How to BLOW UP Your YouTube Channel

I’m going to show you exactly how I went from a struggling small YouTuber to blowing up my first gaming channel and then eventually getting to the point where I’ve now gained over 1 billion video views across all the channels I’ve worked on and the only reason I’m flexing these big numbers like a

Complete douche is because I want you to pay very close attention when I give you the following piece of a device because this advice was instrumental in my quote on quite overnight success where I took my channel from getting 15 subscribers per month to 1 500 subscribers per month

In a little over six weeks and I’ve got to be honest when I first heard this piece of advice I thought it was the dumbest thing ever and here it is the best way to succeed on YouTube is to be on YouTube when I first heard this I

Remember thinking you know wow thanks grandma that’s really profound because I didn’t really get it but now years later it finally makes a lot of sense so let me help you understand using a great analogy I’ve shamelessly stolen from Trent diesman so it’s called The Green Dot Theory and it’s probably going to

Completely change the way you think about blowing up your YouTube channel here’s how it works so when you first come up with the idea to start a YouTube channel maybe it’s a funny moments Channel maybe it’s a let’s play Channel maybe it’s a tutorial Channel regardless you’re thinking to yourself hey I’m

Gonna go out there learn how to record and upload videos and then I’m gonna make videos about green dots and I’m gonna be the very best Green Dot Creator there ever was minstrels will write songs about my Green Dot videos and then you go out there create a bunch of Green

Dot videos and you promptly suck if you’re anything like I was when I started your view counter depressing enough to make a Happy Meal cry and so that’s kind of disappointing and so after a while in this Green Dot phase most people make the mistake of giving

Up and that’s really sad because that means that they’re never going to experience any success on YouTube let alone blow up their Channel but here’s where it gets really interesting because a small percentage of people they don’t give up and some of these people they go

Out and as a byproduct of trying to figure out how to create the best Green Dot videos that get views they discover blue dot videos and it looks like these blue dot videos could be really successful and a lot of fun to make and so they kind of scrap their green Green

Dot videos and they adjust their Channel and they go ahead and start making blue dot videos and things get a little bit better they start sucking a little bit less and here’s the thing when they’re over here starting their YouTube channel making Green Dot videos they didn’t even

Know blue dot videos existed but as a result of being in the game and creating Green Dot videos they discovered these blue dot videos that seem to perform a lot better but overall If we’re honest they’re still not doing very well however after some time what happens at

This point is as a result of making these blue dot videos they discover something that absolutely blows them away and changes everything Red Dot videos or if you want to get technical permanent geranium Lake dot videos because this is definitely the first color that comes to mind when you think

Lake anyway these red dot videos seem to have even more potential than blue dot videos and so they change niches again and now they start making red dot videos and their Channel picks up a little bit more and now that they’re making these red dot videos they start getting far

More views and subscribers than they were getting when they were creating say Green Dot videos back in the beginning but they’re still not achieving the level of success that they ultimately want and so while they’re out there tweaking and optimizing and trying to figure out how to get more views on

Their Red Dot videos they discover that there is in fact an opportunity to start creating these awesome things called orange dot videos now again back here at the beginning they had no idea that orange door videos even existed but now they’ve gone from making Green Dot

Videos to Blue Dot videos to Red Dot videos to Orange now their channel is growing faster than ever before and if they continue to stay true to this vision of blowing up on YouTube while also staying open to how it plays out then as they’re creating these orange

Dog videos they’re doing better than they’ve ever done before but then they come across a fact that is actually the shiny brand new purple dot videos that are doing really really well and so they switch their content again they start focusing on these purple dot videos instead of orange dot videos and the

Growth curve gets even steeper and this process can continue even beyond the purple dog videos but hopefully you’re getting the message that I’m trying to convey here the best way to succeed on YouTube is to be on YouTube yes there are tactics and strategies that can help

You get results on YouTube faster but if you’re spending all of your time overthinking and planning or procrastinating about creating your Green Dot videos you’re never going to discover blue dots you’re never going to discover red dots you’re never going to discover orange dots or whatever it is

That your YouTube journey is going to help you uncover if you want to blow up your channel simply start and while you’re going stay true to the overall vision of blowing up your channel but be open to how it plays out see for those of you who know my story you’ll know

That I started a gaming channel back in 2015 and my Green Dot videos were Minecraft tutorials and Men these videos were so bad they’ll record building 480p I was using the internal mic from my laptop to record my voice so the audio was so bad I mean Vincent van Gogh would

Have cut off his other ear now sure I had a little bit of success but basically all my videos sucked but then I discovered blue dot videos in my case I realized that I actually didn’t want my channel to be about education I wanted to be about entertainment and so

I stopped creating the tutorials and started creating more let’s play style videos and game show sort of videos and my results got a little bit more consistent and I started enjoying my channel a bit more and so while my results were a little bit better obviously I was still a long long way

Away from where I wanted to be but as a result of creating those videos I then discovered this opportunity to create permanent geranium Lake dog videos Red Dot videos I can’t remember exactly but I think one of the careers I was collaborating with at the time told me

About this event that was on and at this event there was a reveal for the sequel of one of my favorite all-time games Mountain blade and so I thought heck why didn’t I make some videos talking about the reveal and covering the reveal of this game because it was something I was

Is interested in anyway so I pivoted again took all the things I’d learned I also switched up my style a little bit because I knew that the audience of mountain blade were going to be very different to the audience of say Minecraft so I started applying these

New things I was learning this new audience taught me not to be as screamy and to become a bit more of myself as a Creator and that was the first time that I had videos that actually started properly breaking the 1000 view Mark bear in mind I went from creating Green

Dot Minecraft tutorials to Blue Dot Minecraft entertainment star videos to Red Dot Mountain blade news and update kind of videos I guess and this whole process actually took me a really long time it was over a year and throughout that process I’d seen a little bit of

Success I think I had about 150 subscribers which was great but I was still feeling a little bit disheartened and downtrodden But ultimately these red dot videos didn’t work out they weren’t growing me fast enough and it wasn’t really where I wanted to be at the end

Of the day and so when I discovered this new opportunity to create orange dot videos which for me was Star Wars Battleground commentary videos I jumped on it now prior to the Star Wars Battlefront commentary videos my Let’s Plays and commentaries were pretty bland with very little editing shot from there

But based on what I’d learned since then I started adding in more patent interrupts more effects I started seeing more success than I’d ever seen before and I actually realized that I actually really enjoyed editing and maiming videos something that back in my Green Dot days was by far my least favorite

Part in the whole process and then that led me to discovering purple dot videos which was the point where my channel ended up blowing up because I realized that people were really enjoying the edits and memes that I was adding into the videos I was really enjoying

Creating those types of videos in fact so much so that I decided to test cutting myself me commentating out of the video completely and just recording game plan adding in effects and memes and stuff and that’s when the growth curve went all hockey stick I went from

Getting 15 subscribers per month to over 1 500 subscribers per month and the rest is history I ended up growing that particular Challenge almost 25 million views working on a whole bunch of different channels yada yada yada you get the idea and sure I learned a lot of tactics and strategies and techniques

Along the way but I would never in a million years have known to do Star Wars was Battlefront funny clip compilation videos if I hadn’t have taken that first step and just went with YouTube and I’m not the only one with a story like this I’ve personally worked with hundreds of

Creators throughout my courses and my YouTube certification and the vast vast majority of these channels they started with Green Dot videos and then went to blue dots and red dots and orange dots and purple dots learning and implementing and pivoting until they found that thing that really worked and

They took off so here’s what I want you to do now I have a video revealing what I think are the nine most important things to nail for growing a YouTube channel it’s a pretty long video because I go pretty in depth but I want you to

Watch it it’s on screen now and after watching it I want you to just get started focus on just implementing those nine things and just taking action and creating content over the next few weeks so click the video start taking action and watch the dots start joining themselves