My friends, you're about to see an ideal growth formula for YouTube that's worked really well for me in the last 90 days to get huge growth on my brand new crypto channel. We've grown from almost nothing. Thanks also to Joe Paris and Supaman Crypto, who've brought lots of viewers to my channel. I've got a formula that I've worked out after watching so many of these YouTube videos talking about all these different strategies. Look, it's a simple formula. If crypto is the best niche I've seen, and I've tried live streaming, I've tried shorts, I've tried longer videos, I've tried shorter videos, let me show you. These are the videos I've got that have gotten the most views.
The daily short-video formula
I do have two longer videos that have gotten the most views, but that's just because I was also doing longer videos at the time. If you notice, this six-minute video right here has got 13,000 views. What I suggest, every day, if you're doing crypto YouTube especially, or just for YouTube generally, is doing a short little five-minute video every day. It's extremely effective for growing your channel because of the YouTube search traffic you can get. Crypto YouTube is one of the best for search traffic because people are constantly searching for new information. They're always looking for the newest videos. Some niches, like gaming tutorials or new games coming out, some niches, it can be hard to pin down exactly where your search traffic is, but no matter what your niche is on YouTube, you should be able to figure out where the search traffic is.
Once they watch the first video, they'll be likely to watch the second video. Then this is where you get a feedback loop. It's often difficult to get browse features when you're a brand new channel, unless you make really viral videos, which most of y'all are not going to do. The way to get browse features is to first get somebody to find you in search, and then when you put out a new video, that person who watched your video in search will have a shot to see you in browse features. Then if the person who found you in search likes your video in the recommended feed, you can get a feedback loop, and YouTube will crank that out. That's exactly what happened on this recent video I did.
How people actually found my videos
On this one I've got eight thousand subs. What kind of video was this? That was just a four-minute video. It was a four-minute quick review of a crypto, and here's how people found it. The majority of people found this on the YouTube home page. Also, 2,000 people did find this through search. The only reason this many views came in on the homepage, though, is because so many people had already seen one of my videos on YouTube search.
You also, of course, need clickable thumbnails. Some of the crypto YouTubers I see have such garbage thumbnails, and they could 5x their views if they'd stop making such crappy thumbnails. On your thumbnails, follow simple principles: put your face really big, like Supaman Crypto does so well on his thumbnails, and mine have similar styles. Putting your face really big on your thumbnail is nice. Your face offers something familiar for people who've seen you before, and then you just get some text and a picture on it, and that's an easy thumbnail. For crypto, I do my face, a price for a crypto, and the picture of the logo, and literally just repeat that over and over again. Once you find a nice formula, you do want to experiment some, but most of my crypto videos that have done well, I bought a specific crypto and then talked about it in the video.
You don't need to work that hard on each video
What's interesting to see is that I don't actually need to put in a ton of effort in terms of making really long videos. I was shocked at how well this Quant video did. When I put the Quant video out, I'm like, this is not even that good. It's a four-minute basic video about Quant, but the YouTube algorithm thought it was good, and the viewers thought it was good, because I covered a subject that people wanted to hear about. For my channel going forward, I'm planning to just crank out a little five-or-so-minute review of a crypto every day. That way, the consistency people will get is that it's me every time, and then every day, they'll get a different crypto.
What you don't want to do is bore your viewers with the same exact kind of video over and over again, because people will not come back. What I found is that if I talk about the same cryptos repeatedly on my channel, they don't tend to do that well. The first time I talked about Cardano, that video got 20,000 views. The second time I talked about Cardano, it got 4,000 views. People had already seen my opinion. Now, this XRP video did really well, and it was the second time I talked about XRP, but that's a very popular and trending topic right now. My Gala Games video, I made several of those. The one where I actually bought Gala Games did really well, and the other ones didn't do nearly as well. Of course, it's a constant evolution of trying to figure out the best strategy for your channel.
On my business channel, I'm still looking for that ideal search-traffic formula, but I've really nailed it on the crypto channel. At this point, being consistent, cranking out one video a day, every day, and things are going to continue to go very well.
Turning views into income
Then, for monetization, sharing your own system is one of the best ways you can monetize almost any niche. Back when I was doing this, I put together a walkthrough of my system for making $1,000 a day in crypto, which, long story short, is that I buy $50 a day, I get a 20X, and sell at some point in the future. I just made $1,000. If I lose 50 of those, and on 50 of them I get much more than a 20X, it still works out to $1,000 a day. That first day it went out, it earned $1,000 off just one single video. I watch all these YouTube tips videos, and it's like, I wish somebody would just show me their analytics and explain this really simply, which is exactly what I've tried to do here.
If you want to keep learning on your own, I've put a lot of what I know into my YouTube Coaching playlist. Supaman Crypto, thanks for inspiring this discussion, and I hope this little breakdown is helpful for you.