YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts

Collaboration Videos

If leaving text comments on others' videos is the best way to get your name out there, then making a collaboration video with another YouTuber is the best way to get your face out there, the best way to get involved with the community, and some of the most fun you'll have making a video, I promise. Collaboration videos are any videos on YouTube that feature more than one YouTuber. Sometimes these videos tell a story, with various YouTubers playing different characters, like my Halloween 2007 collaboration with WhatTheBuckShow, SpeedyConKiwi, mikeskehan, and Hank from the vlogbrothers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MVnBxx4GYU (URL 8.2); other times collaboration videos are used to bring awareness to a cause or to unify many voices (like my tongue-in-cheek collab about collabs featuring more than a dozen other YouTubers: (www.youtube.com/watch?v=717oxEOfERQ) (URL 8.3).

Collaboration videos let you interact with some of your favorite Tubers while exposing your viewers to new users. When I first started making collaboration videos, I aimed to work with higher-subscribed-to channels than my own, I wanted people with more subscribers and more friends, and I had a lot of fun making collabs as a way to expose myself to these larger channels' viewers. Now that I've found an audience of my own, my collabs feature the friends I've made on YouTube and newer, up-and-coming channels that I want to help support.

Your collaboration video can be about any topic you'd like and it can ...