call.me.oli
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Hey! If and when you get the chance, could I get some feedback on my channel? Thanks!
Allow me to gaze upon your channel...
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coda281
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Oh ny gosh... almost 600 comments, i do not know how you do it!! I just started my channel but would welcome any constructive criticism you may have to offer although it may be tough due to the low number of videos 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZYYrI1mh21VEyH1CRmtX3w?app=desktop
Thank you!
Laura
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZYYrI1mh21VEyH1CRmtX3w?app=desktop
Thank you!
Laura
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Klink
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@call.me.oli
Branding wise I like what I see but you can definitely improve upon it. The font/typeface you've selected works well, although the way you've got them positioned and styled in your thumbnails makes it hard to read. Putting a black box behind the text (or a black box with about 65-80% transparency) will create enough seperation between the text and the background for easy reading. Having the text the same size throughout and in the same position will give some much needed consistency across your thumbnails.
With your channel header, I like the image you've selected although it's significantly low quality which looks terrible. I can see a lot of artifacting and to make things worse, the text you've implemented into the image is cropped. When uploading an image to use as a channel header, YouTube will give you a recommended resolution size of 2560 x 1440 pixels. What it doesn't tell you is that particular resolution gets cropped depending on which device you're looking at it from. Your channel header from your PC looks different to your mobile, tablet, TV etc.
There are 2 different resolutions you can use to help with this issue - 2048 X 1152 pixels and 2560 X 423 pixels. The first resolution is classed as the 'minimum width'. For reference, the first value (2048) is always your width and the second value (1152) is always the height. This is the lowest width you can use to ensure that nothing gets cut off when looking at your channel from different devices. The second resolution is classed as the 'maximum width'. The height value is a lot smaller but that ensures the 'safe area' (where all your text/information is in the header) is always visible no matter what, while allowing the background image to 'expand' and 'contract' (showing more or less) depending on what device you're looking at it from.
The important part to remember is that despite these 2 resolutions, you should always upload your channel art in 2560 x 1440 pixels. It can be a bit confusing at first but it will make sense in the long run. In your image editing program of choice, create a new file at the max resolution (2560 X 1440) and from there you create a box within the image at one of the 2 different resolutions. That box will act as your guide; anything in the box will always be visible and anything outside the box are non-essential visual elements that will change per device.
Moving on to your content, it's great to see how much you've improved in such a short time. At the start your videos had very minimal editing and were all shot handheld, while your 2 latest videos are higher in quality. Well done!
There's 2 pieces of advice I can offer to improve your videos even more. The first comes down to your camera. I've noticed that you've got your camera set to auto focus which is distracting to look at. You move around quite a lot; faster than the camera can keep you in focus. Going forward I recommend that you set your camera to manual focus and try to stay the same distance away from your camera (which you already do).
My second piece of advice comes down to your audio. This advice is mostly for your future if you decide you want to make a career out of YouTube and is one that will cost you a bit of money that you may not be able to afford right at this moment. I recommend you save up and invest in either a shotgun microphone for your camera or a lavalier/lapel microphone that you can hide under your shirt. Right now your audio has a lot of background noise and reverb which is due to you using the on-camera microphone. Having a professional, high quality shotgun or lavalier/lapel microphone will help focus the audio to just your voice and eliminate everything else around it.
It's a good start for 3 weeks worth of work and I'm happy to see how far you've improved in such a short time. Keep it up and best of luck!
@coda281
It's never tough to provide critique.
What you need most is a striking brand for your channel. Your avatar is a funny photo of you and your boyfriend, your thumbnails are just screencaps from the videos themselves and your channel header is a photo that has absolutely nothing to do with anything on your channel. Visually it's an inconsistent mess but it's very easy to solve.
I want you to take a look at this website for logo and branding ideas - https://logopond.com . Find something that you like or stands out to you most and study it; why does it catch your attention? Once you've worked out why that particular logo/brand works, try incorporating those elements into your own logo design. Choose a unique font/typeface, 1-2 (maybe 3; you don't want too many) colours of your choice and work out the overall style of your brand. What I essentially want you to create is a 'style guide' - a point of reference that dictates how things should look on your channel.
When you have your new logo, colours and font/typeface that makes up your brand, apply those elements to all of your visual assets on your channel. For example, the title of the video can be written in the same font/typeface across all your thumbnails and positioned in exactly the same way for some nice consistency. Take a look at some of your favourite channels and see what they do to get some inspiration.
Content wise what you've got now is pretty good. Your first videos reminds me of the old 'Whose Line is it Anyway?' skit. What you really need for your videos to improve are some good quality microphones. Since you've got you and your boyfriend in your videos, I'd recommend you save up some money and invest in 2 wireless lavalier/lapel microphones and an external microphone recorder. Keep in mind that this recommendation is not cheap so think of this advice as something to keep in mind months, if not years down the track. Very much like Oli above, your audio has a noticeable hum; background noise and reverb is creeping into your recordings. Having a professional microphone will help isolate the sound to just your voice, resulting in something much more crisp, clean and easy to listen to.
Overall it's not a bad start. There's definitely potential from what I can see so keep working hard to succeed. Good luck!
Branding wise I like what I see but you can definitely improve upon it. The font/typeface you've selected works well, although the way you've got them positioned and styled in your thumbnails makes it hard to read. Putting a black box behind the text (or a black box with about 65-80% transparency) will create enough seperation between the text and the background for easy reading. Having the text the same size throughout and in the same position will give some much needed consistency across your thumbnails.
With your channel header, I like the image you've selected although it's significantly low quality which looks terrible. I can see a lot of artifacting and to make things worse, the text you've implemented into the image is cropped. When uploading an image to use as a channel header, YouTube will give you a recommended resolution size of 2560 x 1440 pixels. What it doesn't tell you is that particular resolution gets cropped depending on which device you're looking at it from. Your channel header from your PC looks different to your mobile, tablet, TV etc.
There are 2 different resolutions you can use to help with this issue - 2048 X 1152 pixels and 2560 X 423 pixels. The first resolution is classed as the 'minimum width'. For reference, the first value (2048) is always your width and the second value (1152) is always the height. This is the lowest width you can use to ensure that nothing gets cut off when looking at your channel from different devices. The second resolution is classed as the 'maximum width'. The height value is a lot smaller but that ensures the 'safe area' (where all your text/information is in the header) is always visible no matter what, while allowing the background image to 'expand' and 'contract' (showing more or less) depending on what device you're looking at it from.
The important part to remember is that despite these 2 resolutions, you should always upload your channel art in 2560 x 1440 pixels. It can be a bit confusing at first but it will make sense in the long run. In your image editing program of choice, create a new file at the max resolution (2560 X 1440) and from there you create a box within the image at one of the 2 different resolutions. That box will act as your guide; anything in the box will always be visible and anything outside the box are non-essential visual elements that will change per device.
Moving on to your content, it's great to see how much you've improved in such a short time. At the start your videos had very minimal editing and were all shot handheld, while your 2 latest videos are higher in quality. Well done!
There's 2 pieces of advice I can offer to improve your videos even more. The first comes down to your camera. I've noticed that you've got your camera set to auto focus which is distracting to look at. You move around quite a lot; faster than the camera can keep you in focus. Going forward I recommend that you set your camera to manual focus and try to stay the same distance away from your camera (which you already do).
My second piece of advice comes down to your audio. This advice is mostly for your future if you decide you want to make a career out of YouTube and is one that will cost you a bit of money that you may not be able to afford right at this moment. I recommend you save up and invest in either a shotgun microphone for your camera or a lavalier/lapel microphone that you can hide under your shirt. Right now your audio has a lot of background noise and reverb which is due to you using the on-camera microphone. Having a professional, high quality shotgun or lavalier/lapel microphone will help focus the audio to just your voice and eliminate everything else around it.
It's a good start for 3 weeks worth of work and I'm happy to see how far you've improved in such a short time. Keep it up and best of luck!
@coda281
It's never tough to provide critique.
What you need most is a striking brand for your channel. Your avatar is a funny photo of you and your boyfriend, your thumbnails are just screencaps from the videos themselves and your channel header is a photo that has absolutely nothing to do with anything on your channel. Visually it's an inconsistent mess but it's very easy to solve.
I want you to take a look at this website for logo and branding ideas - https://logopond.com . Find something that you like or stands out to you most and study it; why does it catch your attention? Once you've worked out why that particular logo/brand works, try incorporating those elements into your own logo design. Choose a unique font/typeface, 1-2 (maybe 3; you don't want too many) colours of your choice and work out the overall style of your brand. What I essentially want you to create is a 'style guide' - a point of reference that dictates how things should look on your channel.
When you have your new logo, colours and font/typeface that makes up your brand, apply those elements to all of your visual assets on your channel. For example, the title of the video can be written in the same font/typeface across all your thumbnails and positioned in exactly the same way for some nice consistency. Take a look at some of your favourite channels and see what they do to get some inspiration.
Content wise what you've got now is pretty good. Your first videos reminds me of the old 'Whose Line is it Anyway?' skit. What you really need for your videos to improve are some good quality microphones. Since you've got you and your boyfriend in your videos, I'd recommend you save up some money and invest in 2 wireless lavalier/lapel microphones and an external microphone recorder. Keep in mind that this recommendation is not cheap so think of this advice as something to keep in mind months, if not years down the track. Very much like Oli above, your audio has a noticeable hum; background noise and reverb is creeping into your recordings. Having a professional microphone will help isolate the sound to just your voice, resulting in something much more crisp, clean and easy to listen to.
Overall it's not a bad start. There's definitely potential from what I can see so keep working hard to succeed. Good luck!
Hey there World. I was wondering where to get some serious feedback for my channel. Seems this is the way to go. Much appreciated, thank you in advance everyone 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCASE_XdpfFweFrL3euL-NeQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCASE_XdpfFweFrL3euL-NeQ
GoldSnoopy
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I actually just recently made this video. I really enjoy vlogging and making gaming videos. I have a good quality setup and I'm always looking to improve, advice would be much appreciated!
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Thank you for y our feedback, I will take everything into consideration. And yes more videos will be coming out, Every Wednesday and Sunday from next week.
Klink
I've Got It
Apologies for the delay. Let's continue...
@GameR_GmR
It's great that you're using the colour yellow consistently as the basis of your brand. What isn't so great is the cheap font, lazy thumbnail design and the complete lack of using your logo (the yellow 'GMR' in your videos) in your avatar and channel header. Using the 'GMR' logo, you need to redesign all of your visual assets.
For your avatar and channel header, simply use your 'GMR' logo. As an addition to your channel header, add in some information regarding what your channel is about, what your social media links are or, if you have one, a schedule of when you upload your content. For your thumbnails, consistency across all of them will help potential viewers know the content belongs to you. Place your 'GMR' logo in the top right hand corner and use the bottom left corner to place your headings for your videos. Instead of using your current font/typeface, select something that looks a little more professional. You can find a lot of fonts over at https://dafont.com that for the most part are completely free to use.
Content wise, I've noticed that you've made the same spelling mistake across your latest 5 videos - 'Thank you rof watching!' I don't know how you missed that but it needs to be corrected for future videos. Your videos are mostly montage clips but they're not all that exciting to look at. You should think about editing your cuts in time with the music you've selected. It'll help keep the attention of your potential viewers.
That's about all the advice I can offer to you at the moment. Make your brand consistent and time your edits to the music. Good luck and have fun!
@GoldSnoopy
You're not wrong. You really do have a nice setup!
With the video you linked, the first four and a half minutes are completely unneccessary as you're just reading information from a website that anyone interested in Dota2 would already know. The rest of the video is fine.
Branding wise your channel is all over the place. You've got a logo in your avatar that is not used anywhere else in your brand, your channel header is a collection of promotional material for games with a slapped on font/typeface that is completely different to the font/typeface you're using in your thumbnails. Going forward you need to make sure that you have a strong brand that remains consistent throughout all of your visual assets.
I like the red and white colour scheme you're using for the text in your thumbnails so use that as the base for your brand. From there, go to https://logopond.com to get some inspiration on logo and brand designs and start sketching out your new logo. Try and incorporate the red and white colour scheme into it. Once you're done, use that logo everywhere across your channel - avatar, channel header, thumbnails, logo sting, end card, brand watermark etc. Consistency is key here.
Content wise there really isn't much I can add. Your setup really is top notch and your game capture is solid. All you really need to improve upon for the moment is your branding. Make it look professional, make it look good and you should start to see some improvement. Best of luck to you!
@GameR_GmR
It's great that you're using the colour yellow consistently as the basis of your brand. What isn't so great is the cheap font, lazy thumbnail design and the complete lack of using your logo (the yellow 'GMR' in your videos) in your avatar and channel header. Using the 'GMR' logo, you need to redesign all of your visual assets.
For your avatar and channel header, simply use your 'GMR' logo. As an addition to your channel header, add in some information regarding what your channel is about, what your social media links are or, if you have one, a schedule of when you upload your content. For your thumbnails, consistency across all of them will help potential viewers know the content belongs to you. Place your 'GMR' logo in the top right hand corner and use the bottom left corner to place your headings for your videos. Instead of using your current font/typeface, select something that looks a little more professional. You can find a lot of fonts over at https://dafont.com that for the most part are completely free to use.
Content wise, I've noticed that you've made the same spelling mistake across your latest 5 videos - 'Thank you rof watching!' I don't know how you missed that but it needs to be corrected for future videos. Your videos are mostly montage clips but they're not all that exciting to look at. You should think about editing your cuts in time with the music you've selected. It'll help keep the attention of your potential viewers.
That's about all the advice I can offer to you at the moment. Make your brand consistent and time your edits to the music. Good luck and have fun!
@GoldSnoopy
You're not wrong. You really do have a nice setup!
With the video you linked, the first four and a half minutes are completely unneccessary as you're just reading information from a website that anyone interested in Dota2 would already know. The rest of the video is fine.
Branding wise your channel is all over the place. You've got a logo in your avatar that is not used anywhere else in your brand, your channel header is a collection of promotional material for games with a slapped on font/typeface that is completely different to the font/typeface you're using in your thumbnails. Going forward you need to make sure that you have a strong brand that remains consistent throughout all of your visual assets.
I like the red and white colour scheme you're using for the text in your thumbnails so use that as the base for your brand. From there, go to https://logopond.com to get some inspiration on logo and brand designs and start sketching out your new logo. Try and incorporate the red and white colour scheme into it. Once you're done, use that logo everywhere across your channel - avatar, channel header, thumbnails, logo sting, end card, brand watermark etc. Consistency is key here.
Content wise there really isn't much I can add. Your setup really is top notch and your game capture is solid. All you really need to improve upon for the moment is your branding. Make it look professional, make it look good and you should start to see some improvement. Best of luck to you!
Thank you very much for the feedback. it is really highly appreciated and im happy to find someone that actually gives it a thought and writes something more than good/bad.
Thx a lot for the great tips, I am aware of most of them and will keep working on the consistency of all of them together...as to the spelling mistake, might come as a suprise but it was not missed. It was a way to try some "branding" / engaging style to kick in. let me know if you have any more thoughts. Thank you again very much for your detailed feedback. GmR
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My channel features comedic stuff with my dog
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkuM6dTqmZUvnFHzGcv6VAg
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FoodForGoodMood
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Wow! You doing good job here sir! 
Can you check out my channel as well. As you see I back after 3 years. I did give up before, but I am here again. Trying hard to promote myself ;D
So far 2 new videos. More on the way.
Can you check out my channel as well. As you see I back after 3 years. I did give up before, but I am here again. Trying hard to promote myself ;D
So far 2 new videos. More on the way.
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