TubeTalk: Your YouTube How-To Guide

Send us Fan Mail Travel is one of the biggest and most competitive verticals on YouTube, with millions of videos around the topic being uploaded every day. But breaking through to become a successful travel-focused creator means exposure, brand deals, and the chance to break away from the 9-5 life. I chat with Bryce Jurgy, the dad from The Jurgys, on how his family's travel and adventure chan...

Send us Fan Mail Do you dream of your videos going viral on YouTube? Do you wish you could crack the code and find the secret formula for viral video success? On this week's episode of TubeTalk, we talk to Cory Williams, the "world's first professional YouTuber," with several billion views to his name. He's found massive success with multiple videos, and he's going to...

Send us Fan Mail Many creators tend to focus on one specific platform at a time, and that's often the right approach. However, that isn't to say that you can't successfully repurpose that content to build new audiences and communities elsewhere on the web. Or use that content to drive traffic to another property, such as a website. On this episode of TubeTalk, we talk to Stephen Far...

Send us Fan Mail Are you thinking of starting a gaming channel on YouTube? Or perhaps you've been gaming for a couple of years but now want to get serious about generating significantly more views and subscribers. vidIQ's resident online gaming expert Dan Carson is here to help you wherever you are on your YouTube journey. In this week's episode of TubeTalk, he walks us through the...

Send us Fan Mail There are no YouTube shortcuts. You have to up in the work and build an audience. With enough determination and laser focus on quality content, channels grow and thrive for years. Today, I chat with Justin who is a tech YouTube superstar and has been creating content for over 14 years! Over the years Justine has focused on aspects of the channel which helped her build an audience...

Send us Fan Mail We're all currently living through a brand new reality. We're on lockdown for both our own safety and that of our families, friends and wider community during this coronavirus pandemic. It's no wonder YouTube creators are finding themselves unable to be creative! So on this episode, we’re joined again by our friend Josh Zimmerman from Creator Coach who has already h...

Send us Fan Mail Name me a topic that you can’t find at least one video about on YouTube. Go on, I’ll wait. There’s unique, unusual, thought-provoking, and hugely entertaining content being uploaded to the platform every day, and creators are building significant views, subscribers and communities around it. Our guest on this week’s TubeTalk podcast we talk to Dan Markham of ‘What's Inside’ ,...

Send us Fan Mail YouTube is an amazing platform for viewers to find entertainment and information resources. It’s also an amazing platform for creators to earn revenue from ads run against that entertaining and educational content they upload. But what if revenue from Adsense isn’t an option? On this week’s TubeTalk we talk to Caleb Marshal , a fitness instructor with over 2.3M subscribers on YouT...

Send us Fan Mail As a YouTube creator, you have a huge number of things to take into consideration - your video and audio set up, keyword research, thumbnail design, content ideas, and SEO for example. But there’s another piece of the puzzle that all creators have to consider - the legal side of content creation. On this episode of TubeTalk we’ll focus on the legal aspect to brand and sponsorship...

Send us Fan Mail Listeners of TubeTalk know we love to dive into creator stories, to find out how they started their journey, and the steps they took to success on YouTube. In this week’s episode, we're joined by Chris Turner, who is a British comedian and a freestyle rapper. He has over 17M views on his YouTube channel , and his comedy gigs regularly sell out. He has created a successful You...

Send us Fan Mail How long viewers watch your content for is one of YouTube’s golden signals. So as content creators we know we need to hook attract viewers with engaging topics. But did you know that quality production values can also help your audience retention? In this episode of TubeTalk, we’re going to take a deep dive into audio specifically, and give you some must-know tips and tricks aroun...

Send us Fan Mail Raise your hand if you want to be a full-time YouTuber. If you’re listening to this podcast or reading this post, the odds are pretty good that you're trying to monetize your content on the platform and make being a YouTuber your career. But did you know there's more than one way of becoming a full-time YouTuber? As creators, we acquire a whole set of skills over the yea...

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...