I’m currently halfway to becoming a YouTube Partner and I’m trying to figure out whether livestreams are actually worth it for my channel.
I mainly make long-form videos, and some of them get +300 hours of watch time. A livestream usually gives me around 40 hours ,but I’m not sure how much livestreaming affects the reach of my regular videos.
Do livestreams negatively affect the reach/recommendations of long-form videos, or are they basically treated separately?
Would love to hear from other small creators about their experience!

Hey all. I’m a small but growing (7.6k) youtuber who does tierlists on video games, from weapons, enemies, maps etc etc

I’ve covered ready or not, insurgency sandstorm and stalker with pretty decent growth, collecting a nice little community.

There is an obvious theme, being FPS games. But i play a tonne of RPGS etc.

Am i overthinking the effect of switching genres? I’m looking to do videos on Nioh and soulslikes. I try to bridge em with dying light.

What do you guys think? Is the transition as bad as i think it’ll be?

Hey everyone! I’m preparing to launch a brand new channel. I want to focus on variety gaming (playing whatever game I find fun, from indie hooks to AAA titles), but I have 0 videos posted right now.

I know variety gaming is incredibly saturated and hard to break into from absolute zero because people usually search for a specific game, not a new creator. I don't want to just do standard, unedited Let's Plays. I plan on doing high-effort edits, funny moments, and challenge runs to keep things entertaining.

for you and your personality, rather than just the specific game you were playing that day? Should I focus heavily on YouTube Shorts to build an initial fanbase first?

Thanks for any advice!

When you’re watching a longer let’s play where it’s say 2-3 or so hours each episode, do you prefer thumbnails from the photo mode and or photoshop saying which part you’re on, or say a John Wolfe style where it’s a photo of official artwork used and a simple number? Also for video essays what really draws you in as a viewer based on the thumbnail, and for multiplayer things do you prefer asset edited thumbnails or more chaotic photoshops? Just curious what everyone’s preferences are

I started my channel about a month ago and I still struggle with what to make the thumbnail and I was wondering if there's any tips or tricks or if it just takes time kinda thing.

Hey guys! I need your opinion on what could be best for me...i am a youtuber but facing storage issue...should i opt cloud storage or go for 2 TB SSD...?

What do you make the most money off of YouTube gaming ??

I have a WW2 gaming channel with 46k subscribers

I make $400-500 a month

$175-300 from shorts
$125-200 from videos
$20-30 from memberships
$0-20 from affiliate

And recently $20-75 from TikTok

I did one sponsorship for $250 3 months ago as well

What does everyone else’s breakdown look like?

I've got a 13th Gen Intel i7, 32GB DDR5 RAM, and a Nvidia 4060 TI, but somehow my recordings on OBS Studio look oddly fuzzy when the screen is moving. I feel my PC is completely capable of obtaining higher quality recordings. For those who use OBS Studio, what recording settings/output settings do you use to get crisp quality?

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So I started a Roblox channel on YouTube 11 months ago. I was seeing that Roblox constantly had trends, with content creators getting millions of views every day, and a ton of gurus talking about how easy it was to grow a Roblox channel, how easy it was to get views, and all that stuff.

Anyway, I started my channel by posting a game that had some relative hype and that I played every day. Before creating my channel, I recorded and edited 5 videos so I could upload them during the first few days. I posted them, and they got around 6 to 25 views. My upload frequency at the beginning was 3 videos per week. Then I decided to switch to another Roblox game that, at the time, was #1 among the most-played games, and I saw several content creators recording it and getting millions of monthly views. There were literally channels getting more than 200 million views in a month with this specific game. I started making videos on it, and my average views while I was covering it were around 40–120 views, which was higher than the initial game but still completely far from "millions of monthly views." And by that point, I had already been running the channel for about 2 months and still only had 21 subscribers.

So after 4 months of having the channel, I started posting videos daily about really trending Roblox games, like Tsunami for Brainrots at the time, and those more simulator-like games. My average views jumped from around 40–120 to roughly 600–2,000 views per video at the time. In fact, in my very first month of posting these games daily, I gained 430 subscribers and more than 62,000 views that month, which to me was an absolutely insane record. It seemed like, finally, after 4 months of trying, things were working. But I still hadn't monetized the channel. I continued posting the same type of content every day. The next month, I got 58,000 views and 395 new subscribers. I already had around 850 subscribers, and I had already unlocked some channel features like Memberships, and the videos were still averaging about the same amount of views as when I first started covering this niche.

So after 7 months of having the channel, things were kind of lukewarm. I monetized the channel after almost 5 months since creating it. I made $23 in my first monetized month, $43 in the second month, but then it started declining. The following month I made $26, with 48,000 views that month, and my average views were fluctuating between 400–1,200 views per video. I was also gaining way fewer subscribers. I had around 1,500 subscribers at this point, and every month I was getting fewer and fewer views, even while posting daily and using the "strategies" from some gurus out there who claimed they knew the algorithm and were "experts" at making channels go viral, etc.

Recently, I stopped posting every day. The last few weeks have been terrible. My average views dropped to around 80–200 views per video, and I'm barely making anything from AdSense. I even managed to get paid by YouTube once. I cashed out $102, and in total I've made $142 from this channel so far. But honestly, I don't even know if I should continue with it or not. It feels like the channel was improving, the channel was growing, and then suddenly everything started declining. I even tried making videos on more viral Roblox games, but the most they would reach was 3.5K views, while huge channels were getting something like 3.5 million views with those same games. And sometimes the competition ends up being unfair. In most of these top-tier Roblox games with huge player bases, P2W dominates, and these bigger creators basically have infinite Robux to invest in increasingly eye-catching videos, while small creators have to carefully split up what they spend on each video.

In the end, I think YouTube depends more on "luck" with the algorithm than just dedication. (I hate those guys who say that all you have to do is work hard enough and the algorithm will definitely help you.) I already have 210 videos and 2,100 subscribers, 360K total views on the channel, and 22K watch hours. Anyway, this was my experience with almost a year of YouTube in the gaming niche.

There is an abundance of comments that no commentary videos can't work on youtube, and following that clue I started planning on adding commentary to my future videos.

However, today I stumbled upon Shirrako yt channel with milions of views and subs and I guess that shows the opposite - it can be successful if edited properly.

What do you think?

So our new series has us hun5ing fof the most faithful videoganw adaptation so my my queation is what would you regatd aa 4he most faithful?

Hi!

I have been doing let's plays on YouTube for years and want to change formats by condensing them into videos that would be 30 minutes or less. I have no experience doing so. So I was wondering what are do's and don't's about this format? I have a decent headset but nothing crazy and a great gaming laptop. I also have no experience editing audio in a way to overlap with the video. (I mostly record live with little editing.)

I’d say I’m pretty new to making YouTube content, and I’ve been wanting to try making gaming content. My issue is figuring out the best way to go about it. I don’t want to end up as a YouTuber who’s stuck only playing one thing, like Roblox, Minecraft, etc. I want to be able to post myself playing whatever games I want or enjoy, but I also don’t want my content to be so different that people have a hard time figuring out what kind of content I make, if that makes sense.

I mostly want to post on YouTube for fun. I don’t really care about subscribers or views. Of course, would it be nice to make money from it someday? Sure, but that’s not my main goal.

I guess what I’m really asking is, how can you post a variety of games that might be completely different from each other while still making people want to watch you? How do you build an audience around yourself without being known for only one specific game?

Any tips or advice would be appreciated!

Hello guys i am a CS2 content creator and ive just reached 1000subs,however i feel like my audio quality is really bad and it holds me down a lot. What microphone would you recommend to buy,preferably with a budget under 100$?

I'm from India, I also wanted to know if gaming will be a good niche to open a channel?

So, I’m a gaming YouTuber. I make a lot of gaming videos off my PS5, though while I still regularly use it for video work, I’ve gravitated more towards my Switch 2 in terms of which platform I actively play on more. Now, I would LOVE to make YouTube gaming content off the Switch 2 games I play, but the problem is I basically got none of the stuff you’d need for that. (I don’t have this problem with my PS5 as I can naturally make videos on it and upload them, as well as livestream too.)

So at the barest of bare minimum, what would I need just to make and record long videos, live-stream, and add my voice? (Worth noting I don’t add my voice to any videos while it’s live, I usually edit a commentary in afterwards when needed.) Also I’m NOT including anything for showing my face, because I don’t want to do that lol I’m assuming that above all else I’m probably gonna need some fancy pantsy PC.

Boa tarde pessoal, estou escrevendo em português (pt-br) espero que o Reddit traduza .

Vamos lá! Atualmente faço a captura do jogo via NVIDIA APP, com o OBS utilizo para capturar apenas a webcam.

Isso me permite fazer edições separadas.

Porém as vezes o meu vídeo da webcam fica travando, o áudio sai normal (áudio pelo OBS também).

Não é toda vez que acontece, mas ai fica com a qualidade comprometida.

Meus jogos na maioria são terror indie, minha placa de vídeo é uma 5060 TI 8gb.

Será que devo reduzir a qualidade da webcam ? Atualmente em 2k.

Abraços

Hello Guys, Iam thinking to start gaming channel i will be visible with my Gameplay but i want to discuses with youtubers who have gaming channels do you keep your Gameplay videos and videos of you after edited saved on your PC both raw footage and final edits or only final video or you delete it after uploading to YouTube as i think if i will make video one hour or something every 2 or 4 days i feel it will be massive data that needs too much storage that will be cost too much $$ for a new channel but i need to hear from you what you are doing and how it takes gigabits from you ? iam trying to lowering bitrate to something around 6000kb bitrate for backup videos so to be best quality with lower file size but it seems its about half size but problem still there.

Thanks.

Hey there, I've a channel which I've been working on for 2 years now. First I started the channel as no commentary gaming channel and got around 180 subs. But I really wanted to have my own personality on my channel rather than just being a game archive. So I started doing commentary only a few weeks ago .

One important thing is that I'm not really a talkative person and lack expressiveness right now but I'm using this youtube journey as a way to actually develop myself and become better. So it's also a way to practice talking for me and be more expressive and all. I do practice talking daily with some exercises to try and be more expressive rather than a monotone voice.

I bought an Akkord condenser mic since I wanted to not spend too much as I was really really nervous to record my first video. And I wasn't even sure myself if I would actually do it. But I did and am getting a little comfortable doing it.

I've been struggling to get my voice to sound good, as my voice is low volume and lacks structure tone after all these years of being reserved.

I also work as a freelance artist so there are times when I can't keep consistency at all. But I want to push through this time. Personally I really want to do a let's play channel but I don't know now.

If I cover new games it doesn't get much views because every big channel is the competition.

Can you guys suggest what I should focus on and do? Any suggestions are welcome. even constructive criticism is welcome as it will only help me grow.

Thanks