YouTube Podcasts

The best YouTube podcasts split into three camps: shows tracking a restless platform, shows coaching creators through the work, and shows asking what a channel can become when it grows into a business or career. The useful listening starts when you decide which problem you actually have. Are you trying to understand a feature change, rescue a stalled channel, or hear how another creator built something that lasted?

There is plenty of advice, but it rarely agrees for long. Growth tactics age quickly; the stronger shows pair them with harder questions about niche, consistency, ownership, and the hazards of building on someone else’s platform.

When the platform itself is the story

For a time capsule of YouTube’s moving parts, start with This Week in YouTube (Audio). Its 2013 episodes jump from Content ID changes in This Video Is No Longer Available - YouTube's changed Content ID system, Chad's goal for the year, and the news that will affect this show, and more. to apps, account risks, and optimization in YouTube on Xbox One - Thoughts on the XBox One's YouTube app, a Google+ flaw that could shut down your YouTube account, video optimization tips, and more. The show also catches the platform’s recurring collision between creators and policy in iJustine's Thoughts on YouTube Comments - Forced Google+ integration in YouTube's commenting system creates user outrage, tips and tricks, and more.

Social Media Marketing Talk Show offers the more contemporary product-update version. YouTube Updates: Collaboration Tools, A/B Title Testing, Shorts Features, and More is a concentrated sweep through creation and testing tools, while YouTube Updates: Creator Tools, Comment Features, Traffic Filters, and More turns another batch of changes into practical questions for marketers. The tone is curious and useful, with enough speculation to acknowledge that a new feature’s real value is rarely obvious on announcement day.

The business stakes become clearer on Creator Upload. He Built a Network to Make Content Creation More Affordable | OpenAI Buys TBPN | YouTube's TV Update places a platform update alongside creator economics and media-company news. YouTube's $60 Billion Haul and Iron Lung's Hollywood Chokehold goes further, treating YouTube as part of a much larger fight over attention and entertainment.

For a brisk outside view, Marketplace Tech folds YouTube into the wider technology and media business. Bytes: Week in Review - Amazon and AI, YouTube tops the media market and Meta buys an AI-only social network is suited to listeners who want the headline significance without spending an entire episode inside creator strategy.

The work of growing a channel

Tube Labs Podcast - A Podcast For YouTube Creators About Growing A YouTube Channel is unusually willing to put doubt beside instruction. Find Your YouTube Niche For The Long Term and Is Consistency Important For Your YouTube Channel? address two durable creator problems, but How I've Failed At YouTube makes the guidance feel less like a victory lap. Even How To Be A Success On YouTube (Last Show) carries the finality of a creator looking back, which is more interesting than another promise of effortless growth.

YouTube Comments Over Coffee gets closer to the everyday frustration of publishing into silence. If Your YouTube Channel Isn't Growing, Listen To This speaks directly to the stalled creator; How To Get Feedback On YOUR YouTube Videos tackles the lonely problem of figuring out what is wrong. How To Get More Impressions On Your YouTube Videos - According To YouTube narrows the focus to reach, while How To Stand Out On YouTube Against So Many Awesome Creators acknowledges the competitive pressure behind the tactics.

A more specific on-ramp comes from The Video Strategy Show: YouTube Tips for Creators Over 40, Video Marketing, Video Content Ideas, Camera Confidence, Video Tips. The audience is stated plainly in 162| Too Old for YouTube? What My 7 Day Video Challenge Taught Me. From there, 144| How to make your YouTube channel clear and niche works on positioning, and 163| How I Plan My Youtube Videos So They Actually Get Views moves into planning. The show’s warm, coach-like voice makes it a better fit for hesitant beginners than for listeners chasing platform news.

Video Creators is the sharper growth-and-formats option. YouTube Hacks for Explosive Growth promises acceleration, while The State of YouTube Shorts in 2024 concentrates on short-form video. Is Sam Sulek changing the future of YouTube? uses an individual creator as a way into the platform’s direction, giving the feed a useful break from pure how-to instruction.

Careers built in public

The creator-interview shows are strongest when they keep the practical details in view. The BWNC Podcast has the loose feel of a creator hang, but its episodes keep turning into career case studies. Kinigra Deon: How She Built a 4.7M Subscriber YouTube Empire foregrounds scale and construction. Blackprints on photographing influencers for YouTube, touring with Olivia O'Brien, & building a personal brand! | EP 210 widens the frame to photography, touring, and personal branding, the surrounding work that a channel-growth discussion can easily miss.

Creative Disruption Podcast is useful for hearing how audiences and identities move between platforms. Transforming Your TikTok Following into YouTube Fans Expert Tips from Colie Nuanez is explicitly about carrying attention from one service to another. Garrett Watts: From Funny or Die to Becoming a YouTube Sensation and Surviving YouTube adds a more complicated verb: surviving. That makes it a natural counterweight to episodes built around explosive growth.

Where the optimism frays

Creator advice can become relentlessly upbeat, so Bandrew Says Podcast is a welcome dose of suspicion. The solo, opinionated style moves between technical detail and blunt commentary. Is YouTube Demonetizing AI Content?, and More tackles a policy question with immediate consequences for creators, while 337: Podcast Lessons From YouTube, & More looks at what podcasters can borrow from the platform without pretending the two formats are identical.

That tension runs through the best listening here. YouTube is presented as a toolbox, a distribution system, a workplace, and occasionally a source of dread. Shows focused on updates help you keep pace; coaching shows help you publish; interviews reveal what happens when the work becomes a career. No single feed covers all three equally well.

Where to start

For platform changes, try Social Media Marketing Talk Show with YouTube Updates: Collaboration Tools, A/B Title Testing, Shorts Features, and More. If your channel feels stuck, begin with YouTube Comments Over Coffee and If Your YouTube Channel Isn't Growing, Listen To This. For a candid creator-side reset, choose Tube Labs Podcast - A Podcast For YouTube Creators About Growing A YouTube Channel and How I've Failed At YouTube. To hear the career version of the story, go to The BWNC Podcast for Kinigra Deon: How She Built a 4.7M Subscriber YouTube Empire.

Featured shows below are part of the PlayNext catalog. Updated weekly.