Content Creators Overwhelmed by Information

“Canva for basic stuff, Revid for short form social videos. don't overthink it at the start”

“I have attempted to make videos but a couple of things have gone wrong: a.) They look like poop b.) my editing skills are a mess c.) everytime I try to research how to make videos or edit I get overwhelmed because of the amount of info there I out there and each one is telling me to buy something new. How do YouTubers and tiktokers make their videos look so pro? submitted by /u/Onemore_on_earth [link] [comments]”

“Hey everyone! I recently started a new YouTube channel, and like many beginners, I am trying to navigate the best path forward for initial traction. ​I’ve been putting effort into editing and quality, but getting those initial views and subscribers is proving to be quite a challenge. The algorithm hasn't really caught on yet, which I know is completely normal for new accounts. ​For those of you who started recently or have seen growth: what strategy worked best for you in the beginning? Is i”

“Don’t pick your favorite first, many people fall into the mindset that their first video needs to be perfect and a big success. The only metric of success should be that you uploaded a video and it is an improvement over your last”

Interesting, what tech stack did you use?

“I do social for a handful of small brands and for about two years my process was duct tape. Canva for statics, CapCut for edits, Notion for the calendar, Drive for client assets, Buffer to push it out. Every week I lost an hour just moving files between them and rewriting the same caption four different ways per channel. What stuck: Notion. One simple board per client, nothing fancy. CapCut for real footage. Still hard to beat for quick cuts. Canva for statics. What changed: I dropped Buffer for”

“I'm old school in this regard. I think the best tools are not analytics but a good old fashioned notebook and that mushy stuff in your skull. Take notes and compare the differences in the videos. Don't underestimate these "tools" because they're not fancy; it's the key to reverse engineering anything. I don't think a tool can pick up if someone is talking differently than you, using visuals in a slightly different way, presenting the content better, doing different”

“tbh, uploading first 6 together is a good start but you want to be careful with dumping everything same day, algorithm likes consistency over big bursts. maybe do one per day for that first week instead, give the system time to recognize pattern. also title and thumbnail matter way more than you think, even for podcast format. what kind of visual you made for episodes?”

“I'm preparing a video that covers some heavy subject matter ('kill' 'died' are used frequently). I've started uploading chunks of it as private videos to go through monetization screening and so far nothing has been flagged. Is this screening reliable when the video is private, or am I likely to run into problems when it goes public? submitted by /u/RutgoOfficial [link] [comments]”

“I’m starting a technology channel and I would like to create creative videos, focused on projects with electronics, 3D printing and other things, instead of just analysis. However, I have a question about the best way to create these videos. Should I record and then do a narration, or define a script and then record? I’ve already recorded some review videos and other formats, but always with a defined script. If someone can help me answer this question, I will be very grateful! submitted b”

“Creating content for a post is usually easy. Turning that content into a visual people actually want to stop and look at is harder. After talking with marketers, I kept hearing the same challenges: choosing the strongest takeaway, keeping visuals consistent with the brand, and repurposing content without spending too much time designing. That’s why I started building Doodlyo — a tool that turns written content or URLs into doodle-style visual stories. I’m still trying to understand whether this”

“Here are the details: I have an OAC currently, it's 4+ years old since I started making content on it. Channel is really kind of focused on skit - think Tim & Eric style weird/cringe/comedy and a bit of horror sprinkled in too. But at one point I began making comedy songs and those kind of took off at one point. I released them via DistroKid, and that made me decide to merge/create an OAC (so the DistroKid YT uploads get rolled up into the OAC, basically). Which has worked fine, but ever”

“i've animated a short film (around a minute or two) for the first time and was thinking about uploading it on youtube. and i want the right people to watch it what kind of tags should i put or what things should i be doing for a new channel to get the right people to watch my video?? submitted by /u/No_Path_7933 [link] [comments]”

“I make music that's entirely found sound/sample based. It occurred to me that on every social media site (particularly Instagram) I would have thousands of saved posts because of some sound or visual content that I thought I might like to sample someday.I made Harvester, a local-first Firefox extension for collecting source material for sampling, collage, VJing, editing, and research. Harvester natively preserves media from individual Instagram, Youtube, and Reddit posts as well as visible video”

“Hi! I wanted to ask you guys something. I'm thinking about starting a travel YouTube channel, and I was wondering: would you watch a travel channel like this? It would be a channel where I never show my face and only use my voice, while filming the places I visit, the things I do, my everyday life, my interactions with people, etc Do you know any YouTube channels with this kind of style? Would you watch something like this?Do you think this kind of format could work, or do you think showing”

I wish this was a Holmes opinion.

6001 strikes again.

“I actually might use this site in near future for my Twitch streamer friend 👍🏻 BatchEdits scores 71/100, with clear positioning for creators processing multiple videos and strong design and usability as its best-supported strengths. Its material weaknesses are difficult content scanning and technical indexability leaks. See https://www.sitelist.co/sites/batchedits/review#dim-25”

Very nice post. Thank you.

“I’m trying to get better at my intros and hooks for long-form gaming documentary/video essay stuff. Right now my intros usually land somewhere around 1:30–2:30 before the main topic really gets moving, and I’m wondering if that’s too long. If you enjoy 15–30 minute documentary-style videos, how quickly do you need to understand what the video is actually about before you start losing interest? submitted by /u/CriticalSaveYT [link] [comments]”

“For context: I've wanted to make videos since I was a kid. My parents shot down the idea when they were in their anti YouTube phase and I literally haven't found a single job I want to do. My current job stresses me out and I know I need this job to at least start my channel. I used to post clips of me playing overwatch but I don't wanna do just that. I want to make fun video essays and make something I can be proud of on its own. I primarily want to be faceless and just want some ad”

“Love the way you broke down those use‑cases, they’re actually very close to what pushed me to build this. The “trigger” was watching creators spend 70–80% of their time on the non‑creative parts of editing: finding B‑roll, timing clips, filling gaps, matching tone, exporting drafts, etc. Most people already know what they want to say, the bottleneck is turning that narration into a visual draft. So the idea was: what if the voiceover becomes the source of truth, and the tool handles the repetiti”

“vegas is what I would suggest to anyone looking for a real video editor to start with. It is very simple. But Until they will autocut my shorts im sticking with both that and capcut.”

“because you broke them into sub categories, i'm discovering new categories to explore. exploration of new categories/new topics is the goal. rather than being inundated by popular videos by big channels you see anyway (the adam savages, the mr beasts)”

“After seeing the two tools disagree that badly, what are you using as your source of truth now?”

“Having run a small lifestyle ecommerce store for a few years and been noticing the change in the demand for content skyrocketing in the past years for ad fatigue. It is a crazy workload just to keep up with the volume of testing needed, we started trying to use video generation to pump out different lifestyle angles for our products. The idea is great but the work is definitely not as easy as we thought it would be. One of the issues is that it is so frigging hard to keep brand consistency, or c”

“It's a ~80s short about what I've accomplished as a founder so far and how I stay productive. IIt's my first ever upload, but been watching youtube nearly daily for like ~15+ years (all the way back to the Smosh days). What should I expect regarding views, like how many is normal for a first upload (it's edited well and has a good first 3s hook i think), what's a good stayed-to-watch vs swiped-away ratio? It's currently sitting at 14 views with a 66% swipe away, i assume”

“Thanks for the blunt answer! 😂 Given your feedback about reused content, I'm thinking about changing my approach. If I shift to a fully faceless channel but add my own original voiceover to explain the clips and provide commentary, would that be considered original enough to meet YouTube's monetization requirements?”

“I'M NOT ADVERTISING ANYTHING. I'm a computer engineer and I'm wondering if influencers in general might need some kind of tool to manage brand collaborations. I just want to know if they need something that would genuinely help with their personal brand and/or YouTube channel. For example, tell me something that is a headache for you and you think it may have a software solution. If for example everything goes great for you, let me know also to discard the idea. Thank you to everyone”

“Would like some feedback on my app, it is about critical thinking on youtube. You enter a video id and you get back, pro arguments, anti argument, any missing context and a summary using web search. Remember, its not a perfect fact checker, its more used for critical thinking. Would love some feedback. submitted by /u/Honest-Insect-5699 [link] [comments]”

“honestly pretty good. some channels are still overrepresented. so for instance in the cars category, there are 2-3 carwow videos out of the 8-10 shown. likewise adam savage's channel is overrepresented in the crafts section. but then these are the most popular channels in their category. so that's on brief.”

“I saw someone else do this with SaaS feedback so thought I'd try it out with content! Most content feedback is very generic but I will go deep in order to help you identify literally exactly what's wrong and how you can do better. Drop your account and I'll audit in these areas: Scroll Test: I'll mimic someone landing on your page and their first impression of your account Profile: Anything from pfp to bio to username and tags Social proof: Anything you have and what you can do t”

“Creating the content for a post is usually easy. Turning that content into a visual people actually want to stop and look at is harder. After talking with marketers on Reddit, I kept hearing the same challenges: choosing the strongest takeaway, keeping visuals consistent with the brand, and repurposing content without spending too much time designing. That’s why I built Doodlyo. You can paste a URL or written content, and it turns the key idea into a branded doodle-style visual story with matchi”

“Mine's pretty boring but it's held up. I schedule in one tool and read numbers in each platform's own dashboard. Tried a couple of the all in one suites and their analytics were always lagging the native apps, so I gave up on that. Content sits in a shared drive folder by month rather than by platform. Sounds like nothing but repurposing got way easier once I stopped sorting by where it was going. Then one spreadsheet with what I posted, where, and what it did. Not exciting, and it&#”

“A friend of mine runs a small dev agency and wants to test out an offer: doing free code, infra, and cost audits for early-stage startups. The only catch is they want to turn the process into a YouTube video for their channel (gets about 30k–50k views per video). Honest check: would you ever take them up on that? What would make it worth it for you, or is having your tech stack aired on YouTube an immediate dealbreaker no matter what? submitted by /u/alexlash [link] [comments]”

“That "nothing writes back to one place" line is a really clean way to put the actual root problem, honestly better than most of what's come up in this thread so far. On the performance side though, once a campaign's live, how are you tracking what impact it actually brought, views, engagement, sales, whatever matters to your clients, are you manually collecting that data from the creators or influencers?”

“Yeah that's normal, and it's not really a tools problem. Nothing writes back to one place. What actually works is picking one sheet that tracks each creator's real status: found, contacted, rate agreed, live, reported. Outreach can still happen wherever, email or DMs, but the second a reply comes in you update that one sheet instead of leaving it in your head or buried in a thread. Then the report at the end isn't a scramble, because the data's already sitting in one place in”

“I'm starting a YouTube channel around psychology, habits, and everyday behavior. Instead of using the usual stock footage, or highly polished animation, I'm thinking of building the channel around a simple visual style: a white background, hand-drawn characters, and simple visual storytelling. I like the style because it feels distinctive and lets me focus more on the story and ideas rather than making every frame visually complex. But I'm wondering about the other side of i”

“Genuine question for other creators: does this happen to you too? I'll see a Reel, someone's hook, someone's storytelling, someone's CTA and save it thinking "I'll study this later." Then when I actually sit down to script something, I open my saved folder to find it... and somehow end up doom-scrolling, completely forgetting I was even looking for something. By the time I remember, I've lost the mood to write anything. do you all deal with this? Do you have an”

“Genuine question for other creators: does this happen to you too? I'll see a Reel. someone's hook, someone's storytelling, someone's CTA and save it thinking "I'll study this later." Then when I actually sit down to script something, I open my saved folder to find it... and somehow end up doomscrolling, completely forgetting I was even looking for something. By the time I remember, I've lost the mood to write anything. The actual process when I do find it is its”

“I'm putting together my first video and I want to share where I got my information. I know big creators with Patreons do things like post all their sources on Patreon, but I'm not planning to use Patreon at all. I want to make it easy for people to see that when I say "this thing right here(1)" they can find somewhere a (1) Name of source and link - that way they can confirm or refute my statements, or add nuance if I missed something. Do you put them in the description of the”

“whats left is the slow organic stuff you do yourself. i shoot and edit one short video about ai a day, which costs time instead of ad money.”

“Youtube has a problem similar to stock market. There are a lot of people who deny every pattern or observation, because they themselves dont have the brains to make them. In stock market, whenever u predict something, there will be these "Deniers" who say stock market cannot be predicted, if u r right its just a coincidence. Its same here, there is this "denier" crowd which feels that "Quality" is everything and if your video didnt get views, its only due to Quality”

make something that you actually want to see

“Like how do you find inspiration in the sea of existing videos and the seemingly useless suggestions that YouTube gives you? submitted by /u/cocoscreations1130 [link] [comments]”

“https://youtu.be/3mBXaZHODvs 28k engaged views in August 923% over July submitted by /u/Purple-Estimate-5183 [link] [comments]”

“Hi everyone, I'm a new creator of this site, and I've watched quite a few videos to learn about it. The girls in their videos say they dedicate between 6 and 8 hours a day to it. I'd like to know what you think. submitted by /u/Same_Sell6313 [link] [comments]”

“Can you list some people whom we can follow like YouTube strategist or scriptwriter or editor or a business coach who can help to make our videos better?”

“make a video about the very challenge of this in itself. there is no saying no. we will keep you accountable until you send us a link. =).”

“Nice... what do you take notes on, ideas from Reels/TikToks you save, or more general planning? And does it actually work, or do you still lose track of stuff?”

“As a creator myself, my biggest struggle isn't ideas. it's knowing what to make next, and what hook/structure to use when I do. I end up saving tons of Reels that grabbed my attention, planning to "study" them later. I never do. By the time I sit down to script something, that saved folder is just noise. Curious if this is just me. how do you all handle it? Do you actually go back and rewatch saved posts, or do they just pile up? submitted by /u/Dear-Sail-252 [link]”

“Interesting, what do you use to get creators/influencer/KOL lists? Also how do you decide which one will be good and bring sales?”

this is it tbh, every "expert" explanation ive seen contradicts the last one

“Trying to hone in the craft in making videos and I'm struggling to understand the best path towards improving. Instagram is our best performer, but TT and YouTube seem to be impossible for me to crack. I feel like our analytics look really good on TT. We'll get 25-35% watch the full video, and a high like ratio, like 8-10%, decent amount of comments, reposts and such, but TT kills 95% of my videos before 1,000 views. A good post on TT is like 700. YouTube, I have no idea what's going”

“Is there anyone who uses Notebooklm videos/ audios for content creation? I have seen some youtube channels do this. What is the reason you Notebooklm or don’t want to use it? submitted by /u/Formal_Tooth_6068 [link] [comments]”

“I've worked with , and still working with quite a few influential vloggers/creators over the years. Ask me something that you were always curious about? It can be about the creators, YT algorithm, or vlogging in general. submitted by /u/Proof_Clothes_1803 [link] [comments]”

“that feels like the common popular bucket. but it does come close. i dont think that exists on youtube where it's difficult to not see a mr beast video in that popular tab. i see a difference between popular and niche popular.”

“i imagine it being like stumbleupon. not sure if you know the website. you ended up being served videos you usually wouldnt know to search.”

“fair suggestion. altho i feel, you then get served top trending videos, the largest common bucket of them all if youtube doesnt know where to place you. it still wouldn't recommend other niches.”