Any one here a successful Youtuber?

[Volbet]

Depends on what you mean with "successful". 

 

I have done some YouTube videos in the past and I had somewhat of an audience within the niché style I was doing (it was only around 120 subs). 

I haven't made any videos since 2012, so I think it's safe to assume that my old channel is dead. I don't even rememeber the password anymore. 

 

When I edit videos today I use Adobe Creative Cloud. Back in my YouTube days I didn't do any editing at all. 

I just recorded a video and uploaded it. 

 

And no, I was never worried about making people sin. I can't be resposible for people's actions.

Unless you plan on going on YouTube and encourage violence against other people you'll do just fine. 

 

The best advice I can give you for making videos is being confident in what you're doing. 

If you don't believe in the quality of your videos then your audience isn't going to believe it either. 

[Tribalinius]

I don't consider myself a "successful" YouTuber. Actually, I've only been investing serious time on YouTube in the past 2-3 months. I have a personal YouTube channel that I don't update frequently, I've uploaded mostly old Final Fantasy XI videos back from when I was playing and unrelated stuff. I also manage 3 other channels, 2 of them being phased out right now.

 

The other one is a channel that I've created 2 months ago for a boat racing organization. In 2 months, we're up to 186 subscribers and 15k views. The main attraction is the live feed coverage we do of the races we attend but we also upload edited races, interviews, testing sessions, etc. It's still in it's infancy stage but I think I got something good going on.

 

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Boat racing as a whole is a niche market and, honestly, I don't think we'll break any subscriber records any time soon but I strive to deliver quality content for our active subscribers and the fans of the sport around the globe.

 

I won't lie, I drew a lot of inspiration from the LinusTechTips channel for the layout and creating separate playlists for the different subjects we are covering. I've also borrowed his idea of publishing a video per day. By doing a release almost every day at 4:00PM, I'm trying to create an incentive so that my subscribers come back every day. Obviously, I'm not missing content to go that route but somebody could be struggling keeping that rate of publishing.

 

I've also established a release calendar and, right now, I've got stuff uploaded and scheduled to go live up to July 2nd. I'm also starting to schedule posts on their facebook page to go up simultaneously with my videos to reach as much people as I can when the videos are released. In my case, scheduling is a god send. I can prepare videos and posts a lot of time ahead and forget about it.

 

That leaves me some time to work on other ideas like a "tech corner" kind of series to learn more about hydroplane racing and something that would be a bit like the WAN show where I have drivers, officials and fans talking about the racing weekends once or twice a month in a live show.

 

One thing I found super usefull was the tips YouTube is giving on your channel. They run that as classes and I learned a lot of stuff regarding how the metadata works, monetization, cards, running ads, translation and all that. I strongly suggest that you take a look at that, they got really good pointers and use real life YouTube examples to demonstrate their points.

 

The most important thing to me is to have fun while doing that. Don't do it for the subscriber numbers or the views, do it because you like that!

[demonix00]

I didn't even know garbage about video editing, and I managed even though for stitching together video segments I have to use windows movie maker since it's the only thing that actually works (everything else I've tried either didn't work or had a histy fit about it hardware it was forced to work on) and everything else where I only need to use capture for my computer I just use OBS.

 

Also the following video should give an explanation on how to be "successful" on youtube.

 

[LOLZpersonok]

If you consider subscriber count a good measure, then by all means I'm decently successful. If you consider view count a measure of success then I'm a complete failure. How that is, is completely beyond me. I think my problem is the way I present information; my videos are long and my video quality is low. I need to present my information a lot more concisely. If I worked on those things (Properly positioning the camera, better lighting, scripting the video, cutting out goofs and other unnecessary garbage), I think my viewer count would go up.

[pyrojoe34]

2 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I only read the first page, sorry if it seems that I was only targeting you.

 

 

You guys will also need to edit your post due to violation of LTT Community Standards.

Haha... whoops sorry everyone... I guess I'm a rat.

[K0MP4CT]

13 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I only read the first page, sorry if it seems that I was only targeting you.

 

 

You guys will also need to edit your post due to violation of LTT Community Standards.

My bad, didn't realise.

[ConneelyS]

On 24/6/2016 at 7:24 PM, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

 

Just a heads up, you're going to have to edit that post as it violates the following LTT Community Standards:

No advertising of any non LTT/LMG material

• eBay/trading sites
• Referral links
• Personal websites or businesses
• Twitch/YouTube links are only allowed in user profile status updates

@Ryan_Vickers

Oh snap I didn't know either. I've removed the link too, thanks for the warning

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On ‎2016‎-‎06‎-‎24 at 0:15 PM, pyrojoe34 said:

Haha... whoops sorry everyone... I guess I'm a rat.

Don't sweat it, I should've read through the entire thread.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On ‎2016‎-‎06‎-‎24 at 0:25 PM, K0MP4CT said:

My bad, didn't realise.

Don't worry, a lot of people don't know either.

[spartaman64]

On 6/22/2016 at 5:16 PM, ShadowCaptain said:

what even

causing people to sin? what are you even on about?

is he posting isis recruit videos? wtf

[BuckGup]

I have made $5.74 so I call that succesful. No it is really hard to be successful but if you want to try do something orginal or in the outparts of Youtube. No gaming, tech reviewing, comedy, vlogging, and so on. I was actually thinking of doing an ASMR channel for summer storms with the rain and lighting. I have a perfect setup and live in the middle of no where so you just turn the gain on the mics to 12db+ and you get millions of views