I typically don’t brag about or even talk about YouTube stats in a public manor, and truthfully, this doesn’t feel like bragging to me even though it may come across as such to some. Today, I had my first ever 100 subscriber day on YouTube. It happened on my gaming channel, and it was something that literally came out of nowhere. I have been truly blindsided by all of the success that my channel has had in the past two months and in the past year in general. I started this year with 3,000 subscribers and 225k total video views. Numbers that were very good for a channel that was just a year old in the highly competitive and hard to grow in Call of Duty commentary market.

With that being said, my channel was taking a major downturn, and it didn’t look like 2013 was going to have the same success that 2012 had discovered. Little did I know, that 2013 would leave my channel more successful than it had ever been, and it would set my channel up for more success than it has ever seen before. In May 2013, my channel got 15,000 views for the entire month, and I only gained 165 subscribers, again for the entire month. To many, many people out there those are numbers that they would love to have. For me, however, those were low, very low. The lowest that my YouTube channel had ever seen as a matter of fact, and rather than let myself get depressed, I looked at it as a motivation.

Thus, I started making videos every single day. I uploaded no matter what, and I stuck to a very strict  schedule. In turn, my channel started turning ground, and by August, I was getting 31,000 monthly views and 300 subscribers per month. That being said, that was just the beginning. I stuck to a upload schedule the best I could; I missed some days. I’m not going to lie, but on October 30th I upload two Minecraft tutorials that would change the outlook of my channel completely. They were 1) How To Install Texture Packs In Minecraft 1.7.2 and 2) How To Install Custom Maps In Minecraft 1.7.2. Both of those videos composite for an incredible 95,000 views. They are also attributed to bringing in over 277 subscribers to my channel. I did these videos again for the next Minecraft release 1.7.4, and they are pulling in even better numbers. However, they are newer and do not have enough data for good stat representation.

That being said, the numbers that those videos are pulling in do not aquate to a 100 subscriber day. Something else had to happen, and you are correct something else did happen.  That thing was a video on How To Install Optifine In Minecraft 1.7.2/1.7.4. At the time of writing this, that video has over 4,000 views and have brought in over 150 new subscribers to my channel and thus, my first 100 subscriber day was spawned.

And with that, that is what has lead up to my first ever 100 subscriber gain day on YouTube, and even though there was a lot of hard work on my end, I can by no means take all of the credit. At the end of the day, you guys did this, the viewers. You kept watching, and you kept supporting. Which in turn, made me keep making videos everyday for you guys to hopefully enjoy, and for that I thank you.