Fascinating article by Simon Owens: How many videos does it take to get to 1 million YouTube subscribers?
He crunched the numbers on 10 channels that recently passed 1 million subs – an admittedly small sample size – and found…
It took an average 492 videos for a creator to hit 1 million subscribers. The lowest number in my dataset was 123 and the highest was 1,688.
It took roughly four years for the average creator to hit 1 million subscribers. Two did so in only a year and one creator took nine years to reach that number.
So how do you get 1 million subscribers?
You grind it out for longer than most people would consider reasonable 🥵
As Simon puts it…
The secret to overnight success is that there are no overnight successes. Every creator you now look up to was once just like you: grinding it out, one piece of content at a time.
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