Kids today watch a lot of YouTube. There is so much content to consume and more is added every minute. Breaking news, I know. My kids watch it and enjoy it. The YouTube kids app is pretty good and rarely lets content in that is not acceptable for children. I recently learned how hard it is to actually get your content to appear on the YouTube Kids app.
My son has been begging me for months to start his own YouTube Channel. After much debate Santa was nice enough to bring my son a camera to film his own YouTube content. Every parent would be thrilled if their son became the next Ryan. You know the kid who made like $20 million from YouTube last year. Anyway, while making that much income seems unfathomable, people do make money from YouTube. In doing some research for my son’s channel I learned that you must have 1,000 subscribers to actually make any money. While that may not seem like a crazy amount of people, it’s most likely more people than you are friends with on Facebook.
Creating, filming, editing and posting content takes much more time that I imagined. Who knew filming your kids would not be easy. (Raises hand) While it may seem like just another task to do while adulting, it is actually enjoyable and my children like making videos. My son is convinced he is going to get the Diamond Play button from YouTube. That’s not going to happen, but I keep telling him to come up with ideas for videos and to work hard to try and get there. Teaching our kids to work hard and be passionate about what they are doing is obviously important. If he can take away anything from making content, it’s that it is not easy and takes a lot more effort than just turning on a camera.
We created our channel right after the holidays and have posted four videos at this point. Each one we both learn a little more about the process. First we did the skittles challenge. You know where you add hot water to skittles and make a rainbow. It went well. Next we tried to capitalize on the movie Bird Box. My son had watched so many commercials and said he thought he could draw a bird blind folded. We gave it a shot. His drawing was pretty funny.
Jack has been working on drawing his favorite YouTuber Dan TDM, so the third video was Jack drawing a picture of Dan. He did it from memory and did very well. Most certainly better than I can draw. Lastly, we tried to do the boiling water challenge when it was cold outside. It kind of worked. I found out later I used too much water for it to work completely. (Emoji Shrug) What will our next video be? Who knows, but we will keep making them.
Jack wants more than anything to have his videos on the YouTube Kids App. However, you can’t just put them on there. There is no real way to get your content in front of kids. I suppose this is a good thing. In order to have your content actually make it on the YouTube Kids app, you must just keep making kid appropriate content and hope the YouTube filters allow it on the Kids app eventually. Really, that’s it. There is no other way. This process actually makes me feel significantly better about letting my children watch the YouTube Kids app. I now know that people can’t just push their content out. It takes time and lots of filtering.
Hopefully, you clicked one of the videos and gave us a like or subscribed. Even if you don’t it’s fine. We enjoy making videos and building our following. We now have a whopping 21 subscribers. Either way it’s enjoyable family time and for that I am grateful.
I have to thank GemmyD On Cars who helped me prep and walk through setting up our YouTube Channel. You should give his videos a look if you like cars!
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