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Strategies for Success with YouTube

YouTube has grown from a small community of videos sharing to the the 2nd largest search engine in the world.

James Tristan Ruiz shared on how succeed or use YouTube as passive income

  • choose only one; he meant to have clarify for your channel, focus on a topic
    • vlogging
    • product reviews
    • beauty channel/ make up tutorials
    • lifestyle
    • sports
    • covers
    • pranks
    • games
    • cooking demo
    • reaction vids
    • specific movies
    • online jobs
    • travel videos
    • dance
  • on camera: cellphone, reserve expensive gadgets when your channel booms
  • play particular attention to copyright; 
    • 3 strikes and your channel will be closed
    • YouTube provides free music but owner will be the one to earn from using it
    • if you use copyrighted music, your video will be mute
  • ideal video time: 5- 15 minutes
  • advantage of longer videos is longer watch time, more advertisement
  • disadvantage of longer videos is it may discourage viewers who are not patient to finish the video
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