It’s a numbers game – over 700,000 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube every day. That means if you upload an hour-long video every day, you’re still competing with over 700,000 hours of videos every day.

You’re a drop in the bucket of continuous content being filled by a firehose constantly. But don’t worry – it adds up over time.

Your hour today will be two hours tomorrow, and it’ll reach 100 hours in a year with perseverance. Then you’ll only be competing with over 700,000 hours a day of new content.

And every day that you’re not already on YouTube, billions upon billions of videos are. Those videos have an infinitely better chance of being watched than something that doesn’t exist yet.

Of course it’s going to be hard. And on top of that, your videos aren’t as good as you think they are. I don’t mean that to be insulting – it’s just the truth. Mine suck too. Everybody thinks they’re the best at everything, but YouTube algorithms reward quality.

if you want to increase your chances of being seen, you need to reach the minimum requirements for the YouTube partner program, which is something like 1000 subs, 4000 hours watched in the last year, and adherence to YouTube guidelines.

The best way to do that is to make targeted, quality videos with a purpose. Make the title clickable, fill in all fields, and write a description that clearly explains what the video is about.

Check out keyword search volume and find ways to get your videos embedded off platform. YouTube traffic comes from more than YouTube. Just because you make a video doesn’t entitle you to views. You have to put in work to promote the videos too.

YouTubers that scale their audiences always have a team. No man is an island, and there’s only so much you can accomplish by yourself in a day.

And if it’s all too much, you can always try a different service. Amazon Prime Video is probably the easiest place to be noticed because it’s the biggest pain to upload to. Alternatives like Rumble accept people who get canceled from YouTube. And blockchain based solutions like d.tube are trying to catch up.

Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitch are all valid options too.