Quality vs Quantity as a Streamer or YouTuber

The Importance of Quality and Quantity in Content Creation: A Guide to Successful Streaming and YouTube

As a content creator, it's easy to get caught up in the idea that streaming or YouTube success can be achieved overnight. Unfortunately, this couldn't be further from the truth. Building a successful channel takes time, effort, and dedication. One of the most common mistakes that new creators make is focusing too much on streaming and not enough on other aspects of content creation.

At this point in their journey, many creators find themselves struggling to keep up with the demands of streaming while also trying to produce high-quality content. They may feel like they're stuck in a never-ending cycle of streaming, where they're always playing video games for hours on end, but not really improving their content creation skills. This can lead to burnout and frustration, as well as a lack of engagement with the community.

So, what's the solution? Instead of focusing solely on streaming, it's essential to diversify your content and experiment with different formats. Spend some time creating videos that showcase your personality, skill, or expertise, and others that focus on sharing tips and advice with your audience. This will help you develop a range of skills that can be applied to both streaming and YouTube.

Learning how to use social media is also crucial for building your brand and engaging with your audience. Create an ongoing live post that showcases your personality and interests, and learn how to edit photos to create eye-catching thumbnails and channel art. These visual elements are essential for grabbing the attention of potential viewers and setting you apart from other creators.

Another critical skill to develop is video production skills. Practice making videos that showcase your talent or expertise, and experiment with different styles and formats until you find what works best for you. This will help you build confidence in your abilities and develop a unique style that sets you apart from others.

Mastering streaming software is also essential for building a successful channel. Spend time practicing with different platforms and tools to become proficient in using them, and learn how to troubleshoot common issues that can arise during streams.

One of the most significant challenges facing new creators is the feeling of inadequacy when compared to established content creators who seem to have it all together. These individuals often appear to be pros at storytelling, entertainment, or video production, and may even seem like they blew up overnight with their channel. However, this is rarely the case.

Most successful creators spend years honing their skills and experimenting with different formats until they find what works best for them. They learn from their mistakes, adapt to changes in the industry, and continually strive to improve their craft. Meanwhile, many established creators seem like overnight sensations who have magically figured everything out.

However, this is not always the case. While some people may indeed be natural-born pros at creating content or entertaining audiences, others are simply more willing to put in the effort required to build a successful channel. As someone who has spent years honing their skills and experimenting with different formats, I can attest that building a successful channel takes time, dedication, and perseverance.

To avoid the pitfalls of bad advice, it's essential to develop your own unique style and voice as a content creator. This means focusing on quality over quantity, rather than trying to churn out endless streams or videos in an attempt to go viral. Instead, take the time to experiment with different formats and styles until you find what works best for you.

In my experience, this often involves taking advice from established creators who have been doing things for years. I've learned that one of the most valuable pieces of advice I can give is that it's essential to focus on quantity of content rather than quality or quantity of streams. This means creating a range of videos and formats that showcase your personality, skill, or expertise, as well as experimenting with different styles and formats until you find what works best for you.

Another crucial piece of advice is that you need to spend more time on your thumbnails and titles. These visual elements are essential for grabbing the attention of potential viewers and setting you apart from other creators. Take the time to experiment with different designs, colors, and text overlays until you find a style that resonates with your brand and audience.

One of the most significant challenges facing new creators is learning how to use social media effectively. Create an ongoing live post that showcases your personality and interests, and learn how to edit photos to create eye-catching thumbnails and channel art. These visual elements are essential for building your brand and engaging with your audience.

In addition to mastering streaming software, it's also essential to develop video production skills. Practice making videos that showcase your talent or expertise, and experiment with different styles and formats until you find what works best for you. This will help you build confidence in your abilities and develop a unique style that sets you apart from others.

As someone who has been creating content for over 15 years, I've learned that building a successful channel takes time, dedication, and perseverance. One of the most significant challenges facing new creators is learning how to use social media effectively. Create an ongoing live post that showcases your personality and interests, and learn how to edit photos to create eye-catching thumbnails and channel art.

In my experience, building a successful channel requires a combination of quality content, effective marketing, and engagement with the community. By focusing on quantity of content rather than quality or quantity of streams, experimenting with different formats and styles, and mastering streaming software, you can build a strong foundation for your channel and set yourself up for success.

In conclusion, building a successful channel requires dedication, perseverance, and creativity. Don't get caught up in the idea that streaming or YouTube success can be achieved overnight. Instead, focus on quality over quantity, experiment with different formats and styles, and learn how to use social media effectively. With persistence and hard work, you can build a strong foundation for your channel and set yourself up for long-term success.

As someone who has spent years honing their skills and experimenting with different formats, I can attest that building a successful channel takes time, dedication, and perseverance. By focusing on quality content, effective marketing, and engagement with the community, you can build a strong foundation for your channel and set yourself up for success.

In my experience, one of the most valuable pieces of advice I can give is that it's essential to focus on quantity of content rather than quality or quantity of streams. This means creating a range of videos and formats that showcase your personality, skill, or expertise, as well as experimenting with different styles and formats until you find what works best for you.

By focusing on quality over quantity, you can build trust with your audience and establish yourself as an expert in your field. Don't be afraid to experiment and try new things – this is where the magic happens and you develop a unique style that sets you apart from others.

In addition to mastering streaming software and video production skills, it's also essential to learn how to use social media effectively. Create an ongoing live post that showcases your personality and interests, and learn how to edit photos to create eye-catching thumbnails and channel art.

As someone who has been creating content for over 15 years, I can attest that building a successful channel requires a combination of quality content, effective marketing, and engagement with the community. By focusing on quantity of content rather than quality or quantity of streams, experimenting with different formats and styles, and mastering streaming software, you can build a strong foundation for your channel and set yourself up for success.

In my experience, building a successful channel is not just about creating high-quality content – it's also about engaging with the community. Take the time to interact with your viewers, respond to comments and messages, and build relationships with other creators in your niche. By doing so, you can establish yourself as a trusted authority in your field and attract new audiences.

By focusing on quality content, effective marketing, and engagement with the community, you can build a strong foundation for your channel and set yourself up for success. Don't be afraid to experiment and try new things – this is where the magic happens and you develop a unique style that sets you apart from others.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video is sponsored by curiositystream get access to my streaming video service nebula when you sign up for curiosity stream using the link in the video description one content creation tip that you hear regurgitated time and time and time again is to focus on quality not quantity whenever telling people how to start their youtube channel or podcast or stream or whatever really and i'm here to tell you why that's wrong and why you should focus on quality actually at least in a lot of cases i'm eposvox the stream professor and i have been educating streamers on my youtube channel for seven plus years now however i've primarily stuck to the tech side obs set up things like that one of those kind of stay in my lane kind of things and people always don't want to hear the advice that goes against the grain but in my experiences with tick-tock over here on this little device which you should go follow me if you haven't already kind of discovered that my voice when it comes to more meta topics for streaming and content creation is something people might need to hear because there's a lot of bad advice out there so today we're talking quality versus quantity and if you're not sure what that means quantity is the amount that you make so if you focus on the quantity of videos that you make that means you just make a lot of videos if you focus on the quality of the videos usually that means that you make less videos but you make them you know the best that you possibly can and on the surface the idea of focusing on making higher quality videos versus making a lot of videos seems like a good idea but what that does is that encourages people to get stuck in the mindset of chasing perfectionism of not doing it until you do it right and for a lot of people who are struggling to get started or to put themselves out there this is the worst possible advice the thing is when you're starting a youtube channel or a stream or any content creation really it takes a very long time for you to actually gain momentum in terms of follower growth in terms of you know making any progress it takes hundreds of videos to really get a youtube channel nailed down not only in terms of audience but also to figure out what the heck you're doing because when you first start you're clueless some of us start really young into our lives when youtube was very new and it takes years to get to that point but that's not what we're talking about here today the point is it takes a very long time and doing something over and over and over to get good at it there is the quote about it takes 10 000 hours to master any given skill if you're focusing on making what you consider in your completely brand new to this field mind best video you can before you put it out there and deal with an audience or anything like that you're not getting those ten thousand hours you're getting far less you need to be making videos you need to be trying new things you need to be learning new skills and putting more and more out there to see what sticks one of the very few pieces of advice that i actually appreciate from mr beast because honestly i consider most of his youtube advice to be not very helpful for most people but one of the things he mentions is that every video he uploads he makes sure that he finds one thing from that previous video or at least when he was starting out he found one thing from the previous video to improve upon and just did that it you know took a video found one thing to fix improved it found the next thing to fix and proved it and that is a very solid way to start going to figure out what you're doing wrong and what you're doing right to you know really actually inform your process and to make better videos and get them out there all this talk about the best way to grow on youtube can be stressful that's why i partnered with some of my creator friends to build our own platform where we don't have to worry about that stuff my videos are higher quality there ad free and often get extended from the youtube versions the site is called nebula and we've partnered with curiositystream it features youtube's top education creators such as legal eagle thomas frank and low-spec gamer curiosity stream saw what we were doing for educational content and wanted to partner up we've worked out a deal where if you sign up with the link below not only do you get access to curiosity stream and their library of thousands of educational and documentary content but you get access to nebula for free for the entire duration of your subscription to curiosity stream for a limited time curiosity stream is offering 26 off their annual plan making it less than 15 dollars per year for both cs and nebula while you're there check out the dark web fighting cyber crime to learn more about how smart tech can actually put you at risk and how to react to it head on over to curiositystream.com epos for the best deal and streaming and to get access to both sites for under 15 per year that's just crazy just do it there's this tendency among established content creators whenever they're giving advice to newbies or you know fledgling content creators to focus on the principles that they want to instill in those creators rather than the actual tangible advice that those newbies are probably there for and that creates a lot of kind of cognitive dissonance and a lot of confusion between what that creator actually did to succeed and what they're telling new creators to do and it's kind of one of those do as i say not as i do kind of situations where i stumbled you know through my first couple years of content creating so i'm going to tell you how to avoid that but realistically that doesn't help them because that's telling them to skip the steps of self-discovery and stumbling through it themselves that most content creators need to be able to stumble through and that's where things get really unfortunate with this kind of advice if you go out there making the best videos you possibly can one video every month or so putting hours upon hours upon hours into it making these really awesome videos you're gonna burn out really quickly because you're gonna put all this time and effort into it and you might be proud of the videos you make but then no one's gonna watch them because no one knows who you are when you're just starting out no one has a reason to come watch you no one that's not how youtube works they're not just gonna show up if you build it they will come it's not how youtube works you have to kind of fight for it a little bit and that's how burnout happens both with streamers and youtubers is putting this all of your effort into this basket without actually attracting an audience first and then get really bummed when that audience doesn't arrive not only that but any youtuber or streamer or whoever who has been doing this a while will go back from the day they started their content creation to a year later looking back at what they made on that first day and absolutely cringe at it because unless you're already a trained professional in hosting presenting entertaining video editing camera work all of these things you're not going to know what you're doing at first and so you kind of have to figure that out through doing not through pretending you're doing and just putting it all into one video like you have to figure out these skills through action and through doing the thing that you set out to do and there's literally no way to accomplish that without posting videos or doing streams or whatever streamers have a little bit of a different situation with this in that ironically the advice is not to stream more necessarily now i will say it depends on what your timeline is for streaming in the first place and this is where streaming quantity advice kind of gets a little awkward because if your plan is to just wake up and stream eight hours a day every day for weeks on end and then hope that viewers show up one day while you're just playing video games unfortunately at this point streaming doesn't really work that way you do still need to be improving your content creation skills though so instead of focusing on streaming so much you need to be spending some of your time streaming and the rest of your time experimenting with other content because that will actually inform your streaming process the better you get at hosting videos where you can talk than just a camera nobody the better you are going to be hosting streams when chat's dead or you haven't had any viewers yet or whatever those skills all interconnect so instead of quality or quantity of streams you need to focus on quantity of content that you're making in general learn how to use social media create an engaging ongoing live post learn how to edit photos so you can do cool thumbnails and channel art learn how to make videos so you can get it keyed in on that practice process do streams so you can master your streaming software as well at the end of the day every content creator's journey is unique there are more and more situations these days where a connect creator blows up in a very short amount of time that makes you know long time creators like myself who stumbled through so many of these things kind of feel bad about ourselves because we spent years figuring out what we were doing in the first place whereas a lot of people can just kind of show up if they already know how to do all of this and do this well or that high quality of a storyteller or entertainer and kind of speed right past us but those are more often exceptions to the rule than the rule itself because most of us don't start out already being a pro entertainer or video producer or anything like that i sure as hell didn't so this first video is kind of part of a mini series that i'm putting together here talking about basically bad youtube advice that large youtubers or established content creators give this supplies both the streaming and youtubing i've been sharing some of these bad pieces of advice over on tick tock go follow me there i'm eposvox there of course if you want more kind of super quick format videos but i do think these discussions are worth having because this isn't a knock against any individual youtuber that gives these pieces of advice necessarily and i certainly have done my fair share of sharing these kind of trite not super helpful pieces of advice because they contain kind of more core lessons that you need to learn about the process but i was always the person who showed up to advice places to supposed experts hoping to find a tangible thing that i can act upon in order to make myself better and it was always these bull crap vague principle based things like make good content make good titles and thumbnails make content that people want to see be genuine these aren't helpful things what person shows up to a stream career or youtube career possibility and thinks that you're going to make it by making boring videos or unappealing titles or thumbnails yes there are some people who just never thought that titles and thumbnails were very important but honestly you just need to spend five seconds considering what you click on yourself and that's kind of obvious in your face none of these things are things you can act upon i mean you you can spend more time on your thumbnails but until you know what a good thumbnail is and what a bad thumbnail is and until you've made videos that have enough traction where you can be like all right this type of thumbnail doesn't work anymore this type of thumbnail is doing really really well until you have that experience those tips mean nothing to you and so this is just a kind of short mini-series akin to the youtube hard truths podcast i ran on another channel a couple years back i'll have it linked below um to just provide a little bit more tangible real world advice from someone who's done this for a very long time and who kind of works with people like this i have been around on youtube since 2006 i've been on and off of streaming since the justin tv days i have worked for an mcn for four years where i coached youtubers and helped them build their channels and things like that became kind of one of the experts for the network or whatever was youtube certified and hootsuite certified i have a degree in journalism specific specifically focused on web media and things like that like this is what i'm here for even though i focus on the tech so much so you're all support and responses to me focusing on less of the tech stuff on tick tock has kind of helped me think that 2021 is the year of epos also giving advice so let me know what you think in the comment section down below this is just kind of an introductory video hit the like button if you enjoyed subscribe for more tech education and stream guides i'm eposvox the stream professor i will see you next timethis video is sponsored by curiositystream get access to my streaming video service nebula when you sign up for curiosity stream using the link in the video description one content creation tip that you hear regurgitated time and time and time again is to focus on quality not quantity whenever telling people how to start their youtube channel or podcast or stream or whatever really and i'm here to tell you why that's wrong and why you should focus on quality actually at least in a lot of cases i'm eposvox the stream professor and i have been educating streamers on my youtube channel for seven plus years now however i've primarily stuck to the tech side obs set up things like that one of those kind of stay in my lane kind of things and people always don't want to hear the advice that goes against the grain but in my experiences with tick-tock over here on this little device which you should go follow me if you haven't already kind of discovered that my voice when it comes to more meta topics for streaming and content creation is something people might need to hear because there's a lot of bad advice out there so today we're talking quality versus quantity and if you're not sure what that means quantity is the amount that you make so if you focus on the quantity of videos that you make that means you just make a lot of videos if you focus on the quality of the videos usually that means that you make less videos but you make them you know the best that you possibly can and on the surface the idea of focusing on making higher quality videos versus making a lot of videos seems like a good idea but what that does is that encourages people to get stuck in the mindset of chasing perfectionism of not doing it until you do it right and for a lot of people who are struggling to get started or to put themselves out there this is the worst possible advice the thing is when you're starting a youtube channel or a stream or any content creation really it takes a very long time for you to actually gain momentum in terms of follower growth in terms of you know making any progress it takes hundreds of videos to really get a youtube channel nailed down not only in terms of audience but also to figure out what the heck you're doing because when you first start you're clueless some of us start really young into our lives when youtube was very new and it takes years to get to that point but that's not what we're talking about here today the point is it takes a very long time and doing something over and over and over to get good at it there is the quote about it takes 10 000 hours to master any given skill if you're focusing on making what you consider in your completely brand new to this field mind best video you can before you put it out there and deal with an audience or anything like that you're not getting those ten thousand hours you're getting far less you need to be making videos you need to be trying new things you need to be learning new skills and putting more and more out there to see what sticks one of the very few pieces of advice that i actually appreciate from mr beast because honestly i consider most of his youtube advice to be not very helpful for most people but one of the things he mentions is that every video he uploads he makes sure that he finds one thing from that previous video or at least when he was starting out he found one thing from the previous video to improve upon and just did that it you know took a video found one thing to fix improved it found the next thing to fix and proved it and that is a very solid way to start going to figure out what you're doing wrong and what you're doing right to you know really actually inform your process and to make better videos and get them out there all this talk about the best way to grow on youtube can be stressful that's why i partnered with some of my creator friends to build our own platform where we don't have to worry about that stuff my videos are higher quality there ad free and often get extended from the youtube versions the site is called nebula and we've partnered with curiositystream it features youtube's top education creators such as legal eagle thomas frank and low-spec gamer curiosity stream saw what we were doing for educational content and wanted to partner up we've worked out a deal where if you sign up with the link below not only do you get access to curiosity stream and their library of thousands of educational and documentary content but you get access to nebula for free for the entire duration of your subscription to curiosity stream for a limited time curiosity stream is offering 26 off their annual plan making it less than 15 dollars per year for both cs and nebula while you're there check out the dark web fighting cyber crime to learn more about how smart tech can actually put you at risk and how to react to it head on over to curiositystream.com epos for the best deal and streaming and to get access to both sites for under 15 per year that's just crazy just do it there's this tendency among established content creators whenever they're giving advice to newbies or you know fledgling content creators to focus on the principles that they want to instill in those creators rather than the actual tangible advice that those newbies are probably there for and that creates a lot of kind of cognitive dissonance and a lot of confusion between what that creator actually did to succeed and what they're telling new creators to do and it's kind of one of those do as i say not as i do kind of situations where i stumbled you know through my first couple years of content creating so i'm going to tell you how to avoid that but realistically that doesn't help them because that's telling them to skip the steps of self-discovery and stumbling through it themselves that most content creators need to be able to stumble through and that's where things get really unfortunate with this kind of advice if you go out there making the best videos you possibly can one video every month or so putting hours upon hours upon hours into it making these really awesome videos you're gonna burn out really quickly because you're gonna put all this time and effort into it and you might be proud of the videos you make but then no one's gonna watch them because no one knows who you are when you're just starting out no one has a reason to come watch you no one that's not how youtube works they're not just gonna show up if you build it they will come it's not how youtube works you have to kind of fight for it a little bit and that's how burnout happens both with streamers and youtubers is putting this all of your effort into this basket without actually attracting an audience first and then get really bummed when that audience doesn't arrive not only that but any youtuber or streamer or whoever who has been doing this a while will go back from the day they started their content creation to a year later looking back at what they made on that first day and absolutely cringe at it because unless you're already a trained professional in hosting presenting entertaining video editing camera work all of these things you're not going to know what you're doing at first and so you kind of have to figure that out through doing not through pretending you're doing and just putting it all into one video like you have to figure out these skills through action and through doing the thing that you set out to do and there's literally no way to accomplish that without posting videos or doing streams or whatever streamers have a little bit of a different situation with this in that ironically the advice is not to stream more necessarily now i will say it depends on what your timeline is for streaming in the first place and this is where streaming quantity advice kind of gets a little awkward because if your plan is to just wake up and stream eight hours a day every day for weeks on end and then hope that viewers show up one day while you're just playing video games unfortunately at this point streaming doesn't really work that way you do still need to be improving your content creation skills though so instead of focusing on streaming so much you need to be spending some of your time streaming and the rest of your time experimenting with other content because that will actually inform your streaming process the better you get at hosting videos where you can talk than just a camera nobody the better you are going to be hosting streams when chat's dead or you haven't had any viewers yet or whatever those skills all interconnect so instead of quality or quantity of streams you need to focus on quantity of content that you're making in general learn how to use social media create an engaging ongoing live post learn how to edit photos so you can do cool thumbnails and channel art learn how to make videos so you can get it keyed in on that practice process do streams so you can master your streaming software as well at the end of the day every content creator's journey is unique there are more and more situations these days where a connect creator blows up in a very short amount of time that makes you know long time creators like myself who stumbled through so many of these things kind of feel bad about ourselves because we spent years figuring out what we were doing in the first place whereas a lot of people can just kind of show up if they already know how to do all of this and do this well or that high quality of a storyteller or entertainer and kind of speed right past us but those are more often exceptions to the rule than the rule itself because most of us don't start out already being a pro entertainer or video producer or anything like that i sure as hell didn't so this first video is kind of part of a mini series that i'm putting together here talking about basically bad youtube advice that large youtubers or established content creators give this supplies both the streaming and youtubing i've been sharing some of these bad pieces of advice over on tick tock go follow me there i'm eposvox there of course if you want more kind of super quick format videos but i do think these discussions are worth having because this isn't a knock against any individual youtuber that gives these pieces of advice necessarily and i certainly have done my fair share of sharing these kind of trite not super helpful pieces of advice because they contain kind of more core lessons that you need to learn about the process but i was always the person who showed up to advice places to supposed experts hoping to find a tangible thing that i can act upon in order to make myself better and it was always these bull crap vague principle based things like make good content make good titles and thumbnails make content that people want to see be genuine these aren't helpful things what person shows up to a stream career or youtube career possibility and thinks that you're going to make it by making boring videos or unappealing titles or thumbnails yes there are some people who just never thought that titles and thumbnails were very important but honestly you just need to spend five seconds considering what you click on yourself and that's kind of obvious in your face none of these things are things you can act upon i mean you you can spend more time on your thumbnails but until you know what a good thumbnail is and what a bad thumbnail is and until you've made videos that have enough traction where you can be like all right this type of thumbnail doesn't work anymore this type of thumbnail is doing really really well until you have that experience those tips mean nothing to you and so this is just a kind of short mini-series akin to the youtube hard truths podcast i ran on another channel a couple years back i'll have it linked below um to just provide a little bit more tangible real world advice from someone who's done this for a very long time and who kind of works with people like this i have been around on youtube since 2006 i've been on and off of streaming since the justin tv days i have worked for an mcn for four years where i coached youtubers and helped them build their channels and things like that became kind of one of the experts for the network or whatever was youtube certified and hootsuite certified i have a degree in journalism specific specifically focused on web media and things like that like this is what i'm here for even though i focus on the tech so much so you're all support and responses to me focusing on less of the tech stuff on tick tock has kind of helped me think that 2021 is the year of epos also giving advice so let me know what you think in the comment section down below this is just kind of an introductory video hit the like button if you enjoyed subscribe for more tech education and stream guides i'm eposvox the stream professor i will see you next time\n"

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