What should I know when starting a YouTube channel?

Know your channel’s purpose. ‍First, you need to know your YouTube channel’s purpose.

What do you feel are the most important strategies to making a YouTube channel successful?

Here are 10 of the best tips to grow your YouTube channel.

1. Build Your Videos Around a Single Keyword/Topic.
2. Reuse Existing Top Performing Content.
3. Engage with Your Audience.
4. Get Branded.
5. Promote Your YouTube Videos on Other Social Channels.
6. Show Up & Stand Out.
7. Post Great Thumbnails & Leverage YouTube Cards.

What stops people from starting a YouTube channel?

If there´s one thing that really stops people that want to start a YouTube channel is this. Production value it´s just a fancy way of saying high-quality looking and sounding films and videos, that´s it, the higher the production value the higher the quality.

Why should you follow top YouTubers?

You can follow top YouTubers to find out what level of quality is acceptable at that level and strive to reach that with every video of yours. Followers/Subscribers are not everything on YouTube. In fact, the number of subscribers does not define the quality of your channel.

Should you pick a niche for your YouTube channel?

Picking a niche wasn´t that important when getting started on YouTube ten years ago but now it really IS. Niche diversification, meaning that you make videos that cover every topic you can think of, without (almost) any sort of proper direction will only negatively affect your channel´s growth.

How to make your YouTube videos stand out?

It’s essential to make your channel really stand above the rest to get viewers’ attention. When making a Youtube video, I wouldn’t skimp on the effort I put into the following design elements: Thumbnails/Cover Art — Try to be consistent with regard to the design. Consider including your face on the cover art.