Are giveaways worth it to a YouTuber who is trying to draw in fans? I wanna give away a game but I'm worried it won't help bring long time viewers to my channel.
Giveaways?
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Depends on the Giveaway. I did it once and can tell you that the gain is minimal. Most only come for the giveaway and leave afterwards. I would wait till you have reached a decent fanbase where you now they will stay even afterwards.
I had the opposite effect, I gave a game away and i got 14 Subscribers from it, some of them wanted to see what it was all about and didnt want the game, also none of them left afterwards, i dont think you loose at all plus you get a bit of air time on your channel too.
I did a give away 2 years ago on another channel! ( he's deleted ) But i said that i would give away something when i reached 100subs ( At that moment i had like 10 subs ) In 3 DAYS in reached 113 subs. So my tip is that you would give it away when you have like 50 or 100 subs if you know what i mean 
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Giveaways has gone both ways for me. I am trying something new with giveaways in my next event, altho it will be a twitch based giveaway and not a youtube. I have created a point bases system and only followers of me that have been with me will win, not the random guy showing up just for the giveaway. I'm sure there can be a way to implant that into youtube.
Interesting. I'm thinking of doing a giveaway as well. I have a used AMD R9 290 GPU in perfect working condition that I'd like to giveaway to one lucky Real American Gamer subscriber. Not sure if I should do it now, or hold off until I get some more subs
I think doing giveaways are fun. Especially if there's an opportunity to interact with your viewers and help you get to know them better. I've done a few where I'm not giving away games, but rather drawings (literal) that I would do for the viewers if they were selected. All they had to do was answer my topic question and I'll randomly select someone. I think those kinds of giveaways will help keep your viewers in the long run. But if you're frequently giving away games, then people might just subscribe to you to get the chance of winning a free game.
I had a random person coming up to me on twitter telling me I 'had' to do a giveaway.... that I was kinda obligated to do so
Felt so weird and pushy! But I would like to do a give away when I'm actually making something of youtube where I can buy some cool stuff for me to give back to my viewers.... I think now it would only attract people who only want the gifts but are not actually interested in my channel so it would be a waste...
Interesting, the arguments make sense on both ends. In the end though I think I might try a giveaway with a point system, like mentioned above.
This is still in testing phase for me, let me know how it works out for you if you try it
I think you are better off doing giveaways to reward your followers rather than bring new people in. I've seen some channels have really bad results with giveaways, where they have had thousands of subs but they only watched videos that had a giveaway in them. So the normal videos would have 10 or so views then giveaway ones would have hundreds of views.
Also you have to be very careful of how the giveaways are done, using them to gain views/subs/likes can be counted as fake manipulation of the Youtube metrics. Pretty much the same as buying subs in extreme cases and channels have been terminated for this.
Also you have to be very careful of how the giveaways are done, using them to gain views/subs/likes can be counted as fake manipulation of the Youtube metrics. Pretty much the same as buying subs in extreme cases and channels have been terminated for this.
Good points. Thats why I plan on sneaking my giveaway offer into one of my vids without advertising it.
This is a good point. One thing I thought about doing is not putting giveaway in the title but rather in with the chat at random times.
Giveaways aren't worth it in my opinion if you are a small channel. People would quickly subscribe for a chance to win, but once they find out they lose, they may stick around but I could see a lot of people becoming uninterested and unsubscribing.
But that's just my opinion.
But that's just my opinion.
I always do giveaways when new crates/cases are out for TF2 but I don't do it to gain views/subs/likes. However, I put it on the description, erase it when its done and list the winners on my next video.