I created a YouTube channel which will have a little bit of everything. Please support.

[Windy]

I recently created a YouTube channel and decided to put a little bit of everything in it. Is it a good idea? Please suggest and do support my channel.

 

[Sarah and Kya]

Hi Windy! We are doing the exact same thing So I hope it is a good idea!! I think that it's nice not to limit yourself (even if maybe it hinders growth a little) Wishing you all the best! Keep us updated

 

[Jack Decker]

The name of the game in YouTube is niche. The more narrow the niche, the better. Why?

Let us say you have on your variety channel a video where you do a playthrough of Halo 54 computer game, another video where you prove that socialism works BUT it just has never been done right before, another video that shows your cute little kitten struggling to stay awake, and fourth video wherein you give a movie review of Wonder Woman 84. Great, right? A little something for everyone, right?

Wrong. Unless you're already famous, people (aside from family, friends, and co-workers/classmates) didn't subscribe to your channel because YOU are behind it. No, they most likely (that's 99.9999% of the time) saw your kitten video, liked it, and subscribed to your channel because of that video. Now take a guess what they're expecting from your channel when they get a notification of a new video from you. Something totally unrelated to the video they liked, right? Right???? Not right, right? No, they are expecting another kitten video. But what does your variety channel give them instead? Something they did NOT subscribe for. See any problem here?

So what happens when that new subscriber keeps getting notifications about other stuff than kitten videos from your channel. Well, in a world of rainbows and lollipops, they will just fall in love with you and your wonderfully creative free-roaming mind. In the real world, they'll start hating notifications from you and begin to view such a spam. And then one non-kitten video too many, they'll unsubscribe. That happens and you'll still have a "core" subscriber base BUT it will only be made up of family, friends, and co-workers/classmates. Oh and people who are dead subscribers. Dead as in they remain subscribed to your channel but never watch any of your videos. Not bad enough? It gets worse as YouTube's algorithm penalizes you for such low viewership of your subscriber base.

So niche and then niche even further. The further down the rabbit hole, the better.

Good luck!

 

[Graphic Designer]

So niche and then niche even further. The further down the rabbit hole, the better.

Good luck!

This sounds good, in theory. But niches have fewer viewers than mainstream, and if you niche too far, your viewers will be so few that your channel is dead.

 

[Nicekid76]

and if you niche too far, your viewers will be so few that your channel is dead.

I'd like to introduce you to :

• The lock picking lawyer - I think lock picking on camera is pretty niche but his channel has 2.75 million subs and 542.7 Million views.
• World chase tag - Their whole channel is about a sport they created very niche, but boom 101.5 million views over the past 6 years and 851K subs.
• Fellow YTtalker - @FIona Art - makes amazing art pours, which is pretty niche - 211K subs, 17.6 million views
• Fellow YTtalker (not very active anymore) - @Racer Groove - reviews toy cars which is pretty niche - 696K subs 711.1 million views
• Former YTtalker - @WrecklessEating - niche is eating nasty food and throwing up on camera - 113.5 million views 626K subs
• Fellow YTtalker - @Min/Max Munchking - who makes videos about dungeons and dragons the board/table top game (i believe) and 1.3 Million views over the past 2 years, 13k subs

I think there's an audience if you niche. Actually most creators know this. Creators don't like it because it boxes them into a category. At Vidcon a lot of creators talk about how it stinks to have to stay in your niche if you want to make money and get views. And a lot of them talked about "1 for us. 1 for them" which means make 1 video "for us" that you like so you can be happy and mentally healthy as a creator and one video "for them" in your niche that will "pay the bills"

[Edit] - to continue, there are channels doing well that, only talk about sneakers, or just pingpong, or just anime, or just parkour, or just realestate or just idk studying? seriously there's channels just about how to make a todo list that is doing pretty good. Basically niche isn't the problem... for the most part. obviously you can pick a bad niche, but I mean some guy is growing an audience around making paint colors. Oh oh oh and remember will it blend or hydraulic press. there whole channel was literally you watching them destroy something in a blender or a hydraulic press. How is that not niche. I'll stop now. but this was fun to write and highlight some yttalker. .

 

[Jack Decker]

What Nicekid76 said. And I've never yet come across a niche that was too small. If you know of one, let me know.

And sometimes going super-niche makes you go mainstream or at least tap into a larger market. The more you niche, the more it will appear to a wider group. It sounds crazy but there is (was?) a YouTuber (sorry, I don't recall his name as it has been years) that used to review playing material for Dungeons & Dragons. From maps to figurines to dice to DM boards. Then he went to GenCon (the biggest convention for RPG players and literally run by the company that makes D&D) and saw insane varieties of dice sold by vendors there. He then started doing review videos on just dice. Focusing on the most unusual ones he could find. He meant to eventually go back to all the other stuff but, at that moment, dice just was too fascinating for him. To his surprise, his channel the started to grow rapidly. He contributed that to nearly all games need dice ... and thus he actually tapped into a larger audience by going more niche. Then he started making his own dice. Craziest dice you've ever seen. He said if the concept for a dice didn't make him laugh, he wouldn't do it. His channel EXPLODED in growth. Not only that but he started getting viewers wanting him to make his dice for sale. He found a die-maker who was game for it and now he makes more from dice sales than from YouTube.

 

[Pippaman]

What Nicekid76 said. And I've never yet come across a niche that was too small. If you know of one, let me know.

And sometimes going super-niche makes you go mainstream or at least tap into a larger market. The more you niche, the more it will appear to a wider group. It sounds crazy but there is (was?) a YouTuber (sorry, I don't recall his name as it has been years) that used to review playing material for Dungeons & Dragons. From maps to figurines to dice to DM boards. Then he went to GenCon (the biggest convention for RPG players and literally run by the company that makes D&D) and saw insane varieties of dice sold by vendors there. He then started doing review videos on just dice. Focusing on the most unusual ones he could find. He meant to eventually go back to all the other stuff but, at that moment, dice just was too fascinating for him. To his surprise, his channel the started to grow rapidly. He contributed that to nearly all games need dice ... and thus he actually tapped into a larger audience by going more niche. Then he started making his own dice. Craziest dice you've ever seen. He said if the concept for a dice didn't make him laugh, he wouldn't do it. His channel EXPLODED in growth. Not only that but he started getting viewers wanting him to make his dice for sale. He found a die-maker who was game for it and now he makes more from dice sales than from YouTube.

you got some really great point!