41 FREE YouTube courses in 1 year? Plus KITTENS! YouTube Creator Academy Course Exam #3

How to create great content - direct from YouTube!

We cover find your niche, vlog like a pro, shoot on mobile, hook them with your channel trailer!

I'm taking every YouTube Creator Academy course and taking the exam 

IN REAL TIME WITH YOU (almost) on here every week through 2021. 

This week it's the third course exam: 

"Create Great Content: 10 fundamentals of a creative strategy" 

and the link to the course is here: 

https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/creative-fundamentals-bootcamp

41 FREE YouTube courses in 1 year? Plus KITTENS! YouTube Creator Academy Course Exam #3



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We have started the clock!

That's the countdown to the quiz 

Now you probably know this already but there's this thing called the YouTube Creator Academy where you can learn about every single aspect of YouTube 

there are 41 courses and for some reason I've decided this year I'm going to do every single one of them and right now you and me in real time we're going to be doing the 10 fundamentals of a creative strategy 

that it's a bit of a lumpy title 

there's a link in the description and it covers: find your niche, vlog like a pro, shooting on mobile and how to hook them with our channel trailer 

but at the end you can see there it's a course exam 

well that's the quiz that we're going to do 

I'm doing these one a week in real time with you so that you can play along with me 

by the way if you've not been here before hello I'm Neil Mossey, I'm a development producer helping high achieving creators and performers just like you to get ideas out of your head and out onto here on YouTube to make the world happier 

it's Saturday night here in the Happy Hut, and I hope the spirit of Saturday night is wherever you are watching this right 

now look I've even got my game show t-shirt on!

My London Weekend Television T-shirt to get in the quiz mood 

[LWT THEME]

I forgot to do the jingle last week 

[LWT THEME AGAIN]

the LWT chimes

[LWT THEME AGAIN]

But enough of that, time to zip myself up 

the clock has hit zero let's dive in and do this quiz 

we have nine questions to get through so let's start with question one 

it's always difficult trying to get the whole thing on screen and to get me on the screen so I'm gonna put me on and take me off 

by the time we've done 41 of these I'll have worked out how best to do this 

imagine you're going to start a music channel 

how could you make sure that your channel is interactive 

ask your viewers what their favorite bands are and create playlists based off their answers 

encourage your fans to send you ideas for future videos 

record live performances and interview fans in attendance 

or all of the above 

so how can you make sure that your channel is interactive 

I'm going to go for all of the above 

oh by the way no more noobie was playing along with last week's quiz and said that some of his answers differ from mine and uh YouTube Creator Academy doesn't actually tell you which answers are correct as you go along 

so if you have any different answers from me as you go please put them in the comments 

it'd be great to see if you differed from from any of mine 

question two what are some of the best ways to make it seem like you're having a conversation with your audience 

interview your friends and family on screen 

look directly into the camera and lecture into it 

don't change the camera angle 

I should change the angle sometimes shouldn't I 

say hello goodbye and or thanks to your fans in every video 

I want to do that at the end of this video 

I'm going to say hello goodbye and or thanks 

every now and then have a conversation with your neighbor and film it for your channel 

so what are the best ways to make it seem like you're having a conversation with your audience 

I will go with say hello goodbye and or thanks to your fans in every video 

question three why is it important for each of your videos to work as a standalone piece 

if a video cannot stand alone it will always have low watch time 

viewers don't typically watch more than one video in a series 

if a video cannot stand alone a viewer may not understand the full context and may leave 

this isn't important because subscribers will have enough context 

I will go for if a video can't stand alone a viewer may not understand the full context and may leave 

you get the context of this though surely 

we've got I think six questions left of the nine 

question four which of these tactics could make your video more shareable 

develop a video about a hot topic something culturally relevant at the time 

create an emotional response such as making viewers laugh 

feature a guest star whom your viewers love 

or all of the above 

I think I'm going to go for all of the above 

which of the following topics would probably be considered relevant to many viewers 

a local sporting event 

how-to videos 

videos of your mum's cat 

I... I do want to now put up footage of my late Mum's cat 

there's DeeDee and Amber 

it was taken before the days of HD 

uh or live streaming while you're doing the dishes 

it says washing the dishes 

live streaming while you're washing the dishes 

so which of the following topics would be considered relevant to many viewers 

I'm going to go for how-to videos

I don't like the hyphen in the how-to 

it makes it look too urgent 

question 6 what's a good guideline to be more sustainable on your channel 

focus on upload quantity not quality 

invest in a studio and hire help immediately 

never record more than one video per day 

or produce videos that take less time and labour 

so what's a good line to be more sustainable 

I would go for produce videos that take less time and labor 

three questions left 

you're about to launch your show idea 

good luck 

how many of the ten fundamentals can help you 

none 

less than half of them 

at least half of them 

or all of them 

well given it's an entire course on the YouTube Creator Academy I'll venture that it's all of them 

question eight are we gonna pass this week what do you think 

you know with 41 courses there's got to be one where I fail spectacularly in front of you 

penultimate question 

whether you aim for a niche or broad audience is an example of which fundamental

collaboration 

discoverability 

targeting 

or being conversational 

I think discoverability oh no hang on or is it targeting 

oh whether you aim for a niche or broad audience 

yeah I'll go for targeting 

if you choose differently please say in the comments 

oh by the way you know there is a link to the whole course and that's in the description below so you can follow everything that leads up to this quiz 

final question question nine 

what's an example of making your channel more interactive 

record several videos on the same day 

make sure that your concepts can be boiled down to one sentence 

communicate your upload schedule in your channel banner 

or pose a question that you want your audience to answer in the comments 

I will go for pose a question that you want your audience to answer in the comments 

and if you've reached this point in the video please put the word buttress in the comments 

because I... I don't know if anyone's made it to question nine this week 

but that'll be like a little wink, just put buttress in the comments and then I'll get 10 comments with the word buttress in and then I'll know 

let's submit 

quiz complete 

now the way it says get my letter I think this indicates that we may have passed this week 

yes!

Letter of completion!

Neil Mossey for completion of great... no create great content 

so there it is my letter of completion 

how did you do 

I'd love to know how are these quizzes going for you 

I've got links to the first and second courses and I'll even try and put a link to next week's course when I get that done 

but I'm hoping these quizzes uh are helping in some kind of way 

and right here is what YouTube thinks you should be watching next thanks for playing along and I'll see you next week right here ow!

I'm not sure... was that a good one I don't know

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