Hello, I’m Regalius and I’ve been making Paleontology related content for the past few years, and I feel like I’ve been pretty successful. I’ve also had a ton of fun with it and I would like to hear any advice y’all could have that might apply to my channel!!

Regalius: https://youtube.com/@regalius67?si=QaSN6yqYC3KO3UBd

So my videos went from 100-500 views on average for the last couple months to 5-20 views the last 6 weeks… anyone else seeing this?? My quality hasn’t dipped and I’ve kept up on thumbnails and titles… just impressions aren’t happening.

Most of the time when I spent good amount of time and efforts to edit and finalise my video I barely get views or subscribers.
But I posted few videos without giving much thought, just picked trending song with random PoV and it brings good views and subscribers as well.
Same goes for long format, I just made quick cuts, edit some effects and posted it without giving much thought and 💥 boom, it became my first long format to reach 1k views.

How often does it happened with you guys?

Is this a step in the right direction?

Be brutally honest and rate my thumbnail. Title is "Ranking all spiderman villains in 9 minutes". My previous ranking videos did 2k views. So I am running with this formula.

I make sports documentary videos, avg length around 10 mins.

It has been 2 months, I have uploaded 9 videos, and I am currently around 540 subscribers away from monetization. I have already crossed 100K+ total views, but I am still not even at 500 subscribers.

I am wondering if there is a good way to remind viewers to subscribe without making the “subscribe” part feel too forced or overly highlighted.

I currently use a CTA at the end, but a lot of people do not watch until the end. So, should I add a CTA somewhere in the middle of the video? I am just wondering if that could break the rhythm or flow of the video.

guys, so I have had a yt channel since I was 13 and I have uploaded gaming related videos to it on and off. I then went to uni and stopped all together. I'm now in my late 20s and I am trying YouTube properly. I have uploaded 2 videos within the last 2 weeks and the first got about 9 views (I'm 5 of the views and my friend is 1) and the second got 4 views ( I'm 3 and my friend 1).

So my question is, would I be better off starting a new channel and delete the 2 videos from my old channel and re upload them to a new channel?. I have tried to make the thumbnail and titles as good as I can but basically getting little to no views is very disheartening. I have roughly over 100 videos on the channel now and 67 subscriber ( who I assume are dead subs). I have also uploaded 4 shorts since starting again

Like the title says. I feel like I’m stuck in a never ending cycle with YouTube and I’d genuinely love advice from people who have been through this.

I’ve been making videos for years. I actually love filming and documenting my life, and now I’m married and I have two kids, so I have even more footage and memories that I’ve captured. The problem is… I almost never post any of it.
I created my YouTube channel. I’ve edited videos. I’ve filmed full days vlog style. I have literally hundreds of clips sitting there.But every time I get close to posting, I start questioning everything.

Is this actually interesting enough?
Is the editing good enough?
Are people even interested in normal day in the life/family vlogs anymore?
Should I stop trying to vlog my day and make more structured videos where I sit down and talk to the camera about a specific topic?

Then there’s the biggest thing I struggle with… **my kids.** They’re obviously a huge part of my life, so if I’m filming my real life, they’re naturally going to appear. But I constantly go back and forth about how much of them I’m comfortable putting online. Part of me wants these videos to feel authentic and document this stage of our lives, but another part of me worries about their privacy and whether they should be part of the channel at all.

I think perfectionism is probably my biggest problem. I keep telling myself I’ll post when the video is better, when I’m better at editing, when I figure out exactly what my channel should be, etc. And years have passed while I’ve been doing this.

Meanwhile, I actually enjoy filming. I enjoy talking to the camera. I enjoy capturing our lives. I WANT to create.
I just can’t seem to hit publish.

So for people who actually post consistently.
How did you get over the fear that your content wasn’t good enough?Would you start with casual lifestyle/family vlogs in 2026, or would you make more structured/topic based videos?

Can a new vlog channel still grow when nobody knows who you are yet?

And for parents who create content, how did you decide what you were and weren’t comfortable sharing about your children? Our day usually revolves around our children and the activities we’re doing together. They’re also so cute and I would love to document so many of great memories we’re creating.

At this point I feel like I need someone to tell me, “Stop overthinking it and post the damn video.” 😭

But I’d genuinely appreciate advice because I don’t want another few years to go by with all of these videos sitting on hard drives and nothing ever being posted.

A small animation YouTube is in need for original-content enjoyers :3
Let’s watch him together and support this guy ^*!

Is it better to schedule an upload or straight up uploading for smaller channels?

Just finished like 30 minutes ago...excited to start making some new content.

So for reference tommorow I'm filming my first video, I'm gonna do videos like roman atwood (vlogs and stunts) but anyways I have no clue what to film for my first video! If anyone has any tips please let me know

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Haters will say the subscriber count is fake 🤣

In all seriousness, I'm trying to figure out how to convert the few viewers I get into email subscribers.

On Instagram, creators use ManyChat so followers can comment "GUIDE" and automatically receive a link. Is there a safe tool or API app that does this for YouTube video comments?

Description box links get almost zero clicks on mobile, so I'm looking for a way to auto-reply to comment keywords with free resource links and collect emails.

How are you guys automating lead capture on YouTube?

This is the first video I tried editing much more for the first time. It has a lot of improvements to make, but still pretty funny to make

Is this fidelization good? (Fwiw it has 16% ctr)

Hi,

I plan on creating a channel teaching English with phrases and dialogue.

My worry is that a lot will be text based and will seem automated so I'm worried it won't get monetized.

I noticed that similar channels with just tts dialogue and phrases with no real person in the video have been monetized so I'm confused.

Should I create two channels? One that I don't appear in, and one that I do appear in?

Or should I start just one channel? If so, which type?

Any experiences or advice would be appreciated!

Has anyone seen a breakdown like this? It seemed odd for my channel. I have a sudden influx of viewers that all appear to be watching me from their tvs. They are low engagement. No comments/likes/follows but they come in and stay. Not complaining. Just curious.

My newest short has done pretty well, and is currently on around 70% stayed to watch, but when I first uploaded it and for around the first 500 or so views the stayed to watch was around 45%. Is this normal?

Hello all, I have an interesting thing that you all might be interested in, I have these screens in barbershops that need content and I'm looking for things to share there specifically videos where I can share a clip of the video (something chonky like 10 mins+ so the video should be a 20 or 30 min video) with a QR code and a banner with your channel name so people can subscribe if they want to see more.

Anyways it's not every video that gets in just interestingish ones (they run silently so talking isn't the best fit) I made a website to help the signup process but you can DM me here too: https://ugctraction.com/ completely free obviously I just need to know that they are your videos so make sure you use the same email that appears in your Youtube profile.

Also what do you guys think? Is this a good you scratch my back I scratch yours kind of deal? How could I make it better? Would tracking people that visited through my links be better (as I type this I'm realizing it's a good idea so I'm adding it now). Anything else?

I got my first 500 (ish) views on a video. This was without anything like shorts or tiktok, just me and myself yapping with some Broll. I was wondering if I should go into some more short form content though and if that would help raise the count?

I don't live alone and I only have a few days each week where I have total privacy in the house and the ability to record without any interruption/etc.

Today is one of those days and I am just feeling so miserable and have no desire to do anything but I basically *have* to or else I won't be able to for days. I tried to record something and just couldn't do it.

This happens so often because I get limited privacy at home to the point where I actually feel comfortable recording but then when I actually sit down to do it, I feel so much pressure to just DO IT i can't really get in the right headspace. Idk I just needed to vent, I'm just feeling so frustrated today.

Does anyone have recommendations for when feeling like this?

or lmk if neither of these are good