Video blogs… video logs… vlogs… whatever you want to call them, are typically short videos made out of the type of content you’d traditionally expect to find in a written blog. The core difference for a vlog over other types of video content it that the vlogger is usually the main subject. For example, a travel vlog would be your experience while traveling focusing on you, what you thought, where you went etc whereas a travel video would focus more on the destination, what it has to offer with an impartial view. With the video blogs ever growing rise in popularity, what exactly do you need to know to get started on your own vlog?

Keep reading for our tips to get you started with vlogging.

Find Your Voice & Vlogging Style

Okay, so now you know what niche you want to create content for, the next step is to find your voice. What is it that will make your videos stand out from the rest? What can you offer your audience that no other vlogger can? This could be anything from years of experience in your chosen field, outstanding visuals, to your personality and humour. Once you’ve found your unique voice, decide on what vlogging style suits you best. Can you just free flow chat to the camera without too much of a plan or do you need to work off some bullet pointed discussion points? The only way to discover this is to practice and see what feels natural to you and which comes across to the viewer as most natural too.

Deciding your vlogging style will be crucial to helping you assess roughly how long each vlog will take you to create and therefore you’ll be able to determine a regular posting schedule. Usually, you’d be aiming for 1 video per week.

Choose the Right Equipment

This will all depend on the types of vlogs you want to create as what’s suitable for a travel vlogger, might not be the same for beauty or food so, let’s go through the basics:

Focus on Quality & Ask your Audience

Make quality, not quantity, the main focus of your vlogs. Arguably one of the hardest parts about becoming a vlogger is the fact that you are always creating content, and after a while it can be hard to know exactly what type of content will remain interesting to your viewers. The simplest and most effective way to find out is to just ask them. At the end of your vlog ask your viewers to comment what they’d like to see from you next. When your subscribers or followers let you know what they want to see, it makes your job deciding what content to create next a whole lot easier.

Tell a story & Make your Intro Count

I mean, who doesn’t love a story? Give your viewers a journey to join in with on each video you create. The most successful vloggers out there understand that need for a narrative and try to tell a story with their videos rather than just having a random compilation of clips.

Having a story to tell is great, but make sure the first 15 seconds of your vlog is enticing your viewers to watch more. You could do this but adding in a sneak preview at what’s coming up later in the video or by telling your viewers about what you’re about to get up to. Whatever way you choose to do it, make the introduction of your videos count!

Keep Uploading

The best advice we can give to any budding vlogger is to say that whatever you decide to do, do it consistently. As demotivating as it is to keep creating videos and uploading content when you’re not getting many views, just keep at it. The more videos you consistently upload, whether that’s once a week or 3 times, the views and subscribers will follow. You’d be surprised by how many vloggers

have missed their shot by giving up in the early stages when their channels don’t grow as quickly as they’d like. Just stick with it and have fun while you do!