# How To START Your YouTube Channel? (The One SECRET) - review & insight | Gareth B. Davies Source: https://garethbdavies.com/course-insights/how-to-start-your-youtube-channel-the-one-secret/ [← All courses](https://garethbdavies.com/course-insights/) Video & Animation · Quick win · Rated 4 /10 # How To START Your YouTube Channel? (The One SECRET) Updated September 2026 Peter BVCCO · Video Content Strategist Beginner · 17 min One philosophical idea stretched thin: figure out your niche, then views won't matter, in under 17 minutes. [Get a Free Month on Skillshare](https://skillshare.eqcm.net/c/3155494/298081/4650?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.skillshare.com%2Fclasses%2Fhow-to-start-your-youtube-channel-the-one-secret%2F1247369739) New to Skillshare? Your first month is free, enough to take this course at no cost. ## A mindset primer, not a strategy course Peter BVCCO's "How To START Your YouTube Channel?" promises one secret that YouTube doesn't want creators to know. The secret, delivered early and repeated often, is that content should be value driven, sorted into education, entertainment, or a hybrid of the two. Once a viewer accepts that framework, the rest of the course spends its remaining minutes restating it from different angles rather than building on it. The arc is simple: define value driven content, explain how to apply it to a channel, argue that views don't matter early on, then close with two common beginner mistakes (repeating the same failed approach, and getting discouraged by low view counts). Each lesson runs two to three minutes, and the pacing feels like a single talk chopped into chapter markers rather than a sequence of lessons that each add a new skill. Where the course earns its keep is in the white space idea. Rather than telling beginners to just "find their niche," a phrase repeated so often it has become meaningless advice, the teacher walks through his own example: shooting cinematic video on a Nikon camera in a market where most creators assume Canon is the only serious option for that look. That single example does more work than the surrounding theory, because it shows what a genuinely underserved angle looks like inside an oversaturated category (camera gear reviews) rather than just asserting that one exists. The views-don't-matter argument is presented as counterintuitive, but it collapses into a fairly ordinary point once unpacked: random, unfocused content attracts a random, unfocused audience, so a low view count on a niche video isn't necessarily a failure signal. That's a reasonable thing for a total beginner to hear before they quit after their first 10-view upload. It is not, however, a technique. There's no discussion of retention graphs, click-through rate, or any analytics screen that would let a viewer actually verify whether their content is unfocused versus simply unseen. ## Where it falls short The course never touches production. There is no guidance on filming, editing, titles, thumbnails, or the upload process itself, despite the title promising to help someone start a channel. The teacher acknowledges this gap directly near the end, pointing viewers toward other courses for editing and SEO, which is honest but also means this course covers only the philosophical layer of a much larger task. For a beginner who has never uploaded a video, that leaves the actual mechanics of starting entirely unaddressed. The credentials offered (channel growth from 0 to several thousand subscribers, consulting work with other creators) are stated but not substantiated with screenshots, analytics, or case studies beyond the Nikon anecdote. Viewers have to take the value driven framework on faith. At 17 minutes, this plays more as a motivational preamble than a course. It could work well as the first video someone watches before diving into a more tactical program on editing, thumbnails, or channel strategy, but on its own it under-delivers against the "the one secret" framing in its own title. The standout The white space exercise, illustrated by the teacher's own pivot to Nikon-specific camera content, gives a concrete way to find an underserved angle inside a crowded niche. ## What you will learn - · Define content as education, entertainment, or a hybrid of the two - · Identify a personal niche or 'white space' competitors aren't covering - · Reframe early low view counts as a targeting problem, not a failure signal - · Distinguish short-term viral thinking from long-term audience building - · Self-diagnose two common beginner mistakes: repeating the same approach and fixating on metrics - · Use a simple self-interview (who am I, why am I making this, how will I do it) to clarify direction Best for: A complete beginner who has never uploaded a video and needs a mindset framework before touching a camera or editing app. Skip it if: Anyone who already understands niching and audience-building and wants tactical help with titles, thumbnails, SEO, or editing. 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