Bizdustry Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Have you ever considered to start a Gaming YouTube channel? This could be gameplays, tutorials or even cheats and hacks. Maybe even a mix of these. Are there any content creators that specialise in gaming amongst us? What advice would you give to those considering making their own? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shortie Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 I myself have a video gaming YouTube channel where I have posted my clips, past broadcasts and so much more in the past. I would love to have more time to create more video game content but at the moment, my main job is front and centre. Advice I would give to those who are wanting to start out with YouTube is have a plan, think about what you want to create whether it be tutorials, video game shorts, live stream videos etc and stick to it, find a schedule that works best for you to upload and stick to it, stay consistent. No one every succeeds over night and that is the same with YouTube, it could take months or years before you see success. CharlesK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blackangel Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 (edited) @Rain Dew and I have a gaming channel. So far it's mostly her playthroughs on Tomb Raider and short clips I caught on RDR2. We don't have a lot of content as of right now, but we're building things up slowly. As far as success or making money from the channel goes, neither of us care about that. We just thought it would be a fun thing to do. Whether we have one subscriber or one million subscribers is all the same to us. We're having fun doing it. That's all we care about when it comes to our channel. That's all I care about when it comes to my other two channels that are all my own. Edited January 19 by The Blackangel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenfreak Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 I have a gaming channel, most of the videos I create are unboxing videos though. I have been recording more challenge videos lately, I have a few I need to finish editing and upload to my channel. I already posted a Pokemon Red Randomizer video on my channel, a lot of my older videos are just video game music reversed though. (A lot of my older uploads aren't really gaming related though.) I only have 316 subscribers currently, but I've only been really pushing myself to work on my channel more within the past year. I just do it as a hobby though so I don't mind the view counts, if I get picked up by the algorithm that's cool but if not then that's fine too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennysplash Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Once in a while when I’m stuck in a game I search for it on YouTube. And it never disappoints, I’ll find lots of videos on just what I am looking for. The more wideknown the game is the more views such videos will have. Sometimes I just sit back and watch a better player play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatman Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 I actually have a YouTube channel at the moment but it's not something I would call a gaming YouTube channel because it doesn't have any video games on it. I have thought about turning it into a gaming channel but I'm yet to make the decision yet. Knight Plug 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Plug Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 It's very hard to get anywhere with YouTube in this day of age, but it is certainly not the same platform it was back in 2015, or whatever. I was doing the same thing as others for the most part. Posting a lot of informative vlogs. I never got anywhere. It is very, very hard and time consuming. I also hate their 'You gotta wait 24 hours to be activated' policy. The idea of YouTube is that your content has to have a lot of wizardy editing talent, and a more "mutual" outlook, before you can even hope to get anywhere. Because 'being yourself' won't cut it in the corporate world when they prefer PG content. There's a YouTuber I follow, who said he got enticed by Google to switch things up, but he did not want to change just to please them, and then he got false flagged by haters, to the point where he admitted he lost full interest in covering video games. And I mean, nah. Why be a sheep? That would make you as bad as the Capcom fanboys. Google also takes a blind eye to the big YouTubers misbehaving, as they just get a slap on the wrist for getting out of line. But it depends what your channel covers to begin with. Controversy runs rampant online, so then if you unintentionally offend people, they'll come at you. It kind of bugged me how I was uploading similar rant videos to others, but the people online would always flock to the big channels, and I never got anywhere in the long run. What was somewhat odd about this was that I was saying similar things, even better than they were at times. Yet nobody noticed, apart from Google themselves. In fact, I exposed Capcom that much over the years for ripping off other games, that even Google started using my posts as answers on their main page. Seriously. I also have a rather thick accent and would get out of breath quickly when recording. But then on the gaming forums I was visiting, the activity just continued to see a big decline with only occasional contributions from stragglers, so it is not like people were noticing me much any more, compared to decades ago. The forums started to feel more like a diary. I also had this weirdo following me around for years, so he kept subscribing to me, and YouTube even allows these moronic stalkers to tag you unnoticed. Unfortunately, blocking idiots on YouTube is only a semi-useful procedure. They can still receive notifications of your activity. 'Blocked' should really mean 'banned 4 life' AKA 'GTFO K Thanx Bye' or something, where not only is commenting barred, they can no longer view you in general. But Google just doesn't care. Their report form is also very annoying to do on a phone as well, by the way. The mobile version of the report feature they have is just a fiddly little mess of a page, but they just never bother their asses to do anything about the abuse. In fact, if you put in the report that they are harassing you *BUT* also stealing your content, it's like this is to them technically two different matters you're complaining about. Like, what!? No, it's not... This is why a human reply is always better than an automated piece of trash, generic, pretty useless one. It means you can explain everything in one go instead of putting up with this stupid character limit malarkey, and ticking a few boxes-crap that Google prefers having around. Then again, please try to see it from their point of view. They're probably getting a gazillion of such reports every single day, with just a small tech team on hand there to deal with the administrative side of things. And they probably know people just enjoy false flagging others when they're being sour grapes. CharlesK 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heatman Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 On 1/17/2024 at 11:27 PM, Bizdustry said: Have you ever considered to start a Gaming YouTube channel? This could be gameplays, tutorials or even cheats and hacks. Maybe even a mix of these. Are there any content creators that specialise in gaming amongst us? What advice would you give to those considering making their own? I've seen what you have been able to do with your own Bizdustry YouTube channel, even though its not a gaming channel, you surely have good skills to pull off running a good gaming channel. If I'm half as good as you, I'd take running my own channel serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorpion Posted October 19 Share Posted October 19 I’ve thought about it, but I’m unsure where to start. Consistency and finding a niche seem really important, though! Knight Plug 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlesK Posted October 20 Share Posted October 20 You'll be joining millions of aspiring other Youtubers who want to start a gaming channel. You'll really need to bring something different, this is so saturated now that it's going to be very hard to stand out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killamch89 Posted October 20 Share Posted October 20 I've thought about it and I'll go through with it at some point in the near future but for now, it's not on my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
