A very common unanswered question among future vloggers and upcoming YouTubers, let´s find out what sort of topic, niche or videos can you start recording to give it a try and begin your vlogging journey!

There are a couple of things you should keep in mind before you even turn on the camera…

Whether you vlog is going to be just about you and your day to day life or is it going to be centered in one particular subject, maybe your job, where do you live, or some weird hobby you got going on, the fact is that you have to keep your audience captivated.

And what does help to do that? Well, simply that you love, or really like, what you are doing or talking about. It doesn´t need to be your most obvious idea, it is maybe something as little as your car toy collections, a tiny but profitable niche if you think about it.

Give a thought and write down a few ideas before you do anything else…

Whatever you choose make sure you are at least really interested in doing so, because if you are not, the camera will not lie for you and it will be shown easily on the screen, by your face and body language mostly!

But, to help you decide, here are ten good ideas for you to get started as soon as possible!

Straight Up Vlogging!

Well, maybe the easiest way to start with vlogging is just going about your day to day life, right?

Not really, it depends on what you are focusing on, you can´t take your camera out and film how you are going to work every day, meaning, that you have 10 or more videos showing just that, it is not a good idea.

Now, two or three videos with a different approach and maybe trying to teach what you´ve learned about relaxing before going to work, waking up early, a couple of good and thoughtful tips on time morning management could be great.

This sort of channel certainly depends on YOU, because you are the approach, and how you do it is crucial, not just what you are going to talk about, but how well you connect with your audience is going to have a much greater weight.

The best possible thing you can do is to combine every aspect of your life, whether is your work or an area of expertise and try to be helpful (or at least entertain) with the content you deliver about it, here next we´ll see nine more subjects that can be your main source of inspiration or just a part of the whole channel… your choice!

Particular Life Experience

Maybe you are or were an Amazonas missioner, traveled across the globe with your family a lot because of your dad´s job, or suffered from depression or other serious condition. The point is that you could help a lot of people by sharing some things you´ve learned about your past experiences.

It is incredible how many people can relate to the same story!

Try to make a couple of tips and moments that could help your audience on how to deal with the “experience” you are talking about, meaning develope an effective way, a script would be great, to deliver your content in a creative and entertaining manner.

Your Work

Your Job or Work can be something pretty normal (and sometimes boring) to you, but it could be interesting for other people!

Whether you are a chef in Hong Kong, a lawyer in Kansas, or a nurse from London you can share your work and make it fun while you do it so people can find your videos entertaining and interesting at the same time.

Think about it, how cool it could be to see the backstage of an upcoming musician trying to make it through the journey of becoming the next rock/pop star, or seen a law student struggle with finals during the semester and sharing good tips on how to concentrate, it is powerful stuff!

Because people can relate to that type of content!

There are possibly many things that happen to you that maybe you don´t realize how well of a video could be. You just need to really put your mind to work and write down as many ideas as you can.

Where You Live

Think about all the people that are looking to travel or even maybe move out to Tokio, Miami, South America, Europe or anywhere in the world for that matter, and you could be their personal guide through every aspect of the culture, places to visit, how´s the cooking, how much you spend to go out, and every little thing you can imagine.

There is a lot of channel-focused only on this kind of topic because is easy and very interesting to see how others live in places that you are going to travel to in the near future, you can learn much from watching a couple of good YouTube videos than any guide you could buy.

Talking about the costumes and traditions of the place, how much are the costs of living, hows usually the weather, what to do and what not to do, and many many other things. It is an endless topic!

Area of Knowledge

Detail about a useful life skill you have and make it a whole channel!

If you are learning to do something you can document your journey in little pieces of content, or maybe you are perfecting a specific craft and want to teach people on a beginners level how to go about it.

Use that knowledge and make fun classes out of it! Remember to entertain and be helpful. That is the secret.

The Entertainer!

There are plenty of channels that take this approach, making it its first way of connecting with people, or sometimes just as a useful resource to amuse the audience while you talk about whatever you chose as a topic.

It could be something as simple as making a “comedy show” where you act out, joke around talking about certain subjects, maybe write a little script or monologue, go out and interview people in a fun way, or whatever else you think could work or that you would like doing.

The center of this type of vlog is not the content itself but more so the way you deliver it, how fun it can be!

Go Out and Interview

That´s it! Go out and interview people about trending topics that are interesting to talk about and see what people think!

It depends on your creativity to choose the matter of discussion but the rest can be pretty easy, there are plenty of people that would like to give their own opinions about something that is trending right now.

The rest of the content will be you asking questions and people answering, of course, the engagement will depend on the subject and your questions, then you just need to go out and find the people that are willing to share, amazing things can happen!

Document Your Journey

This approach depends on you filming a present situation. Maybe it is your career, your relationships, your life in general or everything in between, the focus is on film with no much creative thought, just pure documentation.

Little to no editing and filming raw video material to share meaningful insights and situations that people can relate to and maybe learn something from.

Of course, there´s always going to be plenty of “you” on your videos, and that is the perfect way to make your channel authentic and unique. In a way it is you going about your life.

Use the Collaboration Method

You can find many channels that use this in different ways, whether is just to host every video with two people so you can divide the task and make it more interesting, or just because you don´t think there´s enough going on with your own life (but, trust me, you are usually wrong) and you want to add a friend to make it funnier, or fill up in content and variation.

The Reviewer!

Last but not least, making review videos is a great manner to make a helpful vlog channel!

You can review everything you liked (or disliked), used, or tried out and make a review out of it, or just narrow it down and talk about specific items or a specific niche.

Staying away from technology would be a good idea because it is the obvious choice and there are way too many videos out there talking about this sort of stuff.

A review channel is always, always helpful. If you choose to narrow down and focus on one specific area of expertise the highest the probability to gain an audience with less time and effort.

Conclusion

Vlogging is a great opportunity for anyone to dive in and take advantage of. No matter how good or bad you are at first, you´ll get better at it.

Whether you go with one, two or all of the approaches listed above it doesn´t really matter that much, if you are passioned about it and put your mind and heart into this, because that will be transmitted through the camera with complete accuracy, you will triumph.

Hope it was helpful information for you to get started right away!