I've heard of content performing well over time, but I have never experienced it. Recently, this video from over 240 days ago has been bringing in more views per day than most of my longform content.
Niche: Horror Games/gameplay with commentary and reactions (face cam)
Channel Age: Just over a year
Subscriber count: 401
Posting frequency: About one video a week
I have a full time career as a teacher, which takes the majority of my time, but I have been staying consistent making gaming content for about a year now. I had some success with shorts (small clips of my longform gameplay, highest viewed short was 63k views) but the majority of my longform content sits at 50-100 views per video. A few have broken out to 700+ views but that is rare. This particular video has done more than 800 this month alone, and the analytics look promising! I stopped posting shorts on my channel about 2 months ago, so I wonder if that had any impact on more impressions for this longform video.
I think the reason it is performing so well is it was gameplay of a indie horror anomaly game which includes the OIIA cat meme, and the video is finding all the anomalies in the game. I use accurate and specific chapters for all 40 anomalies, and the fluff is edited out. I guess the value proposition is clear: complete coverage of all anomalies, and funny easter eggs (OIIA cat).
When I tried to double down on the anomaly content immediately after initial success, it did well for some videos, but quickly fizzled out. This video in particular is doing better than it ever has, which was surprising.
It's exciting to share this, and I hope it can give some motivation to those of you feeling minimal movement on your channel. You never know when a video will find it's audience.
Feel free to ask any questions in the comments.
Keep doing what you love, and make the best of each video!