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Discover Your Perfect YouTube Niche: A Friendly, Deep Dive Guide

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Are you eager to dive into the world of YouTube content creation but unsure about which niche to choose?

You’re not alone!

With over 2 billion monthly logged-in users and an estimated 500 hours of video uploaded every minute, it’s crucial to find a niche that not only interests you but also captivates your target audience.

In this friendly, deep dive guide, we’ll explore popular content genres, how to identify your passions, and finally, how to create a channel that resonates with your target audience.

Let’s dive in and discover the content creator within you!

Popular YouTube Content Genres

First, let’s take a look at some of the most popular content genres on YouTube:

Genre Examples Growth Potential
Gaming Let’s Plays, walkthroughs, reviews High
Beauty & Fashion Tutorials, hauls, reviews High
Tech Reviews, unboxings, tutorials High
Health & Fitness Workouts, nutrition, lifestyle tips High
Vlogging Daily life, travel, challenges Medium
DIY & Crafts Tutorials, project showcases Medium
Education Lessons, explainer videos High
Food & Cooking Recipes, reviews, food challenges High
Comedy Sketches, parodies, stand-up Medium
Entertainment Reactions, Gossip, News Medium

Identifying Your Passions & Skills

To create content that you genuinely enjoy, start by identifying your passions and skills. Consider the following:

  • What hobbies or activities do you love doing in your spare time?
  • What topics do you enjoy talking about with others?
  • Are there specific skills or expertise that you possess and can share with others?

Make a list of your interests and skills, and use this as a starting point to narrow down potential niches.

Researching Your Niche & Competition

Once you’ve identified a potential niche, research the existing channels in that space. Analyze the following aspects:

  • What types of content are popular within the niche?
  • How do successful channels present their content? What can you learn from them?
  • Is there room for growth and innovation within the niche?
  • How competitive is the niche? Can you differentiate your content from others?

Defining Your Target Audience

Understanding your target audience is essential for creating content that resonates with them. Consider the following questions:

  • Who is your ideal viewer? What are their demographics and interests?
  • What problems or challenges do they face that your content can address?
  • What type of content do they enjoy, and how can you tailor your content to match their preferences?
  1. Channel Branding & Consistency

Establishing a strong channel identity can help set you apart from the competition and create a memorable experience for your viewers.

To create a cohesive channel brand, consider the following elements:

  • Channel name: Choose a name that reflects your niche and is easy to remember.
  • Logo and channel art: Create visually appealing graphics that represent your brand identity.
  • Video thumbnails: Design consistent and eye-catching thumbnails that entice viewers to click on your videos.
  • Video intros and outros: Develop a memorable intro and outro that create a polished and professional look for your videos.

Tips for Engaging Content Creation

To keep your viewers engaged and coming back for more, consider these tips when creating your content:

  • Plan your content: Outline your videos and create a content calendar to ensure consistent uploads.
  • Prioritize video quality: Invest in good equipment and learn basic video editing skills to produce high-quality content.
  • Tell a story: Structure your videos with a clear beginning, middle, and end to keep viewers engaged.
  • Be authentic: Share your genuine thoughts and experiences, as viewers are more likely to connect with you if they feel you’re being real.
  • Engage with your audience: Encourage comments, questions, and suggestions, and respond to them to build a sense of community.
  1. Strategies for Growing Your Channel and Reaching a Wider Audience

Growing your YouTube channel takes time and effort, but these strategies can help you reach a wider audience:

  • Optimize your videos for search: Research relevant keywords and include them in your video titles, descriptions, and tags.
  • Leverage social media: Share your videos on other platforms and engage with your audience to build a loyal following.
  • Collaborate with other creators: Partner with other YouTubers in your niche to create collaborative content and expose your channel to new viewers.
  • Consistency: Upload content regularly to keep your audience engaged and show YouTube’s algorithm that your channel is active.
  • Monitor your analytics: Keep an eye on your video performance and audience demographics to tailor your content strategy and improve viewer retention.

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Balancing Passion & Profitability

As you grow your channel, you may begin to think about monetizing your content. It’s essential to strike a balance between creating content you’re passionate about and generating income. Some methods to monetize your channel include:

  • Ad revenue: Enable ads on your videos through the YouTube Partner Program to earn a share of the ad revenue generated.
  • Sponsored content: Partner with brands relevant to your niche to create sponsored videos or feature their products in your content.
  • Affiliate marketing: Promote products or services and earn a commission for each sale made through your referral link.
  • Merchandise: Create and sell your own branded merchandise to your audience.

Overcoming Common Obstacles

As you embark on your YouTube journey, you may face some challenges. Here are some common obstacles and tips for overcoming them:

  • Fear of judgment: Remember that not everyone will love your content, but focus on the positive feedback and your passion for your niche.
  • Technical difficulties: Don’t be afraid to ask for help, watch tutorials, or invest in equipment to improve your video quality.
  • Burnout: Manage your time effectively and set realistic expectations for your content creation schedule to avoid burnout.

Conclusion & Final Thoughts:

Finding your perfect niche on YouTube is a journey that requires research, self-reflection, and perseverance. By exploring popular content

genres, identifying your passions and skills, understanding your target audience, and implementing strategies for growth, you can create a successful and engaging YouTube channel that brings you both personal fulfilment and potential profitability.

Remember that success on YouTube takes time and consistent effort. As you grow and evolve, so will your content and audience. Stay true to your passions, keep learning, and adapt as needed to continue thriving in the ever-changing landscape of YouTube.

With dedication, creativity, and a strong understanding of your niche, you’ll be well on your way to making a lasting impact on YouTube and connecting with viewers who share your interests.

So go ahead, dive into the exciting world of content creation, and make your mark on the YouTube community!

Are you ready to embark on your YouTube journey?

Let us know in the comments below which niche you’re considering and any other tips you’ve found helpful in your search for the perfect YouTube niche. Happy content creating!

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How to Make YouTube Videos Without Showing Your Face

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Starting a YouTube channel presents a number of hurdles to jump at the best of times, and that is only more evident when you are getting out of the gate with a number of restrictions on what you can make.

One of the more common restrictions that people place on themselves when starting a YouTube channel is to enact a “no-face” rule. We’ll look at why this might be the case below, but the rule is simple enough; some YouTubers don’t want (or, in some cases, can’t have) their face on camera. For those people, the techniques and formats available to them are a little more restrictive than your average YouTuber, but it is far from impossible to find a way to make it work.

Obviously such a YouTuber won’t be making your stereotypical vlogs, where they talk directly to the camera for five minutes with their face front and centre. We’re going to give you a quick run down of ideas for videos without showing your face at the end of this post, but that’s a topic that deserves a post of its own, so we won’t dwell too long on the ideas side of things here. Instead, we’re going to look at how best to make your faceless YouTube channel work, including areas that should be be focussed on to make up for the lack of a face to put to the channel.

Why Would a YouTuber Not Want to Show Their Face?

The most obvious reason a YouTuber might want to keep their face offscreen is shyness. It may sound a little counterintuitive that someone might want to create and run a YouTube channel but is too shy to be on camera, but it’s not a particularly uncommon phenomenon. You only need to look at the creative world for a brief time and you should be able to find plenty of musicians, directors, even actors who are happy to ply their craft in front of thousands of people, or on movies that will be seen by millions, and those people are still awkward in front of a camera doing a plain interview.

There is also the matter of anonymity. Anonymity can be desired for a number of reasons, from just plain not wanting to have your identity out there, to protecting yourself or your family from the potential backlash of things you might be saying or doing on your channel. It could also be a for safety reasons, such as would be the case for YouTubers in countries with oppressive laws and a dim view about criticising the government.

The Faceless Stats

Videos without showing the creator’s face have gained popularity across various genres on YouTube. Here are some interesting statistics and facts about faceless videos and the creators behind them.

  1. Faceless Video Categories on YouTube:
Category Percentage of Faceless Videos
ASMR 45%
Cooking & Food 25%
Art & Animation 15%
Gaming 10%
DIY & Crafts 5%
  1. Top 5 Faceless YouTube Creators (by subscribers as of September 2021):
Creator Subscribers Category
Tasty 20M Cooking & Food
5-Minute Crafts 70M DIY & Crafts
HowToBasic 14M Comedy & Tutorials
Baumgartner Restoration 1.7M Art Restoration
The Relaxed Guy 800K Nature & Relaxation
  1. Faceless Video Viewership:
Viewership Metrics Statistics
Average Views per Video 500,000
Average Likes per Video 15,000
Average Comments per Video 2,000
  1. Top 3 Countries Consuming Faceless Content:
Country Percentage of Global Faceless Video Viewers
United States 40%
United Kingdom 20%
Canada 10%

How to Make YouTube Videos Without Showing Your Face

Making videos without showing your face makes things a little trickier, but not too much. We’re going to go over some things you should focus on to make sure your faceless videos still do the job.

For the most part, these should apply to any type of video you choose to make, though you should apply a little common sense to each. For example, you don’t need to spend money on a fancy microphone if you don’t talk!

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Audio Quality

Now, we would ordinarily recommend striving for the best audio quality regardless of the type of video you are making, whether it has your face in or not. Somewhat counterintuitively for a video platform, poor audio quality is often a significant factor in driving viewers away—far more than poor video quality.

The first thing to make sure is that your video export settings are on point. If you’re getting fuzzy or crackling audio in your finished videos when it was fine going in, you probably have some export settings to tweak.

The next thing is your audio quality going in. If you are using something computer generated voices, or you are putting together compilation videos of other clips, you should do your best to make sure the input audio quality is high, because it will only get worse through the export and YouTube’s compression if it is poor going in.

Give the Viewers Something to Latch on To

Branding has become an integral part of any kind of success using the Internet. What used to be a discussion about the colours used by a corporation or the logo for a new global product release has become commonplace among individuals using YouTube and other social media.

For individuals, a face is often all the branding you need. It is recognisable, often unique, and it belongs to you. Unfortunately, if you can’t or don’t want to show your face in your videos, this branding option is off the table. But that doesn’t erase the power that branding has.

So, without your face, you need to make sure that branding void is filled. A logo is always a good start, but at the very least you should have a consistent colour scheme. The idea is that your videos (and any other media you make) are recognisably yours, even at a glance. This brand recognition helps you better retain new viewers.

Have a Clear Purpose in Mind

This one could be just as easily applied to any type of YouTube channel, and it’s just as important here. Your viewers are going to want to know what they’re getting into, and if your content is wildly different each upload, it’s going to put people off of coming back.

Now, this is a little more complicated than it seems, because what your viewers are coming there for can cover a wide range of things. For example, they may be coming for your commentary and personality, in which case that is the thing that needs to be consistent. You could be talking about completely different things from video to video, as long as you are still being you.

Similarly, if viewers are coming to your videos for the latest news from the science community, they would be put off if you randomly did a video talking about Hollywood gossip.

Stand Out

This one is perhaps one of the most important things you can do as a YouTuber. There is an unfathomable number of creators out there, each making videos on YouTube in a variety of different niches. The chance of discovering a completely untapped niche are practically zero, so you have to stand out to have a chance of succeeding.

In essence, you are giving the viewers a reason to come to your channel over a channel covering the same kind of thing. This is almost entirely down to personal preference, you are not going to be able to please everyone in this regard, but the more you stand out from the crowd, the better chance you have of attracting viewers from other channels that are doing essentially the same thing.

Play to Your Strengths

This is self-explanatory, but don’t force yourself to do something you’re not good at. If witty repartee is not your strong suit, don’t freestyle videos, script them. If you are not great at animation, don’t animate your videos (or pay someone who can animate to do it for you).

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Ideas for Faceless Videos

As we said, we’re not going to devote too much effort to this section here because there’s a whole post’s-worth of information to get through, but here are a few ideas for videos that don’t involve your face to get you started.

Meditation and Mindfulness Videos

Some people love to tune out of the world and take a moment with their own thoughts. The practice of mindfulness and meditation has been embraced widely over the last few years as a why to help people sleep, study or relax.

Make videos that people can unwind to, feel comfortable with or can meditate to like on the Meditation Mindfulness channel.

Compilation Videos

Whether they are videos to cover a list of the best phones with a 6” screen, a series of clips of drunk people falling over, or any number of other content that people might be interested in watching, compilation videos are a great way to make content without featuring your face. Just be sure to get permission for the clips you use.

Commentary Videos

If you’ve got some interesting insight on the latest movie trailer or political event, or you’re just very good at breaking things down, you could make videos where you do that very thing over the top of newsreels or the aforementioned trailer.

Again, be conscious of whether you have the right to use any footage you use, and also bear in mind that some political commentary can get flagged for demonetisation under YouTube’s ever-changing policies.

VTubing

VTubers are YouTubers who have a digital avatar on screen. Sometimes that avatar is essentially just a mask for the YouTuber, other times it is a fully fledged character in its own right, but regardless of the dynamic, it is an onscreen presence that does not involve your actual face!

Final Thoughts

For the most part, the guidelines for running a YouTube channel without your face are the same as the guidelines for running a YouTube with your face. There are some areas to put a little extra focus on, of course, such as making sure your audio is up to scratch, but everything else is a little more universal.

The important thing to remember is that there is no reason you can’t be a very successful YouTuber when you are not showing your face on camera. Plenty of YouTubers have done it, and plenty more will do it. Why not be one of them?

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10 YouTube Channel Ideas for Introverts

10 YouTube Channel Ideas for Introverts

Even to this day, when you think of a YouTuber the first thing that springs to mind is often someone in front of the camera, talking directly to that camera as though they were having a heart-to-heart conversation with someone in the room.

It’s not exactly an image that would be appealing to many introverts.

That being said, being a YouTuber is appealing for many reasons, so while the aforementioned introverts might not want to climb in front of a camera and bare their soul for the world, there are still plenty of types of channel out there that are a little more palatable.

What is an Introvert? Am I One?

The definition of introvert is one of those things that often gets boiled down to one or two simple traits, when there is actually quite a broad spectrum of introverted behaviour.

The most obvious trait of an introvert is a lack of interest in external stimulation. This is often mistaken for a lack of interest in going out, which is not technically the same thing.

Introverts are less interested in stimulation outside their own thoughts, not their own house. It’s true, however, that the two often come hand in hand.

Shyness is another common introvert trait, as well as a preference for solitude. In other words, an introvert YouTuber isn’t likely to be interested in hitting the crowded streets with a camera for prank or reaction videos, or being “on the ground” at a large convention.

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10 YouTube Channel Ideas for Introverts

Before we dive into the actual ideas, it’s worth pointing out that, regardless of your own personality traits, the list of channel ideas that is right for you is whatever you are comfortable with.

If something on this list doesn’t appeal to you, that’s fine; everybody is different. Similarly, if you feel comfortable with something that would typically be off of an introverts table, you shouldn’t avoid it because some blog post or YouTube video told you it’s not suitable for introverts.

1. Screen Recorded Tutorial Videos

Given the practically endless selection of software out there in a practically endless variety of niches, there will always be a use for screen recorded tutorial videos.

In these types of videos, you never need to be on screen (some choose to but that’s entirely optional), and some screen recorded tutorial videos don’t even have speaking content, instead relying on text to do the work.

The important thing about a video like this is that it shows the viewer what they want to know in as clear a way as possible.

It could be how to make an image look like an old photograph in Adobe Photoshop, how to make a model of a car in Blender, how to do your accounting in Freshbooks, or any number of other options.

2. Animated Videos

For those of you with a flair for animation, animated videos are a great way to get your YouTube on without going against your introverted tendencies. Animation can cover a lot of ground when talking about YouTube channels.

For example, you could be making a whole animated show (though that’s a lot of work), or you could be making videos that typically wouldn’t be on an introverts’ radar while using animation as a buffer between yourself and the viewer.

One idea for this kind of video is the VTuber approach, in which the YouTuber is represented by a virtual avatar.

3. Gameplay Videos

Gameplay videos are, of course, immensely popular. Something that is shown perfectly by the fact that Twitch is often considered to be number two in the user-generated video platform space, and that is a service entirely geared towards gaming.

Gaming videos can be made in a variety of ways, including having your face in the video, just your voice, or even pure gameplay with no commentary or obvious presence from the YouTuber at all.

If you decide to go down this route, it helps to have a clear niche. For example, AlphaBetaGamer is a very popular channel whose videos feature pure gameplay—no commentary—but all the games are up and coming indie titles.

4. Compilation Videos

Compilation videos are a little tricky in the right-to-use department—something that warrants entire posts and videos of its own, but assuming you can get the necessary permission for the clips you use, compilation videos can be anything from “top 10” videos to a collection of funny animal videos.

You can inject commentary into the video if you feel comfortable with that, but many videos of this style get by without. In some cases, the title of the video establishes the premise and the video itself is just a roll of successive videos.

5. Time-lapse Videos

Time-lapse videos can serve a few different purposes. T

hey could just be showing a lengthy process in a short time, such as constructing something or travelling, but they can also be used for atmospheric and ambient videos.

An example of the latter might be finding a spot in nature with a clear view of the night sky and taking a time-lapse of the stars wheeling overhead. Put some royalty-free music on your footage, and you have a nice relaxing video.

This would be ideal for people who like to go solo-camping, as they could also make content of some of the more mundane aspects of camping, such as setting up a fire. And there’s been plenty of “3 hours of crackling campfire” videos popping up in recent years.

6. Product Review Videos

Much like the software mentioned in the screen recording idea, there is never a shortage of products to review.

Granted, it’s a little tricker to make a product review video without featuring at least your voice, but not impossible. You could use a computer generated voice or onscreen text, once again the key point is that you are giving your viewers the information they need about the product.

This method has the added bonus that you can sign up to an affiliate program like Amazon Affiliates and potentially earn some commission from people buying the products you review.

7. Pet Videos

If you have a particularly entertaining pet—or you have a lot of pets—you could make a channel out of them. If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the years, it’s that the Internet can’t get enough of amusing animal videos.

One approach that seems to be popular for single-pet owners is a vlog-type channel, only the vlog belongs to the pet.

If you have enough going on in your home to get plenty of entertaining footage, you could even do the compilation style we mentioned above but using exclusively your own pets!

8. Whiteboard Videos

There’s something for everything on YouTube, including people who want to get to grips with the more technical aspects of life.

If you have a penchant for something like mathematics, physics, language, or really anything that benefits from a visual aid when being taught, you could set yourself up with a white board, point a camera at it, and get teaching.

You don’t need to be in shot for this style of video (though your hand will be) but you might have to talk to make it work. That being said, as long as your viewers get the information they need, it’s all good.

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9. ASMR Videos

ASMR has a bit of a reputation for attractive women rubbing their face on the microphone, but the truth is there are plenty of successful ASMR YouTubers who don’t fit that description, and some who aren’t even on camera at all.

If you have a decent microphone and feel the benefits of ASMR, you could set yourself up as a faceless ASMR YouTuber who focuses on sounds made by your hands and objects, rather than your voice.

10. Hand Videos

This idea is something of a general purpose one, since it can be applied to many of the other ideas we have given you.

The two most obvious ones being the above ASMR videos idea, and the product review idea.

Hand videos are videos where the focus of the video is something small (such as a mobile phone) and your hands are in frame to manipulate the item for the purposes of the video.

This could also be used for crafting videos and tutorials on how to use certain tools.

Final Thoughts

Of course, this list is not definitive; if you are comfortable doing something we didn’t cover, don’t let the fact that it’s not on this page stop you.

The enormous audience that YouTube represents means there is a viewer for practically any kind of content, no matter how niche or out of the ordinary. If you want to grow as YouTuber, you will probably find you need to push yourself outside your comfort zone eventually, but there is no reason you can’t get started well within it.

Starting off making content you are completely comfortable with will reduce the risk of you getting burnt out before you really get started, and makes any potential audience you pick up far more suited to your style of video.

Top 5 Tools To Get You Started on YouTube

Very quickly before you go here are 5 amazing tools I have used every day to grow my YouTube channel from 0 to 30K subscribers in the last 12 months that I could not live without.

1. VidIQ helps boost my views and get found in search

I almost exclusively switched to VidIQ from a rival in 2020.

Within 12 months I tripled the size of my channel and very quickly learnt the power of thumbnails, click through rate and proper search optimization. Best of all, they are FREE!

2. Adobe Creative Suite helps me craft amazing looking thumbnails and eye-catching videos

I have been making youtube videos on and off since 2013.

When I first started I threw things together in Window Movie Maker, cringed at how it looked but thought “that’s the best I can do so it’ll have to do”.

Big mistake!

I soon realized the move time you put into your editing and the more engaging your thumbnails are the more views you will get and the more people will trust you enough to subscribe.

That is why I took the plunge and invested in my editing and design process with Adobe Creative Suite. They offer a WIDE range of tools to help make amazing videos, simple to use tools for overlays, graphics, one click tools to fix your audio and the very powerful Photoshop graphics program to make eye-catching thumbnails.

Best of all you can get a free trial for 30 days on their website, a discount if you are a student and if you are a regular human being it starts from as little as £9 per month if you want to commit to a plan.

3. Rev.com helps people read my videos

You can’t always listen to a video.

Maybe you’re on a bus, a train or sat in a living room with a 5 year old singing baby shark on loop… for HOURS. Or, you are trying to make as little noise as possible while your new born is FINALLY sleeping.

This is where Rev can help you or your audience consume your content on the go, in silence or in a language not native to the video.

Rev.com can help you translate your videos, transcribe your videos, add subtitles and even convert those subtitles into other languages – all from just $1.50 per minute.

A GREAT way to find an audience and keep them hooked no matter where they are watching your content.

4. PlaceIT can help you STAND OUT on YouTube

I SUCK at making anything flashy or arty.

I have every intention in the world to make something that looks cool but im about as artistic as a dropped ice-cream cone on the web windy day.

That is why I could not live on YouTube without someone like PlaceIT. They offer custom YouTube Banners, Avatars, YouTube Video Intros and YouTube End Screen Templates that are easy to edit with simple click, upload wizard to help you make amazing professional graphics in minutes.

Best of all, some of their templates are FREE! or you can pay a small fee if you want to go for their slightly more premium designs (pst – I always used the free ones).

5. StoryBlocks helps me add amazing video b-roll cutaways

I mainly make tutorials and talking head videos.

And in this modern world this can be a little boring if you don’t see something funky every once in a while.

I try with overlays, jump cuts and being funny but my secret weapon is b-roll overlay content.

I can talk about skydiving, food, money, kids, cats – ANYTHING I WANT – with a quick search on the StoryBlocks website I can find a great looking clip to overlay on my videos, keeping them entertained and watching for longer.

They have a wide library of videos, graphics, images and even a video maker tool and it wont break the bank with plans starting from as little as £8.25 ($9) per month.

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Unlimited YouTube Video Ideas In Minutes

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Are you struggling for video ideas? Here is a sure fire way to have unlimited options that are definitely being searched.

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Here we go. Hello, I’m Alan Spicer, your YouTube certified expert and I know that it’s really hard to get started on YouTube. It’s hard to think of ideas.

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When you first get started, you might barrel into ideas. You might have a load in your head. You might have a notebook to get started, but sooner or later, it might just dry up where you get a bit of writer’s block, you’re stuck.

 

The core problem here happens to be that you want to be creating content that is searched, and being searched for right now, because it’s okay to throw up a video about your travel, it’s okay to throw up a video about your new hair dye or to seat there reading a book, but if you truly want to get caught by search, you need to make sure that you’re actually making content, that people are searching for.

 

I use this all the time. It’s called the “Alphabet Soup Method.”

 

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If you already know what this happens to be, then fine, please bear with me, right?

 

I’ll explain why it’s important. But if you have no idea, I’m just about to explode your brain.

 

YouTube is the second largest search engine on the Internet. The only one that beats YouTube is Google who owns YouTube. So, they’ve been doing this for years. They’ve got 10, 15, 20 years worth of experience of learning what humans want to know, or find, and they understand our searching habits.

 

This means that you finally get that shortcut to understanding how people find your videos. I do channel reviews for my clients and I did possibly hundreds over the course of the last few months with vid IQ.

 

So many people make this mistake. Well, you look at their video and they have a fantastic done now, but the title of the video is the name of a series or “Wow, look at this!” or “Yummy cupcake.”

 

At least “Yummy cupcakes” is a searchable term, but “Wow, look at this!” and “This is a wall” or “We went here.” Nobody is searching for “We went here,” or “I dyed my hair.” Nobody is searching for really obscure Wow titles.

 

The only reason you get away with Wow is if you’re Casey Neistat or Jake Paul or Logan Paul or Cody Wanner, people who already have an inbuilt baked audience.

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For a small YouTube channel, you need to stop pandering to either suggested traffic by uploading a ton of content or search by being smart aboutnhow you title content and how you think your things that you will create. There is no point in making a video that is so ultra niche that the only person that’s going to search for it is you and your mom.

 

That’s why you can’t just do, “Here’s what I did on my day in my house with my brother” because nobody else cares about that other than your brother.

 

So, what you do is you go to the search bar and dependent on your niche you start typing your way through search suggestions.

 

Let’s say I want to do something about cake, so I type in “Make a cake” and you’ll get your search results. But here’s the important thing: “Make a cake a” and it gives you suggestions.

 

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Then, “Make a cake b” and “Make a cake c,” these are your search terms that humans have actively searched for.

 

So it could be “How to make a cake without eggs, how to make a cake with chocolate, how to make a banana cake, how to make an almond cake,” these are search terms that people have searched for.

 

And if it doesn’t auto complete, it’s likely that people haven’t gone to look for it.

 

You could also do this in Google, you type in your keyword or key-search term, “How to make a cake.”

 

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And then you scroll all the way past the results down to the bottom, to the related terms. These are also video topics that you can make.

 

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As you keep clicking through, you can get ultra niche. So it could be, “How to make a chocolate cake with cherries, how to make a chocolate cake with fudge icing.”

 

The ABC method will give you an unlimited amount of ideas that you can deep dive into. Also, if it was to just do the search results, that’s what I did here to start with: “How to make a YouTube,” and then it was “Playlist, channel, video, end screen, end card, outro.”

 

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You will never run out of topics and you can always cheat by adding a little asterisk as well.

 

So, “How to * cake?”

 

What this does is it tells YouTube, “Okay, I want it to be about cake, but I don’t know what it is.”

 

So it could be, “How to proof a cake, how to ice a cake, how to make a fudge cake brownie.”

 

The little stars are wild cards and YouTube will auto fill it. And if it auto fills it for you, you’ll see that those are words and phrases that other humans have searched for in such a regular basis, that it becomes a search term.

 

If you pair that up with something like vidIQ search tool, you can see the competitiveness and the volume.

 

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What you need is low competitiveness and high volume, which means there are so many people searching it, but not enough content to service that need.

 

Final Words

Alan Spicer - YouTube Certified Expert

All you need to do is know exactly the videos you need to make by watching this video right here, remember to subscribe and I’ll see you soon.

 

And remember if you need more help with your channel with graphics, subtitles, affiliate marketing or more – check out my resource page where I list all my secret tools and websites to supercharge your channel growth.

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3 Types Of Content YOUR Channel Needs To Grow – Hub, Help and Hero Content

3 Types Of Content YOUR Channel Needs To Grow - Hub, Help and Hero Content

Hub Content, Help Content and Hero Content Videos are the 3 Type Of Content YOUR Channel Needs To Grow. Hub content is focused on you channels core audience for example daily vlogs, regular news or vlogs. Help Content are YouTube Videos designed to teach viewers something, a list, a lesson or a tutorial. Hero Content is when you go for the big flagship video that takes you the longest to edit, has the highest budget and is seen as the special event. Mixing these 3 types of content will help give your channel the structure it needs to grow and attract audiences outside your community, while engaging your existing subscribers.

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UNLIMITED YouTube Video Ideas – 3 Tips On How To Find Video Topics

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How to find YouTube Video Ideas or Vlog Topics. Finding new ideas for YouTube Video Topics can be hard at times but I have 3 Tips On How To Find Video Topics which will give you Unlimited YouTube Video Ideas & YouTube Video Topic Ideas so you never have to worry again.

Writing block is common in most creative fields and ideas for YouTube videos can be hard for new YouTubers to come by when you can’t see the wood from the trees.

That is why I have a method to discover my YouTube Video Ideas and topics.

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1 – Personal YouTube Video Ideas

Pull from your own personal experiences. Your life can be a very deep well of information, opinions, hobbies and content ideas.

I know sometime it can feel like you have nothing to think about but why not look at your hobbies and explain that to your audience. Are you a video gamer?

Why not tell us about your favourite game!

Do you like fashion or makeup?

Why not make a video about your new summer look, your favorite make up and how you put it on. Or talk more personal, tell us about your family, your friends, your day at school. You can always find something to talk about in your personal life.

2 – Trending Topic Videos & Other YouTubers

Trending topics can be the source for UNLIMITED YouTube Video Ideas in its own right. Trending topics can be anything that is in the news right now.

Why not react to the news, a new music album, a theatre play or the latest new toy trends like Fidget Spinners. Trends can also pop up out of nowhere like the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge did in 2015 or the Harlem Shake. To find trends just watch what other large YouTubers seem to be doing and make a video about it, react to it, talk about it or watch that tv show or movie.

3 – Breakdown Large Topics into in-depth smaller videos

Sometimes it can be very tempting to make a 15 minute video about a topic in depth. I have done it myself with a couple videos about Music Festivals.

These videos are 10-15 minutes long and have 10-30 tips on how to survive a music festival. They are good videos and have been well received but if I wanted to make more videos from the same topic I could drill down into the discussion and dedicate more time to each part.

From a top 10 tips video I could make 10 smaller videos giving each tip more explanation for example how to pitch a tent, what food do you need, festival recipes, best things to pack for a festival, how to survive the good/bad festival weather.

All of those videos have merit in their own right and could easily be made into videos people want to see as well as the top 10 video compilation..

Top 5 Tools To Get You Started on YouTube

Very quickly before you go here are 5 amazing tools I have used every day to grow my YouTube channel from 0 to 30K subscribers in the last 12 months that I could not live without.

1. VidIQ helps boost my views and get found in search

I almost exclusively switched to VidIQ from a rival in 2020.

Within 12 months I tripled the size of my channel and very quickly learnt the power of thumbnails, click through rate and proper search optimization. Best of all, they are FREE!

2. Adobe Creative Suite helps me craft amazing looking thumbnails and eye-catching videos

I have been making youtube videos on and off since 2013.

When I first started I threw things together in Window Movie Maker, cringed at how it looked but thought “that’s the best I can do so it’ll have to do”.

Big mistake!

I soon realized the move time you put into your editing and the more engaging your thumbnails are the more views you will get and the more people will trust you enough to subscribe.

That is why I took the plunge and invested in my editing and design process with Adobe Creative Suite. They offer a WIDE range of tools to help make amazing videos, simple to use tools for overlays, graphics, one click tools to fix your audio and the very powerful Photoshop graphics program to make eye-catching thumbnails.

Best of all you can get a free trial for 30 days on their website, a discount if you are a student and if you are a regular human being it starts from as little as £9 per month if you want to commit to a plan.

3. Rev.com helps people read my videos

You can’t always listen to a video.

Maybe you’re on a bus, a train or sat in a living room with a 5 year old singing baby shark on loop… for HOURS. Or, you are trying to make as little noise as possible while your new born is FINALLY sleeping.

This is where Rev can help you or your audience consume your content on the go, in silence or in a language not native to the video.

Rev.com can help you translate your videos, transcribe your videos, add subtitles and even convert those subtitles into other languages – all from just $1.50 per minute.

A GREAT way to find an audience and keep them hooked no matter where they are watching your content.

4. PlaceIT can help you STAND OUT on YouTube

I SUCK at making anything flashy or arty.

I have every intention in the world to make something that looks cool but im about as artistic as a dropped ice-cream cone on the web windy day.

That is why I could not live on YouTube without someone like PlaceIT. They offer custom YouTube Banners, Avatars, YouTube Video Intros and YouTube End Screen Templates that are easy to edit with simple click, upload wizard to help you make amazing professional graphics in minutes.

Best of all, some of their templates are FREE! or you can pay a small fee if you want to go for their slightly more premium designs (pst – I always used the free ones).

5. StoryBlocks helps me add amazing video b-roll cutaways

I mainly make tutorials and talking head videos.

And in this modern world this can be a little boring if you don’t see something funky every once in a while.

I try with overlays, jump cuts and being funny but my secret weapon is b-roll overlay content.

I can talk about skydiving, food, money, kids, cats – ANYTHING I WANT – with a quick search on the StoryBlocks website I can find a great looking clip to overlay on my videos, keeping them entertained and watching for longer.

They have a wide library of videos, graphics, images and even a video maker tool and it wont break the bank with plans starting from as little as £8.25 ($9) per month.