YouTube is search-based platform, if users can’t find your videos via search, then most likely there won’t be much views after the initial new video boost. People aren’t watching videos there unless it’s very quality video. Only the 1% of creators get views and the rest just suck dick and work for free to benefit the platform.
So, if you are serious about making content go http://www.yourdomain.com and post there, pay for hosting and don’t benefit Google.
Many people start YouTube and after few videos they realize they don’t even like YouTube.
YouTube is based on high engagement and it’s a cold platform, it doesn’t reward art, creativity and experiments, all they do is maximize engagement, if your videos fail to get engagement from early viewers, then the boost stops and impressions drop. This happens to 99% of videos. So posting videos on YouTube is just a waste of time for small creators because you are too small for YouTube to even care about you and your content. Besides the ad revenue is ridiculously low for the amount of views you get. Also to note, the 1000 sub and 4000 watch hours and 10 million short views requirement is just insane.
Generally speaking – YouTube doesn’t want to pay you money and they want all the benefits to them. I posted 40000 videos online and didn’t receive a single paycheck from those videos from all platforms.
For YouTube 99% of videos ad revenue stacks up. So they make money from your effort, but don’t reward you fairly.
So, if you’re an aspiring YouTuber, there’s a good chance that you will be doing free labor.
Vygintas Varnas 