Summary

The author's 30-day YouTube daily upload challenge led to nearly doubled revenue, increased RPM and CPM, and a significant boost in views from YouTube Search due to SEO optimization.

Abstract

The author, an experienced creator of educational faceless YouTube channels, embarked on a 30-day challenge to upload daily videos to one of their channels. This channel, which was started a year prior and had previously earned YouTube Partner Program eligibility with only five videos, saw substantial growth in revenue and viewership as a result of the challenge. The author attributes this success to a combination of consistent daily uploads and the use of SEO strategies, specifically optimizing video titles, descriptions, and tags using the tool VidIQ. The SEO approach targeted high-search, low-competition keywords within the channel's niche, leading to a snowball effect in views and earnings. The author notes that while the immediate impact is promising, the full effect of the challenge is expected to manifest over the next two months.

Opinions

The author believes that daily uploads can significantly impact a small channel's growth.
Consistent uploads, combined with SEO optimization, are seen as key factors in increasing channel revenue and viewership.
The use of tools like VidIQ is recommended for their ability to take the guesswork out of content creation by providing insights into search trends and keyword competition.
The author suggests that the benefits of such a challenge may not be fully realized until several months after the experiment due to the time it takes for videos to reach their potential on YouTube.
The author endorses VidIQ and Play.ht, indicating personal satisfaction and utility from these tools.
The author plans to share their video creation process, which they claim can be completed in under 30 minutes, suggesting efficiency and scalability in content production.

I uploaded daily videos to YouTube for 30 days, and this happened

Results of my 30-day YouTube daily upload challenge

Have you ever wondered if uploading videos to YouTube daily can help grow a small channel?

I tried it, and this is what happened.

Short Backstory for Context

I’ve been creating educational faceless YouTube channels since 2016. The videos I create are very simple to make.

In fact, most are made using templates and/or stock video footage from Canva, and an AI voiceover software called Play.ht.

Currently, I have over a dozen channels in various niches that are monetized through the YouTube Partner Program.

This story is about one of those channels that I started a year ago, on September 27, 2021.

I originally uploaded 5 videos, then sat back to see what YouTube would do with them. From my experience, it takes about three months for a video to reach its full potential.

After 6 months (in March 2022), the channel had met the requirements for the YouTube Partner Program with the original 5 videos I uploaded.

For reference, I wrote a story about this channel in July 2022, documenting how much it was earning with around 2,000 subscribers.

How Much My Faceless YouTube Channel Earns with 2,162 Subscribers

Realistic earnings for a small YouTube channel with inconsistent uploads

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From April to August 2022, I uploaded very infrequently. I’d often go months without uploading anything to this channel.

This is what my channel earnings looked like before I untook the 30-day challenge:

Screenshot from the author’s YouTube analytics.

Results of my 30-Day YouTube Daily Upload Challenge

I started uploading videos daily to this YouTube channel on August 28, 2022.

Here’s what happened in the last 30 days.

Screenshot from the author’s YouTube account.

Not only did my revenue nearly double, but both my RPM and CPM increased as well.

I’m also starting to see bigger spikes in both views and revenue — kind of like a snowball effect. But I don’t expect to see the full impact of this experiment for another two months yet.

However, here is the most interesting takeaway from my point of view—

In the last 30 days, I got an additional 13,495 views from YouTube Search alone.

The reason for this is that I optimized my videos for YouTube Search using a basic SEO strategy.

Essentially, I used a tool called VidIQ to figure out what people were searching for the most on YouTube within my niche.

Then I put those keywords into my titles, descriptions, and tags.

Doing this took the guesswork out of what videos I needed to create.

For example, if I had a channel about “dog training,” I’d type that phrase into VidIQ.

The tool would then give me hundreds of keyword phrases that people are actually searching for on YouTube, along with the number of monthly searches and how hard it is to rank for each of those keywords.

Then I just pick the keywords with the most searches or lowest competition and make videos about them.

VidIQ has a free plan if you’d like to try this yourself.

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