Any idiot spouting fictitious nonsense seems to be able to start a YouTube channel about finance and get 50K followers easily these days.
And meanwhile my own YouTube channel seems to have a collective total of 4 views after 2 weeks.
Yeah, there's a Microsoft Narrator voice in there (because after some experimenting I found that the mic quality from just a laptop/phone let in too much background noise), but the fact that you can't listen to the audio without clicking on the video tells me that nobody's seeing them
Have a look at the VidIQ videos. Good bunch of positive people with good tips. I usually just have their long livestreams (old or new) on as background during work. It makes a change from the news scaremongering shite. Music, I personally find too distracting.
Good tips covering consistency, thumbnails, help with content etc.
In general they try to coach people into doing videos that are just a little bit different from the competition to gain some interest or give you an edge.
Also consider doing the Tik Tok style "shorts" on YT with interesting events in whatever your content is. Some of the short videos I have done literally got thousands of views in a few weeks without much effort at all. They help you to get subs quickly. You can even consider cutting up old videos into shorts content, meaning it's less overall work.
Just keep at it and don't look at the figures for a while would be my advice. My channel subs seem to grow far more when I forget about it (100-150 per month at the moment it seems). When I actively look and care it seems to grind to a halt. Like watching paint dry.
