Am most of the way through listening to this but if you're a vlogger here is encouragement from Sean Cannell about vlogging! This is what this video covers: 0:00 Why vlogging is back on YouTube 1:20 The state of vlogging in 2026 2:32 How YouTube is taking over the living room 7:47 Why 30 minutes is the ideal video length 11:00 Short videos fried our brains & now we want depth 15:17 The algorithm doesn’t care who you are... only what you talk about 23:33 Vlogs aren’t dead. The old way of vlogging is. 32:10 Why real beats perfect now. (The winning vlogging formula) 39:23 Window of Opportunity & why most people quit too early

A bunch of us have been doing Friday night lives and it has been fun trying some new things recently. I would love your input and suggestions and critique on ways we can make this more valuable for the audience. Here is my ask: What: I host a weekly creators catch up Live series where we talk about what we have been doing and learning on our channels, experiments, the lot How long is it: Every Friday afternoon/evening USA time, for 1 hour Who is on it: Anyone that wants to be but we have a core 6-8 people What is going well: The unstructuredness of it can work well, the fellowship, community bonding with our friends who join us in the chat, learning from each other whether in the chat or on the live, and I find it really fun. Challenges: The unstructuredness of it can work against us because there is no promise of certain value for viewers/chat participants apart from hanging out for whatever period of time people come and go for. Also because I have been lazily calling it 'Creator Catchup' there is no promise of value and can start to look like 'oh these people know each other, this is a catch up for all of them' as in, if you come across it, there can be no interest for a new person. What is AI suggesting? I asked an AI and it said below - Title formula (discovery-first) Topic first, show name last: [Big problem / promise] | Creator Lab Live Examples: - Fix Your Thumbnails Live | Creator Lab Live - Why Your Videos Stall | Creator Lab Live - Pick Better Video Ideas | Creator Lab Live - Stop Rambling in Videos | Creator Lab Live Your promise (the sentence you repeat every week) Use one clear promise line. Here are two strong options—pick one and stick to it: Promise option A (my favorite, most honest) “Creator Lab Live is where YouTubers over 40 workshop one problem a week — we review real channels, test ideas, and leave with one next step.” Promise option B (more community-forward) “Creator Lab Live is a weekly work session for YouTubers over 40 — less guru talk, more real examples, real feedback, and real progress.”

I am creating a channel about AI enhanced/generated historical moments in time. Not sure if 3 minutes is too short. Chat GPT says not, but I'm not sure. Here is an example and I'd love your views. i have pivotted from 'filmmakers over 40' to what I feel is a stronger niche for me

Today I've committed to starting a two week trial to see how effective video clips are by releasing 1 at 11 am and one at 8 pm (9 hours between each clip). The clips I'm starting with are from videos that have higher views or considered evergreen videos. This was done by comparing lifetime and 28 day stats. My objective is to see if the clips will drive traffic to full length videos with an end screen and pinned comment (I found out that you cannot put an end screen if the clip is less than 25 secs long). The clips are more appealing to me versus a short because I get watch time from the clips, as I am not monetized. What are your observations and thoughts using clips?

I have the basic paid subscription to Vid IQ and I use it to give me basic guidance when uploading videos. To help remind me to use end cards etc. and to score my title, thumbnail and description. I was digging around in there last night and asked it for 'optimisation' help on videos on my channel and saw a lot of videos with titles that scored low (like 44/100 or 60/100). If you use Vid IQ and haven't nosied around into it much like I hadn't, it was good to float back over old videos before I had Vid IQ and swap out titles (video below is showing you how it works). I only picked titles that were true for my video and - being old videos it doesn't matter that much but while watching the new Knives Out movie it was the perfect computer job to tootle around with. Do you use either free or paid Vid IQ much and if so, what do you use it for? Signed, Major Underuser of VidIQ.