How To Get Started On YouTube

How's it going? My bro and sisters my name is Pewdiepie today?
I'm going to make video on how to get started on YouTube I've been asked to make this video
I don't know how many times I get this question all the time
Can you give me some tips on how to get started?
I think what I always just say keep keep working hard, and I'm sure you will succeed
But I thought not today. I wanted to actually give something more constructive and
Some some more help than just that
I've been doing a lot of streams lately and everyone is keep asking me. How do I get started?
What kind of tips do you have and I thought ok fine? I'll make it okay
I thought about making this video before many times, but I just feel like who am I to tell you how to
It's not like I know all the answers
And I really think everyone has a different answer to the question on how to grow on YouTube
So just take this as from my own perspective
Also know that I don't know everything and just because I say something doesn't mean it's the rule of thumb
You know that is it that's not the case couldn't be further from it and I started YouTube seven years ago
So obviously things are different now this video probably won't be relevant for most people watching
But maybe it will be interesting. I don't know
Here we go first of all I want to start on the equipment
Because I think if this is where most people fail right away, I see so many people get really angry about
This one because they bought all this expensive equipment and they come to me like what are the subscribers?
Where are all the beauty I got I spent all this money on all this equipment
I always say don't spend money on equipment
It doesn't have to be expensive at all
And I think a lot of people wait with starting videos because they don't have all the equipment
I think it takes practice to make videos, and I think it doesn't hurt to get started with what you have
I didn't have a webcam when I started I had a fucking
I'm legit use this microphone?
which I actually
Accidentally broke that's my first microphone on the razer headphones, and it was fine
It's really what it definitely doesn't hurt to have nice quality
Don't get me wrong, but it's not automatically going to make you get subscribers
I'm going to link what I think is a good sort of budget start up in case you're curious of what sort of equipment I?
would recommend
If you want to start making my type of videos, and I'll also link my equipment in case you're curious
What exactly it is I use stand out
Personally I'm very much drawn to two different things that people do if I notice the channel doing something
I haven't seen before I'm automatically more drawn to that
Thing and I think it was the same thing for me when I started making videos
I did what everyone else was doing. I I did call of duty videos because that's what was
popular at the time, but that's what
Made me want to start making YouTube videos because I loved watching it on YouTube
And it was really popular back then and I enjoyed making those type of videos
But my channel didn't grow from it at all
I had like what a couple hundred people watching me, and I remember when other youtubers refer themself to it
Oh yeah, I only had a couple hundred back, then I'm like never a hundred
I'm so fucking proud of these hundred people that I have
Shut the fuck up and I also remember
Watching all these bigger YouTubers doing the same call of duty videos, and I'm like these guys are fucking terrible
I'm way better than these guys. Why is my channel not growing more?
But that's the thing the big ones have already settled in you know you're not going to it's going to be hard as hell
You have you have an uphill battle and it wasn't until I started doing something
Different something that hadn't been done before like the horror videos
That's when I started to get an audience that really cared about
The content that I was making it and it was so clear, and I really see it myself
When why I?
Discovered you youTubers it's always something different. They have something different. What was it Dr.
Dre said it's easy to make it to the top, but it's twice as hard to stay there
You see people on YouTube come and go all the time. I don't want to throw any names out there, but
You know what? I mean like there's a ton of youtubers that everyone used to watch and every day
I got so many so much attention, but they just didn't have what it takes
To keep their audience a lot of people
sort of get boosted from the algorithm of you to
Basically YouTube recommend certain type of videos that fit what they want to promote
Maybe it's really long videos
Maybe it's videos they get a lot of likes and a lot of this and that and there's always people that abuse their algorithm
It's been since I started on YouTube, and it's still going on is this something that well?
I don't think will ever end and it's really unfair because a lot of big a lot a lot of youtubers
get really big really fast because of it, but basically
they go away equally fast if you don't have
Something to maintain your audience with something more than your stick of making algorithm
Happy then your lifespan on YouTube is going to be short
That's just how it is so I'm not really too bothered by it about any of it
I just don't want you if you want to grow your channel
To be obsessed about the algorithm because that shouldn't be the number one priority
I personally never try to abuse the algorithm, or some shit like that honestly I had no idea what I was doing
Literally, I discovered that ten minutes videos like a year ago with me
Remember the reply girls. You know they were so fucking popular they got so many views because they the algorithm
Promoted their videos in the sidebar all the time, but it's not like anyone is still watching them like oh
I wonder what this aliens was what this boob girl is saying now about this
You know what I'm getting with this is you needed personality people people will find your video
But they're not going to say and like they care about you as a person
I think youtube is all about personality at least that's how I see it and anyone. I watch on YouTube
I watch because I care about their personality I care about them more than just their content
but also who they are as a person, and that's why I enjoy watching them and that's why I enjoy Youtube
I enjoy because it's different than television. You're not just watching this
Product behind a bunch of producers and writers you're watching just a person speak directly into a camera
And I think that's the beauty of it
I also think that's why so many youtubers come and go they forget about this part, and that's fine
You know it's not like everything has to be super personal and everything has to be fillable. I love you guys so much
You're my family Youtube is a Hobby and a job
At the same time which can be really hard to balance
I think a lot of people don't realize this, but you get to set your own hours you get to set your own pace
But it basically means you'll be working 24/7 like it's really hard to turn off youtube in your brain. I'm always checking videos
How are they doing? I'm always checking stats. I'm always checking comments
What are people saying what are people thinking and it's really hard to turn off
It's not like a nine-to-five job you go in you do your job okay? Now. I'm done. Who I can relax
I really struggle a lot with this and just trying to shut my brain off and okay now. I'm doing this now
I'm doing that and that's why I really enjoy having an office because I can do my work here
And then once I'm back home I can just relax
It's I guess my advice here is to try and separate it. I treat you to riddle with a lot of respect
Because I feel so lucky to be in the situation that I am I think a lot of youtubers take take
YouTube very
Casually I'll just upload a video. I need some money. I'll upload a video
Maybe I'm a little naive for saying that but I always get the question
What happens if you miss a day felix? What's the big deal? Who's Gonna care?
It's okay. You don't have to upload all the time, but it's like I set the schedule for me
I know I can do it that is my job to do it still I have to do it. Okay. I see Youtube as a
It's not going to last forever, but I might as well make the most of it Meanwhile
every YouTuber has a
Life Span Market yourself most Youtubers that you are watching got a helping hand to get where they are. Maybe they don't admit it
Maybe I'm just wrong most YouTuber had some helping hand. Maybe maybe they
Maybe their videos was posted on a website you know that that's not okay. This is a cool video
Maybe you got trending on reddit. You know maybe you're a family member was the youtuber or maybe a friend of you
Of that person was a youtuber they helped them getting that helping hand on YouTube
It's not essential
but if it
makes use of easy mode pretty much so already the hardest part of Youtube is to establish your very first audience if you can get
That for free from someone else hell, yeah
hell yeah, that's the best, but I see a lot of
misunderstanding of this as well because for example I did the shout out competition in the past and
For example jack was one of them ken was one of them and a lot of people look at them and we like oh
Oh, you got a shout out from Pewdiepie. Oh, oh that's so bullshit. If I had one. I would be big fuck you
No, that's not how it works a shout. I can only get you so far
It gets you that that bass audience. Maybe but they're not going to stay unless you're worthwhile staying - they're not going to care about
Watching any more videos unless you offload videos unless you upload videos that people care about you
Don't need a shout out and a shout out isn't necessarily going to help you
Unless your content is interesting that is how it is
You see people all the time in my comment section marketing their own YouTube channel. I find it very
disrespectful to do that it annoys the hell out of me because it's basically just ignoring what I worked on and
Basically just saying hey look at me
I do think you should market yourself somehow if you really care about growing your channel now
I don't know what the best method is but everyone has a secret
I'm sure of how they try to get their channel out there. Maybe something. They're ashamed of that they wouldn't admit
I think most youtubers have it I for example used to find commenters on video similar to mine and
I would write a private message to them being like hey. I see that you enjoyed this channel. Maybe you will enjoy mine
I know extremely embarrassing extremely pathetic what I used to do it at least
It's not intrusive on someone else's work. Okay, so I?
Recommend marketing yourself somehow. I just don't and it's nothing shameful about doing it
But don't be fucking obnoxious and disrespectful doing it
That's my point with that next up is don't fucking trust anyone growing my channel on YouTube
I've come across so many toxic people people that just want your audience your subscribers
They don't give a shit about you. They'll lie to you
They'll try and manipulate you
I think I'm one of my best skills as a human being is to cut out toxic people
I have very little tolerance for people in general, and if I find them to be abusive or disrespectful
I have no problem with cutting up these people in my life
I know some people really struggle with this
And I think as a youtuber you're just really gonna have to be cut and dry with people. It's just how it is
Networks you may have heard of networks a lot
I'm I'm technically signed up with the network still, but I'm not planning to stay with the network YouTube wouldn't sign
With gaming channels you could not monetize their videos if you were a gaming channel back in the day
It was the worst thing
I think that could possibly happen to the gaming community on YouTube because essentially networks got so much power
Because we were obligated
to sign with them
so basically as a gamer you would get these insanely bad deals with networks where they would give you half of your revenue and
Give you essentially
nothing back networks still take a
Huge portion of your revenue if you're a small Youtuber, I still get a lot of people asking me hey. I'm a youtuber
I should I sign up to the network
I don't know blah blah blah, or do they increase my CPM blah blah blah most likely they don't
From my experience. They don't sell ads on your videos
Think about most networks they have like what thousands of channels in them. Why would they care about your channel?
you know
How are they going to focus on all these channels it just doesn't make any sense?
I would not recommend signing with the network if I was a smaller youtuber these days that's being said
Never definitely helped me
to a certain degree, but
I think it's a smaller channel. It's completely useless
They're just going to take a portion of your revenue and give you nothing back
You're not obligated to sign with the network more
So I would recommend against if you're a smaller channel which brings me to my next point get a lawyer don't sign anything
without professional
A
Professional overlooking what you're doing?
I signed contract severs that led me into month-long processes of trying to get out of those contracts. It's a lot cheaper
To have a lawyer look over the contract and knowing exactly what you're getting yourself into then
Afterwards get a lawyer to try and get you out of this situation
get a lawyer and get an accountant if you're if you were making money off YouTube and do it darling I
Think setting those two things up earlier is better than later
I realize this is a lot of information, but I think I saw this as the sort of
Me talking to myself in the past
And the sort of stuff that I learned through this
Years of making videos on YouTube and I try to keep it as the actual advice and constructive as possible
But I would like to finish with
Make Youtube with the right intention
I see so many people wanting to make youtube videos because they want to get famous they want to make money
which is all great stuff and youtube really is an amazing place for it for that, but
make YouTube videos
Because you enjoy making them if you don't enjoy making them. You're not going to keep making them
You're just going to fall off at some point
And you're going to get frustrated that it didn't turn out the way you wanted it to be if you make videos
That you enjoy making it then you can't lose it
Doesn't matter if you don't get a lot of subscribers, Asia like I was equally happy when I had a couple hundred subscribers
I thought that was the equally fun just to have some people watching them if you make videos that you enjoy making other
People will enjoy watching them
I really really strongly believe in that so if you're not enjoying making videos then don't make videos I
Hope this was helpful. I'm not I'm not sure to be honest if it was
But I hope it was interesting at least I don't know I don't know here you go
I did the video finally leave a like my sister fixers
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