How to reach 4000 watch hours?

 How to reach 4000 watch hours?

Often there is a lot of criticism and arguments on the 4,000 watch hours that YouTube demands before granting the monetization feature to any YouTube channel. But if you focus on the numbers, comparatively, they are a tiny stepping stone towards making money on a platform this big. It is the very first milestone that every new YouTube creator wants to achieve. So, have you ever thought of ways by which you can reach 4,000 watch hours on your channel successfully?

Just like a new start-up or self-starting business, this journey is not going to be relatively easy. However, in the present article, we are going to discuss how you can achieve what you are determined about. Listed below are few strategies by which you capture thousands of viewers and subscribers far more than just 4,000 watch hours on YouTube 

Strategies to achieve 4,000 watch hours on YouTube:

Create 20-30 Minute Podcasts: 

The very first thing that one should try to attract more viewers to your channel is to start your very own podcast. It will allow you to gain as much as watch time you want from your viewers; with that, you can also post it on your channel with significantly fewer efforts on editing. All one should do is tap on the record button, do your podcast, press the end button, and with that, you can publish the raw video up on your channel. 

Live Stream: 

The good part about live streaming is that it requires no effort to edit. It is a proven method to increase your watch time and few efforts for achieving your goal of 4,000 watch hours. You can quickly multiply your average viewer with your stream's length to find out the estimate of the watch time of your channel. For example, a single 5 hours of the stream with an average of 60 viewers would be roughly equal to 250 hours of watch time.

Increase Your Normal Video Length: 

Nowadays, longer videos are becoming the new norm in the YouTube world, so don't feel shy while posting 10 minutes or long videos and avoid posting short videos of 2 minutes or less as much as you can. 

All of the above-listed strategies have proven to be successful in achieving your watch hour goal, but instead of just focusing on 4,000 watch hours, try to think ahead and bigger. The primary keys to achieving these goals are hard work and determination. Invest your time and dedication in your work, and that number will tend to increase and even help you reach more significant milestones quickly. 

 

How to Reach 4,000 YouTube Watch Hours and Beyond?

Achieving 4,000 watch hours on YouTube will not be sufficient to pay your bills, so let's focus on attaining how we can bring enough watch hours and views to make a suitable or adequate income. To start from scratch, we'll need to do several things to achieve the set radar.

The biggest hurdle in the YouTube world is the competition; the other video creators have already established their name on this platform. By this, we mean, as a new content creator, your content will be recommended along with the already established creators in your niche. You surely post your videos without a strategy, and with time, you may experience some success. But without a proper calculated approach, it would take you years to reach the milestone.

To achieve your goals, what you will need to do is become an expert in your particular niche and keep up with all the upcoming trends closely. Your mission should be to create and post videos on those trending topics before your competitors. What happens when you do this is your content will be recommended over other creators, even if it is for a short period of time, as you will be the only source on that trending topic. Let's understand it better with two examples.

You're the creator of a video game: A rumor has circulated online that a new item has been added to the latest yet famous PUBG mobile game. Now you start researching, collect all the details, and manage to create and start a live stream or post a video on this topic before your competitors do.

You're a sports news channel creator: A rumor has circulated online that a top-rated football player is about to join a new football club in a record-breaking deal. Now you start researching, collect all the information, and post a new video on your channel before your competitors. 

By being quick and following the trends closely, you can achieve the best results as your video will appear on the front page of Google searches on the related topics, which will end up boosting your views on YouTube as well. Similarly, any search on YouTube related to the trending topic will show your authorized video on the top. 

The algorithm will recognize your video as a trending topic, and it will boost your views. YouTube will send out the notification to all the mobile users; even if they haven't subscribed to your channel, your video will appear on their homepage. As soon the bigger channel covers the trending topic, your video's rank will decrease, and so will the growth. But you have nothing to worry for as you have already captured enough attention to get some views and subscribers.

Now you may wonder how one can find topics, create a video, edit and post those videos before your competitors? Well, you can do this by investing yourself highly in your niche and pick up all the stories and topics from your research. Usually, there are many pages like Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, or Twitter before any famous topic gets reported on news sites or any popular YouTube channel. 

On top of that, you'll need to learn a professional level of editing and have a reasonable posting speed as well. It will be more difficult if you are posting regularly and missing all the trending topics. For example, if you make your videos look more creative by adding animated cartoons and documentaries. The best way to pick up on trending topics and even create content on it is to live and learn whatever it is you want to tell the truth and to be on a platform as broad as YouTube.

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Conclusion:

Let's summarize the above information in short points:

• Invest yourself heavily in your particular niche. Read everything related to your niche online and be updated.

• Be quick to cover all the trending topics and post a video before your competitors.

• Be quick; keep your focus on light editing, and post as soon as possible.

• You'll gather more views and subscribers, and your next video will be automatically recommended to all your viewers.

• The next step needs a lot of hard work: focus on creating the best video you can. Make your videos more engaging, exciting, and make sure to add an attractive thumbnail.

• Repeat these steps every time a new trending topic rises.

We can't guarantee success with the above-listed strategies and methods. Sometimes, it may take more attempts than you thought. When it finally works for you, it would indeed work wonders, and it will be a successful journey to break any niche on YouTube.