8 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started YouTube 

Literally, no one cares. Not even youtube unless you're making ads.

I absolutely love this thumbnail. "Nobody cares" lmao. And it's just the raw truth. In a lot of ways, it's freeing. Nobody cares (especially at the beginning) so go create whatever you believe you need to create!

Im am 65 and my business partner older. We just started and thank you for your time. It fun and we love doing what we know "Model Aircraft and Aviation" we do it as an extra and love the feedback through all our channels.

I started RU-vid because I always wanted to. I just think it's the time to start one and not be afraid anymore on other people's opinion. I enjoyed it and it's making me happy. 💚

I started my channel with similar ‘oh god hope no one I know sees this’ vibes but after a while I thought ‘meh it’s all good’. One day someone in town came up to me and said ‘hey are you on RU-vid?’ Which I thought was funny lol.

I started my channel for myself, to see if I can do it, and also mostly, to have fun with what I love the most. And shortly after I started getting subscribers, some views, and well .... now I really want to grow and succeed, because this is something I enjoy doing with my free time. Thank you for these tips, I am gonna try them on my channel. Let the numbers and fun grow.

Thank you on your good tips 👍 As you mention, the biggest thing that is holding us back in life is Fear, but when we realise that by facing the shadows in our life and our fears, we can grow immensely! 🌟 Once again, thank you! 😊

I’m actually more afraid for being judged by total strangers xd then by friends and family but is a risk I’m willing to take so I’m already editing some things loved this advice thank you so much for sharing it

i was scared to start youtube because i knew that i would never get any views and subs, but eventually i just started one anyway, and i am surprised how i actually don’t care that much about low views and subs. i really just like making videos and even gaining one new subscriber per week is a nice feeling! thanks for a great video by the way!

I have a fear that I wouldn't be "employable" with my videos but I will still continue to upload because I believe the people for you will support you and or not care at all. Thanks for the video!

It definitely is true, even if you're started and or have small channels... the goals will always be "value" I think there's no way to chase the adsense money... it will come eventually... provide value to your viewers and give them a reason to pay for things you can provide.

When hiring someone to edit your videos, do you need to provide them with the pictures and videos you want to be included in the video, or do they select the best footage and images for you during the editing process?

You're 100 percent going to be bigger than filmbooth, I honestly almost didn't want to comment because I don't want other people to find you hahahaha. I'm getting these comments in early so when you do release a course, a paid course, that I would ALREADY pay for from the videos you've made, but it's still cheap as you've just started, I get first dibs. Seriously man, truly epic content. None of that begineer nonsense this is intermeditate to even expert level and this is what I need. Long gone are the days where I was looking for information on SEO or search terms or CTR, I need that next level stuff and you're providing it in the best way I've seen so far. Well done lad, keep it up, I'll be here, everytime. I'm off to do your free course, which is just insane to me that it's free but don't change it yet hahaha. Just one point though that really holds me back, my videos take me a very long time to edit, due to this reason, I get analysis paralysis on which video idea to go with next because if it flops, it sucks, I can't lie, but... I'm also not at the point of being able to afford an editor. It's not ideal currently but I'll get there haha. Peace. 😎

I did the same thing. I didn't tell anyone about my RU-vid channel for about a year. Then I got mixed reactions... Kind of wished I kept it secret now. Still going at it 1.5 years with 1300+ subs... Appreciate your advice. Have been applying it.

The quote you mentioned from the guy, is originally by Eleanor Roosevelt. It’s mentioned in the book Understanding Suicide by Chad Taylor Great video, thanks for making it!

The metrics you should be looking at Average View Duration and Returning Viewers That small change in my mindset got me off 1-100 views and >100 subs to already 1,2k and thousands of views, 3 new shorts hitting my all time record in single week Rev if you don't want a course could be affiliate products and/or streaming I do memes and Gaming and started doing like realistic path currently looking for an editor but since I was doing just shots and lifestream I want to make one or couple of videos to have examples of what I will be looking for when it comes to editors, I'm starting to make some money but I still didn't hit the threshhold to withdraw money, I will have to put money from donates at 1st before I could be paying editors

I totally relate to your last point about no one could edit my videos the way I want it but I definitely agree with your point! I spent so much time editing my videos and it is probably not as good as if a professional edits my videos but I still hold back! I have to start outsourcing it and focus more on creating more videos! 🤩

Dear Oscar, Great Information, I wanted to express my gratitude for the incredible training you've provided. It's been an amazing learning journey, packed with insightful information. Thank you!

Wow this was so good, so clear. Thank you! Just found your channel 🌻👍

Great information! Just starting off my journey. Personal development niche given my military leadership background! Awesome content. Thank you 🎉

You are really an epitome of what you say in this video. This provides a lot of "value".

Good one! Especially the "no one cares" part is very true and liberating. It's the reason I took the leap. A bit frustrating sometimes that few care but still, liberating 😂 good stuff

Great video. Love the editing style and flow of it all. Keep up the powerful work.

Great video that helps reestablish the focus needed to keep pushing forward with my channel (that needs all the help i can get lol) 🙏👍

Never thought about the Thumbnail part!

Very valuable. I think you explain it differently than a lot of other people. Subbed and looking forward to more!

I learned a lot from your videos. Thank you for sharing your valuable experience ❤

This hidden metric is the most inportant also in my perspective! Great video!

Soon we will all achieve our dreams. Cheer Up!! 🙌🙌

Hey, love your videos. Lots of great advice. Do you do your own editing and are all your videos done infront of a green screen?

Thank you for sharing 😊

what do you think about editing - if content is valuable do you really need hooky editing as a newbie its hard to be working full time doing youtube and all the behind the scenes when you don;t yet have resources to outsource. What would be some simple editing tips that a newbie can use?

An eye opening, trying to improve more on creating vid❤

Thanks for this wonderful video

Do you suggest to only outsource when you start making money on RU-vid? And upgrading equipment etc

Concise and useful summary 👍

The hidden metric bit was so true, going to hark back to that anytime i'm planning on making a video

Thanks for the awesome advice.

Okay but we won't be able to create videos like this I mean editing and and story telling experience is the key But your advice is truly amazing and helpful ❤

that's the most authentiv youtube advice video, i have ever seen. thank you

Love your editing style very simple

Great tips for us newbie content creators. Thx

Love from India Oscar ❤

Nice share and info about how to grow and yes it helps me something.

What is the advice on length of videos for new channels?

Thanks for this great video😊🙏

Bro u earned a sub😉

Thanks!!

When it comes to RU-vid-thumbnails I think we are right between the ending of an old trend of super-polished highly edited thumbnails and the beginning of a counter-trend of natural unedited thumbnails (and videos)! People are getting more and more sick and tired of those overly edited video- and thumbnail-styles and are craving more raw authentic footage and thumbnails. The RU-vidr "The Wizard Liz" is a perfect example for this! She grew to 5 million subcribers within a year by just creating raw unedited videos with subtitles. That's it! As thumbnails she just uses some screenshots from her videos! People argue that her being pretty is what caused her success but I disagree. 1) There's MILLIONS of pretty girls out there, lots of them even prettier but they haven't NEARLY the success that she has! 2) The topics that she talks about aren't of any interest to men but to young girls. With MILLIONS of videos from other pretty women available here on RU-vid and other platforms like OF, etc, I highly doubt the group who would click on her thumbnails because "thirst trap" and regulary sit through the her whole videos. There's this other RU-vidr (I forgot his name, sam something?) who is a bodybuilder and films himself working out and just uploads raw unedited footage and thumbnails which seems to work because (I guess) people find him more relatable?

Thank you very helpful 🫡

Absolutely thank you

Thanks, fantastic video! Ive only just started after being into fitness for over 15 years, thought why not just make a channel based around this, people i know in the industry and gyms around the country. I simply feel creative again, filming and editing teaching myself. If someone likes my content thats amazing, if not thats absolutely fine 😊

Amazing video. Top tier

This is cool editing. Do you edit your videos on your own, or do you have an editor. I couldn't make these edits with capcut

Bro can you make a video talking on how your video is edited... what!! Your editing is a whole revolution ❤

Thanks for this.

Thank you❤

good take

This is relatable...I too started my channel last week & decided not to tell my close friends. Is this a good idea? Should i try to tell anyone I know to promote my channel?

This is a great video!

Thank You

Thanks man i hope me too can cope up someday

How can I make a mini course like the one you did in your link in the description? Do you have a video about that? Like what's the best platform to use to do so and maybe related costs? That would help a lot thanks.

Great advice. What's your magic channel?

This really made me think twice about my channel.. specificly the value tip. I feel different when I upload now. I have 117 subscribers

I just hit 500k subs TODAY ! :D Im so happy, even no one other cares. There is still huge space to improve my content, it will be a lot of work for sure but its a great adventure to improve your channel. Good luck to everyone else to reach your goals ❤

what a vid man!!!

Great Value!

that is realy great thank you

Keep up bro

Really helpful

I subscribed. 5k now here.

Great video 😎 New sub and yes… no one gives a Shat

Your using green screan and the two lights are not actually behind you but are out of frame and you put a image of the lights behind you? Thats what I was thinking about while watching.

I’d like to add that you NEED to define “value”. This differs depending on your channel. Is it entertainment? Is is money saving?

I'm the 1kth thumbs up 😊

I think the people who work on RU-vid need to improve this website in any way, shape, or form, especially with shadowbanning people for expressing certain opinions and earning money, as you said in your video about shorts, people don't earn money they could've made with shorts only.

very nice video

I also haven’t told anyone I have a yt, although my brother somehow found it and told everyone about it

Valuable thoughts, thanks for sharing:). #noonecares

I started doing videos with all of this in mind to be honest, but I was quite flustered when I learned how the impressions worked, as it shows the thumbnail randomly to people whether or not they actually are into it. My channel is about story-telling on the Project Zomboid niche, but because it's gaming and it's oversaturated, most people assume it's just another playthrough. I initially wanted to just do videos about hyped video games when they came out, just to realise the overwhelming supply on these videos. And as I was playing this game when I started the channel 2 months ago I thought it was a good idea to go into the storytelling, roleplaying niche. At this point I just want to be seen. As this project was simply a work of passion. And my worry is that only the current subscribers I have will be able to enjoy it. Will your course be able to cover my current concerns? As you said, money is money, and if I could monetize the channel and do this full-time I would like it as I actually enjoy editing. Or perhaps I'm overthinking this and just need to be patient and wait? While keeping my production value up, as I'm producing something that I would watch, doing similar things that got me into the game in the first place, as I started playing due to a couple of storytelling videos on Project Zomboid that blew me out of the water. Sorry about the ramble :D Great content!

Nice

One more thing, there is a better way of framing the no one cares thing and I've done it from the very start, "I don't even care if they do care" I told everyone instantly because I literally couldn't even give 1% of a sh*t what anyone thinks about it hahaha, that's the ultimate hack.

Do a video about faceless RU-vid channel

I just want to sit down with you, have a beer and keep listening...

Where is the link for RU-vid Jobs?

Maybe I should make a video on how to Edit like Oscar Owen 🤔 on my Colourist Underground channel 🤔

I really have to emphasize the value of... value. The Hidden Metric. I am the owner of a RU-vid channel that grew to a reasonable size, pretty big for its youthful age, and that's because my channel was dedicated to creating value to my niche. My first video, which didn't provide a sought value, obviously didn't get many views, and same with the second. Few videos later, I realized that the main point of my channel shouldn't to be about controversial undiscussed topics, but instead to provide value, so I started creating more videos that provide high value among competitors, and I easily earned thousands of views in weeks for those videos, and my most successful one, which had the highest value, has more than 40K views, which is incredibly high for my channel's age and size.

you say make the thumbnail first but i make surf content and i dont know what to expect with the content its unpredictable

Good video. Like your advice. And your British accent is crystal clear to us Americans. However.... this advice is pretty useless for those of us on RU-vid who are not interested in monetization. Many of us are here for politics and to promote political viewpoints. In my case, libertarianism. Have zero interest in making $$ on RU-vid. I have a day job. Now... if you really want to help folks like me, make a video on how people with day jobs can find the time to make RU-vid videos.

Great stuff! To be honest if I can make $1500 a month with video editting, making the music or educational videos fulltime anything above that is just a really really nice bonus. ❤

Nice voice and you are handsome 💥

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They only care when you start making money. It's weird.

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I’m starting… i hope it will help

Does that mean the self-proclaimed "close friend" who subbed to my channel and threatened to end me if I turned to drugs actually doesn't care as well?

Do it for love, not money

Yip! NO ONE CARES!!! I have a RU-vid channel where I teach music and create fun stuff around music concepts and so on. I've even given out my business card that has my RU-vid channel link on it to students who are taking lessons with me. I don't know if they watch the videos I create and most of all the videos I create are reference to lessons about concepts they are learning in class with me...

Same with me. I don't want people to know I have a channel. I was made fun of doing magic tricks.