--- title: 'The 7 Biggest Mistakes YouTubers and Content Creators Make | YouTube Tips' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=xuh2wVTTgGs' video_id: 'xuh2wVTTgGs' date: 2026-07-15 duration_sec: 396 --- # The 7 Biggest Mistakes YouTubers and Content Creators Make | YouTube Tips > Source: [The 7 Biggest Mistakes YouTubers and Content Creators Make | YouTube Tips](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xuh2wVTTgGs) ## Summary This video outlines seven critical mistakes that beginner content creators and YouTubers make, explaining why only one out of every 100 creators succeeds. The speaker provides actionable advice on avoiding imitation, choosing topics aligned with personal interests, leveraging search-driven content, monitoring watch time, optimizing video length, maintaining consistent posting, and utilizing AI tools. ### Key Points - **The Odds of Success** [00:02] — Only one out of every 100 content creators succeeds, likened to winning in Fortnite or PUBG. - **Mistake 1: Imitation** [00:17] — Copying another YouTuber's topics, style, and approach guarantees failure. Example: Mr. Beast's brother failed despite having millions in funding because he imitated Mr. Beast. - **Mistake 2: Uninteresting Topics** [01:02] — Creating content about topics you don't like or understand leads to poor ideas and a fake on-screen persona. Authenticity is key. - **Mistake 3: Ignoring Search Volume** [01:30] — YouTube is the second largest search engine. Focusing on frequently searched topics ensures long-term views and channel growth. - **Mistake 4: Neglecting Watch Time** [02:21] — Watch time percentage (viewership percentage) is the most important metric. Below 40% is bad, 40-60% is average, above 60% is good. Ignoring others' opinions, focus on this data. - **Mistake 5: Unnecessarily Long Videos** [03:31] — Making videos long just to insert ads or out of fear of short content hurts performance. Video length should match the topic's needs; viewers often prefer concise videos. - **Mistake 6: Inconsistent Posting** [04:22] — Stopping for weeks or months kills the channel due to algorithm changes. Consistent uploading creates a domino effect, growing views from 100 to millions. - **Mistake 7: Not Using AI** [05:02] — AI tools can write scripts, adjust audio, and create video content. Recommended tool: DAI Broadcast (Bathy AI) for creating full AI videos in one minute. ### Conclusion Avoiding these seven mistakes—imitation, uninteresting topics, ignoring search volume, neglecting watch time, unnecessary length, inconsistent posting, and not using AI—can significantly improve a content creator's chances of success on YouTube. ## Transcript all YouTubers and beginner content creators make. Because out of every 100 content creators in the world, only one succeeds. It's like playing Fortnite or PUBG; to win and be the only one who succeeds, let me give you the seven mistakes that most people in the world make. Let's start with mistake number one: imitation. Especially when you're copying another YouTuber and imitating them exactly, copying their topics, style, and approach to content. This alone guarantees your failure on YouTube. The first and clearest example in the whole world is Mr. Beast's brother. If you know that Mr. Beast has a brother, well, his brother opened a channel called Mr. Pro. Imagine if you were Mr. Beast's brother! You'd have over a million dollars for that channel, and you'd have the best editors, designers, and everything else in the world. So imagine what you could achieve from day one! You have a million followers, a million dollars, and every kind of support imaginable, yet you still fail completely. This happened because Mr. Beast's brother was imitating Mr. Beast exactly; he's basically another Mr. Beast, but like you bought him from Shein. That was mistake number one. The second mistake is choosing content topics outside your interests. You start talking about things you do n't even like just to make money or get views. Some people give you money because they suggest money-related topics, so you end up talking about money-related things even though you're not really interested. Or you create content about a topic you do n't understand. You'll struggle to come up with ideas, and even if you do, they won't be successful. Your on-screen persona won't reflect your true self. Never go on social media talking about something you're not interested in because it will show you're not interested at all. That was mistake number two. The third mistake, and the biggest one I see in the entire content creation world, is that you Don't focus on topics that are frequently searched for, because YouTube's search engine, which is at the top, is the second most used search engine in the world. Even Google's search engine, the largest in the world, also provides YouTube videos. This is the area where more than a billion topics are viewed every day. You can leverage this and add the topics you want to them, especially when you start a new channel to attract new viewers. Because everyone searching for a topic will first type it in, and they'll find your channel and your videos. These videos will remain popular for years and will continue to generate daily views for many years because they will always be searched for. So never underestimate this rule. Personally, if I were to start a channel right now, I would start with videos that are frequently searched for. I would put topics that are always searched for and start with them because these topics will keep my channel active for many years. This was the third mistake. As for the other mistake... Number four is that you're not checking your watch time. Watch time is something found in the statistics, or in Arabic, it's called the viewership percentage. As I mentioned, it's located in the statistics for any video you open in the analytics. It will appear at the bottom, top, or wherever you want, and it gives you the viewership percentage for any video. So, if you have a video that's, for example, one minute long, and people are only watching the first five seconds and then leaving, then the video is failing. But if you have a one-minute video, and everyone who enters the video is watching 50 minutes ( sorry, 50 seconds), then your video is excellent. So, it's very important to check this percentage. If it's below 40%, then your video is somewhat bad and needs improvement. If it 's between 40% and 60%, then your video is so-so and also needs improvement. But if your percentage is above 60%, then your video is good and doing well. His situation is excellent, but it still needs improvement. This percentage itself is the most important metric in history, and it's the most important opinion you can get from everyone in the world. If everyone is telling you your videos are great, really great, but the viewership is low, like 20%, then your videos are failing, your videos are awful, disgusting. So don't pay attention to other people's opinions; pay attention to my opinion. This is the percentage because this percentage will give you the entire impact of your life on social media. This percentage literally makes the difference between 1000 views and a million views, so it's essential to pay attention to it. That was tip number four. Tip number five is that you should start making your videos long for no reason. For example, some people want their videos to be 10 minutes long so they can put seven ads in them, or they want to make their videos long just because they're afraid to make short videos. You should always make the video as long as it deserves because people nowadays look at the video's length before they even read the video title. So if someone wants to go and write on YouTube, how to tie a suit tie? Two videos appeared: one two minutes long and one twelve minutes long. Personally, as someone doing a search and needing an answer, I'd probably choose the two-minute video. Some people feel they have a lot of time, so if they see a long video, they like to click on it. Of course, this only applies if their videos are really good, because some people have hour-long videos that everyone clicks on because they have a compelling topic and visuals, and they have confidence in their audience. That was tip number five. Tip number six is ​​to stop posting for extended periods, like two weeks or a whole month. This will literally kill your channel. Even if you have a million subscribers and you stop posting for months, you'll end up with no subscribers at all, especially now with the new algorithms. Literally, if you have a million subscribers now, you might get 500. Viewing is quite simple because algorithms only support good videos and encourage people to keep uploading. This is an effect called the domino effect. If you know dominoes, if you keep hitting them one by one, they all fall together. This applies when you upload video after video after video after video; you'll start getting views from 100 to 1000 to 10000 to millions. The last piece of advice, number seven, is not to take advantage of artificial intelligence. AI is now present in everything in content creation. It can write scripts, adjust audio, and even create video content. There are many websites you can use to improve your content or even save time. The best website for creating content without showing your face, using AI, is called DAI Broadcast. This website uses AI to create audio and images. Therefore, it creates writing with artificial intelligence, but it also has the most important feature of AI, which is creating AI videos. This feature simply creates a video content for you on any topic you want in the world, and in just one minute. Imagine creating a complete AI video with sound, images, text, editing, music, effects, and movement. So, to create AI content, just open the Bathy AI website and go to the "Create Video" section. Enter the topic you want for your video. Enter any topic you want in the world, for example, "What are the five most famous Arab tourist countries?" The website will create a complete video tailored to your needs about the five famous Arab tourist countries, telling you all the details. The best thing is that you can edit the video in all its aspects. You can change any image you don't like, change the text if you don't like it, or even change the voice of the character if you don't like it. Imagine how advanced AI has become, especially this Arabic AI in content creation, which can create content for you in all languages ​​and on all topics in the world. Visit the TE streaming site and tell me what you thought of it in the comments. If you have any other mistakes to add regarding content creation, please tell other mistakes to add regarding content creation, please tell me about them in the comments too.