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 5, 2026

Introducing vidIQ for Instagram

vidIQ for Instagram helps creators analyze Reels, find trend-based ideas, generate covers, and plan better Instagram content with AI.
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Apr 28, 2016

1 min read

Bulk YouTube SEO for More Views

Use bulk YouTube SEO to update videos faster, improve metadata at scale, and uncover more opportunities for views across your library.
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Mar 17, 2016

1 min read

YouTube Comment Filters with vidIQ

What happens when you are overwhelmed with too many comments? We’ve created filters that help you find the comments that matter.
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Apr 9, 2015

5 min read

8 Ways to Reach the Right Audience on YouTube

Reach the right YouTube audience with eight tactics for sharper positioning, stronger topics, better packaging, and more loyal viewers.
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Dec 30, 2014

1 min read

Top 4 Type of Videos Being Created for New Years

Need a New Year video idea? Explore four popular seasonal formats creators use to publish timely content around the holiday rush.
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Dec 19, 2014

2 min read

Top Trending Holiday Videos 2014

’Tis the season for racking up video views—we took a look at the creators/videos who are trending for the holidays this year using the vidIQ Search Companion.
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Dec 18, 2014

1 min read

YouTube SEO For The Holidays

Plan holiday YouTube SEO with seasonal keyword, title, description, and timing tips that help festive videos get discovered.
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Dec 17, 2014

2 min read

vidIQ Pro and YouTube Keyword Tool

It’s been just a few weeks since we soft-launched the new vidIQ Pro platform and I’m happy that today we make it official–vidIQ Pro is now available for ever...
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Aug 5, 2014

4 min read

Successful Content’s Secret Sauce, Explained by Science (and Exploited by Buz...

It is the professional opinion of this blogger that Buzzfeed has won the content marketing war and that, shortly, they will rule the world.
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Jul 29, 2014

3 min read

8 REEL Video Summit Highlights Cheekily Articulated via Cat Gif

Last week, industry insiders and industry newcomers mingled, saleswomen and salesmen schmoozed, a veritable lovefest erupted on Twitter under the never-quite...
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Jul 15, 2014

4 min read

FIFA’s Battle of the Brands: A Competitive YouTube Analysis of the 2014 World...

As Forbes contributor Rob Schwartz pointed out yesterday, this year’s World Cup was a global phenomenon rife with challenges for traditional marketing.
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Jul 8, 2014

2 min read

From the vidIQ Archives | AOL Case Study

See how vidIQ approached a large AOL video archive, using optimization and analytics to make more videos easier to discover.
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Jul 1, 2014

3 min read

8 YouTube-Worthy Tips from History’s Greatest Content Creators

Borrow timeless creator lessons from history’s great communicators and apply them to better YouTube storytelling, workflow, and audience building.
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Jun 30, 2014

2 min read

First Ever YouTube Speedometer – vidIQ Velocity

It’s not an easy task to grow your views and subscribers organically and it has been a privilege guiding you in the quest for video marketing success.
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Feb 20, 2014

3 min read

What Is Creator Suggested?

Creator Suggested is a new metric we’ve been running in our Chrome Extension for the last couple of months.