I Tried Growing A YouTube Channel Using Community Posts
Summary
TLDRThe speaker shares their experience of using YouTube's Community tab for the first time, posting daily for 30 days starting from October 24th to November 23rd. Initially, they used the tab for self-promotion with little engagement. However, inspired by others' success, they decided to experiment. They scheduled daily posts, repurposed Twitter content for the Community tab, and saw immediate results, including their first subscriber from a Community post. The video analytics showed increased views and impressions. They plan to continue using the Community tab, test quizzes, and outsource content creation in the future.
Takeaways
- đ The challenge began on October 24th and ended on November 23rd, focusing on consistent daily posts on the YouTube Community tab.
- đŒïž The user repurposed content from their Twitter (X) account to use on the YouTube Community tab, streamlining the process.
- đ A key achievement was gaining their first subscriber from a community post, which exceeded initial expectations.
- đ Image posts were the most successful, generating between 300 to 500 impressions and the highest engagement.
- đłïž Polls had lower impressions but higher engagement (up to 30%), although they didn't attract many likes.
- đŹ Text-based posts performed well, with 100 to 300 impressions and an engagement rate of 1.8% to 4.6%.
- đ„ Video posts underperformed, with the best video post receiving only 120 impressions and minimal engagement.
- đĄ The user realized that shorter, more concise posts and using enticing images might be more effective than long text or video links.
- đ Over the 30 days, the user gained 12,200 impressions, 383 likes, and 5 new subscribers by repurposing content efficiently.
- đ Moving forward, the plan is to focus more on image posts and quizzes, slow down video posts, and improve content repurposing for more consistent results.
Q & A
What was the purpose of the challenge described in the script?
-The purpose of the challenge was to test the effectiveness of using the YouTube Community tab for consistent daily posting to increase engagement and potentially gain new subscribers.
How did the creator schedule daily posts for the challenge?
-The creator scheduled daily posts by planning and preparing them in bulk, taking advantage of the scheduling feature within the YouTube Community tab.
What was the creator's initial approach to using the Community tab before the challenge?
-Before the challenge, the creator used the Community tab for self-promotion, highlighting specific videos, Discord servers, or sponsors, but did not gain much engagement or new subscribers.
How did the creator repurpose content from other platforms for the YouTube Community tab?
-The creator repurposed content by taking scheduled posts from their Twitter account (or another platform referred to as 'X'), slightly modifying them, and then posting them on YouTube.
What was the first noticeable result the creator observed from the challenge?
-The first noticeable result was gaining the first subscriber from a Community post, which happened sooner than expected, along with 1,400 impressions.
What types of posts did the creator make during the challenge?
-The creator made various types of posts including tips, sharing results, generic engagement posts like polls asking viewers' preferences, and video posts.
How did the creator streamline the content creation process across different platforms?
-The creator streamlined the content creation process by planning YouTube videos first, then using the bullet points from those plans to create content for Twitter, long-form text documents, and Community posts, all linking back to the original YouTube video.
What was the most effective type of post in terms of impressions during the challenge?
-Image posts were the most effective in terms of impressions, with one post reaching over 1,000 impressions.
What was the engagement rate like for the different types of posts?
-Polls had a higher engagement rate, with up to 30%, while image posts had lower engagement rates around 1-2% despite higher impressions.
What was the final outcome of the 30-day challenge in terms of subscriber growth?
-The challenge resulted in 12,200 impressions, 383 likes, and 5 new subscribers.
What is the creator's plan for future content strategy on the YouTube Community tab?
-The creator plans to continue using the Community tab, posting more images which performed the best, and repurposing content to provide value in text form. They also plan to clean up systems for potential outsourcing of content posting.
Outlines
đ Exploring YouTube Community Tab Engagement
The speaker discusses their month-long experiment with the YouTube Community tab, starting from October 24th to November 23rd. Initially, they used the tab for self-promotion but saw little engagement. Seeing others succeed, they decided to test it seriously. To ensure consistency, they scheduled daily posts. Despite a busy schedule, they managed to post daily by reusing content from another social media account (X). They modified the posts slightly and scheduled them on YouTube, a process that took about 45 minutes daily. The results were immediate, with their first subscriber coming from a community post, and they gained 1,400 impressions. The speaker shares their excitement about this unexpected success and shows examples of the types of posts they made, including tips, results, and engagement questions. They also discuss their content creation process, which involves planning YouTube videos, then repurposing that content for Twitter and the YouTube Community tab, aiming to streamline their workflow.
đ Content Repurposing Strategy and Results
The speaker elaborates on their content repurposing strategy, which involves creating a YouTube video and then using it for various platforms like the YouTube Community tab and Twitter. They also consider expanding to Facebook and LinkedIn. They discuss the possibility of outsourcing this process once it's perfected. The results of their challenge are presented, with 12,200 impressions, 383 likes, and five new subscribers over 30 days, which they consider a success given the effort involved. They analyze the performance of different types of posts, such as image posts, polls, quizzes, text posts, and video posts, finding that image posts performed the best in terms of impressions, while polls had the highest engagement rate. They note that video posts had low engagement and conversion rates. The speaker plans to continue using the community tab, focusing on posting valuable content by repurposing it into text form for easier consumption and plans to clean up their systems to make the process more efficient.
đ Future Plans and Final Thoughts
In the final paragraph, the speaker reflects on the success of their first month using the YouTube Community tab and shares their future plans. They intend to test quizzes and reduce the number of video posts, focusing more on image posts, which were the most successful. They also plan to continue repurposing content to provide value to their audience in an easily consumable text form, and to publish these posts on Twitter as well. The speaker emphasizes the importance of the community tab in their strategy and encourages viewers to click on a related video for more information on building a personal brand. They conclude by thanking the viewers for watching.
Mindmap
Keywords
đĄCommunity Tab
đĄEngagement
đĄImpressions
đĄSubscriber
đĄContent Repurposing
đĄConsistency
đĄAnalytics
đĄPolls
đĄOutsourcing
đĄEfficiency
đĄBranding
Highlights
Started a challenge to post daily on YouTube Community tab from October 24th to November 23rd
Initially used the community tab for self-promotion with limited engagement
Observed others successfully growing their channels using the community tab
Scheduled daily posts to ensure consistency despite a busy schedule
Repurposed content from other social media platforms like Twitter for the community tab
Scheduling posts on the community tab took only 45 minutes daily
Experienced immediate results, including the first subscriber from a community post
Gained 1,400 impressions and one new subscriber within the first few posts
Shared the types of posts that have been made so far, including tips and polls
Explained the content creation process and how it's repurposed for different platforms
Discussed the idea of streamlining content creation for efficiency
Outlined a strategy to repurpose YouTube video plans into various social media posts
Considered outsourcing content creation in the future
Found that image posts performed the best in terms of impressions
Polls had high engagement rates but lower impressions
Text posts had moderate impressions and engagement
Video posts had low impressions and engagement, questioning their future use
Ended the 30-day challenge with 12,200 impressions, 383 likes, and 5 subscribers
Plans to test out quizzes and reduce the number of video posts
Will continue to use the community tab and repurpose content for efficiency
Encourages viewers to build their personal brand, linking to a related video
Transcripts
for the past 30 days I've been posting
over on the YouTube Community tab we
started on the 24th of October which
meant this challenge came to an end on
the 23rd of November now originally I've
never really taken the community tab
seriously any time that I would post
over there would really be
self-promotion highlighting specific
videos maybe some Discord servers maybe
even a sponsor so I've been able to gain
Impressions but I've never really gained
any engagement and certainly no subscri
but I've been seeing a lot of other
people use the community Tab and they've
been able to explode their channel so I
wanted to give it a test so to make sure
that I was consistent with this the
first thing that I did was schedule
daily post from the 24th all the way to
the 23rd myself I'm fairly busy when it
comes to the day-to-day and things will
just all of a sudden happen which I need
to dedicate my attention to so the first
thing that I needed to make sure with
this challenge is that I was posting
every single day and even though I could
set a task on my phone to say you need
to post on a YouTube Community tab it
would be better if I just did all of
this in bul it sounds like a lot of work
but this was in fact very easy because
at the exact same time in which I
started to go through this challenge
I've also been building up my Twitter
account or X account whatever it's
called and I've been posting anywhere
between 3 to five times over there so
quite simply I took all of my scheduled
posts I had over on X and then move move
them over slightly rewarded them and
then posted them over onto YouTube I
scheduled them every single day you can
do that within the community tab you can
schedule post so this made life
incredibly easy it took about 45 minutes
for me to take what I had over on X and
bring it over to YouTube all of this
sounds very lazy but we immediately
started to see results I wasn't planning
to record hence why I'm wearing this
because I am about to go gym but I did
just take a look at my analytics and
we've already got our very first
subscriber from Community post which is
way sooner than what I expected we've
had 1,400 Impressions but I really
thought those would be Impressions from
people who were already subscribed no
turns out it goes beyond that so we've
got a very first subscriber which if we
were to just go to Lifetime view we have
more views than what we've had before
and that one subscriber from Community
post is our very first subscriber so
wanted to go and celebrate that whoever
that was thank you it means a lot
and just to show you what we've been
posting so far it really isn't too much
1 2 3 4 five six se seven post we
haven't even hit double digits yet and
we've managed to go and get our first
subscriber we've got a lot of stuff
which is mainly down to tips as well and
sharing results what I've been able to
achieve behind the scenes and then we've
got that very generic Batey engagement
type of post which is what do you prefer
to consume shorts of videos which was
just a very easy way for people to vote
I don't know which one got the
subscriber but we're going to carry on
with what we have currently as our
strategy and see how things go so as you
can see those generic posts were working
but I wanted to go deeper at the time of
going through this even though I was
building my Twitter what ends up
happening is I create my content for
YouTube the full video and then after I
need to create additional content which
will be over on Twitter now it's also
using that Twitter content to go into X
I wanted to streamline and bring all of
this together so that the amount of
content I can get out of my time is a
bit more efficient so this is what I did
firstly I would plan my YouTube video
this is always going to be the heart and
soul of the content I create these
videos end up being 10 15 20 minutes
long sometimes a bit longer if it's
tutorials such as Premier Pro or even
Photoshop but with each of these videos
how I plan them is not script in every
single word I can actually write out
bullet points of the key details that I
need to talk about and then I can just
rift this is how I create my videos but
the interesting thing is that I can take
that initial plan of bullet points
expand upon it use that to create a Fred
over on Twitter use that exact same Fred
to create a long form text document to
explain the process of how to do a
certain topic use that as a community
post both of which would then link back
to that original video once it's
published over on YouTube to take this
even further I can also break down very
specific tips into shorter posts both of
which can then also be post as single
post over on Twitter and yet again the
community Tab and as I'm already
recording a YouTube video it means that
I can either link up video which is also
been repurposed for those specific post
or simply I could just take images of
some of the recorded footage and results
I have and use those to link link up
with those posts as well so even though
right now it means that with the content
I'm creating it's the YouTube video
which is then used for the YouTube
Community Tab and then that's also used
for a Twitter Fred at some point I can
expand to go to Facebook and Linkedin
once I decide that that is a good path
and we've perfected our current system I
also see this as a very easy way to
Outsource even though I didn't do it as
part of this challenge with a YouTube
video recorded and edited I can then
share my notes and also share that video
to a copywriter who can then write out a
community Tab and then slightly change
it up a bit so that they can then do the
same thing for a Twitter thread and then
they can break those down for those
individual posts and that's pretty much
how I see this going in the future and I
wanted to share that with you so that
you can start on this adventure if you
wish to go and do so but just know for
this challenge I ended up doing it all
myself because well I needed to learn so
with all of this it means that on top of
us publishing those daily generic posts
which were already getting results we
also added more value on top depending
whether or not we were uploading videos
and what videos that were uploaded were
then also broken down into very specific
tips every single week meaning we would
average anywhere between 1 to three
posts every single day and that's what
brings us over to the results image post
ended up being the best on average they
would get anywhere between 3 to 500
Impressions but it was also the only
form that managed to get us over 1,000
Impressions which is certainly
interesting because as we go through
I'll highlight exactly what we did there
was only one where I took this single
strategy for it and it absolutely
exploded well exploded in relation to
what else we've been able to get in
terms of Impressions across the other
formats but it is certainly interesting
despite getting the Impressions with the
image post they really didn't get that
much engagement anywhere between 1 to 2%
which is completely different to the pop
polls on the other hand really didn't
get that many Impressions but we can see
up to around 30% in terms of Engagement
now with this it's slightly easy to go
and get these because people will just
go through read the single sentence and
then click vote whatever they're
deciding to go and pick and that counts
as engagement but they wouldn't really
get any likes most of these would get
three to four likes Max despite having
close to over a 100 votes during this
time and this was was also a massive
mistake when I went through with this
challenge was that I didn't compare
polls or quizzes I just post polls and
did nothing for thequiz so I can't even
compare these but this is something that
I also want to test with in the future
the generic post that we put every
single day were the text post and these
actually did okay getting anywhere
between 100 to 300 Impressions with
engagement being anywhere between 1.8%
all the way up to 4.6% which was better
than the image post which was
interesting with our video post we
publish four of these within a 30-day
period so one every single week and we
would publish them alongside the video
for that week so this links back to what
we said before how we would take the
initial video plan and then restructure
it into text format to highlight the key
points and then use that as a community
tag and what was interesting is that
these were by far the worst the best one
that we published had 120 Impressions
and that gave us three likes and when we
went over to our video analytics the
numbers are so small that we can't even
tell if there was a conversion for me
when looking at the polls that we posted
it made sense for people to vote and
then not like but we still got
engagement with these we didn't really
get engagement and I don't think anyone
did convert by clicking the link or
clicking the video to actually watch and
I understand with these the text that we
included ended up being very long and a
lot of people wouldn't read through all
of that to eventually watch the video
but this is what I was on about earlier
where I said the strategy that ended up
falling in place and the one that I'm
going to use within the future is kind
of interesting because even though yes
this is very long we did publish some
which were a lot shorter which still did
not see the Impressions and did not see
any conversion but we did have a very
long post as one of our image posts and
that did perform well yeah again that
ended up being the best one during this
30-day period so in the future instead
of linking it to the video we're going
to link it to images either being the
thumbnail or any key results that we
talked about within the video that would
be enticing in terms of an image for a
community post and after the 30 days
here are the results we managed to get
12,200 impressions 383 likes and five
subscribers it's not crazy numbers in
terms of subscribers but that came from
me really not having to do too much
consider considering I took loads of
posts that I was publishing over onto
Twitter over to the community Tab and
then also repurposed some of my content
which is not as hard or at least doesn't
take as much time compared to creating
completely new content and this was just
my first month which I'm really happy
about you can see in terms of images
polls quiz text and videos where things
are we've also shown that through the
videos the most important thing though
is if we were to go from Custom which is
24th of October to 23rd of November so
that's this 30-day period and change it
to Lifetime we can just see how much
this has changed in fact even if we just
go and change it to 2023 it's
contributed to pretty much most of what
we've been able to achieve in terms of
these numbers over the last 30 days so
it was the only five subscribers that
we've ever had from Community post have
been over the last 5 days and this was
just me playing a about what needs to
happen next is I definitely need to go
and test out some quizzes but I'm also
going to slow down the amount of videos
that we share or potentially we'll still
publish those videos on the community
tab because at least they still get some
Impressions but more than anything what
we're going to do is take that initial
plan and reuse that to publish more
images which ended up being by far our
best ever posed which is I tackled
YouTube the hard way
1,14 5 Impressions and I'll be surprised
if this wasn't the post that ultimately
contributed to us getting subscribers
right the beginning so with all of this
I'm going to carry on using the
community tab I'm going to keep on
posting providing value to my Audience
by repurposing that content so that
those if they don't have that much time
to watch the full video they can still
learn how to grow a YouTube channel
because I'm still providing content to
them but in text form which is so much
easier for them to cons those posts will
then also be published over onto Twitter
and I'll start to clean up systems on
the back end so that I don't need to do
it personally if you enjoyed this video
then I highly recommend clicking this
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everything that we've talked about here
is perfect to link up by building your
very own personal brand and that's
exactly what that video shows you how to
do so click that and I'll be over there
to guide you through absolutely
everything thanks for watching
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