YouTubers come in many forms. From ones that focus on “individuals” like me that everyone loves to criticize, to ones that have no idea who’s inside.
This time, I will introduce the idea of a video channel like “10 places to visit”.
By the way, in the article I will create later, I will introduce how to create a video simply by copying and pasting the manuscript and selecting the video material.
Also, this article will be reorganized and uploaded to kindle as an e-book.
- stoicism
- self improvement
- MENTAL HEALTH
- CHARISMA
- INVESTING・personal finance
- GETTING A JOB
- LUXURY
- LOSING WEIGHT
- DATING・FRIENDSHIPS
- Instructions on how to use web services and software
- Hi-tech idea gadget introduction
- technology
- Smartphone introduction
- geography
- travel guide
- piano sheet music
- Historical commentary
- Civil engineering commentary
- Geopolitics/geographical trivia
- 360° videos
- Sports (athlete introduction)
- Horror/Spirit Image
- finally
stoicism
Theres YouTube channel Philosophies for Life.
The content of the video will be self-enlightenment in a broad sense. It talks about how to live a meaningful life.
It seems that a simple animation is pasted on the whiteboard.
It’s like adding animation to PowerPoint and narrating with a human voice, but it’s effectively shaping the video.
self improvement
Check out this YouTube channel called BRAINY DOSE.
If you open the video, you will find that the video is a patchwork of free materials, and the audio is a narration reading the manuscript. However, the content is such as “9 characteristics of people to avoid”.
This makes it easy to create and collect ideas.
MENTAL HEALTH
Check out this channel called Psych hub.
Matters related to psychosis such as ADHD and panic disorder are mentioned.
The inside of the video is an illustration material given movement as an animation. BGM and narration create dramatic content.
CHARISMA
Even if you say “charisma”, I can’t understand what it is for a Japanese person like me.
So let’s take a look at the content of the video. “How to look confident in 3 seconds” or “How to look rich” or “Why being quiet makes you look intelligent”. If I had to put it in one word, it would be “human strength”.
INVESTING・personal finance
It’s a staple of YouTube business.
It’s already a standard style.
Simple animation for narration. The feature is that the hands are moving as if they were actually drawing an illustration.
You may also find this channel “Practical Wisdom – Interesting Ideas” helpful.
In addition, there are many channels that introduce shady thumbnails saying, “You can actually make money by doing this.” I am also collecting information on my blog, but 80% of the content is like deceiving thumbnails.
But there’s a lot more to dig into, including Amazon KDP publishing and Print on demand services.
There is also a style of “I tried this person’s method”.
It is the motive to earn money not only by practicing, but also by reporting and making videos of “tried scenes”. It’s like my blog.
GETTING A JOB
In this channel, we are disseminating know-how related to “work” such as “How to build a career”, “Tips for working from home”, “Top 10 jobs with high annual income”.
Needless to say, the content of the video is also a simple animation.
LUXURY
I want you to imagine what it is like from the list of thumbnail images.
The scene of rich people in a different dimension is drawn.
How much does a yacht decorated with gold cost…
In a ranking format, videos of the interior and exterior of the yacht and videos of people who bought it are shown with narration.
I want to introduce you to this world.
LOSING WEIGHT
“Health” is also a strong genre.
The video on this channel is simple, just a still image zoomed in.
In addition to knowledge, there is also a strong demand for “muscle training videos that you can watch”.
However, it is out of the spirit of this standard, and it is not something that can be realistic, so I will only introduce it briefly.
Some channels also grab attention with creative, quirky and, for some people, shocking thumbnails.
A video titled “Let’s sleep with garlic under our pillows!” has 3000 views. It is tremendous.What’s more, the video content is essentially a still image slideshow.
However, due to stricter penalties for “repetitive content,” videos that are too monotonous may not pass the monetization review. Be especially careful when using artificial voice for narration.
DATING・FRIENDSHIPS
Small stories about human relationships and romance are also important stories.
“12 signs that women show only to those who like them” is too cliché, but it will be a long-lasting joke.
There are also videos about friendship.
Instructions on how to use web services and software
There is a channel that summarizes know-how on video and audio editing of Microsoft Office and Adobe.
An uncle with a cool voice will teach you how to use the software while actually moving your hands.
When I was a high school student, I used to make games in Unity while watching tutorial videos of foreigners.
With the spread of chatGPT, the number of new services will increase explosively, so it seems that we can target it together with affiliates.
Hi-tech idea gadget introduction
Have you ever seen thumbnail videos like this?
While showing the introduction video of the product, we will explain the outline in the background.
It’s titled something like “Top 10 Best Gadgets”.
Of course, you can put affiliates in the summary column, and if you can get the material, you can make it in good condition.
It is also possible to introduce products that are advantageous for Amazon Prime Day.
The problem is collecting materials, but it would be better to search YouTube, Amazon reviews, various SNS and official websites.
In addition, in this channel, images such as “cutting out the product image and pasting appropriate white characters on the appropriate image” are zoomed out and deceived.
Let’s make it well using free materials according to the usage situation of the tool.
technology
Although it overlaps with gadgets a little, it is an introduction to near-future technology.
If it is interwoven with high-level scientific knowledge, it is not a dream to reduce competition at once.
Smartphone introduction
This is also a minor genre, but if you do YouTube these days, the more niche it is, the better.
There are other electric scooters, gaming smartphones, gaming desks, etc., but the number of views is not good, but the ideas are helpful.
There are also those that introduce VR headsets.
geography
It’s also a strong genre.
This channel introduces stories such as “10 cities with low population density” and “10 areas where you can buy land at the cheapest price”.
By the way, this style of “Top 5 〇〇s” is a standard title on YouTube.
Formats such as “5 Places to Visit Before You Die”, “Top 5 Delicious Sukiya Menus”, and “3 Super Cute Cat Channels” are universally accepted.
It is necessary to devise ways to avoid being mundane.
In Japan, there are slow commentaries on civil engineering, but I won’t go into it this time because of the risk of deprivation of monetization due to “repeated content” and the scalability that can only be released in Japan.
travel guide
As I touched on earlier, there are videos such as “26 things to do when you go to Dubai” and “Indonesia Travel Guide 2023”.
As you scroll, the world’s famous cities are lined up, making you feel like traveling around the world.
The inside of the video is a simple narration added with a commercially available microphone to the video panned at a tourist spot.
There are also channels that focus on topics related to economy and money, such as “Ranking of countries with the highest average salary”, “Ranking of countries with the lowest prices for post-FIRE life”, “Ranking of countries with the highest cost of living”, and “The happiest countries”.
piano sheet music
This time it’s an educational genre.
There is a track record of getting 20 million views in the form of locusts to the example song of NCS called “FADED”.
By the way, if you use a service called “Synthesia”, it seems that this video can be created in its entirety.
You can play NCS locusts on the entire channel, focus on K-POP, enka, nursery rhymes, or of course refer to the popularity ranking of Western music each time.
It’s monotonous, but there are plenty of ways to do it. However, since there is a risk that it falls under the category of “repeated content,” it should be devised to add value and “human appeal.”
Historical commentary
This is also a genre where slow commentary is rampant in Japan, but of course it exists in the world.
“The Mystery of 4,400 Airplanes Abandoned in the Desert”, “New York’s Sky Tree Once”, “Who Designed the New York Cityscape?”, and “The Secret Place Hidden at the Top of the Eiffel Tower”.
There are stories related to geography and history.
The content of this video is also a human narrated image slideshow.
Civil engineering commentary
Also, although the content is similar, this content is focused on civil engineering super technology.
There are many buildings that impress you just by looking at the thumbnails, such as Norwegian undersea tunnels, linear motor trains, and large-scale buildings with artistic appearances.
Geopolitics/geographical trivia
I may have suffered it again, but it can’t be helped for the convenience of research.“Why is the war going on in the Middle East?” “Why is Mondol overpopulated?” “Why has Texas become the most powerful in the United States?” “Why did Iran take advantage of Russia to launch an attack on Ukraine?”
You seem to be talking like this.
The feature of this channel is that while using free materials and still images, it is a visual animation or an illustration.
By adding it as an accent, it is possible to greatly change the overall impression.
360° videos
We talked about VR headsets earlier, but this time it’s 360° video.
Being eaten by sharks, being attacked by sharks, being lured into sea phobia.
Attacked by giant creatures such as spiders and octopuses, and attacked by natural disasters.
This is an animation that is not easy to make, but if you have an environment where you can shoot 360° videos, you may be able to open up various ideas with ideas.
However, all I could think of was tying the camera to an outside cat, attaching it to a car or motorcycle, or walking around tourist spots…
Sports (athlete introduction)
There is a channel that introduces basketball players under the theme of “NBA”.
The video content combines narration with splicing footage of matches and player-related footage.
I once tried to post a compilation of motorsport crashes on my YouTube channel, but got caught in a rights issue.
In particular, TV stations often hold the rights to live sports footage.
If you’re going to try, come up with enough ideas to solve this problem.
Horror/Spirit Image
On this channel, we post videos such as “5 selections of ghost photos taken on Mars” and “5 selections of UFOs actually taken”.
Others such as “An event that the world might have ended”, “Disney’s Darkness”, “Unidentified Creature”, etc. moderately incite fear.
In the video of Mars, which had been viewed 20 million times, only a few still images were stretched with space exploration videos and copyright-free space exploration videos, and only subtitles without narration were played.
As mentioned above, it’s easy to fall for “repetitive content”, so you want to be careful about your editing style.
finally
It took me almost 4 hours to write, but I managed to get it into shape.
As any discerning reader would have noticed, all the videos I introduced consisted of “a collection of narration, simple animations, and copyright-free material.”
And similar stories are not limited to YouTube, but are everywhere in web media, books, magazines, etc.
