Rising Creators Forum

I've been watching Youtube for years and always thought about starting a channel but kept putting it off. now i'm finally ready to commit but everywhere i look people are saying youtube is oversaturated and impossible to grow without spending money on ads or already having a following from somewhere else

Is this true? like am i wasting my time if i start from zero in 2025?

I want to make videos about personal finance and budgeting tips (I know it's competitive but it's what I'm actually knowledgeable about). I've got a decent phone camera and a quiet space to record but that's about it

I just want some real talk from people who started recently - did you actually get any traction or is it really as impossible as everyone says?

I started my finance channel in March 2024. currently at 4.2k subscribers and yeah it's possible but it's HARD. not gonna sugarcoat it

The thing is youtube isn't saturated with GOOD content. It's saturated with mediocre content. If you can make videos that are genuinely helpful and not just regurgitating the same advice everyone else gives, you can still grow

my first 3 months i got maybe 300 subscribers total. Then one video hit 50k views and everything changed. but that video only did well because i covered something specific nobody else was talking about (how to budget when you have irregular income as a freelancer)

so yeah start the channel but find your specific angle within personal finance. don't just do "how to save money" because there's 10,000 of those already

Dude I literally started my channel in january 2025 so like 9 months ago and i'm already at 1,800 subs. it's absolutely not too late

BUT you have to be smart about it. I wasted my first month making videos about topics that were way too broad. once i niched down to budget meal prep specifically for college students, my views jumped like crazy

The people saying it's impossible are usually the ones who posted 10 videos, got discouraged, and quit. If you're willing to post consistently for at least 6-8 months and actually learn from your analytics, you'll be fine

also ignore anyone telling you that you need expensive equipment. I film on my iphone 13 with a $15 lapel mic from amazon and my videos look perfectly fine. content quality matters way more than production quality when you're starting