Your In-Depth Guide to Building a Successful YouTube Channel

Your journey to becoming a YouTube success starts here. Discover the best tips and tricks to grow your channel the right way, from increasing YouTube subscribers to attracting more video views. Get started below to boost your skills as a creator.

May 28, 2025

7 min read

Viral YouTube Trends 2025: The Blueprint for Channel Explosion

Discover the top 5 YouTube trends in 2025 to boost your channel with viral content, reaction videos, podcasts, and more.
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Mar 10, 2020

3 min read

PewDiePie vs T Series...Is the Race for the YouTube Crown Finally Over?

As T Series becomes the first non-YouTube aggregated channel to generate 95M subscribers, its lead over PewDiePie sta...
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Mar 10, 2020

7 min read

Why YouTube Custom Thumbnails Should NEVER Be an Afterthought: 5 Expert Tips

We give you 5 expert tips on why creating the best YouTube custom thumbnails should NEVER be an afterthought if you w...
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Mar 10, 2020

10 min read

Top 10 Takeaways from YouTube's 2019 Brandcast

The 2019 YouTube Brandcast featured a ton of announcements that concern creators and advertisers. Here are the top 10...
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Mar 10, 2020

3 min read

Facebook is Changing its Video Algorithm to Reward Original Content and Loyal...

Facebook has announced an update to the way it is going to rank videos - and creators and publishers need to take note.
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Mar 10, 2020

4 min read

Top 20 Mother's Day Keywords on YouTube

Mother's Day content is huge on YouTube - and here are the top 20 most searched keywords around this major tentpole e...
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Mar 10, 2020

4 min read

How to Use The YouTube Copyright Matching Tool

YouTube's Copyright Matching Tool alerts you to any other videos that may be using all, or part of your content. Here...
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Mar 10, 2020

8 min read

How to Get More YouTube Views: 20x Increase in 2 Weeks!

How does a relatively new channel on YouTube get an impressive number of views in just a couple of weeks? Well it com...
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Mar 10, 2020

19 min read

How to Get More Views and Subscribers on YouTube with vidIQ

Want to know how to use vidIQ's famous tool to help you generate more YouTube views and subscribers? Here's an in-dep...
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Mar 10, 2020

1 min read

James Charles Vs Tati Westbrook: 72 Hour YouTube Subscriber Timelapse

As the James Charles vs Tati drama continues to play out on YouTube, we confirm the real-time subscriber counts for b...
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Mar 10, 2020

3 min read

YouTube to Limit Access to Full Subscriber Counts

YouTube has announced it is abbreviating exact subscriber numbers for channels with over 1000 subscribers. What does ...
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Mar 10, 2020

3 min read

Top 20 K-Pop Keywords on YouTube 2019: BTS Top Search Term

Did you know that there are 67M searches for BTS on YouTube every month, and that Jungkook is the most searched for m...
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Mar 10, 2020

3 min read

T Series: The Moment They Hit 100 Million YouTube Subscribers

T Series just became the first independent YouTube channel to hit 100M subscribers! The entertainment channel more th...