r/NewTubers

to clarify I don't mean YouTube moderation or any ai stuff I mean actually passionate about your content

has anyone actually gotten to a big number with consistant views and been able to turn YouTube into what looks like a long term job?

I'm starting to get the impression basically everyone is on around like 300 subs helping one another (which is amazing, like this sub is a very helpful and encouraging community I didn't mean for that to come across as rude at all lmao)

genuinely just wondering. if so what sort of content do you make? how long did it take you to get where you are? more importantly do you have fun with what you do?

Lately, I've been finding it quite difficult to create content. My videos are scripted, I speak directly to the camera, and the editing is complex, with effects, clips, and transitions. I'm not complaining; I like the result and the quality. The problem is that my last video, which is almost 20 minutes long (from the script to the final edit), took me two weeks. I've barely gotten any views, and I understand because my channel isn't big, and besides, I'm restarting a channel I abandoned six years ago. But I'm curious and wanted to ask you:

Do you do all the work yourselves? Are your videos complex? How long are they, and how long does it take you?

For me, creating content out of my Minecraft gameplay has made playing Minecraft a lot more fun. I used to have the typical 2-week phase, as I’d get a bit bored after playing it so much and I’d just fizzle out… but now, in choosing Minecraft as my niche, I haven’t gotten bored yet, and I’ve now been at it for 3 years haha! Creating videos gives me a reason to be more creative, and knowing that I’m playing for others as well as myself brings me SO much joy and eagerness for more.

Do any of you feel the same way?!

I have a 3-4 month old gaming channel with 300 subs. Several videos with 2-20k views. Most of my subs come from videos on two specific games.

About 11 days ago i had a video that now sits at 17k views, on one of those two games. Since then i released 3 videos, 2 of those on the same game. One has 70 views, the newest one about 20 views in 14 hours. The other one about something different around 100 views.

I know those numbers are probably more normal for a new channel my size. Might have gotten carried away with so many videos that actually received thousands of views😅

But i am very confused. Especially how the follow up videos on the good one from 11 days ago, are doing so bad. I also get a ton less impressions than usually, compared to the last months.

The only things i changed during that time is actually adding keywords in the settings for my channel, which was something i read about should help. Its the words viewers cant see but supposedly helps the algo to determine your audience better.

Other than that, i have no clue where this drastic shift is coming from. Or can it be that youtube tested my videos in the last months, a lot of them did great, but for some reasons its back to what a channel of my size should normally have?

Any ideas or advice? Anything i could look into?

I've been doing a crime based short channel for a few months now. Basically what i do is i take stories of criminals or victims and what they did and post em with my own voice.

The first few videos did well but sometimes i would get 0 views and i learned that there are some things that YouTube doesn't let you talk about.

so i switched the script up and made it super yt friendly and now i do get around 500-1k(currently at 40 subs) views per short but people click off withing the first 20 seconds(the shorts are about 50 seconds long).

Do y'all have any good tips for scripting or how to keep this channel up and going, cz this is literally my first time starting a channel like this.

Quite the loaded questions im sure but I have been seriously considering doing youtube even if only as a hobby. Its something ive wanted to do in the back of my mind for years now and I thought why not now give it a try right?

In terms of what I want post it would mainly be things like video essays, general discussion videos on things I enjoy and the like, and coming up with hypothetical scenarios in different fictional universes (think "could x do this?" kinda stuff)

Now im going into this with low expectations, im not going to expect a lot of traction at all. Im just gonna make what I can and if people like it? Great! If not, then eh. It was worth a shot atleast yknow?

I do lifestyle vlogs and I know people say it’s a “dead niche”, but honestly in the time of AI and fake content I feel like simple human life matters more than ever.

I try to focus on editing, atmosphere and storytelling instead of fake luxury or drama.

I would really appreciate honest feedback and advice on my latest video. What feels boring, what works, what should I improve?

I want to understand if this type of “average real life” content still has potential in 2026.

So it has been 2 month since i have been put in zero views jail. I uploaded bunch of shorts for 1 week everyday and they still had zero views after 2 weeks. So i deleted them all. Now after 1 month, i upload 3 shorts and all have zero views.

Interestingly my very old shorts which are popular are still getting regular views as if nothing happened. And my newly uploaded long form videos on the same channel are getting the normal views.

When i go live from my mobile, i get good amount of views.

I promoted one of the zero views shorts yesterday by paying money and it got huge views. I then uploaded 2 more shorts and they got Zero views.

The only problem is with newly uploaded shorts. 1 month back, all shorts were getting over 1k views which my shorts have been getting for over 2 years. Recently some were getting more traction and and reaching 5k views. Something has happened to my account or to algorithm that it is not showing my newly uploaded shorts to any seed-viewers to test the video. It's like Youtube has banned my new shorts from the shorts feed.

There are no copyright infringement, no used videos, no weird videos, no policy breaking videos, just regular original travel videos i shot on my mobile myself. The only different thing i could think of was that i started using insta Edits app to edit my videos and add captions before uploading to YouTube. There was no visible branding but maybe the app leaves a digital watermark that Youtube read and didn't like???

Now i will upload shorts videos without editing for 1 month and will see if i am able to get out of this Zero views Jail. Hoping to make a post again after 1 month about my progress.

Edit1: i forgot to mention 1 thing that now i feel might be significant, 2 weeks before this jail i changed my default upload settings, i changed my category for new uploads to "People and Blogs" from "Travel & Events". Few videos i uploaded after that gained more traction than usual, like 4k and Engagement above 60% and average percentage viewed above 100%. Then "zero views" happened to 2 shorts and i changed my new upload category back to "Travel & Events".

Wondering if anyone here uses YouTube as more of an advertising platform to drive people to their own stores, classes etc. I started a little more than a week ago and I’ve had pretty good response but could see myself going down the YouTube analytics rabbit hole very easily - who am I kidding I’m there already-but then I realized maybe I shouldn’t make it my goal to be making tons of money on YouTube, just more look at it as a free advertising platform and really work on driving people to my own stuff Etsy store etc.. Any thoughts or experience with this?

Went down a rabbit hole last week trying to find a webcam for my yt videos and figured id share what i found cause the amount of outdated info out there is actualy insane.

Half the "best webcam 2026" articles are still recomending stuff from like 2020 and its so obvious nobody actualy tested anything. Just recycled lists with affiliate links.

From what i actualy found thats decent rn: Logitech c920 is around 69 bucks and still works fine even tho its ancient. Obsbot tiny se is 79 with ai tracking which is pretty cool. Emeet pixy is 89 also with tracking and 4k. Anker powerconf c200 is like 60 if u just need somthing clean and cheap.

But honestly the biggest thing i learned was that your mic matters wayyy more than your camera. I spent weeks obsesing over webcam specs when my audio was the actual problem the whole time lmao.

Dont overthink the camera just get something decent and focus on actualy making videos. I wasted like 2 weeks comparing specs when i couldve just been filming.

for example i am completely clueless on when to start i just know what topic i want to make videos on but how do i start like editing and all and putting animation on my vide

I created a YouTube channel one year ago. My first video went ok, I got 18 subs, 35 likes a few comments and about 500 views. The second one did not do as well but still got views, likes and comments. The last one, I put in the most effort and got no views at all, it seems like it was not even punched by the algorithm. The first two videos I posted a year ago and the newest one just a week ago, so there was a year gap in between.

just saw too many animation channels got demo

I run a faceless YouTube channel. No face, no personal brand, just me behind a screen. First video 150k views.

Before starting out with my channel, I read books and analyzed creators on how they got rapid growth (like Dream, Mr. Beast, Airrack). I always try to at least learn what worked for others so I'm prepared and know what I'm getting into.

So, here's what actually worked for me:

• THUMBNAILS (studied before I made anything): Faceless channels live and die by thumbnails more than regular channels. You don't have a face to create trust or curiosity, so the thumbnail has to do all the work. I pulled 5–10 top-performing thumbnails in my niche and compared them (colors, text, composition, emotion). Then I made one better than all of them.

• Mobile Optimization: Most views happen on a phone. Your thumbnail has to work at a tiny size. Most of my competitors' didn't.

• HOOKS WERE EVERYTHING: With no face on screen, the first 30 seconds either grabs someone or loses them permanently. I went through every top video in my niche, wrote down their opening lines, and found the pattern: the best hooks make you feel like you're already missing something. I wrote mine last, after studying 20+ of them. My first 30 seconds held 78% retention.

• Front-Loaded Editing: All my best editing went into minute one. Every transition, every effect. The algorithm doesn't care about minute 8 if people left at minute 2.

• I just told people to watch till the end: Literally said it out loud in the video. Watch time went up. IT WORKS!!

The part nobody talks about... THE RESEARCH

Before I recorded anything, I spent 5+ hours just on research. Thumbnails, hooks, titles, competitor analysis. All manual. Tabs everywhere, notes in a Google Doc, comparing videos one by one.

It worked. But doing that every single video as a hobby? Not sustainable.

So, I ended up building something for myself over the last six months just to cut that time down. It basically automates everything I did manually. Curious if other creators would find something like that useful. Happy to share more in the comments if anyone's interested!

I started a channel 1.5 months ago, I am aware I need to work on all of my fundamentals, including my presence on camera and way I speak, since I have a boring voice. But my videos are getting fewer and fewer views, I'm beginning to think that my target audience doesn't exist

Most talk I see around here is about the business side of things - metrics and packaging, theorycrafting about The Algorithm, etc. Important subjects, not knocking it. I care about metrics.

I don't see so much about process or craft, but I sincerely doubt that's because nobody cares about those things, it's just not the topic at hand. But the absence makes me feel like a pretentious artist in a room full of pragmatic business people sometimes. So question: how much of an artist are you about your channel? Do you think of yourself as A Creative?

What would you do differently than you are currently doing now?

Video does just fine in Browser Features, youtube does a huge Suggested Push - this happens, I've had this happen. But then youtube usually sends the videos back to Browser features and they do just fine.

My latest video, nope, refuses to send it back to browser features no matter what.

Even tho this is the difference

Source	Views	Impressions	Click-Through Rate	Average View Duration
Browse Features	48	616	5.0%	8:15
Suggested Videos	150	10,552	1.1%	4:12

It gave it 10k impressions abruptly, like all at once, so of course this happened, it always happens when it does this.

Why the heck are you pushing it in suggested ffs when it's clearly a browser features video like all my other ones.

These were the initial views, but it decided to send it out to pasture before it even hit 50 or 100 views.

Now here's what happened with my previous video, it initially did the same thing, tho you can't see that in these stats, it sent it out to the stupid suggested and the video's GLOBAL CTR dropped to 0.6, but then it started promoting it back in Browser Features and the video thrived, got a lovely 6.6k views total.

Of course the cult won't allow the truth to be shown, so this topic will get downvoted, but that won't stop me from exposing glitches in the algorithm.

Hopefully today it will decide to send it back to Browser Features but i somehow doubt it

So my husband saw this "POV walk through S. Korea" video on at a restaurant. He talked to the owner and the guy said he just likes to have it on in the background. My husband came home as if this was a revelation and said I should do ambient hiking videos. I told him it was a very saturated market, but sure, I'll give it a try. He bought a GoPro and I took my first video and edited it under his direction.

If you search "Peaceful Forest Walk with my Adventure Dog- 25 minutes of Ambient Nature Sounds" that's it. The other vids I see that have lots of views are like 10 hours long...

I think it's lame, but his point is that it's something I do anyway, I don't have to do much editing, and it's something I can do from home with my toddler.

Personally, I feel like it's not valuable. I would rather add value in some way. (He says it's therapeutic, which, sure, I find hiking therapeutic, but do viewers?) I used to be a teacher, so that's definitely coloring my opinion.

I know lots of people ask how to find their niche. My background is in environmental education, anthropology, and now I'm a toddler mom that loves camping, rock climbing, snowboarding, renaissance faires, dancing, exercise and circus arts.

All those niches are a little played out I think, but maybe that's just me? Could I add more value in one of those things? I have some ideas on "How to" videos on traveling with a baby since several friends have asked me for tips. I have been to 7 states, and spent a month roadtripping New Zealand with an under 1 year old.

I don’t know how true it is, but I’ve heard YouTube’s algorithm has started shifting more towards a “TV-style” model. Instead of random individuals blowing up overnight, the platform seems to favour content that keeps people coming back consistently. Less one-off viral clips, more bingeable series and recurring formats.

Here in Japan, creators are already leaning heavily into that approach. A lot of channels release on the same day every week, almost exactly like a television programme, and it seems like this is model Youtube wants everyone to have.

So rather than just doing random game streams or isolated videos, it might make more sense to build an actual “show” - something with structure, a presenter, recurring themes, continuity, and episodic content people can follow week after week.