I just thought I’d put together my thoughts on making a gaming channel on youtube. These are my thoughts for those wanting to do it for more than a casual hobby, I can’t guarantee they will work as some luck is involved… but these are my thoughts.

- Begin by playing games you really enjoy. Personal favourites or stuff your excited about. You might not grow much or get many views, but its important to practice solo commentary and put effort into it.

- Keep your videos a sensible length, 20min max for story driven stuff 10mins or thereabouts for anything else. Even less for highlights. Obviously some channels can do long videos and get great views but for the most part many can’t and people as a whole prefer shorter videos (imho).

- Network and collaborate with people (this is probably THE single most important thing), multiplayer videos are strong content. This does not mean spamming youtubers with loads of subs to play with you, but work with channels of a similar size, communicate and get to know each other. It makes for great content. Maybe one day you will work with a larger channel but I think it’s way more likely if you put a lot of time into content first.

- Follow trends, certain games will come and go in popularity and if you enjoy said games theres no harm in following those trends to see if you can grow an audience from them. If you don’t enjoy them (for example I thought goat simulator sucked) then don’t make videos on them or it’ll hurt you in the long term.

- Be Consistent (another super important one) Upload at similar times every day 2-3 videos a day every single day and stick at it. Slacking on videos when your a smaller or growing channel will really fuck you over imho.

- Fact In Most Cases One-Shots do better than LP’s:- Except for a few rare circumstances doing full LP’s does not grow channels as much as doing one-shot and multiplayer content does. I’m not saying don’t do LP’s as they are a good backbone for a channel to have but mix it up or people get bored.

Im sure some of you will prob disagree with me on this, but just my thoughts from my own experiences. Youtube gaming is a very different beast to what it was back in 06 when I just did LP’s and its harder and harder to get noticed. Good luck and have fun.