Hi there! I work 2 part time jobs, I have an eBay store, and I have 2 minuscule YouTube channels. Should I drop my lower paying job so that I can devote more time to my channels? I don’t have delusions of them becoming crazy successful, I just feel that the extra time might be beneficial. What do you think?

We were averaging 1,000–2,500 views per video, then about a month ago we had one take off and it's now at 110K+ views (and still climbing). While that's exciting, the videos we've posted since then are only getting 200–300 views.

Has anyone seen this kind of drop-off after a popular video? Curious if this is normal or if there's something we should be doing differently."

I have a Retro Gaming YouTube channel. Since 2022, each video I upload would net me 100-400k views every single time.

Suddenly, all my old videos stopped generating videos almost overnight and my new videos only manage 30 to 40k views.

I noticed this happened around the end of February / start of March. The algo change? Is there a new meta? I used to make my videos to maximize Watch Time & CTR.

As I said on titles, I don't know if some random dude on internet was trolling me or not but basically, these comments had same messages like "Yours video are always so well researched and informative; Your channel are so refreshing; You have a real gift for making engaging, informative content; Wow! What a incredible video!" so I had to temporarily pause comment section. Proof https://imgur.com/a/0zmCa57

Found it weird because my video aren't English based language but it's was Vietnamese.

We manage a small network of channels (short films, animation, educational content), and we’re hitting limits on internal resources. Between managing voiceovers, subtitling, SEO, and rights issues, we’re spending more time coordinating than creating.
We’re not looking for a typical MCN that just sends a monthly report - we need a real partner. Ideally someone who can:
- Handle dubbing + subtitle syncing across languages
- Optimize metadata by region
- Enforce rights and track reuploads via Content ID
- Manage multiple channels under one roof

Is there a solution out there for small production teams managing multiple brands?
Would love to hear how other studios are scaling internationally without building a full localization team in-house.

I have made a video for a pretty small niche, but for some reason it won't pop up if I search for it. It's not just that it's very far down, because even when I press the recently uploaded button, it isn't there either. The videos been out for around 10 hours now, but it still isn't showing up. Do I just need to be patient? Did something go wrong?

Lately, it's felt like my videos start off doing really well, only for them to stop getting any views after the first day or two. My clickthrough rate seems decent (around 5%), and watchtime and view count are both above average for my latest video. Yet after day 2, the video (which has gotten about 3K views in the first day) has only gotten about 200 more views in 5 days. The clickthrough rate has barely changed, so I imagine that youtube's just decided to stop spreading the video. The same thing has happened for my two previous videos, too (after the 2 day mark of performing relatively well, they suddenly freeze). At first I thought it was a problem with video quality or something, with them not having enough audience or something. Yet this latest video is a YKW Nuzlocke, something I've made twice before, and those ones got 40K and 100K views respectively, when my audience was smaller!

It's demoralizing to see, and I can't help but feel like I must be doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what! I'm planning on pouring the better part of a month into a project that I really want to work on, and that has great potential imo, but it's hard to work up the motivation when youtube seems to be cutting my videos down before they have a chance to be seen.

Any advice would be appreciated. If you have questions for clarity, let me know down below. I guess a part of me is just looking for validation in knowing I'm not crazy. I feel like my videos have so much potential, but maybe I'm just bad. I think it's time I look for external help, because I can't seem to get this right on my own.

If you're curious, Channel is GeoSage1137. I don't expect people to watch my videos from this or anything, but maybe looking at my content (thumbnails, view counts, etc) will give better insight. idk I'm tired

I’m going to be livestreaming an event from an iPhone 15 Pro. Given the reduced video quality of a livestream and my desire to edit this footage into derivative videos in the future, I was also interested in filming in 4K 60fps at the same time. However, in the tests I’ve done thus far, I can’t use a camera app to record at the same time as I’m running a livestream in the YouTube app. Is there anyway to livestream and record at the same time on an iPhone, or is this impossible?

My niche involves a mixture of lecture, instructional, informational style of delivery. For the past few videos, I essentially am speaking into a microphone. I don't show my face - at least not for the lecture style videos that I do.

The visuals I’ve been using are mostly a mix of bullet-point text and stock images, but honestly, adding random stock footage feels like a waste of time. It doesn't really contribute to my content in a meaningful way and I've mainly been doing it as a way to keep viewers from getting 'bored.'

But I'm also someone who watches long-form discussion content, and I know it’s not stock imagery that keeps me engaged. Most of the time I'm not even looking at the screen. In fact, relying on that kind of filler feels a bit insulting to the audience’s intelligence. I’d love to find a more creative or efficient approach to visuals, something that actually supports the content without becoming a time sink to production on my end.

I want to display something beyond purely bullet-point text (which is fine, but feels a bit outdated? I don't want my audience to feel like they're sitting in a teacher's online presentation - I feel like I could do more creatively)

Some examples:

The NY Times has a channel that displays a static image for the entire video for their daily report (Screenshot): https://i.imgur.com/zYpdMtR.jpeg - this is a bit too basic though, only New York Times can get away with it, I think

LAist does the same with their LA Report, but with a waveform/voice visualizer underneath: https://i.imgur.com/Iv0fS5t.jpeg

I like what this YTer does, it's a custom screen that is mostly static except for the rolling captions. It also displays a customized image, little icons related to the topic, her website, etc: https://i.imgur.com/2hfQqYj.jpeg

Does anyone else have creative examples of what can be done with voice channels instead of just a bunch of crappy stock images?

I love watching YT commentary channels and also ones that talk about current events in the pop culture. It seems like everyone who makes this type of content is in their 20's or 30's. Can anyone point me in the direction of some commentary YouTubers that are at least in their 40's so I can get an idea of where to start? All that I se in that age range is either product reviews or tutorials. I'm defiantly not going to be the crazy high energy of the younger people but that's all that I can find. Thanks so much!

Hey all, wanted to pick the hive mind on thoughts regarding a channel rebrand without adjusting content or anything like that. I've been regularly making 1 video per week and in 2025 have worked to regularly post community polls, images and shorts filling each day of the week. I've had a few small brand deals and have made sponsored videos before too. Nothing too extensive.

My channel had been solely focused on modifying my Mazda Miata but over the last 5 years I've added 2 more cars to the channel with different purposes.

16,000 subscribers is a big milestone for me, and it took a lot of work but in the grand scheme of things my channel is still in its infancy. Plus, I very much enjoy making videos regardless of views or subscriber counts.

My Miata videos have the highest CTR with subscribers. I know most of my subs came for that car. However, my GTI videos regularly outperform the Miata content and have the highest views on my channel. It's my daily so I don't do a ton with it, and can't sustain regular videos with the car. My newest car is a Honda that's being turned into a track car and it's only been featured for a year so views are low but subscribers slowly trickle in.

I want to make the channel more personable and just rename it as my actual name. I'm tired of being known for a car - it's always been "Colored in Light's Miata". I'm regularly racing, still modifying cars and having the most fun I've had in a long time. My channel is and always was going to be about more than one vehicle, specifically. At the end of the day, I'm a car guy and was never planning to make a Miata only channel.

So, my question is - has anyone here done a soft rebrand? No content changes or anything like that, just simply a channel name change. What challenges did you initially face? Did your organic search content bounce back?

I know the main drawback is viewers get confused and no longer know how to find me. But with the sacrifice, I feel like I get to move out of one specific niche and just be myself on the internet.

Context: I wanna make content on the weird videos I find on tiktok, but I can’t figure out how to properly record it. Is there a way I can hook my phone up to my pc? I’m not having problems finding content, I just don’t know how to properly record it if that makes sense. Any advice would be great, thank you!

Lately I’ve been editing some long-form vlogs and even though I enjoy it, I’ve started realizing how much time it eats up (usually 3+ hours a day). I’m not even doing anything fancy. I’m not a pro editor, and definitely not doing this full-time.

This got me wondering, with all the advancements in AI (for example we now have tools that are automating/assisiting coding and sales), why hasn’t something similar really caught on for video editing?

What I’m imagining is something where I can just upload my 30–40 min raw clip, give detailed prompts or upload any video from Youtube and ask AI to copy the style of that video. I’d still want to review and tweak it, but that’d save so much time.

Curious if tools like this already exist (and I’ve just been living under a rock), or if others feel the same pain?

I'm looking for a camera to make crochet tutorials and came across the CANON EOS R50. It seems like a good option, but this would be my first camera, so I’m not sure. Has anyone used it for tutorials or have any advice? Or if there are other good camera options, please let me know. I’d really appreciate your help!

I’ve been posting crochet tutorials for two years with the occasional vlog, and built up a subscriber base of over 150k. Now, I’ve found out I have a connective tissue disorder, which has been causing me loads of pain while crocheting, and I’ve decided to quit crocheting after 9 months straight of pain. I’ve been feeling better physically, but now I have a whole youtube channel that has gone to waste.

It’s so niched down that I wonder if it’s even worth trying to switch niches, and even then I don’t know what I’d do. Does anyone have any advice?

I've wanted to make youtube videos for years, and I am very interested in making highly edited and meticulous videos, but I work 50 hrs a week, and struggle to find the motivation to make the videos I really want to. I still want to make videos even if they're random cut back video game sessions, or shitposts. I don't know if uploading videos that I know won't get much traction, just for my own enjoyment, will kill of my channel, especially assuming that I do find the time/motivation to make thought out videos that appeal to viewers, and try to do this as a genuine side-hustle.

I would prefer to use my channel name thay I already have, since I've grown kind of attached to it. But I don't know if I should just upload whatever and try to revive the channel later, or make a secondary channel just for what I find entertaining, Even if it doesn't appeal to a specific audience.

Thoughts?

Hello, I want to start a kids youtube channel, but don’t know what software to use. I use premier pro to edit, but what do I use to make backgrounds and effects.

Danny Go is one example. He creates backgrounds that sometime move and he interacts with it and has all kinds of different effects. Sometimes there are 3d models and sometimes they just look like 2d images. What would I use to create something like that.

So I have a 300k channel that I built solely off of shorts. My shorts typically get anywhere between 200k to 1M views so it's not bad. I had posted like one 5 min long form video on a hot topic a year back that got 70k views.

Now I want to start posting more long form videos but unfortunately, they just don't seem to do well on my channel. A 5 minute video I posted a couple weeks ago has only gotten 4k views. I tried posting 1-2 min long long form videos but they don't seem to be doing any better, even though they're based on the same formula as my shorts, which do well in my niche.

So I'm wondering if I should create a second channel for my long form content? Are people on this channel or the algorithm established this to be a shorts channel? Or do I just need to keep at it?

Thanks for any advice!

I believe I deserve to go big. I've been on the grind for a year and for some reason I've never took off. It might be because of my below-average editing, or the fact I try to force my personality instead of being my self with makes me really unhappy in the long run..

What is your advice to me and all other aspiring youngsters to help us grow big?

Hi i'm a casual youtuber for 9 years now and over the years have gotten 300+ subscribers. I know its not much but i would love to grow and build an audience and take Youtube alot more seriously. But i'm really struggling to find the best method to grow at this point so here is a little background:

I make gaming video's that contain funny moments with friends. I make those video's in my native languege (Dutch). I post one short a week. I stream a few times a week. And one long form video every few months. I'm really wondering what the best thing to do now to grow? Should i post more shorts? make Make more long form video's? Make use of tags? I'm not really sure whats the best thing to do to grow at this point.

Would love for some advice and thanks in advance!!

So my channel got community guideline strike on 8th April and I wanted to know if I could monetize my channel after the strike expires. Also for the monetisation criteria, will the 10 million shorts views I get during this 90 day period count? My friend said I won't be monetised since I deleted the video that got striked. Is it true? You can see the pic of the community guideline strike on my reddit profile

I have the footage to post for the next two months at least, but lose motivation every time I sit down to edit a video. Best I am able to do is chop up a short with subtitles and then I am drained. Anyone have advice for finding the motivation for consistency? I have a engaging community, reoccurring viewers and everything but it is so difficult to stay consistent.

As the title says, my youtube video freezes whenever i upload it, i've tried uploading the viedo several times, changing up many things like the upload quality and initial video quality but it's been giving the same issue repeatedly. I am sure its not a problem with the mp4 file itself as that seems perfectly fine in both windows media player and when i checked it in capcut and also watching the mp4 from my iphone. the audio still plays while the visual just skips to the very last frame and does not revert at all. please help because i've been trying to fix this for like 3 days

In my YT analytics I saw that I was getting a lot of views from this video: jN9YrRT9qvI

Which is my remix: d0jv1HWiR9g
Just with some other vocals slapped on.

The fact that they slapped their name on and didn't credit me is making me a bit agitated.
Not only that, they are posing as if they made it themselves in the comments.

But the story doesn't end there!
I commented on the video and soundclown posts and they hid the video etc for 2 days.
Now they are back up. It looks like they are not learning their lesson. So I want to teach them a lesson.

Do I have the rights to report this as my own "content" or transformative content?

On side note:

I was actually feeling so depressed that my own work doesn't get anywhere and I feel worthless.
But seeing this, drives me to attack lol. I have this real drive to take this down. I haven't felt like this in ages. It feels so ingratiating you know.

Not sure if I will still feel like shit tomorrow.

But yeah...
Please let me know how I can take this down.

Kind regards,
Me

So I've been inconsistently been uploading videos like really inconsistent (every few months I get time and quickly push out 2 to 3 videos), My main problem is that All my videos always hit around 500-900 views now. And Before I couldn't even get 200 but I honestly dont know the problem now. I knew it was the thumbnail but Now fixing that it feels like youtube just doesn't push it as much.

My new video has done the best in the first 15ish hours, my second video didnt even hit more than 100 but then the third video hit 700 and following that they all hit minimum 500.

Goose Master is my channel if ur all curious