Congratulations on seeing such big new growth this month. Its pretty impressive for a channel that only has 50 videos from what seem to be relatively niche games to have over 2k subscribers especially if the last videos you posted were in April and before that October.
It might be worth doing the occasional short video to drive more traffic to your channel.This past week I have been playing around with youtube shorts. I've made around 30 shorts in the last 8 days which have brought around 2k total views to the channel.
In the 3 years I have had a youtube channel I have racked up around 10k views in total before this week so getting 20% of that in 8 days is pretty good by my channel's standards.
I don't see any Diablo 4 content on your gaming channel but I see a very interesting post on your blog where you have defeated world bosses on hardcore difficulty.
I would have watched every video of those boss fights on your channel without even thinking about it ...Instant click , watch to the end of the video and dropped a like and comment.
As an aging millennial me and my increasingly short attention span are much more drawn to short-form content. If you had a 1 min short of those world bosses dying I would have likely watched the short and let it play through 2 or 3 times so you would have gotten 200 -300% audience retention from me on those vids.
That's one of the main factors in the youtube algorithm recommending your videos to others , audience retention.
If your video is 10 mins long and people click away in the first minute you have 10% retention.Have a look at those top 5 videos and see how long the average viewer is watching, that's probably the most important metric to keep in mind.
Last thing , Baldurs Gate 3 is released tomorrow .Im hearing there is over 16000 different potential endings to that game. With the 12 classes, different race combinations and ability to multiclass plus the Dark Urge characters forced Evil play through there's gonna be more opportunity to create content from that game than anything that came before it... To say Im hyped is an understatement,I probably won't sleep tonight :).
We will be well into our 50s before we would see everything BG3 has to offer and by then Im sure there will be many an expansion...Hell, Elder Scrolls 6 might even be out by then!
I don't have any interest in making shorts. Shorts might be good for getting views and subscribers but it's all short lived and doesn't build an audience that translates to long form content at all.
There are some games I just want to enjoy for myself and not create content about. Diablo 4 was one of them coupled with the fact that there's already a ton of content creators focusing on Diablo 4 that I would just ending up being a tiny fish in a huge ocean. Doesn't really feel like it would be a good use of my time.
Most of my videos are sitting on well over 50% retention which is way above typical for long form videos. I analyze my analytics a lot and retention especially to learn what I need to improve.
I most likely won't play Baldur's Gate 3 until a few years has passed. I'm always late with these big games and that's yet another game that's going to have a ton of content creators going for it. I'd rather focus on lesser known games that aren't targeted by all the big content creators.
I appreciate your comment even though I disagreed with pretty much all of it :P
"I don't have any interest in making shorts. Shorts might be good for getting views and subscribers but it's all short lived and doesn't build an audience that translates to long form content at all."
Wise words dude , you know your stuff and the result with that Beginners guide to Halls Of Torment kind of proves it.
Im sad we won't be seeing Baldurs Gate 3 content from you here on Hive anytime soon tho :(