Ask any YouTuber and they will tell you that generating significant views and subscribers isn't easy. But with the right strategy and tools, any video creator can build an engaged subscriber base when they understand what those subscribers want to watch.

Appealing to an audience to watch content you are passionate about making is just the first step, you need to know how to reach them and get your videos discovered. Our guides to how to guide more views on YouTube will give you the best tips to succeed on the platform.

Getting Views

How To Get More Views on YouTube

Getting thousands or even millions of YouTube subscribers is a dream for most creators. In the articles below, we'll show you how to turn casual viewers into long-term fans. 

Subscribers

YouTube Subscribers

Do you want to make money on YouTube? Millions of creators are earning a very good living from monetizing the platform and uploading content that drives huge views and engagements. Whether that YouTube income is from advertising revenue, merchandise sales, or brand deals, or subscriptions, we keep you updated with best practices and ideas.

Monetization

How To Make Money on YouTube

Want to see how your channel is performing? Read these YouTube analytics articles to discover what's working and what isn't. You'll learn how to identify which videos have the most Watch Time, clicks, audience retention, revenue, and more.

Analytics

YouTube Analytics

Watch Time is arguably THE most important metric on YouTube right now, and creators won’t be able to monetize their content without 4000 hours of it. But what is it and how can creators increase the amount of Watch Time their videos attract? We keep you updated on the best practices around Watch Time, and how you can increase how much your video content generates.

Watch Time

YouTube Watch Time

YouTube Shorts content is set to explode! 

All the latest tips, tricks, and rock-solid advice you need for this new feature.

YouTube Shorts

Do you know how to do keyword research so you understand what videos people are actually searching for on YouTube? Do you know how to create a custom YouTube thumbnail? Do you know how to create a Playlist on YouTube?

vidIQ has a ton of tips that will help every creator maximise their video content. We publish content every week to keep you up to date with all the best practices.

Tips & Tricks

YouTube Tips & Tricks

At vidIQ we have incredible insights into what viewers are searching for on YouTube. Not only can we confirm the top keywords being searched for, we can also show you how you can leverage that interest to create content around trending topics and tentpole events. That's going to give you a clear edge over other creators!

Insights

YouTube Insights

Your In-Depth Guide to Building a Successful YouTube Channel

Struggling to come up with video ideas and titles? The good news is you’re not alone!

If you’ve ever found yourself staring at a blank screen, unsure of your next YouTube video, you’re at the right place. Whether you're just starting or you’ve been creating content for years, every YouTube creator faces the challenge of consistently coming up with fresh, engaging video ideas. Hence, we creators look to content that has already been successful on YouTube and use what’s relevant.

The biggest problem with drawing inspiration from click-worthy titles in any YouTube niche is the extensive research and hours of work required. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce a powerful new tool available in the vidIQ Chrome extension, designed to make your life a whole lot easier! Readers, say hello to 

In less than 120 seconds, Remix can take any successful video, from any niche and create video ideas for YouTube relevant to your channel and audience. Below, Rob will take you through how the tool works with real-life examples and demonstrate its true power:

Why Great Video Ideas and Titles Are Crucial for YouTube Success

Before diving into how Remix works, it’s important to understand why video ideas and titles are the foundation for YouTube success. The YouTube landscape is highly competitive, and with over 500 hours of content uploaded to the platform every minute, you need more than just great production quality. It starts with a solid video idea and an irresistible title.

A strong idea is the base of any great video. It has to be relevant to your niche, engage your audience, and be original enough to stand out. Not only does a great video idea improve your chances of getting clicks, but it also increases the likelihood that viewers will stick around for the full video and return for more content in the future.

Your video title is often the first thing a potential viewer will see, and it can make or break your chances of getting a click. A title needs to create curiosity and be keyword-optimized to perform well in YouTube’s search algorithm. A well-crafted title helps:

The better your title, the more likely people are to click on your video.

Optimized titles help your video appear in relevant searches, making it easier for new viewers to find your content.

A great title can build curiosity, urgency, or intrigue, making it hard for viewers to resist clicking.

But coming up with great ideas and titles can be time-consuming. That’s where Remix can help streamline the process.

How Remix Simplifies Your Content Creation

Remix takes the heavy lifting out of finding YouTube video ideas and crafting the perfect title. The tool is designed to help creators like you discover what’s already working in your niche and easily adapt those concepts to your style. Whether you’re looking to ride the wave of trending topics or repurpose a successful format, Remix provides a fast, simple way to do it.

Quickly find successful video titles and formats that have already worked for other creators.

Easily adapt these winning ideas to create videos that resonate with your niche, channel, and viewers.

Create engaging, high-quality content that attracts more viewers, watch-time, and subscribers.

You can also change the chosen channel topic to any other niche and Remix will refresh the same video ideas for the new niche within seconds! And it’s not just about saving time—it’s about making smarter decisions with your content creation. Instead of guessing what might work, Remix helps you lean on data-driven insights.

Now that you know why Remix is a game-changer, let’s break down exactly how to use it. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned YouTube creator, these steps will help you use Remix to streamline your video ideation and title creation.

1. Go to YouTube and Find a Title That Works

Start by heading over to YouTube and looking for a video title in your niche that has performed exceptionally well. But how do you know which videos are outperforming others? That’s where the 

vidIQ extension features VPH and Outlier score on YouTube

With vidIQ’s Chrome extension, you can check key performance metrics such as the 

. These metrics help you identify videos that are currently getting a lot of traction and outperforming their peers. Look for videos with a high Outlier Score or a high VPH. This indicates that the title and format of the video are resonating with viewers.

Once you’ve found a video that’s performing well, it’s time to Remix it! Click on the Remix button, and the tool will allow you to customize the video title to fit your niche, audience, and style. This is your opportunity to take a proven concept and make it your own.

For example, if the trending title is “How to Lose Weight Fast,” you could Remix it to better suit your audience with a title like “How to Lose Weight Fast for Busy Professionals” or “How to Lose Weight Quickly Without Hitting the Gym.”

Once you’ve created a title you’re happy with, it’s time to move to the next step: content optimization. Right next to the awesome video ideas that Remix has produced for you, there’s a small button labeled “

Remix integrates seamlessly with vidIQ Generate, another powerful vidIQ tool that helps you:

 to make the video creation process smoother.

By using both Remix and Generate, you can quickly go from an idea to a fully optimized video ready to perform on YouTube.

After you’ve fine-tuned your video title, description, tags, and more, you’re ready to shoot and upload your video. With Remix and Generate handling most of the ideation and optimization work, you can focus on recording high-quality content and growing your audience. This is how our tools can ease you in your creative process reliably.

vidIQ Remix on different pages of YouTube

Once you've signed up for the vidIQ extension, you'll be able to see the Remix features on different parts of YouTube on hovering your cursor. You'll find it on the homepage of any channel, on the search results for any content, on channel pages, and even next to the subscribe button!

Crafting Titles That Drive Clicks: Best Practices

A title is a promise that you’re making to the viewer- and it needs to be fulfilled. Even though Remix helps you find and adapt successful video titles, it’s important to understand what makes a title truly effective. Here are a few best practices to keep in mind:

Your title should speak directly to your audience. Avoid jargon that might confuse new viewers, and instead use simple, clear language that resonates with your target audience. For example, if you’re in the fitness niche, instead of “HIIT Workouts Explained,” you might use “Simple HIIT Workouts to Burn Fat Fast.”

SEO matters. Your title should include keywords that people are actively searching for. vidIQ’s Keyword Research Tool can help you identify high-volume, low-competition keywords to include in your title.

Shorter titles tend to perform better because they display fully on all devices. Aim for around 60-70 characters. If your title is too long, it might get cut off, especially on mobile devices.

People love lists because they offer a sense of structure and predictability. Titles like “5 Ways to Grow Your YouTube Channel” or “Top 10 Travel Destinations in Europe” tend to attract clicks more easily.

Why Remix is Perfect for Both Beginners and Pros

Regardless of where you are in your YouTube journey, Remix can help streamline your content creation process. For beginners, it takes the guesswork out of what types of videos to make. Smaller creators already have a lot on their plate with filming, editing, and designing assets for videos. So any time saved is time earned!

For more experienced creators, it provides a faster way to adapt successful content ideas without spending hours on research. Looking at well-performing videos through the Remix tool will give them more perspective on the type of content that might work better for their channel.

Remix is about working smarter, not harder. Instead of starting from scratch every time, you’re building on concepts that are already proven to work, and then tailoring them to your unique audience.

Supercharge Your YouTube Channel with Remix

YouTube content creation doesn’t have to be a guessing game. With Remix, you get instant access to video ideas for YouTube that have already proven themselves in other niches, and with the help of Generate, you can quickly create optimized titles, descriptions, and tags that boost your video’s performance.

If you’re ready to take the guesswork out of video creation and focus on what matters most—creating great content—

 for web browsers and give Remix a try today.

Take any video on YouTube and use it to create content for your channel! Learn more about vidIQ Remix here.

How to Find Winning YouTube Video Ideas in Minutes with vidIQ Remix

Even the most dedicated YouTuber can feel like they are creating content in a vacuum without access to the data that lets them know how their videos are performing. Even if you create the most niche and specialist videos, you'll want to know how they are doing against similar content, so you can improve with every upload.

Luckily, along with a host of other incredible tools, vidIQ has just launched a '

' feature to its suite which will enable a creator to compare views against:

Yes - at last you can get real-time stats for view comparisons on YouTube for all of the above. Just think what a competitive edge that will give you as a video creator!

Compare Views of YouTube Videos After Uploading

The hours after you publish your video to YouTube are the most important time for any creator. The more velocity your video has in those first minutes and hours, the more chance it has of turning into evergreen content for you. Hey, it might even pick up the pace enough for it turn viral for you!

With our brand new ‘Compare Views’ tool you can track the velocity of ANY video on YouTube and then compare it to ANY video or ANY channel on YouTube. That's going to give you some invaluable insights - whether you're following fellow creators, or keeping a very close eye on a trending topic or news story. Understanding how many views a video is picking up in the first few hours after upload will tell you what the audience appetite is for that content, and how much the YouTube algorithm favors it over similar content.

How to Compare Views for Any YouTube Video

, you'll find out about the different options in the 'Compare Views' tool. But let's try it out on a real video to show you what it can actually do.

Let's take a look at one of the best performing videos that vidIQ has uploaded in the past few months - '

PewDiePie Vs T Series: Who Just Fooled Who?

'. This particular video has generated over 815K views to date, but I'm curious to see how it performed against similar content. You can select a timeframe from 0, 1, 2, 3, 7 or 28 days - for this example, as the video was uploaded to YouTube on the 1st April 2019, I'm going to select the 28 day view option.

First, let's see how this one video compares against our YouTube Channel average. As you can see, with 815K views within the first 28 days, it's one of our best performing videos by a mile.

We know our vidIQ YouTube viewers have loved our 

 uploads to YouTube over the past view months because most of these videos have soared past the 500K view mark. I'm interested to see how the video above compares to our most viewed in the series - '

'. This particular video has garnered over 1.1M organic views for us did it really perform better than the video we're checking?

Our video actually performed nearly as well as our most viewed video on the PewDiePie shenanigans. Whilst our video generated 555K views in 3 days, the 'Mr Beast' upload was a little more of a slow burner, only overtaking our video in comparable views around the day 25 mark.

OK - so what does that tell us? Well, by the time we published the 'Who Just Fooled Who?' video, we'd already established the vidIQ YouTube channel as an authority on the subject. By putting in the heavy lifting, YouTube rewarded us with visibility for every PDP vs TS video we subsequently published, meaning we gained substantial video velocity in just a matter of hours. Analysing your content this way will provide insights into what's working and you can easily feed that data into your video strategy around a trending topic - just like we did.

While we're on the subject of PewDiePie, let's see how our video channel compares against his in terms of views over the past 28 days:

With 96M subscribers compared to just over 353K for the 

, of course Pewds is going to generate much more views than we are, but it's fun to compare a video view against an entire channel once in a while.

 and dive right in to the 'Compare Views' tool and start finding out insights for your own video content. We guarantee that the insights will be informative and fascinating!

Want To Get More YouTube Views & Subscribers?

If you want to take your YouTube channel to the next level then make sure to download vidIQ. It will help you research YouTube, analyze videos, audit your own channel, and take actionable steps 

Have you ever wanted to compare a video to any other video, channel, or Playlist on YouTube? Now you can - and it's going to give any video creator a true competitive edge!

How to Compare YouTube Views with Any Other Video, Channel, or Playlist!

, one of the biggest and most successful YouTubers of all time just hit the 20 million subscriber mark!. Here are the numbers behind the milestone - with a few fun 'facts' thrown in:

Mr Beast was already a big deal on YouTube this time last year, but in the last 365 days he has pretty much quadrupled the size of his channel.

Mr Beast started his channel on February 19th, 2012, and he hit his latest landmark, 20 million subscribers, on June the 8th, 2019.

For those of you who like their numbers that's 7 years, 3 months, 20 days, or 2,666 days, or 63,984 hours.

Now, if we average that over the lifetime of a channel that's 7,501 subscribers per day, but subscriber growth has accelerated considerably in the last year.

So much so that now, on average, Mr Beast averages 41,096 subscribers every single day.

Despite this unprecedented success however, Mr Beast has still stolen 36 million cookies due to visitors not subscribing and not clicking that notification bell.

Next up we have views, 2.7 billion of them to be almost exact.

And that works out at 135 views per subscriber, or just over 1 million views per day since the channel started, or 3.7 million views per video based on the 728 currently published on the channel.

The remarkable thing about Mr Beast channel is it's consistency. His most popular video has 

, which is no mean feat, but using the vidIQ video 

 we can see that from the last 50 videos he has published they average 12 to 15 million views after 28 days. Not a bad number at all when you compare it to say, oh I don't know, PewDiePie, whose videos average 5 to 6 million views, despite the fact he has 75 million more subscribers.

This time last year Mr Beast sat on, around about, 540 million total views. That means the channel has received over 2.1 billion views in a single year. An increase of 300% year on year, just like his subscriber count, and it doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon.

Mr Beast is, of course, famous for crazy things he does on his videos, and that includes giving away a lot of money. 

 276 hours doing random stuff that range from standing straight in slime, sitting underwater, and trying to survive in the desert.

He's also repeated words, counted numbers, or read from the dictionary for a total of 27,900,000 words, and he has used 132.6 million bits of Orbeez, Lego, magnets, pennies, and more things in his videos.

And so, Mr Beast, on behalf of everybody here at vidIQ, congratulations on 20 million subscribers!!

YouTube superstar just hit 20 million subscribers on his channel. Here are 13 numbers behind that massive achievement.

Mr Beast: 13 Numbers Behind His 20 Million YouTube Subscribers

When you are logged-in to YouTube you should see your channel logo in the top right hand corner of most YouTube screens. If you click on that you have the option to go to YouTube Studio (this is currently in beta but will become the standard as 2019 progresses).

From the new Creator Studio dashboard click on the ‘Analytics’ section in the left hand navigation bar. From this screen you need to click on the ‘Build an Audience’ tab which will then show you another screen which details ‘Subscriber Bell Notification’ information from a panel. You have two metrics to review here.

New YouTube Subscriber Notification Metrics

The first metric gives you a percentage of those who have clicked on the all notifications option when subscribing to your channel. But what exactly does that mean? Well first of all, they need to subscribe to a channel and tap on the notification bell. But what a user also needs to do is tap on the bell and set their notification preference to all, meaning that the user will receive all notifications from that channel.

In this instance 13% of the vidIQ audience, around 46.3K subscribers, have done just that. But that only accounts for YouTube's internal mechanisms for controlling notification settings. So while you may have set your notifications within YouTube a certain way that doesn't necessarily mean you've set your notifications from the app level in the same way. For example you could have your YouTube channel notifications set to all but if you have disabled YouTube notifications from a device settings level, well you are not going to get those notifications.

So from one video creator to another make sure to show YouTube notifications on your app! This metric will help you track that. All notifications ticked for your channel and general notifications switched on.

I think this is a fantastic new feature from YouTube but as always I do have one suggestion that could improve it. It looks as if this tool gives you the data as of now but of course as you try new things with your videos and maybe include some calls to action to get people to click on the notification bell you would hope to see those percentages go up. So progress over time would be really useful.

YouTube has launched a new metric that confirms how many of your subscribers have signed up to receive notifications from you. Find out how to access it today!

How To: Find Out How Many Subscribers Clicked the YouTube Notification Bell

I'm sure you're all aware by now as video creators that in 2019 YouTube is changing in a huge, fundamental way. The way you manage your videos and analyze data is transitioning from the Classic Studio, that's been around for a decade, to the new Studio beta.

As of June 2019, nobody knows when YouTube are going to flip the switch. A lot of us are still using the Classic Studio, while some of us have transitioned to new Creator Studio Beta. YouTube are actively encouraging you to use the new Studio by setting your default Studio to the new one, even if you didn't ask for it.

How To Upload a Video to YouTube in the New Creator Studio

However, there has been one bottleneck that has been bringing all of us back to the Classic Studio, and that is the upload flow. Until now. If you go to the new Studio and click on the upload button, you may now find a beta upload workflow. As I stand in front of a camera now, I have never clicked on this button, so I have no idea what the experience is like - so I’ll be doing this for the first time on camera.

Click on the upload button, and we get a pop-up in the middle of the screen. I have a video ready to upload - about how not to get scammed by dodgy YouTube emails - so I’m going to select the ‘Upload Video (Beta) checkbox. Staying within the same pop-up screen, there are sections for title, description, and monetization options. The ability to add Keyword Tags is in Advanced Settings.

Let's take the title, which I've already done, and drop that into the Title bar and replace the auto-generated file name title. Now the video has been processed I have some thumbnail options too, but I’m going to upload my own 

. I can click to edit, or download a thumbnail, which all seem self explanatory.

The Description box includes the copy from your channel defaults, so I just need to add extra about this particular video. There doesn't seem to be a way to expand the description box, though, which you could do in the Classic Studio. I'm limited by not being able to see all of my text, but maybe that's a bug.

That appears to be step one of three in this upload process. It feels like a wizard more than a single page, as we're used to in the Classic Studio. We have options to confirm the title, description, thumbnail, and monetization options in this first step.

Advanced Settings for the New YouTube Upload Flow

Okay. Let's click "next", and go to the advanced settings for the video. So, this is now showing me sections such as Playlists, and End Screens. I also have the option to upload a SRT file for closed captions. Clicking on the End screens and Cards feature isn’t enabled yet in the new Studio, so it opens a new pop-out to the Classic Studio to do the Cards.

You can also add Keyword Tags in this second stage. So I understand now that their process is uploading a video, the title, description, and Custom Thumbnail, which YouTube is trying to communicate to us are the most important things. And then the secondary items such as Tags, Cards, and End screens come later in the flow.

Advanced Settings now shows sections for category, video location, additional settings, and comments. YouTube is now taking you through that process in the upload area of the video.

Video location now replace a Hashtag, so if you decide to use one on a video you can search for location. There’s a section for recording date, if you wanted to add that. When it comes to license and rights ownerships, you can change it from a Standard to Creative Commons, whatever is your preference for that sort of thing. For comments and ratings. It still allows you to modify those areas if you want people to comment on your video. There are also some additional settings which are mostly attached to notifications, and embedding a video.

Preview and Publish: New YouTube Creator Studio

Next is the ‘Preview and Publish’ stage. The default setting for the video is now ‘Unlisted’ rather than ‘Private’ but you can obviously change that. Also, this section allows you to preview the video for monetization issues. So YouTube knows this is a problem where video creators upload a video and then they have a monetization yellow icon next to their video, and that gives them a chance to maybe clean it up. Not really ideal if you're content is very time sensitive.

If I set or schedule the video as ‘Public’,I get a bit of a checklist that asks "Do kids appear in this video?" and asking if I want to "Look for overall content guidance?" So it's pushing us to those Community Guidelines to make sure that your video fits the YouTube rules regarding monetization issues. And, at this point, I guess if I click "Done", that would end the upload process.

So, there you have it, folks. Both my first look, and your first look, at the new upload process that's soon to be used by millions of video creators to upload billions of hours of content on YouTube.

What are your first impressions? What do I think of it? I've got to be honest. I quite like it. It's intuitive, it guided me through the process, and it worked. I've uploaded thousands of videos on YouTube now, so I'm quite familiar with the Classic Creator Studio upload screen. And this felt like a natural progression and upgrade. I could find everything very quickly, and I think for new users of YouTube the step-by-step process will help guide them.

First of all, the most important things. A Title, the Description, Thumbnails. And then those extra little bits that some people will use, some people won't. And, most importantly, for many of you traditionalists who have been on YouTube for a long time, it's not pushing Tags into secondary importance.

There were a couple of teeny problems. The Description box wasn't big enough for me to type in, and I couldn't immediately find a playlist I wanted to, but, other than that, for a beta it worked almost flawlessly.

Soon, uploading videos to YouTube via the new Creator Studio will be the default for all creators. We take you through the new upload flow to see how it differs from the Classic Studio.

How To Upload Videos to YouTube in the New Creator Studio

The e-mail scam is nothing new, but it's just as easy to click the wrong link or disclose the wrong information, and just like that, all of your data falls into somebody else's hands. The most recent is this spoof email, masquerading as coming from YouTube telling you that viewers were complaining about your spammy videos. But never fear, because YouTube will review your channel if you pass over all of this information in an email.

Yeah, rule 101 of scams: if an email makes you go, "Hmm," chances are it's a scam. In terms of scam emails, this is one of the better attempts at deception. The contact name suggests it's from YouTube Support, the images are on point, and much to my surprise, there are no glaring spelling or grammar mistakes. However, YouTube would never threaten to close your channel without referencing its comprehensive guidelines and policies, and like every single well-respected, trustworthy company in the world, they would not ask for details about your channel, or, indeed, your password.

Scam emails always encourage you to compromise the security of your data. And in another one of these dodgy emails that was supposedly from YouTube, they even tried to convince the recipient that they would need to disable two-step phone verification on their YouTube account. Seems legit…...

With all this in mind, we have two simple pieces of advice: Never send sensitive information over email, and if you receive an unexpected email, don't do anything directly from the email. For example, if you reset your password on any account on the internet, you may receive an email asking you to click on a link. And that should be okay, because it's an action you started, and you're aware of our email.

But if, for example, you receive an email out of the blue telling you that one of your videos has received a copyright claim, don't click on the link within the email, go directly to your YouTube channel and investigate the issue yourself. Because, as convincing as this email looks, who knows what this button actually does. If in doubt, dismiss the email, and always go to the source, which will tell you exactly what's going on.

We asked YouTube what information we should expect from an email, and they said that while they may provide analytics about your channel in emails, they would never ask for personal information, pin codes, or passwords. You should also check the authenticity of the email sender. Obviously, genuine emails from YouTube will be authenticated, and you can find more information via the help page on screen now, which you can read from the link in the video description.

Creators, you've all worked really hard to build up your YouTube channels. Don't lose it to a scam!!

Don’t Fall for YouTube Email Phishing Scams!

YouTube can be frustrating. You think you're doing everything right, but perhaps you’re actually making one of the five fundamental mistakes that are derailing your channel. In this week's TubeTalk podcast we'll unpack those five common mistakes YouTuber's are making - 

Tube Talk, the YouTuber's podcast, is dedicated to helping you become a better video creator so you can get more YouTube views, and subscribers. This week we’re very lucky to be joined by the one and only Benji Travis.

Benji is a YouTube mastermind. He's behind the 

 channel which has over 1.6 million subscribers, as well as his own cooking channel, 

, which has over 367,000 subscribers. He is one half of the team at 

, and he's the co-author of YouTube Secrets, one of my favorite books. Through his multiple social media based businesses he earns a seven-figure income.

Click on the above link to play this week's TubeTalk podcast to find out the top 5 mistakes YouTubers are making. In this post we take a look at one - a lack of clear direction and goals.

There are a lot of YouTube creators doing things right, but there are many more that aren’t doing the basics. Benji confirms that because YouTube is so big it can get very confusing so it's important to have some guidance when you first start. There are so many resources (including TubeTalk) available to teach you how to navigate this new frontier we call YouTube.

But at the end of the day, it's still a content platform, and there's still some basic stuff that creators are not getting. We’ll be taking a 

deep dive into all of these basics during the podcast

 but let’s discuss one here: how many creators lack clarity or a clear goal of what they want to accomplish on the platform.

And that can be different for everybody, but focus is important because If you don't have some kind of clarity for yourself in terms of who you're trying to reach, what type of content you're going to stand for, what people will know you for, what your channel's going to look like, what your videos are going to be, you're going to be just all over the place.

Starting with clarity in mind, your YouTube goals become a kind of mission statement. Define what kind of content you’re passionate about and you want to share with people. Then, have a personal goal for exactly what you want to get out of being on YouTube. A lot of people just jump into it, especially young people. They just want to be famous. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's an uphill battle because what does that even mean?

People think they can start uploading content to YouTube, and then they'll be famous. Well that really isn't going to help you. But by being clear, defining what kind of content you want to create for what audience, is a goal to get you going. It's well worth determining your goal and investing time in it. It's going to save you a lot time rather than just filming random stuff online that doesn't really apply to you.

You can find out the four other major mistakes that YouTubers make by listening to the podcast! 

 for his insights. You can follow him on 

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TubeTalk has been informing video creators amd marketers since 2014, and is one of the most respected and listened to podcasts in the online video industry. Subscribe today so you never miss an episode! You can find vidIQ's TubeTalk at:

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Are you a YouTube creator making one of these 5 huge mistakes? Take a listen to this week's TubeTalk podcast and find out where you may be going wrong.

The Five Big Mistakes YouTubers Make: TubeTalk Episode 164

The 4th of July is one of the top tentpole events in the US, and like Thanksgiving and Christmas, there are huge opportunities to create content around this national holiday that will appeal to YouTube viewers. But what keywords and terms are YouTube users searching for around this event? Let's take a look.

Top 15 4th of July 2019 Keywords on YouTube

If you plan on creating a 4th of July video then start by understanding what keywords viewers are searching for, and also when they are searching for the content. Knowledge of both will give you a heads up on what and when to publish.

, we can confirm that the following are the most searched for 4th of July keywords and phrases on YouTube right now:

We also took a look at whether there was a significant difference in the average number of people who searched for either 'Fourth of July' or '4th of July' on YouTube each month. Interestingly, there wasn't a lot in it, so you're safe to use either (or both) in your YouTube titles and descriptions:

 - 26.8K searches average monthly searches

When are Viewers Searching for 4th of July Content on YouTube?

Just as important for any YouTuber creating videos around a tent-pole (and potentially evergreen) event is to know just when viewer interest is peaking. 

 data for the last 5 years confirms that the holiday trends between 29th June - 5th July so publishing videos this week would give you the best chance of being seen so you can attract those views and subscibers.

Finding Opportunities to Create 4th of July Content on YouTube

Alongside the main keywords being searched for, we took a deeper dive into the food and DIY categories, both of which land themselves very well to content ideas. When it comes to food for the celebration, it's no surprise that snacks, and party food top the list:

Top 10 4th of July Food Keywords: YouTube

If you want an idea of the type of 4th of July recipe ideas that YouTube viewers love, take a look at this upload, published by Twisted on July 2nd 2018. To date, it has generated 1.3M views, and still attracts around 150 views per hour:

4th of July and DIY is also a very popular content theme with 'Dollar Tree' topping the list of keywords associated on YouTube with this tentpole event.

An excellent example of a channel that uploaded content that took advantage of the viewer's interest in 4th of July plus DIY'ing the celebrations using Dollar Tree is 'My DIY Home'. It uploaded a video on May 27th 2019 which has already generated a healthy 28.5K views:

4th of July videos are hugely popular on YouTube - here are the top most searched keywords around this major U.S. tentpole event.

How to Win on YouTube with 4th of July Content

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