The Big Vlog – Reflections past Day 17

Hi everybody.

“The Big Vlog” (as it has become known) is going strong with some great new videos added over the weekend. I love it when I get the chance to film something that ends up as polished as episode 16. It was a standard eating challenge but I had great pleasure in editing that masterpiece into something that I now take great pride in showing off to my subscribers.

As it stands, I am nowhere near quitting this project and still have the drive to continue and hopefully gain enough subscribers that I may breach that threshold of 1000. If I manage to complete that, then I will be one happy YouTuber.

I think the key to the project is that I cannot allow myself to rely on webcam uploads to achieve the dizzying heights of 4-figure subscriptions. As always, the mantra from so many successful YouTubers is to ensure you have good quality, original content. Now, of course the original part isn’t a problem, hey, I’ve been rambling at a webcam for about 90% of this years videos! But the good quality is my current stumbling block. I do feel that my current editing set up is holding me back, and the speed at which I can produce polished articles of audio-visual wonderment (go with me here) is greatly reduced.

I’m positive that with the help of a new iMac, the YouTube possibilities would be like a horizon appearing at the top of a steep hill. Suddenly I’ll be able to see what is possible, and hopefully be able to do it in half the time.

One interesting point to mention is that it is the bad workman in me that wants to blame my tools; the quality of my videos is the stuff that will bring people to my channel. The right kind of people.

“Now hold on a minute” I hear you say. “Are you a racist?” you cry. No, I am referring to the kind of subscribers can have a massive effect on your viewing figures, repeat viewings, ratings, comments, basic interaction. Although I have around 350 subs at the moment, not all of them are tuning in everyday. There could be a number of reasons, but I would expect my videos to gain viewings into the 100’s within a few days. Sadly, at the moment the vlogs are not getting the attention I’d like them to get.

Apologies for not entertaining you with the blog today, but I want to use this as thinking pad for my current, year long vlogging experiment.

If you have been reading, thank you.
Til next time,
Snare