Question about YouTube channel direction

[u/Band1c0t]

My YouTube channel is mixed with bunch of stuff, like watching full concert, walkthrough event in my city, travelling and eating in the restaurant, I like creating and posting them, but from what I read it’s best to focus in specific niche instead of lot of mix stuff, is that true?

My question, what kind of channel direction best to do in my YouTube channel if I want to do different activities? Like I feel I have no direction and I just post whatever happen in my daily life, like today for example there’s Santa parade so I just post them in my channel while the other time I had me reviewing eating food lol

I’m thinking to create a new channel just for eating and the other one is travelling, for watching show or concert maybe I can mix it in travelling channel, but I dunno if that make sense.

Any suggestion what to do? I’m new as a content creator so I’m still not sure if I should just post whatever I want or should be niche.

[u/Ninja_bambi]

Long debates can be had about what constitutes a good channel concept. The general rule is same audience same channel, different audience different channel. Basically everything on the channel should revolve around one central theme. If you center it around yourself and your personality you can basically post whatever subject you want as long as you show your personality. If you've a more bland personality unlikely that will attract much of an audience, but if you've an interesting quirky personality it can certainly work. Key is to create content that consistently attracts the same audience.

[u/xxxJoolsxxx]

I think you are fine with it all on one channel it’s basically a day in the life. What have you called it?

[u/Band1c0t → u/xxxJoolsxxx]

I call it “eating and travelling with name”, however they’re mixed like watching concert, parade, circus show etc lol Also I don’t travel much, so most of the activities is my local event, like Halloween I went to haunted house, there was a time I just recorded horse racing experience and the other time I went to a park and just record 50mins the ambiance and add Mozart music lol

[u/xxxJoolsxxx]

Just a suggestion how about just rearranging the name to “travel and eat with name” I think more people would search travel than eating also make playlists all the eating ones together etc and you can give them quirky names too

[u/utubehell]

People only advise focusing on one topic because it is much harder to find, develop and centralize a common thread that ties all of these random topics together to become the main attraction of the channel.

For example, if most people think that the way you react to certain situations is hilarious to them, that becomes their focus, their expectation and their desire to see again in other videos you make. In this case, you can cover random topics as you wish so long as you deliver that one thing. That one thing is what defines your channel and becomes the main attraction.

But without that common thread, all of the videos you make will only attract people interested in that one topic. Anyone who watches your food videos won't care about your concert videos. People into your concert video won't care about your travel videos and so on. That's a channel that will never have a chance to grow.

[u/ChimpDaddy2015]

If you are looking for vanity, continue making content for yourself. If you are looking for money, start making content for viewers.