OUTDATED YouTube Tips to STOP in 2024

Don't take these YouTube myths into 2024. Here's what to do instead.

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[ThatNateBlack]

See you next week with that planning video! Feel free to share your radical creator moments below also 🎉

[DougieRew]

Nate, I know I don't know you personally but I've been working to grow my YouTube channel for over a year now but only recently discovered your content. I gotta say, of the DOZENS of accounts that "offer advice", yours has been the most helpful hands down. I like that you keep it real and give straightforward, practical insights. Thanks for the energy that you put into your work! It's so helpful!

[bobbyrebholz]

Nate. I've been listening to you for over six months now and your advice has paid off... literally. I was growing well. The first week of November, I was at 2, 250 subs and averaged about 200-500 views per video. I was feeling pretty good. I had 1, 600(roughly) watch hours and thought hey, I could get fully monetized by Spring. Well, one video changed everything. I posted on November 11th and it has over 260K views and I gained almost 20k subs just in November. I was monetized in a week LOL.

Now, I'm averaging 800-1000 subs per day because of the snowball effect. I'm keeping things simple and not planning too hard or doing unnecessary videos. Thank you. For everything.

[DanCorrigan]

Probably the best advice i have seen on any of these how to grow your channel videos is the avoiding the short term actions unless of course you have no intent to make the videos you want, you just want to make videos people would watch. If you do that though you are just signing up for another 9-5 job and will miss out on how amazing youtube can be as a "job"

[realisticfactsirl]

To the person who is reading this, don't give up on your channel. Keep going, it's going to be better. 💯

[johngarrett]

Yes, As YouTube viewers adapt and mature, content creators must adapt and mature.

[ShijunTang]

"Not everyone should do YouTube shorts" resonates with me so much, I've made this mistake, and it took me a long time to train the algorithm to get the right audience.

[dandgresort]

You hit the nail on the head about fear. I started my channel simply because it was on my Bucket List. Making money or tons of viewers was not the main goal and yet there was hesitancy as I didn’t want to look stupid to the world. Regardless, I tossed the fear factor aside and just started enjoying the process.

[janekalmes]

My takeaway moment for this one was right at the end: facing fear, and saying no to avoidance. I hit a dark spot with my channel this year, where I honestly wasn’t sure how to keep making content. Glad to have your channel to cheer me on while I get my legs back under me.

[JackMcG_MD]

So glad that I have "permission" to stop the YouTube shorts. I just am not a shorts creator. I decided to stop when I released a really slick two part clinical diagnosis (part one being the set up and part two being the payoff) only to have someone tell me that "I could make a video longer than 30 seconds" and shouldn't have broken it into two parts. In reality, each short was maxxed out at 60 seconds.

[SaharNawaz]

Growing on tiktok taught me so much about retention. Starting like the video is already half way done is the key over there so now I’m using my short form content learnings to make full length videos!

[Kerblox]

Dude you are literally SAVING my channel with everything you say! i decided to make a new channel and i am implementing everything you say into it! Thank you so much!

[becomesavvy]

As a small creator, I absolutely relate to that last point 😅

I've been going back and forth about whether I should stick to my current style (more editing, fully scripted) to one that's more authentic (less editing and scripting). I want my videos to connect with people and feel more “down to earth”, but I’m not sure if I’ll end up alienating my current audience or just having those videos fail completely. I might just be scared about getting outside of my comfort zone (especially when it comes to improv-ing since I’m not the most concise speaker), but I really want to try to move to this style in 2024—my goal is to make my videos feel more like “hangout sessions” rather than “just videos”.

In the words of Think Media, I gotta punch fear in the face 👊

[whereisgabri]

The tip about starting the video like it would be in the middle is great. I have been trying it few times and it’s working well. I make travel video and instead of beginning with “hey guys welcome to country x”, i rather show some clips of the most iconic places, topic or funny moments (without revealing too much) before the intro.

[nadimKholmi]

I don’t know about others, but as a very small channel short videos helped me to find new audience and brought them to my channel!
Most of them has become my new regular viewer of long format videos!
I think when i reach some level of getting regular views from YouTube, i would definitely stop uploading shorts!
Anyway Nate you’re alway on point! Thanks! ❤

[bloodsportfilms]

The quote at the end was awesome, I felt that. I agree 100% with your opinion on shorts, I've focus so much lately because it increases subs by a lot but those subs dont translate to long format videos. Great vid and thanks

[travvdawg]

You honestly give the best advice for content creation. I found you about a week ago and honestly the way you teach all your concepts is so much better than any other channel out there

[jimbeam]

NATE is getting better at this. His presentation here is his best by far. He seems relaxed, a little dismissive and cooler. I like this guy.

[AnthonyEnglish]

Yeah, I’m trying to dive straight into either the problem I’m solving on my tech how-to channel videos, or the big dream outcome they’ll get when the little tech thing they’re stuck with is fixed.

I don’t ask people to subscribe and I rarely even mention my name, although I do go on camera.

[sigma.analysis]

Thank you so so much for these tips! Especially the one about "starting in the middle" was so valuable for me! I'm currently writing the script for my first video and I used a generic introduction but after your advice I've rewritten it and it sounds SO MUCH BETTER! I cannot thank you enough!