TubeTalk: Your YouTube How-To Guide

Send us Fan Mail This week we sat down with Brand Deals specialist,  Justin Moore to talk about the best practices for landing brand deals. There are ways even NEW creators can land their first Brand Deal!   Find Justin Moore here: Justin Moore on Youtube Get Justin's sponsorship intel every week Justin's Brand Deal Wizard course Follow vidIQ here: https://vidiq.com https://twitter.com/v...

Send us Fan Mail We sat down with Alan Spicer once again to dive even deeper on the subject of making money on YouTube. There are a lot of ways creators can go about this, even if they're under 1,000 subscribers.  Find Alan Spicer here:  Alan Spicer on YouTube   Alan Spicer's Website   Follow vidIQ here:  https://vidiq.com   https://twitter.com/vidIQ   https://www.youtube.com/user/vidIQc...

Send us Fan Mail Creating a "persona" on YouTube is an exercise a lot of new creators neglect to do, but it's so important. Understanding EXACLTY who's watching your videos will help you create content for a specific audience/demographic. Find Kristina Smallhorn here: Kristina Smallhorn on YouTube Follow vidIQ here: https://vidiq.com https://twitter.com/vidIQ https://www.youtub...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest has over 15 income streams AND COUNTING! These various sources of Roberto Blake's income are all centered around YouTube, but most of them are managed outside the platform. Find Roberto Blake here: Roberto Blake on YouTube Awesome Creator Academy Follow vidIQ here: https://vidiq.com https://twitter.com/vidIQ https://www.youtube.com/user/vidIQchannel This ep...

Send us Fan Mail One of the newest members of our team has a story to share about how his passion for creating landed him a full-time job, thus changing the entire course of his career! Find Vyyyper here: Vyyyper on YouTube Follow vidIQ here: https://vidiq.com https://twitter.com/vidIQ https://www.youtube.com/user/vidIQchannel This episode was hosted by Dan Carson of vidIQ. If you have any questio...

Send us Fan Mail YouTube recently released new Audience Retention metrics that will help every creator take a deeper dive into the minute-by-minute analytics for their YouTube content, thus potentially helping them grow their channel with every new video. Follow vidIQ here: https://vidiq.com https://twitter.com/vidIQ https://www.youtube.com/user/vidIQchannel This episode was hosted by Dan Carson o...

Send us Fan Mail We've known for awhile that it's possible to run your entire YouTube channel without using a desktop computer of any kind. That still doesn't mean it's not impressive whenever you come across a successful, mobile-only creator! Find Josh here: Josh Quinonez on YouTube Follow vidIQ here: https://vidiq.com https://twitter.com/vidIQ https://www.youtube.com/user/vid...

Send us Fan Mail Starting a gaming channel on YouTube is almost a right of passage these days for young, aspiring creators. Only so many make it to the 1,000 or even 100 subscriber mark. Today's guest has a different story to tell! RuggedEagle started making videos as a kid, just for fun. It began where it does for many gaming creators... Minecraft. However, once he decided to really put in t...

Send us Fan Mail Creator burnout is one of many things that can come up as you're going about your business on YouTube. There are a number of things you can do to avoid this all together, though! Nate from Channel Makers returns to discuss how to avoid burnout, how to improve your workflow as a creator, and he also shares his thoughts on our new Daily Ideas tool. Find Nate Here: Channel Maker...

Send us Fan Mail Finding the place on YouTube where you fit in AND just so happens to be an underserved market, can be a recipe for MASSIVE success! Rachel How teaches people how to become better UI/UX designers on her channel. At the time of recording this episode, she had just recently hit 10,000 subscribers after only three months, and 15 total videos. Today we look to tell Rachel's story...

Send us Fan Mail Creating content online opens up a world of opportunities when you're looking to start making money and turn your passions into a business. That's exactly what today's guests are here to help with! Saagar Enjeti is one of the hosts of Breaking Points, a YouTube channel and podcast focused on news both in the US and around the world. Jason Sew Hoy is the CEO of Super...

Send us Fan Mail How do you grow on YouTube covering ONE topic? Can you make content about a niche, within a niche, within a NICHE? Well Jeff, AKA EL JEFE REVIEWS, does just that! Jeff has a tech channel on YouTube that specifically covers headphones. Not JUST headphones though, but a specific KIND of headphone. His channel has over 60,000 subscribers and continues to see great numbers and engagem...

Send us Fan Mail These common content mistakes are ones that MANY creators find themselves making. Some of them are obvious and others, not so much. As always when it comes to YouTube, the easiest answer to any question is, "it depends." However, the common mistakes we cover in this episode are ones that any channel can find themselves making, and ones that *most* channels would likely f...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes you just never know which one of your videos will be the one to take your channel to the next level. This week we spoke to JONK, who just last month only had a few hundred subscribers and got roughly 200 views on any given video. Now, JONK has over 30,000 subscribers, has reached YouTube monetization, and even his "less popular" videos get thousands of views. T...

Send us Fan Mail Steve Dotto understands that having a YouTube channel is just the start when you're looking to build out your business as an entrepreneur. Steve Dotto is a business owner who got his start on television back in the 1990's. Today Steve teaches others how to build their own communities, grow their own YouTube channels, and promote their products and services. He understand...

Send us Fan Mail Getting your first 1,000 subscribers on YouTube is a major milestone and one that can also take creators months, if not YEARS to achieve. Over the course of his history on YouTube, Alan Spicer has managed to accumulate thousands of subscribers on a number of YouTube channels. In this edition of TubeTalk, we'll cover the entire spectrum of YouTube growth. Everything from getti...

Send us Fan Mail It's never too late to start your YouTube journey, and if today's guest can teach us anything, it's that even the most popular niches can still be a great place to get started! Nick Farzy recently hit his stride on YouTube launching his channel to over 100k subscribers! While it did take years of testing various types of Minecraft videos, the majority of his growth...

Send us Fan Mail There are a multitude of ways to create revenue streams as a content creator on platforms like YouTube. You can start paid memberships, turn on AdSense, sell merch, the list goes on. Through a company known as Semaphore, Mike Bienstock (today's guest), helps creators launch themselves to the next level by creating products and building brand deals. If you're a creator wh...

Send us Fan Mail Growing an organic community around your YouTube channel is an important step, regardless if your goals are to go full-time, or just have a thriving channel as one of your hobbies. David runs a channel on YouTube called Mr H and Friends where, as a citizen of the UK, he explores American culture. His channel is built around comedy and reactions and currently sits at over 50,000 su...

Send us Fan Mail There are SO many tools that creators can use to help with every aspect of the video creation process. In this episode, Aurelius Tjin outlines his favorite ones! The tools we discuss today range from thumbnail creation, and content planning, to products that can even help you build out your mailing list. In recent episodes we've talked about the importance of things like havi...

Send us Fan Mail Taking your YouTube channel from hobby to CAREER could be possible sooner than you think! Ryan Walsh has a YouTube growth channel with over 20,000 subscribers and he's taking them on his journey to become a full time YouTuber while documenting his experience along the way. In this episode of TubeTalk, we discuss the ins and outs of how to go full time on YouTube, as well as w...

Send us Fan Mail How do you grow your YouTube channel beyond your first 1,000 or even 100,000 subscribers and turn it into a thriving business? Daniela Ali is the founder of Oni Studios, a company whose goal is to invest in rising talent and help creators turn their hobbies into full blown careers. Daniela's experience is specific to gaming but Oni Studios plans on reaching creators across va...

Send us Fan Mail Block Facts explains how he managed to take his Minecraft channel and reach 1 MILLION subscribers in just 6 months. Spoiler Alert: It has something to do with YouTube Shorts. Not just #Shorts though... Block Facts has a recipe to this wild success which involves a commitment to his brand, style, and content. Each Block Facts video is about Minecraft and facts about various blocks,...

Send us Fan Mail This week Desiree Martinez (host of the Women of YouTube podcast) breaks down how small businesses can leverage YouTube to build an audience organically and generate more leads in the process! Follow Desiree here: Desiree's Website Desiree Martinez on Instagram Desiree Martinez on YouTube The Women of YouTube Podcast Follow  vidIQ here: https://vidiq.com https://twitter.com/v...

Send us Fan Mail Do you need subscribers before you get "real" views? How big of a role does LUCK play in getting discovered? Does YouTube give preferential treatment to longer videos? Nate Black joins Rob and  Dan to discuss these incredibly common myths and misunderstandings about YouTube. Nate runs Channel Makers, a YouTube growth channel helping creators conquer their fears, build a...