Easiest / Hardest YouTube Content to Create?

One thing that I like about Youtube is that there are no rules. You can make a tag a really hard video to film, if you want to make it super entertaining. But skits definitely take a long time, and out of the videos that I've had experience making they are the hardest. People that are filmmakers do like skits x5 so those are probably even harder
 
By far the easiest are 'lets plays'. Thats not a bad thing, but recording your self doing a hobby is pretty easy.

Hardest would be animation. It can take months to generate 1min of good animation and Youtube is setup in a way that does not give animators any incentive to produce for them.

Sketch comedy would be right behind that as next hardest I imagine as similar production goes into sketch as animation. The idea the execution the editing ect.
But the bonus is filming can be done in a day or 2 -then straight into editing
 
A lot of people think gaming is super easy to do, but it's only because those who have been doing it for years make it look so easy. They've had all that time to develop a routine and familiarize themselves with their recording equipment. There's still the matter of syncing your audio with your video, making sure your microphone doesn't cut out, making sure your screen capture doesn't error, making sure your camera is recording - and then of course, there's the matter of needing the RAM on your computer to run the game and hoping you have something interesting to say while you're playing it!

Obviously, it's a lot easier to manage than some genres. For instance, you can record one whole gameplay in a single setting and easily break that down into several episodes to bulk out your channel. Animation can take weeks to months for just a few seconds, so major respect to anyone who can dedicate themselves to that.

I do educational comedy, so I have a few days each week to research, write up a script, check my sources, look for references, save websites and try and be funny. Recording in itself isn't too bad - camera on tripod and I'm good to go. No money for fancy lighting or additional equipment just yet. I just have to be quick as my camera only records in 20-minute segments and doesn't indicate when it's stopped. Also, natural light and the fact that I live on a main road can be a right pain in my butt, but I'm kind of used to all of that now.
 
Sit down videos where I just simply talk about something are definitely the easiest, and when I have to film multiple parts (how-to's, DIY's, etc.) with voice overs, is where the difficult part comes in! Those require much more time and planning, and it takes a lot more time to edit. They are always a lot of fun to do, though!
 
Reviews are easy.
Creating original content like animation or music is harder or rather time consuming.
It takes a day to a week to produce a song.
Also anything that needs a lot of people involved can be hard.
 
Kate's Adventures said:
In my opinion of the videos I've made, the easiest ones are short vlogs where I'm just chatting to the camera and the hardest so far has been my first travel vlog. I basically vlogged a whole week and put it up in 3 parts that all connected to each other. On the week itself I had to remember to film (which I wasn't so bad at but didn't enjoy so much when I was trying to pull my suitcase or find my way) and in the editing I had to go through tons of footage and get it down to a manageable length, ensuring it wasn't too repetitive and everything made sense. I enjoyed that travel vlog the most and it's my favourite to watch back but it was definitely a lot harder than my regular videos.
Of my other videos, I find that product reviews / demonstrations take more work than lighthearted chatty videos.
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I've changed my mind, of my regular videos demonstrations are the worst. I've just filmed a makeup routine and what would usually take me 5 minutes tops has resulted in 40 minutes of raw footage. It's also potentially very messy when filmed away from my usual primping spot.
 
For me, the easiest are the hair videos, because it's just me talking to a camera until I'm done. The hardest at this point are the cooking videos, just because I have to remember to catch all the steps, and my kitchen is smaller than any kitchen I've ever seen, so I have to put the camera in all sorts of weird places in order to show me doing something as easy as stirring something in a bowl. Plus, I have the added bonus of guest star puppets, which means my partner has to find a place to be that isn't in frame for a long time, which is very uncomfortable, and he gripes a lot. Fame is pain, man! :)
 
Well actual films/movies, animation, and/or higher quality music videos probably take the longest time and most effort to produce, for the videos themselves. The trade off though is if it's good those kind of things can become so viral and have perfect retention times. Another one that might not have been mentioned yet is advanced multi-hour tutorials for say advanced 3D modelling and stuff like that - those are super time consuming and I have to give huge props to anyone with the patience to do them.

On the flip side I'd say certain styles of vlogging, and full unedited game lets plays (provided there were no audio/video desync issues needing to be edited) would be some of the easier content to create.

I think it all balances out in a lot of ways though, because a lot of the video styles that are very quick, low editing, and easy to create and upload, don't lend themselves quite as well to being naturally discovered in search - and so said people then spend just as much time as others, just a larger % of that is dedicated to create ways marketing their channel, making their videos searchable, etc.
 
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