4000 Watch hours within a year is the most challenging one to achieve by YouTubers. They manage to get 1000 subscribers but watch hours are also necessary to reach monetization status. But some channels have complaint about decreasing watch hours or stagnant growth of watch hours.

There are many channels showing increase in subscribers but decrease in watch hours. So it is better to understand what is the concept of watch hours? Your watch hours are calculated from past one year. If your channel is not posting new videos and your current viewership is decreasing, then even if channel made good watch hours in past, It gradually removed from the past 365 days. As you move forward more people should watch your videos. So that current year maintain the total number of watch hours.

YouTube give space to fresh new content in their search space. So consistently adding videos is very important. Content Engagement is very important to give message to YouTube that content is valuable. Always ask your subscriber to share your videos to friends and family.

If you are a small YouTuber, your first focus must be QUALITY content to gain subscribers who wanted to watch your new content. Building TRUST is important. If you randomly add videos for the sake of quantity, the interest of audience will drop. And you couldn’t tell that why the watch hours has started decreasing.

Keep the audience engaged. That is a sign that people love your work. And channel is worthy of good ranking. Ok one thing that is important for every Youtuber. Getting engage with your follower has two approaches:

Passive Engagement

Many YouTubers say, yes we reply to our followers and give answers to their questions. But Why you wait for their questions. Why not ask them any questions inside your video. You should start a conversation with your audience. So here comes next approach.

Active Engagement

Many big youTubers claim that they always try to engage audience by asking questions or asking them to share their opinion. And more prominently they try to relate with their personal experience and encourage them to share their side of story. So its natural for people to share their experiences and generate more engagement for your channel.

More SHARING And COMMENTING means higher ranking in search results bringing more people to your channel. And this in turn will bring more views adding credibility to your channel.