소규모 YouTube 게임 채널이 흔히 저지르는 실수

### 소규모 YouTube 게임 채널에서 흔히 저지르는 실수와 이를 방지하는 방법
* 🎮 소규모 게임 크리에이터에게는 **YouTube가 어려울 수 있지만, 일반적인 실수를 피하면 플랫폼에서 성공**할 수 있습니다.
* 💰 게임 콘텐츠의 CPM은 일반적으로 **1달러에서 3달러**로 부동산이나 금융과 같은 다른 틈새 시장에 비해 낮기 때문에 많은 신규 크리에이터가 빠른 수익 창출을 위해 게임을 잘못 생각하는 경우가 많습니다.
* 🧠 **매력적인 콘셉트가 없으면** 아무리 좋은 편집과 미리보기 이미지라도 시청자의 관심을 끌지 못합니다.
* 📊 YouTube 채널을 비즈니스처럼 취급하는 것이 중요합니다. **틈새 시장을 정의**하고, **커뮤니티의 요구**를 파악하고, **성장을 위한 장기 전략**을 개발하는 데 집중하세요.
* 🔍 품질은 비디오와 오디오뿐만 아니라 **시청자의 공감을 불러일으키는 성공적인 콘텐츠**를 식별하는 데 도움이 될 수 있습니다.
* 🙈 진정한 상호작용은 진정한 성장 기회를 촉진하므로 **커뮤니티와 진정성 있게 소통하는 것**이 '서브 포 서브' 전술보다 바람직합니다.
* 🎭 특히 엔터테인먼트 콘텐츠에서 얼굴을 보여줌으로써 시청자와의 관계를 강화할 수 있으며, **재미있는 존재감을 유지하는 것**이 시청자의 참여를 유지하는 데 중요합니다.
* 📉 마지막으로, 대부분의 동영상이 **조회수 1,000회를 달성하는 데 어려움**을 겪고 있으므로 다른 채널과 비교하지 말고 나만의 고유한 경로에 집중하고 작은 승리를 축하하세요.

소규모 YouTube 게임 크리에이터는 시청자의 요구를 무시하고 콘텐츠를 혁신하지 않아 실패하는 경우가 많습니다.

YouTube can be a difficult platform to succeed on, especially in the gaming space, as a small creator, but it doesn't have to be. That's why in today's video, I'm going to be showing you 10 huge mistakes I continue to see small YouTube gaming channels make that I don't want you to make if you're trying to grow. Jumping into mistake number one is gaming for easy money. For people that are a little bit new to the space, you may not be aware that gaming isn't the most profitable thing you can be doing on YouTube. Real estate, finances, and even talking about cars will suit you better if you're trying to make fast money on YouTube. The CPM, which stands for cost per mile or cost per thousand as it relates to YouTube terminology, is the amount of money for every thousand times an advertisement is played on one of your videos. The typical CPM for a gaming video ranges between $1 to $3 on the high end, and $3 is even a little bit rare for most people. That's not a

lot the reasoning for why the CPMs are so low on gaming content is the fact that a lot of the viewers watching gaming videos are not a buying audience. These are typically younger people, like teenagers, that don't have a lot of buying power compared to middle-aged people. So, why am I telling all this to you? Well, it's to get you thinking of the why for why you want to do YouTube. Whatever reason that's coming to your mind right now has to be sustainable over a long period of time because if it's not, you're going to just end up quitting. The next big mistake is not taking the time to generate innovative ideas. I ran a recent poll in my community tab asking you guys what you believe to be the most important aspect of creating a successful YouTube video, and you guys were definitely not wrong about the video editing and thumbnail being important, but the video idea sails above everything else. Without having a great video idea, it won't even matter if you have spectacular video edits or an amazing thumbnail. No one's going to

click on it regardless. The third mistake I see a lot of small YouTube gaming channels making is saying that it's all luck. That cannot be further from the truth. You have to put running and growing a YouTube channel in the same category as running a small business because that's what it is. So, to help explain this narrative of how you can approach your YouTube gaming channel more so like a business, I created this diagram with four areas that you should focus on to optimize the growth of your YouTube gaming channel. Area number one is to address the type of gaming content that you're interested in. That could stretch a wide net of areas. That's okay, but in this section, you want to narrow this down even more and think about the gaming content that excites you the most. It could be a set of games that are similar to one another or have a lot of audience crossover. This area will essentially define the niche for your YouTube channel. Just playing whatever the heck you want is not going to cut it. You can't play racing car

games and in Mario games on the same channel. That's not going to work. Those have no crossover or correlation. You have to find a specific game or a set of games that are very closely related to one another with a similar audience in order to continue your growth. Some example gaming channels that have proven this to work is MMG focusing on Madden and football-related content, Black Panther for cars and racing games, Cor Coke for Rocket League, IM Dwan for Call of Duty content, Hydrix for Mario Kart, Plumbella for Sims, TCMF for PlayStation news, and I could continue this list for a while, but all of these channels have a specific target audience in mind. Speaking of audience, the second area in this diagram is what the community needs. That could be an entertainment factor, it could be information, maybe you're the highest skilled player within the game's player base. Try to look for a content gap in the game or types of games that you plan on creating content around for your channel. This is, of course, easier said than done as so many types

of gaming videos have already been done, but finding the content that is lacking on YouTube within the game that you're playing is huge in finding innovative content to post. Third on this diagram is strategy. This is where you play the balancing game for the content that you want to make versus what the community wants you to make. If you're always tailoring your content to the community and to the audience, you're going to lose sight of the joy and fun that you got out of wanting to create content in the first place for your channel. And the same goes for creating too much of what you want to make. If you just make the channel all about yourself, that's another fantastic way just to stifle and slow your growth because you're abandoning what the audience wants. Another part of strategy is not just thinking a couple weeks down the road for what your channel is going to look like, but think in terms of months and even years so that way you're prepared for what may come in the future. If we

really want to bring up the term technology of luck. It's really when opportunity meets preparedness. If you're thinking multiple steps ahead for how you want your channel to look down the road, things won't just come together by luck. It would have been all the planning, preparation, and work that you put in to accomplish it. Area number four in this diagram is quality. We're not just talking about video and audio quality, of course. Those things are very important. We're also talking about the video edits, the thumbnails, the titles, all of it together making up the overall quality of your YouTube channel. Now, I'm sure some of you guys here have posted 20, 30, 40, 50, or more videos, but one mistake I hope you guys haven't been making is ignoring your successful data in your analytics for the past 30, 60, 90 days. You'll be able to see your top-performing content and to see which videos are converting the most subscribers. This is content you need to double down on and do more of, especially

if it fits within the niche that you're trying to build on your YouTube channel. For example, here's a YouTuber by the name of JT plays, and they've created a lot of platinum guides for PlayStation. But recently, they decided to do more let's play content, and you can see that the viewership didn't match up nearly as well compared to the other content. Now, this isn't to put JT plays on blast, but I just wanted to provide this as an example to not ignore your metrics. Don't ignore what's working well for your channel. Think of ways to do similar content to what was proven to work on your YouTube channel. But you know what else you can't ignore? Your privacy. So, me being a cybersecurity professional during the day and Midnight Man at night, it's so important that any of the work I do is done securely and that the data is protected. NordVPN helps me accomplish this with ease. If you don't know what a VPN is, it stands for Virtual Private Network, and it's used to secure your

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been working well. Another mistake you may be making here is thinking that your videos are better than they actually are. There's a reason why the top creators typically get all of the views within a sliver of the gaming niche category that you might be in. It's because they make the highest quality and valuable content. Since making gaming videos is something that pretty much anybody can do with quite ease nowadays, everybody's competing on this low bar or standard that is just mediocre. I've seen some channels in the past that have a similar quality content that they did 10 years ago, the same as today. You should have at least been able to improve your skill set somewhat by being able to edit better, create more engaging thumbnails and titles, adding sound design to your audio, color correction to the video. There's so many things you can learn, and after a long period of time, guys, you have to make those improvements. If you stay the same, you will be the same. But one mistake I'm continuously seeing gaming channels make

to grow their sub count is by doing follow for follow, sub for sub. Like seriously guys, I can't believe I have to put this one in this video, but it's still happening. Doing the whole sub for sub thing, and I'm even throwing in giveaways as part of this as well, it is absolutely terrible for your growth. You're going to get people subscribing to your channel that don't even give a crap about your content, or they just subscribe because they thought they could win something from you. It's just not the way to go. My recommendation is to have more genuine, real interactions with people within your gaming niche. Join a Discord community, for example, so you can chat with people about what you're making on YouTube and the things that interest you within the game. This is a much more real, natural, organic way to foster growth within the community that you're trying to build. It can even create collaboration opportunities for your YouTube channel. For the seventh mistake, I see small YouTube gaming channels making, and this will depend on

the type of gaming content that you do, but not showing your face in your content, can hold you back in some respects. People typically like to attach a face to the content that they're watching, and this is especially true if you're doing reaction or entertainment type of content. The successful faceless gaming channels that I have seen are typically sharing some sort of information, or they're doing tutorials, funny moments, montages, highly skilled gameplay. I've even seen some channels that showcase cinematic gaming content, where the focus is on what the gameplay looks like versus what somebody's reaction is. Again, it all depends on the type of content you make, and it's something that you're going to have to think about as you move forward with your strategy. Now, it's going to take more than just showing your face and having commentary over your videos to make your viewers' experience great. Another big mistake I see made is not being more entertaining. That means being able to speak on camera well, having energy in your voice, not being flat and boring. Show some excitement, have a sense

of humor. Talk through the things that you're doing within the game that you're playing. Make sure you're close enough to your microphone so that you can be heard clearly. Prepare or write out what you're trying to say on camera before you actually do it. That way, you just don't turn on the camera and you're just winging it. That just doesn't work. Another mistake small gaming channels make is thinking that YouTube shorts will kill their long-form videos. This is partially true, but let me explain. As a lot of you know, YouTube shorts are a fantastic way to get a lot of subscribers to your YouTube channel. But one of the problems that can be encountered is that the people from the YouTube shorts that subscribed won't watch your long-form videos because of their short attention span. They subscribe for the content that's just a few seconds long versus your video that might be 10 or 15 minutes long. That's why it's important when you do your YouTube shorts to have long YouTube shorts, especially if you're doing long

form content having the longer shorts that are 50 seconds to a minute long will get viewers in that like watching longer-form videos. The YouTube channel M reacts is a perfect example of this done correctly. If you look at his shorts, all of them are longer in length, and this has benefited him as it's fostered an audience that is shown to watch his long-form regular videos in addition to his shorts. For our final mistake that I see small YouTube gaming creators making, that is comparing your channel to others. This is something that can really affect your psyche. You overthink what you're planning to post to your YouTube channel. Trust me, posting something is better than nothing at all. At least you're going to learn from the mistake or failure that you might encounter, so that way you can improve and be better in the future. But looking at a channel that's super successful with millions or hundreds of thousands of subscribers is just not a good bar to look at because every channel has its own path. What made that channel successful isn't

What's going to make you successful in the future? You have to find your own way and celebrate the small wins. Most videos on YouTube don't even crack 1,000 views. Think about that for a second. If you got 1,000 views on one of your videos, you're doing better than a lot of other people on this platform. I truly commend those of you who are uploading YouTube videos and you're just getting close to zero views. It might hurt a little bit, but trust me, it does get better over time with consistency and improving your quality. Let me know in the comment section if you're guilty of any of these mistakes. Thank you, NordVPN, for sponsoring this video. Appreciate everybody for watching and staying to the end. Hit it with a big thumbs up, and I'll see you all on the next one. Peace.

10 BIG Mistakes SMALL Gaming Channels ALWAYS MAKE!

MidnightMan

소규모 YouTube 게임 채널은 1달러에서 3달러에 이르는 게임 콘텐츠의 낮은 수익성으로 인해 어려움을 겪는 경우가 많습니다.

많은 크리에이터가 성공은 운이라고 잘못 생각하지만, 채널을 성장시키려면 비즈니스와 같은 접근 방식과 혁신적인 동영상 아이디어가 필요합니다.

명확한 틈새 시장을 정의하고 특정 게임 콘텐츠에 집중하는 것은 시청자를 유치하고 유지하는 데 매우 중요합니다.

특정 게임 또는 밀접하게 관련된 게임 세트를 찾는 것은 채널 성장에 매우 중요합니다.

커뮤니티의 요구 사항을 이해하고 콘텐츠 격차를 파악하면 혁신적인 동영상을 제작하는 데 도움이 될 수 있습니다.

개인 콘텐츠와 시청자 요구의 균형을 맞추고, 미래를 계획하며, 전반적인 품질에 집중하는 것이 성공을 위한 핵심 전략입니다.

YouTube 게임 채널을 성장시킬 때 흔히 저지르는 실수

채널의 성공적인 지표를 무시하고 덜 인기 있는 콘텐츠로 전환한 JT Plays의 사례에서 볼 수 있듯이 채널의 성장에 방해가 될 수 있습니다.

온라인에서 개인 정보 보호와 보안을 유지하는 것은 매우 중요하며, NordVPN은 가상 사설망과 위협 보호를 통해 솔루션을 제공합니다.

또한 시간이 지나도 동영상과 콘텐츠의 품질을 개선하지 않으면 정체될 수 있으므로 지속적으로 기술을 개발하고 제작 가치를 높이는 것이 필수적입니다.

팔로우를 위한 팔로우 및 구독을 위한 구독 전략은 채널 성장에 해롭고 관심 없는 구독자를 끌어들이는 데 방해가 됩니다.

특히 리액션이나 엔터테인먼트 기반 동영상에서 내 얼굴을 콘텐츠에 표시하지 않으면 시청자와의 소통을 방해할 수 있습니다.

구독자를 유지하고 충성도 높은 시청자를 육성하려면 재미있고 흥미를 유발하며 전략적으로 YouTube 쇼트를 사용하는 것이 중요합니다.

소규모 YouTube 게임 크리에이터가 저지르는 실수

M 리액트에서 볼 수 있듯이 50초에서 1분 정도의 긴 쇼트는 시청자를 끌어들이고 일반 동영상 시청자를 육성할 수 있습니다.

내 채널을 다른 채널과 비교하는 것은 마음가짐에 부정적인 영향을 미칠 수 있으므로 실수를 통해 배우고 게시하는 것이 좋습니다.

대부분의 동영상이 1,000회 조회수를 달성하지 못하므로 1,000회 조회수를 달성하는 것과 같은 작은 승리를 축하하는 것이 중요합니다.