you grow. Viewers might stumble upon your video
through YouTube’s search engine or in their recom-
mendations, but once they are there, how do you
make sure they watch your next video? Building a
community is an important step towards success.
Having a social media presence to notify your fans
when new content is scheduled, regular live stream-
ing, an active forum for fans to meet and discuss
videos and answering viewer questions are all power-
ful ways to build an active, loyal fanbase.
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VaatiVidya into YouTube’s number
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related with 1.3 million subscribers
and one gaming’s most successful
Patreon pages.
- NOT LIVE STREAMING
Just as important as creating
scripted, edited content, live
streaming should be a tent pole
of your channel. Live streaming is
a great way to interact with your
community and uploading con-
densed videos of your streams can
be an easy way for a new channel
to build its content library. Con-
sider adding some production
value to your streams in the form
of overlays and prerecorded bits as
a way to stand out.
One half of the “Super Beard
Bros”, The Completionist’s con-
tent is fairly self-explanatory — he
100% games and chronicles the
experience on his channel. When
not releasing his exhausting, time-
consuming content, Jirard Khalil
streams to an audience of over
100,000 followers, filling the space
between each video by interact-
ing with fans and streaming with
his friends, including YouTubers
Alex Faciane (the other half of the
“Super Beard Bros”), Jesse Cox,
Dodger and others. - NOT FOSTERING A
COMMUNITY
Just as important as the con-
tent you create is the audience
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