What is your budget per channel?

What’s your budget per new channel to test whether an idea is working? How much do you usually aim to pay for an editor or scriptwriter? How many videos are enough to know when it’s time to cut your losses?

10 years and 500 videos. I havn't seen many (i don't even think any?) good channels, that have stats like that that aren't doing well. Pay the price up front and get your fee at the end. (Really your real start).

What type of videos do you plan on making, or can make that aren't cookie cutter bland ai spam? Have you got any experiance with ANY type of video recording and production? What type of niche are you thinking of going into?

It depends on your content. Upload at least 20 videos before being able to tell if it works or not

satsuj06 said:

What’s your budget per new channel to test whether an idea is working? How much do you usually aim to pay for an editor or scriptwriter? How many videos are enough to know when it’s time to cut your losses?

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Hi,

When you start a youtube channel and you want to test if the method works or even the channel, you need minimum 15 videos and space each upload in the 2 days range, so basically you will have content for a month. Our suggestion is keep 30 videos ready, because after 5-6 uploads youtube will be start promoting your videos and if one video blows up then the rest of the videos in your channel will get suggested alongside the blowup video as well, and this is the time you need to spam upload.
However keep in mind, the views in the 1st month is going to be minimal most of the time. Actual blowups happen after 2-3 months of activity and you need videos ready for upload when that happens.
If you cannot create videos yourself then you can hire a team and that way the entire project is automated for you.

Goodluck.

So what’s everyone’s personal experience? For me, I’ve had somewhat warmed-up channels that blew up with just 1–2 videos that cost about $150, but each video had a lot of my input. In general, I’ve needed at least a month and around 6–9 videos, costing roughly $150–$200 each, to see something promising.

Budget per channel is a relative thing, but for the testing phase, you should be spending as little as possible on creatives. I usually automate the scripts and voiceovers initially to keep the cost per video near zero. There’s no point in hiring a pro editor before you know if the niche even breathes.
The real test isn't the number of videos, but how the algorithm reacts to your ranking signals. I give a new idea about 10-15 videos with a proper push into the TOP-10 search results. If the channel doesn’t start picking up organic traction after those initial search signals, I cut my losses and move to the next one. You don’t need 50 videos to see a trend; you just need to see if Google is actually biting on the keywords you're targeting.

usually enough budget for 10-20 videos before deciding if a niche has potential. learned the hard lesson of quitting too early before the algorithm even understands the channel