Worst YT advice you've received?

The worst advice...watching all those "how to grow your channel" or "how to make money off of youtube" videos. When you are just starting off, you should be spending time on cranking out good, quality videos. Also learning where to post them to drive traffic.

Start making videos and figuring out how to post them on youtube, then get comfortable in front of the camera, then start upping the production value (better lighting, better audio).

After you got that dialed in, then you can start to work on the rest:
Thumbnails, banners, end credits, selling stuff, opening a store, making swag, partnerships/sponsors, and all of that other stuff (most of which doesn't help as much as you think, so don't invest too much time on those things).

Lastly i will add the best advice....If you really want to get a lot of subscribers in the beginnning-- make a video with a lot of people. Think about it, you film 20 people doing something and they will most likely all share the video (and subscribe).. Each of them has about 2-300 people that they will share it with. Then their parents/grandparents/aunts will most likely share the video and that will give you even more eyes on the video.

Whenever i post one of my backyard videos (a group of people playing kickball, filming a polar plunge for my town, a group of friends doing a mario kart race) i see 2 things. Immediately after filming i get an influx of subs (people waiting for the video to be posted). Then after i post the video i get a bunch of views and subs (friends watching/sharing). Then the next few days i get another influx (friends of friends watching sharing). Then i post it to related forums (by then i have enough views on it that people will think it's worth clicking on) and i get a huge influx.
 
"Upload a video every day"

This, while sounding very reasonably and good on the first view, is a very bad advice. It would be better this way :

"Upload regulary and when you are motivated"

I don´t think anybody should force himself to do a video every day, the quality will go downhill badly and all in all you lose more than you gain.
Having a schedule is great, you just have to set it so you can still produce great content !
If you only have time and motivation for one video per week, do only one. But then upload it on a set day. If you produce 2 videos a week, save one for a week where you just don´t want to do youtube at all.
Worked great for me, i was down last week but had enough buffer to chill for 8 days without skipping a video.
 
Hi!MyNameIsJan said:
"Upload a video every day"

This, while sounding very reasonably and good on the first view, is a very bad advice. It would be better this way :

"Upload regulary and when you are motivated"

I don´t think anybody should force himself to do a video every day, the quality will go downhill badly and all in all you lose more than you gain.
Having a schedule is great, you just have to set it so you can still produce great content !
If you only have time and motivation for one video per week, do only one. But then upload it on a set day. If you produce 2 videos a week, save one for a week where you just don´t want to do youtube at all.
Worked great for me, i was down last week but had enough buffer to chill for 8 days without skipping a video.
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Totally agree..DevinSupertramp used to post a video every other month and was good. I did the same and my channel was growing fast. I listened to bad advice and started trying to post videos on a schedule and it just felt less fun (and my growing slowed down).
 
worst advice i got ws use windows maker, its only good for basic things while there are other softwares that offer many things.
 
Some ideas that are not my style or my type of content...
I once received advise to make a musical channel.... I just laughed it off tbh, I do vlogs not musicals as well as I dont have a trained voice for singing.
 
That I couldn't do a gaming channel w/o a facecam. And maybe it would mean more people subscribed and my channel grew faster or something, but I'm not really comfortable with it, and I'm so much more at easy when I only have to worry about my voice.
 
"Don't upload videos by ___ because they will take down your video and give you a copyright strike."

It's so silly to me. Tenacity of a copyright holder doesn't affect the legality of using their content. A certain company responding aggressively is like someone yelling "pick up the phone" during a voice mail or pressing "call" really hard, like to somehow break through. I'm still going to dispute, still going to appeal, and still going to file a counter-notification, regardless of your tactics. If I didn't think I had a right to use your content under Fair Use, I wouldn't be doing it in the first place. Being aggressive or not doesn't affect that.
 
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