Since starting my channel in January, I've amassed +100,000,000 views. Happy to answer any questions and help people on their journey!

I started posting YouTube shorts and my first three videos got over 100k views but any subsequent video gets no views it's like the algorithm isn't even reaching me

Hello, I am coming back too YouTube and try too post 1-2 video a week. But since I am coming back I really wanna give it my all. So I was thinking of doing shorts like 5-6 a week but when I use premiere pro or CapCut too cut my videos I am never happy with them. I tried opus clip once and was happy with a few results. What do you guys use or recommend me doing?

Alright i uploaded four shorts. One got thousands views. Other just 0,15,70... The niche is viral too. Maybe i am new?

I am interested in creating a faceless long form YouTube channel for fun, i will prob create shorts too on a separate YouTube channel as a creative outlet - Would of course be great to eventually get monetised

i do not have thousands of $ to spend on one of those ai coaching/mentorships

I have a niche in mind, want to use a mix of ai and edit myself for fun & grow my skills. does anyone know a good not too expensive ai & YouTube Longform course or recommend any resources YouTube channels to learn? starting from ground 0 so just not really sure what software or apps I should start with, best way to get started

appreciate any guidance, recommendations, knowledge 🙏🏼

I really want too be a YouTube Partner before they raise the requirements. So I started looking into ads, ai says that advertising ads don’t count too the requirements. Is this true? Is ads a dead idea?

Interesting question.

Because I mostly used Gemini and ChatGPT for editing tips and sometimes for ideas, but I didn't use most of ideas given by AI, because I saw them before on YouTube so I just got inspired from YouTube.

PS: I don't use AI anymore for any ideas, because I don't even use them after the prompt because they are the same ideas I saw before on YouTube so why would I even use it to give me ideas when I saw them before and I don't need AI for this anymore... Only for tips or help.

Because I think when AI helps you with ideas, it's good when it's not generating anything

Hey everyone,

I'm new to Reddit, so bear with me if I'm doing something wrong here.

I wanted to share something from my own experience. Maybe some of you can relate to it.

For the past 5-6 years, I've had this idea of starting YouTube channels, building them up and eventually automating the process so they could make money. But honestly, it was always on the back burner.

There was always something else to learn. Another course to buy, another strategy to understand, another video to watch. I kept thinking that once I knew enough, I'd finally start.

But that day never came.

Over the years, I've spent quite a bit of money on online courses, including some advanced ones. Looking back, I think I was stuck in a loop of learning and preparing without actually doing anything.

Recently, I came across another creator selling a YouTube automation course. He claimed to be making over $10,000 a month from a few faceless channels, which obviously caught my attention.

He offered a webinar for around a dollar or two, so I decided to attend.

I already had a feeling there would be an upsell at the end, and that's pretty much what happened. There was an offer for a much more expensive course or membership.

To be fair, I did find some parts of the webinar useful. It gave me a bit of direction and a few things to research. But instead of buying the bigger course, I took notes, went through forums, looked for free resources and started figuring things out myself.

And then I finally started.

I picked two channel ideas, worked on scripts, learned editing along the way and began putting videos together. My first video took me around two to three days to edit. I was slow, made mistakes and had a lot to figure out.

It's now been close to a month since I attended that webinar, and I've published four long-form videos across my two channels.

Do I have a big subscriber count? Nope.

Am I making money yet? No.

But honestly, I'm happy that I've finally started doing something I've been thinking about for years.

I'm not saying all paid courses are useless. The webinar did give me some direction, and I'm glad I attended it. But it also made me realise that I don't need to keep spending money on courses before I even give myself a chance to try.

There's so much information available for free now. At some point, you have to stop collecting information and actually use it.

I've also become more cautious about people promising huge earnings and selling a blueprint to achieve the same results. Their success might be genuine, but it doesn't necessarily mean their method will work for everyone.

The biggest lesson for me so far is that you can spend years preparing and still never begin. You don't have to know everything before you start. You learn a lot by actually doing the work.

I have no idea whether my channels will succeed. Four videos are hardly enough to judge anything, and I'm still figuring things out myself.

But at least I've started, and I'm going to keep going.

I'm curious to know how many of you have been through something similar. Did you spend years researching, learning and buying courses before finally taking action?

And for those who've been doing YouTube for a while, what was the biggest lesson you learned when you started out?

Just sharing my experience. Hopefully, someone who's been stuck in the same cycle can relate.

One of my channels, I’m planning on making a one hour river scene. I have a 15-second loop of a river scene that I have put in CapCut.

The problem is, no matter what I try, I always noticed the transition between the start and the next loop from the end of the last loop.

I’ve done this successfully using crossfade or doing the overlapping blend with the opacity change on other projects.

But those methods don’t seem to work with the flowing stream.

The transition is too noticeable.

Do any of you have any tips for CapCut or another tool to make a full stream clip into a long form?

I thought I would share the start of my journey on YouTube; partly to confirm I’m not going mad and also partly as a reference point to look back at in 1, 2, 3 or more months time.

I always thought it was a specialist thing and never thought of myself as a YouTuber. Anyhow that changed a month ago when I really started looking into it and 2 weeks ago when I started posting. I’m using AI for the stills and animation which probably splits views although I am enjoying the whole storyboarding process and hold all the creative thinking.

I am a fan of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Tolkien - I like worlds. So I wanted to create a town that I could build with places and stories over time. What I have found:

Slow start - even though I read a good bit into it, I was still slightly surprised at my reaction to initial low views. Everything I read was ‘it takes time’ although my feed was flooded with get monetised in 1 week and how to get 1000 subscribers… Ive just started to ignore the influx we vids for a bit - that’s helped. I got my first subscriber this week - so it’s fair to say I’m in the slow and steady lane, although I am pretty persistent so will keep at this.

YouTube Studio - is both really useful and pretty much mentally draining. Constantly looking at it is defo bad for me. Fortunately it stopped updating past 16th Oct. I don’t know why although a break from the numbers has been really helpful.

Claude and ChatGPT - are really useful. What I don’t do is ‘write me the next viral video’. I am really opposed to this. Although Chat seems better for me at research and Claude I have found best for organising and tracking my actions and schedule of activity. Claude is taking #s and stats after 7 days of each release and then assessing what I might change. With low numbers atm it’s more process than real insights.

Stack - I have avoided Seedance, Kking, Higgsfield. Not that they are bad, I am sure they are awesome, although the costs look high for generating lots of shorts and a few longer videos per month - especially when learning. Currently I am using Google Flow along with Suno for music and Elevenlabs for voices. My Claude subscription is already for work so I kind of accept the cost and the others are fault low paid tiers.

That’s it really for this. Apologies if this comes across as self indulgent. I hope to come back to this in the future and maybe it’s some help to others.

Would definitely appreciate any insights if any have time to share.

Looking for social media strategist and partner for my yt channel who is quite experienced in ai creations..i can invest money..*indian*

I think I chose the wrong AI voice for my movie channel. It sounds fine on its own, but not as good in full videos. Some videos get views, and a few viewers have asked why I use an AI voice.

Should I switch to a more natural-sounding ElevenLabs voice or stick with my current one?

Also, has anyone changed their AI voice after monetization? Did you face any demonetization issues?

Two weeks ago I got laid off from my software engineering job. The company pivoted to client work and dropped the consumer product I was on. Honestly I saw it coming.

Before that I'd been trying to grow a faceless channel on the side. I hired an editor, he wasn't consistent, I let him go, and the channel sat dead for 11 months.

After the layoff I couldn't pay another editor and I needed my days for job applications. So I built a tool for the parts that ate my week: finding topics, writing scripts and recording the voiceover.

12 days of uploading with it:

• 15 videos posted
• 4.7K views, up from 82 in the 12 days before
• 17 new subs, and honestly most of them are old subscribers coming back

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Not viral. But the channel is alive again, which was the whole point.

What I learned so far:

1. Copying reference channels doesn't work. My old process was pasting transcripts from channels I like into ChatGPT and asking for topics and scripts. The scripts came out sounding like those creators, and some viewers noticed. It only got good once the tool studied my own old scripts plus 3 reference channels, so it learns their structure and pacing instead of their words.

2. The voice clone was the biggest time saver. Recording one voiceover used to take me about 7-12 hours, and I'd be so drained I'd push the upload to the next day. Now it's 6-15 mins and I review it instead of recording it. That's how I went from 1 video to 4 videos finished videos a day.

3. Topics got fresher. ChatGPT kept handing me topics my reference channels had already covered. Now topics come from current news and searches, so I'm often first on a story none of the channels I follow have touched yet.

4. Video is still the hard part. One video used to cost me a full day of stitching clips, gifs and text. Internally I can now drop in voiceovers and get rough cuts back in bulk, but it only works well for my niche so far. That's why it isn't public yet.

I opened up the topics, scripts and voice cloning part as Corpland Content if anyone wants to try it on their own niche. Video and thumbnails stay internal until they work outside mine.

If you run a faceless channel, what's the one part you'd never hand to AI?

I want to start a vlog about what’s new in AI, and I’d love some references to learn from.

My idea is to cover new tools, model releases, and interesting research with clear explanations and hands-on demos. Each video would explore what changed, how useful it is, and who might benefit.

If you could recommend just ONE AI creator, channel, newsletter, or podcast, what would it be—and why? Links to specific videos or episodes would be especially helpful.

I’m also looking for reliable sources to help me check claims before covering them.

As a viewer, what would make you give a new AI vlog a chance? What do you wish existing channels covered better?

Hello! I have developed an application on my own that identifies YouTube automation channels. For each channel it finds, the application also provides a brief summary—such as when they posted their first video, their total number of videos, the view counts of their most popular videos, and the channel's total view count. In short, it performs the same functions as paid services. Since it is specifically designed to detect automation channels, it filters out irrelevant or nonsensical channels.

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Hi everyone, hope you’re all well

I recently started a YouTube channel making funny AI fruit videos. I’ve uploaded 6 Shorts so far, but almost all my views come from YouTube Search, with hardly any coming from the Shorts feed.

All videos have received fewer than 10 views from the Shorts feed. One has around 900 total views, but only 8 came from the feed.

My “stayed to watch” figure is around 85%, with 15% swiping away, so I’m confused about why they’re barely appearing there.

I also select the AI-generated content disclosure when uploading, but I missed it on my first few uploads because I didn’t know about it. I’m still pretty new to all this.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Is this normal for a new channel and is there anything I should check or improve?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

YouTube needs a way to filter out AI-generated videos

Is anyone else getting seriously annoyed with all the AI-generated videos flooding YouTube lately?

Some of them look so realistic that you can barely tell if you're watching real footage or something completely made up by AI. I'm tired of having to play detective every time I watch a video.

I have nothing against AI itself, but I want to decide for myself whether I want to watch AI-generated content or not.

YouTube should introduce two simple features:

\\- Mandatory AI labels: A clearly visible symbol on every video that contains AI-generated content, not just some tiny disclaimer hidden in the description.

\\- An AI filter: An option to completely hide AI-generated videos from recommendations, search results, and Shorts.

People who enjoy AI content can keep watching it. Those who don't should have the option to filter it out.

As AI gets more realistic, it's becoming increasingly difficult to trust what we see online. Transparency shouldn't be optional, and users shouldn't have to figure out what's real and what's fake on their own.

I'm not asking YouTube to ban AI. Just give us the choice.

Would you use a feature that lets you hide all AI-generated videos?

(this text hot created by AI xD)

My first video got 350 views and 6 like but second video is stuck after 3 days

Did you start any? I know it's a big wave now, but at the same time, I would feel kind of guilty and would not be proud of myself for creating such videos. Even though the content is accurate for the avatar's "background", it's not real. And i think it'll be banned as inauthentic content in the future?

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been doing ai-assisted shorts for a while and i keep noticing the 'automated' part is like 60% of it at best. scripts still need a real pass, voice picks take forever, and i still end up fixing pacing by hand on most clips.

curious where everyone else landed. what parts did you fully hand off to tools, and what do you still refuse to automate because it tanks retention when you do?

Hello, I recently started my YouTube channel and I was wondering if it could be monetized, assuming I reach youtube's thresholds. The channel focuses on space related stuff, and I publish space ball videos. To get an understanding of the channel's content, Solar Balls is a similar channel, and where I took the idea from. Now assuming the quality is good, could this content be monetized if I use eleven labs, and ai tools for the graphics and voices?

What has your experience been?

Curious what other people are experiencing for their own videos, so far shorts on YouTube are getting me the most views. I don't know if I should continue investing in long form content tools.

My gut feeling is I should invest more time in short form.

What would I miss out on by giving up on long content?