u/SrPatroclo

I'm really struggling to decide what language to start my channel in.

For context, I am mexican and would love to do my gaming channel in spanish, but I am worried that for my particular niche (challenge runs, playing games on permadeath mode, mod showcases for mods I made myself for a variety of games) there simply won't be a big enough spanish speaking audience, that is, that the interest for this type of content simply won't be there for that demographic.

Another worry I have is in terms of monetization, not only the huge difference in CPM between english and spanish gaming content, but also the difference in rates when it comes to sponsorships, which I've heard pay less for content in spanish, if I can even get deals in the first place, and also the difference in Patreon usage/adoption between "developed countries" like the US, Europe and Austraila, and developing countries like Mexico and Latin America.

I've considered doing a hybrid approach: streaming in spanish, editing the stream footage into well produced, tighter videos, doing narration in both english and spanish (uploading the dubbed audiotm into youtube's dubbing system) and doing english captions for the gameplay sections, but my fear there is that english speaking audiences will hear me speak spanish and go "this ain't for me" even if it has animated captions and everything.

So I ask for advice, for the creators on this subreddit who may have expierence with this, or anyone who may want to share their advice: which route should I take?

**(Para mis pasianos mexas, del resto de latinoamerica o de España, sus perspectivas, consejos y experiencias son especialmente bienvenidos.)**

I'm really struggling to decide what language to start my channel in.

For context, I am mexican and would love to do my gaming channel in spanish, but I am worried that for my particular niche (challenge runs, playing games on permadeath mode, mod showcases for mods I made myself for a variety of games) there simply won't be a big enough spanish speaking audience, that is, that the interest for this type of content simply won't be there for that demographic.

Another worry I have is in terms of monetization, not only the huge difference in CPM between english and spanish gaming content, but also the difference in rates when it comes to sponsorships, which I've heard pay less for content in spanish, if I can even get deals in the first place, and also the difference in Patreon usage/adoption between "developed countries" like the US, Europe and Austraila, and developing countries like Mexico and Latin America.

I've considered doing a hybrid approach: streaming in spanish, editing the stream footage into well produced, tighter videos, doing narration in both english and spanish (uploading the dubbed audio into youtube's dubbing system) and doing english captions for the gameplay sections, but my fear there is that english speaking audiences will hear me speak spanish and go "this ain't for me" even if it has animated captions and everything.

So I ask for advice, for the creators on this subreddit who may have expierence with this, or anyone who may want to share their advice: which route should I take?

**(Para mis paisanos mexas, del resto de latinoamerica o de España, sus perspectivas, consejos y experiencias son especialmente bienvenidos.)**

I am about to start a gaming channel where I stream through Youtube Live and edit the livestream footage into tighter, shorter, narrated videos. The strategy would be to leave the VOD's up for whoever's into that but the main content would be the edites videos

I have a question though: to my understanding the normal recomendation for a new channel is to have 4-6 videos ready before uploading them in short succesion, to give youtube a better idea of who to show yoir videos to. But if I livestream and leave the VOD public afterwards, while I edit the footage into shorter videos, wouldn't that break the strategy? Should I leave the VOD's unlisted until I have those 4-6 edited videos ready?