I had an idea for a video about a historic building in the city where I live which is part of the National Historic Buildings Register, but there not a lot of public knowledge about it other than a handful of articles.

I thought it would be cool to make a video about this building and it's history. In the process of doing my research for this building I discovered that part of this building can now be rented out as an Airbnb (with some horrible decoration that clashes with the rest of the building IMO). Now I'm not sure I want to make this video because it might feel like an ad for this rental more than a story about it's history. What do you guys think? Am I overthinking this, or should I shelve the idea?

So basically I have a few ideas That I To bring to light. For example, one is of fake car commercial period I mainly want to use stock footage, and have some made up name for car dealership. I'm wondering what sites would be good for me to use stock footage and safely make a profit(if I do) without Having to worry about Future license issues.

If anyone else Has used stock footage For you Or any other project that they possibly have made money for, then what sites have you used?

I am currently using microsfot clipchamp gor my videos, but i do want to have extra stuff like music (not copyright) in the background of my videos. I use OBS studio as a recording software and am mostly a gaming youtuber that doesnt use their voice (hence the music in the bg) I hope you guys can find an editor for me.

I know people have spoken about how the blue yeti is not very good, but what mics at it's prince range make more sense to get then the blue yeti? I'm not interested in hearing about how XLR mics are better, I know they are but they're more expensive. Just talking USB mics around the prince range of the blue yeti/blue yeti nano what is better to buy than them?

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Anyone experiencing this? I can't see how many watch hours, subscribers, etc in the Earn tab. But the reapply button can be click. I have enough watch hours but I want to see it updated before clicking Reapply. I tried using PC too and still the same.

We do have a Business Consulting Agency which is relatively quite new like few days old. I'm trying out various client acquisition methods and strategies. One being giving free audits, by free audit I mean a real questionnaire about your business (26 questions) for me understand it well enough, then an audit report (about 10 pages) for what you want (we do everything, got 10 engineers in our team so from website to resource allocation, data analysis, specific concerns, SEO). And then I discuss with the person about his answers in detail, and in depth focusing on each and every part of answer which is an another 15+ page. I then give a 25 pages step by step guide for them to navigate forward. All for free! I know it's a lot of work and a value, but I believe giving out value will get us value. I want to be 100% honest and put forward that No catch whatsoever, I'm asking for you to give us a sort genuinely. Try our services and if you like book us in future. Drop down your website and business details or dm me, if you need one. A review from you will definitely boost our confidence and feedback mechanism. Thanks for your time.

I thought this would be an interesting question because I'm genuinely curious! I want to compare my videos and how long I've been creating content to other people's experiences

I have 139 videos and I've been creating content for almost 3 years!

Really new to making videos in general ive made a few short form vids , I have time to make stuff but I have no motivation mostly due to finding editing tedious and monotonous. It doesnt help that my skill is lacking there with it either...

Im really going about this wrong I think, my stuff is mostly personality based and im trying to cut livestreams down, but its painful due to how long it takes.

There has to be a better way, like just recording right? I fear I wont be able to be quite as funny/entertaining in pure recordings. Maybe I just need to up my editing skill?

I cleaned house and deleted like 25 videos and now my views have dropped 90%.

Now I feel like I screwed my channel.

Any advice? Should I re-upload the videos I deleted? Should I try and post more content?

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I NEVER GOT A RESPONSE ANYWHERE ELSE SO PLEASE READ: So basically, I had a YT channel I started in June 2023, it went all well and I made content (like most youtubers). Until March, a person/group for some fucking reason mass reported one of my vids, not once, but three fucking times to get my channel terminated. I had no YT channel for about a week until I made a new google account.

I did research and I read that you're not technically allowed to make a new YT channel if your old one got terminated for any reason, and if Google finds out your linked to the old one, they will take your new channel down and ban you from making any new accounts.

I made a new YT channel (went by new name). My new channel has very little videos on it, this is because I'm very paranoid that if I return to the content I used to make (I made N64 game content, regular gaming, and that was kinda it) that my new channel will get terminated instantly.

It been about 4 weeks since I made my new one, but I'm still concerned on any baloney Google might take on my new channel.

Thanks in advance for your time in reading this and understanding.

I wanna know

Hey I’m curious if you guys know anything about how variety content but about the same topic affects a channel. I heard Jon Yeashoui (totally butchered spelling) talk about how it’s good, but my YT mentor with 1M said that it’s bad.

Here is an example:

Niche: Football

Content Styles: Football Podcast; Football Explainer Talking-Head; Football Vlog and Challenges; Football Gaming Series

Or should it just be a football podcast channel for example.

So I had my last video do well for me, getting 230 views, almost all from browse. It got almost no impressions from suggested videos. My latest video, same title format, thumbnail format etc got 2.2k impressions from suggested videos with only 20 views and then got about 100 impressions from browse with 6 views. But now the browse impressions aren't going anywhere. Any idea why? Kind of annoying when I know my videos can do well with browse but get nothing from suggested but the suggested impressions kill the video.

With 6.5k impressions.

Worth changing or just waiting?

It recently started.

I watch YT on my laptop and I love leaving comments when I do but since 2 weeks, I'm unable to leave a comment from my laptop.

It buffers and buffers and does not post.

If I really need to leave the comment, I go on my mobile but most times, I don't bother.

It's the same with my own videos. Unable to respond to comments from my laptop so I go on my phone.

Anyone know a fix? Thank you.

I am trying to understand what type of music content creators want more of for their videos. Based on what I've read, it seems that one pain point is copyright strikes. So I want to put tracks out that are royalty free forever. But I need to know what genres of tracks people are looking for. Thanks to anyone who gives me feedback.

Hey everyone, I wanted to give gaming channels some real 2024 feedback on how to break out of obscurity.

First off, it took me 10 months to cross 1,000. I am a software engineer, and a married father of 2 young children. My time is short, and when I play I want to be as informed as possible to maximize my time as a player. Therefore, my videos are pretty straight to the point and if I do not have detailed information to provide to add value to someone, then it isn't worth making for my channel. I am basically trying to be the guy that I would look for if I wasn't the guy making the videos. If you visit my channel, I want you to learn something. That is my singular goal, if I also manage to entertain you then great, but I normally don't stress myself out about trying to force being entertaining unless it feels appropriate. Find your singular goal and stick to it.

I started by covering Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and then I tried to cover final fantasy 16, but there just really wasn't a lot to cover for that game so I pivoted and went back for more zelda which was a great move because some of those videos I made after pivoting are still performing well. In the fall I covered starfield, but the overwhelming amount of bugs in the game made me reluctant to make more starfield videos. Currently I have been going very hard on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. The unfortunate truth is not every game I am excited to play and would consider myself an expert in has the substance to be the subject of a ton of videos. We are partially at the mercy of game releases and the overall quality / reception of those game releases. I therefore try to control what I can control.

My actionable thoughts on my almost year now making videos:

- First, a mistake I made: I completely ignored shorts in the beginning. If you're under 1k subs, the name of the game is get eyeballs on you any way you can. In my FF7 coverage, I started releasing "60 second guides" sometimes instead of a full blown video where I just go straight into the meat & potatoes and try to cram everything I can into 60 seconds. Those reels ended up being massive subscriber gainers. Do those subs gained from shorts watch my long videos? I have absolutely no idea, but who cares as long as it helped get me over 1000.

- Play the long game with SEO: try and make a video that would answer a question you would google, and in a way that is either better than what you see if you google it, or in an area where there is a lack of answers. My best performers from zelda last year do exactly this, and I am still getting traffic and subs slowly even almost a year later. I had one video not even break 1k views get injected into the youtube search algo a few months ago from zelda months after it's release and it is now one of my best performers from that game. With the exception of 1, every single long video I have over 5,000 views is because of search, not browse, and it accounted for over half of my subscriber growth if I had to estimate.

- Shoot your shot on the "viral" potential video: for me this was my 4 year old son beating ganondorf in Zelda tears of the kingdom. I gave it a clickbait-ish title "Can a four year old defeat ganondorf?" and while it was a massive departure from my usual videos, at that time it was a monster hit and nearly got 15k views when I was still at like 250 subs. Absolutely massive. Also recognize that if it has no SEO value, when it's run is over its just over. If you can capture lightning in a bottle multiple times then you have the secret formula. The sequel to that video started similarly but flat lined at like 2k views. Which brings me to my next point

- If something worked once well for you, then do it again. Sometimes it will just keep working. It's not a sure thing though. You should definitely try and find out though, that's a no brainer. Go for it, and if the sequel doesnt hit like the original then thats fine, just move on and think of something else.

- Stay true to yourself. this means a lot of things, but for me it's a few things. One is that I know clickbait titles like "Dont make these same mistakes" are the gold standard in titles but I just hate them. I make my titles very straightforward and I want the videos to be straight to the point and my subscribers to know exactly what they are in for when they return. It's actually working well. I also use my software engineering background as an asset. One of my best starfield videos is me running a bunch of python code I wrote to calculate the best X number of planets to build a base on out of the thousand or so planets. That would take weeks to try and do by hand. Instead of a game capture, the video shows my code editor and a bunch of command line data results. Lastly, going back to my son making an appearance I try and be a relatable father to my audience. I am not afraid of having a brief cameo of my wife or children even if just in the background. My now 5 year old son has been featured prominently in 5 out of my 70 or so videos now.

- "Just ship it" is a mindset from my software engineering background where when you have like 90% of what you wanted, that extra 10% can often take as much time as it took to get to 90%. In that time you spent trying to get that extra 10%, you could have gotten to 90 on another project and also released that. Ship it, get customer feedback, adjust, and improve. Youtube is a little different because I can't just replace an already posted video with an updated version like I could as an engineer, but the mindset of clicking send and moving on can be of value. Does doubling the time on one video for the extra 10% result in more than double the views, subs, etc? If the answer is no, then just ship it!!!

- Thumbnails are a little over rated. I have no idea how a lot of these gaming channels make their thumbnails with a lot of art and production that isn't even in the game (probably AI) but I am an engineer, not a designer. I have been unapologetically using GIMP as my graphics software for free since I started learning computer science in middle school after Y2K and I am still doing that now. I take a screenshot of a good moment in the video, maybe replace the part of my face of me smiling, and put some Blue text with a white outline on there. I spend maybe 10 minutes tops on it. Going back to strengths, people recognize that I am an engineer, not an artist and I just focus on what I do best: substance. Nobody cares that my thumbnails won't win any awards, they care that I can find better ways to clobber the games they play

- On that same note, I have no real standard opening, closing, or anything else. I try to just get straight to the point and again focus on substance. If i start getting comments like "hey I wish you increased your videos by 30 seconds by inserting the same thing at the start every time that doesn't add to me learning something" then I will revisit this approach.

- Lastly and this is very important to me: reply to every single comment even if it is as simple as "Wow thank you for those kind words" or something like that. I will never copy and paste canned responses, I always type something out for variation, but sometimes my replies are similar. If i open up the comments tab, I want to see zero unanswered comments even if it takes me an hour or so to answer them all. I want my viewer to feel appreciated and want to come back.

I am releasing a mixtape, but one beat has an uncleared sample. I was wondering if its possible to set one video only to non profit.

Hey everyone just looking for advice on how I should proceed.

I run a very small YouTube channel and I have finally decided I want my focus to be some music covers and maybe gaming.

I am new to film making and wanted to see if anyone could help me produce a shot list or maybe help me learn to make one so I can film some content.

YouTube is LohBro for those interested. I am still very timid in what I'm doing so it's a slow process.

Thank you everyone.

Spending 25 hours to polish something no one wants is not good for your channel and mental health. When the rewards we receive doesn't match our expectation of the effort we put in, it really hurts the mind.

You can more or less carve out a path for your channel based on low effort videos because what gets people clicking most is simply title/thumbnail and delivering on it. I'm not saying if your amazing high effort video is viewed less than you believe it should be, you just have to try harder on title/thumbnail. No, it's because the very idea behind your video does not make for an interesting title/thumbnail.

So when first starting out, think about variety of ideas that would draw in viewers with just the title/thumbnail that you'd enjoy making for a long time, deliver in the least effort you can that keeps it true to the title/thumbnail. You will sadly find out most of your ideas aren't as great to other people as you thought. But if you go at it enough, you will find through results what people do care about that you can do without losing sleep getting the craziest shots and editing way into the night.

At the point where you find what ideas works and give you results, then you can spend more effort in those ideas or similar ideas because now you know what'll work and you even have some audience who are anticipating those videos, so you reward them with a high quality high effort video on the type of video they come to know and like you for.

I don't think I've ever seen someone say quantity then quality on this subreddit before. It's always quality above all but how does a beginner even know what is quality without experience under their belt? They simply put in misguided efforts wasting 10+ hours on video no one wants to watch.

As stated in the title what's the best time to upload YouTube shorts to get maximum engagement

I recently started a new channel where I post multifandom Edits on regular basis. My edits are good I do plenty of work for just a single video.

I use vidIq tool to optimise seo but still my shorts are not going top what should I do.

Ps : you can checkout my channel too by going to my profile

So I have a gaming channel. I do variety gaming but over the course of the year I’ve changed what my niche is. Do I keep or delete my old videos? I doubt I’ll be returning to those games I played at the beginning.

I've been posting on my current channel for 4 months now. Im making the kind of content that I would want to make but its going nowhere. Im averaging 20 views for videos that I spend hours a day making. I've made other kinds of content in the past that did thousands of views and took minimal effort but I hated doing it.

I've followed people's advice and listened to a lot of feedback and I think ive improved a lot but im still not getting anywhere. I know id probably have an easier time doing some other kind of content but what im doing now is the only thing I really want to do. I dont want to be a content farmer that churns out soulless slop again. But it feels like thats my only path to getting any further.

Hello! I'm new to the world of audio. My only exposure is to the basics of sound editing using Adobe Audition. I'm start a TikTok channel to discuss political issues. Based on YouTube recommendations, I purchased the Fifine AM8 microphone, but after using it, I wasn't fully satisfied with its quality. Consequently, I've decided to buy a Focusrite Vocaster to enhance my audio performance. I found a tempting offer for just the Focusrite Vocaster at about $60, and another deal that includes the Focusrite Vocaster along with a DM14v dynamic broadcast microphone and HP60v and a closed stereo headphones for $115. With limited experience in this field, I am unsure which option is better. Should I stick with the Fifine AM8 and hope the Focusrite Vocaster improves its quality, or should I opt for the second deal? I'm particularly drawn to the Focusrite Vocaster because it allows for direct microphone connection to the camera without complications and it promises better sound quality. Although my main platform will be TikTok, I aim to provide meaningful content with good to excellent audio quality. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hey guys I just started a YT channel only for shorts. My content so far has been only about AI generated images, which take me about 10 min to do and are about 15s long and so far 80% of my videos have been averaging more than 400 views. I need some tips in what I could do better? I plan on uploading 3 videos a day and just try to stay consistent.

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Hi, i came across a problem when uploading my thumbnail. When i upload it (1280x720 resolution) it compresses it down to 320x180 resolution for no reason, which makes it look very very bad. I'ts even more weird if you consider that this problem didn't happen to me before ever, and my thumbnails were always compressed to 1280x720.

Edit: I even tried reuploading the thumbnail that got the 1280x720 resolution AND THE RESOLUTION DROPPED TO 320x180 AGAIN. It's like i got cursed or something

I’ve had my best performing video get 550 views a few days ago but the impressions are kind of in an S shape with the top being almost flat now. It had 45% retention on 5 minutes and a 3.3% CTR which felt pretty good for me at least and then all of a sudden the constant views ever minute or so dried up. Do people have videos where the suggestions and what not go on forever or at least a longer time? It seems like I’m fighting to get as many in that window before the tap shuts off and then move on. Would love to know other peoples experiences or thoughts on this. In the end the video got about 16.5k impressions and pretty much stays there now.

Hey everyone! I was wondering if anyone in here has any experience with paying for youtube promotions, either through youtube directly or from outside companies?? Also want to specify that I'm not talking about buying fake subscribers or views. I saw a company called "prodvigate," and also saw that you can do this through the promotions tab on youtube.

Does this strategy work? Do channels actually see meaningful growth? I have always viewed it as "cheating," but now I'm starting to look at it as "work smarter, not harder." If anyone has any knowledge or experience paying for promotions I would love to hear about it!