TubeTalk: Your YouTube How-To Guide

Send us Fan Mail We all want to use the latest commercial music and our favorite artist track in our YouTube videos - but we want to do it the right way without the fear of copyright strikes. So how do you do that? Someone who knows everything there is to know about the music industry and YouTube is the Founder and CEO of Lickd, Paul Sampson.  Lickd is a chart-music licensing platform for Video Cr...

Send us Fan Mail You have spent the time and effort crafting the perfect YouTube video. So why not leverage that beyond just YouTube? Today on TubeTalk, I chat with Dan Norton who is an editor that specializes in taking exiting YouTube videos and Live Streams and extracting mico-video content that can be uploaded to Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok. This is a great way to build new commun...

Send us Fan Mail The YouTube process does not begin when you upload your video. Nor does it start when you pick up the camera.  In fact, the process of creating a YouTube video begins way before that! In today's episode of TubeTalk we chat about the process of creating your next video. I chat with the vidIQ crew about their processes and we share our tips and tricks so that you can start tack...

Send us Fan Mail We all want to grow our channels and while we heavily rely on our analytics, sometimes it's those little tips that can really help grow our channels. While we focus on the main elements such as CTR, Retention, Watchtime etc. we must not forget to focus on the "little changes" that can have a dramatic effect and impact on your channel. On today's episode of Tube...

Send us Fan Mail YouTube shorts are the new hot trending topic in the YouTube world. But what are they? YouTube has not been clear on how they work, so we decided to do our own investigation into YouTube Shorts. On this episode of TubeTalk, Rob Wilson, Dan Carlson and Liron Segev answer all your YouTube shorts question including: What are YouTube shorts? What are the requirements? Do you need to h...

Send us Fan Mail To say 2020 has been weird is an understatement! So as we round off the year and head into the final quarter of 2020, what should we focus on as YouTube creators? While its easy to be despondent, there are various elements and skills that you have right now that are valuable. Not only can you use your video skills to help those around you, but you can double-down and finish the ye...

Send us Fan Mail YouTube ranking is important to get views on your videos, but it's not an easy task. Even when you do everything right it doesn't guarantee that you will be in the top position when someone searches for your keyword. So what can you do? How can you get your videos to rank and how does that algorithm actually work? This is what we are discussing in this episode of TubeTal...

Send us Fan Mail "Niche Down if you want to grow on YouTube" - this is something that we often tell creators when we see that their channel covers many topics. However, this is often met with resistance. YouTube Creators don't want to be "stuck" covering one topic or being placed in a box. So in this episode of TubeTalk, I chat with Abbey Howe who was also resistant to the...

Send us Fan Mail How important is having a good camera in order to be successful on YouTube? What about the mic and lights? Do you need to spend BIG money on those too? Our phones are able to film in 4K, is that not good enough? These and many more equipment related questions are being discussed on this episode of TubeTalk with our equipment specialist: Sidney Diongzon! Check out Sidney's ama...

Send us Fan Mail It's time to make money on YouTube! Yes, we know about Ad-sense and affiliate links, but the real money comes from working with brands.  But how do you do that? Do you have to be a big creator? Today, we chat with Addison, Talent Manager at SpaceStation, about how YouTube creators can work with Brands. We chat about: What brands actually look for when working with a creator D...

Send us Fan Mail There is a myth that you must be on camera in order to be successful. This is simply not true. In today's episode, I chat with Jessica Hatch, the CEO of Gone To The Snow Dogs who has a phenomenal channel where the main "actors" are her dogs! The channel is almost at 1million subscribers so clearly Jessica has figured out what her audience wants and how to use the Yo...

Send us Fan Mail There are many reasons YouTuber quit YouTube. Maybe you are not seeing growth on your channel or perhaps you are spending too much time for no results and its too stressful to appease the algorithm. Its time for a break. But what happens when you walk away from your channel to regroup - will your channel die? This is Creator Burnout and today on TubeTalk, four YouTubers will be di...

Send us Fan Mail We have all heard of niching down, but what about niching up?  This is just one technique that Braille Skateboarding used to get its channel to over 5 million subscribers! I chatted with Devin Weber, the CEO of Braille Skateboarding about the techniques they use to become a leader not only on YouTube, but in the skateboarding industry Devin shared with us how they found their audi...

Send us Fan Mail "I have listened to the expert's advice but my channel is still not growing - what am I doing wrong?" This is a common question that we often see during our vidIQ Training Livestreams.  On today’s episode of TubeTalk we address this issue. Why is your channel really not growing even when you listen to all the advice we give? The answer is actually not complicated so...

Send us Fan Mail Many of us create youtube videos when we have some free time. Since we don't have much time, we tend to rush in, put something together that will hopefully get us more views and more subscribers. But I wonder how much attention are we giving to the stuff that matters such as structure, the audience, and standing out in a saturated niche? On today's episode of TubeTalk, I...

Send us Fan Mail Today's topic is all about your Youtube channel page - are you set up for success or is it actually costing you views and subscribers? Are you using Playlists effectively to keep your audience engaged and watching more of your content? Your YouTube Home Page is the first impression of what your channel has to offer, what the viewer can expect, and why they should subscribe. I...

Send us Fan Mail We are constantly looking for methods to get our videos to rank on YouTube. The better the videos perform, the more views we get which then turn into subscribers. One tool that YouTube has is the automatic captioning tool.  This essentially puts into text the words you are saying in your video.  Besides that fact that that is not 100% percent accurate, does captioning your video r...

Send us Fan Mail "I have views on my videos but they are not subscribing" and "I have subscribers on my channel, but they are not watching my videos" - these are two common questions that I hear constantly when helping creators with their channels. Therefore, in this week's episode of TubeTalk, I chat with vidIQ's Rob Wilson and Dan Carson to understand what YouTubers...

Send us Fan Mail Take two YouTube channels with identical subscriber numbers and identical views creating content around the same topic.  Why does one channel leapfrog the other? What makes one channel more successful than the other? Why do brands want to work one channel more than the other? This is what we are going to be chatting about on this episode of TubeTalk with Richie Norton! Richie Nort...

Send us Fan Mail "I don't want to be pigeonholed" is something I hear often from YouTubers. I find this strange. Being pigeonholed essentially means that you are THE expert on a topic, why would you NOT want to be that? Being niche on YouTube means that you become known for that niche. So whenever people want that info, they instantly know where to look! But how do you dominate a ni...

Send us Fan Mail Most Youtube creators know that analytics are a critical part of growing your YouTube channel. We tend to focus on real-time views, watch time, retention but is that enough? Today on TubeTalk, Tim Schmoyer shares with us 5 Advance Analytics that every creator should be focused on in order to really take the channel to the next level! In this episode you will learn: How to use grou...

Send us Fan Mail Having conducted hundreds of YouTube Channel Audits, we get to see a helicopter view of what Content Creators are doing right and what they are doing wrong.  Today on TubeTalk, Travis McPherson and I share these mistakes with you so that you can fix these on your channel and set yourself up for YouTube success! In this episode you will learn: About bad thumbnails About bad titles...

Send us Fan Mail There is nothing I love more than attending YouTuber events around the world. This is not only a superb place to create network opportunities, but a space to learn from the best-of-the-best! One event I always look forward to is VidCon, a global content creator event that really does expose how creators are able to grow their audiences and monetize their various platforms. On this...

Send us Fan Mail There is so much information about YouTube and its algorithms. But what info is correct and what is false? I speak with Mark Robertson , one of the very first SEO industry leaders to go all-in on digital video and the first to coin the phrase “social video marketing”. With over 2 decades of experience in digital media, Mark is a pioneer, and a digital marketing expert who really u...

Send us Fan Mail As much as we love creating amazing videos and uploading them to YouTube, at a point we realize that being a creator isn't free. It costs money. Events, equipment, editing, tools, etc. Of course, YouTube ad revenue is superb but its only one source of revenue. today I chat with Marlene Mc'Cohen who runs the incredible bird channel . The channel has over 200 000 subscribe...