After working here at Video Creators for the past 3 years, Lennon is launching out on his own business full-time. We'll miss him around here, but we're excited about what's to come for him. In this episode, he shares a bit about his journey in growing his business and how he came to understand when it's time to launch out on your own business full-time. There are also a lot of sentimental memories and reflections wrapped up in this final episode with Lennon, too. Follow Lennon's future at https://www.instagram.com/stopthestarvingartist/  LEAVE A VOICE MESSAGE: Have comments, reactions, questions, a YouTube tip to share, or just want to say hi? Leave a voice message for us and we may use it in an upcoming podcast episode. https://www.speakpipe.com/videocreators

Is it sometimes hard to know what you should do next on your channel to help it grow? Yeah, probably always. And that's probably because you haven't yet dug up all of the different corners of your channel to actually reveal the real areas of opportunity that will help you reach more viewers on YouTube so that you can grow your business and change people's lives. So, we want to help you do that in today's episode. CREATOR SPOTLIGHT: Check out Steve Porter's channel called, "Tronicsfix," here: https://www.youtube.com/c/Tronicsfix/videos REGISTER FOR THE NEXT SESSION OF VIDEO LABS: https://videocreators.com/video-labs/ POWER TIP: New "videos growing your audience," feature in the YouTube Studio: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9072033 LEAVE A VOICE MESSAGE: Have comments, reactions, questions, a YouTube tip to share, or just want to say hi? Leave a voice message for us and we may use it in an upcoming podcast episode. https://www.speakpipe.com/videocreators

As we head into the new year, it's helpful to pause and reflect on everything that's changed on YouTube over the past year and use that history as an indicator to see what's to come in 2022. Today we discuss the top changes that occurred on YouTube last year, use that to predict what's coming in this next year, and most importantly, consider what implications it has for our content strategy going into the new year. We discuss YouTube Shorts, video chapters, community tab changes, hidden dislike counts, podcasting on YouTube, storytelling for educations, and much more! CREATOR SPOTLIGHT: Check out Bill Sweet's channel, "The Dad Bod," here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSrYXYezhDxRWxsc4kmi1BQ REGISTER FOR THE NEXT SESSION OF VIDEO LABS: https://videocreators.com/video-labs/ LEAVE A VOICE MESSAGE: Have comments, reactions, questions, a YouTube tip to share, or just want to say hi? Leave a voice message for us and we may use it in an upcoming podcast episode. https://www.speakpipe.com/videocreators

Today we take some of the most common advice that's given for, "How to grow your YouTube channel faster," and our panel of YouTube experts reacts to each one. Which are true, which are false, and which are a little bit of both? It's a fun time breaking down how channel growth works on YouTube!   CREATOR SPOTLIGHT: Check out Vegan Michele at https://www.youtube.com/c/VeganMichele   REGISTER FOR VIDEO LABS: https://videocreators.com/video-labs/   LEAVE A VOICE MESSAGE: Have comments, reactions, questions, a YouTube tip to share, or just want to say hi? Leave a voice message for us and we may use it in an upcoming podcast episode. https://www.speakpipe.com/videocreators

As we're growing our businesses on YouTube, it can easily start to feel like we're running out of video ideas. We'll hear a lot of creators say things like, "I feel like I've already made this video a thousand times!" The struggle is real! As creators ourselves who have made over a thousand videos talking about the same three things -- getting more views, subscribers, and money on YouTube -- today we'll talk about how to overcome that frustration. CREATOR SPOTLIGHT: Check out Laura Volpes's channel! https://www.youtube.com/c/LauraVolpes REGISTER FOR THE NEXT SESSION OF VIDEO LABS: https://videocreators.com/video-labs/ Use, "Answer The Public," to generate new video ideas: https://answerthepublic.com/ YOUR VOICE QUESTIONS Send us a quick audio clip asking us your YouTube question for future Q&A episodes: https://speakpipe.com/videocreators

When we're growing a business around YouTube, much of our time is focused on the efforts we feel are growing our business and channel. However, when we stop and look objectively at our business, often we find that the activities that are making us busy and not the same things that are making us money. What activities are we doing on our YouTube channels and in the business we're growing around that audience? Of those activities, which ones are making us money and which ones aren't. Which ones serve our audience and customers the best? Which ones don't? Often those two things are connected in some way. Where do we make the most profit? This isn't about extracting as much as we can from people, but rather, money is an indicator, it's one way to measure how well you're serving people. We wrestle with that question here today. CREATOR SPOTLIGHT: Check out Irene Bearly of, "Girl Talks Fish." https://www.youtube.com/c/GirlTalksFish REGISTER FOR THE NEXT SESSION OF VIDEO LABS: https://videocreators.com/video-labs/ Check out YouTube's new site for YouTube Creators: https://www.youtube.com/creators/ YOUR VOICE QUESTIONS Send us a quick audio clip asking us your YouTube question for future Q&A episodes: https://speakpipe.com/videocreators

We have several great questions from you all, our podience, about attracting the right viewers to your YouTube channel, if and when you should have multiple topics per video, how to tell a story in a video that has nothing to do with a story, and much more. If you want to submit a question for us to tackle in a future Q&A episode go to https://speakpipe.com/videocreators CREATOR SPOTLIGHT Check out Adam Vandergrift's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/HAXMAN YOUTUBE CONSULTING We'd love to dive into your channel with you for a one-on-one session and give you the next steps you need to go to the next level. Book a session with us here: https://videocreators.com/consulting

We have several interesting moves from YouTube this past year in regards to a podcasting update on the platform. They're making moves that indicate that podcasting will become a focus of the platform, which is very interesting for us as creators for many different reasons. What does all this mean for us as creators? If we have a podcast, what should be our next moves? Is it time to start a podcast? Is it time to move existing podcasts to YouTube? Same channel? Different channel? Should they be audio-only or video? The answers to these questions have significant implications for how YouTube crafts its product in the future, which will impact our own content strategy, as well. CREATOR SPOTLIGHT Check out Morgan Gold's channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjl3zDun9SazYI0UWWu6_1A YOUTUBE CONSULTING Schedule your one-on-one YouTube channel consultation with us here: https://videocreators.com/consulting YOUTUBE'S AUDIO PODCAST, "THE UPLOAD." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_PrJNerCD0&list=PLbpi6ZahtOH6w-edZ_21_fsLTYm74yWmN&index=2 YOUR VOICE QUESTIONS Submit your questions about podcasting and YouTube here: https://speakpipe.com/videocreators

Brad owns the channel, Fix This Build That, which has over 1 million subscribers and supports a successful business selling PDFs of his building plans. In this episode, he shares the behind-the-scenes principles that took him from a soul-sucking corporate job to doing what he loves: building in his garage. There are some big takeaways here, especially for creators who struggle to gain traction with a tutorial or educational-based channel. Brad's channel would be a tutorial channel by default, too, but he does some things that make it easier for people to come back and watch more, even if it's not a tutorial they feel like they need. You'll learn all about that as a part of Brad's story in this episode.   Check out Brad here: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHYSw4XKO_q1GaChw5pxa-w Website: https://fixthisbuildthat.com/ Sign up to get notified about Business Labs by registering for, "Product to Profit," here: https://videocreators.com/product-to-profit/

Today we're talking with several YouTube creators about not only their best tips for growing a channel on YouTube, but we're also taking time to answer your questions so you can grow, too. CHECK OUT THESE CREATORS HERE - Adam Visnic, P.I.: https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamVisnic - New Ed Tech Classroom: https://www.youtube.com/c/newedtechclassroom - Sam Gavis-Hughson: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWSYAntBbdd2SLYUqPIxo0w - Margaret Martin, Physical Therapist: https://www.youtube.com/c/melioguide   REGISTER FOR THE NEXT SESSION OF VIDEO LABS: https://videocreators.com/video-labs/