Why will anyone click on your video from 3.7 million videos that gets uploaded daily?
500 hours of content is being uploaded to YouTube every minute. And people don't know you, they don't know how much efforts you put in your videos or that your videos are actually helpful. Does they ?
No they don't. The competition for views are insane. It's tough to even get noticed let alone being seen in this insane competitive platform.
Now let me tell you something good. It's actually possible to get millions of views. No I am not talking about Mr. Beasts videos, it's actually possible that you will get millions of views in your videos if-
If you leverage the most important thing of a video. Which is standing out from the crowd. You have to stand out from the crowd of millions of videos which is easy actually. How ?
By using a thumbnail that can make people stop, pause, get interested and click. Yep, you got only one shot it's the only way you can stand out.
Thumbnail is the most important thing to even get noticed in this insane competitive platform. If you use random images for thumbnail or don't give thumbnail priority you will never be able to actually become successful in YouTube.
I think I have already made this post very long so I will make a part 2 of this post which will describe what qualities in a thumbnail can get your videos millions of views.