Video Creators

If you're a YouTube creator who makes educational videos, how tos, DIY, and other informational-based videos, integrating story can feel like a challenge. How do you tell a story around something you just want to teach?

In this episode we talk about how we help creators do exactly that. And we make it simple, too. It's doesn't have to be hard of complicated. In fact, there's a formula you can follow in your very next video to help you tell a story around your information on your very first attempt.

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What's going on when you publish a video, it flops, and then your next videos after that flop, too? Does the performance of one video on your channel impact the next?

Yes and no. There's two different ways to look at this phenomenon on YouTube. One way is an algorithmic perspective in terms of what YouTube's algorithm thinks about your next video based on the videos that were published before it. The second way is an audience perspective of how they behave with future content if you publish a video that doesn't connect with them.

In this episode, we talk about both perspectives of this situation as well as many other questions you've submitted about hiring contractors on UpWork, recording voice overs, and when to update the metadata of older videos to breathe new life into them again.

CREATOR SPOTLIGHT: Check out Gary's channel, Tips for Travelers: https://www.youtube.com/c/tipsfortravellers

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LINK MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Todd from YouTube says, "You get a fresh start every time you upload a new video." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4qXzri4rd0

POWER TIP: There are several new YouTube video player updates to make it easier to see the content you are interested in: https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/164099151

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This year we worked with over 650 YouTube creators as clients, helping them with their YouTube strategy. From everything we learned this year by working with these creators, today we share the top lessons we've learned about YouTube growth, strategy, and tactics that you will take forward into 2021 with you for your own successful YouTube channel strategy.

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CREATOR SPOTLIGHT: Brad surpassed 1 million subscribers with his woodworking tutorials that combine storytelling elements in them. He shares what he does to capture and hold a viewer's attention today. Check out his channel, Fix This Build That, here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHYSw4XKO_q1GaChw5pxa-w

Jessica spent a few years growing her channel by focusing on search. It's not that it didn't work -- it did. She got to over 100k subscribers, but it took years to get there. And then search started to backfire on her. In fact, she went from making $10k/month to $1,300/month in her Adsense revenue because of it.

She's here to tell her story because, look, if you're focusing on ranking videos in search results as your primary traffic source for growth, there's some inherent risks with that, all of which you can easily mitigate by expanding your focus for even better results.

Check out Jessica's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_htUlq7eYumecIoQai4HzQ

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POWER TIP: When your livestream ends, you can send your viewers to a different livestream or Premiere, even on someone else’s channel. More info here: https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/162234978/live-redirect-move-your-audience-to-the-live-stream-or-premiere-of-your-choice?hl=en

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I sat down with a YouTube employee to discuss some of the things they see on their side that are mistakes that are holding creators back, what makes for a "good" video, how do we know if it's "good enough," and much more.

Check out Creator Insider on YouTube for more behind-the-scenes updates from YouTube themselves: https://www.youtube.com/creatorinsider

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