Slight update...
Firstly this weather is total balls over here at the moment and I'm under the weather, but have to get stuff done this week for Monday!
That aside, I've been pushing a lot more tiktok and reels (I put them as shorts but it's far less community feel with shorts and they do waaaay worse) to grow out instagram and tiktok as much as possible.
YouTube though, I'm currently sitting on 52,110 subs. Which is mad and for many reasons. The max subs I reached was 54,017 back on 26th Jan 2022 after the viral ice skating short I posted hit 96m views - nothing to do with the channel and pointless to have those people as I'd rather people who watched the videos. This slowly dropped to 51,855 on 24th Jan 2024 this year and then when I started posting again... it started to rise again. The ones who are leaving (which is good) is being outweighed by the new ones arriving and that is really cool to see.
This is the last 12 months. In Jan since starting to post again I have gained 495 subs. In that time I've also removed all videos that were not car related (I had a few that kept bringing in views but were not tied to the channel). So lost out on the searchability of those, but for long term betterment of the channel I think. I probably should have just started a whole new channel if I'm honest... would have been an easier task.
Alas, I'll keep plugging away at it all on YouTube.
Tiktok has been a real funny one.
I'm sitting at 4880 followers at the moment, but it's still pretty quickly rising. I bet it'll pass 5000 in the next day or so. That's nearly 4k followers in the last couple of months. You need 10k to monetize, which is the short term goal really but 100k would be a great aim! I have noticed it is a great way to create a level of community there too. Which is really cool. I have no idea how people manage it past 10k though as the comments and engagement is way higher there than any other platform.
I also found decent traction on insta, although the payouts from FB/Insta/ Meta are ******** compared to tiktok so it's really not worth it for the ad rev, but the community buy in and the conversion possibility to either YT views / subs / merch whatever it might be is why I am focusing on this too. I've gained over 1k followers on there and now on 2262!
So yea. Need to get out and **** about with some cars tomorrow. I am feeling the Audi because I want to get the correct wheels on and it's a loud fast V8!
Peace xx
EDIT: In that time it took to write, tiktok passed 5038. Let's get it!
