Hi THENigeliam,
Firstly it's nice to meet ya! And you live in the Philippines? If so, that's great! We're here in Quezon, City.
So let's get down to business
Starting out I'd suggest making a channel trailer. This can be done by editing the channel navigation settings, it should look something like this (Image Below)
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That said, you don't need to make a video explaining who you are, what you do etc etc. I've made them in the past, and to be honest they don't help me. Either create, or use one of your best videos and place it there. To hook any new visitors to your content. And if interested cycle out the videos as it'll increase the amount of views each video receives. This can effect retention rates. But starting out it's a great method to get views.
I've noticed in your thumbnails you tend to place a lot of text. And don't let that worry you, I did the same thing in the past. Normally a mass amount of text isn't needed. When users are searching through the YouTube Search List they want something to catch their eyes. Rather then using an entire "NBA" character perhaps just use the torso and up. With a White, or other various vibrant color strokes. "Line around the edges of the character" As for text I'd aim for cutting that down to a bare minimum. As with decreasing the amount of text, I'd suggest enlarging the text to make it viewable. I made this mistake
SO many times in the past. When I'd create thumbnails, the thumbnail would fit my entire screen. Now at the time, I wasn't thinking that nobody will see it at that size. Rather it'll be much smaller. So when you create thumbnails always zoom out and see if it's readable before using it.
As with text comes color, as with color comes matching.
Try to make the text stand out in a way that's easily readable and doesn't ruin the thumbnail. Here's an example of a thumbnail. Was going to add others but sadly they're too large to be uploaded. Here is one I've done in the past. "
NOTE I'm not claiming you should copy these, or that these are good. But in my opinion they're catchy and relevant"
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As you can see, the text is vibrant and it's not being mixed with the background. The text is also large enough to be viewable on most mobile, or desktop versions of YouTube.
I'd suggest removing the Nigel Plays from the title. And place that in the tags along with in the descriptions. Take in mind that not only does a title act as a search filter but the description and tags also play a huge role.
Tags could be upload defaulted as "Nigel,NigelPlays,Let's Play,Play," something along the lines of that should be fine for a set of default tags. Then you'd obviously add more depending on what it is you are playing.
Timing - Below is an attached image of what it is that I'm talking about. My video is shorter then others, yet doesn't have the most views. But due to having a higher retention my video ranked first on the search list. This is due to people watching my content longer then the others. Although views are a big asset to getting ranked, so is having a high retention rate.
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When doing let's plays try to be cautious on the timing. If I may suggest, try to to 10 Minute Episodes and if you get the support you want then over the weekends produce longer videos as a special way of saying thanks.
Last bit of advice I'd like to shoot your way is focus on YouTube Playlists. You may not know it now, but in the long run they'll pay off. Place each genera of content you do in a specified playlist.
NBA 2K Playlist, GTA V Playlist etc.
I'd like to give you more, but let's work with what I said above and if you think it'll work I'll shoot you another few pages of text.
Thanks for taking interest in this. Have a good day mate!