Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “MKBHD YouTube Tips | #1”.
Hey guys in this mkbhd video we’re going to be taking a look at the youtube tips. Video episode number one so keep in mind. You can click the corner of this video to view the overall overview of this series, which is where you can leave suggestions for more episodes. So i’ve been getting the question a lot.
You know. Where did i start on youtube? How did i start out even before i got to t2i or before i even was accepted into the youtube partner program? Now it’s there’s a whole bunch of different types of videos you can get into and those include science and technology comedy and several others and i’ll be focusing on science and technology, which is a smaller niche. It’S no surprise that the vast majority of the top 20, or so most subscribed channels on youtube are all comedy, but we’re going to be taking a look at mostly science and technology for this series and uh.
The first thing i want to talk about is actually building uh from ground zero and really starting from point zero, and maybe you wan na make your own tech videos kind of like i do so without any further ado. Let’S take a look. The first thing to do is to select your tech, video type.
You can either be software hardware or tech news and, of course, a combination of the three, which is what i try to do is really good. But the easiest to start off with is software and that’s what i started off with and software is really easy to get started with, because there’s a free software out there that i’ve done videos on called cam studio, which is a style uh called screencasting, which literally Takes the software and records your screen with what it’s uh when the software is running, so you can get started with free software. You really don’t need much to edit this kind of stuff.
As long as you can, you know, move your mouse around and show things and, if you’re good at that, you can get a good portion of your audience interested in what you have to show next in software now, tech news is another niche. That’S definitely very saturated. Right now there are the big youtubers like locker gnome and john four lakers and soldier knows best, who literally do this full time and as soon as something comes out on the market, they are really on top of it.
So if you’re going to do tech, news, you’re going to have to do something different, it seems difficult to really separate yourself and i try to do a different style of video. You can see you know annotations over on the right hand, side and to really separate yourself and get started with tech news you’re going to have to do something really different and get started with video editing, which is going to be a later episode. Then, the last but not least, uh most important type of tech. Video is hardware. Now you can get started you’re going to need a camera, of course for doing hardware, videos and tech news videos usually, but the thing you’re going to need to do is get gadgets to review now.
Yes, there will be a separate video on getting video. You know gadget review, stuff, uh and, if you want to, you, can start off with reviewing things you already have, which is what i did. I actually purchased my laptop, which was what really got me started in making videos, and i bought a laptop cooler and said you know what i’m gon na. Take the laptop webcam, pointing out the box, and just film me taking out of the box, and that was my first hardware, video ever uploaded to youtube, and this is really how a lot of you guys can get started if you have a little flip video camera. If you get something like that for christmas, that’s going to be pretty helpful. You can get started on youtube. That way.
Next thing, you’re going to want to do is pick a channel name. This is something you’re going to want to identify yourself by. I didn’t really have an idea of what i was going to do on my youtube channel when i started.
Of course, i just picked marcus brownlee, because that’s my name, but i did get youtube.com mkbhd. That channel as well is much easier to remember and mapped with partner branding, so you can of course view my new channel background. There uh just finished redesigning that it’s embarrassing how long it took to make, but i’m really proud of it.
So in the next episode, we’re going to be taking a look at graphics and getting your channel background set up and your logo and really identifying yourself on youtube. But this just been a quick tip on the types of tech videos to get. You started on youtube and hopefully i’ve helped you out in the next episode. You can click the corner of this video and view that so merry christmas. If you’re watching this on christmas happy new year and i’ll, see you in 2011. peace, you .