I have been on youtube for over 3 years. I have viewed over 32k in videos and i study trends and here are my top niches that are getting attention on youtube. 1. Let's Plays... Chuggaconoroy has 40k+ in subscribers he broke down the Let's play door. On a sidenote me and Chuggaconoroy have talked before and he likes me! 2. Music Videos.... MTV is no long the music king anymore. I have said this before if you know what the billboard hot 100 is MTV use to be the biggest helper in creating number one hits now youtube does. I think any artist who is stupid enough not to pay 5k to get their music video featured is an idiot. I mean Look soulja boy he used youtube to promote his crappy songs. 3. Funny Videos/ Fails: FailBlog Break College humor all use youtube and guess what they all have the biggest websites on the web can i say more? 4. Politics.... Just look all the political Videos on youtube of people debating over obama being a us citizen or Bush getting a shoe thrown at him. 5. Movies.... That new movie paranormal activity is going to make Hundreds of millions of dollars ok and all it did was promote via youtube digg reddit and having stupid commercial after every break when im watching bully beatdown on MTV.com lol 6. Gaming anything. Look at WowHubs or Chugga or IGN or gamespot they are all getting free traffic doing nothing that would put on their website. 7. Vloging.... Case and point Sxephil is so powerfull right now he can easily help a person get 50k in subscribers on youtube if he promoted their channel. I mean this guy could be selling promotions and he sometimes does but i dont know why he doesnt do it more often. I cant think of anything else if somthing comes up ill let you know.
On the music vids - Youtube has been yanking some of them because of copyright issues (if you are talking about bands like Van Halen, AC/DC)
thats not true i see people who are always on youtube posting videos from lil wayne then selling ringtones on the side. I bet those guys who do that make bank.
the music videos can be uploaded today..but rest assured they are most likely taken down a few days later by YT.. missing: guys like that stupid kid (yeah right!) Fred..with the dumb voice he is defintely banking!
You forgot my favorite niche - make up It really is a good one..heh Other than that, great list. This should help some of the YT Noobs out. My ebook is the best idea for someone looking to get into YouTube. 23 pages for 10 bucks check sig.