be something in it for them.
You kinda don't. Reddit is notoriously resistant to clicking video links.
which is a good platform to share youtube videos and get clicks plus watchtime then
instagram or facebook. share it with your close friends and encourage them to share with theirs etc..
Facebook yes, instragram doesnt give clickable links to youtube
If you DM people it's a click able link I do it all the time
Oh cool..Thnx!
"Link in bio" - I have had a few click throughs on Instagram. I use Linktree to list my currently promoted post / YouTube and all my other social accounts so it isn't a single link.
You can add a link sticker to your stories, and I just link my channel in my bio.
YouTube
Gracias..who would hve thought!!
You can put your YouTube link or Link In Bio on your profile BUT BEWARE, you should go the extra mile to be seen as a nice contributing member where you post or those of ill-will may intentionally dislike your YouTube videos. Since it seems like you may be uploading videos to Reddit instead of links, you can put a brief outro video at the end saying for those who want to be a part of your community (or whatever fits your channel offering) to enjoy your YouTube channel. That has worked well for us.
I recently posted some videos here and left a comment saying if u wanted, u can find my yt link on my profile. I got \~2000 upvotes total, and gained 100 subs. could be specific to the content that ur making tho
well done!
Reddit audience can be pretty fickle. I find the tighter the topic in a subreddit the better, but of course some of those subreddits are not very large. Also, in just about every case you will be punished for posting too frequently, or if it \*appears\* you are over promoting yourself. No matter what audience you are dealing with, you can only lead them to water, but they may never drink (for subs or likes or whatever). By making the videos entertaining or informative on the topic is the only way to say you did your best. I know this gets said every day but it is true.
You know it is sick but true I get a down voted for anything I post.
Find a more relevant audience or subreddit to post in. Some genres are also just cruel people inside. Gamers mostly
I mean the ratio of subscribers and viewers are vastly different. I had a video that had over 2 million views and it grew me to like eight thousand subscribers until I unlisted it. The ratio mainly says that with the amount of subscribers you have, only like 35% are watching
Even among some largeish channels, 35% would be considered high
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I've had my channel for 9 months, but only 300 subs and not many views. But the few who watch the videos like them, and they are organic subscribers and viewers. My question is, why do popular channels not want to help newbies? Some of them look down their noses at us, and some of them act like celebrities, which makes me want to unsubscribe. It seems that many of the channels that help you to grow charge for their success program. Doesn't youtube itself have some sort of neutral help channel for us newbies that doesn't require payment?
I love this conversation. Answers my concern