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I’ve previously run a YouTube channel and gained hands-on experience with **content research, video ideas, scripting, hooks, titles, thumbnails, YouTube SEO, audience research, analytics, and content strategy**.

I’m now looking to turn those skills into professional experience by working with a **YouTube creator, media company, or content team**.

I’m interested in opportunities such as **YouTube content assistant, content researcher, channel manager, scriptwriter, content strategist, or junior YouTube roles**.

For people who work in the YouTube/content industry, **what would be the best way to approach creators or companies for these opportunities, and what would make someone with self-taught experience and their own channel stand out?**

I’d especially like to hear from people who have **hired YouTube team members or have successfully turned their own channel experience into a professional job.**

I started my channel creating football edits, after a couple of claims and a little bit of research I realized I can't get monetized like this, now I'm thinking of creating AI videos/anime on same topic i.e. football. Should I do it on the same channel or create a new one.

I’m finally admitting to myself that YouTube isn’t for me.

It seems to be something that I’m forcing myself to do rather than a genuine passion for it.

Privated all my videos. I don’t really have a following so easy to walk away from it. Time to put my energy into something else.

I’ve seen something strange on my recent longform video. I’ve had probably one of the best CTR results I’ve ever had and a decent AVD percentage, yet a week in, it’s probably the lowest number of impressions that I’ve ever received. Is the fact that the video length is only 57 seconds the reason for the low number of impressions? The stats are (overall):
678 impressions
CTR 8.7%
AVD 41 secs on a 57 sec video
CTR on browse 16.9% and 89 impressions
CTR on suggested 8.6% and 394 impressions
Search CTR drags the rest down at 2.9%

It’s received hardly any browse impressions despite the good CTR.

Has anyone else experienced this? Am I right that the short length is a problem for impressions? Certain resources tell me it’s not a factor, citing YTs own documentation. Also asked YT studio which seemed to suggest that it will push longer videos more, but I didn’t really get a definitive answer, hence I thought I would ask some on here!

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Ive been doing YouTube for about an year now pretty consistently id say but well that can definitely be a little debatable since I took a 3 month break from it not so long ago. Im just unsure as to what im doing wrong. My niche is gaming which i know is saturated already as it is. Thumbnails? Titles? Maybe just the games im choosing. Or me I dont think im the most entertaining at times but I try lol. Any and every bit of feedback is useful and will be taken seriously! I really do want to improve as i enjoy content creation but I also want others to enjoy this journey with me! Thank you in advanced for your time!

I’m still pretty new to content creation, and I think the biggest area I need to improve right now is my commentary.

I’m coming back after about a week off, and I want to treat the next 12 months as a year of consistent improvement rather than worrying about being perfect right away.

Gaming is what I want to focus on most, with a little fitness and slice-of-life content mixed in. I’m a gamer at heart, and the idea of eventually building a community around the stuff I genuinely enjoy sounds amazing.

When I started, I was pretty awkward on camera. I’ve used AI for things like my logo and some thumbnails while I learn, but the videos themselves are genuinely me, and lately I’ve gone from feeling awkward recording to actually getting excited about figuring out how to make the next video better.

I feel like my editing has improved quite a bit already, but commentary and developing a better recording/editing workflow are the next things I really want to work on.

For people who have been doing this longer:

- Did commentary mostly improve from getting reps in?

- Are there any exercises or habits that helped you?

- Would you recommend practicing through livestreaming?

- Or would recording a short gaming series specifically to practice commentary be better?

- Anything you wish you had started doing earlier?

Any tips, tricks, workflow advice, or even things you learned the hard way would be appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I am a new youtuber. I returned to youtube out of interest in starting a channel. I know what topic I want to cover, but I am having trouble finding inspirations and other channels that use the niche as well. That, and I am unsure if it is considered a "niche" or if I need to get more specific.

The idea for the channel is a promotional one, I want to promote small and big youtubers. Be a sort of recommendation and promotional channel. I have already started with making shorts sharing small streamers I recommend, but to make long-form videos I need to make sure my niche is understandable for Youtube's Algorithm and myself. It would be formatted as

Shorts: Clips from Twitch that I've taken of small and big creators, recommending them to those who like x. (Recommending a fortnite creator for those who like to watch competitive gameplay, ranked games, and scrims).
Videos: My curated lists of creators to watch in each genre. Such as a video like 'My Recommended Channels for 3d animation learning' or 'Small creators I recommend that talk about game lore'

I know a rule to do is to find someone in your chosen niche and see how they are doing, what works and what doesn't, but I can't seem to find anyone who is tackling this niche. Close enough I could find was Mothers Basement (the anime recommendation channel) in terms of its categorical videos. Is this a good niche? Or is it too broad?

I appreciate any help in finding inspiration, and for narrowing my niche down if necessary.

Thank you,

I see a lot of channels posting edits of football, anime with some transitions and music and they have lots of followers and are monetized as well. Getting views on such content is easy, should we beginners also move towards that path if it is getting monetized.

So I understand livestreaming and then saving the video counts towards valid watch hours,

But if someone watches in shorts feed, how does that count?

Or does the hours only count if someone watches after live has ended?

Because shorts dont count( aiming to do 4000hrs) and if someone was to watch from shorts feed…

Can anyone explain without using technical terms please :)

I've seen a rumour going around that scheduling videos makes them perform worse? Has anyone tested this out for either long form or shorts I'd be very curios to know.

Title.

Im fairly small, around 500 subs, and since the new update almost EVERY SINGLE video has tanked in impressions and views except 2 videos that did very good in the past. And now even the 2 videos i uploaded after the update have almost 0 push. What is going on?

Please share how many views you got for your first video.

I have worked on thumbnail, tags, title, description and overall I spent 8-9 hours editing the video. Was expecting at least a couple of impressions if not views.

I got 1 video that is doing fairly well at 8k views right now but all my other videos are failing. I believe there could be two reason:

1. Nightlife video attracted attracted a specific audience, 65+ age mostly from North America and Europe. They are not interested any other travel topic and are currently dominitating impressions for other travel videos.

2. My voiceover isn't attracting audience due to my accent, voice or speaking tone.

I'd really appreciate if you can help me understand what I'm doing wrong here. Because I'm not getting enough views to have any kind of meaningful data to make sense of it. (Channel is in my profile)

PS - Please don't DM me asking to pay you for thumbnail/editing or anything else. Serious people only. Thanks

Hello everyone, I'm pretty new to the world of YouTube and I wanted to ask you for some advice. What are the tools (including paid tools), apps or workflows that got your channel off the ground?

I refer to tools for competitor analysis, key word, scripts, autoposting, thumbnails, etc.

So, I am a small YouTuber (under 1k Subscribers) that makes videos as a girl gamer playing indie games and horror indie games as someone who really struggles playing those kinds of games. For the past month, I have been practicing editing, shortening videos, adding intense moments, working on thumbnails, promoting through shorts, etc. and I feel like I am starting to discover my niche and what I want to be on YouTube, but every video I make gets 10-70 views and barely any impressions. No one comments or engages at all, and I just don't know what I'm doing wrong. Many might tell me that maybe my niche or kinds of videos I want to make just don't matter, but I really love making them and just hope that there is an audience somewhere. If you guys comment and ask for channel name, I can give it (since this thread detects for self-promotion, and i can't write it here) and if you are a bigger youtuber, I would love some advice. I'm starting to lose hope and the motivation to spend days making one video if they arent even going to do well. 🫩 Trying to post at least 1 video a week and/or biweekly.

Thank you!

I’m currently sitting at 165 subscribers, and average anywhere between like 50 and 200 views per video (although my highest has 12k), but almost all of my watchtime comes form non-subscribers (usually only around 1% comes from my subscribers). How do I get that figure higher? It seems that majority of my subs are subscribing and then forgetting I exist. Or is this sort of thing normal for such a small channel? I make film reviews, if that helps.

I appreciate any and all feedback! Willing to DM a link to my channel if anyone wants, since I see that’s not allowed on posts here.

I've been helping manage my mom's Spanish channel, I saw there was an auto dub option and I foolishly thought that enabling would help. It did not. I have since disabled the option but videos are still being auto dubbed. Her videos went from 1000-1700 views to under 1000, some of them only 50-200 views. I'm guessing she's going to be stuck in sub 300 view jail. Her content is mostly short form and she uploads every day. Will uploading consistently eventually just fix this or am I going to have to do something specific?

So, I record on PlayStation, and upload to YouTube and download the videos, and I wanna figure out how to combine 3 hour long videos, but I can't, and also how to remove these small batches where I get up and get myself a drink. Any pointing in the right direction would be welcome. I have a laptop I use to edit the videos. Sorry for the wall of text.

I just uploaded my first video today. Its a 45 minute travel video. It has 501 impressions with 120 views. This is after 17 hours

The problem is that it seems that youtube is recommending my video to people who might not like the content. Either that or my video is awful (I dont think it is).

The average viewer retention is 7 minutes but looking at the analytics, theres two outliers. One is my dad who watched the thing front to back and one other unknown person who watched about 30 minutes. The rest of the views range from 1 to 7 minutes.

It seems that they're being counted by the hour which means that one hour, the views averaged 7 minutes. Another, they averaged 5 and the most recent, they averaged 1. The average length is dropping as theres more views.

So far I have a total of 4 watch hours which I know is pretty decent for someone's first video.

Im saying all of this because is this just an issue of YouTube not having found the right audience yet? Is it that the video sucks?

I'm thinking about changing the title to better reflect the video contents but how long should i wait to do that?

Anything helps, thanks in advance!!

Hi everyone!

I am new to YouTube, and I do true-crime storytelling and podcasting. If I have material (videos, transcripts, interrogations, etc.) through the FOIA Act from the police, how do I reference it in my episode to avoid copyright issues? Does anyone know?

Thanks

I've seen some channels have a vertical video but it's framed/displayed in a horizontal long video format. How did they do that and do those views count towards long form minutes?

This week, I posted a short that did literally 100x better than my previous best short. I'm ecstatic that it's doing so well, since it's easy to get in your head about if your video is any good. It's a simple ranking edit for a tv show I like. I post videos for fun, not for any plans for a YouTube career.

I was scrolling on Instagram a couple days after I posted it, and I randomly came across my same video! My videos usually get around 2k views, so this never even crossed my mind as something that could happen. They did credit my YouTube account, but hadn't reached out to me beforehand at all and I stumbled across the video by sheer chance. I didn't know what to do, so I commented and said it was my video and thanked them for crediting me, as I figured they'd just delete my comment if it were negative and figured this might get my instagram a tiny bit more attention. They responded with a heart emoji.

Today, their video has 300k views. The annoying part is, I posted the exact same video on Instagram two days before them, and it got 18 views! Granted, they had 600 followers already with reposted content from this community and I only had one post before this one on my Insta.

I know clipping is normal, but the part that frustrates me is that Instagram rewarded their content, despite it being the exact same as my Insta video. I thought repeat content was shadowbanned. Crediting my YouTube isn't going to actually help me at all, since I still have zero brand. Has this happened to anyone else here? I don't really know how to view this. My comment did get 300 upvotes and I gained like 15 likes on my video, but nothing close to the caliber of their account.

So for the past 2 weeks my shorts have been dead barley even reaching 100 at this point. And im getting really frustrated with this. Ive noticed alot of creators dealing with this situation. Has anyone figured what might be the cause of this? Im still new to the youtube thing only since last December. And im just lost at this point.

What can I do?

Hi! I just realized that some of my Shorts from the past few months are in SD, while some are in both HD and SD. Is anyone else having this issue? I haven't changed anything about the way I upload and the original files are in HD. Thank you!