How to become a successful YouTuber?
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Well I suppose if you are someone like pewdiepie or Logan<ilostmymoney>Paul, you cater for the stupidity in the world today and socialites obsessed with youtube, facebook etc.
I say that in a non envious way. It is just how I see it. I tried watching a video from Pewdiepie once. I literally though it was aimed at 10year olds, it was just such low IQ, flavoured random nonsense... yet people tune in regardless.
Linustechtips is another example where, he has enslaved himself to any form of sponsor willing to pay him for his 2min speed chat promoting random products during his videos. Content is sometimes good and intriguing but it's marred by these ridiculous sponsorship breaks. It can't be helped I suppose, he's obligated under contract.
It's all about finding that niche community and capitalising on it. Some find success just blogging their daily life, and someone out there will find it interesting. Once your name is strong enough to spread by word of mouth, well, I guess you can YT almost anything as long as it falls under the rules.
Or add some busty woman in a provocative position as the thumbnail and get extra EXTRA clickbaity.
'that much money'
If you do it for that the you wont last long.
If you do it for that the you wont last long.
BigDaddyKong
New member
Listen to TTL. Unless you get over 1 million subs and average over 500K views per video, it's not a get rich business. The people watching will know if you are there just for the money. You have to have a passion for what ever you are working on. It also does not happen overnight. Unless you happen to get lucky and get a viral video that is posted on a major news agency, you might spend 4 years just building a 50K sub base. It takes a long time.
You have to be consistent with content uploads.
Be frequent with content uploads.
Don't be in it for the money.
Don't copy other peoples work.
Get on all social media platforms and network. That is one of the biggest keys to all of it. You have to make yourself know and recognizable. Get your name mentioned, get on a video with someone else that has a large following. Back when I used to stream, that helped a lot.
One thing I forgot. You need to be ready to spend money to make money. Giveaways are a huge draw for views on any platform. You don't need to spend a lot. You can pick up one of those cheap steam 5 key packs and do giveaways with those.
You have to be consistent with content uploads.
Be frequent with content uploads.
Don't be in it for the money.
Don't copy other peoples work.
Get on all social media platforms and network. That is one of the biggest keys to all of it. You have to make yourself know and recognizable. Get your name mentioned, get on a video with someone else that has a large following. Back when I used to stream, that helped a lot.
One thing I forgot. You need to be ready to spend money to make money. Giveaways are a huge draw for views on any platform. You don't need to spend a lot. You can pick up one of those cheap steam 5 key packs and do giveaways with those.
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I am not saying that I want in for the money! 
Of course not, I don't want to be fake and pretend to be someone I am not! That won't get me anywhere. I just want to get to the level they are at and maybe create a strategy which will help me out. I think that these days YouTube is filled with people that want to make it so bad that they are not original. A good example is the current calling out YouTubers and have a boxing fight. But it is so hard to create a trend, that no one thought about yet.
I genuinely don't know!
I've looked through a few articles but they all state the same things: thumbnail, title, content, connection with the audience and of course some tips on how to monetize your videos. However, none of them suggested the giveaway as the most view driving techniques you can use like @BigDaddyKong suggested. Honestly, I think that I have to see what works for me and use it and not go by the book.
Do you think that it will be okay if, in the beginning, my channel has a bit of everything until I find what I really enjoy filming?
Of course not, I don't want to be fake and pretend to be someone I am not! That won't get me anywhere. I just want to get to the level they are at and maybe create a strategy which will help me out. I think that these days YouTube is filled with people that want to make it so bad that they are not original. A good example is the current calling out YouTubers and have a boxing fight. But it is so hard to create a trend, that no one thought about yet. I genuinely don't know!
I've looked through a few articles but they all state the same things: thumbnail, title, content, connection with the audience and of course some tips on how to monetize your videos. However, none of them suggested the giveaway as the most view driving techniques you can use like @BigDaddyKong suggested. Honestly, I think that I have to see what works for me and use it and not go by the book. Do you think that it will be okay if, in the beginning, my channel has a bit of everything until I find what I really enjoy filming?
BigDaddyKong
New member
I think a variety is good to start with. That will let you see what you like, and you can gauge by the views what the audience likes.
riowilliam129
Banned
Lol! I am doing same,
Pickup trending topic, Make videos, get views and earn dollars.
Pickup trending topic, Make videos, get views and earn dollars.
Avet
Active member
The structure of your videos will vary a lot depending on what content are you presenting. Watch videos on your subject and see what are the trends and then form your videos based on that.
Regardless of the content, there are skills you will need to have. You are a presenter. Doesn't matter what you present the concept is the same. Learning about lecturer skills is very important. You might want to see some guides for that. I paid a great deal on those when I started working as a TA at the Department of Anatomy. Some of them are:
You want to be very fluent in speaking. It doesn't matter if English is your native language or not you need to practice fluent speaking. Start with reading out loud books and any content you consume online.
You also need to remove any stutters from your speaking: uh, um, aa, or any repeatable phrases: like, you know, I think, etc. Those are very annoying.
Your thought process and the flow of your video must have a direction and consistency. Don't repeat yourself and don't go back and forth. If you are not scripting the whole video at least have some bullet points fo you can stay focused on the subject. There are also some rules about how should your content be structured.
Take Tom for example. Half the time he is not aware of the words that are coming from his mouth. But he doesn't stutter, he doesn't have annoying phrases, he doesn't repeat himself. His speaking is fluent, his thought process has some direction, and his videos are uniform.
Learn about those things in tutorials about lectures, after-dinner speaking, and similar.
Also, you need to work on the technical side of your videos. Production, transitions, framerate, camera angles, A-rolls, B-Bolls. Video editing software knowledge is a must. You can really elevate your videos with good production. It doesn't need to be Linus level but you need to have some basic equipment and skill. See some guides on that.
Start it as a side project. Enjoy what you do. Do not expect overnight success. It will take a long time. Try to constantly improve.
Regardless of the content, there are skills you will need to have. You are a presenter. Doesn't matter what you present the concept is the same. Learning about lecturer skills is very important. You might want to see some guides for that. I paid a great deal on those when I started working as a TA at the Department of Anatomy. Some of them are:
You want to be very fluent in speaking. It doesn't matter if English is your native language or not you need to practice fluent speaking. Start with reading out loud books and any content you consume online.
You also need to remove any stutters from your speaking: uh, um, aa, or any repeatable phrases: like, you know, I think, etc. Those are very annoying.
Your thought process and the flow of your video must have a direction and consistency. Don't repeat yourself and don't go back and forth. If you are not scripting the whole video at least have some bullet points fo you can stay focused on the subject. There are also some rules about how should your content be structured.
Take Tom for example. Half the time he is not aware of the words that are coming from his mouth. But he doesn't stutter, he doesn't have annoying phrases, he doesn't repeat himself. His speaking is fluent, his thought process has some direction, and his videos are uniform.
Learn about those things in tutorials about lectures, after-dinner speaking, and similar.
Also, you need to work on the technical side of your videos. Production, transitions, framerate, camera angles, A-rolls, B-Bolls. Video editing software knowledge is a must. You can really elevate your videos with good production. It doesn't need to be Linus level but you need to have some basic equipment and skill. See some guides on that.
Start it as a side project. Enjoy what you do. Do not expect overnight success. It will take a long time. Try to constantly improve.
AlienALX
Active member
If you don't have lots of money then good luck. Finding your videos will be a needle in a haystack.
That link Arne posted two years ago says it all. Basically it has become a haven for money, and Youtube want to make lots of it so they only pimp their top earners.
If I search for say, a PC part review it will only list videos with enormous view numbers. You literally have to customise the search to find anything else. On my Xbox and so on? that's not even possible.
Youtube is now a TV channel, and you have as much chance of being aired properly as you do on real TV. Thinking you will earn a living out of it is very naive.
You also need to be a shill, and you need to accept that you are literally going to have to whore yourself like in any other sector of the entertainment and or music industry. Tom stopped short of that, and that is why he is not as big as people like Jay, or others who will say or do anything (including all of their over priced crap merch) to get views.
You also need to steal all of your ideas from all of the other "top bods" because that is all they do. I subscribed to quite a few of them, only to find they all make the same f*****g videos over and over on the same day. Whenever something releases (like the recent Ryzen budget CPUs) you end up getting bombed from the same 10 guys.
Also, don't think it will be easy or you will ever earn easy money on there. That's a pipe dream for 99% of people. Same people who think they can sing and go on the Xfactor to get laughed at.
That link Arne posted two years ago says it all. Basically it has become a haven for money, and Youtube want to make lots of it so they only pimp their top earners.
If I search for say, a PC part review it will only list videos with enormous view numbers. You literally have to customise the search to find anything else. On my Xbox and so on? that's not even possible.
Youtube is now a TV channel, and you have as much chance of being aired properly as you do on real TV. Thinking you will earn a living out of it is very naive.
You also need to be a shill, and you need to accept that you are literally going to have to whore yourself like in any other sector of the entertainment and or music industry. Tom stopped short of that, and that is why he is not as big as people like Jay, or others who will say or do anything (including all of their over priced crap merch) to get views.
You also need to steal all of your ideas from all of the other "top bods" because that is all they do. I subscribed to quite a few of them, only to find they all make the same f*****g videos over and over on the same day. Whenever something releases (like the recent Ryzen budget CPUs) you end up getting bombed from the same 10 guys.
Also, don't think it will be easy or you will ever earn easy money on there. That's a pipe dream for 99% of people. Same people who think they can sing and go on the Xfactor to get laughed at.
Thats just product launches.... Wednesday 2pm will be another day like that sadly.....
AlienALX
Active member
looz
Active member
One of YouTube algorithim's tendencies is pretty damaging in my opinion, basically they give high priority to channels which upload regularly. In many areas this inevitably leads to forced ideas and lower quality content just to stay on top of such schedule. This also forces less regularly uploading channels to other revenue streams, especially patreon.
Look at channels like Bad Obsession Motorsport, Clickspring and This Old Tony. All their videos are novel and making a video is clearly just something they do in addition to their project - they haven't started projects they wouldn't otherwise have to stay favoured by YouTube's trending algorithm.
Though there certainly are large channels with irregular uploading schedules like Colin Furze and Primitive Technology. I think Furze's success is due to starting early and Primitive Technology is just a well-executed fairly niche topic which is interesting to follow but very difficult to plan and do yourself.
Look at channels like Bad Obsession Motorsport, Clickspring and This Old Tony. All their videos are novel and making a video is clearly just something they do in addition to their project - they haven't started projects they wouldn't otherwise have to stay favoured by YouTube's trending algorithm.
Though there certainly are large channels with irregular uploading schedules like Colin Furze and Primitive Technology. I think Furze's success is due to starting early and Primitive Technology is just a well-executed fairly niche topic which is interesting to follow but very difficult to plan and do yourself.
Avet
Active member
It is not like that Tom at all. You can actually see them ripping off one another. If let's say Hardware Unboxed releases some video that attracts a lot of attention. Like with AMD drivers. You can actually see other similar sites just popping videos about the same subject in the next day or two. Just bodged talking head videos that you can do in the amount of time since the original release. It is so transparent.
AlienALX
Active member
Yeah this. I should have clarified Tom that wasn't a dig. Like, one of them will have an idea (not reviews) and then the others all do the same bloody thing.
They really are that low on ideas ffs.
And yeah the algorithm sucks. Thankfully I did find Craft Computing though, and he does some really good videos about using old server gear etc. It's all about money though. Once you make it into the top money earners they pimp the crap out of them.
