Would you try Google Ads after watching this video?

To the person reading this, I pray you become a successful youtuber

If you’re reading this, this is your sign that your youtube will be successful. Don’t give up please! Love

The trick is to have a separate channel or playlist which contains trailer videos. You can then put a card on this video which points to the content you actually want to promote. That way you'll still drive more traffic to the video and you are less likely to destroy the retention rate of the video as if someone has actually clicked a card on your 'trailer' video it means they are really interested.

I gave up and deleted all my videos last week. I came back on yesterday to deactivate my account. -----But all I could do in that moment was bury my head in my hands. There was just too many images appearing in my head from this past year, of my Wife and grown boys proud of me and see me work so hard. And never saying anything of my No View Videos. Not one ever reached 10 Views. I must of hit something, when I wiped a tear. Because right in my face is this Kid in a video talking about how she paid for a Google Ad to push her Channel. ----- Some really good stuff. But what I really see, is the Fight in this kid. A fire burning inside and holding a strong stance of her Against the World. ..... I needed this. Thank You. And thank you for sharing your spark. So I redone a couple of videos and threw em' back up. .....But, before i dig my feet in. I had to come back, because I forgot to "LIKE" the Video and SUBSCIBE to your CHANNEL 👊

To the person reading this, If you're a small youtuber, you'll get there soon, just be consistent.

Awesome video. I am small KZfaqr, and I think that for small channels the most important thing is to get good presence from the beginning. If you are not popular, people won't care even if you have the best videos and the best content on platform. I am not beginner anymore, but I know how hard it can be (and honestly if I didn't use a lot of Fame - ster, I would have quit a long time ago. It made everything much easier for me, especially getting to 1000 subs and view hours).

I find your video very informative. I have never advertised for viewers, but by advertising, I could have cut down the time and number of videos necessary to hit a million+. We have used advertising on Instagram and have enjoyed regular growth. The bottom line is if you are talking about what your nitch wants to hear, one way or another, they will find you.

One thing that helped me a lot is to use KZfaq normally and comment on things you like with your KZfaq channel name. Over time, people may noticed your name or comments, they may be curious and check your channel’s content organically.

Hi. Thanks for the video. I’m a pay per click specialist and your low retention rates has to do with your campaign setup and targeting. There are certain features that need to be adjusted in KZfaq campaigns to avoid showing to unrelated traffic. These campaigns do work you just need to know how to set them up properly. But I am happy you did get some results.

One method I've seen is to reupload the video you want to promote as an unlisted video, then only run ads on that. When the campaign stops you delete the reupload. This way it doesnt kill the original videos stats. I guess a secondary benefit is you can precisely measure the results of the campaign in terms of new subs etc.

Hey Cristina! Thank you for this video ! It's a total chaos what is working for growing faster on KZfaq. Retention rate is the hardest actually. In order to have big retention rate, you need to hook viewers to your content by promising all the time that something is coming in the next minute also that the last point you want to show is actually best so stay tuned. I am also struggling, but it's great to see that I am not alone in this. :)

Excellent experiment. Years ago I had a gaming channel and I tried google promotion, I even took a course on how to use google ads correctly to get my content to the right people and the same thing happened to you. Now I have this new channel and I'm doing everything organic and I'm doing super well. NOTE: My channel is in Spanish but some of my videos have subtitles in several languages, the niche is Finance. Thanks and good video

Hi Christina, new subscriber here! Thanks for your video. And yes, spending a lil cash to help premote your vids is definitely something that goes through your mind as you embark on your great KZfaq journey. I started my first channel back on Oct 9th 2022 (last month) and am trying to learn all I can. I don't really have any metric to compare to so I am not really sure if its doing good or not, but either way, I am glad to see content like yours to help guide and build my channel to be bigger & better - I am in full sponge mood right now trying to soak up as much as I can! Thanks again for your video - looking forward to the next -

Your videos are amazing and very high quality . I think it is about to get exploded , please don't quit , keep doing them and hopefully in month or so it will blow and the work you did till then will pay you back . All the best mate !!

Good day Christina! Great video and a great eye opener too. I recently spent around $200 on a google ads campaign to promote my videos, but as you said after a few days and tons of views i realised it was hurting the retention rate by a mile, i went from having full retention on my videos to only average of 20 seconds and a lot of thumbs down. Which would eventually kill my channel all together. A personal advice to anyone considering this super legal and legit boost to your youtube channel: stay away from google ads if you want a caring audience who enjoy your videos. You will get a ton of views but little to no retention! Thx Christina!

Good job. Im glad you are seeing what works and what doesn’t.

Love the transparency here Christina! Been playing with some promo on my channel and had a very similar experience, testing new things out is the way to go also it's fun as hell hahaha thanks for sharing, I learned A LOT!

I watched this video til the end cause it's informative. Thank you! I'm thinking of setting up my campaign but I'm not sure of what I'm even doing. Best of luck to all small youtubers out there!

Good luck with your channel. Keep trying different things and notice what working and make it happen. I could see you being on top. Don’t give up!!!!!!

honestly this video helped me more than you realise so thank you for the transparency and keep going. this is just what I personally need!

I had similar results.. When I started (5$/day) I didn't specify country, just English speaking, and after a week or two I noticed a big boost in views and subs, but i noticed nearly all of my views were from India and the Philippines, and that the searches leading up my videos were commonly stuff around "how to speak English". I stopped the adds but was afraid I was teaching youtube that I was somehow an English teaching channel which is definitely not what I do haha. I was afraid I ruined my channel. I recently started back up but limited it to like the US and Canada and added more "life event" audience filters and I've noticed significantly higher retention. But dang when you turn it off and those views slow down... It don't feel great haha

Thank you for this! And I don't understand those who clicked away after 30 seconds of watching your videos. You're pleasant to watch and listen too.

Crisp, smart way of explaining, necessary and sufficient information. That was helpful. Thank you.

Great advice! I’ve been looking into this for my channel also, but I keep hearing conflicting arguments regarding how it can negatively affect your channel in the long run.

This was a really great and informative video. It can be easy to fall into these traps to move views on a video, but showing the downside is super helpful. Thank you very much for sharing!

I'm a small KZfaqr and just like in real life the demand for electricians is high and content about doing electrical work is also high. I have a few videos that have done really well and others not-so-much. I am fortunate in this way because I don't think I would ever pay to have my page promoted. I just don't need to, just like I don't need my own contracting business website. May seem crazy but in the construction trades demand for services is crazy. Fortunately I have a few friends help me with iMovie and Keynote so I think my videos are pretty good. Thanks for posting this video.

i found your video from google, after searching "can google ads help grow my KZfaq channel" your video was number 5 but with the most views, so i thought i would check yours out first, thank God i did because you answered every question i had and even showed real results, thanks for being so transparent, And you earned me as a new Subscriber, I have been trying to figure out a way to make $100 everyday online to eventually quit my job and never work a 9-5 job again, as i live in a small town and there is not many options besides fastfood or gas stations, anyways thanks again , im looking forward to growing my brand and my channel more.

Hi Christina, a good video and I appreciate the thought and how genuine you were. I am a small Content Creator/Entrepreneur as well. I liked the video and subscribed (as I am well aware of KZfaq analytics and wanted to help out your channel). Thanks.

Hey. Thank you for the honest and transparent video with much clarity to details... keep doing what you doing. praying you get tons of subs... you got mine for now :) Peace!

Thank you for this! Really enjoyed learning about how running a campaign altered the views! Thanks again, Arlo the good doggo

Thanks for explaining. I’ve been considering advertising for my business (not KZfaq) . And I didn’t exactly know how it worked. I think I’m going to try it out.

This is wonderful.. I’ve had and preached the very thought to fellow young creators .. Am glad you experimented and giving us what the data says

Totally agree with you. I like the clarity with which you explain things. All the best, I'm sure you will grow to be a big KZfaqr!

Thank you so much for the insightful video! I was about to run an ad campaign before I realized I should do more research, and this video really put it into perspective for me. I just released an animated cartoon intro which has a higher retention rate than my last animated project, so I thought it would be good to take advantage of a promotion but at the same time I wouldn't want to hurt the retention too. Still thinking about what to do, but this really helped get the cogs turning! What you said about small youtubers needing to stick together resonated with me, though it looks like you're not a small youtuber anymore I went ahead and subscribed! Haha

Good explanation Christina, this is definitely going to help me for my research that I am going to publish on my channel, keep it up...

Great video Christina, you earned a subscriber! Even though I don't consider myself a beginner anymore, I still remember getting started. It was a tough journey. Of course, things are a lot easier now and I'm super grateful that I didn't give up and stayed patient and all the way through. Consistency and hard work ( I had to use some Famester as well, and I don't regret it honestly) is the key! It always pay off. Good luck to all of you, you're gonna make it soon!

incredibly useful information, Christina. Thank you so much for putting it out there. 🙂

Thank you for the sharing. I was thinking should I go for the ads and this helps me a lot❤

Thank you for the video, you were answering my questions as I was thinking them. This definitely kept me watching! keep up the good work!

A great video !! Good luck to everyone with your journey

Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm probably gonna start doing Google ads. My channel wasn't accepted to make money because I do a lotta copyrighted stuff. But that's what I like to do. Last year I started putting my videos on Facebook fan groups. That worked for a while. The first week I got an extra 16,000 views but then died out over the months. I got blocked from posting on groups because I think they thought I was a spam robot. So, I guess it'll be Google ads to the rescue.

I am definitely going to try this one for 7 days and see. Been struggling with my channel growth as much as i am putting in so much work while being a busy single mom😭😭Thank you for sharing this Christina💝💖

This video helped me find your channel. You really are posting high value content. Your channel will definitely grow to a bigger audience. I love all your videos and I wish you all the best ☺

I like this approach, but at the same time, it's tricky because a view can just be a simple " click." They may not have ever fully watched the video or even a minute . So yes, I definitely track the watch time and duration to ensure the Google ads I'd benefiting me on the long run .

You are amazing and beautiful and you put Soo much efforts into this video Don't stop Do it on your own terms I wish you the best Go girl!

This was super insightful to see it from another person's perspective (also very well storyboarded video). I've personally had mixed results when testing advertising. Sometimes they're effective when you spend more money to target relevance groups that are more likely to be interested or countries that you're in that speak your language. However, the more generic, less expensive runs (that would actually be financially sustainable) gets really low retention, CTR and non-target countries. I can see how they could be effective in certain instances, but maybe not worth the time and resources when you're a smaller channel.

Thanks for the video. I will start advertising after seeing your video. Normally even normal popular videos, retention rate drops if google pushes it to more people.

watched this video till the very end, really enjoyed how you explain the positives and negatives of using Google ads and liked how transparent you were through the whole video. i Subscribed !!!

hey Christina, great video and thank you for sharing this with other KZfaqrs.

More power to your channel Christina ✌

This is a very good video. Pros, cons, personal example, and all packed into 9 minutes. good job :)

Love the content. Am corrently looking into different ways to promote my channel so this was very helpful thank you Christina.

Thanks for this info. I had a similar experience. I set my campaign for 7 days and my video got 12k views but only a few followers. Most of those views were from India but I realized some of them where expecting information about “how to move to Australia?” or something related so the retention was very low because my videos are more like city walks (POV) 😢 I think Google Ads were harmful to my channel.

I'm about to run an ad but this video made me reconsider. All the info I need is right here. Really helpful, thank you very much!

Thank you so much!🙏Really insightful! I also tried Google ads and indeed got tons of views but very little engagement.

Great video and thanks for being honest. About your view duration, were you able to see which countries viewed your video the longest on average? If not, have you tried creating an ad for one country and excluding the others to see what the result would be? In the past, I've paid for ads and certain countries had a ridiculous amount of clicks, to the point where my daily budget was exhausted in a really short amount of time. But those visitors brought pretty much nothing. I ended up focusing on only some countries and excluding others. You might want to consider that. Good luck with everything!

same thing happened when i used google ads. It's like 5-6 subscribers for every 1k-12k views and yes the retention does drop significantly which raises the question if the video has been pushed to the right audience

Thanks for ALL of this! We had a very similar experience with a lot of extra views from ads but a lower retention rate which I think hurt the success of the promoted videos. Still trying to hone-in on how to find a more accurate target audience so our retention rate isn't so low but for now...still a mystery lol.

hey i started already this before one month and my channel goes extremely well, btw(keep going the content) and also i want to push more myself for creating short films

This was a great video! Very helpful. I can relate 100% being a small creator myself! Also I like your set up! Which microphone are you using? Did you do anything to boost the sound in editing? Keep up the good work!

Us small players have it rough, and I've discovered that newer art channels like mine really have a tough time getting built up, I keep getting told that there's still massive interest in art videos, not just learning it but sitting back and just watching the works come together, but the way my channel has performed hasn't convinced me that statement is entirely true, at least from my view point, I've been tempted to run an ad campaign like this to see if it can spread further and reach those that are interested in the content I'm making, but after seeing the results, I'm a bit hesitant as, yes I'm likely to find the right audience, but it could also attract those that aren't interested and a bunch of trolls and haters that just want to cause trouble, I have a feeling my already struggling channel will definitely get thrown to the wolves as I'd get similar results, I might as well keep watching my channel slowly fail rather than pay google to do more damage than good! Anyways thanks for doing this experiment, have a great day :)

how interesting! great to see all the metrics, it gives me a lot to think about. thank you.

I appreciate the insight! I think I might try this. Subscribed.

Just Thought Id Leave A Comment Being That This Made Me Feel Like Its Time To Give It A Try Myself Great Video & Quality Thanks 🙏🏽

Very thorough video, thanks for sharing the knowledge. Since I’m here, I’m just going to go through peoples channels in this comment section and give some love and see what everyone is doing👍🏿💯🙏🏿

Ty for the info. I feel that my nicho it’s not the best (Spanish poetry, my own poetry. Because if you read another authors books or poetry, you don’t get monetisation). For all of those trying to growth, remember it takes time. And something it’s a lot, but you’ll get it. ❤️

You nailed it Retention rate dips significantly as they are sort of spamming your ads everywhere including those who aren't interested. Careful with the geographic regions . That can get skewed heavily

Very intersting results, thank you for sharing your experience! 👍👍

Fighting till the end 💪 ♥️

Keep going christina you’re amazing and i wish you all the best

Thanks so much for this information. My you tube channel is struggling . So I'm trying everything so bounce back

I'm just considering Google ads but maybe not after listening to your experience. Strangely I promoted video on my YT channel on Facebook and it registered over 1000 likes 18000 views and counting and over 5000 engagements BUT even though it was linked to YT and I received many comments on FB the views subscribers did not change on YT. It's like the algorithm was not counting views and subscribers from FB. Very weird and frustrating.

Great video, thanks for the information and honest review! :)

Thanks for sharing! Very helpful experience. I think we're going to keep being patient for a bit longer and see what happens!

Thankyou so much Christina. The video was very helpful.

You’re video was so helpful. I was considering signing up for Google Ads but in reading how everything declines once you stop utilizing it, I may reconsider but I’ve subscribed to your channel and will check out your additional content.

Love your channel and I just binge watched 3 videos 😂 thank you ❤️

Yeah I used Google ads back in 2021 and it helped my channel a lot in getting more views and subscribers, I recently used it again, but it only drove my video some views and that's probably it, I just subscribed to your channel so keep up the good work 👍

Thank for video!

Very helpful video. Considered google as sense but decided against it, at least for now. Focusing on growing organically, getting better at content creation, storytelling etc. Subbed!

As a new subscriber, I must say, I have DEFINITELY thought about paying for promotion after so many failed attempts of manually promoting, and after watching this video of yours, I only want to do it more. One thing you said that really got my attention is you " thinking small KZfaqrs should stick together" and..... I couldn't agree more. I am a struggling novelist and I am trying so hard to promote my novel, which is on Amazon. I do have an animated trailer based on my novel, which has almost 300 hundred views but, that's not enough. I say all that to ask.... will you...possibly help a small youtuber out? My book is only 15 dollars on Amazon and even a short honorable mention of my trailer and book would most helpful. Thank you for reading! :)

Thanks Christina! I was thinking about promoting my channel, and your video helped me a lot. I'm gonna promote it, and will share the experience with you.

Keep up the good work Christina You're blessed 🙏🚀

Finally !!! someone adressing the real thing, not saying thesame things like inorder to grow "ou need to create better content and yada yada" but knowing the right way of promotion that is through campaign creation...thank you.

Hello Christina, I’m Youcef from Morocco. I’ve tried google Ad on a video too and I’ve gained additional 9k viewers in 5 days using a global budget of $17. Same issue, the retention wasn’t good and also I figure out that there isn’t any comments left on the video however I’ve gained few likes and subscribes. Still not really satisfied with that experience. Thank you for your video and It was nice to share your experience ! *small channels are suffering* Lmao

Very interesting that this showed up in my feed - I've tried this before for a channel I manage. Watching this !

thank you for your video and your explantations. I've been posting videos every week for a few months and the organic growth is very slow. Sometime discouraging for the amount of time it requires...but I keep working on it. I'll try the ads. Thank you

Yoooo, love your energy and straight-forward explanation! You gained a new sub! I don't think advertising is for me. My channel is small, which I consider a good thing. Gives me the time to work on my editing and story-telling techniques so that when the channel does grow, I will know what I am doing. Really appreciate you!

Thanks for this interesting experiment, it looks like you got a few more subscribers but you retention suffered which means that those extra subs might not be active which could do harm to the channel thanks for bringing us this info

Yah small youtube in the kids space. Engagement is really tough but. I'm gonna give it a try for 5 years. Yes I'm also using the Google ads to propel my self and get the search optimization of my channel so it's more recognize. There are lot of good things but one thing is a lot of money will be spent. But if it worthwhile and the content has quality then its worth the effort. I still got a long way to go.. Good luck to you and everyone here. Its a tough journey for sure. If you dont wanna spend. You just gotta wait till one of your content really picks up.

Thanks for being so honest with this video!!!! Liked and subscribed. I might run a google ad campaign myself to boost some of my guitar videos…

You don't need ads if you use Famester.

Great Vid!! Thanks for sharing your expereince here! Quick question - When you did you Google Ads, are you able to target people based on their interests?? This way, perhaps the ads would start to show up for people who were interested in the specific topic that your video was talking about, rather than just purely based on their age, gender...etc.

THIS IS SO VALUABLE!!! THANK YOU

That's an informative video. Thanks!!!

Im curious when you set your ads campaign did you you used skippable ad or in-feed ad ? The reason im asking this is because most of the times skippable video ads will most likely pop on other youtubers videos as an ad and of course viewers will skip it so they can watch they clicked on . I think if you go for google ads best is to use in-feed so they show up in search results and recommended videos and also it might even show on youtube homepage.

Hi Christina. Thank you for sharing. If you don't mind me asking, you're estimated revenue at the end shows $14.93. What was the estimated revenue before you started the Google ads campaign? Can I also assume you spent $12 ($3 per day over 4 days)? Thanks in advance.

You awesome homie, thanks for your work👍

Thank you for this video. Yes, I like to know more about side hustle and more - subscribed :) I wish you all the best and to all watching your channel. God bless ❤