 Welcome to my journey to 10,000 YouTube subscribers. Hello, I don't really know how to do interest for the series out because usually for vlogs, I do like a montage of what's happening in the video and for these it's like, camera on, let's go. But anyway, my cat is not happy with me talking to you guys right now. He's like walking away. Oh, he's so cute. Now he's scratching my tongue with it. Anyways, hi, my name is Nika. If you're new here, please make sure you subscribe. I'm currently on a journey to 10,000 YouTube subscribers and this is my February, March update. Wait, it's gonna be April. I guess this is my April update. I feel like March really flew by and I had so many ideas that I wanted to do but I didn't really do and you know, a lot was happening. So let's just get right into my analytics and then I can kind of tell you guys like kind of what was happening and going on for me. Let's get into it. Okay, so for the month of March, I got 8,837 views. I'm still like really excited about that even though it is less than February. February, I just had such a good month. But 8,000 is still a lot better than what I usually get. Usually I'm around like 4,000. So nearly twice of the numbers that I'm usually used to seeing and I'm at 129.9 watch time hours and then plus 39 subscribers which still like, usually I get like 30 subscribers a month. So I'm still very happy with those metrics. I think my numbers are going down because I was consistently posting two videos a week in January and February, like two long form videos. And this month I just haven't been able to do that because I've really, really, really been focusing on getting my apartment series kind of ready. And so that's just been me editing a lot but then not posting it. So I've been posting basically one video a month or a week from March, except for this week. I'll post two videos because I'm gonna post one today and then I'll post this one on Friday. But yeah, I have not been posting as many videos as I would like but I think it's gonna pay off in the end because my apartment series is coming and apartment videos always do really well on my channel. What else? So let's go to the monetization. So in terms of subscribers, I'm now at 584. I'm very happy with that. My goal I think was 600 or 610. Let me double check. 210 and then my watch time goal was 1170 and then my view goal was 100,000. That did not happen. But it's okay. Like when you're trying something new and growing a community, I think what social media is really beautiful about teaching is like, it's okay to fail. It's okay to not hit your goals but take a moment to look. You're still growing and you're always growing. Like I just hit 1,111 followers on Instagram and I'm really happy about that because it's like for a while I was stuck at like like under a thousand and then suddenly I just, you know, things kind of just started clicking. So I'm really happy with my growth even though I didn't meet my goals because I feel like I'm still, I'm still, you know making my way, making my way. I thought my goal was like 1,100. I was like, I could kind of still hit that, but it wasn't. So I did not meet my goal, but that's fine. I would have to put my views. 80,910, that's pretty good. Definitely not 100,000. Y'all, I was, I was really, really feeling my oats in February. Oh my God. I'm happy with the growth that I have. And I do think that next month, I'm not gonna say the apartment series is gonna come out next month because who knows? I've been working on that for so long, but I do, I finally saved enough money for an iPad. And so next month, one of my really big goals to learn and like kind of work, like how to make my thumbnails and procreate, which is honestly the reason why I'm getting an iPad and I'm really excited because generally my click-through rates on my video thumbnails are just low. And so I'm like, if I can make better quality thumbnails then everything else should start flowing, right? So right now I just use Canva to make my thumbnails and because Canva's so popular and they have all these YouTube like thumbnail templates, I just think I'm getting lost in the sauce. I think once I'm able to get procreate and then like literally just draw and make my own like illustrations and thumbnails and stuff like that, I will see a little bit of uptick there. But is there anything else I want to say? Oh, I have to make a new goal obviously. Also during the month of March, my SD card ran out of video like memory. So I had to wait a couple of days to get a new SD card in the mail. And so like things were just like not, it wasn't gonna happen for me. But I think it's fine because I honestly like, I feel like there could be a little bit of seasonality in YouTube and I honestly, I really think that my apartment series is gonna pay off. I'm like, I'm gonna bust it. But yeah, it's due in April. I do want to try that long form book video as well. I'm finished, stranger, stranger things. Oh my God, what is it called? Oh, I finished the silent pageant and now I'm doing the maidens, which is pretty good. But I also feel like I need to go back to like nice romance novels because it's taken me a long time to get through the maidens. But my goals for April, I think I wanna maybe keep the same goal and just do 110 subscribers, watch time, 100, 170 views, let's do 100,000. I honestly think it's possible now because I'm closer now than ever. So we'll see. Let me know if you guys like these types of videos. And then I'm also doing a series on TikTok. That's similar, just like my analytics for TikTok. And then I also, well, I don't really do it on Instagram because I don't think anyone cares on Instagram. But if you guys wanna see my Instagram, it's up to you. Please let me know in the comments below. And then I'm also starting like a cute little secret project. I actually need to meet with my academic advisor about it because it's honestly gonna be a project for school, but also for me and my like content creation business. So we'll see. I'm like, do I have anything else to say to you guys? Videos I wanna do. I still wanna do my long form book video. Still wanna get my apartment series out. Maybe I can do it in April, but I just don't wanna make any promises. I have, ooh, I have gotten like pretty decently. I added them, like the rough cut is done. I just need to pair them with music and then add like the captions and transitions and do an intro. So honestly, I should be able to finish like all four of them in April. We'll see. I really think it's gonna help my channel, but I don't even wanna launch them right away because I do wanna take some time to practice creating thumbnails with appropriate. Let me get my iPad. I'm rambling now, but I hope this was an entertaining video for you guys. My name is Nika. Make sure you subscribe. I make videos about like New York City life, graduate student life, all the above like spirituality, mindfulness, yoga. I am a yoga instructor. So thank you so, so much for watching. I love ya and make sure you subscribe. I'll see you in the next video.