What I Learned Running A YouTube Channel With 120,000+ Subscribers - Content Genres (Part 2)

Alex Chiou
6 min readSep 21, 2020

YouTube took off like a rocket ever since it launched, and I have been right alongside it over the past ~14 years. I have spent way too much time on YouTube as both a consumer and channel owner (if you want to know the story behind my YouTube channel, check out Part 1 of this article series here), and I have noticed that the vast majority of popular videos on the platform fall into certain high-level genres. This article will cover those genres, and if you run a YouTube channel, you should think…

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Alex Chiou

Empowering thousands of engineers @ Tech Career Growth. Ex-Robinhood, Facebook, Course Hero, PayPal. Built apps with 2.5 million+ installs for fun.