r/youtubers

I have about 4 months of YouTube. 950 subscribers and 4,100 hours of watch time. Many times, YouTube shows my video to over 15 thousand people on the first day of posting. However, in the last video I posted, I achieved a good and consistent click-through rate (9%), an above-average view rate (40% of the video), 20% likes relative to the number of views, an above-average initial number of comments, with very positive feedback. But YouTube has limited the reach, showing the video to about 30 people per day. The video was posted 2.5 days ago and the reach is at 2,300. Why does this happen?

Sorry for my ignorance, but I really know very little about the subject. And I also apologize for any grammatical errors, as I am from Brazil.

Our channel has been going for just under a year with a video roughly once every four weeks. The videos a very high production value and take a long time to make so this is pretty much the most regular we can feasibly make them. They're presenter-led documentaries and how-tos in the area of history and heritage.

We got to around 16k subscribers fairly quickly with three videos being over 100k views and most others being between 5k and 40k. However, for the past few videos our channel has been a complete write-off. We've struggled to get any videos over 1k viewers and I'm becoming increasingly exasperated wondering why.

For our more recent videos:

- The quality is consistently improving

- The CTR is good, around 6% (Studio is telling us "People on YouTube are choosing to watch this video more often than usual")

- View duration is slightly above average for our channel

- We're promoting them on other social channels as well as via shorts and community posts

- And they are all very relevant to our core viewer base

I understand that not every video will be a viral hit. But for a channel with 16k subscribers and 700k views, not being able to have a video get more than 1k views is absolutely appalling. Does anyone know if there's anything we can do to improve things? Happy to send the channel in a DM if anyone feels like helping.

Hi everyone,

I have a bit of a specific situation and I’m trying to understand how this usually works in practice.

I’m from Serbia, I’m a student, and I currently receive a family/survivor’s pension because I’m still in school. I should be eligible for it for about one more year. The problem is that, from what I understand, if I register/report income as a freelancer and the income goes over a certain threshold, I may lose or suspend my right to that pension.

Recently I received my first YouTube/Google AdSense payment. Google calculated around €615 for the month, withheld about €125 as U.S. tax withholding, and around €491 was sent to my Serbian bank account. From what I can see, it looks like I may start earning around €500+ per month from AdSense, and I also have some possible sponsorships coming in.

So now I’m trying to figure out what the best legal and practical way to handle this is.

My main question is about AdSense payment holds. Is it possible to let the money stay inside AdSense for around a year and not actually receive it in my bank account until my family pension ends? In other words, can I keep earning on YouTube, leave the money sitting in my AdSense balance, and only after my pension expires remove the payment hold, receive the money, and then start reporting/paying taxes as a freelancer?

The part I’m unsure about is when the income is considered “received” or “earned” for tax/freelance purposes. Is it when Google finalizes the monthly earnings in AdSense, when the money becomes available in the AdSense balance, or only when Google actually sends the payment to my bank account?

I’m not trying to avoid taxes. I want to pay them properly. I’m just trying to avoid losing my family pension during my last year of studies if the money technically hasn’t been paid out to me yet.

Has anyone had experience with Google AdSense payment holds, freelance tax reporting, or a similar situation where platform income was earned but not withdrawn for some time?

I know the final answer depends on local tax law and I’ll probably need to ask the Serbian tax office / pension fund directly, but I’d really appreciate any experience or advice on how this is usually treated

Hi,

I've been searching all over Google support and have just found frustrating dead ends. I originally set up my YouTube channel with an individual Adsense account.

But since it has grown a lot recently and started making real revenue, I now want to bring it under an existing limited company, as it's now related to our core business activities.

How do I switch the AdSense account from my individual one to a business one?

Note: we already have the limited company set up, so there's no problem with verification. It just seems very difficult to find the exact process to follow. Thanks!

I, since childhood, have always wanted to be a youtuber, but due to my short temper and patience, i was never able to.

Now im 17 years old and i finally began doing a lot of research on youtube. On how the algorithm works. And i dont lack the discipline nor the will to create content, but there's one thing that just haunts me.

I dont have a pc to edit my videos. I can only edit with my phone the videos i record on my ps5.

The whole process itself is a pain in the ass too: record on the ps5 multiple separate clips, upload them together unlisted on my YT account, download them on YT with my phone and then i can actually start to edit.

But no matter how much i try to edit im not good at it either; on a phone its so slow and unintuitive its crazy. And even if i spend days working on a single video, it doesn't turn out as good as the big youtubers.

I know, i know, "you cant compare the content of a 0 subs channel with the content of a million subs channel" but its not like the routine is gonna change very soon. Most likely if everything goes well i'll get an upgrade in setup in like 2 years, and im not waiting until then to start the grind.

I already published around 20~ vids. 4 long form and 16 shorts. I publish 3 vids a week and 2 shorts a day. But it's really exhausting and i dont know if i can do it with how limited my setup is.

Sometimes i even get tired of recording a voiceover. Why should i even try, when there are many other youtubers that have way better microphones? Why would anyone watch my videos when im not great at videogames nor am i funny nor do i teach many things.

I feel like i am doomed, and unmotivated to continue.

I have a considerably big channel (1.5 million subs) in one language (in this case, Portuguese), but now I want to create videos in English, with Portuguese subtitles and separate audio track, is there any chance that the videos won’t be delivered? (Either to Portuguese speakers or English speakers)

Also, for creators with a large number of subscribers, have you tried the multiple audio tracks? Did it improve your views? I’m afraid to hurt my channel’s delivery because it’s been always in Portuguese.

How do I make YouTube “understands” that the content is in two languages?

Another thing that bothers me is the fact that my instagram has always been in Portuguese, and I use it to sell my books and sponsored items. People that create content in multiple languages, how do you manage these other social platforms?? I’m considering start using English in my instagram but a big chunk of my community wouldn’t understand :(
So I guess I’d need to put subtitles everywhere… But stories with subtitles feels terrible. Anyway…

I really want to break this language barrier and be a “global” content creator, I’m just afraid to lose all my income while doing the change.

I won’t share my channel, but I create videos in the “V-Sauce” style, philosophy and science themes with a comedic approach, just in case it matters.

Ty so much

the world of YouTube is growing at a pace and along with it are it’s creators and the ones we love so tell me who you liked as a kid and what they done for you and why you stop watching them for your or the following reasons on the tittle screen for me it was my boy guava juice, Stephen carter, papa Jake,Dan tdm, and many more (and before I berst anyone’s bubble I simply just grew away I’m not calling them the worst as they were my child hood legends)

Let's say someone make yt short on string theory and the other person makes a comedy video...isnt it obvious that first shot will have low stayed to watch ratio as most people wont have any interest or wont be able to understand the topic even if the content is top notch...but the second short will have high stayed to watch ratio as a more general audience likes comedy video...

I’m thinking of starting a channel where I upload 4 to 5 horizontal videos a week. Most would be around 2 minutes, maybe 3 minutes max, and all evergreen topics rather than trends.

Do you think this is still a good strategy, or does YouTube now heavily favor longer videos? Curious if anyone here is seeing success with shorter evergreen content.

My views are WAY down on the last few shorts I've posted. I usually get around 1k views, and the last two I've posted are getting 20 views or so. Did they change the algorithm on us? I'm a small channel, only 240 subs. Anyone else noticing this change?

Wondering if they're not feeding shorts into the feed like they used to.

I've tried content creation in one way shape or form for probably the last 10 years, but over the last week I've decided to start a new channel and actually put some consistent time into streaming and YouTube. So far I have been hitting 4-6 live viewers on Twitch as well as 31k views over the last week on YouTube from shorts with a 41% that stayed to watch and I have also recently started uploading longer form stuff on YouTube as well as shorts every 6 hours for the last week. This first week is finally over and I don't know how new channels usually do, so I was wanting some advice as well as a scale of how exactly I'm doing

Need some advice from creators.

I’m a software engineer at FAANG, so I can create content on DSA, system design, and software engineering.

But outside work, I’m genuinely passionate about cars and automotive engineering. I can talk about engines, vehicle dynamics, and explain complex concepts in simple ways for hours.

I’m confused about which niche to commit to. Should I build around my profession or my passion?

Also, I’ve never edited a video or been a confident speaker. How much should that influence my decision, and what would you do if you were starting from scratch today?

Hey, so I am doing a bit of vlogging on my phone but I don't wanna use to much storage and at the moment I have the videos saved to my camera roll.

The good thing is that I can see what day I made the video and all the footage for that day. The only problem is that I don't want it to take up too much storage because I'm making lots of small videos on my phone.

I can upload footage to YouTube as private to store them because then, they are stored on YouTube's servers instead of chewing up storage but it takes time.

Unless I get a hard drive for recording only and use that to store videos so I can put them together then delete it.

What are your thoughts? I wanna record videos and do a lot but don't want to chew up storage in my phone or run out.

where do vloggers that use their phone store their data or not run out of space, and how do you know the order of videos so it makes editing easier.

another idea is, I have OneDrive for personnel stuff, and I have a huge amount of storage which is great. I could keep that for personnel stuff only, and use the photos drive on my phone for vlogging only, and then edit it and then delete the data after editing ready for next time.

It takes me far too long to make a video. I'm spending upwards of 10+ hours to get a 15 minute video. I can't keep making videos like this. If somebody has any tips to speed up productions i'm all for it.

My channel has about 55k subs and I'm trying to make more than 1 video a week. I would like to upload 2-3 times a week as my videos are quite short.

I use Adobe Podcast but it makes my voice dirty and unclear. Merging between original sound and the Adobe Podcast sound takes a lot of time. Capcut's the Reduce Noise feature makes the background sound muffled, but it does not make the speech and the ambience achieve the clear quality of most other gaming youtubers, even phone recorders. That's the problem.

I personally can't think of one right now but I'm sure other creators will have a feature they'd love to absolutely see implemented on YouTube.

And hey who knows maybe someone at YouTube HQ will see this and consider implementing it.

I know YouTube are removing the dislike button at least for shorts but idk if that was actually something we wanted.

Full-time job, two kids, house that needs renos. I don't have hours to learn prompt engineering. But I keep seeing people blow up on Shorts and I'm like... I could do that.

I don't want to spend weeks learning how to craft the perfect prompt to get a 3-second clip. I want something that I can feed a photo or a basic idea into and it just spits out something decent.

I've been looking at tools that market themselves as "zero prompts" but is that actually real, or just marketing fluff? Has anyone actually had success with an easy button that doesn't require a whole new skillset?

So I had a video prepped and ready to go for tomorrow’s upload and it marked an “18+” tag on the video. So it said “Content that discusses or depicts su*cide or self-harm in a graphic manner or promotes eating disorders may be removed or age-restricted if not appropriate for all audiences.”

The thing is that it’s part of a let’s play I’m doing for LoZ: Ocarina of Time. So it doesn’t make sense that an old fantasy game like that should be age restricted, especially when I haven’t done or said anything that depicted the reasoning at all.

Hi everyone, as the title say, I want to understand how YT algorithm digest the videos made public after a while.

Context: I work in marketing and I have several Youtube videos I want to release, but I also want to embed them in some articles.

My way to go would be upload them all, make them unlisted, embed them in the articles, and then make them public with some days delays between one and the other, in order to maximize the boost that YouTube gives to the new content.

So my question is: does this work? If the videos get some views because they are embedded in some articles, is YT algorithm going to digest them as "new" when I move them from Unlisted to Public?

Thanks everyone, have a nice day!