- If you are new to YouTube,
then you're going to want to pay attention
to what I'm about to tell you.
I'm going to share with you 10 things
that are definitely going to help you out
on this massive and sometimes confusing video platform
called YouTube.
And by the way, you'll want to pay special attention
to the last thing I'm gonna tell you,
because if you don't already know about it
it can be an absolute game changer.
And regardless of where you are in your YouTube journey,
if you have questions about YouTube or content creation,
go down and leave a comment below.
I read every single question and comment
and I reply to as many of them as possible.
When this video's over,
I'm going to go down there and carry on this conversation
and answer your questions.
- [Male Voice] Number one.
- Now I've talked about this one in previous videos,
but it's so important I feel like
I need to bring it up again
because I really need you to understand
the importance of it.
And that's, don't get caught up with gear and gadgets.
Start with whatever you have right now.
If that's a phone, start with your phone.
If it's an old video camera,
start with an old video camera.
You can upgrade along the way as you need to,
but the most important thing is to start.
I can assure you that whatever message
you're trying to share or the story that you're telling
is way, way, way more important
than any piece of gear that you will ever own.
I promise you that and your future self is gonna thank you
if you get started today.
And I know that right now you're probably thinking,
yeah but D my video quality is horrible.
I don't have any light at all, my room echoes.
And that might be, but the important thing is
you just have to get started because
you have to learn how to edit,
you have to learn how to make thumbnails,
you have to learn how to tell a good story.
There's a lot to learn,
and believe me when I say this,
it doesn't matter what you start with now
because when you get further down the road
on your YouTube journey,
you're gonna look back at your first videos
and you're going to cringe.
It doesn't matter if you have the best gear
or the worst gear,
you're going to say, oh I can't believe I did that.
So, just get started.
Trust me on this one.
If you don't listen to anything else I say ever again,
listen to that.
- [Male Voice] Number two.
- The internet can sometimes be a strange place
and a lot of people think that
if they find something on the internet,
they can download it and use it any way they want.
Well, that's not the case, especially at YouTube.
In fact, you can get your channel deleted
for using content that isn't yours.
That includes music that's not yours,
images that are not yours,
and video clips that are not yours.
If you didn't pay for it or license
or get permission to use the content
that you're putting in your video, don't use it.
And you're probably thinking right now,
well yeah D, but my favorite YouTuber,
he does this all the time.
He uses songs from the Beastie Boys and movie clips,
just three or four seconds.
Well look, they might be able to get away with it
because they've got 10 million subscribers,
but at anytime the could also have those videos
taken offline because of it.
The bottom line is if it's not yours,
do not use it.
Don't take the risk.
Because if you get three strikes, you're out.
They will terminate your channel.
So it's just not worth it.
I'm going to put links down in the description below
places you can get music, places you can get videos,
places where you can legally get content
to put into your videos.
It's just not worth taking the risk
to use somebody else's content
just because somebody else is getting away with it
for the time being.
So if you don't own it, don't use it.
- [Male Voice] Number three.
- Don't wait for anything or anybody.
And don't even ask permission,
unless you're under the age of 18,
then you gotta ask your mom or dad.
Make a plan, stay focused, and just start creating content.
It is a long, long road that you're gonna travel
so get started, the sooner the better.
And there is nobody in the entire universe
who can stop you but you.
Well, maybe Thanos.
(snaps)
- [Male Voice] Number four.
- Learn the rules of cinematography or photography
and then break them.
Don't be afraid to get creative.
Explore, think outside the box.
Do things that you might think are weird
or maybe unusual because that's what's going
to help you stand apart.
You know that internal dialogue that
you have with yourself everyday,
well you need to funnel that into your creativity
because that's what makes you, you.
The weird stuff, the good stuff,
all of that is what makes it you.
And even though you might think you have a boring life
or nobody's interested in you,
that's just your perspective.
Tell your story.
You'll be surprised who's interested.
- [Make Voice] Number five.
- Do not, please do not, go into people's comments
and beg for shout outs.
Don't beg for them to look at your channel.
Hey look at me!
Look at me!
Don't do that.
That's going to identify you as somebody
that they're probably not gonna wanna look at.
If you want to get a creator's attention,
you want to go down to the comment area,
look at the conversation that's already taken place,
and see how you can add value to that conversation.
Watch their video.
Leave comments about things that are in the video.
Leave real, meaningful comments.
That will get their attention,
and I guarantee you, hey check out my channel,
hey subscribe to me, hey give me a shout out bro,
look that stuff isn't gonna work ever.
Never ever ever is that gonna work.
In fact, a lot of creators add some of those words
like sub for sub or shout out into their comment filter,
so when you leave those comments
you automatically get moved to the spam box
and nobody's even gonna see them, so honestly,
just don't even waste your time.
And between you and me,
the number one to not get a shout out
is to ask for a shout out.
- [Male Voice] Number six.
- And that brings us right to community.
I cannot express enough the importance
of getting involved in various YouTube communities.
There's Facebook groups,
there's Discords you can join,
there's Google Plus groups,
and I'm going to put links in the description below
to some of them.
The important think is you become part of that.
Meet people, talk with people, share with people,
look for collabs that you can do with people,
ask questions, help others, just find a community
and become a part of it.
Because it's not always what you know,
a lot of times it's also who you know.
Now I shouldn't even have to say this,
and I'm not talking to you,
I'm actually talking to that guy over there behind you,
but when you're part of a community, don't be needy.
Make sure it's a give and take relationship
with the community.
And don't be an ask hole.
That's right, I said it.
Don't be an ask hole.
And if you don't know what that is,
an ask hole is somebody who always asks questions,
but never does anything with the information
that's given to them.
So you don't wanna be that person.
- [Male Voice] Number seven.
- Have patience.
YouTube is a marathon, it's not a sprint.
It's gonna take a long time.
You've got a lot of skills to learn,
so slow down and learn the skills.
You want to get better?
Make more videos.
You want to make better thumbnails?
Practice making more thumbnails.
Watch tutorials.
YouTube is full of awesome tutorials from tons of creators.
You know, when you're sitting on the toilet
and you're mindlessly scrolling
through Instagram or Facebook?
You could be watching tutorials or making thumbnails, right?
And I didn't even mention analytics in that one,
so you've got your hands full.
Just know that it's going to take a while,
so pace yourself and don't expect miracles overnight.
- [Male Voice] Number eight.
Now let's talk about sub for sub.
And if you're new to YouTube,
sub for sub means subscriber for subscriber.
On the surface it looks like a good idea.
I'm going to join your channel and you join my channel.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, I'm going to tell you what probably will go wrong
and the first thing you're going to notice is
your subscriber count to view count
is way out of whack because people are joining your channel,
but they're not interested in your content.
They're not watching your videos.
And yeah, I know there's a lot of people say
hey sub me and I'll sub you and I promise
I'll watch your videos.
Well this is where it goes from bad to worse.
So not only is your viewcount to subscriber ratio
going to be out of whack,
so now you have people who might come in
and watch 10 or 15 seconds of your video.
Well, what's wrong with that?
You might ask.
Well, I'm going to tell ya.
So they're watching 10 to 15 seconds of your video,
maybe 20 seconds of your video,
and maybe your video's five or 10 minutes long.
Well that triggers YouTube algorithm and it says,
hey people aren't watching this video
but only for a few seconds, so it's not a good video.
So then YouTube is not going to suggest you to other people.
Now of course that's not the only thing
that YouTube is looking at when it suggests you
out to other people.
It's looking at your thumbnails to see if
you have a high click through ratio,
it's looking at your engagement,
it's looking at your watch time.
And when those people come in and they just watch
10 seconds or 15 seconds,
that is killing your watch time.
So while on one hand you say,
hey I got a subscriber.
What you're actually doing is shooting yourself in the foot
because you are murdering your watch time
and pretty much just killing your video.
So unless you want all of that to happen and worse,
and I'm about to get to the worse,
don't go around and ask for sub for sub
because it really is not gonna help you.
So now that you understand why it's a bad idea
to run around asking for sub for sub,
if you're doing it in the YouTube comments
let me show you how it can go from bad to worse.
And one way that can happen is,
if you're copying and pasting, hey sub for sub,
sub for sub, sub for sub,
well first of all a lot of that's going to go
into the spam filter,
but a lot of that is going to get marked as spam
by the creators and if too many creators mark you as spam,
guess who's going to lose their YouTube channel.
Now a lot of people ask for sub for sub
because they really don't know that it could hurt them,
but today you know so I'm gonna trust
that you're not gonna do it anymore.
And if you do do it,
don't be shocked and upset if it blows up in your face
and you end up losing your channel.
And yes, losing your channel is on the extreme side,
but if you're seen as posting spam comments too much,
that is how you can lose your channel.
So don't get caught up in the sub for sub trap
because that's not gonna work out
the way you think it's gonna work out.
- [Male Voice] Number nine.
- And that brings us right along
to another one that's gonna piggyback on that one,
and that's don't get caught up in your subscriber number
because if your plan on YouTube,
if your goal is to grow,
then you need to focus on views.
You need to focus on watch time.
You need to focus on engagement.
That means thumbs up, thumbs down,
people leaving comments.
You need to focus on making good thumbnails
that are getting a high click through ratio.
Those are all the things
that are gonna please the YouTube algorithm.
So focus on those first if you want growth
and don't worry about the subscriber count.
That's gonna come later if you fire on all cylinders
and get these other things working in your favor.
So if you're sitting at home and wondering
why isn't my channel growing?
I'm stuck in the mud.
Well you're probably not doing one
or all of those things correctly.
So you need to go into your analytics
and look at audience retention.
You need to look at your click through ratio
for your thumbnail.
You need to look at your engagement.
All of those things is what pleases the YouTube algorithm,
which means they are gonna suggest you out to other people.
And if you're not doing those things,
they're not gonna suggest you to anyone.
- [Male Voice] Number 10.
- Now if you've stuck around this far
and you've watched everything up to this point,
I do thank you, I appreciate it.
I'm gonna leave you with the best tip,
what I believe it the best tip, of the entire video.
Now you know when you get something new
it comes with instructions, right?
And what do most people do when they get instructions?
They throw 'em away.
Well, you don't wanna throw these instructions away,
and the instructions come in the form of
the YouTube Creator Academy.
It's a free course, it's a free video series
that YouTube created for creators.
So it's basically YouTube's instruction manual
for you to use YouTube.
So if you go through the YouTube Creator Academy,
I promise you that all of your questions will be answered.
Every single one.
And they go over stats, they go over content creation.
Any possible question that you could
ever have about YouTube,
it's in the YouTube instruction manual,
which is the YouTube Creator Academy.
And I'm going to put a link to that
down in the description below,
and when you're finished watching this video,
go down and leave a comment,
let me know what problems you might be having with YouTube,
and I'm gonna answer them.
Then I want you to go over to the YouTube Creator Academy,
sign up to that, it is free.
Go through the course, it's gonna take you a while
and it's always evolving.
So this is the one instruction manual
you want to pay attention to
if you want to be successful on YouTube.
And those are my tips for new YouTube creators.
I do hope that you found them helpful.
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