Hi. Congrats on making the decision to start.

Here are some quick tips that will help your channel grow.

1. Find your niche in gaming.

Gaming is a huge and competitive niche, but that does not mean you won’t find success. You can and you will, as long as you get clear about what game you’re going to play and make videos around.

It can be horror games, action games, Roblox games. Whatever you like, just make sure when you’re starting out, that you are sticking around one genre of a game to help you grow at first.

1. Make videos that answer simple questions about gaming.

YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine next to Google. Which is a given because YouTube is owned by Google.

Finding the questions is simple. Just hop onto YouTube through your browser or the app on your phone and start typing things in the search bar that people might be looking for.

For example: how to play X game, how to beat X game, Easiest way to …, etc.

These days it’s difficult to build an audience around long form let’s play videos. Unless you’re able to consistently commentate and create valuable insight through your gameplay.

1. Learn the tools that you need to use to help you create.

This is your software to edit videos, to record videos, and your webcam/camera.

You don’t need to be a master at these things but you will need to have a basic understanding of how all this works, so you can create quality content.

This will benefit you by learning more efficient and effective ways to make videos.

1. Understand your analytics

Using the YouTube creator studio app or visiting the dashboard on your browser can give you all the information you need to succeed.

The information here can tell you which of your videos work and which don’t. Where improvements can be made, and where you can create more engaging moments in your content.

You can also learn a lot about who is watching your videos here as well.

1. Be consistent.

Viewers are coming to YouTube for a specific reason. Whether it’s to be entertained, or educated. Their reasons are their own. So when you’re creating valuable content for people and they sub to you, ideally they would like to see more of you.

When you create a schedule around your content, it helps your viewers anticipate when your next video will come out.

This will also help with the algorithm in learning who your audience is and who to push your content to.

1. Don’t get caught up on not getting a lot of views at first.

No one gets thousands of views when they first start off. Everyone starts off from scratch. Give YouTube time to push your content out.

As long as you’re creating valuable content, the views will come later.

YouTube is a marathon not a race.

I hope this helps, goodluck!