Youtube Space's Build Your Channel

[BoozeandBS]

Hey so I live in NYC and not too far from the Youtube Space here in New York. Last week I did their week long 'boot camp' which is a class every day about youtube and how to grow your channel.Figured I'd come on and talk about my experiences there.

Basically you goto youtube dot com/space and register for their events. For this particular one you need to have 500 subscribers.

Each class is about 2 hours (one was 3) and were very interesting. Though I had already learned a lot of the information that they talked about, it's good to have a decent base with your knowledge.

A couple of Pros, it was nice being in a room with a ton of other content creators to network and talk about your channel. I met a few people that I can potentially do collabs with.

The classes are entirely free, so it's nice not having to worry about money or anything. The facilities are really nice. They hold them in a google conference room, with padded leather seats and a large 80inch Tv for the presentations.

They provide snacks every day, sometimes pita chips with hummus, vegetable platter, cookies, soda, water etc. Each day was a little different, one day had pizza.

At the end if you attended all 5 days they give you a little trophy and a certificate of completion.



They do offer other classes once you've completed this one, and if you have 5,000 subs have access to other classes like 360 video and Red certification.

If anyone has any questions feel free to ask. But I would recommend taking a class at the Youtube Space if you are able to do so.

 

[GamingRack]

can we get a summary and some good points you learned? not many people live anywhere near it to go.

 

[Ampix0]

I live in NJ and have always wanted to visit. My last channel had 4.5K, lets hope I can shoot up to 5K this time.

 

[MrWapk]

This sounds so fun!

 

[Cromartie]

That's sweet. I'm finally gonna be back in NYC by June and definitely want to check the space out. Did anything besides amount of subs feel like a "must have" to qualify? Besides no copyright strikes and the active uploading of course.

 

[BoozeandBS]

can we get a summary and some good points you learned? not many people live anywhere near it to go.

Sorry took me a bit to reply.

Pretty much everything they talked about were things that have been talked about on the forums here. Though they did drive home the point that consistency is the most important factor. Should have at minimum 1 video out a week. Also to shoot an end card video while on location so it encourages people to keep watching while you plug your annotations. They say it's most effective when you have an actual person on camera talking about it.

They say to not put annotations too low or too high (basically when you embed the video it might get cut off by the bars.)

For thumbnails they say to make it visible as a thumbnail so it's not as important to have text in it. Though I don't agree with that, I think a little bit of text is effective, especially if you are going to embed it on forums. Obviously having too much text would make it difficult to read when it's small.

They stressed that collaborations is a very effective way to gain more subs. When you're looking to do a collaboration you should have your idea in place first and do as much of the work up front so the person can basically say 'yes or no'. Instead of 'lets come up with something together' have it be 'this is what I'm doing, if you'd like to be interested in it here is what I would like from you'

They also said that what they say are more so 'best practices' and may not apply to everyone, because everyone has a slightly different audience. It really depends on what is right for your channel.

That's sweet. I'm finally gonna be back in NYC by June and definitely want to check the space out. Did anything besides amount of subs feel like a "must have" to qualify? Besides no copyright strikes and the active uploading of course.

I just did their open house night on weds. I asked, it is pretty much just those restrictions. The amount of subs you have, and not having any current copyright strikes.

As far as what content you can and can't make. They said pretty much anything that doesn't involve nudity. But it does reserve the right to turn down productions that they aren't comfortable with. For the most part they are very open to different types of content.



Monday I'm going back to do another class that's only available to people who completed the build your channel workshop. It is about vlogging and they have someone from the ubright citizens brigade to teach an improv class so get us more comfortable in front of the camera.

 

[PinProject]

ah that's so awesome! I wish there was a youtube space in my area! Thanks for sharing!! I would so go just to get that plaque hahah

 

[markkaz]

I love the trophy! That would look awesome displayed on a shelf =)

 

[xingcat]

For many reasons, I wish I lived in NYC, but I love the idea of being able to visit the YouTube space and connecting with other folks at those events.

 

[chottom]

Yes they can build your channel and not only by organizing boot camps but also by promoting you on their main page. Every channel which meet at least some basic quality content criteria will become viral once they do it.