4 Painful Reasons Why I Haven’t Been Publishing Consistently on YouTube

And how I’m reversing them

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It’s the unwritten norm of consistency.

Publish one weekly long-form video on YouTube.

Ali Abdaal, top YouTube creator with 5.53 million subscribers, explains why in his “Sunday Snippets” newsletter:

1. The YouTube algorithm favors consistent, regular creators
2. Passers-by on your channel want to subscribe to creators with a consistent backlog of content
3. You want to establish and expectation, especially as you try to grow.

How I’m doing on YouTube

I started my channel in 2018.

We’re six years in. I “should have” published more than 300 videos by now, but

• Only created 112 videos
• Grew to 1.16K subscribers
• Am not (yet) monetized

I couldn’t be further off-target.

How many videos I’ve published

• 2018: 34
• 2019: 19
• 2020: 1 (in December 2020)
• 2021: 9
• 2022: 9
• 2023: 17 long-form, 9…