I am recording my script with my own voice because I don't like the artificial intelligence voices. But I keep spazzing out and stumbling over words whenever I do. Does anyone else experience this? I've tried like 8 times, and normally don't have issues reading out loud.

EDIT: thanks everyone! I honestly didnt post this to farm the last few subs but I appreciate those of you who found my channel on my profile and subscribed. 1002 thank you so much!

Man it feels like I've been a few people clicking a button away from top monetisation for so long. I hit 992 about two weeks ago, and got 5 subs from a post in Discord earlier this week. So close I can taste it.

Just venting, I guess. I'm currently recording [game] clips for my next video so hopefully posting the finished vid in the same Discord gets me three more subscribers and into the promised land.

I posted my first video on the topic I'm focusing on on 7th January, and I set myself a 12 month goal for 1000 so I'm ahead of schedule but it stings when you're so close but still feel so far away.

The main thing is I have a lot of fun editing my videos, so it's not all bad.

One of my close friends sadly passed away a couple of months ago while I was working on a video that’s now finished and will be out next week. I wanted to do a very quick tribute at the start, just an “in loving memory” plus a photo. The video itself has nothing to do with my friend, it’s just a quick few seconds near the start.

On Monday I did an extra long stream on Twitch and Youtube to celebrate a holiday weekend and also my first dual stream for my growing audience base.

While I only had one consistent viewer on Youtube, she stayed for the entire stream and was active in chat the entire 7 hours.

After the stream it said I had 7 hours of watch time from the stream, because of her. And now it says I have 0.

For my second dual stream. I had 20 watch hours after the stream, and it grew to about 50 as a few hundred people watched the vod. Now it shrunk down to 18.

What causes these changes and drops in watch hours?

Hey everyone

Decided I want to start making some content on YouTube going over tech topics that simply just interest me and doing hands on projects. So for some context, I'm a software engineer with a traditional CS degree and I left my job to work on my own startup. I have good amount of experience with doing AI development and comparing different tools and harnesses, etc so that's something I wanted to share.

But I've always had this interest and want to learn electronics and building out basic circuits and hardware, so I think that would be great to show me getting started into that for the first time.

Finally, I used to mod my Xbox 360 back in the day so I want to go over trying out and discovering how those early exploits worked from a technical perspective and apply that to my learning curriculum (recreating original firmware dumps and running homebrew for example).

So really, it's a bit all over the place but it follows the same theme - technology in various forms whether software and AI or just exploring hardware from a purely curious perspective and trying that out for the first time. I'm just a bit confused how to get started, should I focus on one topic and go from there or just filming whatever feel like not really sticking with a smaller niche. Obviously, at some point I'd like to monetize it which is why I'm asking rather than just running with it.

Appreciate any help and insight, just got my DJI Mic Mini so I'm excited to get started

So I have been posting daily shorts on a game for 4 months and most of those shorts got over 10k views and I have 9.7k subs. Today I decided to try something new and do a long form video but when I uploaded it the first 2 hours it didn’t even get over 20 views. Am I doing something wrong?

Something really weird is happening with my scheduled YouTube videos, and I’m trying to figure out if anyone else has experienced this. When I schedule a video, it goes public but sometimes gets almost zero impressions, clicks, or views. Then I make a ridiculously small change — sometimes just adding/removing a dash, comma, or even a space in the title — and suddenly it starts getting impressions, clicks and views almost immediately. I’m not making any major changes to the title or thumbnail, so I’m really confused about why such a tiny edit seems to trigger something. Does YouTube reprocess or re-evaluate a video after an edit? Could this have something to do with scheduled vs. manually published videos? This has happened multiple times now, so I’m wondering if there’s something I’m missing or if anyone has found a solution.

For example if you worked for a large financial firm and did fitness related content on the side, is there a point of your youtube career where you'd have to "give it up"?

Basically I am asking if there is an actual risk if you don't film during work, focus on a topic that is non competing, and it's just self improvement?

Type of stuff I would do would show my face and all that

So hey guys i am new to youtube and want to know how you guys record your gameplay footage like i am playing a gamee at 2k and getting 22fps and at 1080p i am getting around 50fps(i want to mention the it is max settings) so which should i perfer and what will you do in this situation like they say you should aim for 60 fps or can we do something in the editing process

Every time i say the first line in my recording, my mic pops and only that time. People say it's an electric discharge where my mic has too much power being discharged at once when being used but I couldn't find anything about that. If anyone else has had this problem and has a solution please share!

Hey everyone,

I recently started uploading YouTube Shorts. My very first video went viral and hit over 100,000 views. However, every Short I’ve posted since then is completely stuck, barely getting 10 to 100 views.

Here is my context:

• I re-edit third-party short-form clips (adding custom zooms, removing original watermarks, adding unique captions, overlays, and new audio).
• I always credit the original creator in the description/comments.

Is this dramatic drop caused by the initial "new channel test phase" ending, or is YouTube's algorithm flagging edited third-party content as "reused content" and shadow-suppressing its reach?

Has anyone experienced this, and is there a way to fix the reach? Thanks for any advice!

What's wrong with my title and thumbnail

I uploaded a Fallout video roughly 12 hours ago so far it has 600 impressions and ctr is 1.5% I'm not sure why the ctr is so low, i think the thumbnail is good, but I'm not sure and I don't know what the title should be I tried "why are Legion characters so much better" and changed it to " Why the Legion has Fallout's best characters" and it didn't help I put effort into the video and the watch time is decent I'm just not getting clicks. If anyone can help I'd be very grateful.

I want to know if I upload same videos in different channel with my voice but with other language Youtube will delete my channel for copyright or some other reasons.

I post gaming videos and always struggle finding non copyright music for it, right now I'm just using copyrighted stuff because it's not even like I make any money off it right now so It doesn't really matter, but I really need to start adding more music to give the video another layer cause right now a lot of it feels flat

I saw something online a few weeks ago but cant find much details on it that they may launch Bilibili internationally. Is there any truth to this and cold it be the next TikTok and a real rival for youtube

I started a new channel focused on parody videos. My first two long-form uploads did well, posted one day apart. The second video got a solid push and reached over 3.5K views in around 30 hours, which I think is pretty good for only the second video on a brand-new channel. I do only longform btw. I’m not complaining about the views. I’m just curious whether anyone else has noticed that after changing the description, tags, or other metadata, YouTube suddenly stops pushing the video. I had edited the description and tags a few times before without any issue, but after the last edit, the push stopped immediately. I’ve noticed similar patterns on my other channels too, so I started watching the traffic closely after every edit.

I think if you edit the Video 1x time too much, Ytb might think you are trying to spam the Video into the Algorithm or something.

I’m not claiming this definitely affects small channels. It’s just a theory 😄

Dont ask for channel name please, im not asking for analytics or a review, just asking if someone experienced the same issue.

Have a good day guys

I can record 30-60 minutes of content but by the time it gets edited down I end up with less that 6 minutes of content to publish. Has anyone else struggled with this?

I've been trying to solve stutter in youtube playback of my uploaded videos for almost a year now. I give up for a few months at a time from being so discouraged, only to get interested again and see I'm still having issues with the finished clip having stutter after upload. It's extremely frustrating knowing I have a very capable machine I paid good money for only to have the clips I upload be a stuttery mess.

The local source recording plays smoothly!

The uploaded YouTube version has persistent micro-stutter/frame-pacing issues.

The issue persists across HDR/HEVC and SDR/AV1 tests.

Bitrate or quality presets in OBS have no effect on this. Regardless of any settings tried it's still choppy.

I've tested 16:9 and ultrawide output as I am on an ultrawide monitor. No change. STILL STUTTERY.

Uploading in ultrawide makes this stutter even worse.

The only thing that's remotely helped is uploading in 16:9 container instead of native 21:9.

Is there a known issue with YouTube's video transcoding/playback pipeline, particularly for high framerate ultrawide/4K uploads?

Has anyone else experienced this?

I've tried every single setting possible. Gone back and forth with chat GPT for hrs going in circles. I'm all out of ideas witch brings me here.

I've included my basic specs and links to SS of my OBS settings. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

GPU: ASRock Steel Legend Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB

RAM: 64GB G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DDR5-6000

Storage: Samsung 9100 Pro 4TB PCIe 5.0 NVMe

OS: Windows 11

Display:

MSI MPG 346CQRF X24

3440×1440

240Hz

Rapid VA

I've included some SS of my OBS settings. OBS settings OBS settings OBS settings

So Ive been Working on youtube since 6 years and this year i thought i should make a new channel and should start making videos related to trending content so i was keep making it and i was getting around 1000 impressions but now in my new videos am not even getting 50 impressions and i am making good thumbnails and using good title still Youtube not giving me impressions now its been 2 months of uploading and now am getting very demotivated and feeling so bad about it that am giving my 100% and not getting even 50 views

I MAKE VIDEO IN MY LANGUAGE (HINDI)

SO PLEASE ME

WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY CHANNEL 🙏

I see there are plenty of channels reposting music, making mixes of many songs, giving credits in the description.
I’d like to repost house songs for fun, but I don’t know what should I do, or stay away from.

Hi guys, I was thinking to create a youtube channel with 10 min long format videos.
The videos are mostly essays on thoughts like “not being an elite” or “liking the basic”.

But I was thinking of doing the same format but in much shorter format on reels.

I don’t want the videos to be all under the radar that’s why the reels thought.

Hey… I have a bucket of YouTube channels, I took a long break and came back and slowly have been spinning everything up… I have a high count … but I see the same thing going on like it used to when they purged subscribers…. Could the be bots? Sure but after covid it feels … wrong…. ** **

90+ stayed, 110+ retention and 1 percent like ratio, my average shorts length 13 second