So your friends have been bugging you to start a travel vlog. You’ve watched them and maybe even subscribed to a few. But something was holding you back from starting your channel. Well, fear no more because this piece will tell you the best way to get started on creating a YouTube travel vlogging channel. It will give you the best tips and tricks for creating a channel, promoting your channel, and editing your videos so that they are at their maximum potential.
Where do you start?
Let’s begin by telling you where NOT to start. First, don’t start with the equipment. The best camera is the one that you have, not what someone recommends or thinks you should have. You can go all out and purchase fancy equipment, but if you only use it once or twice, it isn’t worth buying in the first place. A tripod may be helpful, but it isn’t necessary to create a travel vlog channel. However, they are instrumental when editing your footage, so I recommend getting one of those.
List of things to buy:
- T tripod
Cameras (You don’t need anything too expensive )
Editing software (free alternatives are available)
Photography light
List of things not to buy:
- Fancy camera equipment (you don’t need )
The best tip for deciding on your equipment is to go out with what you have and see if it’s enough. You can always buy more if you find that you want more. There are also great items at thrift stores, garage sales, or even Freecycle, where someone will be willing to give away their old stuff. And the money you save buying used may allow you to purchase a few new goodies along the way.
Setup Your YouTube Channel
When you start creating your travel vlog, starting a YouTube channel is the first step. You can do this by either putting www.youtube.com/channels into the URL bar on the web browser or clicking “+” in the upper right-hand corner of your current YouTube videos and selecting “Create New Channel.”
From here, you will be able to name your new channel and choose what kind of content it should focus on (i.e., family, comedy). If you still aren’t sure where to set your focus, go with personal videos for now until you narrow down what type of content works best for your viewers.
Then comes adjusting some settings related to what’s on the channel. You’ll want to go into “Channel,” and in the drop-down menu next to “Videos,” choose “All Unlisted Videos.” This will make all of your videos private so that no one outside your channel can view them without a link.
Another setting related to privacy is within the Privacy settings page. Here you should select whether or not you would like to allow people other than yourself and those with the link permission to see your new videos as they’re uploaded. If this isn’t selected, then only those granted access will view these unlisted vlogs as soon as they are life.
Promoting Your Channel
Chances are if you are creating a travel vlog channel that there are plenty of others doing the same thing as well, so how do you set yourself apart from all the? Well, there are several ways to promote your channel among the sea of other bloggers.
Get to know your audience before uploading videos that they will want to watch. You need to know what kinds of interests they have, whether traveling or not. Then, promote various tags on each video so that viewers can more easily find your channel and, subsequently, others like it. Promoting these tags will expose your channel to different communities of people who may be interested in watching travel-related content, even if they aren’t very interested in traveling themselves.
Use the YouTube paid program “Promoted Videos.” This redirects viewers from advertisements on YouTube directly to views for your channel, which is a great way to increase viewership after you’ve already built up a decent-sized subscriber base. Promote your channel on other social media sites, especially those related to travel or YouTube, in one way or another. Promoting your videos on Facebook is a good source for gaining more views since most people have at least one account set up for this site.
Creating a travel vlog channel on YouTube is an excellent way to get viewers interested in traveling and your journey in life. Promoting your channel with paid advertisements, tags, and social media sites will help you get the most views and subscribers so that everyone can see what you’ve seen and where you’ve been. In addition, promoting yourself instead of depending on luck will help you gain more success in the future and create a long-lasting YouTube channel.
