What Happens If You Upload To YouTube For 365 Consecutive Days??

Since I launched this channel in 2017, I have worked hard to continue to evolve, grow, develop, and improve what this channel is all about. From different cameras, b-rolls, and the types of videos that we do, I'm constantly experimenting and trying new things. One strategy I have been utilizing for the past year has been to post a YouTube Short every single day since October 2nd, 2022. My goal: post 365 consecutive days of videos. I mean, what would happen if I posted a YouTube video every single day for a full year? Well, over the past year, that has been a goal I've been focusing on, to post a YouTube Short every day for a year. Beginning on October 2, 2022, the journey began. And now, 1 year later, I'm amazed that I can say We Did It! We Actually Uploaded To YouTube For 365 Consecutive DaysShow more

When YouTube launched the Shorts platform, I jumped on board fairly early. I utilized Shorts to bring news, game pickups, and other content to the channel that didn't necessarily warrant a full-length video. In October 2022 I was invited to partake and what YouTube called a Sprint, a focus on content creation on the platform. From October the 2nd 2022 to November the 1st 2022 The plan was to post a YouTube Short every day and tag those videos with the hashtag Shorts30. One of the challenges for me during this period was that we went down to Florida for a family vacation again to Walt Disney World, so how would I manage to hit the school? Well, I actually did it, and I was able to share part of my family vacation through YouTube Shorts. Once the month was complete I was thrilled and did not plan to continue to do it. That is, until I did.

They say something becomes a habit if you can do it for 28 consecutive days, and for me creating a YouTube Short every day had just become a habit over the course of October. This is something that I just continued into November. November continued into December, And before I knew it I was at the end of 2022. At the end of each year, I like to create goals for myself and the channel to make sure that I am not only keeping myself accountable but that I'm not just going through the motions. One of the goals that I had come up with was that I was going to post one new video, specifically a YouTube Short, every day. I didn't know what happens to your channel if you upload to YouTube for 365 consecutive days, so I decided to do it. Would I take off in the YouTube Algorithm? Would I ruin my channel in the algorithm? Would Al Gore come out with bad rhythm as ManBearPig? Sometimes I feel like I just wish someone could just explain the YouTube Algorithm to me, I mean it is 2023 after all!

Over the course of the last year, there have been some sicknesses, injuries, equipment failures, and other life events that made it difficult for me to accomplish my goal. Difficult, but not impossible. Now looking back, there are times I probably could have taken a day or three off and not posted a Short, but in the end, I decided to push through and do it anyway. I have had some Shorts that have performed amazingly well, my most popular video on the channel has over half a million views and is a YouTube Short. I've also created some Shorts I thought would have done great but have not done well at all. You live and you learn what can I say.

In the last year I've definitely learned a few things. I've learned what our community does and does not want to see. I've also been able to share some behind-the-scenes views with people in my life and my family which otherwise would not make a good typical video. But it's one of those things that I've been able to share with each and every one of you over the past 365 days.

So while I have posted a video every day over the last year, I do think it has come at an expense. Producing so many Shorts eight into the time for me to produce regular videos, so I've produced less of those over the last year. I'm going to change that. I've also become fairly burned out by posting 365 consecutive days of videos. I'm going to change that as well. But overall I think I feel a sense of pride and accomplishment that I was able to set this goal and achieve it.

So am I going to do moving forward? Well, I'm still going to create YouTube Shorts, just not as many of them. I will return to my more traditional posting cadence of full-length videos three times a week and YouTube Shorts two to three times a week. I think that's something that you, or the audience, will appreciate and it will allow me to take a day off from time to time.

What do you think of what we've been able to accomplish here? Do you have a favorite YouTube Short that we've produced? Let me know down in the comments, and thank you all for your love, viewership, and support over the past 12 months.

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