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5 YouTube video ideas for beginners

by Bongiwe Mati

Knowing what videos to upload on your YouTube is very beneficial for your channel as it sets you apart from the rest of your industry mates. Being a YouTuber is a fun and financially rewarding if done right. For those interested in starting their YouTube channel, we’ve compiled a list of videos one can do that usually do well in viewership from typito.com and seldmadesuccess

Vlog – a vlog can also be a great introduction to YouTube as a beginner because it’s unique to you and will not need you to have a lot of equipment. All a person needs to start out as a vlogger is just the camera on their smartphone and then they can document highlights and lowlights of their lives.

Podcast Channel – if you really want to start a simple channel, you can almost completely cut out visuals and just have a podcast channel. Now, there are different ways you can do this, but as a beginner, you can just use a static image as the visual and let the audio from the podcast be the reason people stick around. The only way this works is if the podcast is great by itself, and people just use YouTube as a secondary way to find and listen to episodes.

Unboxing videos – a video of someone opening a package and capturing their initial interaction with a product for the first time. People love unboxing videos for their real-time, moment by moment candid feel.

Lifestyle motivated videos – if you have a great aesthetic sense and always keep up with the latest trends, then you might want to try ‘lifestyle’ as the key topic for your channel. Other lifestyle ideas include:

  • Travel vlogs: if you love travelling, making video diaries of all the places you have traveled to and publishing it on your YouTube channel will garner you a lot of support. Travel videos across the world experiencing different cultures and cuisines are always nice to watch.
  • Home tour videos: home tour videos are not only fun when done in huge mansions.
  • Beauty routine videos: a lot of women love to know the beauty secrets that others follow. If you’re good at maintaining your skin or hair health, a detailed self-care beauty routine video is guaranteed to get you good views.
  • Shopping videos: shopping videos do not have to only be at expensive brand stores, grocery shopping videos and toiletry shopping aesthetically pleasing videos are just as good enough.

Dance or Music based YouTube video ideas – dance videos are more popular on Tik-Tok and singing videos are popular on YouTube. Big names such as Justine Bieber started off on YouTube before making it to Hollywood.

Also sees: 5 Brands that are not South African… but should be

 

 

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