Video Creators

If you're a traditional YouTube creator, having a website might not be that high of a priority for you, but should it be? Having a website, as intimidating as that might sound, can really help you compliment your YouTube efforts and establish your brand in ways that a YouTube channel can't. Today we'll talk with Hashtag Jeff about things like: - How does having a website help you as a YouTube crea...

With school starting again and people getting into new rhythms and routines as summer ends, it's easy for our YouTube channels to be left behind. It's important to publish new videos consistently for your audience, but sometimes that's just too difficult to do with everything else going on. Before you know it, your channel becomes inactive and so does the audience you worked so hard to build. Toda...

Today we'll dive into your questions, starting with questions that channel members submitted about using YouTube as a sales funnel to get clients for their business, how to best use YouTube Stories, sub for sub, and what to do when you make videos that a particular audience really needs, but those people don't watch as much as another series on your channel. We'll dive into all of that and more on...

When you're creating videos on a consistent schedule for your channel, it's possible to go from one video to the next with no real system or structure in place for creating them. However, it's probably the most inefficient way to do it. You'll waste a lot of time and get an inconsistent results with each video. Laura Hutchinson is here to share what her creative process looks like and give you ple...

YouTube recently announced several new features that help us make money, grow our channels, and serve our audiences better. We'll review what each of them are and discuss a few ideas on how we can utilize them best. LINKS MENTIONED: - Live from VidCon: Creating new opportunities for creators: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/07/live-from-vidcon-creating-new.html - More information and better to...

To get viewers to come back time and time again you need to really get them to connect with you. Just presenting good content will give them good information, but after they get the information they'll leave and forget about you, your brand, and your channel unless you do two primary things to really help them remember you, like you, and come back for more and more. BECOME A MEMBER OF MY CHANNEL:...

Last week YouTube announced a new update that creators have been calling a "new algorithm" that's impacted their views, especially from suggested videos. Some people are claiming to have lost 90% of their views! What's the update really about and how do we modify our strategy to take advantage of the new tools YouTube is providing to viewers? That's what we'll discuss today. LINKS MENTIONED - Givi...

This is a special episode that's dedicated to answering questions that channel members have submitted with a short audio recording. We plan do to these about once a month, so if you want your questions answered in an upcoming episode, become a member and submit your question for the next one. BECOME A CHANNEL MEMBER: Access special community perks on our channel and support our trainings by clicki...

When viewers click and then quickly abandon your videos, there's a few things causing that. Some of them can be addressed in the planning and branding stage of your content that a lot of creators overlook. In this episode, one of the strategists on my team, D'Laina, joins us to walk through an exercise that help more people resonate with your videos and watch more. Listen to, "How to structure an...

You start your YouTube channel because you're passionate about an idea, a topic, and a way of delivering that value to others. But after a while, your YouTube journey becomes less about the passion and more about the data. It's about views, subscribers, money, and doing whatever we can to keep the stats up. If that's you, don't worry -- that happens to most creators over time. Today we want to tal...

As your channel grows, one of the first hires you may want to make is a video editor. They can free up a tremendous amount of time to enable you to continue working "on the business instead of in the business." Plus, you may get better videos, more watch time, hire retention, and more views as a result. But how do you find a good video editor, hire them, and work with them for best results? Today...

These creators just finished 8 weeks of Video Labs. They learned a lot, worked hard, formed some good relationships, and are here to share some of their best tips and ideas for growing their channels. Sign up to get notified when the next session of Video Labs opens for registration: https://videocreators.com/video-labs/ CREATORS IN THIS LIVE STREAM Underdog Strength - https://www.youtube.com/unde...

In order to make money on YouTube you need to be able to sell. Whether that be your own product, a sponsor's product, or something else, you need to be able to promote something in order to make money. But sometimes selling too much or doing it the wrong way causes viewers to leave your videos or leave YouTube, which YouTube doesn't like. So how do you promote and sell things without hurting your...

A mistake a lot of creators make is they bring what they know about optimizing websites for Google and bring those same assumptions over to YouTube thinking that it will help their channels grow, too. While there are some similarities, most of how  Google.com  functions is very different from how  YouTube.com  functions. They have different goals and provide different opportunities for discovery....

Throughout a normal YouTube creator's video, they ask people to do certain things. Everything from commenting, liking, subscribing, and even clicking a link in the video's description. All of these can potentially have some kind of impact on the video's growth, but there's really only one thing that makes a significant difference in terms of growth. In this episode, we talk through the top 6 call-...

Growing from zero can be daunting, but Darrel Eves has a simple process that he implements to get massive results. With over 50 million views across various platforms, Darrel has proven the effectiveness of his strategy time and time again. His most recent project received almost $11 million in support, so he knows exactly what it takes to start from scratch and see huge growth. In this video he's...

Today hundreds of YouTube creators asked some of their most pressing questions about growing their channels. In this hour I answer as many of them as possible. Topics range from recommend creator tools, motivation for when you want to quit, now to rank better in search and suggested videos, and more. LINKS MENTIONED: - Schedule a one hours channel consultation with me or someone on my team: https:...

If you've done any research on how YouTube creators make money you've undoubtedly come across things like Adsense and the YouTube Partner Program, affiliates, brand deals, and sponsorships. However, those types of income may not work for every creator. Today we'll discuss a few ways to make money through your YouTube efforts that are a little less common and not discussed as much as some other thi...

When one of your videos starts growing with views pretty quickly, there's a few things you can do to help it gain even more momentum. There's also a few mistakes you could make that will kill the growth of that video. We'll discuss a few of those things here today and will answer your questions, too. BECOME A MEMBER OF MY CHANNEL: Access special community perks on our YouTube channel and support o...

For the past few years creators have been encouraged to post as often as possible on YouTube, claiming it helps grow channels faster and that people want to consume every day from someone. That may be true for some niches, but I think the era of "quantity" is coming to a close and being replaced with "quality." In this episode I share some of my own places for the "quality vs. quantity" debate as...

Live streaming on YouTube is really one of the best ways to build a community with your audience. You can interact with them directly, in real time, and provide an experience that videos-on-demand cannot deliver. Nick Nimmin and I both live stream pretty regularly on our channels, so we'll share some of our experience and some ideas on how to use live streaming to build the community around your c...

If you want to get more views from suggested videos on YouTube, it's important to understand how YouTube determines which videos will be suggestion and which ones won't. Then you can start doing a few things to influence how your videos are positioned, which we'll discuss today so that your videos get more views, more subscribers, and ultimately so you reach people and change their lives. BECOME A...

Video Labs registration opens on Thursday! Sign-up to get notified: https://courses.videocreators.com/courses/video-labs A group of creators just finished 8 weeks of Video Labs Online and saw some great results! Together they'll share some of their best YouTube tips, ideas, and advice for what's working to grow their YouTube audiences so you can reach more people and grow your YouTube channels' vi...

One of the best ways to increase watch time, get more views, and subscribers overall is to get the viewer you already have to watch more and more of your content. YouTube provides two tools for us to do that: playlists and end screens. We talked about playlists last week and how to optimize them for more views and watch time, so today let's talk about how we can best use end screens to do the same...

Playlists are such an underutilized tool on YouTube for getting people to watch not only one video, but another video and another video and another video. It's one of the few tools we have that actually allows us to craft the viewer's viewing session and get them into another one of our videos. When that happens, we're getting our most valuable viewer — someone who's given us a higher-than-normal...