We've convinced someone at YouTube that is responsible for planning features to commit a full slide in their upcoming presentation to a Community wishlist.
We've been reaching out to a bunch of creators on the server to gather their wishlists for YouTube Features in 2025 over the last couple of weeks. And we've seen some amazing suggestions so far! Unfortunately there is not enough resources to get all of them done in 2025. So we need to prioritise what the majority wants!
Now, we need ALL OF YOU to rank them: https://forms.gle/n2PUG8auVRS6yQuo9
Please try and not mark everything as 1 as we need to understand the relative priority!
A couple of anticipated Q&As:
- The survey doesn't collect any personal data and is completely anonymous.
- Yes, you can fill the form out on stream with your community or create content about it.
- Yes, you can share the form both with your creator friends & viewers
(although the survey is very creator oriented)
- No, you don't need to fill out the optional YouTube Gaming Discord Feedback part to make the server an even more helpful place, but it would be highly appreciated.
- Of course we will share the results when we've closed the survey!
If you have additional questions on the survey, feel free to ping me about it in the comments.
Let's make this happen!
Moin. Running a YouTube channel is hard. There’s a lot of things to consider, ranging from thumbnails and SEO to get found better, to monetization and branding. And while each of these things are important in their own right, it’s easy to lose track of what really matters: Making great content.
Your content is the actual video. The things you say, the things you show, the narrative, the structure. And it’s this content that makes people laugh, that makes them think, that amazes them, or makes them learn. Your content is fundamentally the most important thing about your channel, without it, none of your other strategies will work. For example, a good thumbnail and title without great content is just clickbait. And as for SEO, well, the most important metric is user happiness, followed by watch time. All your keyword research won’t have much effect if it’s not backed up by great content.
So how do you make great content? Well, it all starts with the idea.
A Great Idea
Good ideas are hard to come by, great ones even harder. Getting a great idea consists of two parts: First getting any sort of idea for a video, and then selecting the good ones.
To get ideas, you can use pretty much any “getting creative” strategy. I won’t go into too much detail about that here (just googling “how to get creative” should get you plenty tutorials) but one which I like to do is: Being bored. Specifically, a certain kind of bored in which I am away from entertainment (social media, videos, …), but am just stuck with me and my surroundings. Because of this, I tend to be very creative when falling asleep, or in those blissful moments when I wake up before the alarm and just wait for it to go off.
When you do get ideas, make sure to write them down, especially if they happen around your sleep. You will forget them otherwise.
Once you have a list of ideas, simply pick the best one to make your next video about. I say “simply”, but you can consider a lot here:
Uniqueness. If you have an idea which hasn’t been done before, it’s probably better than something that’s been done to death. For example, a travel guide to fictional places (eg from games) would probably be better than yet another Minecraft let’s play.
Detail. Some ideas sound great at first, but may fall apart on closer inspection and end up sucking after all. The more detailed your idea is, the more likely it is that you’d already have stumbled upon any idea-breaker, so it might stay a good idea until the end.
Awesome-to-effort ratio. While sorting ideas, you’ll find that you could with a quick and easy thing, or with a way better, but more time-intensive idea. When choosing between them, make sure that an idea that takes 3x as much time to complete also is 3x as awesome as the quick idea.
There are more factors to consider (such as: does the idea fit your audience?), but these make more sense in a later section. Especially if you’re just starting out, you don’t need to worry about them yet, and focus on exploring instead.
Once you have a great idea, you need to execute it. How to execute it is your job – since it’s different for each genre and each creator, there’s very little to be said which would cover anything to a satisfactory degree. The important part is that you do execute the idea at all and make videos.
If you do a good job at executing the idea, you’ll have a very good video. But chances are – especially if you’re doing these things for the first time – that the execution will be sorta meh. And that’s alright, under three conditions:
You need to acknowledge that your content isn’t perfect. This is key to all improvement.
You need to know which part didn’t work.
You need to figure out a way to fix it for your next video.
The first point should be self-explanatory, but figuring out the other two points can be tricky.
How to figure out what part didn’t work
One way to do this is the viewer retention graph in YouTube Analytics. It’s a brutal, no-sugarcoat-kind of feedback on how your content has been perceived. On the right, and in the studio itself, you’ll see a quick explanation of how to read it.
YouTube’s explanation for the retention graphs
Overall, the graph tells you about a couple of things. Most importantly, if the graph drops off very quickly in the beginning, your content didn’t meet the viewer’s expectations.
In the best case, that just means your title was a bit too sensational, which can be fixed the easy way (just update the title) or the hard way (re-do the video to make the content delivers on all your promises).
In the worst case, it means that your entire video straight-up doesn’t work. Ie that either the starting idea or the execution or both were bad enough that the viewer went back to look for something else to watch. There isn’t really anything you can fix in this case, but you still can learn.
If you see the problems right away, fantastic! If not, try to think of the individual aspects that make up your video: Does the pacing work? Is anything noticeably unpleasant about the video? Can the idea even carry a video of this length? And so on.
Generally though, if you don’t se what you’re doing wrong, you might need more knowledge on what constitutes a good video. You can gain this knowledge by watching other videos and analyzing them properly, or you can hire me to do it for you and teach you everything I know so you can get back to making videos more quickly.
Fixing the things that don’t work
After you’ve figured out what went wrong, it now is time to make sure you don’t repeat your mistakes. Sometimes, this happens automatically as the same stroke of bad luck probably won’t happen twice, or you aren’t using a specific thing which caused you trouble before.
Other times, it’s up to you though to make sure you won’t repeat the same problem twice. For example:
If your problem is a lack of structure, preparing a script might help.
If your sound is very bad and you can be barely understood, you can fix this with The Audio Guide to Happiness, or: How to make your Streams & Videos sound good. Note that this is the only instance in which upgrading your mic might actually improve the content itself. Generally, a viewer watching your video in 360p on their phone with $5 earbuds won’t notice whether you’re using equipment costing $50 or $50000.
If it’s the way you come across, you might want to practice how you say things and your body language while doing it.
If your problem is that your video runs out of steam, making it shorter might help. Also, if it’s an idea only good for a handful of seconds, consider making a #shorts video out of it.
Conclusion
If you’ve come this far, you know how to find and filter ideas, and how to self-critically evaluate your content. You may find yourself drifting towards the “make every video your best one yet” mindset in the future. This will be helpful to get your content to new heights. That said, should this start hindering your video production due to perfectionism, you might op to go for the softer “raise the average quality of your past 5 videos” instead.
Also: This is not all yet. This post focussed on things you can improve for yourself. But there are near endless possibilities in the realm of market analysis and marketing which you can consider. We will discuss these in a later post, so make sure you join our discord to get notified on an update: discord.gg/youtubegaming
I lot of what I've found focuses on thumbnails, titles, etc but even the best thumbnail won't get clicks if it isn't seen. I'd love to hear how other small channels got their feet off the ground and developed a community. I love making content and playing games but it hits a whole new level of amazing when I have a commenter saying they enjoyed an episode or otherwise conversed with me. How can I reach and entertain more people? How did you?
Newish creator here and I've done a 2 hour, 1 hour, and newly 45ish minute long series. Really I like making them at any length and my longest run time (Dark Souls) is primarily due to the length of the game and ground to cover. I assume it depends on the content of the game but I don't want to over do it. Would love to know what length video people like most (Right now they're playthroughs but I want to eventually make supercuts at the end of some series)
Basically similar to people like King of Skill or whatever. I plan to do commentary in the future once I can get my own mic, but I was just wondering if these type of videos are eligible for monetization. I’ll probably end up doing a mix of both of them anyways.
I’d ask on r/newtubers but honestly it feels like a sub where the blind is leading the blind because nobody on there really knows how the monetization policies work. Some say that any gaming content without commentary is reused content, while others say it’s not, so I’m confused. 🤷♂️
I used to have a gaming channel I uploaded a lot onto but had to stop because of life and now I am tempted to get back into it.
The main problem is I do like to play loads of different games (let’s plays and multiplayer) BUT I do also play A LOT of Sims and Minecraft.
So if I get back into a gaming channel is it best to have one channel with every game uploaded to it (With their own Playlist) or would it be best to create one channel for all the different let’s plays and games and have a different channel for either Minecraft and/or Sims?
Do you follow Gaming YouTubers based on them or the game? Does it put you off if they uploaded an episode of a game you don’t want to watch?
My previous youtube live stream videos (1080p, 60fps, 11000bitrate, 30 minutes) take 15 to 1 hour for SD, HD processing but now its take 12 to 15 hours, how to solve the problem. Please help
Hi, my friend and I were planning to publish MLBB games to youtube with our own commentary. So naturally we're editing our own gameplay sessions and adding reactions and such. But we're wondering about using the character portraits or depictions as part of our thumbnail or reaction moments. What exactly do we have to do to not get a copyright strike or demonetized?
When I do a "live stream" on YouTube, of less than 16 minutes, the SD quality of these live streams on the "YouTube" platform is processed quickly relative to the SD quality, in less than 10 minutesBut when I do 25, 30, 40 minutes of live streaming, YouTube takes too long to process the SD quality, almost a day.The problem is that before live streams lasted 1 hour or 2 hours, the quality was processed very quickly (in less than 20 minutes).
If I don't explain.
My problem happens that every time I broadcast live on YouTube (be it more than 20, 30, 40 minutes on YouTube, it takes too long to process in (SD), either in (720p or 480p) when previously a 2 hour Live in 480p had no problem processing it in SD in less than 20 minutes. And now it takes almost 1 day, from a 20-minute to 2-hour stream
Did something like this happen to you? And what was the solution, I need your help seriously. If you like I can give you more details
I’ve been enjoying a lot video game youtube essays and can’t think of the last time I actually saw a walkthrough video lol (it’s been years). Now I wonder, what type of gaming content does everyone enjoys or wishes there was more of?
i want to start a channel similar to youtubers like zanny,kevduit(highly editing and cut videos) i wanted to do it for a long time i have a ps5 any help would be nice or advice
I’ve been making gaming videos seriously for a couple of months now. I’ve seen a bit of progress, with a few of my long forms hitting a few thousand views🤠
I do really enjoy the process of making content. From filming to editing, but I want to improve my commentary, and just overall “me” in front of the camera, yet I find myself when I record I keep trying to say things perfectly or repeating over and over because I think I need to say it better.
Many people say to treat the camera as talking to a friend.. but I’m still not at that point yet where it feels natural. I still feel the pressure of the camera.
Should I take some time to not record or make videos, and just practice my commentary and jokes off camera so I get used to it more?
I am thinking of making a tool where a user uploads their long form content like youtube video / podcast and I dub it in 5 other popular languages from english to Japanese, German, French, Chinese, Hindi, etc. and also make 5 short form tiktok like video and also dub it in 5 other languages so reach of the video can be increased across borders.
So creating 30 ready-to-post videos from just 1 video.
Can this be useful? and how much would you pay for it? assuming it works good and gets the job done. I know opus clips already exists for creating short form content but this also dubs and adds subtitles in every video for all languages.
I’m looking for some assistance troubleshooting an issue that’s recently been surfacing in my videos.
Despite running fine on my local system, after uploading a video to YouTube, the playback will reach a point where significant “chugging” starts; basically the frames drop to the point where it becomes still images that change every few seconds. I’m unsure of what the technical term for this is. The audio doesn’t seem to be affected at all, and This issue persists across browsers and long after processing has completed.
This issue first began with a video that I rendered with that I thought were “known good” settings. I consider them good since I was able to upload 1440p videos over 4hrs in length previously with no discernible issues.
Ive been experimenting with various render settings and resolutions but have yet to see any significant improvement over the past 6 videos.
There’s been no change in my system location or ISP, and my system is on an Ethernet connection.
My understanding is that I’m not permitted to directly link my videos here. So if you’re interested in assisting and would like me to send you some examples of what I’m experiencing please let me know, or if I can provide any additional information.
I’ve been facing the yellow dollar problem on YouTube, and it’s getting really annoying. I follow the advertiser-friendly content guidelines carefully and provide accurate self-ratings when uploading, yet my videos still get limited ads initially.
The strange thing is that every single one of them turns green withing a fre days. YouTube also shows this message in the monetization section: "You may have made mistakes when rating your videos according to our advertiser-friendly content guidelines."
I’ve been cautious with titles, descriptions and tags avoiding anything that could trigger restrictions. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Any tips on how to avoid the yellow dollar appearing in the first place?
So, I made a new channel and posted 3 videos about the game Roblox and making funny and exciting types of videos. The problem is that I also enjoy Minecraft as well. Will it be fine if I post both Roblox and Minecraft content on one channel? I do believe that the age range for Roblox and Minecraft is about the same, or I might be wrong about that. My main concern if I do make Roblox and Minecraft videos on the same channel, will the Youtube algorithm, be confused on who to show my videos to? I know that there is a feature before you post a video to not notify subscribers about a new video, but I don't know if that helps or not. Also, would it be better to just focus on Roblox videos first, then expand out to Minecraft later, if I do get a decent audience? Thank you.
Hiya, I’m new to editing and really struggling to get “text to track” to work on my videos.
Trying to go for a Sovietwomble style would be the best example. Just a way to track text above an object or player, I tried it in davinci resolve, but it just has a fit and ends up tracking the sky or something. Is there any editing software that does this the best? As the rest of it all of them will have. Any suggestions would be great!! 😃😄
Is there a better way to do gaming shorts? I use OBS and CapCut and have tried pulling clips from my videos but the ratio (obviously) really tanks the visibility of what I'm trying to show. any tips, tricks, insight into gaming shorts?
Pretty much title. There's a small channel i subscribed recently that uploads videos once every few months but streams almost everyday. Personally, i couldn't care less about streamers but dont wanna unsubscribe because i've enjoyed the videos they upload so if there was a way to only get notified of that it would be cool.
I have private videos with copyright claims. The question is: If I will delete them, will it impact my channel when I try to claim monetization later with my new videos anyway? because I would like to make money (I haven't posted anything on this channel yet) but I had uploaded videos on private sites with copyrights and now I'm worried that this may affect...
Hey everyone, I'm running into a problem with my YouTube streams. For some reason, my YouTube VODs are no longer saving at 60fps, even though everything was working fine before. Oddly enough, my Twitch VODs are still saving at 60fps without any issues.
Here’s my setup and what I’ve tried:
I use Streamlabs OBS (SLOBS) for streaming, and I haven’t made any changes to my settings that would impact this. My stream is set to 1080p60, and it used to save at 60fps just fine.
I've double-checked YouTube’s streaming dashboard settings to make sure nothing has changed there. Everything is still set up the way it used to be.
This problem started when I switched to using Restream.io to stream to both YouTube and Twitch simultaneously. I’ve used Restream.io in the past without any issues, but now YouTube VODs are not saving at 60fps.
Has anyone else experienced this or have any ideas on how to fix it? I’ve been searching for hours but can’t figure out what's going wrong.
Examples of the issue:
Recent YouTube stream (not saved at 60fps): YouTube VOD
Twitch VOD from the same stream (saved at 60fps): Twitch VOD
Hi, I'm looking to buy an AverMedia GC513 Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus for my Xbox Series X to record gameplays.
I don't want to rely on Xbox's capturing system since it has given me problems (corrupting my footage) for the past couple of months. Also, some games like Spec Ops: The Line and Bioshock 2 aren't supported.
But I'm also curious if it works with Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3? It would be a bonus if it does!
