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Speaking of bad advice, here’s why telling new streamers or YouTubers to focus on quality over quantity is probably a bad idea.
Quality vs Quantity as a Streamer or YouTuber?
Quality vs Quantity as a Streamer or YouTuber?
If you are brand new you truly have no idea what “quality content” means. Even if you think you do, yourself in a year from now will laugh at current you for thinking that. Trying to focus on “quality” when you’re just starting your journey is a terrible idea.
This is a journey. You have to enjoy it. You’re not starting at the end, and it’ll be a long time before you reach it. If you can’t enjoy the journey along the way, there’s no point in being on it.
I’d go as far as to say you genuinely need to make bad stuff. You need to understand what doesn’t work as much as what does - and why things don’t work. Make bad videos and learn why they’re bad. I still do it sometimes.
I focus on the journey because so many expect their first video or stream - or even their first 10 - to start building them a big, happy following, and it just doesn’t work that way. Your first 100 videos will suck. Your first 100+ hours of streaming will suck.
People think they want viewers now but viewership in general doesn’t judge you based on where you are in your journey, they judge you now.
So if you’re brand new and get a shoutout from pewdiepie or something, that would be infinitely less valuable than in a year or two
So if you’re brand new and get a shoutout from pewdiepie or something, that would be infinitely less valuable than in a year or two
when you’re good at what you do and know how to deliver what the audience wants.
I went through this a couple of times myself, too.
Also too many get this weird idea that they will “improve quality once they have more viewers” which is just an excuse to not do work. If it’s not
I went through this a couple of times myself, too.
Also too many get this weird idea that they will “improve quality once they have more viewers” which is just an excuse to not do work. If it’s not
worth it to you now, how can it be worth it to your audience to follow you now?
You don’t show up to a job and say you’ll start working after a couple paychecks come through.
You don’t show up to a job and say you’ll start working after a couple paychecks come through.
