All YouTube Guides

How to Set Up a YouTube Channel: Name, Profile, Banner, and About

From image sizes to external links — the first five steps

Complete guide to initial channel setup — from name, profile, banner to channel description

Channel Icon & Name Tips

Branding Strategy That Defines First Impressions

Channel icon, name, banner — comprehensive guide to channel branding elements viewers judge within 0.5 seconds before hitting subscribe

How to Choose a YouTube Niche: Weighing Demand Against Competition

Ending with 5–10 test videos before you commit

Surviving in a red ocean — systematic methodology to find the "golden niche" where market demand meets your strengths

How to Design YouTube Thumbnails That Get Clicks

Keep text to 3–5 words and check it on a phone

Thumbnails are the "cover" of your video. The same content can get 3-5x more views depending on the thumbnail

Thumbnail Creation Tools Guide

From Free to Pro, Recommendations by Use Case

GIMP, Canva, Photoshop, Photopea, Figma — comparing features, pricing, pros and cons of thumbnail creation tools

Optimal Video Length by Genre

What Video Duration Performs Best

Tutorials 10-15min, vlogs 8-12min, Shorts 30-60sec — comprehensive guide to optimal video length by genre and purpose

How to Script a YouTube Video: Hook, Problem, Solution, CTA

Video Structure for Higher Retention

Hook → Problem → Solution → CTA — proven video structure framework that keeps viewers until the end

A YouTube Editing Workflow: Five Steps from Raw Footage to Upload

Cut editing time with templates you can reuse

Shoot → Rough cut → Music/effects → Subtitles → Final review — building a repeatable editing system

YMM4 Complete Guide — YMM4 vs Lite, AquesTalk License Explained

Everything About YukkuriMovieMaker4: Version Differences, Voice Engines, License Warnings

YMM4 is free video editing software that auto-generates voice, subtitles and lip-sync from text. Covers YMM4 vs Lite differences, AquesTalk license timing, and monetization warnings

Zundamon Video Creation Tips

How to Use the Hottest Commentary Character

Zundamon is the flagship VOICEVOX character, replacing Yukkuri as the new mainstream for Japanese YouTube commentary. Free commercial use, high voice quality, and rich emotional expression

Commentary Characters & PSDTool Guide

Getting and Editing Lip-sync Character Assets

PSDTool, Yukkuri Reimu/Marisa, Zundamon, Shikoku Metan — complete guide to character assets for commentary videos

What Is Tachie (立ち絵)? Standing Character Art, PSD Layers and Free Assets

Base body, expression variants, PSD layers and free characters

Tachie (立ち絵) are standing character illustrations used in visual novels and commentary videos. Learn the PSD layers, expression variants and free assets.

Free BGM Sites for YouTube

Getting Background Music Without Copyright Worries

YouTube Audio Library, DOVA-SYNDROME, Amacha Music, Artlist — comparing free and paid BGM sites by features, licensing, and usage

Free Background Image Sites for YouTube

Essential Background & Illustration Assets for Commentary Videos

Minchirie, Irasutoya, Pixabay, Unsplash, Pakutaso — complete guide to free image and illustration sites commonly used for video backgrounds

Popular BGM & Sound Effects Used by YouTubers

"Where Have I Heard This BGM?" — That Collection

Popular tracks from DOVA-SYNDROME, classic sound effects, and familiar YouTube BGMs — organized by scene type

How to Do YouTube SEO: Titles, Descriptions, Tags, and Chapters

Getting Views Through Search

Title, description, tags, hashtags — creating "discoverable" videos through YouTube search optimization

How the YouTube Algorithm Works: CTR, Retention, and Satisfaction

Home, Suggested, Search, Shorts — each weighs signals differently

CTR × Watch Time × Satisfaction — 3 core signals YouTube algorithm uses to recommend videos

Ending Signature — The Hook That Makes Viewers Watch to the End

Why you watch to the end trying to skip "HERAIZA" — ending strategies that boost retention

Some YouTubers insert unique ending signatures at the end of videos. Channels like HERAIZA have endings that "make you watch to the end while trying to skip." Intentional or not, this can be a strategy that boosts retention rate — favorable for the algorithm.

How to Monetize a YouTube Channel Beyond AdSense

From YPP requirements to memberships, affiliates, and digital products

AdSense is not everything — sponsorships, memberships, digital products, affiliate marketing and more

How to Get YouTube Sponsorships: From Media Kit to Rate Negotiation

Possible even from 1,000 subscribers

From media kit to rate negotiation — practical guide to starting sponsorships regardless of subscriber count

How to Read YouTube Analytics: Impressions, CTR, Retention

Accelerating Growth with Data

How to fully utilize YouTube Studio analytics — impression, CTR, retention, traffic source interpretation guide

Top 5 YouTube Analytics Tools

Analytics Sites Pro YouTubers Use Daily

Social Blade, NoxInfluencer, vidIQ, TubeBuddy, Google Trends — complete guide to external analytics tools essential for growth, competitor analysis, and keyword research

How to Turn YouTube Viewers into Fans: Comments, Posts, Live

So your views hold up when the algorithm changes

Comment management, Community tab, Live streaming — strategies to deepen viewer relationships

YouTube Video Automation Open Source Tools Guide

From Auto Shorts Generation to Character Animation — GitHub Project Collection

From one-line topic to Shorts, free video generation with local LLMs, to 2D character skit automation — a comprehensive list of open source projects for YouTube video automation

youtube-shorts-pipeline — One Line Topic to Finished Shorts

Fully Automated YouTube Shorts Pipeline from Research to Upload

Enter one topic line and it auto-completes research → script → AI images → voiceover → captions → BGM → upload. Open source Python CLI at ~$0.11 per video

Tooscut — GPU-Accelerated Video Editor Running in the Browser

How WebGPU + Rust/WASM Achieves Native-Level Real-Time Compositing in the Browser

An open-source NLE that handles multi-track editing, keyframe animation, and real-time GPU effects entirely in the browser. A Rust compositing engine compiled to WASM drives the WebGPU pipeline.

What Is VOICEVOX? How the Free Zundamon AI Text-to-Speech Engine Works

Text → Phoneme → Pitch → Waveform: How a 3-Stage Pipeline Enables User Editing

VOICEVOX is the free, open-source AI TTS engine behind Zundamon. How its 3-stage pipeline (duration, pitch, waveform) works, plus its Docker HTTP API.

Synctoon — AI Pipeline That Turns a Script into 2D Animated Video

Gemini directs emotion/action/background, Gentle handles lip-sync, Pillow composites frames

Synctoon is an open-source pipeline that takes a text script and narration audio to automatically generate 2D character animation videos with emotion, body poses, background transitions, and lip-sync.

In YouTube collection, search.list is the scarce resource: use it to find channels, then switch to 1-unit calls

Switching from type=video to type=channel took live cameras from 24 to 113

search.list is the tightest call in the YouTube Data API. Use it only to find channels, then walk channels.list, playlistItems.list and videos.list at 1 unit each. For Saitama live cameras we covered 138 channels and 5,710 videos with 12 search calls.

YouTube clips are data with no list: collecting means picking up URLs, and one HTML page has the rest

The Data API has no clips endpoint. Two ways to get the source video, range and title from one clip URL

YouTube clips have no list anywhere: not in the API, not on the video page, not in any directory. Collecting them is about where you pick up youtube.com/clip/ URLs, and the details come from clipConfig in the clip page HTML or from yt-dlp -J.

When 59% of the videos on your map block embedding: show why, not a black error frame

Sort ahead with status.embeddable, then warn before the click with marker shape, thumbnail and a YouTube button

Of 58 Saitama live cameras, 34 (59%) block embedding on other sites. Drop them and the map goes empty. Embed them anyway and half the clicks land on a black screen. So we save status.embeddable at collect time, mark those cameras differently, and show a thumbnail with a YouTube button instead.