TubeTalk: Your YouTube How-To Guide

Send us Fan Mail Why do we gravitate towards the same YouTube creators, publishing the same kind of content again and again? It's not like nobody else is talking about those same topics, but yet we choose to go return to certain channels. There is something that draws us in time and time again. Why is that? Well, there's a secret sauce, a magic ingredient, and on today’s Today episode of...

Send us Fan Mail When you think of LinkedIn, you think of this professional network, the one that's used for business. So us as YouTubers who are creating fun, cool, and exciting content on YouTube, is LinkedIn a world we should be investigating? Well, the answer might surprise you. Today we're going to show you how you can use LinkedIn to actually help your YouTube channel. Let's d...

Send us Fan Mail Let's be honest. Running a YouTube channel takes a lot of work, a lot of effort, and can actually *cost* you money. You have equipment to buy, you have business trips that you need to get to, plus all sorts of other expenses. What can you do to generate revenue beyond the brand deals, beyond the affiliate links, and beyond YouTube AdSense? My guest on this episode of TubeTalk...

Send us Fan Mail What is an MCN, or ‘Multi-Channel Network’? Should a small creator work with one to establish a presence? Should larger YouTube channels stay tied to them as they pick up more sponsorship and brand deals? When we get to learn from other people's experiences, their mistakes, and the winning strategies they have implemented in the past that just helps us grow and hopefully, avo...

Send us Fan Mail We all know that it takes a lot of work to manage one YouTube channel, so you can imagine how much work it takes to manage eight YouTube channels plus a stable of social media feeds, including Instagram and TikTok. If you want to know what the best tips and tricks are to be productive and be effective with your YouTube channel, this week’s episode is exactly for you. Today, I chat...

Send us Fan Mail Are you active on YouTube or LinkedIn but want to know more about growing your personal brand via video? On this week's episode of TubeTalk, we talk to Renee Teeley about how to do that as authentically as possible. As content creators, our time is valuable. There are only so many hours in the day, and there's only so much we can produce, so how do we get the most out of...

Send us Fan Mail On today's episode of TubeTalk, we talk to one of the online video industry’s leading expert on digital rights management, Rian Bosak from SuperBam . Rian really understands content creators, really understands copyright issues and knows how to get those rights back to the rightful owner so the rightful owner can actually make money off the hard work they’ve poured into their...

Send us Fan Mail Growing a YouTube channel is not easy so today we speak to Rob Wilson, vidIQ's YouTube channel master, who together with the team grew the channel to over 450 000 subscribers. With over 500 videos on the channel and millions of views, Rob shares valuable lessons he learned along the way. Don't forget to leave a review and subscribe in your favorite podcast app! Any quest...

Send us Fan Mail As you start 2020 and are fired up to rock your YouTube channel, please stop making these common mistakes. I have audited hundreds of channels from both and small creators and they are still making these 5 common mistakes that are preventing their channel from getting YouTube's attention and distribution - STOP MAKING THESE MISTAKES! Don't forget to leave a review and su...

Send us Fan Mail YouTube Burnout is real and spiraling out of control as YouTube content creators never stop. We are always thinking about the next video. And the next one. And the next one. We are always thinking and analyzing and at some point, we just can't seem to find our flow again. Every video is a struggle to create. The spark is diminishing. This is burnout. On today's episode o...

Send us Fan Mail This is the paragraph that has sent shivers down the spine of the YouTube community around the world: "Regardless of your location, we'll require you to tell us whether or not your videos are made for kids. We are making these changes according to an agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission, FTC, to help you comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection...

Send us Fan Mail When you look at the big YouTube channels, there's one thing that they all have in common - they all have an amazing community or fan base. But how did they build that community? The mistake that a lot of us make is that we only use the tools that YouTube provides. We use the community tab, or we reply to comments, and that's pretty much it. That's a mistake. So tod...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever watched a YouTube ad knowing full well that it's an ad, but it's so well done that you don't mind sitting and watching the entire thing? Yep, me too. So today we speak to one of those companies who does this really well and they are going to be sharing tips and tricks on how to keep an audience engaged. Let's learn from them. How do we get that en...

Send us Fan Mail YouTube is full of an incredible range of content, but is it a good platform to build a successful channel around teaching a skill? On this episode of TubeTalk , we talk to a creator that’s done just that. Gabby Wallace runs a very successful YouTube channel called Go Natural English which teaches American English to learners. She’s generated 55M views for her videos, and with a g...

Send us Fan Mail To be successful in YouTube in any niche, you have to have discipline, you have to have the commitment, and you have to have the vision. Today's guest has those in spades, and it's no wonder some of the world's biggest brands want to work with him. Let's dive in and get in behind the scenes and see what we can learn for our YouTube channel. On this week’s episo...

Send us Fan Mail Can you REALLY be a mobile content creator and do EVERYTHING on your phone? Do you need to spend thousands on equipment to be successful on YouTube? I wanted to understand what it would take to be a creator who only has access to a mobile phone, so I called upon one of the top experts in the field to help me. Dee Nimmin  just on mobile, so he’s the ideal person to teach us the tip...

Send us Fan Mail If you check with anyone that's been successful on YouTube, the two words you will hear constantly hear are trends and community. If you want to know how to use trends and community to grow your YouTube channel, well, this is the right episode for you. At vidIQ, we use the power of the community and leverage trends to bring our audience the most up-to-date and useful content...

Send us Fan Mail As a YouTuber, you possess the amazing skill of being able to tell stories via video, a skill that's absolutely necessary in today's business and marketing world. How can you use that skill to generate additional revenue? The answer is on this week’s episode of TubeTalk. Video is an incredibly effective way of generating business leads - but your content needs to resonat...

Send us Fan Mail There’s a big myth around YouTube - That it’s saturated, and everybody's doing the same thing,  so there’s no room for new creators. Wrong! On this episode of TubeTalk, I’m speaking to someone who runs a very unique channel which is doing exceptionally well. We discuss how whenever you put yourself out there, and share your passion with the world, even YouTube will reward you...

Send us Fan Mail As YouTubers, we tend to focus only on YouTube. Yes, we boost our videos with a bit of social media here and there, but it's time to rethink that whole strategy and repurpose our new and existing content on other platforms. On this week’s TubeTalk, we’re doing just that and discussing 360, VR, blogging, and podcasting among other strategies. If you want to know how you can ex...

Send us Fan Mail You've done all the hard work. You've shot your video. You've edited it. You've created a great thumbnail. You've uploaded it, and given it an amazing title. So, you just waiting for those views, right? Wrong. The work doesn't stop at the upload! Antony Ambriz , is a YouTube growth and content strategist, who has built, managed and grown multiple YouT...

Send us Fan Mail Finding success on YouTube can be very, very difficult and exceptionally frustrating. But when you consult with hundreds, if not thousands, of YouTube channels, you tend to pick up some patterns of channels that are set up for success and what they did right to get there. Today's we chat with industry OG, Sean Cannell , into the three levels of YouTube success! In this podcas...

Send us Fan Mail When it comes to video, viewers will put up with a lot! Shaky camerawork, and bad lighting, but bad audio is just way too frustrating. If the sound is off, the viewer will be quick to give up and simply move on to the next video. We’re joined by Laura Davidson , the Marketing Development Specialist at Shure and she is here to give us all of the answers of every possible question w...

Send us Fan Mail Have you started live streaming on your YouTube channel yet? If not, why not? What's holding you back from pressing the Go Live button? And if you have gone live, are you looking to build a bigger audience to get those views and subscribers and spread your message even further?  Luria Petrucci will teach us in this podcast all about the ins and out of Going Live! In this podc...

Send us Fan Mail If you've got a YouTube kids' channel, you must be freaking out right about now. Yes, YouTube has released a new update to their policies, and how they will be handling kids' content starting in January 2020.  But what's actually going on?  How will this affect your videos?  How will this affect your revenue?  How will this affect basically everything you do on...