Youtube Related Jobs

Next to the search engine Google itself, YouTube is the next most visited site for people to learn and get entertained about anything. There are many people who make a good living producing videos for YouTube.

These people treat making YouTube videos as a business. They spend good money producing videos that their viewers and their subscribers would watch. Contrary to popular opinion, making YouTube videos is not easy.

It could take days and even weeks for a quality YouTube video to be produced. That is why those who can afford to pay for assistants and contractors in making YouTube videos do so. Now, thanks to YouTube, an entire industry of YouTube video support assistants and contractors have emerged.

The following article is all about some of the jobs or businesses that you could get by providing support to YouTube video producers. You could do one or more of these jobs.

Host, Co-Host Or Actors

Race Based Jobs

Perhaps the most interesting YouTube job I have seen so far. There are many YouTube video creators who for some reason or another refuse to be the face of their own YouTube videos. They would rather hire another person or groups of person to be the face of their YouTube channel.

But I could think of a few reasons why such people would not want to be the face of their YouTube videos. In one freelancing site, I saw an Asian company advertising their need for caucasian looking men and women to be the face of their YouTube videos.

Perhaps your guess is as good as mine. This Asian company want to cater to people who want to watch videos composed of caucasian looking people. No disrespect to the other races in the world, but caucasian people have been the most popular faces of media on a global basis.

This Asian company must be going after the global market especially the very lucrative American market. I can see many YouTube content creators from countries predominantly not caucasian using the same strategy.

But this strategy could go both ways. American YouTube content creators may just hire people from Asia if their YouTube channel is going after the Asian market. The same goes for channels that target a certain country or region that is not their own.

Another strategy used by YouTube content creators is by using co-hosts whose ethnicity is the same one as the people they are trying to attract. There are plenty of examples in YouTube of people from North America and Europe having co-hosts of Japanese ethnicity.

They do this to attract not only the Japanese audience but all people who are interested in Japan inspired videos. Again, this goes both ways with Japanese content creators having co-hosts from other countries to attract an international audience.

This is why it could be worthwhile to check foreign freelancing sites. Foreign video content creators might just be looking for people who are not from their own country. This is especially true for people who have global appeal or acceptance.

Beauty Based Jobs

Another reason why there could be YouTube content creators who refuse to be the face of their own videos could be because of beauty. Videos are visual media and depend a lot on good images.

This includes the appearance of the hosts. Imagine if a beauty and personal care video channel is hosted by an ugly woman or man. This must be the reason why most videos in YouTube that are about beauty and personal care are hosted by good looking people.

If you are a beautiful or handsome person, this could be an opportunity for you to be the host, co-host or an actor in a YouTube video. There might be a YouTube content creator who will pay you enough money to make hosting, co-hosting, acting on their video worthwhile.

Who knows, this might just be your chance to get discovered because of your beauty. There are many unknown actors who became famous when they started uploading videos to YouTube.

Video Editor

Perhaps the most in-demand job for YouTube content contractors. There are constant job posts in many freelancing websites requiring the services of a video editor either as a contractor or a full-time employee.

This is one of the most technical jobs out there, but do not be scared that you cannot do it. All you need is to learn a video editing software. There are many video editing software and once you learn one, it is easy to learn the others.

In fact, there are even free video editing softwares that could be downloaded online. The only thing you need to consider when using these free video editing software is that sometimes they could contain malware.

If you are using Apple devices, especially a MacBook, Apple provides a free video editing software that is good enough to edit YouTube videos. The iMovie video editing software for Apple users have been praised many times by video editing experts.

But being able to use a video editing software is not enough for you to be considered a professional video editor. You also need to be good in cinematography. In case you are not familiar with the word cinematography, it is the art of making motion pictures.

The word is “art” and this means that you need to be some sort of an artist in editing YouTube videos. This means that you do not only cut and past scenes, but you must enhance the images of the videos.

But not only does one need to be good at enhancing images, one must be also good at editing sounds. This means that one should be familiar with audio enhancing equipment and software to be called a good video editor.

Researcher

This is a job for the bookish types as the job requires long periods of finding information related to the video. This is a very delicate job for the researcher is required to provide as accurate an information as they can provide.

This is a relatively hard job as most information in the world are sourced using the internet. Just like printed sources of information, internet information can be unreliable and even doctored. This is why the job of a researcher is very important.

The believability of the video and the reputation of the video content producer is at stake. A few mistakes in information can usually be solved by an apology from the video content creator, but repeated errors can cause the loss of video watchers.

Researching video content under a tight deadline can be very stressful. That is why a researcher must solely be concentrated on his task and would need to work with as little distractions as possible.

Once a researcher has found one article that seems to satisfy the needs of the video, he should not be contented. He should immediately check by finding another article that support the previous article.

Doing online research is a part of my job. From my experiences, I can say that online articles are much more reliable than YouTube videos discussing the same article. Online articles are easier to cross reference too as all you need is to keep the page open while opening other pages for research and cross referencing.

Scriptwriter

This job is just one more proof that YouTube content creation is a business. Now, video content creators even hire scriptwriters. That is why as I have stated before, there are video hosts and co-hosts that are actually actors.

I’m sure video content creators like to say the words their own way, but there are video hosts that are more personalities than content creators. Their main work is to charm the video watchers and they leave the thinking of what words to say to the scriptwriters.

The requirements for the job is pretty basic. All that is needed by most video content creators is for one to be able to write engaging scripts. Others are more strict, they require some sort of experience.

This involves previous experience in writing a script for a short story. So the best way to demonstrate your skill as a scriptwriter is to actually create a video and indicate to people that you are the one who created the script for your video.

Virtual Assistant

Being a virtual assistant can be a very demanding job. You are responsible for many tasks that usually keep the video content creation business going. You could be the second in command in the business.

You usually are the one keeping all the other contractors in check by ensuring they do their job and that they stick to the schedule. There are many virtual assistants from developing countries who work for content creators based in developed countries.

In this job, people skills are very important as your job may entail you contacting people to work for your boss who is the video content producer. Since this jobs entails frequent communication with your boss, you also need to be available to communicate based on your boss’ working time frame.

Virtual assistants could also be tasked to do accounting work. Thus, a knowledge is required for accounting. It would be helpful if you are a graduate of accounting and is professionally licensed. Though not all jobs require the education.

Marketing Agent

This is a job that is a bit independent unlike the others. You would be tasked to market the videos for monetization. This is an important job as you can bring good money to the video content producer besides ad monetization.

There are video content creators who are technically geniuses when it comes to creating videos but are totally at a loss when it comes to marketing them. It is no big secret that YouTube ad revenues are not really big moneymakers.

This is the reason why video content creators reach out to sponsors and other forms of monetization campaigns to earn money. Most people are not trained marketers and it takes time to be a successful one. That is why there is good demand for them.

This could be a high paying job as well, but one that could be fleeting as your compensation could be directly tied in to the amount of money you can bring in. That is why you should demand a more than average compensation.

Assistant

This is different from a virtual assistant who does the tasks remotely. An assistant supports the video content creator in all aspects of the video content creation process. The assistant is more than a virtual assistant for they are besides the video content creator assisting them.

For example, an assistant may be the camera man as well as the props maker of the video. They may perform the tasks of a virtual assistant, being the host of the video, scriptwriting, marketing and more.

This is why an assistant should also be paid correspondingly. Unlike the other jobs that can be done virtually, this job requires the physical presence of the assistant while the video and other tasks related to the video creation process is being done.

Animator

Many YouTube videos are starting to be animated. There are even videos completely composed of animation. That is why there is a growing need for animators among YouTube video creators.

If you are a skilled animator, then this could be a good job for you. Videos designed for children are usually popular. These video creators for children would surely need your assistance and would be more likely to seek you out if your animations proves to be popular.

Seeking Out These Video Creators

It is very clear that to apply for these jobs you would need to most likely search for them in freelancing websites. For example, Upwork alone has many listing for such jobs that support YouTube content creators.

But even though there are many jobs listed in these freelancing websites, there are even more people wanting to get these jobs. The competition is great in many freelancing websites that one need to try more strategies than just applying for these jobs in freelancing websites.

Perhaps a non-intrusive direct approach is possible. Usually, these video content creators leave information on how to contact them in their videos. One also can leave a comment in the comments section of a YouTube video and possibly get a response from the video content creator.

You could use these methods of contacting the video content creator to query them for a job. This has the advantage of you being able to contact the video content creator directly and not use a freelancing website as an intermediary.

Of course, you must not be irritating when you make your job query. It is up to you to create a job query that would likely get a positive response from the video content creator. Usually, job queries that are unsolicited should be short and simple.

One advantage of this strategy is that you get to pick the video content creator you want to work with. If you are lucky to be hired by the video content creator of your choice, you are more likely to produce superior work which would be a positive on your job profile.

Conclusion

YouTube is ever growing fast. Approximately 500 hours of video content is uploaded to it every minute. Therefore, there is a big market out there for people who want to work as video creation assistants and contractors.

There are a variety of jobs available and many could be done remotely. However, the competition for these jobs is great as well. You could try to improve your odds in getting a job by contacting these video content creators directly through their very public contact information.

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