4/10/16 - Log 12

I ended up doing a TTT / Murder Gmod Co-Op with a group of 3 other YouTubers. Eggaudo couldn't make it sadly due to un-downloaded content. The Co-Op went fine and I actually got a lot of good footage. I finished editing a TTT Ep.1 and uploaded it. It's set to publish tomorrow at 10am (while I'm at school).

I also just finished recording Yandere Simulator. I used a cam for the first time, and I discovered that I really suck at the game. The recording was kind-of boring, mainly due to the fact that I couldn't figure out the controls. I can't understand how other YouTubers make the game look so funny and easy! Anyway, probably going to record a little more Gmod tonight, hopefully with egaudo. And I ended up uploading those 2 bad-videos, just because I needed content on my YouTube. (I also recorded a 3rd and uploaded it yesterday because I needed something good to even things out). The second video uploaded today, and TTT is set to upload tomorrow. The next day will probably be Yandere Simulator, then more TTT, then murder. But nothing is air-tight yet.


EDIT:
Oh I forgot to mention 2 things
1. My YouTube & Twitter got a new banner (That was actually like a week ago)
2. My range has gone down, people I guess have stopped watching my videos. My Day #1 Range used to be 35~50, and it has actually gone down to 11~25. That's quite a significant decrease, and very discouraging because that tells me my boost in subscriber count means absolutely nothing. Because they aren't actually watching my videos.

Total Views: 3,531
Current Subscribers: 139

Most Popular Video: "The first war" - Reign of Kings Ep.5 (2,042 Views)

2nd Most Popular: "King Arthur" - Reign of Kings Ep.1 (292 Views)
3rd Most Popular: "Long Live The North" - Reign of Kings Ep.6 (191 Views)
4th Most Popular: TheNewBob Channel Trailer (164 Views)
5th Most Popular: "Northern Realms" - Reign of Kings Ep.2 (155 Views)

Too lazy to include the next 5 :P

4/9/16 - Log 11

The 100th Subscriber Special didn't really land, but overall was pretty good. (Check it out here).

Yesterday I recorded 2 games (Both of which were kind of boring) so I'm debating weither or not to put them on YouTube. The problem with putting them up is being may think I'm boring, but the problem with not putting them up is that I haven't posted any actual gameplay videos since before spring break. That's probably 2+ weeks ago. I did a recording with my brother alex (IzelloStudios) on Battlefront Co-Op, but the sound quality was really bad so I didn't post it. I'm conflicted, I think I'll end up posting the videos. I also kind of wish I had a community again, no one is posting on my 100th subscriber special or channel trainer. A little bit but not as much as my brother gets. Which annoys me, because he just posts a bunch of montages with music, whereas I take the time to make full gameplay videos and hours of editing. Which seems to get me nowhere. He also just hops on twitter and gains 15 subscribers a day, whereas I had to work for mine. But, ugh. I guess quality doesn't matter on YouTube until you have enough subscribers. I get right now it's just all about getting yourself out there. The problem of course being (I'm bad at that) and I don't want to sell my self out. I mean, my brother is gaining more popularity than me WITH MONTAGES!

Hopefully this string of 3 videos will help pull me up. I have recorded 2 (Both kinda lame) and the third one is to be recorded today. Today is also the day I setup that co-op with the YouTuber Eggaudo. I am also attempting to gather some other people for a YouTuber Co-Op of Gmod TTT or Prop Hunt or Murder. (I'm leaning toward TTT).

Total Views: 3,500
Current Subscribers: 131

Most Popular Video: "The first war" - Reign of Kings Ep.5 (2,019 Views)

2nd Most Popular: "King Arthur" - Reign of Kings Ep.1 (289 Views)
3rd Most Popular: "Long Live The North" - Reign of Kings Ep.6 (189 Views)
4th Most Popular: TheNewBob Channel Trailer (159 Views)
5th Most Popular: "Northern Realms" - Reign of Kings Ep.2 (152 Views)
6th Most Popular: "A Duel" - Reign of Kings Ep.3 (122 Views)
7th Most Popular: "Martial Law" - Arma III: Altis Life RPG, Ep.2 (110 Views)
8th Most Popular: "The Longest Duel" - Reign of Kings Ep.4 (68 Views)
9th Most Popular: Arma 3 Altis Life RPG - A Day in the life of a Cop (69 Views)
10th Most Popular: Alternate Ending for Altis Life Ep.2 Intro (51 Views)
(#11 is the new 100th Subscriber Special)

4/5/16 - Log 10

The big log #10, and I've got some good news.

First of all, my brother has actually grown to 60+ subscribers by having a bunch of people off of twitter follow him (Which felt very defeating since he was originally at 13 like 2 weeks ago). I decided to play catch up and spent about 4 days doing the same thing. The result was very good. I went from about 80 subscribers to 118! I've actually hit 100 subs 2 days ago, and have been in the process of making a 100 subscriber video for awhile.

I also received my new Turtle Beach headphones I ordered a few hours ago, and I setup a meeting today with a YouTuber named Egguado so we can discuss doing a co-op.

So overall things are going quite well. My channel trailer has also gotten a lot of popularity, and I'm hoping that my 100 subscriber special will too. No one really reads this blog so I feel safe saying that it's going to be based off of the 100th episode special from Family Guy. That's something I'm keeping from my followers/subscribers until it's released. But since no one really reads this blog, I'm fine with sharing it. And even if someone does, they probably won't tell, or if they do, that might be a good thing as it could create hype and make people want it to release all the more.

Anyway, I'm pretty exited because I'm back up north and I have 4 interviews for it done, and I'm probably going to record the main-intermissions right after I'm done typing all this up, so I'm quite exited!

Total Views: 3,297
Current Subscribers: 118

Most Popular Video: "The first war" - Reign of Kings Ep.5 (1,973 Views)

2nd Most Popular: "King Arthur" - Reign of Kings Ep.1 (288 Views)
3rd Most Popular: "Long Live The North" - Reign of Kings Ep.6 (186 Views)
4th Most Popular: "Northern Realms" - Reign of Kings Ep.2 (151 Views)
5th Most Popular: "A Duel" - Reign of Kings Ep.3 (122 Views)
6th Most Popular: TheNewBob Channel Trailer (128 Views)
7th Most Popular: "Martial Law" - Arma III: Altis Life RPG (99 Views)
8th Most Popular: Arma 3 Altis Life RPG - A day in the life of a Cop (69 Views)
9th Most Popular: "The Longest Duel" - Reign of Kings Ep.4 (67 Views)
10th Most Popular: Alternate Ending for Altis Life Ep.2 Intro (49 Views)

3/30/16 - Log 9

Overall posting the video trailer went well, it hit 55 views (Which I talked about range, first day is between 30 and 55 generally for me). So I am right on course right now. I have more subscribers but probably less active subscribers because of the lack of videos to my YouTube. This video being only a minute long may not make people come back either.

Anyway, it still hit 55 views which is good enough. I also am at about 8 positive likes. I fear once again that the majority of views came from social media and not my subscribers, but I hope for the best. I have nothing left to do but wait until I have my new headset (which will be when I head back up north from spring break). So that'll be sunday or monday until I can record another video.

I decided not to post the Star Wars Battlefront footage due to the low-quality audio content. The video itself is fine but I don't want to post crap to my YouTube, I might lose some of my dedicated subscribers (because I do have a few). I don't know exactly what to do now besides hope for the best, I'm scared that my brother (IzelloStudios) might catch up to me on Subscribers, and being the little brother I want nothing more than to have at least 100 subscribers more than him. Seeing as how I've yet to even hit 100 subscribers, I feel somewhat worried that he will catch up (He is at 20). I'm only about 50 ahead of him, so I need to push videos out fast (Quality ones too)! That means for the next few weeks I'm going to have to focus on producing fast, quality videos, which means no more Arma or DayZ (Those would take too long to edit) to try and ensure that I get a video out every other day once I get back to recording.

For me recording is also of circumstance, as still living with my parents (And not entrusted to my own private room) I am constantly surrounded with interruptions and background noise that stop me from recording or ruin what I have recorded.

EDIT:

I forgot to mention that I also re-designed the channel logo and made a new channel banner

The Logo:

The Banner: (Desktop full version)

Second Banner made (But unsure of if is better): - Please vote if anyone reads this blog - comment

I am considering making a new banner altogether (I know I just made this one) but I'm not completely satisfied with the result..


Current Subscribers: 78
Total Views: 2,974 (I estimated that I gain about 50 a day, and about 45 of them are from Reign of Kings Ep.5)

Most Popular Video: "The first war" - Reign of Kings Ep.5

2nd Popular: "King Arthur" - Reign of Kings Ep.1
3rd Popular: "Long Live The North" - Reign of Kings Ep.6
4th Popular: "Northern Realms" - Reign of Kings Ep.2
5th Popular: "A Duel" - Reign of Kings Ep.3
6th Popular: "Martial Law" - Arma III: Altis Life RPG, Ep.2
7th Popular: "The Longest Duel" - Reign of Kings Ep.4
8th Popular: Arma 3 Altis Life RPG - A Day in the life of a Cop
9th Popular: Alternate Ending for Altis Life Ep.2 Intro
10th Popular: TheNewBob Channel Trailer

3/29/16 - Log 8

No one views this blog - but its more of a personal thing, kind of like a diary.

Anyway, I spent between 8 hours and 14 hours making this trailer for my YouTube. (I guessed it at about 11 hours). I ordered a new headset for my YouTube, but that wont arrive till next week.

Basically so far, I had recorded nothing then I did a crappy-audio gaming with my brother (IzelloStudios) on Star Wars Battlefront. I made his thumbnail, and he posted his edited video 2 days after we recorded, and I haven't even started on it. I wanted to do an epic introduction, but that might not happen because I need to get something to my YouTube (Before everyone forgets about me ;( )

Anyway, this was a new animation style I had never tried (don't even remember where I got the idea, just randomly thought "Hey lets do Monty Python".) I didn't plan any of it either, it just kind of happened as it happened. Some of the assets were taken from PNGs on google, but majority of them were mine (which meant spending a lot of time making them).

I was up until 2 am yesterday, and finished at 10pm-ish today. With breaks inbetween of course.


The final result is a little short, and there are some holes in it but overall it's nice and besides the fact that the ending scene (The scene I never finished) I lost the files for because of a computer crash (But I had exported it to an AVI so I still had the footage) I just couldn't edit it.

Well, it has gotten 32 views (About 4 are mine) and I posted it 3 hours ago. I hope like heck that the views are from my subscribers and people curious about my channel, but I fear that I only have views because I posted it on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and pretty much sent it to all my friends on Skype.

This leaves me to think that my views may just be coming from those I know, and not from my YouTube community, but I can hope :)

The Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa979vLSzeY

Oh, and making this trailer resulted in a new YouTube Logo Face! :D

Current Subscribers: 76
Total Views: 2,929

Most Popular Video: "The first war" - Reign of Kings Ep.5 (1.807 Views)

2nd Most Popular: "King Arthur" - Reign of Kings Ep.1 (264 Views)
3rd Most Popular: "Long Live The North" - Reign of Kings Ep.6 (174 Views)
4th Most Popular: "Northern Realms" - Reign of Kings Ep.2 (146 Views)
5th Most Popular: "A Duel" - Reign of Kings Ep.3 (116 Views)
6th Most Popular: "Martial Law" - Arma III: Altis Life RPG, Ep.2 (85 Views)
7th Most Popular: "The Longest Duel: - Reign of Kings Ep.4 (65 Views)
8th Most Popular: Arma 3 Altis Life RPG - A Day in the life of a Cop (63 Views)
9th Most Popular: Alternate Ending for Altis Life Ep.2 Intro (52 Views)
10th Most Popular: Reign of Kings INTERMISSION (31 Views)

3/17/16 - Log 7

It's been a couple days, but finally updating.

Got some really bad news, my headset/microphone broke. Which means I can't record anything for some time, which probably means I'm going to either lose subscribers, or when I finally post videos again, not as many of them will be active on my channel anymore waiting for posts, and therefore I'll probably get a lot less views that if I were to post a video now, or yesterday.

But it's not all dull, I actually did start working on my game developemnt again (I don't know if you guys were aware) but I've definitely been doing Game Development a lot longer than I have been YouTube'ing. And being no longer able to record videos, I felt a little bit of motivation that actually carried me quite a bit ways. For example, today was a snow day, so I had all day to work on my game development. I got up at 10:00, started working at about 10:30, and am still working now (Just paused to update blogs). In fact I got so much done that I have posts on my game dev blog ready for the next 3 days. Which I won't post early, because if I do skip a day, I won't have to worry about it because I'll have a post ready anyway. So it's always good to have posts done in advance. That way I can also post them early-day instead of late-day (after the dev is done).

Basically my structure is POST - Work on the game - Prepare next days post - work on the game more - POST - Repeat.

So actually when you see a post on the development, I actually got that update done the day before. (most the time) sometimes when I fall behind (like today) the post you see that day was actually from that day.

If you want to check out my game dev blog, CLICK HERE.

I try like hell to balance my time between game development and gaming (recording), but it can be hard. The best thing to do is spend an entire afternoon recording a bunch of games then set them to auto-post on the appropriate dates so you get 1 a day. Then the next day(s), you work on game development and get those blog posts lined up for publishing. Then you have some days off to not stress, then repeat the process.

Actually people like PewDiePie usually have their YouTube videos recorded a month prior to when you see them, they just get a lot done in a few days then spend the rest of the time relaxing. (Not to mention all the time it takes to edit videos & upload them).

Current Subscribers: 62 (+1 from 2 days ago, but actually gained this sub yesterday)
Current Total Views: 2,402

3/15/16 - Log 6

     After uploading a video it got 50 views within 20 hours (The Arma III Altis Life Ep. 2). SOme days later it's at 56 views.

     I was very disappointed at first, but then I realized 2 things.

1. I won't have a video as popular as ep.5 of Reign of Kings for a long time (if ever), so i'd better stop rooting for that. It'd be nice but probably not going to happen.

2. YouTube videos have a 1-day view range.

     After then considering PewDiePie and Cryaotic I realized that videos will usually get a range on the first day then gradually increase in views over time.

     That means for myself rather than waiting for a video to get more views, I should post another. (Should have realized this earlier) but what I've come to realize is that a video on its first day will get a range of views and then all extra views are just bonus. And that the view count will generally be similar to what it is on day 1 as it is 5 days later.

     I've decided based on my recent videos that my view range for Day #1 is 35~50. I then average about 1~3 views every day after.

     My most popular video (Reign of Kings ep.5) got 30 day 1. Then day 2 50, then day 3 80. Then it hit 110 (Was beyond exited). I then stopped checking for about 3 days and it was over 500 (Needless to say I was beyond astonished). It then increased by 100/day (for about 4 days). Then it was 80/day, then 40/day, and now it seems to get between 5 and 40 a day. (There's so far no pattern as to why it gets more some days than others).

So in conclusion, post every other day at minimum and expect a video to get its most views on day 1. Any views after that are bonuses.

Total Views: 2,232

Subscribers: 61 (Been 61 for 3 days)

Most Popular Video: "The first War" - Reign of Kings Ep.5  (Been so since release - 1 month)