I've been promoting my channel on YouTube. Here's what happened!

You can increase views and subscribers by promoting your content on YouTube. In this video, learn how you can use YouTube Promotions (aka Google Ads) to increase subscribers and views on your channel and videos. I will also show you what happened when I promoted my channel and the results I received from the promotion. Let's get started!

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00:00 Introduction
00:17 Ways to grow views
01:24 YouTube promotions
02:13 Setting up YouTube Promotions
03:45 Before YouTube promotion
04:15 Results from YouTube promotion
06:43 Conclusion

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[RandomVideoCircus]

The reason why everyone has had a loss in viewership, and a lot of content creators are leaving, is because YouTube now wants you to buy viewership and platform space. I said this same thing in the Think Media live chat, and they kicked me out and scolded me for it, so what does that tell you?

[AndreeaDeutschlehrerin]

I started my youtube channel 3 weeks ago and i have 26 subscribers. ❤

[BangkokHotelReviews]

YouTube Promotions has helped my channel immensely. Yes the average few time has dramatically decreased to a mere a few seconds however, since I featured product placements and sponsorships, it is the subscriber account and view count which my clients look at. These have all increased significantly and guide much more business.

[smartdrivetest]

If you're getting into YouTube to make money from advertising dollars on YouTube - you completely have the wrong business model. YouTube videos are just free advertising for your business, and the money the YT gives you is just the icing on the money cake. Affiliate marketing, online courses, consulting, merch, and memberships should be where you're focusing your energies to make money. Paying to promote your videos isn't about getting more YouTube advertising dollars, it's about exposure for your "business" so that people can purchase you services and products. Most successful business tap into the many other revenue streams to make money. YouTube is just a way to build a relationship and promote your business. All the best, Cheers Rick

[davetriesthis]

One thing I find, and I wonder if you've done a video on it, is how poor the watch time is on a lot of promoted videos. My typical watch time on a video is about 2:30 (probably when YT does the midroll ad. My typical view time for promoted content is about 30 seconds.

Since YT ranks channels based on interaction, watch time, etc., I'm curious about the long-term impact of this on discoverability. It seems like this leads to a cycle of needing to promote videos to get traffic, as the watch time drops the value of the video to the YT algorythm.

[bapis]

Another question I have - I am not sure if you've seen this issue or not. When I do YouTube Promotions, they only seem to run overnight (North America's night-time that is). My audience in my testing has been English-speakers in US and Canada. But the promos only seem to be active overnight like between midnight and (say) 4am, my time. I'll run a promo for 7 days and it only seems to be active during those hours every night - never during the daytime. Any ideas on how or why YouTube decides WHEN the promo will run time-of-day wise? It seems like I might have better results if the promo ran during the day (North America time). Thanks again!

[Movierecapdigest]

We are gonna make it guys! Keep grinding!

[SynthAIzer]

The promotion feature has helped my channel grow tremendously over the last month. I would recommend it to new content creators.

[DodZahav]

I think most people are negative on the subject. Just create good content and have faith that your promotion would go well. Who cares about retention? Youre paying for views and subscribers right? You will lose subscribers if you don’t keep posting. Most often original content (3 videos every 90 days for starters) and forget about bots and being afraid that your numbers will tank: just create good content and post!

[adayinthelifeofadrian]

Hi mate, quick question. Since you started using the Promotions feature has it affected the natural organic growth of your channel? I've heard reports that once you use the Promotions feature YouTube will slow down your organic growth so you keep using and paying for promotions?

[PlantyMary]

One important thing to consider is that subscribers and watch time earned through a promotion do not contribute towards YT Partner Programme eligibility. So organic growth is probably the best. Slow and steady wins the race ;-)

[mrsdesireerose]

Im curious how does tbis affect the videos performance after the ads ran? What has happened to your channel and the other content since this?

[Manja.Marijana.Singing]

When I do this and chose the budget $125 for example, to run april 22 till may 6th, it shows me a message: you will be charged every 1st of the month! I just want to spend $125 now and not every 1st of the month. Do you know if they will just stop and not deduct another $125 after May 6th? Thank you!

[beyond-politik]

I'm fairly new here and have been using YouTube promotions. I understand that these views are counted if the duration is over 30 seconds, but do they count towards monetization too? I meant if YouTube pays for those views too.

[afsg]

I appreciate your video. My channel had a respectable amount of viewers and subscribers in the past. However, when I promoted a single video on You Tube, the channel completely stopped moving (it was shadow banned), which meant that the number of subscribers and views had completely decreased. Any suggestions on how I might return it to normal?

[BeholdVerified]

I grow my own channels through hard work and many hours of training and practice. I start a channel days ago and im almost at 300 subs and almost 100 thousand views. I have another that has 64, 000 subs 1 year worth of work and another 650, 000 2 years worth of work.

If you ask me ill tell you to never stop posting and never stop trying to make your next video better than your last also thumbnail and watch time is the biggest builder block for all successful channel

[northwestrepair]

youtube estimated 300-350 views for $100 bucks.
Thats a rip off. Thats not even 300-350 subscribers WTF

[DailyCheese]

I just started my YouTube channel a month ago, and I'm still learning how to grow it. Any tips for beginners would be greatly appreciated!

[FallAsleepInstantly]

I am now torn between using the promotion feature and just simply creating in feed ads directly in google ads manager. The subscribe button on the promotion campaign is intriguing.

[BedThoughts]

for everyone just starting there channel good luck on your jorney