 hi guys my name is nika thank you so much for clicking this video i don't even think i like that introduction oh my god let's try it again realistic analytics for people who have around 500 subscribers wow i'm nervous to film this video because it's the first video of a new series that i'm doing called my journey to a thousand subscribers well truthfully i want to call it my third my journey to a hundred thousand subscribers so yeah i might just change it to that because that that's what's feeling like aligned with my spirit right now so anyway this video is going to go over my youtube analytics for the month prior which is february which i'm really excited like this is honestly one of my best months on youtube ever but i want to start out by giving you guys a little bit of a background on my youtube journey in particular all the way back to the beginning of my youtube channel you'll see i started youtube in like 2015 2016 very long very long time ago and here we are i just wasn't consistent at the time i had like a lot of self-doubt and like limiting beliefs and i just wasn't fully confident to really step into the identity of the youtuber like i really wanted to but last year i was able to work with my friend an accountability coach and she really really helped me get into the habit of just creating youtube videos regularly so surely even though i started my youtube channel in like 2014 2015 a very long time ago i didn't truly start posting content consistently until around this time last year that would make this year truly my first year on youtube and i want to go over my analytics with you guys and then also show you guys my strategy to growing 2 000 subscribers this year basically i mean honestly it's 100 000 but you know it's fine i'm gonna get there eventually you have to get 1000 before you get to 100 000 or 10 000 maybe 10 000 that seems like a good like medium yeah i'm gonna call this series my journey to 10 000 youtube subscribers work it in real time real time yeah so let's go into my best performing videos for the month of february and then we'll get into my strategy for march so my best performing short was very very weird like i wasn't expecting it at all but it was actually like a book talk that i reposted from tiktok uh just going over like my favorite book that i read this year um it was the silent peace ship if you guys haven't read it i highly recommend but that was really interesting to me because i'm like out of all the tiktoks i posted on all the youtube shorts i've posted that that was the one okay show me the first book you're reading in 2023 i'm reading this my best performing long-term video or long-form video rather was my new york city vlog my first week of columbia this this video has literally been my top performing long-form video for a very long time and so i really just tried to replicate it by doing more new york city vlogs or columbia vlogs and then i also do like yoga teacher vlogs too because i find that those do kind of like well on my channel so let's get into some realistic analytics for people who have around 500 subscribers this is really the meat and potatoes of this video because i find that there are so many people on youtube who are sharing their growth journey but they have like a hundred thousand subscribers like where are the small youtubers at like hello like what should we be aiming for so in february i got 11 000 views which is insane to me 117 watch hours um and then 51 subscribers it took me so long to get to 500 subscribers like honestly it probably took me about three months to get to to get to from 400 to 500 and now it just seems like things are accelerating like i in one month i gained 50 subscribers that's crazy all right so march we are starting out with oh like as you can see here like yeah it took me december january february to get to 500 i crossed 500 this month and i am at 541 subscribers i'm like i literally feel so grateful um i'm also at 10 1045 watch hours and then views i also crossed um 75 000 views this month and i don't really know how to see the views i think i honestly just have to go to like my computer sounds like it's blasting off right now oh okay and so views i'm at 77 600 which is also crazy because the percent increase out of control guys i'm literally so excited because this is my first time i actually hit my youtube goals for the month so in february my goal was to get 510 subscribers i'm now at 541 insane and then my watch time goal was a thousand and i'm at 1045 so i did the math and that basically means i increased by 10 on my followers and my watch time hours so my goal i'm gonna push it a little bit um i do 15 for my watch time and my subscribers and then for my views i don't know for it 77 maybe we can get to a hundred thousand i'm gonna see yeah let's do a hundred thousand so that's gonna be my goals for the month of march okay so we set my goals and there's one more thing that i want to cover so i want to talk about my youtube strategy for march so because i do really well with new york city vlogs that's like my longest for my best performing and my longest best performing long for content for march i'm just gonna do more new york city vlogs i'm also really interested to test how a long form book video would do so i'm probably going to do like a roundup of like my favorite books that i read in 2022 or maybe my favorite books i'm reading right now something like that here's my cat um and then i'm also really working on this like major is it a secret project maybe maybe it's a secret project i'm working on my apartment so i'm working on a youtube series for that which i hope to launch at like the end of march i just want to have all the videos kind of done or not all of them maybe like three or four of them done so i can just kind of release them um in a row like in a sequence like a series so i'm working on that in the background as well but yeah i mean thank you so much for watching if you like these types of videos make sure you like comment and subscribe this is actually my first one in the series i tried to do one last month but i just like wasn't being my authentic self like i was trying to imitate like march reset so like monthly resets that other youtubers do and it just wasn't really resonating for me this one feels like more aligned with what i want to do on youtube so i'm really excited about this new series even if no one watches it like i kind of want it just for me so i can see how much i've grown as a youtuber um and it kind of just helps keep me motivated so if you are a youtuber with like 500 ish subscribers please let me know if you see similar like analytics on your end definitely definitely start posting youtube shorts because i feel like those have really helped me grow and i noticed that people who watch my shorts do watch my long form videos because they'll comment on them and i'm like oh like they found me for my booktop video and now they're watching my new york city vlog so that's always really exciting as well but i am rambling thank you so much for watching i will see you guys next month with another update i'm just like my youtube journey to 10 000 subscribers and yeah love you make sure you subscribe bye