Genius YouTube Advice for 15 Minutes Straight...

here's some amazing YouTube advice from 10 very successful YouTubers let's get into number one any of you listening if if you especially if you have zero videos on your channel your first video is not going to give views period it's not your first 10 are not gonna give views I can very confidently say that so stop sitting there and thinking for months and months on end and just get to work and start uploading like all you need to do is this applies to people that have not uploaded videos but have dreams of being a YouTuber

is make 100 videos and improve something every time do that and then on your 100 first video we'll start talking like maybe you can get some views but you know your first hundred okay there are very free cases like Liza koshy or Emma Chamberlain who have really good personalities and it doesn't take them so as many videos and it's just like people who are seven foot five and making the NBA like yes there are free cases you can find but for the average person like us you know who don't have these exceptional personalities and you

know backgrounds in filmmaking just make 100 videos improve something each time and then talk to me on your 101st video well do you prove something is times tricky one how do you improve something each time the second one just I don't know put more effort into the script the third one try to learn a new editing trick the fourth one try to figure out a way that you can have better inflections in your voice the fifth one try to you know study a new thumbnail tip and implement it the sixth one try to figure out

a new title there's infinite ways that's the beauty of content creation online there's literally infinite ways from the coloring to the frame rate to the editing to the filming to the production to the jokes to the pacing to every little thing can be improved and they can never not be improved there's no there's literally no such thing as a perfect video don't really worry about what your Niche is like people get hung up on this like I don't know what to make videos about it would be like a writer saying I don't know what to

write about therefore I'm not going to write or like an artist saying I don't know what my masterpiece is going to be therefore I'm not going to hold a paintbrush it's totally okay for your Niche to emerge over time yes you can take a very calculating route and plot it out in advance and be like okay this is my path or you can do what I recommend which is just start making videos on YouTube about whatever you enjoy whatever you want if I was starting on YouTube I wouldn't really worry about the niche thing I

just think you know what let me make videos about the things that I enjoy maybe some close-up magic because I'm not a total loser maybe like iPhones maybe like you know my favorite pen maybe like you know tips are getting started on YouTube maybe Life as a medical student maybe like whatever experiences in my life that I enjoy talking about and that I think I could teach on the internet that is the stuff I would start making videos about and over time as you start making videos about things that you enjoy the audience starts to

resonate with some of those things and so your Niche ends up emerging over time I never thought I would be a productivity YouTuber but I seem to have become a productivity YouTuber because that Niche just sort of emerged over time it was not forward planned in advance and so if you've got a lot of interest if you've got a lot of things you're interested in or even if you don't know what to talk about on YouTube just start making stuff and you will figure it out don't be one of those writers who says I don't

know what my bestseller book is going to be about therefore I'm not going to write a single word it's the same with YouTube who cares if you don't know what your Niche is your Niche can your Niche will change over time I started off making videos for medical school applicants I now no longer care about medical school applicants in terms of making video is and therefore it's it just sort of changes over time so don't worry about it don't overthink it just make the videos that you enjoy at start the wrongest call to action is

to watch another video because now all of a sudden your channel went from like say eight minutes of watch time to 16 minutes of watch time if they watch another one and it shows that this person is in your little Watch Web it also gives you another ad impression like that is the metric that YouTube cares about sure you could ask them to comment you can ask them to like that's totally fine but watching another video exposes them to more of your content and shows YouTube I am a channel that keeps people on this platform

for 16 minutes rather than just eight minutes yep that's incredibly well and for everyone listening to call to actions it sounds like one in the first third that may be the like you don't want to ask me to watch another video and leave your correct charm one yes an outro just to clarify is watch another correct yes as opposed to decision fatigue up like watch comment pick that subscribe yeah people don't do any of those it's it's a meaningless call to action Patty Galloway was talking about the ideas of your video and then he's also

talking about the titles when it comes to ideas and this is something we do I just don't think we've talked about it enough no for sure he said to think of 100 ideas bring it down to the top 10 and then choose one he goes I can't believe when people think of one video idea and they just go and make it keep in mind these were like Mr Beast he's working with people who require a like killer video idea the point is ideas matter so much on YouTube start with volume and then work your way

in the best ones you know transitioning from a video idea to actually landing on a title when Patty was talking about titles it's just crazy how just the reframing of the right title will cause so much interest and his word was curiosity he gave a really cool example he was working with a client in the first variation of the title was inside a 1.7 million dollar New York Loft they didn't really love it and it wasn't there was nothing really interesting about it except the money value but there's probably more expensive ones or whatever right

so then they they change it to I found the best loss left in New York and they liked it better they thought it improved and then they added one more thing to it which was I found the best Loft in NYC dot dot dot but nobody wants it and they were like that's the title they opened up this curiosity Loop if it's the best Loft in New York City why does nobody want it how can you breed curiosity into that because naturally you want to click on something that Sparks curiosity you want to know the

answer and so you want to click on that video on that note of like deciding what videos to make how much are you good how much does it play on your mind of oh I know if I make this sort of video it'll get this this many views versus more like I feel like making this video because I feel like it and sort of that to me that's always felt like a bit of a spectrum of like doing things because I feel like it versus doing things because I know they'll perform well um how how

do you think about sort of videos along along that Spectrum yeah so I think this is super lucky that the videos that I know will do well are the most interesting to me also because they're about probably a piece of tech that is so cool that I want to check it out anyway right so on one half it's like what videos will do well it's uh the the hottest gadgets the most impressive new things that people haven't seen before uh collaborations with really cool interesting people those I I know before we make them are like

oh those are going to do pretty well and then on the other half is what do I want to do and sometimes it's well I want to check out this gadget this seems pretty cool well I kind of want to talk to this person they seem really interesting to talk to and suddenly like they're like meshing together and it's kind of the same pool of things so often um again it's like I don't have that much pressure to to like I don't really I'm not interested I'm not into this video but I'm gonna do it

anyway because I know what it'll get a lot of views that doesn't happen too often for me because if I know it's going to get a lot of views why is that going to get a lot of views because it's a really interesting piece of tech oh okay so I'm in and has that always been your attitude or was that a thing that changed over time I think that's something I figured out over time I know that there are videos that I make that aren't going to blow up like the ones that are the most

popular gadgets but I still want to share them because I still think they're cool and I think if I can make the video in a way that actually shows why I'm so interested in it then it will eventually be interesting to people and we'll catch on so I think that's something I sort of learned probably in the second half of making videos which is that yeah we can we can sort of justify pretty much any video we want to make hey I'd like to take a moment to talk about the sponsor of this video podcast

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it's really just about like focusing on what your audience is sometimes you might not know what your audience is but just listen to them I mean I'm very quickly able to tell if somebody likes a video or they don't like a video in the comments but I think the most painful comments is if the ones where people are like man you know I usually really like your videos but this one wasn't my favorite I'm like oh shoot bird will you ever delete the videos no I mean I've definitely set some to private um mostly because

it was just like announcement videos it's like you don't want it up there yeah it's like hey it comes over yeah come meet me here well that was like a week ago right okay even small YouTube channels can lead to Big opportunities one of the things that people make a mistake of is they're too focused on vanity metrics and so we think and we have mistakenly defined success on YouTube as you got to get a silver play button you got to get a gold play button it's about getting as mil as many views as possible

and I believe that's a flawed definition of success views or subscribers are not the only metrics for Success one of the underappreciated benefits of starting a YouTube channel is the connections and communities that you build with your audience YouTube allows you to build an a loyal and engaged following which can lead to opportunities for monetization other forms of income collaborations and even career opportunities so the mistake people are making is they're like is it too late to start a YouTube channel it's like what do you even mean like is it too late to start a

viral YouTube channel why do you even need to go viral what if you have a different business model what if you get a promotion at your job what if it leads to that next connection or that next partner whatever leads to your future spouse like there's a lot of opportunities that could come from starting a YouTube channel and so you know I just want to present you the data that possibly defining it just by subscribers or vanity metrics is a limited if not completely flawed definition of success and speaking of starting a new channel or

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about how that completely changed everything to you and what your thoughts are when it comes to people jumping on Trends and what are your tips yeah I think doesn't he call that a trend hacking yeah for sure yeah that's everything right now that's what Mr Beast and from the biggest to the smallest that is one of the best ways to Garner views and the audience and uh following the subscribers and sessions so um for me it's kind of funny I know if I have a gadget a tech product that is maybe about to be released

if I get maybe a pre-release review unit then it's almost like four certain okay well people are going to be searching about it and talking about it right on that release date and so that video will do well now of course um you don't always get that product early that's very that's very hard especially when you're first starting out so maybe if that product just releases and I can maybe go buy it and then quick in a couple days turn around the video that will often do well another thing is a scene that wave or

that Trend uh the virality of something before it hits I was on that wave right before it started to take off and that's why I think um I made it just a well condensed little review of video on hoverboards and uh and then YouTube really liked it it's like okay this is the authority on hoverboards and so when all these millions of people are searching for hoverboards and how to buy one and stuff like that I was the one that they promoted and so uh there's a lot of it's easier said than done but trying

to stay ahead of the curve on what that next trend is going to be and then uh riding that wave and then you gotta remember that that wave will finish it'll crash down and then you gotta paddle back out and then find the next one nothing uh survives forever so I see a lot of people even myself hoverboards they were hot for a little while and then they faded away and it's like okay if I only did hoverboard reviews my channel would be dead but I had to Pivot and I like all things Tech anyway

so that was kind of a natural fit but uh but yet always looking for that next wave is really key so what's the secret to creating a good short a lot of b-rolls everything that I stayed I have a b-roll like and then the doctor came in with this interesting device and I showed the device so every phrase has to be supported by footage that shows what's going on and the more relevant the footage is the better it is for the video they have to be as relevant as possible because sometimes we go to Shutterstock

I like we're talking about oh a lot of students in the US and then we have these faces that we've seen everywhere like plastic acting you know I don't know they'll like you see they're not relatable because they're actors and the production quality is amazing but this is not what works for shorts something that's raw something that is filmed with an iPhone maybe worse quality this is what people are looking for in that type of content we experimented a lot with repurposed videos from YouTube you can just tell that this video was not made for

shorts and you're like why should I bother if the Creator didn't bother creating a short specific video and we noticed that once I switched to creating content specifically for short videos that the traction has been tremendous there's such a tendency especially in a world where able to count your views in real time that if it doesn't work today it's never going to work and you know like I talked to Jimmy Mr Beast about this a lot like I spent whatever seven years making videos before he had one that broke a thousand views or something extraordinary

like that and now he's doing a billion views a month um or my brother van who's the most brilliant mind on all of YouTube and you know van had this initial explosion of interest because he and I worked so hard to promote his first you know his first videos and then I explained to him I was like look it's all going to go away you're going to find your Baseline then you're gonna build from there and he's been consistently uploading for a year making the best work he can make and now he's really building out

what is going to be a successful long-term career making videos and putting them on the Internet yeah it's extremely unsexy it's extremely uninteresting and no one wants to hear that it takes time but it takes time and I think if uh it's something that especially if you're young and just getting into this you don't want to invest but patience is really the most undervalued um aspect of succeeding in the world of media today you have all the agency in the world you don't need anything from anyone but if you're not willing to commit the time

to it you're never going to find that success 100 if you want to learn how to grow a YouTube channel this year then click on the screen and watch this video and I'll see you guys in the next one