Just came back from a hiatus and wanted to help people in this sub like so many have helped me over the years and all I see is people asking the same basic questions over and over again. Low effort questions, no drive or ambition, no real desire to improve

Did you know this sub was created to actually get real feedback? Doesn't seem like people realize that as the last time anyone actually asked for feedback was FOUR MONTHS ago.

Stop asking basic questions. Start posting your videos and asking for feedback or you'll never improve. There are people here who generally want to help. Sure there are some -chip on their shoulder- jerks but most actually want to help you. I'm one of them but I'm not going to keep coming back if no one actually posts content.

I've seen other subs die for the same trends I see this one following. Cut it out and start posting your videos.

I have a job where I earn just enough to cover my rent and expenses, and I'd like to make some extra money. If it exceeds my expectations, I'd like to quit my current job. What advice would you give me? What niche do you recommend I start with... or which ones are the most profitable?, Thanks.

I've seen this rhetoric a lot on how gaming channels are dead and not worth starting due to low effort high competition.

But I disagree that their not worth it, feel free to disagree and let me know your thoughts.

Here's a response I did in another subreddit that I thought would be useful for anyone, and honestly to inspire others to keep going because as a consumer it's one of my favorite ways to find people to connect.

When I find a game I like, I love looking on YouTube for other people's experiences on it. Sometimes there's not enough content on some topics from a viewers perspective. I've cancelled my streaming subscriptions, I only have YouTube premium, there's no cable TV. YouTube is the new TV. I struggle to find series I can truly enjoy for months on end as a viewer. Yes there more competition as a creator but there's also never been more opportunities since I see how starved I get as a consumer.

Also I'm not a traditional gamer, I'm fairly new to it. Couldn't afford gaming consoles and latest games growing up so I grew up on watching lets plays, they allowed me to experience the story and games without buying it.

I'm saying this to combat the low effort gameplay rhetoric. Quality is subjective, there's value to the end consumer like me. I can't speak for everyone but I like the casual not Mr beast style edits for gameplays. (No hate to the guy but he's started a trend in editing that doesn't work for all types of content), hyper fast cuts for sake of it makes me anxious as a viewer. I can't say how big of a market reach that it but I'm stating that for the other side of this argument I see a lot.

Now Here's the except I wrote that sparked this (from a creator POV):

I'm kinda tired of the old rhetoric and negative stigma with gaming channels, I've been wanting to start one for years, I finally took the plunge thanks to my partner recently.

The advice of doing SEO / search base tutorial advice can really tank a channel regardless of the niche.

I did that for my art channel and It works for steady evergreen views but long term you end up creating a transactional relationship with your audience, where their not really there for you but what you can offer them. That doesn't offer a lot of tangibility in the content you can make, it's not easy to pivot, it took me a long time to transition to vlogs but learning how to craft a narrative around your journey is super important to connect with people.

It's a lot of soft skills in growing a gaming channel, understanding psychology and having people skills goes a long way over the technical parts of video production.

It's only been a couple of weeks but I'm having a lot more fulfillment on my smaller gaming channel than my main art channel where I have more reach.

It also has better engagement and longer retention.

I say ignore the noise and do what you like because it's honestly what brings the best part of your personality forward.

There's no right meta on how to grow a channel, for years I've let the outside noise dictate on what I should make.

There are new gaming channels starting every year, even through these responses (on this subreddit)there are people that are successful with Let's play. The packaging, tone is how you spin your own uniqueness.

It's not terrible advice to do the SEO/ tutorial content but it's not the ONLY way to succeed.

Sorry this was super long but I'm super passionate about this and I wanted to share the other side of these takes that is hopefully more inspirational.

(Sharing this across different content creator sub reddits to encourage people to post the content they want)

I started a YouTube channel about 3 weeks ago focused on long-form storytelling content

So far I’ve uploaded around 15–16 videos. Stats roughly look like this- Total views: 3.5K, Watch time: 1400 hours, Highest viewed video: 650 views, CTR on some videos around 3–4%, Average View Duration: 22 Minutes, Impressions 110K+

I’m not expecting overnight success, but I’m honestly confused. I’ve been consistent, improving thumbnails and titles, and people who do watch seem to stay for a long time — yet none of the videos are really “breaking out.”

I’d genuinely love brutally honest feedback: Is this normal for a new channel? Are my expectations unrealistic? Or does this sound like a content / packaging problem?

Not here to promote, just trying to understand what I should fix early before going deeper. Appreciate any real advice 🙏

I know this style isn’t for everyone, so I’d love to hear from anyone familiar with this type of comedy or curious about it. Is it hitting the mark? Do you find it funny?

I’ve been struggling with how to market the videos (thumbnails, titles, subject matter in general) because I don’t want to outright say it’s a parody or satire since I want to commit to the bit, but I think that may be hurting the channel since people don’t know it’s comedy (so they don’t click on the videos) or when they do click on them it leaves them confused. I’m trying a variety of OTT thumbnails that one commenter called “pornbait” but again, it’s all intentional.

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

In my niche, longform videos are extremely welcomed. I was wondering how long my videos could be before I start earning 1300 a month for example?

I'm calling it begging because that is what it always seemed like to me, even after starting my own channel.

I'm not talking about the standard, second long "like and subscribe" but rather when Youtubers put up in image of their subscribers/non-subscribers (only 30% of you are watching so please subscribe) and when they something along the lines of "I want to reach X000 subscribers by the end of the year so please subscribe".

Do those specific tactics work?

I’ve posted over 600 videos across multiple channels and my first channel took a full year to hit monetization but my newest channel hit it in 40 days, and the difference is treating this like a business instead of some creative passion project. For context, I’ve been making videos for the past eight years, so when I say I posted 600 videos I don’t mean 600 AI generated slop videos. I’ve made software tutorials, gaming, tutorials, commentary, videos, all types of videos. I’ve only recently started using AI to help me write scripts and occasionally generate assets that I edit in Photoshop for thumbnails. As far as I know, there is no AI that can create a video that is a quality with the push of a single button

This isn’t for artists who make videos for themselves. This is for people who want to work for themselves and see YouTube as their path to financial freedom. I have an accounting degree, do taxes, and I’d much rather run my own YouTube business than make someone else rich.

YouTube is a business and you have customers. Give them what they already want to watch, not what you think they should want.

Here’s what works:

1. Don’t copy MrBeast or massive creators. They’re playing a different game with teams and budgets we don’t have.

2. Pick a niche you can tolerate. You don’t have to be passionate about it. Your plumber isn’t in love with plumbing, but they make good money solving problems.

3. Download VidIQ (free version works). It shows you video outliers - videos that performed way better than that channel’s average, which means that creator hit gold with that topic.

4. Research like your income depends on it because it does. Look for channels under 50k subs pulling 30k+ views in a day - this proves the niche has demand and isn’t oversaturated.

5. Find MULTIPLE channels hitting these numbers. If there’s only one successful small channel, that’s a red flag.

6. Filter YouTube searches by view count, then by upload date. The more recent a video blew up, the better your chances of riding that wave.

Here’s my actual strategy in action: I found a channel with under 800 subscribers that was getting over 50k views in a week, made videos on the same exact topics but used my own style of thumbnails and video editing, and my video gained a few thousand views when my channel had less than 300 subscribers. I don’t always hit the same view numbers as the person I’m copying but as a small channel any boost is huge and gets you closer to monetization.

This is how you find growing niches in real time instead of guessing. You’re seeing what actually works for channels your exact size.

It’s not glamorous but it beats working for someone else and once you’re making money you can mix in content you actually care about.

Honestly, I think what YouTube did today was unforgivable

YouTube decided to go after a relatively “small” creator for relatively minor wrongdoings while continuing to platform creators like Shane Dawson, Tatti Westbrook and Jeffree Star who ACTIVELY CONSPIRED to tarnish another YouTuber’s reputation and ruin his career through false accusations.

And let’s not forget that Shane Dawson made monetised content where he glamorised bestiality and pedophilia, for goodness sake.

What sort of message is YouTube sending to all us smaller creators?

If you’re big enough you can do whatever the hell you like? If you’re small, then go fuck yourself?

Because I always thought having more subscribers, meant a bigger platform and that meant more responsibility.

Hence, more accountability.

Not the other way round.

I got like 40 views the first 6 hours and then 1.2k views in 2 hours and then totally plateaued afterwards. What does this mean?

Because evetime I check a somewhat pretty recent youtuber. Its like drugs being injected to my veins. And likely not the one editing (unless your maxor of course) but you know clearly I dont have to hire someone to give me seizures. Like say jack or mark that basically has no editing, just someone to sift through the videos. But they got name brand so that wont work.

So what should the editing guideline be?

I’m 27, from Sweden, and I don’t want to work a normal full-time job long-term. I want to start building something online now that could eventually become my main income.
I like gaming (Fortnite/GTA), but I’m only an average player and I don’t want to show my face.
What YouTube channel/content would you start if you were me?

I used crescitaly a little over a month ago to get subs and views, now I get only a few views on my channel instead of the couple of hundred that I was getting. I so regret doing that. Anyone else had this experience? Should I create a new channel and start over?

The title pretty much sums it up ahaha!

I'll try to answer as many as I can, as soon as I can!

No growth. No views. No comments. I’ve been there—and I know how frustrating it is when YouTube feels like a black hole.

Here’s what helped me turn things around:

• I stopped copying bigger creators and started building my own identity • I focused on titles that explained, not just teased • I used retention and CTR as real feedback—not emotional punishment • I treated Shorts as mini-experiments to test my hooks • I stopped trying to “beat the algorithm” and focused on earning attention

I’m currently not uploading because I’m working on some behind-the-scenes projects helping small creators like me—but I wanted to share this because I know how hard the early grind is.

You’re not invisible. You’re just early. Keep creating.

I posted 20 overall videos in bursts over the past 6 years on my YouTube channel. They've got between 80k and 1k views.

I've started to post again, but the CTR is awful. Is YouTube testing reach with the wrong audience? I don't want to create a new channel as I already have a couple thousand subscribers, but I'm worried it will take a long time to revive a dead YouTube channel.

Thumbnails/titles are fine. Not amazing but same standard as my niche.

Hello ALl,

I am posting content consistently from 2 years. Initially i started with 100 days daily mini vlog challenge but got only 300+ sub after that started posting long form videos. Today after 2 years my channel is having 450 subscriber.

I am thinking to close this and create ai related channel. Please suggest what to do. Feeling very demotivated. I also compare my content with other creators i think my content is also good its my family life. But yes this niche is very suffocated.

I’ve started posting gameplay videos regularly on my channel (~40 days). I’m getting around 100-200 views and an odd video reaching 4 digits, which i feel is ok at this stage (or maybe I’m wrong). some videos are also doing abysmal with 20-30 views but that also seems ok for now. What’s disappointing is that I’ve only amassed 5-6 new subscribers in this time.

I realise this is an already saturated domain, plus trying to be a no commentary channel doesn’t help.

Is there any hope for this content or am I simply wasting my time (or too early to ask?)?

I would appreciate any suggestions to get more subscribers. I create specific thumbnails for all videos and use tags, but don’t have any social media presence apart from this.

Hi everybody I have just created a channel like 2 days ago and since then i have posted like 5 videos but i am only getting 15-20 max to max 30 views and some of them are mine only. What do I do to change this or should I not be expecting anything?
My niche btw is Minecraft content because i saw that it was the most searched topic in the past few days.

I’ve downloaded vidIQ maybe 4 days ago and have been staying constant with the program they run … I honestly cannot believe it’s a free app .. the amount of useful information I’ve learned already is crazy .. anybody use anything else that you feel works for you ?

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