r/NewTubers

Title.

I've ran several 100k+ channels in the past so I know what to look for.

Let the games begin!

hey! Im new here, I was thinking of creating a youtube channel of me speaking, however doing it faceless. im willing to either put a general background on the visuals or video tape my own, but my focus is getting a mic and speaking on certain topics, my niche being health and wellness. tried looking into it onlime but i dont trust the info, i was told making 2 videos a week for about a year may get me about 1000 bucks if I use ads.

would this be generally accurate ? id ideally like to make closer to 5k a month eventually but i know going in faceless is much harder to do that, even with creating shorts to promote it i think it may be difficult so I want to make my expectations realistic.. I know general speaking / podcasts can make a lot and faceless may be better for Spotify which i could collab eventually but I really want to do youtube! my voice is of a north American accent, so pretty neutral for English , I sound generally young anywhere between id say 18- 30 and female. i can also do a secondary translation in Spanish for dub if that makes more money which it said it does however I wont make a seperate video for it, all the videos will be originally recorded in English.

allll and any information is largely apperciated. tell me what a.i wont. give me realistic expectations.

my budjet is low. ill purchase a mic but for editing ill probably have to use a free ap and the background music will have to be copy right free and 0 dollar Music ! thanks a bunch.

Pretty much a complete noob/lurker, here. I just uploaded my "first" video: niche topic (intelligence analysis / targeting).

Here are my stats after about 24 hours:

• 13 views
• 7 impressions
• 14% CTR (probably meaningless, I know :-) )
• 0 subscribers

I guess my question is really about those 7 impressions. Does YouTube not show new channels to anyone until there's some baseline of watch time? ...especially rehashed channels?

I ask this because I tried starting a channel before and uploaded three (unrelated to this) videos that went absolutely nowhere. I deleted them before uploading this one. I now feel that this was a mistake. Should I have started a completely fresh channel instead?

I'm not asking how to go viral and I'm not expecting a ton of views. I just want to understand whether there's something structural happening here or whether I just need to be patient and keep uploading.

Any and all insight is appreciated.

I got frustrated with the "top 10 video tools" articles that are clearly written by people who never used any of them lol so I'm writing the comparison I wish I'd found when I started, this is based on actual months of use not free trial impressions

for context I run a lifestyle and travel channel at about 8k subs and I use sometools mostly for B-roll enhancement, visual effects I can't shoot practically, and making my footage look more cinematic without spending 3 hours in davinci resolve per video

capcut this is where I do 90% of my actual editing now, I switched from premiere about 4 months ago and I'm not going back for short form content, the AI features like auto captions and smart cut and background removal are good enough for youtube and the speed difference is massive, premiere is still better for anything complex but for a 10 minute youtube video capcut gets me to 85% of the same quality in about a third of the time. free tier is genuinely usable which is rare

where it falls short: the color grading tools are basic compared to resolve or premiere, and the AI effects can look cheap if you lean on them too heavily, less control over fine details

runway the most powerful AI video tool I've used, the gen 3 video generation is impressive and the motion brush feature where you can select what moves in a still image is genuinely creative, I use it mainly for generating abstract B-roll and transition clips that would be impossible to shoot, the inpainting and outpainting on video is also useful for fixing framing issues

where it falls short: expensive at volume, the credits burn fast if you're generating a lot of clips, the output quality is inconsistent so you end up regenerating things multiple times to get something usable, occasional uncanny valley issues especially with faces and hands

magic hour I initially tried this for the style transfer feature where you can restyle existing footage to look like anime or watercolor or oil painting and that's genuinely its strongest use case, the thing that surprised me is how well it works for giving boring B-roll a completely different feel without having to reshoot, I filmed a rainy street that looked flat and grey and restyled it to look like a studio ghibli scene and it became one of the most saved clips on my instagram, also does face swap and text-to-video but I mainly use it for the style stuff

where it falls short: it's more of a one-trick-pony compared to runway's broader toolset, if you need full video generation or complex editing runway does more, the text-to-video isn't as strong as runway or kling, and the output resolution could be better for youtube

kling technically impressive especially for motion quality and physics in generated video, the movement looks more natural than most competitors, I've used it for generating short establishing shots and concept clips and the results are good, the longer generation options are nice when you need more than 4 seconds of footage

where it falls short: the interface feels like it was built for a different market, everything is slightly unintuitive if you're used to western software design patterns, the generation times are slower than runway, and the style control is less precise, I find myself fighting it more to get what I want

pika good for very quick short clips and meme-style content, the speed is nice when you just need something fast and don't care about maximum quality, the lip sync and expression features are fun for comedy content

where it falls short: not really built for serious production, the output quality ceiling is lower than runway or kling, I use it for throwaway clips and social experiments not for anything going in an actual youtube video

topaz video AI different category from the others, this is an upscaling and enhancement tool not a generation tool, but worth mentioning because it's saved me multiple times when footage came out softer than expected or when I'm working with older clips, the slow motion AI is also really good for creating smooth slow-mo from standard 24fps footage

where it falls short: it's expensive for what it does (one-time purchase but not cheap), the processing times are long, and it can introduce artifacts on certain types of footage especially if you push the upscaling too hard

the honest meta take:

no single tool does everything well, I use capcut for editing, runway or magic hour depending on whether I need generation or style transfer, and topaz for enhancement, trying to do everything in one tool will give you mediocre results across the board

the thing most video tool reviews won't tell you: 70% of the time the fastest path to good content is just shooting better footage on your phone and doing a quick edit in capcut, AI tools are best used as supplements for specific moments not as a replacement for actually filming things

what are you using and what's been your experience because I feel like the landscape changes every few months and I might be missing something that came out recently

Got some spare time on my hands for a little while (2 hours ish) will take a look at channels posted below and offer 1 thing i liked with a 1-10 rating and things to work on potentially. I'm by no means some expert still working through my own channel (link on profile, not hiding stuff haha)

more interested in hand crafted long form videos than voiceless lets plays but show me what you got :)

happy holidays

Since I don't use AI, I didn't think /AITubers was the appropriate place for this question/problem.

I've been slowly building a channel for about a year and a half. I've put some serious time into a few videos (100+ hours) and I'm finding that the videos I spend the most time on are by far the ones doing the best. However, the very first big video I ever put out (still my most popular one), literally the first comment was calling it "AI Slop." I just released another video yesterday and have already had 2 people ask/accuse me of using AI, one for the script and another on my voice.

I have never used any AI tools on my channel. I write my own scripts, I narrate my own voiceovers, and do my own editing. This video I posted yesterday took me well over 100 hours to make. My voice is often monotonous, but it's exactly how I sound in real life. My videos contain a mix of personal anecdotes and factual/informational content, and I think people are assuming the informational components are AI because it's very "matter of fact" sounding. The intent of most of my videos is to provide information about the content, mixed with my personal experience. I intentionally try to make the informational parts sound more formal because the goal is to explain, not entertain necessarily. I enjoy writing, so I am intentionally descriptive and aim to tell a story with those parts of the video.

Now that the channel is growing a bit, I feel like this is a problem I'm going to have to deal with in every video. What's the best approach? I already mention in my "About Me" that I do not use AI... do I really need to pin a comment on every video stating this as well?

It's extremely frustrating to put in all these hours into a project just to be accused of typing it into a prompt and getting the work done for me, especially with all the hatred towards AI, and it's also disappointing that people just assume everything is AI because it looks or sounds a little off... I see this on Reddit a lot too. People see a hyphen (-) and automatically assume it was written by AI. Hell, I'm sure someone will assume THIS post is AI. I would rather someone tell me they don't like my video than accuse me of not doing the work, and I'm not going to change the way I talk just to make people think I'm not an AI.... that seems completely ridiculous... but I'm open to other ideas.

Thanks in advance

what percentage of AVD do you guys think is good for 1 hour video?

A. 20%

B. 30%

C 40% and above

I do not do it. In fact, unless my wife tells someone about it, nobody else in my life has a way of knowing that I even make videos.

I don’t share my vids with anyone ever fearing that the algorithm will get the wrong idea about the target audience.

But is that even true? I want to know from those of you who did share with friends and family, did it backfire? Is it a myth that it harms?

I have a small vr channel with 114 subscribers, it did have 116 at one point but i wasn't nitified, i have since lost 3, are these bots?

Hi guys. I’ve actually never posted a post on Reddit before but I use it to research a lot. Anyway, I’ve been looking at a lot of the posts in this group and found it really useful.

I started posting two months ago and currently have 2.3k subs.

I post Pilates workout videos and do have a social following already by only gained about 20 from the Instagram. The rest have come organically.

I really would like to start earning from YouTube so I’m trying to get my watch hours up, any recommendations on how I could get to the 4000 hours - it seems like such a long way off. I’m current around 300.

Thank you so much!

For a while, I kept trying to follow all the “best practices” you see everywhere clean thumbnails, optimized titles, consistent format, all of it.
On paper, everything looked right.
But when I compared my videos to others in my niche, something felt off. They were not bad, just… forgettable. Nothing really stood out or made someone stop scrolling.
I think the mistake was trying to make everything “correct” instead of making it noticeable. Recently I started breaking a few of those rules on purpose stronger contrast in thumbnails, simpler titles, focusing more on one clear idea per video and it actually feels more intentional now.
Still early, so I cannot say results yet, but the process already feels less forced.
Has anyone else experienced this where following too much advice actually made things worse?

I've been making relatively good videos for 3 years now, and we've never skimped on our longform videos (I'd say the videos started getting good around the Kirbo Gmod video). The channel is run by 3 people, me and my 2 friends. We mainly focus on making good-looking thumbnails (in our opinion), and editing whole videos. There were times where our videos popped off, but most never hit the 1k mark, which is probably why the channel's been stuck on the 3-digit sub count for more than 5 years. Recently, we came back after a 2 month break following our biggest video ever, which was a 3-year project that never really had any potential for views, but ever since then, our videos started to perform worse and worse. I'd say it started with the Suitborn Roblox video that was uploaded around the time when it was a trending game, and got worse when the Repo video got released. But currently the worst offender is our Bite by Night video, a trending game on Roblox. The video's performance has hit an all-time low for our channel, ranking 10th overall in the first 8 hours (previously that rank belonged to the Repo video). The impressions are incredibly low despite the trending content and the good(?) thumbnail, as well as the high retention (for my channel). Something tells me it has something to do with the abundance of content featuring this game right now, but I really need somebody's advice because I'm not sure how much longer we can keep going with this, especially with the amount of effort we put into these videos.

Channel name - GoonGoesLit

Dudes, dudettes.

I'm still a fresh-faced young chick when it comes to creating YouTube videos -- I've put out one video per week for the past two months, along with a bunch of promotional Shorts -- and it's been fun. (Link in bio, of course.)

Throughout, I've tried to follow the Golden Rule: make the video you yourself would want to watch. That, and instinct, has informed every decision; every cut, every transition, every choice of background music, every voiceover recorded.

I feel good about the videos I've created and I'm proud of myself for keeping to a schedule and putting the work in. I'm happy and I'm having fun.

Still, it's been a little slow-going garnering new subscriptions and views.

At this stage of the game, when I'm still battling with the YouTube algorithm for dear life, it's easy to fall prey to the negative thoughts. (Especially when you suffer from clinical depression, like I do.)

While the views and subscriptions have fallen a bit short of expectations, it's the rare comment that's kept my boat afloat and my spirits up -- the unvarnished feedback from strangers watching my stuff and taking the time to write a word or two. It's made the difference.

I share with you today three comments that have made the grind worth it:

"Great video. Your energetic presentation style is a cross between 80s Danny Devito and the Angry Video Game Nerd." - effemveeZ

"omfg how isn't this more popular this is amazing!" - Gamer.Cat22

"Wow, great video!! I can't' believe you only have 30 subs! Keep up the good work, you're bound to get tons of subs with this quality of content!" - crystopal

If ever you doubt the power of a kind word, a quick message of support, a simple expression of encouragement, let me be the first to say: it makes a difference.

So, share those comments that have made the difference for YOU.

When the algorithm was being a bitch and you were ready to rip your hair out, what kind word made it worthwhile?

The server would be for new YouTubers 13-18 so that we could bounce ideas off each other and help each other. If anyone is interested to help I’d appreciate it

So my first yt video got 100+ impressions, not many views but thats expected. Been 7 days since uploaded.

But then my 2nd video only got 30 impressions and flatlined. Been 5 days since uploaded.

My 3rd has 0 impressions after 3 days. Is something going wrong or is this normal?

Uploaded a new video, in about 24 hours it got 1.1K views, which is pretty good for my average and it had a higher view reception from the beginning, like half the views were subscribers. It was getting between 40-70 views per hour. Compared to other videos, it was on track to get 5k-10k views. It had a pretty good CTR of 5.5%.
Then about after the 26 hours, it just stopped getting views. In those 26 hours, it got 1.2k views and the impressions had reached about 14.2k in the first 26 hours, and then in the following 5 hours, it got 70 views and about 1.7k impressions.
This had never happened to me before. I understand that after the initial recommendation youtube does, views should start going down, but it had never happened so abruptly to me. It has a good ammount of comments and even though it doesn't show the audience retention graph, the average view duration was 5:25, a little over half the video, which is similar to what I tend to get in videos (proportionally, this is a shorter video than usual).
Based on the impressions, it seems youtube almost stopped showing it (please correct me if I have the wrong idea of what impressions are).

Any tips or ideas as to what could've happened? My previous video performed really well compared to my average, could it have to do with that? Like the algorithm demanding more of this new video so to speak?

pls help :(

Hopefully this is the right flair & subreddit.

I’ve had a YouTube account for over a decade. I use it constantly.

A couple of years ago, I started getting really into Old Hollywood movies. Disappointed by the lack of their presence on YouTube, I started uploading <5 minute clips from various films that I felt deserved a wider audience. Most of the films were from the 1930’s, and some of them were/are public domain. The ones that weren’t were labeled as “copyright claim” and said that the copyright owner allows the videos to be shared online. I always made sure to make it clear that I owned nothing I was posting & didn’t want or expect any kind of revenue.

I’m someone who watches everything with subtitles, and I realized how much better the auto-translate would be if the closed captions were accurate, so I started editing the autogenerated ones & updating them on my channel.

I haven’t posted anything on my channel for over 6 months.

Today, I was listening to a music playlist when I was abruptly signed out of my YouTube account & told that it has been terminated.

At that moment, I received an email from YouTube saying that I’d just received a bunch of copyright strikes on videos that I’d posted over a year ago. All of those videos had previously been allowed; if they hadn’t, I wouldn’t‘be been able to post them. I don’t remember if they’d even be copyright claimed, but they were definitely allowed to be made publicly available.

Apparently, the copyright holder changed their mind. Which is fine, if annoying. That’s their right. But I don’t understand why my entire channel was terminated because *they* changed their policy & didn’t even give me a warning. Furthermore, the email says that I’m not allowed to make another account; I’m just…not allowed to use YouTube anymore.

I’m fine with the videos that received strikes being blocked or removed. I have no intention of fighting that. I just want my channel back, with all my playlists, likes, and comments.

Been doing this for about 6 months and it's probably the single best thing I've done for my channel growth. every video I upload also becomes a blog post on my site, and those blog posts bring in google search traffic that feeds back to my youtube channel.

Here's the exact process:

1. upload video to youtube like normal
2. take the youtube url and run it through an ai tool that converts it into a blog post (i use cliptocontent but theres others too)
3. spend 10-15 minutes editing the draft. add your own opinions, fix anything that sounds off, add links
4. publish on your blog or wordpress site

Total time: about 15-20 minutes per video

Why this works: youtube and google search are two completely separate discovery channels. your video might not show up for certain search queries on youtube, but your blog post can rank for those same queries on google. and every blog post has an embedded link back to your video.

My results after 6 months:

• 40+ blog posts (one per video)
• ~2K organic visits per month to the blog
• about 15% of blog visitors click through to watch the video
• some posts rank for keywords my videos never appeared for on youtube

The big thing most people get wrong: dont just copy paste your transcript as a blog post. google doesnt like that and readers dont either. the blog version needs different structure, shorter paragraphs, proper headers. thats why i use an AI tool instead of just dumping the transcript.

Can anyone explain that? like my video was doing fine with 4.3k impressions but then suddenly the impression rate of change dropped to essentially 0 and it flatlined.

what should I do?