GTM Sauce

A Minecraft YouTube Shorts channel · B2C · guest's sold channel

Keep posting Shorts through months of zero views, then repeat what finally works

200K subscribers and 180M views in 9 months after 6 flat months

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What they did

Posted Minecraft YouTube Shorts for about 6 months with zero subscribers and views. When posts started blowing up, he worked out which format was working and doubled down on it. The principle he now applies to UGC: a format that goes viral once can go viral 100 or 1,000 more times, across creators, niches and companies.

What happened

200K subscribers and 180M views in 9 months; a top-500 fastest-growing channel; later sold.
Effort
~6 months of posting with no traction

In their words

Dris Elamri - Meet The 18y/o Who Solved UGC Marketing (100M Views in 2 Weeks)

Play from 21:53

Dris Elamri… content is scale and that you have to keep posting until something hits. And once something does, you just copy that format. And if a format can go viral once, um, which is a a similar idea we apply to our UGC programs, it can go viral 100 or 1,000 more times, um, with different companies, and different niches, and and different creators. So yeah, you just need one format to work to make up for all the 100 other videos that got 100,000 views.

21:53

Dris ElamriAnd yeah, I think the actual like concept of videos changes over time, but the the idea of scale, uh, is persistent. Even when I was making Minecraft YouTube Shorts, uh, I I think I spent 6 months with, um, like zero subscribers, zero views, and out of nowhere, uh, my post started blowing up, and I realized what was actually working, I doubled down on that and and made, uh, I don't know. Like the whole thing with content is kind of like finding a format, and and scaling that, uh, which can be reapplied to, I don't know, startups.

22:20

JosephI'm curious about the Cluely UGC program now. So you you had a lot of like you had a a YouTube channel also. What You said it was like a gaming channel, right?

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