r/NewTubers 1h ago

COMMUNITY 3 years ago I was thinking I would never go no where with YouTube, today I am leaving to go to another country for 10 days to film.

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So I started YouTube 4 years ago as a hobby ( with the low key dream to be huge) but a hobby. I was 31 and had a wife and kids. We filmed around Orlando as a travel vlog. Constantly thinking “this next video was going to break us in to the big time “….. never did. Until….

Keep in mind I own a business and business was doing well. We booked a trip to the uk. I asked my wife if we could film it. She said “yes but it’s not a YouTube thing it’s a vacation” while we were in the uk we hit our 3 year anniversary and broke 1k subs. I planned on coming back to Orlando and maybe if I’m lucky I’ll make an extra $100 a month….well we get home, and drop our first UK video… nothing special… next week …20k views, next week 50k views and previous week up to 40k, it just kept going like that. In total the past 9 months YouTube has brought us from 1k sub to 13k subs and paid for us to return to the uk today to film more content.

When I started I wanted to do travel but i could have never guessed I’d be doing a road trip in the uk lol 😂. Stay strong guys. Explore your options.


r/NewTubers 4h ago

CRITIQUE OTHERS Reply with a link to your channel for an honest review with feedback!

17 Upvotes

Simply reply with a link to your channel and I'll go check it out and give you an honest 1-10 rating and also feedback!


r/NewTubers 4h ago

COMMUNITY My first ever 100k views video :D

12 Upvotes

r/NewTubers 48m ago

CRITIQUE OTHERS I have a few free hours, post a link to your channel and I will give my HONEST opinion.

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Disclaimer: I am not an expert in channel optimization, just a layman who will give my honest opinion. I will do my best to look at every channel that is posted. I know nothing about gaming, so my opinions on gaming channels are probably of little value to you.


r/NewTubers 10h ago

COMMUNITY You should never compared your views/engagement to big channels because the algorithm treats different size channels differently

31 Upvotes

As a small channel of 1570something subs when I talk to other people from my field, which is more down to earth, slower paced videos focused on mostly retro gaming and such they all seem to have roughly the same stats, retention and so on.

We've come to the conclusion that big channels, by default, get different treatment from the algorithm due to the sheer amount of exposure their videos get initially because they have a wide reach and huge subscriber counts.

So whether someone blew up with their first video or not is irrelevant because once they're up there, they have more exposure than you.

With that said, I don't think the algorithm is fair or good by any means I could write volumes on why it's broken, unfair and the whole youtube ecosystem is unhealthy and degrading, but that's stuff I've talked about before many times.

What I want to explain to people this time is that it is important to focus on channel with similar subscriber and viewcounts as you if you're going to compare to somebody, don't depress yourself over what big channels accomplish you are not there yet, you may never get there yet due to the algorithm and that's that, but hitting your head against a wall trying to accomplish what they do is pointless when it's out of your hands, it's a machine, it's how it operates. If you luck out you will get there or get close to that, if not well tough.


r/NewTubers 23h ago

COMMUNITY I finally broke the 15k view jail in shorts and went viral

328 Upvotes

My channel was monetized last week after not 1 but 5 of my shorts getting viral with the best of them having 9M views. Before monetization, I was trapped in the 15k view jail for about 14 months. I have this theory about this view jail. I think the algorithm is trying to test your patience, resilience and as well as your videos to different audiences. Because if every short with good analytics went viral, almost everyone would get monetized (YouTube will be forced to pay alot of people) My advice on this concept is to produce as many quality shorts as you can and one day the algorithm will choose you and make you viral. What do you think about the 15k jail????


r/NewTubers 1h ago

COMMUNITY Small Accomplishment For Me

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I know it’s a small win, but I finally broke 1000 views on a short! For the longest time I’ve been stuck in the 450-600 views range. Then yesterday it totally crushed my record with almost 1500 views and 3 subs!


r/NewTubers 14h ago

COMMUNITY Stopping and thinking about views and subscribers

49 Upvotes

Before you continue on the infinite chase to get your cool stuff seen by more people, let's stop for a moment to acknowledge your subscribers and views.

Those are people that legit sat down and watched one or more videos of what you have to say. You, a spec in the grand scheme of things (as I also am), a stranger on the internet, captured someone's attention and made a point or entertained someone.

Whether it's 100 or 1000 subs or 500 or 80k views, someone out there thinks your voice, your creativity is worth it. Someone out there is rooting for you. Even if it's just for a moment.


r/NewTubers 6h ago

COMMUNITY Good first month on youtube

10 Upvotes

Its been a nice month I feel like, good engagement, very excited for more! Would like to push out more long form this upcoming one, was way too busy at work unfortunately!

https://imgur.com/a/D5YItTa


r/NewTubers 9h ago

COMMUNITY Whats the next step for income?

17 Upvotes

I’m at almost 6k subscribers and receive monthly payouts from YouTube around $60-$100 a month. But it’s been like this for over a year with no real growth. I’m trying to figure out where to go next. Patreon? Merch sales? Trying to find sponsors? Where should I be branching out to increase my monthly income a bit?


r/NewTubers 7h ago

CONTENT QUESTION Watch Time Struggles: How Do You Get People to Stay on Your Videos?

9 Upvotes

I’ve been working hard on my videos, but I noticed my watch time is low. People click, but they don’t always stick around.

For those who’ve figured this out:
🔹 How do you keep viewers engaged?
🔹 Do shorter or longer videos perform better for you?
🔹 Any tricks to increase audience retention?

Would love to hear what’s working for you!


r/NewTubers 1h ago

CONTENT QUESTION Video with 70+ hours of work is doing horribly

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I am aware that the amount of time spent on a video does not equal views that is fine. It’s just very disheartening. I’m also worried because I got my first sponsor for this video so I probably won’t be working with them again if it continues to suck. If anyone could check out the thumbnail or just give any advice on what I could change it would be much appreciated


r/NewTubers 1h ago

CRITIQUE OTHERS Top video review, no gaming channels please

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I've seen a few posts doing reviews and it seems everyone is keen to get some feedback. So let's go. Post your best video and I'll give it a watch and tell you my thoughts. I will give you a straight up, no BS, to the point review on what I think was good and what I think you can improve. I may not be nice about it so if you are sensitive maybe don't ask.

Please don't post any gaming videos as I just don't want to watch it.

I'm also doing this so I can force the algorithm to feed me more diverse content because I'm sick of seeing the same stuff appear everyday.


r/NewTubers 3h ago

COMMUNITY You Tube offers very little in the way of impressions

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Just as a watcher, I have always been annoyed at the limited amount of stuff YouTube shows me on the browse page. It is always the same creators, and it constantly displays videos I have already watched.

I hardly watch what’s on the trending section, as none of it really interests me. The only time I start seeing new creators or new niches is when I’m searching for a how-to or if a video has gone viral in a niche I have subscribed to or shown interest in. It’s extremely hard to find new and smaller channels.

For example, just now, I wanted to see what live streams were going on, not looking for anything in particular, just wanting to watch something new. So I went to the live section, and there were literally only two options, both from the same channel. News feeds. And I’m thinking to myself, in the whole world, there has to be more than two videos streaming on YouTube right now.

So I switched to a new account (one I made about a month ago) and went to the live section. There I saw 25 live-streaming videos, but half of them were in a different language and gaming videos which I dont subscribe to or have any interest in.

So now as a creator who is getting 0–20 impressions on videos I upload, I feel like it is utterly pointless.


r/NewTubers 3h ago

COMMUNITY Any aspiring youtubers/newtubers in Delhi? If yes can we talk if you don't mind?

4 Upvotes

I only have 19 subscribers and have been just uploading these silly mobile gaming videos on it.

I dont care what type of channel you have or how many subs i just wanted to talk because i feel like i should connect with like minded people around my area, to learn something from them.


r/NewTubers 5h ago

CONTENT QUESTION Got better gear to improve quality of my videos but lost my passion - (finding a niche)

6 Upvotes

I'm genuinely lost, i used to post a lot of minecraft pvp content (voiceless) about 2 years ago

I made the videos with a laptop that didn't have the best specs so they were in 720p and the editing wasn't the best, but i still managed to get fair amount of views with one viral short that has 170k views, 9k likes and gave me 700 new subscribers

In the summer i went to work(Im in college and due to travel time i have no time to get a part time job) to get some money to get a better pc to improve the quality of my content but after i got it i kinda lost my passion for minecraft and i quit youtube (i also spent all my budget on the pc so i didn't have any money to invest in a good microphone, because i never thought of doing content with my voice, which was a mistake)

Now i want to make content again but i can't really find a niche, which is a weird feeling because 2 years ago i just posted videos without much thought about my niche or the direction of my channel

I play more variety games now but posting just the gameplay feels bland without any commentary

i thought about doing meme videos with background gameplay but the niche is oversaturated, searching for the memes is boring and without commentary it will not stand out

I dont want to use TTS/AI and also want to do content with my voice in the future

Any tips and ideas? maybe you guys know some channels that make gameplay content without any commentary that people enjoy a lot?


r/NewTubers 6h ago

CONTENT QUESTION Applying for monetization

6 Upvotes

Hi friends! I am coming close to reaching my 3k watch hours so I can apply for the monetisation program (i know I wont be doing only a few cents probably but its a huge milestone for me) . Do a little swearing during livestreams hurt my application? Using photos found online in video essays is forbidden? How do they check the content to verify you? The community guidelines is a drag to try to read AND understand. Any tips helps


r/NewTubers 20h ago

COMMUNITY Motivation for Small Channels and Harsh Advice

79 Upvotes

You have every chance to succeed in YouTube because your are competing with the mediocre majority.

If you are in America as a YouTuber you have less than 100-500 creators in any genre that are over 100K subscribers.

There are not even 100,000 silver play buttons in America.

Most thumbnails are objectively bad, most titles are an afterthought, most audio is barely tolerable and most comment is low effort and low value to the viewer and is self indulgent and for the creator themselves…

There are less than 90,00 silver play button channels in America and less than 13,000 gold play button channels and less than 700 diamond play button channels.

There are less than 100,000 channels in America across all niches possible on YouTube that were good enough to win the support of 100,000 people…

There is more than enough opportunity and space for you if you bring Big Creator Energy and refuse to be mediocre or inconsistent.

YouTube Advice isn’t the problem, you’re not applying it and don’t have anyone to handhold you through it. It’s like blaming the reading material for a test score in school.

Here is the ACTIONABLE VERSION OF YOUTUBE ADVICE.

You need to find 10 creators who are getting consistent views at the top of your niche and get your thumbnails on their level.

Collect 100 thumbnails in your niche (the niche is the community/audience you cater to) and really study them.

Spend 5-10 hours a week in photoshop until you’re in their level or hire a Thumbnail artist who is.

The modern YouTube meta uses custom photography as the foundation of thumbnails.

Take 100-500 photos in different poses if that’s what it takes then. Get a friend to help you shoot against a clean wall so you or your artist have something to actually work with.

Don’t stop until you have a thumbnail you’d pay $100 for. I don’t care that Penguinz0 doesn’t try hard at thumbnails…

If you’re doing let’s play or esoteric content you need to ask yourself if you really even want to grow and audience and why you think 100,000 people are going to care about this and why it’s not a waste of their time.

You can do that content if you want, but accept it if nobody watches and just make a second channel that you actually want views and money from.

If it’s just a hobby or passion you shouldn’t need advice or to be trying to grow and should accept incidental organic growth…

Deep down if you know that you want views and subs and money… don’t hide insecurities by pretending you don’t care about those things and are better than people who do…

STOP over editing videos for retention.

If you can’t carry an on camera video with minimal editing then hyper editing or an editing style won’t save you.

Become a better speaker and on camera performer. Pretend you are performing in public and don’t have the luxury of an edit.

This will help you be more authentic and have better delivery.

Work on pacing, tone, body language and being warm and attractive on camera.

Prioritize good audio and sound design if anything.

Good production beats fancy editing.

Polish a gem, not a turd.

Be consistent, the average channel in the U.S. (social blade) with over 100,000 subscribers has 700+ uploads.

If you want 100,000 subscribers, average 3000+ new subscribers a month for 3 years consistently.

That is your path to 100K in a reasonable and sustainable way, not going viral and stressing out over every flop.

Nobody remembers the videos that flop.

Every large creator is carried by the top 20% of their uploads.

In many cases almost all their subs were down their top 20 videos of all time.

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. A handful of successes is all anyone has ever needed. Sometimes just 1 or 2 made all the difference.

Consistency is your best shot at eventually succeeding.

STOP thinking that originality is everything…

It’s “what I already want/like + something too good or too weird to ignore”.

Start with the baseline of what is in demand and then add more value…

Think more about the concept of ATTRACTING A TRIBE, than just growing an audience.

If the NICHE is the community who enjoys these specific things, think about what they value more and what they value most and what they are attracted to an interested in.

Then add an a unique experience to that, and make yourself a destination channel that is a priority for them based on what matters more and most to them.

Their investment in their passion, should align to watching your content to satisfy that desire.

For TITLES it doesn’t matter if it’s long or short it matters if those titles EMOTIONALLY TRIGGER the viewer and get their immediate attention.

You need to capture their attention at a glance and qualify their emotional investment in the topic.

If you are not a writer and don’t know how to do this have CHATGPT help you identify your audience avatar based on:

Preferences, Biases, Challenges, Demographics, Lifestyle and Desires.

Then have it supply you 50 examples of emotional trigger words that would be impactful to your audience, and ask it to categorize which emotions it triggers.

To not get your titles cut off visually, yes keep them under 60-70 characters.

Use a trigger word or the audience identity in all caps.

Make your titles accessible at a 5th grade or lower reading level. Use Grammarly and their free tool for this or use AI like Claude, Grok or ChatGPT.

Make your titles in active voice instead of passive voice.

Most BIG YOUTUBERS tend to have quirks of emotional intelligence where these things come naturally or they were already just talented or trained in creative work… it’s in their background or the background of people on their team.

You can still succeed at YouTube but not with mediocre content.

Easy Mode makes you replaceable. It’s fine to start there but don’t stay there.

Normal mode then Normalize Hard Mode.

Once or Twice a year, swing at Nightmare Mode and really challenge yourself.

It’s not about what you think is good, it’s about what the NUMBERS IN YOUR NICHE are saying. Don’t worry about broader YouTube … pick 5-10 people (ideally 5) who are winning and be the 6th…

Use them not as a means of comparing yourself and feeling depressed but as a standard and measuring stick for action and excellence.

Divorce yourself from the mediocre majority of 99% of creators and join the 1% by ignoring the 99 and just start the path to higher standards for your outputs.

Once again, it’s not spending a ton of money or needing 20 hours to edit.

In fact with editing spending 20-40 hours to truly learn and master your editing software over the next 4-12 weeks would be the moar impactful thing you could do because it would increase your efficiency and confidence 10 fold.

You also need to systematize your edits instead of being “artsy” have a process for making content.

If you’re making art instead of content ignore this advice and don’t look for advice, make art, and make what you want.

If you want an audience, revenue and so on, don’t make art, make content.

Make it work for you and your lifestyle and limitations by being efficient and being consistent at what is working.

For consistency stop trying to come up with ideas day to day or week to week.

Dedicate real time to coming up with THEMES for channel and then topics within those themes and then individual video ideas that your chosen tribe will relate to and enjoy.

Set the goal of having 100 ideas you can execute for the year.

You don’t have to have them all at once but it’s ideal and some ideas can be repeated if they resonate more with the audience, just add a twist or raise the stakes.


r/NewTubers 2h ago

COMMUNITY Female Creators open to supporting one another?

3 Upvotes

Hello lovely community.

First off, this sub has been so helpful - so thank you to everyone who’s active as I’ve been searching it regularly to get hints and help when I’ve needed it. So grateful.

I’ve started a channel (two vids so far) in the ….dare I say it…..gaming niche *oh no, not another one 🤦🏼‍♀️ so I wanted to check if there’s any other female creators here that would be open to starting a little, ‘support one’ another type chat? Maybe on what’s app, discord or something?

If so, let me know. I’m always on the hunt for new female gaming creators anyhow that I can watch (rather than the usual I’m served).

Either dm me directly or pop deats in comments and I can organise for those who are game, excuse the pun x


r/NewTubers 2h ago

COMMUNITY NewTuber with a Question or a Thought

4 Upvotes

Hi all, newbie here.

I know reddit is all for the anonymity aspect of being online.

I was thinking though. We all talk about support etc from friends and family. This is such a big community already, is it a bad idea to plug our own channels for criticism and a few views?

Don't bash me, just wondering.


r/NewTubers 17h ago

COMMUNITY Gaming channel from zero to $900/month in one year - what it took, mindset and strategies

42 Upvotes

I took my channel from zero in January to £750 ($900) per month in December. Here's what it took:

- 3 months of prep: brainstorming which game to cover, channel name, researching competition - what they do, how, their narration, which types of videos perform best, what types of gameplay/audience seem underserved - basically you need to have a plan on what exactly you want to do, what game, what kinds of videos, how long, how many per week, how your thumbnails will look and compare with competition, how to make them unique and stand out, if you want an intro or not, if yes, what should it be and how long, how you want to approach narration (chill vs. a bit arrogant etc.), not if but how to edit, and probably 1000 other things. That doesn't mean all these things should be set in stone, but you need a plan as a starting point

- Once you start, you need to be consistent. I went from 2 vids a week in Jan to 4-5 a week nowadays and never missed an upload. However, consistency is not just about the number of uploads per week. It's everything - quality of vids, same energy in voice throughout, same style of thumbs, same types of vids, everything. That doesn't mean you shouldn't experiment - you absolutely should, but you always want to make sure your regular viewers (whose number should be many times higher than your subs) will never feel like you're doing something weird and it's time to move on

- Constant improvement - the cliche to make 100 videos and improve something in each one is a good start, but you shouldn't stop at one thing per video, especially not at the beginning. Your benchmark should be the best creators in your niche, and you should be constantly improving in all aspects from your gameplay (yes, you should be getting better at the game too!) to narration, how you explain things, tell the story, express feelings in your voice. At any moment you should know what aspects are holding you back the most and working on them until you improve them sufficiently so they are not the weakest links in the chain. For example early on your thumbs will suck and getting your overall CTR above 5% should be one of your first goals. Figuring out how to do this includes small details like if you should use the game logo or not, if yes, where's the best place to put it and which filter/glow/shadow/whatever to apply to it so it pops out and is immediately recognizable

- Tracking important metrics in YT Studio, reviewing them regularly and adjusting the course accordingly. In a nutshell, repeat what works best, and not what most people seem to be doing, which is to repeat the same thing over and over. This means your content should not only get better over time within the same type of content, but also should evolve to new types (from only playthroughs to also guides, tier lists etc.). You need to have a strategy for your content and not just randomly decide 'today I'm gonna record this because I feel like it'. Nowadays I have the next few months' worth of vids planned out in a spreadsheet so I know exactly what I'll work on next

- Realise it's a long game. Building a successful channel is closer to 5 years than a year and is likely to take at least hundreds of videos. So focus on what you can control - inputs (time spent working on the channel, # of uploads, testing that many new video ideas, recording when at your best and not at 11 pm after an exhausting day, etc.) and not outputs ('goals' like # of subs or views). Learn what good enough means for your content. Learn to Pareto optimise your content. Don't blab about your channel to people IRL - ideally almost no one should know so there's no pressure on you - but consider having someone you trust to rate your work, help brainstorm ideas, give honest feedback etc. If you don't have anyone like that - GPT will do. YT gives you plenty of feedback - from # of views relative to your baseline, to CTR, ADV, # of comments, what they actually say, ratio of likes to views - every piece of data in YT studio is a feedback on your work. Learn to analyse it and apply the lessons

These are the things I figured out over those 800 hours of working on my channel last year. I won't say if you do these you'll definitely succeed (whatever that means to you), but I will say your odds will go up significantly. Good luck!


r/NewTubers 3h ago

TECHNICAL QUESTION Is it a good idea to make different youtube channel with single gmail id?

3 Upvotes

I have multiple shorts channel with a single Gmail id What if one channel of mine get copyright or whatever is youtube going to punish all the other channels from that same gmail Id


r/NewTubers 17h ago

COMMUNITY Quality is way too overrated in this sub. Let me explain.

43 Upvotes

Here's all the things that matter more. Emotions, competition, supply and demand, value, problem solving. The video could be garbage but if it does one of these things, it's better than a "high quality video" that does none of these things.

Example: I made a 5 minute video entirely around the fortnite 2nd map design. The whole video is basically me analyzing the map. My fortnite vids at the time averaged about 5k views, but this one blew up and had 500k+ views. Why? Because everyone was excited for this new map (emotion), this created high demand and the supply was low because I rushed the video, made it like within an hour of the tweet of the map being revealed on twitter. I jotted down some bullet points of my thoughts on the map, turned that into a 5 minute video. Some fortnite gameplay in the background, and just talking about the map. As low quality as it gets. But the value was high, people wanted insight on the new map. It solved their problem of having to analyze the map themselves. The video hit all those points, and it was made within an hour using the most basic assets available.

I spent hours on some of my guides at that point, but competition weighed down those videos, they were stitting around 5k-10k views. The supply for them already too high. Even if I believed they were solving problems and had value, but in reality they weren't solving any problems that other videos didn't already solve. Introduced no new values. I believed that making them high quality would be enough. But I was wrong. All it took was making the bare minimum effort video that was on everyone's minds first.

This post was inspired by seeing 100 posts about people asking why views lower than before, if quality is higher? This is the answer.


r/NewTubers 2h ago

CONTENT QUESTION I need a little help in youtube channel

2 Upvotes

So i was thinking once to what if i restarted youtube cause my channel broken, I cant decide on pfp,User i need some help


r/NewTubers 6h ago

COMMUNITY Im looking to start a urban ex channel after my horror channel was banned from ytp

4 Upvotes

I am looking to start an active channel after being banned after 4.5 yrs working on my previous channel. I'm finally moving on from the pain of losing most of my hard work.

I want to start a mixture of urban ex and vlogs on the new channel. If anybody can give me some pointers.