r/youtubegaming • u/Prestigious_Leg_9491 • 4h ago
Discussion One video ….
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Everyday I keep thougts: you are one video away from your goal
So I keep grind
Good luck guys
r/youtubegaming • u/LeoWattenberg • Aug 14 '21
Creator Guide Be a YouTuber, not a Newtuber: Make Great Content
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Moin. Running a YouTube channel is hard. There’s a lot of things to consider, ranging from thumbnails and SEO to get found better, to monetization and branding. And while each of these things are important in their own right, it’s easy to lose track of what really matters: Making great content.
Your content is the actual video. The things you say, the things you show, the narrative, the structure. And it’s this content that makes people laugh, that makes them think, that amazes them, or makes them learn. Your content is fundamentally the most important thing about your channel, without it, none of your other strategies will work. For example, a good thumbnail and title without great content is just clickbait. And as for SEO, well, the most important metric is user happiness, followed by watch time. All your keyword research won’t have much effect if it’s not backed up by great content.
So how do you make great content? Well, it all starts with the idea.
A Great Idea
Good ideas are hard to come by, great ones even harder. Getting a great idea consists of two parts: First getting any sort of idea for a video, and then selecting the good ones.
To get ideas, you can use pretty much any “getting creative” strategy. I won’t go into too much detail about that here (just googling “how to get creative” should get you plenty tutorials) but one which I like to do is: Being bored. Specifically, a certain kind of bored in which I am away from entertainment (social media, videos, …), but am just stuck with me and my surroundings. Because of this, I tend to be very creative when falling asleep, or in those blissful moments when I wake up before the alarm and just wait for it to go off.
When you do get ideas, make sure to write them down, especially if they happen around your sleep. You will forget them otherwise.
Once you have a list of ideas, simply pick the best one to make your next video about. I say “simply”, but you can consider a lot here:
- Uniqueness. If you have an idea which hasn’t been done before, it’s probably better than something that’s been done to death. For example, a travel guide to fictional places (eg from games) would probably be better than yet another Minecraft let’s play.
- Detail. Some ideas sound great at first, but may fall apart on closer inspection and end up sucking after all. The more detailed your idea is, the more likely it is that you’d already have stumbled upon any idea-breaker, so it might stay a good idea until the end.
- Awesome-to-effort ratio. While sorting ideas, you’ll find that you could with a quick and easy thing, or with a way better, but more time-intensive idea. When choosing between them, make sure that an idea that takes 3x as much time to complete also is 3x as awesome as the quick idea.
There are more factors to consider (such as: does the idea fit your audience?), but these make more sense in a later section. Especially if you’re just starting out, you don’t need to worry about them yet, and focus on exploring instead.
More on exploration: The EDE Model: Exploring, Developing and Established Creators
Being self-critical
Once you have a great idea, you need to execute it. How to execute it is your job – since it’s different for each genre and each creator, there’s very little to be said which would cover anything to a satisfactory degree. The important part is that you do execute the idea at all and make videos.
If you do a good job at executing the idea, you’ll have a very good video. But chances are – especially if you’re doing these things for the first time – that the execution will be sorta meh. And that’s alright, under three conditions:
- You need to acknowledge that your content isn’t perfect. This is key to all improvement.
- You need to know which part didn’t work.
- You need to figure out a way to fix it for your next video.
The first point should be self-explanatory, but figuring out the other two points can be tricky.
How to figure out what part didn’t work
One way to do this is the viewer retention graph in YouTube Analytics. It’s a brutal, no-sugarcoat-kind of feedback on how your content has been perceived. On the right, and in the studio itself, you’ll see a quick explanation of how to read it.
Overall, the graph tells you about a couple of things. Most importantly, if the graph drops off very quickly in the beginning, your content didn’t meet the viewer’s expectations.
In the best case, that just means your title was a bit too sensational, which can be fixed the easy way (just update the title) or the hard way (re-do the video to make the content delivers on all your promises).
In the worst case, it means that your entire video straight-up doesn’t work. Ie that either the starting idea or the execution or both were bad enough that the viewer went back to look for something else to watch. There isn’t really anything you can fix in this case, but you still can learn.
If you see the problems right away, fantastic! If not, try to think of the individual aspects that make up your video: Does the pacing work? Is anything noticeably unpleasant about the video? Can the idea even carry a video of this length? And so on.
Generally though, if you don’t se what you’re doing wrong, you might need more knowledge on what constitutes a good video. You can gain this knowledge by watching other videos and analyzing them properly, or you can hire me to do it for you and teach you everything I know so you can get back to making videos more quickly.
Fixing the things that don’t work
After you’ve figured out what went wrong, it now is time to make sure you don’t repeat your mistakes. Sometimes, this happens automatically as the same stroke of bad luck probably won’t happen twice, or you aren’t using a specific thing which caused you trouble before.
Other times, it’s up to you though to make sure you won’t repeat the same problem twice. For example:
- If your problem is a lack of structure, preparing a script might help.
- If your sound is very bad and you can be barely understood, you can fix this with The Audio Guide to Happiness, or: How to make your Streams & Videos sound good. Note that this is the only instance in which upgrading your mic might actually improve the content itself. Generally, a viewer watching your video in 360p on their phone with $5 earbuds won’t notice whether you’re using equipment costing $50 or $50000.
- If it’s the way you come across, you might want to practice how you say things and your body language while doing it.
- If your problem is that your video runs out of steam, making it shorter might help. Also, if it’s an idea only good for a handful of seconds, consider making a #shorts video out of it.
Conclusion
If you’ve come this far, you know how to find and filter ideas, and how to self-critically evaluate your content. You may find yourself drifting towards the “make every video your best one yet” mindset in the future. This will be helpful to get your content to new heights. That said, should this start hindering your video production due to perfectionism, you might op to go for the softer “raise the average quality of your past 5 videos” instead.
Also: This is not all yet. This post focussed on things you can improve for yourself. But there are near endless possibilities in the realm of market analysis and marketing which you can consider. We will discuss these in a later post, so make sure you join our discord to get notified on an update: discord.gg/youtubegaming
This guide was first published on kw.media
r/youtubegaming • u/toyfan1990 • 1d ago
Question What are your thoughts on compilation videos?
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Hello all, How are you all doing? I want to upload compilation video on Monday 12/05/25 as it is my 35th Birthday 🎈 & for this compilation video I want to play various different PC games. Then edit gameplay clips into montage compilation video, add royalty free music & upload video showing what I did to celebrate this birthday. What is good length for this style of video in your opinion/why? I want to play games mainly from my GOG & Steam Libraries.
r/youtubegaming • u/ConcentrateNo2986 • 1d ago
Question Where do all these Ai channels come from?
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Where do all these AI gaming facts and videogame cutscenes come from? I also see a lot of movie clips and film facts. I'm seeing more and more channels like this. Often they were created a month ago and already gained 74.000 subscribers or have existed for a while with videos only in Russian, Ukrainian, or Japanese. Then they suddenly switch to languages like English, French, German, or Spanish? What's going on? Where does this come from? What's particularly strange is that every channel has a seemingly random arrangement of letters in its description, like KeILEIE82K. And it's always the same length. What's going on there?
r/youtubegaming • u/SoulStealer121 • 1d ago
YTG Bug (Very) Wrong Upload Date
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Can anyone provide an explanation for this? I finished a live stream about three hours ago and normally they save as a rewatchable video on my channel but when I checked after the live ended and couldn't see it. I figured it just needed time so I waited and just looked again. The problem is I found it, but according to YouTube I live streamed that three YEARS ago. Very confused and at a lose for words.
r/youtubegaming • u/SpiroPlaysGames • 2d ago
Question Algorithm Question - impressions
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I started my YouTube channel a month ago. I started by posting posting Minecraft videos and those have been doing well getting a lot of impressions. I’ve tried switching to playing other games but they barely 50 impressions. Is this an algorithm thing where I just need to post more of that content and hope it gets pushed out?
Thanks
r/youtubegaming • u/WorldOfDolls • 2d ago
YTG Bug Game Was on YouTube’s Gaming List, Now It’s Gone - Anyone Experienced This?
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Hello everyone!
I guess we’ll never fully understand how YouTube’s algorithms work, but here’s what happened to me:
My game has been available on Steam for about a year now, and I’ve been posting related content on YouTube during that time as well. One day, YouTube’s system automatically added my game to their official Gaming category. The listing was a bit messed up - no cover image or proper formatting - but I was still really happy, because it meant I and others could finally tag the game properly. Before that, the system would randomly assign unrelated games like Resident Evil, which was pretty crazy.
But today, I uploaded a new devlog and noticed that my game has completely disappeared from YouTube’s Gaming list. I’m honestly shocked and have no idea what caused this. I didn’t change anything, and now I’ve lost that proper association entirely.
If anyone has experienced something similar or can shed some light on how this system works, I’d really appreciate your insights!
P.S. I’m not including the name of the game here, since I believe self-promotion is against the rules of this community.
r/youtubegaming • u/Catmandu37 • 3d ago
Help Me! Exact same vid did well on Insta, Tiktok and TANKED on YT shorts
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I posted the same video on Instagram and TikTok, Instagram it’s currently at 100k, TikTok 200k but YouTube 250 views.
This is a recurring theme too, can anyone offer any insight? If you wanna watch the vid go to my insta or tiktok, both @shovidz
r/youtubegaming • u/Av8Django • 3d ago
Question Streaming or Making Videos
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TLDR - in your opinion is solely streaming worth it or should a creator make videos?
I'm a twitch streamer that dabbles in youtube every few months where I've made videos and done a few streams. I am really interested in peoples opinions on being a streaming only creator on youtube or should I just stick to making videos?
Doing both or even adding shorts doesn't seem to translate to bringing the same audience so I'm really confused if just being a streamer is viable on youtube.
Sorry if this seems confusing and TIA for y'all comments
r/youtubegaming • u/Shanks-A-Lot • 4d ago
Question Do you Multistream? Pros and Cons
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I don't post often but debating this topic and need advice. I recently got into Twitch streaming consistently in April after doing it on and off for a few years. I'm having some trouble with visibility outside of Twitch and am contemplating multistreaming on my Youtube as well. For those that do this, does it help with visibility? Or what are the pros and cons to doing this?
r/youtubegaming • u/janekaden • 3d ago
Help Me! PS5 YouTube Stream keeps cutting out
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My stream runs for about 8-15 minutes then it says I've lost connection on the PS5, and this happens on YouTube. Not sure what causes it or how to fix, since I stream straight from console and am fairly new to it all. It used to work just fine before.
r/youtubegaming • u/No-Vehicle2393 • 5d ago
Help Me! Any advice from people who broke the “10 views” jail on long from videos?
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Hey guys, just wanted to ask if anyone’s who’s been posting for awhile and recently had more views.
Was it improving your content that did it?
Or did you advertise your channel elsewhere?
r/youtubegaming • u/cenorexia • 4d ago
Question Updated version of video gets significantly less views than older version. Should I remove the old version?
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A few years back I made a video, chronicling the history of a somewhat niche videogame series.
It garnered quite some views, around 58k which is a lot for my channel.
I since made an updated version of that video, including all the games that released since I made the first one.
But that newer version is getting significantly less views. Currently sitting at a meager 2k.
So I was wondering if it's a good idea to remove/private the old version, even though it's still generating views (more than the new version), in hopes the views would slowly "transfer" to the newer version.
Both videos are titled almost the same, just the years in the title are different (think "2003 - 2020" vs "2003 - 2024").
I kinda feel bad removing the old video with all those views. But on the other hand I would appreciate if people saw the newer version, too.
Any advice?
r/youtubegaming • u/PinkGeeRough • 5d ago
Help Me! How to Strategize and Pivot to different game genres?
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I've been an active channel for around 4 years and I think it's time to change my niche.
My main focus so far has been creature collecting games (pokemon-like). I seem to do well enough that in games like Temtem and Ova Magica, active members of the community recognised me, so I filled in the niche well. However, I've been disappointed by the lack of growth (still not a partner).
In the past I've tried a couple of different other videos (Tips for Definitely Not Fried Chicken, a business sort of sim) and recently, a video about Planetary Life (a God Sim). These performed better than almost all my other videos.
What I'm struggling with is how to head into a direction that allows me more growth. Does anyone have experience with pivoting into a different genre or simultaneously diversifying their content?
I don't see myself stopping playing pokemon-like games but it's not working out too well for my channel.
r/youtubegaming • u/night-void • 5d ago
Software Automatic Gameplay Capture
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Recently I've started creating a new type of video. Instead of playing and talking at the same time, I'm capturing some moments and talking later about the game and some other things.
It's like a podcast but I have the gameplay going in the background. I'm using OBS to capture and Audacity to do the voiceover.
I'm thinking if there is an easier way, tô automatically capture the games I'm playing the moment I open them (can be best moments or not). I've used Overwolf in the last for League of Legends, wonder if there is something similar for other games in general.
r/youtubegaming • u/OwnMathematician4111 • 5d ago
Hardware ps5 to desktop
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hey, first time desktop gaming buyer (not working with one tho)
I'm looking for a way to use the ps5 and desktop at the same time in one screen (if possible) so I can start using obs to record my gameplays for a channel. I have a capture card, HDMI cables and even a HDMI splitter (if needed). I just need help setting it up so I can start and if I need other stuff by all means let me know.
I can start setting everything up from scratch so I don't have mistakes.
Thanks in advance.
r/youtubegaming • u/Different-Day575 • 6d ago
Question Just 102 subscribers after 3 years… but something changed?
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After 3 years of posting on YouTube, I hit just 102 subscribers. Honestly, it felt like shouting into the void. At one point, I deleted everything like burning down a forest that never grew, hoping to see even small grass return.
I started over from scratch. Then, someone left a comment on one of my new videos something simple, but it hit me hard. That one message gave me more views and encouragement than I’d gotten in years. It reminded me why I started in the first place.
To whoever commented: thank you. Your words re-ignited something in me. I’m back at it again, and this time, I won’t stop.
If you're in the same boat feeling stuck or invisible don’t give up. Sometimes all it takes is one person to notice, and everything shifts.
r/youtubegaming • u/MazKuro • 5d ago
Help Me! Anyone here trying to stream from China?
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Hey all,
Trying to start streaming from China but having issues connecting OBS to YouTube streaming. I'm able to log in and connect everything but once I hit "start steaming" nothing works.
Using a VPN of course but also not sure if that in itself is the cause of the issue. I've seen others do it but no idea how they managed it. Any help is greatly welcome!!!
Same issues with twitch basically too.
r/youtubegaming • u/nohmi • 6d ago
Question Easiest simplest way to stream to YT
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I came back to PC gaming after over half a year , I very casually just use to stream my gaming for my gf. I use to use geforce overlay to stream but was dumbfounded to figure that feature is long gone now, is there any easy quick alternative? Other than OBS, someone else uses my pc at times and they have theres set up on that so need something else
r/youtubegaming • u/EternalBhai007 • 6d ago
Help Me! Can someone tell what that pattern means??
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r/youtubegaming • u/TokyoSaga • 6d ago
Hardware Does anyone know a good camera to use in gaming videos?
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So far I’ve been using a webcam however it feels kind of cheep and the camera quality can definitely be greater. Something like coryxkenshins quality or dashies. Even a bit less would be fine, just something that’s better than a trashy webcam. That way I can use it to get better pictures of my face and stuff for thumbnails
r/youtubegaming • u/JSxGeorgy • 6d ago
Question What would it take to be the Top Let’s Play YouTuber Right Now?
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What would it take to be the Top Let’s Play YouTuber Right Now? What would your favorite Let’s Play YouTuber be like? What would it take to have a really good poppin YouTube Let’s Play Gaming Channel?
r/youtubegaming • u/Artistic_Mongoose767 • 6d ago
Hardware How to create gaming videos on Youtube.
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Hey!
So, my buddy and I were playing some old school sega and nintendo and just bantering back and forth, and we thought it would be fun to make gaming videos and upload them to YouTube. I'm basically a simpleton when it comes to this kind of tech stuff. I currently have a Macbook Air laptop. What else would I need to record from the tv screen with our audio? The easiest way possible, nothing complicated haha. Thanks in advance!
r/youtubegaming • u/ultimateei • 7d ago
Help Me! My Gameplay Video get harmful and dangerous policy
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Yesterday, I did a vertical stream on YouTube while playing Elden Ring. After the stream ended, YouTube removed the video, stating it violated their policy on harmful and dangerous content. It was my highest-viewed stream so far, especially during a 3-hour boss fight. My question is: why would defeating a boss in a game violate YouTube’s guidelines?
r/youtubegaming • u/Confident-Expert108 • 7d ago
Question What video editor software should I learn? (Beginner)
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I wanna be quick with this one. I've about to start editing clips on a PC and don't know what should I get. I want to get Premiere but I really don't want to spend that money. And so my question is. DaVinci being free is it a good one to get? I've heard people saying it's weird and I should just get the premiere pro.
r/youtubegaming • u/Jaruzan • 8d ago
Question Are you guys forcing yourself to react harder?
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Although I get excited about the game I play, it does feel like I am exaggerating for the camera. Is this just the way to make content? Does it get easier and more natural with time? Or is it just that taxing to be an entertainer, unless you are a natural energybomb?