The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Youtube Career!

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Introduction

Whether or not you are a YouTuber, Director, Musician, Comedian, Guru or even a Reporter, Youtube gives you as many chances to gain fame and popularity with a simple click on the Upload button. Many people have a lucky chance to make their videos go viral if any or no effort were put into their videos, howevever; most people have to put their effort into their videos. This guide will teach you the basics on starting a Youtube Channel, how to upload videos; and how to serve the Youtube community exactly what is hot in today's trends! Now if you are not a filmmaker, that's okay - again, you have many chances to make a video go viral, as long as the video is interesting enough.

Account Creation & Security

If you have a Youtube channel (account), please skip to the next section, because this section is not for you.

To make yourself a Youtube account, head over to the sign-up page www.youtube.com/create_account, start off by entering your email address, choose your username, location, passwords and more. None of this information will be displayed publicly other than your Username, and date of account creation. On the next page, you will be prompted to type your email address and password again. Your email will be used as your login username [it will not become your username, it will be used just to log in].

To secure your account from being hijacked, it is good to make up a password that is long, and easy to remember; not short and easy to forget. Remember to include letters with capitals, lowercase and numbers. You will then be asked if you want your video-viewing history to be displayed to you, it's optional; but this will help in case you want to find the video you were previously watching. Next step, you must type in the CAPTCHA™ verification by typing in the letters you see. Finally, log in to your email account, find the email sent automatically by Youtube and click the link given to activate your account -- then you are all set to go! Take a look at the Youtube homepage, look around and get comfy!

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Understanding the Youtube Community

Have you watched videos and/or participated in the comment section while watching said videos? Then you must understand what some people like and dislike. Many fellow Youtubers either leave good comments complimenting the video artist, they leave suggestions, requests, or just simply leave hate comments possibly with some expletive and offensive comments. That is how to NOT leave a comment, but if you ever got a comment on your video or channel similar to that, don't feel bad about yourself. Take that comment and make it seem good, question the person who commented and ask why they have said that; and what made them say that. It is good to get the POV (Point-of-View) from other people; mainly because everyone views things differently.

The understanding of the Youtube community will help you expect what viewers want to watch, along with preparation for hate comments.

Making & Uploading Videos

Making Videos
There are plenty of software out there that allow you to make videos. For example, basic video creators that are pre-installed software (installed on the computer automatically) like Windows Movie Maker and Windows Live Movie Maker (Windows users), iMovie (Mac users). There are plenty of other free basic video creators available to download, but pre-installed software are just as good to use. But if you are looking into the video-filming business, software like Sony Vegas and Sony Vegas Movie Studio are available for a free 30-day trial, then you are prompt to buy or to uninstall said software. But because this is a tutorial on becoming successful, this article cannot help with making videos; but more on what makes a great video.

What makes a great video?
Quality matters, depending on how often you are uploading videos. Many people who do Lets Play videos, VLogs, Tutorials, Reviews and more; are expected to have great quality in their videos. But for people who upload videos rarely or not often, are not expected to have great video quality, as many viral videos that its video author does not upload often, will have low camera or video quality. Proper grammar and punctuation is expected, along with an exciting title, which will help capture more viewers and to possibly make your video to go viral. For some people who upload footage of gameplay, or reviews on tech devices can get lots of views if they choose to upload videos that keep up-to-date with the latest technology and game updates. This will help if certain games and tech devices are really popular, because technology these days are constantly changing while people want to view what is going on.

Uploading Footage
To upload your first video, view the top of the Youtube page and click on Upload, you will then travel to the upload page. Remember, to upload videos, you must activate your account from your email address. Please read The Basics: Account Creation section above for more details. Also, please understand that Youtube Partners (people payed to upload videos) can upload footage longer than 15 minutes. But for people who are new and are not payed by Youtube, they can upload15 minutes of footage.

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Get known by Businesses and Stars!

Do you upload any videos such as product reviews, unboxings, tutorials, or anything in relation? If so, this is a great way to gain a relationship with big businesses! Many companies enjoy the fact that people will unbox and review their products because this helps the company to have more customers, along with you getting more views. It is good to leave an email in the description for businesses to come in contact with you, but sometimes it's not necessary to leave you phone number out in public, unless it is a business number (e.g. 1-800, etc).

But for some people who do video game series like "Let's Play ..." it is possible that you can partner up with a large video-game community such as Machinima, IGN, EA-Games (Electronic Arts), and much more. But for online game communities like Machinima have separate accounts for different types of gameplays (e.g. Realm, Respawn, Sports). If you are again a game-footage uploader; and have plenty of views, you may be qualified to partner up with said game companies.

For some who develop songs (any genre), or create visual art (sculpting, painting, sketching, etc...), or acting; there are many private companies looking for any people who upload any type of art; and will try to get in touch with you to possibly give you a career that you are professional in. All of this takes a bit of time and effort to get viewed by companies, and soon you could end up with the career you've always dreamed of!

If you have a career in the arts of acting, whether it's comedy or not, or if you do it all solo; there are celebrities of Youtube and movie stars who will either recognize you and help you become one. But don't get your hopes too high, again it takes some time to get recognized, because it all depends on the amount of Subscribers you have, views and likes too!

Get paid without a job!

Because Google owns Youtube since 2007, you have a chance of getting paid without being a Youtube Partner! If your video(s) have achieved a good amount of views in a short amount of time (say 1,000 views in 2 days), Google will email you, asking whether or not you would like to monetize your video(s) (monetizing is gaining a percentage of revenue based on the amount of views you get). Now they may ask if you would like to do that on a single video, or all of your videos. But sometimes people will start off monetizing only one video. If you agree to do so, your footage must be qualified, and you must create an Adsense account. You cannot start an Adsense account directly or 'anytime' you want, again you must be qualified. This feature has recently been added for people who cannot gain partnership with Youtube; but have plenty of views. I myself have joined this, because I cannot fully keep up with my channel due to problems I am having elsewhere.

If you have achieved in having a successful life on Youtube, you can possibly achieve a full partnership. Not only would you get paid automatically for each view you get on ALL of your videos, but you can gain access to exclusive features not everyone can get their hands on -- or in this case, their cursor on. Haha.

Think of the possibilities!

Granted, Youtube literally has billions of people who have joined, and all are trying this method given you by me. But every person is unique, and can express how they are by uploading videos. It isn't all that difficult to get noticed, all you have to do is try harder -- the key points are to be as unique as possible, stay new and keep up-to-date with technology, and to keep your content original as possible!