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I would suggest you to target longtail keywords for your specific niche, test different keywords, different title/description/tags combo, check what is your competition is doing.

I am using some tools which automate this whole process, Video Marketing Blaster to check how difficult it is to rank for my keyword, what I need to rank and how I can potentially outrank my competitors. Also I do all the keyword research, title/description/tags generation all with VMB. I just modify it little and thats it.

There is no right answer to your question but definitely it will be easier to rank If you use the right tools for things mentioned above and target longtail keywords. With a lot of uploaded videos you do not even have to rank If you want to get some traffic from YT, your videos will eventually show up in related/suggested videos section when someone is watching a video similar to yours.