Is it worth it to start a YouTube channel in 2020?

Kartik Nayak
ILLUMINATION
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3 min readSep 11, 2020

YouTube is a world famous platform to upload videos. Almost every internet user once think of starting a YouTube channel for — Earning money , getting fame and some only for fun. Many use YouTube as a earning source , advertising agency , platform to share their art . So should you start a YouTube channel in 2020? let’s see.

Success rate

This is first question you should ask yourself while creating a YouTube channel. Today each niche have tons of YouTube channels. It is quite difficult in 2020 to gain viewers and subscribers on your new channel. If you are a gamer and have niche of gaming then you should probably play latest and trending games. You should not abuse your viewers and try hard to keep existing viewers sticked to your channel.

You should be consistent on uploading videos, it will make YouTube algorithm to push your videos more and more at top searches.

You should upload what you’ve fun in . But, keep in mind to also upload what your subscribers like most. You should maintain 50/50 ratio. Being consistent is most important.

It is not easy to give your channel a fast success . You have to hustle hard . Once you got at least 60k subscribers it will be less difficult to grow them to 300k.

Mother tongue or English

This is probably not most asked but is most basic question. If you use your mother tongue , it will be easier to show your personality and reality. It is easier to talk in your mother tongue and minimize mistakes. But, as you know English will help you in getting international audience and more fame. If you are good in English and are confident while talking in English then it’s your choice to start a YouTube channel in English. If you are a beginner in English and can’t speak it as perfectly as your mother tongue then your mother tongue is best option for you. Once you have subscribers and audience you can shift to English .

What should you upload?

It is your and only your choice what to upload on YouTube. But it will be waste of time if you have read until here and don’t get answers. So, if you have niche in photography then you should upload tutorials and also vlogs and trips. You should analyze what your subscribers and viewers want. You should upload what is fun to you and also what your subscribers like to watch . You should be consistent on uploading videos and be polite to take opinions from your audience about what they want to watch next ? Be easy with your language and enjoy while making videos.

Earning from YouTube 2020

Earning from YouTube is a bit interesting . There are two kinds of incomes. One is active income and another is passive type of income. Earning by 9–5 jobs is a type of active income , you will get regular income or monthly payment. Working one time and earning lifetime is passive type of income for example authors of books have passive income. They write once in life and earn permanently. If you want to earn from ads then YouTube has some guidelines which need time to fulfill. But, there are multiple ways to start earning from first video of YouTube — affiliate marketing , sponsorship and branding etc . This are ways to earn from YouTube.

Beside this you can also advertising your company, products for free on your YouTube channel. You can also learn many things from creating a YouTube channel.

Steve jobs learned calligraphy while he was studying in university. It was no use to him then . Until, he developed fonts in computers. It was an incredible idea and many like it . In this way you can say that learning never goes waste. YouTube too is a good platform to learn many things it will help you develop your personality , vocabulary and confidence. So for only sake of learning you should start YouTube channel in 2020 because

“It is never too early,nor too late.”

Thanks for reading.

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Kartik Nayak
Kartik Nayak

Written by Kartik Nayak

Enterprenur,animefan , great fond of reading books and afcourse a Dreamer. if you like anime content -https://youtube.com/channel/UCYpyOvK-Fd1ZDuk63N7knSQ

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