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I'd say first cheaper offers will come around 10k subs. Since you mentioned NordVPN, i can add this one aswell: i got a NordVPN partnership offer at around 67k subscribers earlier, with a performance of 5 million views per month at the time. Im pretty sure partnership offer bots also look at your viewership, not only at subscriber count. Theyd rather partner with a highly viewed 20k channel than a 100k channel with no viewership.

No, i didn't accept any partnership offers since i really find it a hassle to put into my short videos around 2 to 6 minutes long

Just a heads up, it's against the AdSense Terms of Service (which covers YouTube earnings) to disclose earnings alongside conversion info; this may or may not cover showing specific videos and view counts alongside each video's earnings, so be careful.

See: https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms

Specifically:

Section 7: "You agree not to disclose [...] click-through rates or other statistics relating to Property performance [...] you may accurately disclose the amount of Google’s gross payments"

You can email NordVPN, they tend to associate with every community with over 700-800 members.

For 20k subs they'll probably agree to affiliate, you'll get a link and you'll get about 70-99% of every purchase that'll be done from that link.

Those guys are really amazing, they can provide you with materials to promote the link, they even suggested me to do a giveaway with 3 VPN plans (for 2 years, paid by them).

The only thing here is that if you don't have a community to sell to (eg: your community is made up of kids), you won't make profit.

*Also important: if you want companies to reach you, you need to leave an email in your channel's description

This. The world doesn't run on roses and money trees. If your putting in 10-20 hours a week editing/shooting videos and people are watching your channel for FREE, they won't get upset over a NordVPN ad for 30 seconds that you tell them. If they do your either talking like a slimy salesman or your have 14 year olds that don't understand how the world works.

Just make sure your not selling out obviously. Also this is just marketing. The vast majority will skip right through and wont bat an eye while the 10% will actually watch and maybe even purchase the product because they NEED/WANT it. Not all marketing is "Buy this doohickey which is a total ripoff".

What kind of sponsorships have you gotten that you don't agree with?

Good luck mate!

Promotion!

I posted my first video (DIY Skinny Tie Tutorial) in a related subreddit (r/frugalmalefashion). You never know who is reading those subreddits... within a week, Mashable.com posted an article featuring my video.

10 DIY Fashion Tricks Every Man Should Know

I'm friends with a lot of full-timers, and something they always say is that they hate being called "YouTubers". They're "Platformers". They utilize multiple platforms of social media, more than just YouTube.

Produce good content and promote the hell out of it. Someone will notice.

To start earning money, you must link your Youtube account with Ad Sense. Go to Google's Ad Sense Page and Sign Up.

https://www.google.com/adsense/start/#/?modal_active=none

You will be asked to provide some personal information, including your bank account, as your earnings will be transferred electronically. Once you finished all that up and are approved, you can begin earning your cash. The minimum threshold is $100 before the middle of the month.

One last thing (i just woke up lol and should have looked at this before my last message)...

Their terms are available on their website here: https://rumble.com/s/terms.html

In the section called "VIDEO CREATOR LICENSING OPTIONS, TERMS, & CONDUCT" you can see the actual breakdown.

They are actually sharing all 3rd party partner revenue at 60%, except for youtube, in which they will share 90%. The deal is irrevocable and perpetual, which means forever ever.

That's about as good as a deal as you can get with this style of company. Their biggest competition is probably Jukin and Storyful. They have very similar rev shares. I actually like those guys as well and have worked with them in the past.

I second my suggestion to go ahead and try it. That's not a bad deal at all.

again, best of luck! I'll leave you to it now!

Looking at the features, the free version looks pretty useless to me. Most of the features are just a copy of Youtube Analytics.

The most useful features seem to be Keyword Rank Tracking and Video A/B Tests, and those are "limited" even with the legendary version, and the legendary version costs a legendary $40 (!) per month.

Honestly, it depends on your content and your audience. Brands will hit you up if they feel like you’re a good fit or you might get hit up by those “middle men” which is ok too.

Don’t underestimate the power of reaching out to brands, whenever I need new gym clothes or an extra few bucks, I’ll hit up a brand that I like or that I think would fit well with my niche and go from there.

NordVPN usually uses those middle men so keep an eye in your spam mail

Yes, you'll get paid. For Rumble.com earnings (which you accumulated according to your screenshot), you get paid 30 days after months end. For 3rd Party earnings it can take longer (you have none of that).

As for comparing to YouTube, Rumble is similar, just not as big. Rumble also helps distribute to other platforms, but lately most money is being made on the Rumble platform. They are Top 250 on Alexa and growing super fast... http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/rumble.com

Congrats on the success!

and metadata, that's the biggest overlooked factor, fillingin a proper description that gives advertisers something to bid against helps bring in a higher RPM. this channel is slowly becoming dead but was pretty darn good in it's hay day

giveaways per se are not against the TOS of youtube's guidelines.

they may be if you were whorring for subs/likes/shares/whatever but honestly all the big channels do it and unless someone actually reports you... which is less of a chance than winning the lottery honestly. I am not advocating dishonestly, but I've done giveaways.

I like to ask my viewers to leave a comment and then use a random youtube comment picker to choose a random comment.

http://www.sandracires.com/en/client/youtube/random.htm

alternatively you can just generate a random number between 1 and the number of comments you have on that video

http://www.random.org/integers/

and then just find the comment in the list

FYI:

https://www.google.com/adsense/new/localized-terms

> 11. Confidentiality You agree not to disclose Google Confidential Information without our prior written consent. "Google Confidential Information" includes: (a) all Google software, technology and documentation relating to the Services; (b) click-through rates or other statistics relating to Property performance as pertaining to the Services; (c) the existence of, information about, or the terms of, any non-public beta or experimental features in a Service; and (d) any other information made available by Google that is marked confidential or would normally be considered confidential under the circumstances in which it is presented. Google Confidential Information does not include information that you already knew prior to your use of the Services, that becomes public through no fault of yours, that was independently developed by you, or that was lawfully given to you by a third party. Notwithstanding this Section 11, you may accurately disclose the amount of Google's gross payments resulting from your use of the Services.

Go to https://www.google.com/adsense/

Log in to your account. On the line "Finalized earnings" click on the right on "view payments".

On the left pane click Payment settings.

Click "+Add a new payment method"

Enter the bank information of the account where you want to receive the payment and save.

At the end of the month if your total earning exceed the threshold set (by default $100) you will receive your payment directly in your bank account after a few days it takes to process.

There is a nice article about this https://surfshark.com/blog/why-article-13-wont-work they even tested if the article 13 would work, I think we should not worry about it.

We generally give our free "Star" level upgrades for a couple months to try everything out (https://www.tubebuddy.com/pricing)

Weird - I see it all over: http://content.screencast.com/users/SharedDocs/folders/Jing/media/018104ae-3f89-4665-ba50-a1857cad77b2/2016-07-12_1208.png

There are many tools / tips that have helped me make videos, and will continue to help me.

1) Make consistent, quality videos. Stick to a schedule and post.

2) Use tags and make a good title and description. YouTube and Google rank your videos based on the information you give them. My favorite tool is TubeBuddy, an application that helps you with tags, and more.

3) This thread in the Youtube Creator Hub basically sums it up. (channel artwork, about page, channel trailer).

Honestly as a quick kneejerk reaction I'd say no, it's nowhere near worth hosting them yourself over YouTube.

You'd have to consider

• Converting each video to a (possibly multiple) web-safe format
• Bandwidth and storage costs
• Do you need to get a content delivery network involved or are all of your viewers close to your server
• Sourcing enough adverts to make it worth your while

You'd also have to somehow convince your 3.5k/day viewers to visit your site rather than YouTube too to break even on views, depending on where they're coming from this will range from easy (if they're all coming from an embed on your existing site) to virtually impossible (if they're all arriving via YouTube search)

I'd say at this point your best bet is to try to work with the contentid system - Upload your videos as unlisted/private and publish them when you've dealt with the claims. Sure there'll be a delay on your videos but that's a whole lot less work than trying to host them reliably yourself

Failing that have a scout out for an MCN that'll take you on as managed. Even with the affiliate shenanigans recently that'd still probably be an easier option than hosting yourself

Having said all of that if you do go down the self-hosted route, check out videojs for a web-video player. It's open source so you can possibly find an advert plugin, hack ads in or pay someone to make a plugin to serve adverts. Do also bear in mind it's very easy for the viewer to download your videos, if that's an issue.

Your videos will need to be in webm format falling back to mp4 to support the majority of browsers while making the best savings on bandwidth costs

A VPN simply encrypts your web traffic and acts as a middleman between you and the open internet. While a VPN can intercept all web traffic and analyze it, it is not possible for them to “hack” your channel. HTTPS and other safeguards prevent this from happening.

On this note, ProtonVPN is a very reputable and trusted provider. Only them and Windscribe offer free tiers that are commonly trusted in the VPN community.

To anyone reading this, don’t just use a VPN without understanding what exactly it does. They are not magic bullets for anything and are just a single tool for privacy & security.

Read your mention of "The Lean Startup," then turned around and picked it up off my shelf. It's one of the next books on my own list.

Gary Vaynerchuk is amazing. He has a great Youtube channel with a daily vlog following him to all of his business meetings and talks. His focus is primarily on social media and the opportunity it brings to build close and meaningful relationships (like in the good old "mom and pop" shop days where the owners knew everyone that walked in, but on a massive scale). He also loves to talk about how it's a great tool for market research and marketing (how simply typing "MCN" into Twitter will allow you to "eavesdrop" on people's conversations, see what they think, and propose solutions). Definitely check out his channel.

Lower the game volume in your video editor and record (preferably) with multiple microphones. You can use Audacity or if your microphone is mono, using an Android phone to record is also fine. Then mix the tracks together in your editor of choice. If you are close to eachother, make sure there is no echo, if you need it, lower your recording volume, amplify it in audacity and reduce the noise. Use your Blue Yeti, and if you don't have more microphones, use your phone's built-in or plug in headphones with a mic (EarPods have a great Mic) Here are some good audio recorders for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dje073.android.modernrecforgepro&hl=hu https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrwq.recorder I don't mess with iPhones, I don't know how to get the recorded file off of it, and they are limited.

One relatively low effort place to start is the brands that advertise with pretty much anyone.

Squarespace, NordVPN, Skillshare - that kind of thing.

Most of them have conversion based pricing, but it's a way to get some click-through and conversion metrics that you can leverage to help negotiate with other brands that would actually pay per video.

> Do you feel you’re making less mistakes thanks to the teleprompter?

100%!! My videos are very information heavy and there's just absolutely no way I could do it without the teleprompter.

With the teleprompter, I only have to worry about reading the words and having good intonation. I don't have to worry about what I need to say. That's a huge help in reducing mistakes.

> Is it an app or your phone/laptop or an actual physical teleprompter?

I use an actual teleprompter that I mount on my camera lens. I use a teleprompter app for the script I read off of.

I have worked with this exact person on a NordVPN deal. It's real but they pretty much always try to offer you low payouts. For future reference, try looking the person up on LinkedIn if you're unsure if they're real.

I am a sponsor myself, this is totally normal. Since your following is so small, they probably won't pay you money, just send you the free product to try.

I send a lot of emails with most YouTubers never replying, so it's easiest to send a more generic email, and see which ones are interested and actually reply.

Some things to watch out for: 1. Does their email domain match the domain of their product/website (for example, do they say they are representing NordVPN, but their email does not end with and is ) 2. I would avoid any sponsor using an in general tbh, it shows they are not established whatsoever 3. Are they trying to pay you via check? That is sketchy 4. Do they want you to sign a contract? Most companies will have you operate under a clearly defined contract (myself included). It's normal and most are short and can be read with plain english 5. Is their English good? Does it read like a naturalized English speaker wrote it? Not all foreign companies are scams, but just be careful.

I did an integration with them a while back. They nitpicked and were generally annoying to work with. Then asked us to do a second video for them because the video wasn't performing well enough for them after just 2 days. I refused of course. They've come back multiple times since then wanting to do another video but I've avoided them. At least they paid on time, can't say the same about NordVPN. They paid us 3 months late.

I have a Blue Yeti and I use this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08ZS7GXXW?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

It's not perfect and doesn't fit as snugly on the fat Blue Yeti but it does help. I have a decently large room with a wood floor and high ceilings, with my desk in the corner facing the window.

I also use the noise reduction feature in Audacity as well as some processing in Premier. I think it could be better, but it's what I'm working with atm. If you want I can DM you my channel so you can see how it sounds. I've only been using the foam thing for the past couple of recordings.

Fwiw I've stopped watching channels entirely due to integrated ads. Tom Scott got me recently, having preached of the uselessness of NordVPN in the past, he's gone to the dark side and now blathers on about how wonderful it is. Ugh. Such a shame.

If I see the same sponsor in multiple run videos frankly I'm done with that channel. I already watch mandatory ads at the beginning, during the vid and now have a baked in ad in the guise of content?

I've been tempted by YT premium due to the ridiculous amounts of ads... That won't help if a YT vid basically exists to shoe-horn in an ad within the vid itself.

With that rant over, not everyone feels the way I do, and you don't have enough data to firmly say it was the ad integration that 'damaged' growth. You have to weigh up the financial gain Vs the risk of losing viewers' interest.

Fwiw I'm sort of okay if the vid opens with something like 'this video is sponsored by X... More about them later' as it least it's upfront and doesn't just smack with you with a random and in the midst of content.

Did you do something like that?

> or perhaps Nicolai used to offer the tracks for free and then changed his mind and licensed them

The CC license can't be revoked. Once something has been released under it, those who used it under these conditions can continue to use it, even if the song in question is no longer distributed under the license (see here).

No, & it is completely free. It's not available on their website anymore, but here is a link to an external website: http://download.cnet.com/GoPro-Studio/3000-13631_4-75993258.html

I primarily use it to make 4K videos on my yt channel (4K 60 Coming soon) Here is a link if you want to see some of the capabilities of this program: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDQDcGdmslI4HJkPP5-CKUw And it is a good editing program.

Neither.

But both have (or sponsor) podcasts, and there is some useful information to be had in those (some of which comes from interviews with other creators)

https://vidiq.com/blog/category/tubetalk-podcast/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjDiH-DyHWC1YLwDhsTUPhWy6turb8wuH

I believe they take 5%. If you tip a channel directly through YouTube 7% is taken out somewhere along the line.

Ive thought about raising money to disable ads, problem is, as your channel grown you will need to increase that threshold. YouTube pays (roughly) $1k per 1M views (+-$300). Would it be possible for me to get $3000 a month from Patreon?

Well one of my favorite channels, Arduino Vs. Evil makes almost $5000 a month through patreon! He only has a $1 donation button (no real rewards), but people donate more.

Then there is Numberphile. That channel has 1.3 million subscribers, 13x the amount as AvE, but only takes home around $3650 a month.

Moral of the story, don't spend too much time thinking of rewards. Making quality content in a regular-ish schedule , and developing a relation with your viewers is the top priority.

There is no minimum with Teespring anymore. They are always "in stock" and ship instantly. And you can actually set up a nice store unlike Amazon Merch where you can't establish your own brand.

https://teespring.com/stores/austinmahone

This is a good one I found recently (they also have photos):

https://www.pexels.com/videos/

The videos I checked all are free to use and no attribution required.

In my case, I barely require other videos so I only used them very sporadically and for overlays, never the whole video on screen. But they look legit.

I think many YouTubers need to add other revenue streams in to live off of their channel. They do those audible or Harry's adds in their video (the rules for these are changing). Or they have Patreon: https://www.patreon.com where they have subscribers support them (Like 1% of Crash Course subscribers pays for they to have a teams of people run the channel, but they have millions of subs). And of course if you sell merch. Good luck!

The content is great man. You've gotten better each video. If you're looking for lighting solutions, I suggest looking for something like this: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Bayco-BAYCO-SL-201PDQ6-Clamp-Light-75W-Incandescent-G2004628/50467318

Whenever I actually use mine, the results are pretty great.

You need to sign in to the Adsense account you set up from your YouTube channel. You must have done that because it is required for monetization.

When you sign in, AdSense will show $0. AdSense doesn't show estimated revenue from YouTube

After the month is over your estimated revenue from YouTube week be finalized and transferred to your AdSense account. December estimated earnings from YouTube will he finalized between January 10-15.

Once you have $10 (or equivalent) earnings in AdSense, they will mail you a postcard with a PIN to verify your address. Right now, double check that the address in your AdSense account is correct, because you will not be issued a payment until your address is verified.

Also when you AdSense earnings reach $10 you will be prompted to set up a payment method. It varies by country, but in most countries it's EFT or wire transfer into your bank account.

You may also need to enter tax information depending on what country you are in.

So, the bottom line is that you should sign into AdSense every week or so at least to keep an eye on the status and whether there are any actions you need to take.

Sign in here https://www.google.com/adsense

From the Adsense Terms of Service page:

> 11. Confidentiality

>You agree not to disclose Google Confidential Information without our prior written consent. "Google Confidential Information" includes: (a) all Google software, technology and documentation relating to the Services; (b) click-through rates or other statistics relating to Property performance as pertaining to the Services; (c) the existence of, information about, or the terms of, any non-public beta or experimental features in a Service; and (d) any other information made available by Google that is marked confidential or would normally be considered confidential under the circumstances in which it is presented. Google Confidential Information does not include information that you already knew prior to your use of the Services, that becomes public through no fault of yours, that was independently developed by you, or that was lawfully given to you by a third party. Notwithstanding this Section 11, you may accurately disclose the amount of Google's gross payments resulting from your use of the Services.

The best way to see your actual numbers is to go to AdSense directly. Once you are there do the following:

Performance reports > Common Reports > Products > Hosted AdSense for Content.

I'm not entirely sure what Nich was referring to when they suggested getting a new AdSense. I just wanted to make sure you understood the metrics for YouTube Red.

If you want to know what your "actual" numbers are from AdSense you can do the following:

Go to AdSense. Click on Performance Reports > Common Reports > Products > Hosted Adsense for Content. This will give you a break down that is far more accurate.

Side note: this will not work if you're with an MCN. You'll have to use your MCN's Dashboard.

If you want to see your actual numbers do the following.

Go to AdSense. Click on Performance Reports > Common Reports > Products > Hosted Adsense for Content. This will give you a break down that is far more accurate.

Side note: this will not work if you're with an MCN. You'll have to use your MCN's Dashboard.

Nope, you'd have to switch channels to see that.

As there are no "AdSense Analytics" anymore you only see these stats in your YouTube Analytics for each channel.

In Analytics (https://www.google.com/adsense/) I only ever get 1 "YouTube - Earnings" payout per month, so you basically don't see anything there anymore.

> Simply starting off your videos with your "What's going on guys? Taco Here!"

That's all you need for an intro. If you're doing a clash of clans video, your viewer already knows that you do those. If you're not doing a clash of clans video, your viewer probably doesn't care that you do those. And if somebody's watched any of your videos before, they'll be annoyed because you're wasting their time telling them something they've heard a million times. Apart from intros to a new series, or just a general intro video to your channel, intros are there for you to say hi to your viewers to make your channel feel more like a community, not for explaining who you are (save that for the outro; it doesn't get in the way of the video, and if you can't convince them to watch to the end of your video, you're probably not going to convince them to watch more of your videos anyway).

Also, paint.net is a pretty good free image editing software. Much better than MS paint and PowerPoint, anyway.

Started youtube 3 weeks ago .. 11.4% CTR .. 11k subs , 6 million views https://www.screencast.com/t/Sjwg88PAL

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Having videos on one of the viral trend and being the first and only one to do videos on that trend has contributed to this crazy numbers.

Restream.io is not against any TOS YT or Twitch. YT does not care. Twitch however for most people who have a contract you can not stream content to Twitch and someplace else at the same time. There is a 24 hour embargo. You mention that restream it's self is a violation. I would love to know what this is because I am a Twitch and YouTube partner and have been for many years but I can not see how the service would be a violation unless you were sending content to other sources that violate the 24 hour rule.

I've used the free version of Resolve since I launched our channel. I had no prior editing knowledge and found it simple to use.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

Davinci Resolve has a huge learning curve. The free lite version is professional quality software. But it does lack many common effects only available in the Studio version. For example, motion blur. But it requires a powerful machine to run. And for a newbie, it will take some time to get used to it.

Kdenlive is also free. It's not professional software. But it's good enough to match Windows Movie Maker or iMovie. This is a good basic choice with a much less steep learning curve.

https://kdenlive.org/en/

OH! I meant to tell you. If you're looking to get people to do quizzes, one option is to try out Teachable.com or something similar. You can let people join courses for free, and intersperse quizzes throughout, and then Teachable will forward them to the next video in a series. I'm not sure this counts towards the algorithm though.

Maybe you want to send them to a Sporcle quiz and see if people will even engage with them... to test the waters and see if there's demand.

but wouldnt that hurt growth because no focused nich is outlined and the viewers would be confused

cool random tool: everything (search) https://www.voidtools.com - do you hate windows search? or maybe windows search hates you? either way with everything search, its time for a breakup

Personal Stuff - It very much depends on what topic your current channel covers. You need to consider why your viewers watch your existing content. Would they expect you to upload your own music? If you can give more detail as to what topics you currently cover and the content you upload, then you'd probably get a more specific answer for this question.

SEO - Honestly, SEO really isn't that difficult to pick up. I worked as an SEO Specialist before starting my own channel and when it comes to YouTube, implementing SEO is very straight forward.

I don't know your current level of understanding in regards to SEO so I would first recommend you check out vidIQ before you look to hire someone to do the work for you. You could end up spending hundreds of dollars on an SEO Specialist when you could potentially do it yourself.

If you have any other questions I might be able to help with then feel free to ask.

Some things you should know it that recording games is easy. But you are still going to be spending a LOT of time working on youtube videos. So here are some mistakes that I made that you should know. 1. make sure you have a good mic. 2. make sure you have as little background noise (people hate that) 3. your friends and family will subscribe to your channel . There not watching it. 4. Dont lock out all collabs (these help alot) 5. Use copyright free music. There is a massive List on youtube creator 6. Be yourself Try not to copy someone else Channel You need to stand out from the crowd not be part of it. 7. upload regulatory Mon -Fri or What ever. Just keep at it even if it is once a week. 8. You are a starting channel you are not going to get 100's of views overnight. You need to self promote on social media like Facebook or Twitter. 9. When you start getting comments Dont get discouraged when you get hate comments. All comments help your channel. Take it with a grain of salt. Some times people are just giving constructive criticism. 10. Make basic easy to read catchy thumbnails and Number your videos :P

Hope this Helps you get of to a good start man.

P.S. Use https://www.tubebuddy.com/NPCKiller to help you with tags and other stuff for your channel . You can use the free one dont matter. I didn't want to use this at first cause I thought it was a waste but it has help out a lot.

I also would be happy to help where you need it. after you start uploading let me know and Ill do an #ontheair interview with you and that should help your channel as well. I can only so this when you have some content to show and a good mic. I don't ask anything in return but ask for a comment and a Rec on who you want me to Interview next that you know.

I have around 42% and my videos are 4-5 minutes long. As it is mentioned, it depends on the length of your video.

Here is a nice graph to give you an idea. http://cdn.verticalmeasures.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/How-long-should-your-video-be-stats-on-video-length.jpg

This article is also really helpful. http://wistia.com/library/understanding-audience-retention

You are talking about derivative work / mix that is protected by a subject of copyright but the file that I used isn't it is from public domain. Link privided.
You can try and upload the source i provided you will get copyright claim as well.

Thing is that they registered in their database some god knows what recording and now the system automatically grabs public domain audio.

They should have more quality control than that.

https://www.amazon.com/Part-I/dp/B0832KCP9Y

You didn't mention a budget, so this is a hard question to answer. When you say good autofocus, it makes me think Sony.

If money is no object, get something in the A7 series, the A7SIII if you can afford it. (Although, the screen flips out to face the subject to the side and not upward, I'm not sure how literally it needs to be a flip UP screen)

Is it important to you to have interchangeable lenses? If it isn't and you're on a budget the new Sony ZV-1 can be had for around $700-800 and has one of the best autofocus systems you can get for that price (and this screen flips UP, not to the side)

You're describing a fairly complicated audio setup that sounds like it would require multiple microphones---probably more than most cameras can handle even on high end models...but something like this with a couple lav/condenser mics (https://www.amazon.com/Zoom-H6-Six-Track-Portable-Recorder/dp/B086653VSH/ref=sr_1_11?dchild=1&keywords=zoom%2Bexternal%2Brecorder&qid=1610892605&sr=8-11&th=1) could work well for that, and the audio can be synched up in post with only a little work.

What bothered me last time is I had to delete a good chunk of my channel to demonetization ("inappropriate" content although it's clear my cartoons aren't made for kids) and NordVPN rejected me asking for more money on the basis that a lot of my older videos in a different niche had under 10K but any cartoon I make is guaranteed 10K-100K, wish they focused on that instead but I feel like this companies will be looking for anything they can to justify NOT charging.

I haven't even started, yet really with youtube, but to be honest, from my experience with instagram marketing and facebook marketing, the best way is to go for affiliate marketing on top of your sponsors. Reach out to websites you think would pay great and wouldn't hurt your credibility as online personality. You gotta watch, so that things are within your niche. For example if you are gaming channel, of course you wanna pick things like NordVPN or shadow legends etc. If you are programming channel raid shadow legends can still be done as sponsorship if you are good with words, for example: Aaaaaand what's up coding junkie, welcome to the *insert brand/channel name* , and today we are going to talk about 5 frameworks you should know to stay competitive in the market. That being said, every programmer needs time for himself, to relax, have fun. With that in mind we want to bring to you Raid Shadow Legends: *insert the actual sponsorship*

I think you get the idea. But if you are a channel in "back to nature" niche you ain't fucking gonna do raid shadow legends or nordvpn... Then you are going to reach out to candle shops, and do affiliate marketing for etsy and similar shit... I think you get the idea. The important thing is YOU have to reach out and leave an impression.

No advertising other than sharing it on our Facebook page but most, if not all of our fans have already watched the videos on Youtube. Here is a link to the series on Amazon - the subject is a small niche so the success even more surprising (aka, chances are you won’t find it interesting) .. if you compare the quality of episode 1, when we were just messing around, to the quality of episode 8, you can see we got more serious.. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KZL8HF9/

Most likely fake. I've made over a hundred email exchange with NordVPN, their mail never go to spam. There are number of scammers who pretend to be representative of popular companies on YouTube. Be aware. Check her email address, does it ends with ?

A while back, someone from cyberpunk2077 contacted me for sponsorship but she was fake. Also, NordVPN representative are mostly situated in Cyprus. I don't know of any Hongkong office.

Have you checked the contact out on Linkedin?

For a company like NordVPN they would have an agency reaching out to potential partners/influencers too. While they might have affiliate info on their site.

I got some some interesting offers for free stuff at 25K subs, but nothing very expensive
Squarespace contacted me at 50k subs

I got some really expensive stuff ( over $500 ) around 70K subs

Now that i am over 200K subs, i get sponsor offers every week for stupid stuff like NordVPN or Raid shadow legend... but i can't accept this kind of sponsors because i know deep down that its all scams, and my viewers are going to hate me for promoting those crooks.

I would first start with places like Audible, NordVPN, and other affiliate sites that have a clear application process. It might be difficult given the type of content you make but it can be done. I would suggest FameBit to apply to smaller companies, as that was my go-to for sponsorships for a while but they just announced that they would end that as a service.

Basically just apply to a bunch of different places and hope something sticks. It might be a good idea to slowly transition to being more of a personality on your channel, using your voice and adding commentary so that you can more effectively dispute copyright claims as Fair Use, and then also sponsors will more willingly accept. It's tough because the type of content you make isn't really conducive to sponsors, so making that transition overtime (obviously you can't right off the bat) might be a good idea. Invest in a simple USB mic and record a bit of commentary and see how your audience reacts. They might even prefer that format.

Thank you for a detailed reply. I don't have millions of subs but my videos often get than many millions of views. I'm not a tech channel so when I promote a product, I do it as a so-called 'influencer', not as a reviewer.

I don't promote scam and shady products (of course) but I'm not too 'choosy' either. Sometimes I promote NordVPN, sometimes I promote ExpressVPN. I don't promote highly niche products.

I've never promoted a product unless I'm paid. Now, I'm thinking that in situations where I don't get enough sponsorships, maybe I can do promotions (for free) and put my affiliate link in the description box.

Do you think I'll be able to get a 0.1% conversion? If a million people come across the ad, how many of them may actually go and sign up for the free trial of the product?

This whole package is selling for $35 on amazon. Mic, arm, pop filter, xlr cable. Way under budget and great reviews.

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Edit: Forgot the link: https://www.amazon.com/ZINGYOU-Microphone-BM-800-Double-layer-Broadcasting/dp/B0756V2B6R/ref=sr_1_4?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1536620494&sr=1-4&keywords=mic+with+arm

I've got a list of business books I am going to be reading this year to help me get a really amazing grasp on what kind of business I want to run. The first book I am reading is "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries. It's that book that gave me the idea of the batch marketing. Although it's technically called lean marketing and is an off-shoot of Toyota's lean manufacturing approach to building vehicles (mentioned in the book). I figured the principles can be applied in a creative way to marketing and advertising. In fact, that entire book is about throwing out the traditional box and testing every single crazy and normal idea that comes to mind to see what works and what doesn't and getting results back in a very timely manner. Absolute creative freedom. :)

I'll have to add that book by Gary to my list.

Lighting for sure, I use this and it works alright https://www.amazon.com/Photography-Portrait-Continuous-LimoStudio-LMS103/dp/B005FHZ2SI/ref=sr_1_3?s=photo&ie=UTF8&qid=1478746071&sr=1-3&keywords=Studio+lighting

I've actually been looking into getting lights (and a green screen) for my channel recently, so I'm interested to see the responses to this. Out of what I've looked at so far, I think these umbrella lights are what I would go with. I don't really have any experience with lighting, so I can't say much as to how good those would actually be, but the price is definitely right, and my understanding is that umbrella lights are a little more portable than softboxes, which is a definite plus for me since I don't film in a single location.

As everybody says, it depends. My channel is really small and I'm not really making much money off of it, so I got a cheap one (that is surprisingly good for its price. It's called the Samson Go Mic if you're interested.

1. I don't have a budget camera to recommend, but I personally use a CAD U37 for a microphone and it works pretty well for me. Here's an example of me using the microphone if you want one (note that the setup for the microphone was pretty bad there, since it was basically just sitting in the middle of the table so it could catch all 3 of our voices. It would sound better if it was set up properly)

2. Can't really help you here, sorry.

3. I'm far from an expert on SEO, but I can tell you that you definitely should not put extra tags in the description, as that's against Youtube's rules, and could easily get your video taken down if somebody reports it. Having a long description with lots of keywords in it is a good idea, but it actually has to be written as a description, it can't just be a list of tags.

Good luck with your channel, I hope it goes well!

Did you see the videos I linked? This is not music, it is literally the audio of the scene in the movie LOTR: Return of the King, with people speaking, sound effects and all. The movie came in 2003 and the group claims it from an album of 2009, so they were not paid to do it, nor they are the original authors to be allowed to claim copyright of such thing, I believe. They just copy pasted the audio scene on their album, and now they can claim it as theirs, doesn't seem right either. Also according to Amazon the copyright holder of the album is Wounded Records not this Orchard Music group - link

These are two very different products. One of them is a microphone, and one of them is an ADC. I use a ZOOM H4N, but I rarely use its internal mics. I pull a lapel mic into it. With regards to a camera mounted shotgun mic: http://www.amazon.com/SGC-598-Photography-Interview-Shotgun-Microphone/dp/B00HE9G3UQ

I have that mic, and will be shooting and uploading a review of it tonight or tomorrow to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/techhole

But the short of it is, I like the mic alot

As others have already said, you can use any kind of mic you have laying around so long as people can understand your voice; quality can come later. Personally, I use the CAD U37 mic for recording, it's fairly inexpensive and I think it gives a pretty good sound. Here's an example of the sound I get from the mic (in a bad setup, at that).

Only took a quick glance but here's a few things that you can improve upon:

1: Figure out a way to make the mic not pick up your keyboard. Its really distracting when half of what is being heard is clacking. You can fix this by moving the mic away from the keyboard, getting an isolation box or finding a keyboard that is less noisy.

2 You will get much better search results if you name your series. When all of your videos start with "Skyforge" there isn't anything that differentiates your videos from other people's videos on the game. If you come up with a name for your series, it will help when people are trying to remember you and it makes your videos look more appealing to those searching for new content.

3 I noticed on your WoW gaming news video you had footage of Dark souls in the background. Why? It isn't at all relevant to the content you are discussing, it would have been better to have had no video at all. If you are talking about WoW, play WoW.

4 Same video, even if the Dark Souls content WAS relevant the framerate that you were playing at makes me instantly want to close the video. If your computer cannot handle a game at a constant framerate either upgrade your rig or do not record that game. Recording games at a suboptimal framerate is only about one step up from recording them with a phone camera in terms of looking professional.

Your titles are barely optimized for search engines. Put the most important keywords as close to the beginning of the title as you can (NOT TGIM#). Same goes for the descriptions, make sure to have some keywords in there. Good audio can come cheap. Get an audio technica lavalier ($27):http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-ATR-35S-Lavalier-Microphone/dp/B00006I51V

You mention to subscribe at the end of your video but there's no subscribe annotation/card.

Some of your videos don't have any call to action at all.

Good job on the frequency of uploads, keep it up.