Starting a Youtube Channel with 0 Online Presence

Tadas Petra
5 min readDec 7, 2020
Photo by Azamat E on Unsplash

January 15th, 2020 was the day I decided to put my cringey first video out in public. A day later I checked back and it got 4 views. Now almost 11 months later the channel has amassed almost 10,000 subscribers and over 40,000 monthly views. Here’s how I did it, and how I believe others can do it too.

Before we start, I know “almost 10,000 subscribers” is a bit of a stretch. As I’m typing it I am at 8,725 subscribers, but the 10,000 makes a much catchier introduction. Either way at this rate, I should be able to get to 10,000 before my 1-year mark.

Also I know there are a lot of other YouTubers that have gotten a lot more then 10,000 subscribers in their first year, but I believe my story might still help those people, since it didn’t include any “viral” videos. This whole article will basically come down to hard work, and consistency.

Creating Your Channel

There are a lot of people that stress over the details at the beginning. I am going to tell you right now, your channel name, and banner are not very important if you are just starting out. There is a lot of learning to do, and a lot of figuring out what your channel is going to be and what route you are going to take before worrying about those details.

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Tadas Petra

On a journey to explore all the different aspects of coding.