How does your country of origin affect your channel?

[Dont Wake The Insomniac]

Well Pewdiepie is Swedish and he had a much stronger accent at the beginning -- it certainly didn't hold him back. However he did move countries a few times -- ultimately to the UK.

Considering Youtube has a headquarters in London, with access to equipment, training, sets and so on -- there's probably an advantage.

 

[MBGaming]

I'm a romanian living in Belgium, but most of my audience is from UK and USA... I guess about 70%.... a lot of them comment that they enjoy the accent lol.. so I guess it helps me there

 

[Lightsen]

I'm from the UK, but I live in the north of England, and that's the problem. My accent is kinda horrible, so for my YouTube videos, I've tried to work on it, and give myself a kind of speech therapy.

I know feeling - north east here!

mostly US viewers because its a big country of course!

 

[Safety Turtle]

I have been told, when worrying about my accent, that I shouldn't try and change it because some might find it "charming"...I don't think they've ever heard a Danish accent in English..."charming" is not the first word that comes to mind

 

[Harley Pring]

Australia: slow internet makes uploading during the day near impossible, can barely stream & YouTube prefers to suggest my videos to the US more than my own country which slightly reduces the relatability with potential viewers since I talk about Aussie stuff here and there but luckily not a great deal. I'd say it has some negative effects but at the very least thankfully not so much so that YouTube is still doable.

I moved so I'd have NBN for YouTube, however Australia has such a small audience compared to other countries so my upload time fits everybody except us (3am)

 

[McCoob]

I am from Poland, so I get almost 100% views from my country. As expected.

 

[Luyt TV]

funnily enough i get over 90% of my views from my own country right now. hoping to grow and expand so that it even out a little

 

[CramBeats]

i think alot..i am russian actually (raised with the culture inside the family circle)..but born in germany. And i really have that structured day plan like the germans have ^^ so my channel is completely structured too

 

[WolfWraith]

I moved so I'd have NBN for YouTube, however Australia has such a small audience compared to other countries so my upload time fits everybody except us (3am)

I've been releasing my videos at 3am when I do, even that doesn't seem to make much of a difference. I'd move if I could but unfortunately I can't. I just know when Australia gets NBN to every household and I'm ready to do Twitch, by then it will be oversaturated once again. lol But I don't think Australia's audience for gaming channels is that small that only a tiny % of my views would come from there, I'd still expect most of my views to be Australian based and I'd much prefer it to start off that way.

 

[Ghoti]

I live in New Zealand.

Hardest part was getting decent internet. Outside of that, I'm actually a day ahead - which can be very useful for uploading.