Vlogging: How to grow a Vlog Channel on YouTube
When we watch other YouTuber vlogs, many of us think that how they are getting so many views. What makes their vlogs so special or entertaining? Why do people watch their vlogs and not others? These successful YouTubers have most likely built and sustained a strong and positive relationship with their viewers.
This article will definitely guide you with tips on how to create an audience and maintain a strong relationship with your vlog supporters. To become a successful vlogger experience is not required, but passion and willingness to succeed are required.
What is a Vlog?
Vlog stands for a video blog or video log, and refers to a type of blog where most or all content is in video format.
A vlog is a form of web entertainment that has exceptionally grown in the last 5 years. Vlog is often embedded video with text, images, and other metadata. They can be recorded in one full take, or edited into multiple different parts.
One person or a group of people usually posts short videos in order to create a vlog channel. These people are called “vloggers”. Popular blogs are posted daily or weekly, and can sometimes even become a full-time job. So don’t underestimate the power of a vlog.
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How to start a Vlog?
Generally, the best vloggers know what they are good at, what will get them views, and what their community likes and dislikes. Viewers will always look for a specific one when watching vloggers. Once the viewers are hooked on your consistent. content, then there is no looking back.
When thinking about how to start a vlog, consider popular topics, such as family, personal lifestyle, and advice on a video platform. Successful vloggers usually tune into their viewers and create a video that they know their audience will watch.
YouTube is the fastest-growing social media platform for viewers seeking guidance from YouTubers and vloggers. Creating unique and relatable content is the key when vlogging as YouTube is overflowing with the same styles of vlogs and videos.
It is in the creator's best interest to produce a video that stands out from the rest, as this is a large part of gaining traction in views and subscribers.
Do read out our article on
14 types of YouTube channels you can start and be successful
How to grow a Vlog channel on YouTube?
1. Find a Hook Value
So if you have already a vlog channel or want to start, I would recommend trying to think of a different value that you can give that would hook viewers into wanting them to keep getting that value from you, but through the process the value that they want for themselves, they will start to like you, they will start to trust you, and then the relationship value can grow then over time.
The key to doing that is to make every video you make delivers the same hook value, which may be for you is going to be about some beauty stuff or maybe it’s going to be about family stuff, or whatever it may be.
Whatever the value is, you’ve got to offer that consistently in every video so that viewers keep coming back to watch your videos, and then the relational value you can build with your audience and grow over time.
2. Be consistent
You have to publish a new video on your channel regularly, consistently, and predictably so that your viewers know when to come back to your channel and expect more content from you.
Otherwise, that relationship between you and your audience that you are trying to build is just a kind of hit or miss, and anytime they watch one of your videos it’s more likely an accident rather than intentionally seeking out.
3. Craft a Good Story
A lot of top YouTubers are also really good storytellers. They know how to craft a good story they start it with a good hook and lead to like a climax of some sort of conflict or some sort of issue that then has a short period of resolution on the other end.
It’s kind of a normal story arc that you will see in pretty much every TV show or movie that you watch. So make sure you are doing your best to be really good, engaging stories.
4. Show more than you tell
This is really a big mistake that every vlogger does, that they just sit down. they will tell us about something more than they actually show us. This is especially true if you’re like a family vlogger or something.
Don’t just like come and sit on the couch and say, hey guys, here’s what I did today, or “my day was really awesome”. For some of you, that might be totally appropriate, and it especially depends on what you’re doing.
But whenever possible, always appreciate the creator is including me in the experience by bringing me along like I’m hanging out with them and sharing that experience with them, rather than me just coming to their house and being like “ hey give me a report, what you just did today”. I know that’s not always possible and it’s not even always appropriate.
But when you do it, do your best to make the viewer feel like they are also included in the story, not just like a spectator or just listening to a report about it.
5. Watch more vlogs
I think it’s really important for you to watch other vloggers and just kind of pay attention to what they do and how they do it.
The reason why I recommended that you guys watch a lot of other vloggers is because it’s said that the best authors also read a lot of books. And so it’s like the more you read, the better writer you become. I think it’s the same with YouTube. The more videos you watch, the better YouTuber you become.
I know a lot of you guys here have watched tons of videos on YouTube, may you guys are also vloggers. You’ve learned a lot. So definitely share in the comments section below some more advice and tips you have for someone who is having a vlogging channel.
I would love to learn more from you guys. If you are someone who wants to become or someone who is trying to learn how to grow a vlog channel on YouTube, read the comments. You will learn so much from them, as I do on every video.
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