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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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 th...
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Dec 18, 2014

1 min read

YouTube SEO For The Holidays

Happy Holidays…. and Merry Christmas, Happy (C)hannukah and Happy Kwanzaa!
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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 offi...
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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, the...
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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 ...
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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 cha...
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Jul 8, 2014

2 min read

From the vidIQ Archives | AOL Case Study

Q: How do you optimize a huge video archive without millions of man-hours? A: Call vidIQ.
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Jul 1, 2014

3 min read

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

With video marketing moving at the speed of light, it’s easy to get wild-eyed about your workflow.
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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 q...
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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.
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Jan 16, 2014

1 min read

Introducing YouTube Competitor Analysis

Success on YouTube isn’t always about tracking just your metrics – it’s about gaining valuable insights into your com...
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Nov 7, 2013

1 min read

vidIQ Score: How We Rank YouTube Videos

How is vidIQ Score calculated?