I used Google Ads to promote my Youtube channel. Here is what happened!

Will using Google Ads to promote your videos help you get views and subscribers? In this video, I will show you what happened after I used Google Ads to promote my channel.

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[ChristinasSideHustles]

Would you try Google Ads after watching this video?

[skymotivationa]

To the person reading this, I pray you become a successful youtuber

[jackywacky]

Awesome video. I am small YouTuber, and I think that for small channels the most important thing is to get good presence from the beginning. If you are not popular, people won't care even if you have the best videos and the best content on platform. I am not beginner anymore, but I know how hard it can be (and honestly if I didn't use a lot of Fame - ster, I would have quit a long time ago. It made everything much easier for me, especially getting to 1000 subs and view hours).

[zetandpeligaming]

The trick is to have a separate channel or playlist which contains trailer videos. You can then put a card on this video which points to the content you actually want to promote. That way you'll still drive more traffic to the video and you are less likely to destroy the retention rate of the video as if someone has actually clicked a card on your 'trailer' video it means they are really interested.

[ReelBasileño]

To the person reading this, If you're a small youtuber, you'll get there soon, just be consistent.

[CatzzMoney]

One thing that helped me a lot is to use YouTube normally and comment on things you like with your YouTube channel name. Over time, people may noticed your name or comments, they may be curious and check your channel’s content organically.

[LawofAttractionSolutions]

I find your video very informative. I have never advertised for viewers, but by advertising, I could have cut down the time and number of videos necessary to hit a million+. We have used advertising on Instagram and have enjoyed regular growth. The bottom line is if you are talking about what your nitch wants to hear, one way or another, they will find you.

[speksonic]

If you’re reading this, this is your sign that your youtube will be successful. Don’t give up please! Love

[RicPuzzles]

Good day Christina! Great video and a great eye opener too. I recently spent around $200 on a google ads campaign to promote my videos, but as you said after a few days and tons of views i realised it was hurting the retention rate by a mile, i went from having full retention on my videos to only average of 20 seconds and a lot of thumbs down. Which would eventually kill my channel all together. A personal advice to anyone considering this super legal and legit boost to your youtube channel: stay away from google ads if you want a caring audience who enjoy your videos. You will get a ton of views but little to no retention! Thx Christina!

[Supremerob]

One method I've seen is to reupload the video you want to promote as an unlisted video, then only run ads on that. When the campaign stops you delete the reupload. This way it doesnt kill the original videos stats. I guess a secondary benefit is you can precisely measure the results of the campaign in terms of new subs etc.

[isabellalouis]

Thank you for this video! Lots of helpful information. I have just been randomly approaching people in the street asking them to subscribe lol.

[StevenONeal]

incredibly useful information, Christina. Thank you so much for putting it out there. 🙂

[judymyers]

Great video Christina, you earned a subscriber! Even though I don't consider myself a beginner anymore, I still remember getting started. It was a tough journey. Of course, things are a lot easier now and I'm super grateful that I didn't give up and stayed patient and all the way through. Consistency and hard work ( I had to use some Famester as well, and I don't regret it honestly) is the key! It always pay off. Good luck to all of you, you're gonna make it soon!

[briscoetravel]

Hi Christina, new subscriber here! Thanks for your video. And yes, spending a lil cash to help premote your vids is definitely something that goes through your mind as you embark on your great YouTube journey. I started my first channel back on Oct 9th 2022 (last month) and am trying to learn all I can. I don't really have any metric to compare to so I am not really sure if its doing good or not, but either way, I am glad to see content like yours to help guide and build my channel to be bigger & better - I am in full sponge mood right now trying to soak up as much as I can! Thanks again for your video - looking forward to the next -

[francoismarc]

Yoooo, love your energy and straight-forward explanation! You gained a new sub! I don't think advertising is for me. My channel is small, which I consider a good thing. Gives me the time to work on my editing and story-telling techniques so that when the channel does grow, I will know what I am doing. Really appreciate you!

[davedaddy]

Good job. Im glad you are seeing what works and what doesn’t.

[finanxas]

Excellent experiment. Years ago I had a gaming channel and I tried google promotion, I even took a course on how to use google ads correctly to get my content to the right people and the same thing happened to you. Now I have this new channel and I'm doing everything organic and I'm doing super well. NOTE: My channel is in Spanish but some of my videos have subtitles in several languages, the niche is Finance. Thanks and good video

[MetalArcade]

Great advice! I’ve been looking into this for my channel also, but I keep hearing conflicting arguments regarding how it can negatively affect your channel in the long run.

[Figs]

Thanks for ALL of this! We had a very similar experience with a lot of extra views from ads but a lower retention rate which I think hurt the success of the promoted videos. Still trying to hone-in on how to find a more accurate target audience so our retention rate isn't so low but for now...still a mystery lol.

[MaximumCareer]

I had similar results.. When I started (5$/day) I didn't specify country, just English speaking, and after a week or two I noticed a big boost in views and subs, but i noticed nearly all of my views were from India and the Philippines, and that the searches leading up my videos were commonly stuff around "how to speak English".

I stopped the adds but was afraid I was teaching youtube that I was somehow an English teaching channel which is definitely not what I do haha. I was afraid I ruined my channel.

I recently started back up but limited it to like the US and Canada and added more "life event" audience filters and I've noticed significantly higher retention.

But dang when you turn it off and those views slow down... It don't feel great haha