 Hello! If you click this video you're probably wondering, should I even do Vlogmas as a small YouTuber? I thought about that quite some time to myself and the answer is yes and a no and it kind of depends. So let's just get right into it. I love bug. My name is Nacah. I am a 29 year old graduate student at Columbia University in New York City studying clinical psychology. I also am a yoga instructor at Corporate Yoga and a current intern at the United Nations specifically the UNFPA and hopefully your new VFF on YouTube so make sure you subscribe so you never miss an upload. Yeah let's get into this Vlogmas thing because I have some stories from you like some tips, some tricks, everything. My Vlogmas like 2023 or 2022 rather. It was it was quite quite interesting. I have my notes like here so if I'm looking down I'm looking at my notes. Yes my loves cozy up get something to drink. I am drinking the Chestnut Prairiline Latte from Starbucks. I absolutely love it. So good absolutely delicious. But yeah let's start talking about this Vlogmas plan. If your goal as a small YouTuber is to do Vlogmas and get a thousand subscribers and go viral and just like be monetized and set for life on YouTube I hate to say this because I don't want to be a hater but that's probably not gonna happen but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't do Vlogmas. I truly believe that every YouTuber should do Vlogmas just because well I have a few reasons so let's just get right into them. Okay so I have about three reasons why I think every YouTuber should do Vlogmas. Reason number one is because it truly truly helps you learn how to edit videos. When I look at my 2022 Vlogmas I'm like wow these videos were so bad at the time when I was making them I obviously was like wow like this is the best video ever it's so good oh my god everyone's gonna subscribe like I'm doing so many fun things but I know I watched the videos a year later and I was like oh the lighting was terrible oh the sound is weird wait this video does even have audio for the first five seconds how did I miss that and it's just when you're making like videos so quickly back to back to back you're gonna learn a lot about the editing software you use. So the first thing you should really focus on learning is like just a bunch of shortcuts within your editing software so I use Final Cut Pro so like maybe you learn how to use the blade like be for blade to cut your videos or zooming in and like learning shortcuts to paste attributes and just all that kind of nitty-gritty stuff plus if you are doing Vlogmas this year and you're a new YouTuber I highly recommend you start looking and testing at least one preferably all three of the following. I have to get my notes. Okay drumroll please those three things are one like learning how to color grade or use custom luts in your videos so if you don't even know what that is look it up that it basically is like putting an Instagram filter on your videos and it just makes them look really nice and put together for example this is what this video looks plain and now I'm gonna put my filter back on because it just makes it look so much better so you should definitely definitely try experimenting with that during Vlogmas if you're new to it. The second thing is I would highly recommend trying like new transitions and I'm so bad at this and hopefully you guys are getting some cool transitions in this video because I truly will just use the sound and a black screen and that's like the transition that I use for like all of my videos but this Vlogmas I'm really testing out using some new transitions some slides getting some fonts and like just doing all that fun stuff because it just makes your videos that much better and higher quality and then oh I also put you should try Christmas themes I recently found this person her name is Ty Paley and she makes a bunch of affordable like little plugins and downloads and transitions that you can use I haven't tested any of them yet but hopefully I'm testing them now as I'm editing this video but I highly recommend because she has a lot of really cute stuff for Vlogmas and Christmas and then the last thing oh it's so tiny I don't like that and then the last thing I really recommend actually I want you guys to be a little higher and then the last thing I really recommend is trying different video formats during Vlogmas so if you're the type of youtuber that does a lot of sit-down videos a lot of like talking to the camera like giving your thoughts and just like maybe talking about pop culture or something that you're passionate about or an expert in how you might you to try doing like a vlog or like a day in my life if you are familiar with my channel and you've been following me before you know I'm a vlog girl I love making vlogs and vlogs actually take a very long time to edit and upload but I think that's why I like them so much because they challenge you while you're editing like I don't know I just really like making vlogs and like making little time capsules of my life but it's Vlogmas and making vlogs for 25 days is not realistic so I would highly recommend if you do all vlogs try some sit-down videos if you do some sit-down videos or mostly sit-down videos try doing a vlog like just try to switch it up this year I really want to try doing a cooking video and doing more sit-down videos because I rarely have sit-down like talking talking videos with you guys just us chilling with our coffee one-on-one environment and when I do do those like my life update videos they typically do pretty well I just never again from the camera to talk to you guys like this I'm usually always like we're running late let's go here let's run down New York City this is my friend's house like I'm always like out and about and doing stuff so I would highly recommend for Vlogmas as a new youtuber try different video formats and just see what works on your channel maybe your subscribers want more one-on-one time with you maybe your subscribers want to see your life maybe you cook all the time and people don't even know that you do that cool thing like ooh I also really love watching like girls make um like thrift clothing and stuff on youtube like it's so random but like they thrift things and then they like edit them and like make them like super cute and modern and stuff I don't know I think it's called like thrift flip thrift flipping is something I really love on youtube and it's super random but like if you have that talent show it off like just do something new for Vlogmas all right I'm rambling now let's go to the next thing let me check my notes okay so that was reason number one I think skills reason number two you will gain subscribers now I know I said that you're not gonna blow up and get monetized and be viral and have all these amazing things that you probably want to happen to you and I also want to happen for you very very soon I just don't know if Vlogmas is the best place for that to happen but you will likely get a lot of new subscribers last year I got about 30 subscribers which is kind of typical for how many subscribers I get a month but also what I noticed when I was vlogging and uploading super consistently I actually was losing subscribers during Vlogmas because the video is worth that and that's fine like what matters are the people that subscribe to you and love you and stick with you and want to watch your journey don't fret if you post a video from Vlogmas and lose a couple subscribers I think that's kind of normal and I also think it's a reflection of like hey maybe that video wasn't the best quality me I should try again but I mean it is Vlogmas so I think it's okay if your videos all aren't like 10 out of 10 if you're making them really fast and going for 25 videos and 25 days like the quality might be a little bad for some of the videos and it might be really good for other of the videos but what matters is that your audience is getting more of you and so they can make that informed decision and if they want to stick around and stay subscribed or subscribe or unsubscribe just don't let that phase you and you will definitely get more subscribers if you participate in Vlogmas versus if you don't and then the number one reason like the last reason I think you should participate in Vlogmas is because you'll be trending you will be trending you'll be on a trending topic on YouTube and I already said that you're not gonna go viral but there is a difference between trending and being viral um so being viral I think of that as like just like a numbers thing so you have so many watchers so many subscribers all that fun stuff but being on a trending topic is like it's going to help elevate your channel I think that's a best way to describe it so essentially like you know how on tiktok it's like the trending page the free page all that fun stuff it's the same thing on YouTube and so if you participate in Vlogmas Vlogmas trends all December long so hopefully you'll get more new eyeballs on your channel just by participating in Vlogmas and it's also a really good way to sign up and to like start using that idea of like oh this is trending so I should make a video on it that will help you even after Vlogmas is like done and over with and so who knows what's gonna be trending next year I know I certainly don't but I know who does Google and Google also owns YouTube so if you go to trends.google.com you can sign up for Google's Trends newsletter which I sign up for and every week or so I believe they'll send you whatever's trending in your area and so I use that well I actually haven't really used it yet if I'm being completely honest but the idea is you use that to stay on trend and hopefully you'll get more subscribers more viewers more watchers on your channel so really try to like kind of lean in that's me leaning in didn't that like um I think it was a Facebook CEO not CEO but executive woman she made that book called Leaning In I didn't read it I don't even know why I'm bringing this up now I'm rambling off topic oh my god but yeah definitely use the trending topic to help kind of influence and inform your videos not just in Vlogmas but also beyond but I think Vlogmas is a really great way to kind of help use and form trends to make videos about so yeah I think I think that's it wait no it's not I think I have one more thing to say okay so my last little tip for well honestly is it even a tip if you made it to this part of the video I hope you are already making your vlogmas content plan because if you hadn't noticed the long and short answer is absolutely yes 100% you should do Vlogmas as a small YouTuber I do think and I guess this is my last tip you have the power to make Vlogmas your own so you do not have to do 25 videos in 25 days if you don't want to I know for me personally I have so much other stuff going on like in December I'm gonna have finals and I have my internship and I teach at a yoga studio and like I also have another job that I do at Columbia like I just have so much on my plate that adding 25 YouTube videos on top of it just seems really really unattractive and if you are similar to me in which you have a lot of other things going on and you can't take the brain power to make all 25 videos in 25 days I would like to offer to you as a suggestion trying to do just 12 days of Vlogmas so doing 12 videos that's essentially a video every other day or every two days or so and that's what I'm going to do last year I tried to do it and actually I set myself up kind of to fail so last year I tried to do 12 days of Vlogmas and I started like December 12 and I wanted to go until December 24th or 25th and I literally got to like eight videos and the last video actually came out in January so it really didn't work out that well but this year I'm going to take that same concept doing 12 days of Vlogmas but I'm gonna give myself all 25 days to do it so if you may or may not have noticed this is actually Vlogmas day one for me it's going to be a mixture of talking to the camera videos like sit-down videos which is very weird and very awkward for me like I don't know I feel like these videos are just kind of boring because it's just me talking to you guys I mean I guess the information is informative but as a vlogger like someone who likes to do vlogs I'm like I want to get cute b-roll footage of me like lighting a camera or like walking around New York City or like getting my coffee or like all the shops and stuff that I see so that's just where like when I think of YouTube ring and Vlogmas that's where my mind goes and so I am still going to incorporate that I'm going to do about four to five vlogs but I am going to do a good portion of these talking videos because I do think they're useful and they're a lot easier to edit than huge vlogs and I think I mentioned this at the top of the video um but then also had in a new format so I'm really hoping to add in one cooking video for you guys I'm not going to go overboard but that should be fun too and so I invite you to create like a 12 video mix for yourself and for your subscribers and just like have fun with it I mean honestly if you want to do 25 videos do 25 videos I am praying for you right now moment of silence maybe university with you but for the girls that are not doing 25 videos I highly recommend you try 12 videos and I also want people to realize that a lot of the youtubers that do 25 days of Vlogmas like that do 25 videos in a month are also like low-key full-time creators and full-time youtubers so they kind of have the space to focus 100% of their energy on YouTube which is what I think uh Vlogmas truly demands of people and if you have other responsibilities going on like if you are in school or have a nine to five or just have kids or like whatever you may have going on in your personal life like I just don't know if 25 days is realistic for everyone but that is kind of the end of the video so I hope you enjoyed it I hope you guys got some cute little christmasy ideas I'm gonna drop in the show notes show notes oh my god podcasting is clearly also on my mind but in the description down here I'm gonna drop in just the um wow my mind it's blinking oh I'm gonna drop in the link for the type Haley stuff if you guys want to check her out and then also please leave me a comment below letting me know if you are going to do Vlogmas or not this year I really want to check out your channel if you are please make sure you subscribe and my camera is gonna die right on time so I love you I'm gonna leave you here and I'll see you in the next episode of Vlogmas happy 12 days of christmas everyone bye