YouTube is a treasure trove of creativity. Beyond the typical vlogs and tutorials, a world of bizarre yet fascinating niches awaits exploration. These unique themes combine curiosity, nostalgia, humour, and even a touch of science to create captivating content.
If you want to stand out or watch something different, here are 10 weird YouTube niches that could inspire your next big idea. 🚀
1. Microscopic Exploration 🔬
Ever wonder what everyday objects look like under a microscope? Channels in this niche dive deep into the hidden details of things like food, insects, fabrics, and even human skin. The appeal? It combines curiosity and science, offering an invisible perspective to the naked eye. Perfect for science enthusiasts or anyone who loves a good “wow” moment.
2. Extreme Minimalism 🏡
In a world of consumerism, some creators are turning the tide by showcasing lifestyles built around extreme minimalism. These videos explore individuals who live with the bare minimum of possessions, diving into their philosophy, challenges, and benefits. It’s a fascinating glimpse into unconventional living that often leaves viewers pondering, “Could I live like that?”
3. Unboxing Vintage Technology 📦
Unboxing videos have been popular for years, but vintage tech takes them to the next level. Imagine opening sealed gadgets from decades ago—old gaming consoles, typewriters, or first-gen mobile phones. This niche taps into nostalgia for those who lived through the era and curiosity for younger viewers who missed it entirely. It’s like travelling back in time through tech!
4. Oddly Specific Repairs 🛠️
Specializing in repairing niche or unusual items—like antique musical instruments, vintage typewriters, or porcelain dolls—this niche highlights rare craftsmanship. These videos are not just tutorials but an ode to lost skills and problem-solving ingenuity. The question isn’t “How will they fix it?” and “How did people fix this in the past?”
5. Bizarre Food Science Experiments 🍴
What happens if you cook meat in a dishwasher? Or create a 100-layer lasagna? Channels in this niche combine science with culinary curiosity, often resulting in jaw-dropping (sometimes cringe-worthy) results. Whether it’s curing meat in unusual ways or experimenting with extreme ageing techniques, these videos are entertaining and educational.
6. Surreal ASMR 🌌
ASMR gets a quirky twist in this niche, where creators whisper nonsensical phrases, use odd objects for sound, or craft bizarre roleplays. It’s a mix of humour and relaxation, perfect for people looking to distract their minds or unwind with something completely out-of-the-box. For viewers with ADHD or high stress, this content can be oddly therapeutic.
7. Virtual Train Rides 🚂
Imagine immersing yourself in scenic train rides from the comfort of your couch. These uninterrupted videos offer a voyeuristic view of the world, often set to calming music or ambient sounds. Whether you’re a travel enthusiast or just looking to relax, this niche lets you explore new places without leaving home. All aboard for tranquillity!
8. Pet Influencer Management 🐾
Why be the face of your channel when your pet can steal the spotlight? This quirky niche teaches viewers how to turn their pets into social media stars, from content creation to securing sponsorships. It’s a mix of entrepreneurship and adorable entertainment, perfect for pet lovers with big dreams for their furry friends.
9. Mundane Job Documentaries 🙌
Have you ever wondered what a day in the life of a lighthouse keeper or sewer inspector looks like? These videos provide behind-the-scenes glimpses into seemingly mundane or obscure jobs. It’s a curiosity-driven niche that offers insights into lives and careers you’d never normally think about. Think of it as “How It’s Made,” but for real people’s jobs.
10. Speed Running Life Hacks ⚡
Life hacks get a humorous twist in this niche, where creators attempt everyday tasks as quickly and unconventionally as possible. With witty commentary and creative solutions, these videos blend humour, practicality, and a dash of absurdity. Who knew folding laundry or peeling potatoes could be so entertaining?
Why These Niches Work
These weird and unique niches succeed because they satisfy human curiosity, offer fresh perspectives, and carve out dedicated fan bases. Whether it’s the nostalgia of vintage tech, the intrigue of extreme minimalism, or the humour of surreal ASMR, these themes resonate with viewers unexpectedly. The key to success? Authenticity and creativity.
Ready to Start Your YouTube Journey?
If you’re tired of cookie-cutter content, these 10 weird niches offer a refreshing way to stand out. Experiment with ideas, find what excites you, and remember: there’s always an audience for creativity and uniqueness.
Which of these niches excites you the most? Let us know in the comments, and start exploring today! 🌟
Growing a YouTube channel from scratch can be challenging and frustrating.
All that time, planning, recording, and editing content, and when you finally upload it to your channel – tumbleweeds. You may as well have filmed paint drying for all the good it’s done you!
Fear not. There are techniques and tips for growing your channel from zero. Methods you can use to pull in viewers, get more subscribers, and turn those tumbleweeds into roses.
This article gives you eight handy tips you can apply today to grow your YouTube channel, even if you’re starting out from zero.
Let’s get going.
Tip 1 – Make A Start!
To grow a successful YouTube channel from zero means you have to shoot, edit, and upload engaging, entertaining videos regularly.
Thinking about your channel is not the path to success, you need to sit in front of the camera, hit record, and start talking.
You won’t know if you are on the right track for your channel until you’ve uploaded several videos to YouTube, monitored feedback, and made optimised changes to your content.
And don’t worry if you are not that polished at the start. If you take a look at the earliest videos of now successful channels, you’ll see how rough and they were when they first began.
Uploading videos regularly is an absolutely critical step. The crucial factor of feedback comes in several forms; likes and dislikes, comments, and some vital analytics found in your YouTube account.
When you find out what works, you can use the information to make better videos.
But when you start out, resist the temptation to go on a filming frenzy pumping out one video after another. Think about the fable of the tortoise and the hare.
Long term consistency wins over unsustainable short term intensity every time. Slow and steady progress is much better.
Tip 2 – Focus Your Channel on a Single Niche
YouTube channels that jump from topic to topic often confuse people. Viewers are used to channels being about one subject only. So make sure that you make videos that focus around one niche and compliment other content in your channel.
For example, If you like both football and scary videos create a separate channel for each. But if your channel is about beauty, then it’s OK to have videos for nail polish, hair, or skin cleansing, as they all fit under the beauty umbrella.
One of the significant benefits of making your channel about a single niche is the possibility of building viewer feedback loops. That may sound complicated but actually refers to how YouTube works to keep viewers hooked on the site and watching more videos.
As a user watches content, YouTube shows a list of recommended videos (even autoplay them) to keep viewers hooked. YouTube wants to keep people on the site and is good at guessing what a viewer wants to watch next.
If your channel is all about a single niche, then you can take advantage of this.
When a viewer is watching one of my videos, YouTube determines that the user will probably want to see more videos about YouTube education. So other videos from my channel are displayed for them to watch next.
Tip 3 – Model What Is Already Working
Learn the rules of what makes a video successful and stick to them. Over time, through trial and error, Youtubers have learned how to best combine content, editing and presenting styles into winning videos. Model your self on a popular channel and don’t get experimental – understand the rules before you break them.
Emulating a successful channel does not mean copying one though. This famous quote illustrates the point nicely.
Find 10 popular channels currently uploading in your chosen niche. Next, look at the 10 most popular videos for each of those channels and start writing down a list of content ideas. Just because the concepts have already been covered doesn’t mean you can’t take the same idea then do a better job.
Think about how those channels present their content. Is most of the presenting face on, or maybe they have footage of their hands from overhead? Perhaps they have lots of computer screen recordings?
Take the best bits of the successful channels, mix them together, then put your own spin on it.
And you must try to make evergreen content. Evergreen content is videos that will be relevant for a long time in the future. Your aim should be to build up an extensive back catalogue of content that viewers find useful and compelling, even when they discover your channel a year from now.
If you made a gossip style video about the latest spat between your two favourite singers, you might get a short-term spike in traffic. Still, no-one will care in a year when everyone’s moved on.
Most YouTube videos fall into one of two categories – education and entertainment. If you can manage to do both, even better.
Tip 4 – Work Out How to Keep People Watching for Longer
YouTube makes money when viewers watch adverts. So YouTube strives to keep audiences watching content for as long a possible. It follows then that a significant factor for YouTube in deciding how to rank and recommend videos is by a metric called watch time.
Most people won’t watch a video on YouTube all the way through. There are too many distractions nowadays, and attention spans are at an all-time low. So YouTube wants viewers to watch videos that are proven to hold their attention.
As a result, they serve up search results and video recommendations from channels with proven good watch times.
There are steps you can take to keep your viewers tuned into your content, and you’ll probably recognise a lot of them from your YouTube browsing. Everyone uses them because they work and play a big part in keeping viewers engaged.
Keep Intros short and sweet. Try to keep your intro screen and any welcome message under 20 seconds.
Signpost content in longer videos. If your content is over 10 minutes, think about telling people what’s coming up in the next segment to keep them hooked in.
Tease the most compelling part of your video. Place the highlight of your video towards the end, but let the viewer know what’s coming and why they must watch the whole video first.
If you can get 50 percent of your viewers to watch over 50 percent of your videos on average, then you will be doing well, and your channel could be on its way to success.
Tip 5 – Create Clickable Titles and Thumbnails
Your channel can only start to grow if people watch your videos. Yet, people will only watch your video if you have a snappy title and a compelling thumbnail for it. Let’s take a more in-depth look at both.
Titles
Your titles need to present a promise to the viewer, usually in one of the three following categories:
Intrigue – Don’t give the game away with your title, use phrases like ‘why was this’ and ‘might surprise you’ to build a compelling reason to click on your video.
FOMO – Fear of missing out. This usually works best with new information. This type of title plays on the human desire not to be out of the loop. Or even better, know something that no-one else knows.
Best Top Worst! – Another peculiar human trait is our need to rank things. Everyone does it. From Tennis players to chocolate cookies, we all have an opinion or would like to find out what is best, top, or worst.
Don’t use a title like ‘My favourite digital cameras’ – ‘The top 10 DSLRs ranked definitively and which one you should buy?’ will outperform it every time.
Thumbnails
Thumbnails need to be amazing too. It’s the shop window for your video. You’ll usually want to include a picture of yourself on the thumbnail, especially if you are going to be presenting on camera.
Add in text too – some people are more visual and won’t read your title. A short four or five-word headline that summarises the video helps people narrow down what to watch next. Avoid using fonts with fancy styles and keep your text clean and clear, so it’s easy to read.
Make sure you keep all the elements of your thumbnail big. Don’t forget that people also watch YouTube on mobile, so your thumbnail will still need to work on smaller smartphone screens.
One of the significant factors for getting your videos recommended is how long the average viewer watches your content. Known as Watch Time, it’s an important metric that you should understand and keep a close eye on.
To improve average watch time, use audience retention analysis. This metric shows second-by-second when your audience stops watching your video. In the screen-grab below you can see the audience starts at 100% then quickly drops off to just around 55%.
This means that the video in question may have had a lengthy introduction that viewers found annoying, or the content didn’t live up to the promise of the title. So some users navigated away to find another video.
There are lots of ways you can use analytics to improve and grow your channel. Read this post to find out more about using analytics for channel growth.
Tip 7 – Build Traffic Funnels
When you start getting traffic to your channel, there are several ways to hold on to that traffic and funnel it to your other videos. It’s better than letting to go to other channels, right?
Create a series.
If you have a content idea that is relatively broad, think about creating a series of videos for the topic, like in the example below for a Microsoft Teams software tutorial.
As long as you don’t give away the lion’s share of the information in the first video, viewers are more likely to watch the next in the series. Set up teasers about what’s in the following video in the series to help funnel the traffic over.
Make sure that the content in a series of videos works on a standalone basis as well. Briefly recap the lessons from previous videos before you begin the content of the next in the series, so viewers know the context.
Create Playlists
If you don’t have content that works as a series but has a similar theme, consider building a channel playlist. 5-Minute Crafts’s channel has thematic playlists containing hundreds of videos with hours of watch time in each.
When a view hits play all, Youtube shows one video after another on the playlist – ensuring good watch time (and ad revenue).
Use Cards
Cards are the term given to grey boxes you can set to display in the corner of your video.
You can use cards to link to other channels, websites, or polls. But, perhaps the best use for them is to link to your other video content.
If you found a place in one of your videos that your audience retention analytics showed some viewers dropping out. Set up a card just before this point to funnel the traffic to other complementary content on your channel.
When a viewer gets to the end of your video, use an end screen to promote another video. It’s best if you only suggest one video. Having a single call-to-action is better than adding multiple links to lots of your videos and hoping the viewer clicks one.
This tip works even better if you plan ahead. Trail the video you will link to in the end screen of the video you’ll place it on.
It takes time and dedication to build up a successful YouTube channel. And when you get started, it can seem like you are trying really hard for little reward. YouTube is peppered with channels where the creator burned out and stopped after only uploading six or seven videos.
There is a concept for entrepreneurs that is illustrated by the ‘S’ curve. When a new venture begins, frustration builds as little happens. And it’s not uncommon to think that you’ve wasted your time and everything is destined to fail.
But there comes the point, known as the inflection point, where things start clicking into place. Suddenly the venture rockets away, and it becomes successful.
Most people quit before the inflection point, which is why it pays to stick with your plan and keep on working hard. Commit yourself to upload at least a video per week for six months.
Monitor feedback from the comments and analytics and use it to improve and make better videos. Don’t give up!
Conclusion
Growing a successful YouTube channel isn’t easy – but it’s not impossible either. Those that are successful know that achieving success takes time. It requires careful planning, listening to feedback, and interpreting channel analytics.
There are tried and tested techniques you can use to attract and keep viewers watching your videos.
Experiment using the tips above in your videos, and see what difference it can make to your channel. There are tens of thousands of people making a living from YouTube. Will you become one of them?
After 3 years on YouTube I have finally cracked the secret to growing on YouTube and the secret to being a successful YouTuber like the big channels. If you want to grow on youtube in 2019-2020 then you need to learn who you are, how to make YOU unique and the only way you can do that is with your first 100 videos.
The Secret To Growing on YouTube – I have been on YouTube for 7-8 years and for 2 1/2 of those years I have been making YouTube help tutorials and tips videos. I am about to hit 10K subscribers in the coming months and I have a secret that everyone can use to do the same. You have to make people care and offer them something worth their time.
When growing on social media there are a few things to bare in mind, here is my secret formula.
1 – Lead with Value – Give them something they want.
2 – Slowly introduce personality.
3 – Be stubborn – Stick with your niche, keep going, keep investing and getting better.
4 – NEVER Give Up!
Nobody Cares About Your Channel – How To Grow On YouTube (RANT) – How To Grow on YouTube? Make people care about YOU! It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been on YouTube, it doesn’t matter if you upload daily, it doesn’t matter if you have 2000+ videos – If you don’t give them a reason to remember you, if you don’t give them a reason to CARE about YOU then you will NEVER grow in the long term!
You need to stop focusing on YOUR NEEDS and understand what YOUR AUDIENCE needs FROM YOU. There are millions of other channels that are fighting for eyeballs and if you are not giving them a reason to invest in your channel, they will LOOK ELSEWHERE! Lead with VALUE!
Grow with a niche – Growing on YouTube takes time, dedication and a hyper focused niche. You might love creating YouTube videos and been trying to grow your YouTube channel for years by throwing unlimited content at the channel but in a scattershot manner.
Imagine you have a YouTube channel you want to grow in 2019 and you upload sports videos, food videos, child care videos, wrestling videos and then some car repair videos – how is your audience going to describe your channel to a friend? How are they to know what you will upload for them to watch next week?
That is where the power of a niche comes in. I have made 300+ YouTube tutorials on my YouTube channel nearly 2 years. During this time I have niched down into helping people grow their channel and learn the features and functionality that YouTube has to offer. This means that when someone arrives on my channel they know exactly what I will teach them and what I will keep teaching them today, tomorrow, next week, next month and for years to come. This makes you known for your field and niche and grows your brand and recognition…. and trust. Trust will win you business, trust will win you subscribers, trust will grow an audience on YouTube.
Take YouTube Seriously – How To Grow on YouTube #Rant // Growing on YouTube is hard and needs some serious commitment. Are you serious about your long term goals and are you truly doing everything you need to do to stand out and grow a youtube channel in 2019?
How To Grow A Channel on YouTube – So many start a YouTube channel, upload a few videos and then dream that this is their new live, their new job but then they fail to commit to how serious an idea becoming a full time YouTuber is and stop doing whats needed to grow their channel.
Niche – Are you uploading random content. Are you trying to tackle every topic all at the same time. Its hard to grow a YouTube channel and to build an audience if the audience doesnt know what your core focus is. If I subscribe to a channel because I like their cooking content but they then make gaming, walking, movie reviews in the next 3-4 videos…. this will alienate me and what I subscribed for and I might never watch again. Topic one topic and drill down into it.
Lead With Value – Why should I watch your videos? What do you give me that I can’t get from someone else? What can you teach me in your next video that is worth the 3-7minutes that I just invested in your content. The value proposition is key to a successful channel. If you watch my videos you will learn how to grow your youtube channel with tutorials and tips, if I watch your disneyland vlog – will I be better off for it after consuming it?
Bulk Uploading Videos – Just because you can make 3-4 videos a day, does not mean you should upload 3-4 videos a day. People will only ever watch as much as they want to. If you upload 3-4 videos a day you will burn out your viewers and they might watch the first or second videos but even the most loyal and dedicated audience gets fed up by the 3rd hour of their favourite wrestling program in the same night. Pace your content to 1 a day at most, or even 3-4 a week if possible. Anything more than 2 a day and YouTube stops pushing your videos out to your audience.
Regular Uploads – Learn from the TV shows you love to watch. Game of Thrones is always released on a Monday and your favourite tv soup is on the same time and same days every week. This is deliberate so you learn where, when and how to find a show and you should do the same. If you know your favourite YouTuber uploads every Mon/Wed/Fri then youll be waiting for them to upload and it helps people build you into their every day routine – Cup of tea, slice of toast, listen to the Start Creating Podcast every Tuesday.
Branding – To grow a YouTube channel on the clutter crowded space of 2019 you need to stand out and look professional. A good thumbnail and channel banner can really help with this. In fact a consistent thumbnail style can be the thing people recognise more than your face.
SACRIFICE THESE 5 THINGS – How To Grow A YouTube Channel in 2019 // YouTube Channel Growth can be hard but if you commit to your channel and aim for real YouTube Growth then you might need to sacrifice a little bit of your time to get ahead. Here are 5 thing you could sacrifice to win your time back and use to build a successful youtube channel in 2019
Multitasking To Grow A YouTube Channel // How To Grow A Successful YouTube Channel in 2019 is a topic many people would love to know. Youtube growth is all about learning, patience and the ability to multitask to maximise your potential
YouTube Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint (Grow On YouTube) // To grow a youtube channel in 2019 and grow on youtube you have to understand and accept one very important fact – YouTube Is A MARATHON and NOT A SPRINT! For you to make a successful youtuber and be successful on YouTube you have to play for the long haul and the long term growth. Once you put in enough time, enough content to build a back catalog, and dedicated your time to learning how to make better videos…. only then will your channel grow.
YouTube Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint
You need to get over the numbers and you need to focus on quality content, within your set niche and pump out regular, reliable, helpful content that people search for and want to see. Once you finally commit to the long hard grind that is long term success on YouTube you will finally open your mind to the amount of work you need to put in to make it all work.
Lead With Value — Giving Away Your Business Secrets (DEEP DIVE) // Are you worried that if you give away all your tips and tricks that people wont want to use your services any more? Are you a business YouTuber trying to find new clients and worried you might be talking yourself out of a sale? If you LEAD WITH VALUE you can prove to your potential client that you are an expert in your field and win their trust.
Plus to quote Gary Vee — 99% of people wont use the information anyway — this means they learn that you know these things and then hire you to help them anyway.
Grow Your YouTube Channel — 100 Videos To Success YouTube Growth Strategy 2019 // YouTube Growth 2019 is hard but it can be soul destroying if all you do is watch your numbers. I am asked “how can i grow my channel” all the time. People asking why they have XX subs but no views etc. What i say is you should not even be looking at number until you do are 100 Videos to Success and YouTube Growth.
If you focus on making your first 100 videos and not on the views and subscribers, you will then be able to see how to improve your videos. You will learn how to make videos, get comfortable on camera, light your videos and build your skills.
You can grow your youtube channel in 2019 but you have to do the leg work first, run the marathon not the sprint!
My tried and test youtube channel growth strategy that help people learn and grow their youtube channel using the power of evergreen how to content. Grow a youtube channel fast with searchable, rank high in youtube search and get more views with tutorials.
How To videos are my secret weapon when it comes to youtube success, youtube views, growing on youtube and getting more subscribers in 2019. If you can help people with How To evergreen content you will win their loyalty and increase views, engagement and subscriber counts!
Creator Fundamentals, Dan Currier shares his Tips for Small Youtubers – 10 Small YouTuber Growth Tips // Grow on YouTube with these tips. Dan teams up with the Alan Spicer channel to get you started.
1 – Sharing – Make sure when you are trying to grow on youtube that you to not spam your content and annoy people. There is always a right way and a wring way to share your content. Take part in the community and earn their trust before you start posting your content links.
2 – Heart Comments – Grow On YouTube by showing people you care about their comments. On the comment section of your videos you are able heart comments. This then send the comment owner a notification via email telling them you think their comment is special. This could win them back to your video for another view, comment or subscribe.
3 – Shout Outs – Everyone seems to think that to grow on YouTube you need to get a shout out from a huge YouTuber. This is a myth and in fact could set you back in the long run as you get subs that are their for the large creator and not you.
4 – Subtitles – Grow on YouTube by growing your audience base. Your channel will have a base of viewers that regularly watch your content. But if you check your demographics you might see a country that watches your content and might speak a different language. Add subtitles to help them read along.
5 – Link To Playlists – If you are already getting views on YouTube then you nee to grown on Youtube via playlists. When you share your video out, dont just share the video link, share the video linked in a playlist… you might get them to binge your content.
6 – Info Cards – Keep your audience engaged and hook them into your next video by prompting them with info cards. These are visible on YouTube mobile and can be a good way to reference other videos during a related video, or link to playlists.
7 – Build A Community – To grow on youtube you need to grow the community around you. The more people can find you the more likely they are to join your community and share you. Open a facebook group and grow it alongside your Youtube channel and use that to ask questions and involve your viewers.
8 – Live Streams – Engage your community by showing them your personality in a live stream. These can be much more humanising that the standard pre-recorded content you uploaded. Its a great way to give back to your audience, create quick content and maybe even make some money with Super Chat.
9 – Small Improvements – You will not be perfect on day one. The more you learn the more tweaks you can make and small improvements really do add up over time.
10 – YOU YOU YOU – Did you know that the best way to grow on youtube is to be direct and form a one on one connection with your viewers. The best way to do this is with YOU Language.
Why Is My Channel Growth So Slow? – Growing Slowly on YouTube – YouTube RANT // How To Grow on YouTube is a question I am asked on a regular basis. Everyone seems so worried that they are growing slowly… but I say SLOW growth is good, SLOW growth is better than NO GROWTH. Use the time to LEARN how to grow your channel, learn how to get better at YouTube, learn what your AUDIENCE is looking for.
YouTube is a long haul game and you should not expect rapid growth within a week. In fact you should be focusing on getting better and should ignore the views and sub count until you have at least 100 videos. This gives you time to learn what you need to do to make videos, what your audience wants and how you can share your videos properly. Once you have the practice, you will have the skills you need to grow your channel more reliably.
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