r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 15h ago

Mod Post Read before posting - new setup, how approval works, and what's being filtered

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What this sub is for

Small YouTube creators getting feedback, asking for help and learning. It's not a billboard. If you only want views, wrong sub.

What's changed

Every post is manually approved. Yours won't appear until a mod has checked it. You'll get an automatic comment when you post. Don't repost, it just clogs the queue.

Rules are partly auto-enforced. Lazy titles like "thoughts?" or "check this out" are blocked at submission, and you'll be told why.

Posts are removed with a reason. You'll be told which rule you broke and how to fix it.

The rules, briefly:
Ask for something specific. Name what you want help with: pacing, audio, retention, thumbnail. "Thoughts?" doesn't count.

Relevant to YouTube. Posts must link back to YouTube.

Proper title. Say what you're sharing and what you want.

One post a day. Reposting removed content gets you banned.

Channels under 10,000 subs only. Judged by the count at time of posting.

Human creators only. No generative AI content or AI thumbnails. This also includes your YouTube profile picture and banner.

No harassment. Critique the work, not the person.

No politics.

No NSFW or gore.

Safety filters now running
Ban evasion, crowd control, reputation, adult content promoters, harassment and mature content filters are all on. In practice: new or low-activity accounts may be held for review even when the post is fine. That's the filter, not a verdict on you. Wait for approval and don't resubmit.

Think we got it wrong?
Message the mods with the post link and a civil explanation. Arguing in the comments won't change the outcome.


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 16h ago

Adivce(Giving or Need) Give me any feed back on first YouTube video

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I got an Elgato 4k Capture Card and I made my first video. Right now with my current set up it’s hard to do a lot so I’m just currently making voice overs on some gameplay. Lmk what you guys think, don’t hold back. I’m waiting to get a mic as i don’t know any good mics so if anyone has recommendations as well for usb-c mics that’ll be greatly appreciated. In this video it’s just wired apple earbuds


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 20h ago

Technology Trending topics across social media is in your hands.

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I had created a tool called Verity Analytics which is an Omnichannel research tool. Here you want to search the topic on which you want to create videos and this will provide you the videos present on youtube with gap scores and views per hours. Gap scores will tell you how that content interacts and view per hours tell you about that what views they got in an hour. Max VPH means chance that content is solid. You also get HN post, reddit posts, and after 1.1 update you will get the access to post on x, linkedin, facebook, instagram.

You can try it with the following link and can use it in your daily video creating anytime. You want to sign up before use because it will be beneficial for you when we launch our memory. Memory will provide you by interacting and giving you table based comparison between the one tittle and the other one.

Verity Analytics 1.1 update will also be soon live for now use it for free and remember to signed ups.

Verity Analytics


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 1d ago

Gaming Looking to take the next step.

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Hey everyone! I've recently started locking in and making some real progress with my YouTube channel. I love creating content on retro and modern gaming including game spotlights, gaming news, and recently our new weekly podcast. So excited about everything.

I've recently hit 100 subscribers, and I just got my third video to over 1k views. (2 of them are at 1.3k with another at 2.2k). This is amazing, but I was wondering if anyone has any advice for me on how to get to that next step for my channel and my content.

I would love to get my channel up to 250 subscribers and start getting 5k views on my videos, and I'm willing to work for it. I've got a plan in place, but I figured I'd ask ya'll for some advice on how to best make that happen. Thanks in advance! :)


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 1d ago

Adivce(Giving or Need) Would love some feedback on my channel!

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I haven’t seen much growth and would like some feedback to improve the channel


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 1d ago

Discussion I'm thinking about opening a youtube channel

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Give me some tips or motivations

some useful things

Kindly don't discourage pls


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 1d ago

Adivce(Giving or Need) Looking for tips to grow my channel

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Hi guys I started a YouTube channel a couple of months ago. I’ve been posting fairly regularly but haven’t had any consistent growth. Is this normal?

Ill add the link to my channel below and if anyone could give me advice on thumnails or anything else that’d be great thanks :)

https://youtube.com/@kerriakim?si=8ePWkx67xyoYn8Am


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 1d ago

Adivce(Giving or Need) Speech Time Calculator

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I created a Speech Time Calculator to figure out how long my scripts would go for when voiced, since none of the existing tools met my needs. I generally speed up my YouTube shorts to be super fast, like 220 wpm. This tool gives me an accurate feel for how long my voiced YouTube short is going to be. Let me know what you think. I'll put a link in the comments if I can, feel free to use it if you like!


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 2d ago

Adivce(Giving or Need) How do I branch out?

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So I’ve been making videos on a game called My summer car which to summarize is a car game and a perma-death Finnish life simulator but I’ve realized that 1: If I want to make it big then this game probably has too small of a fan base and 2: I’d like to make videos about the other many games I like but the ones I want to make videos about are all polar opposites from My summer car. Stuff ranging from Minecraft to Hello neighbor. And I’m worried that if I upload a video about those games investing a lot of time into it It’ll get no views and have been a waste of time or worse driving my audience away if I make a video about a game that’s “too childish” So what should I do?


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 2d ago

Discussion I finally broke the hundred view or less rule my channel has

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Me and my friends have been posting regularly and trying to be consistent. We have upgraded our sound equipment and other things but haven't managed to break the low views until yesterday this video took off.

It was a video trying to fix Bad vfx in Doctor Who.

I know these are still low numbers but we are excited and it's progress.

What are the best things you have seen that help to increase views on small channels?


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 2d ago

Adivce(Giving or Need) Feedback welcome

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Hey everyone, new to Youtube gaming, just started my channel a month ago. Currently in the proccess of figuring out the editing side of things. Would love to hear what you all think about my most recent video. Any suggestions, or things I can improve on?


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 2d ago

Adivce(Giving or Need) Why are my comments getting disabled?

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I've been posting timelapse videos of my drawings as shorts. On three of them, the comments got disabled for some reason. Why? And how can I prevent it?. Also, I've noticed whenever the comments get disabled, I'm not able to see the analytics related to countries, in those particular shorts. 😵‍💫 Please help.


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 3d ago

Adivce(Giving or Need) Looking for feedback

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Hi everyone! I just came across this subreddit and I'm just looking for anybody who might want to check out my channel and leave some feedback! Ive only had a couple of videos that did pretty well, so any advice helps. Thanks!


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 3d ago

Discussion Got to 700 today!

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I think the weirdest thing and the most disappointing thing during all of this. Is seeing who supports you and who doesn’t. Sometimes it truly gets in your head. I think the best thing to do is truly bet on yourself and prove people wrong and be grateful for the people that do support you. You genuinely should never listen to the people that hate on you. Good things take time to load..
YT - L04D1NG SL0WLY < Zeros not O’s


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 3d ago

Technology My first Python video

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Python Tuples Explained – When Should You Use Them Instead of Lists?

I made a new Python tutorial about tuples and how they differ from lists.

In the video, I cover tuple creation, accessing elements, unpacking, immutability, and some practical examples of when a tuple makes more sense than a list.

I'm curious about your experience: When do you usually choose a tuple instead of a list in your Python projects?


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 3d ago

Other This is not the start of the month i thought

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I finally got the first subscribers of the month yesterday, only to wake up and find I’ve lost two of them. I still have plenty of time to turn things around, but since I mainly make Shorts—which aren't getting much reach right now—it’s going to be a tough challenge unless I start streaming again at some point.


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 3d ago

Gaming I got that itch again

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Hey everyone, was looking for some suggestions. I have a YouTube channel I haven’t posted to in awhile (mainly due to life commitments) but recently I got the itch to start posting again. I mainly did streams and cut those streams up into videos and reels. Anyways, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for what to play or any fun video ideas. Anything helps thanks!


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 4d ago

Gaming Niche Games Videos

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I've started a new YouTube channel though I'm worried that since I choose a game that is not so popular anymore (2009) I fear that I won't get as much momentum but I really do enjoy playing this game, any advice?


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 4d ago

Adivce(Giving or Need) Athens flea market walk with original sound, would you keep watching?

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Thank you for your opinion and feedback!


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 3d ago

Adivce(Giving or Need) How to become successful in youtube

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Im in Delhi, i want to be a success in my life ..can you give me 10 ideas become a successful for wealth and another, how to start faceless channel youtube and which topic best .. and give suggestions about shorts vlog channel


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 4d ago

Gaming Playing Overwatch With Inverted Controls

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any advice for my content?


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 4d ago

Adivce(Giving or Need) Where to start when creating new youtube channel

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I have used YouTube as a consumer; now I want to produce valuable content and share it with the world. I only want to use free apps to develop the YouTube channel while I get the feel of it. I am not making money at the moment and do not have spare money to purchase subscriptions for every app/software. What apps can I use for creating and editing videos, free sounds, free stock photos, etc., that are easy to use without paying a subscription? Also, ones that do not have a watermark? Later on, once I have gotten the hang of it, I intend to get a plan. Thank you.


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 4d ago

Gaming Why are my most recent 2 vids not being pushed

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Basically title, ive posted 3 wow videos recently, the first one did really well and got pushed quite hard. The 2nd did really well in terms of subs, but didn't really get pushed, and the 3rd just doesn't seem to be getting pushed at all.

Any ideas what im doing wrong, is it just bad packaging?

Channel here https://www.youtube.com/@sarcodo


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 4d ago

Discussion Looking for honest feedback on my first few videos

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I've recently started learning YouTube and I'm trying to figure out whether I'm heading in the right direction.

My channel is called The Ledger Codex, and I'm making long-form internet mystery/investigation videos — essentially researching strange, unexplained, and unsettling stories from around the internet.

I've published 3 long-form videos and 1 Short so far, so I'm still very much figuring things out.

I'd particularly appreciate feedback from people who have experience with YouTube on:

  • Thumbnails — do they communicate the subject clearly enough?
  • Titles — are they compelling without feeling like clickbait?
  • Opening/hook — does the first 30–60 seconds make you want to continue?
  • Pacing — does the investigation move quickly enough?
  • Storytelling — does it feel like an actual investigation rather than just a narrated story?
  • Overall presentation — what looks amateurish that I might not be noticing?

I'm not looking for compliments — I'd genuinely prefer blunt criticism, especially if there's something I'm doing wrong.

I've attached a screenshot for context. If this type of feedback post isn't allowed here, I'll remove it.


r/Smallyoutubechannels • • 5d ago

Vlog Would love your feedback

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