TubeTalk: Your YouTube How-To Guide

Send us Fan Mail Cory Crater founded his company, NewScape Studios in 2015. Since getting his start on YouTube, he’s launched multiple YouTube channels, with most of them reaching over 1 MILLION subscribers. Cory and his team of over 40 employees create content focused around video games, animation, machinima, and more. NewScape Studios is a media production company that now has 2 locations in the...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Jade Darmawangsa takes us on a journey that allowed her to not only monetize her YouTube channel, but eventually helped her rise to the level of CEO for her own company. In her own words, Jade is a millennial entrepreneur that is EXTREMELY obsessed with helping creators grow on social media. She’s expanded her business and is now the founder and CEO of X8 Media, which h...

Send us Fan Mail This week's guests are Ben and Mikayla Johnson, a husband and wife team who specialize in video production, especially as it pertains to YouTube! As creators, we're always looking for ways we can improve our craft. At first, a smartphone combined with a little bit of education can go a long way. However, as you get more serious about your channel, it's common for cr...

Send us Fan Mail Ben Leavitt has a YouTube channel where he helps people grow their business, brand, or even YouTube channel by using social media and podcasting. This week, Dan and Rob pick Ben's brain to better understand the various ways that creators could leverage various social media platforms to grow their YouTube channels today, in 2021. Find Ben Leavitt Here: Ben Leavitt on YouTube F...

Send us Fan Mail Dee Nimmin helps creators build their creative confidence—and their brand—while using their smartphone. With almost two decades of running a multimedia company that focused on video production and graphic design, Dee is now sharing his knowledge with other creators on YouTube. Rob and Dan ask Dee about all the ways creators can be making use of their phones, even if a phone is the...

Send us Fan Mail Can joining an app like Clubhouse grow your presence on YouTube and other social media platforms? The popularity of this app has raised a LOT of questions. Today, Dan and Rob interview JayJay and Hawa, two people with substantial knowledge and experience on Clubhouse, as well as up-and-coming apps like it. They've used Clubhouse to grow, and they've used it to help other...

Send us Fan Mail Famous for making insanely share-able Among Us Shorts on YouTube, Jake Fellman explains the ways in which he leverages the YouTube platform for maximum growth! In this episode of TubeTalk, Dan and Rob get to discuss short-form content on YouTube with someone who is, in their own right, a #Shorts expert by now. Jake's unique animation style and sense of humor, combined with tr...

Send us Fan Mail Desiree Martinez has taken her YouTube career to extreme heights and discusses how to successfully network with other creators in your industry, as well as ways you can utilize YouTube and social media to grow your business. This week, Rob and Dan ask Desiree to share her insights and strategies that have helped so many other creators turn their passions into careers. Desiree also...

Send us Fan Mail Big E is a full-time content creator who recently made the switch from doing regular Twitch streams to developing a content strategy for not one, but TWO different YouTube channels. This week, Dan and Rob sit down with Big E to discuss the various opportunities doing livestreams on YouTube can have for a creator. While Big E mainly focuses on gaming content, there are a number of...

Send us Fan Mail Family gaming channel Sopo Squad Gaming is on their way to their first million YouTube subscribers in less than a year's time. This week, Dan and Travis sit down with Lizzy to learn more about how a family gaming channel that has committed itself to Roblox has managed to see such incredible growth. The moral of this episode is that it's simply never to late to start your...

Send us Fan Mail Emily D. Baker, who is a former Deputy District Attorney, has taken her years of legal expertise and used them to find great success on YouTube! This week, Dan and Rob sit down with Emily to get her take on managing a YouTube channel while being careful not to fall into any legal trouble. This discussion dives deep into topics like Fair Use, taxes, and forming an LLC for your chan...

Send us Fan Mail Ed Lawrence of the Film Booth YouTube channel sits down to discuss ways in which you can grow as a personality while you work to master the art of making videos. This week on TubeTalk, Rob and Dan pick the brain of a video production professional who shares some incredible tips and insights for creating better YouTube content. While figuring out a YouTube home-studio is important,...

Send us Fan Mail YouTube Shorts has introduced an entirely new way to become a video creator on the YouTube platform. This feature is only now entering it's "beta" phase but so far there's no sign of short-form YouTube videos going anywhere. In this episode of TubeTalk, Dan and Rob share their experiences around the testing they've been doing within YouTube Shorts and give...

Send us Fan Mail Having a YouTube channel often creates a community of people who enjoy your content. Today we'll talk about the best practices for managing that community. In this episode of TubeTalk, we sit down with vidIQ's Community Manager Daniel Holzhauer, as he shares his tips and insights on building and growing your YouTube community. Launching a Discord server or creating a Fac...

Send us Fan Mail 100 Percent Zelda takes us through his YouTube journey and discusses his approach to gaming on the platform. Not only is gaming on YouTube incredibly competitive, but depending on the game you choose, it can be exceptionally hard to break through. 100 Percent Zelda popped up on YouTube 10 months ago covering a game that, at the time, was over three years old. The secret to their s...

Send us Fan Mail Outside of simply posting videos, there are a number of features YouTube provides creators. In today's episode, Dan and Rob will focus on the YouTube Community Tab. This is just one of many features creators tend to overlook. It takes 1,000 subscribers to unlock the Community Tab, and with it you can engage with your audience using polls, as well as other various types of pos...

Send us Fan Mail When it comes to YouTube we tend to focus on getting as many subscribers as possible. In today's episode, I chat with Cassey about her very successful brand Blogilates. We dive into how Cassey took her brand from a simple YouTube channel to a nationwide business that now has physical products in Target! We chat about how she got started, her blog, her community growth, and ho...

Send us Fan Mail When YouTubers typically think of selling something to their audience, they think of Merch. The hoodie, the mug, the T-shirt. However, there are much bigger opportunities for those creators who have a large audience and that is having products at national retail stores. Today, I chat with Mike Bienstock, CEO of Semaphore Licensing Solutions about how Creators are able to get their...

Send us Fan Mail As a YouTuber we tend to get into a cycle: upload a video and watch the analytics. Then upload another video and watch the analytics. Rinse and repeat What if its not working? How do you instantly make a connection with your audience so that they want to watch more of your content? How do you make little changes that will have big impact on your channel? This is what we are chatti...

Send us Fan Mail We know that having a good thumbnail is critical. That is the difference between a successful video that brings in loads of views and subscribers and a video that does not. So what EXACTLY makes a good thumbnail? What should your thumbnail contain and what should it not? On this episode of TubeTalk, Justin Evans from CustomThumbnails.com shares his insights so you can level-up you...

Send us Fan Mail To say 2020 was a wild year is a bit of an understatement! At the end of the year we always look back at our channels to understand what have we learned from the year? What insights can we take forward into 2021? How will our channel grow in the year ahead? Today on TubeTalk, we look back at our individual channels and vidIQ's channel and share with you the lessons that worke...

Send us Fan Mail There is so much information and so YouTube Data and so many stats; frankly it's overwhelming. What should you focus on? Which analytics and tools are going to help you grow your channel? We answer that question on today's episode of TubeTalk!  Today, you will learn about: Retention - Dips/ Spike/ Retention CTR  -  why you should analyze your thumbnails Data source - How...

Send us Fan Mail When we say it's never too late to start on YouTube - we mean it! Today's guest is Erika Kullberg and she grew her YouTube channel from 0 subscribers to 70 000 subscribers making over $100 000 in less than a year! This was done during 2020 when the world was turned upside down and yet Erika still managed to find success. In today's episode you will learn: The “Secre...

Send us Fan Mail Let's be honest - we hate change but YouTube's latest change to its Terms of Service has left a  bad taste and feels wrong. On today's episode of TubeTalk, Rob, Dan and I unpack all the new changes and the kind of impact it has on YouTube creators who are still not in the YouTube Partner Program. We focus on: What's the update? How and who is impacted by this A...

Send us Fan Mail What if I could tell you the exact topic that will get you more views and subscribers? Would you be interested in making that video? These are known as Tentpole events!  Once you start to understand how to use these Tenpole events, you start to understand how to prepare for them so that your video is ready to go at the right time bringing you those views. In today's episode y...