YouTube Creators Hub

How to Build a YouTube Audience That Stays | Matt Whitman

How do you build a YouTube audience that trusts you and keeps coming back? Matt Whitman joins Dusty Porter to share his approach to audience loyalty, Patreon, and a susta

YouTube Changed What Counts as a View | Here's What It Actually Means

YouTube now counts a public view from the moment a video begins playing, even from the first frame. Dusty explains what this means for long-form videos, Shorts, livestrea

What Brands Actually Pay for a Sponsored Video in 2026 (w/ Chase Brogan)

This week I'm joined by Chase Brogan, who has built an 840,000 subscriber tech and gaming review channel and now works with 10 to 20 brands a week without ever pitching a

He Changed This Video's Title 9 Times Before It Took Off | Daniel Braun

Daniel Braun narrowed personal finance down to credit cards, points and miles, and built a 247,000 subscriber channel on the back of it. In this episode he is unusually o

How She Got Monetized in 19 Days on a Brand New Channel | Alexa Milmont

Alexa Milmont left a 12-year corporate marketing career, started documenting her reselling business on YouTube as a hobby, and was monetized in 19 days. Two months and 12

How to Price Yourself So Brands Actually Pay You More | Spencer Pugh

Most creators are told to build an audience first and figure out the money later. Spencer Scott Pugh did the opposite — and it worked. In this episode, the tech reviewer

Three 100K+ YouTube Channels, One System: Inside Zealand's Creator Machine

He streamed to 10 viewers for two years. Now Zealand runs three 100K+ YouTube channels and a full-time team. He shares his real monthly numbers, his exact production syst

What 6 Years of Weekly Uploads Actually Pays a YouTube Creator | Tasia Custode

Tasia Custode lost 90% of her video production business overnight when the pandemic hit. One weekly YouTube video later — every Thursday, for six straight years — and her

How to Pivot Your YouTube Niche Without Losing Your Audience (w/ Simple Lucas)

Lucas built a YouTube channel about barefoot shoes — then a video of him staring at a wall pulled 1.8 million views in four months and changed everything. In this episode

YouTube Brand Deal Negotiation: How to Charge What You're Worth (With AyChristene)

What's a brand deal actually worth and how much are you leaving on the table by saying yes too fast? This week, Dusty sits down with Christene of AyChristene, a creator w

YouTube Creator Q&A: Niche, Monetization, Burnout & Going Full-Time

In this special YouTube Creator Q&A episode, we tackle the questions creators are asking right now—how to choose a niche, grow consistently without burning out, and build

He Makes $8K/Month on YouTube With Less Than 100 Videos

James Kelly doesn't even have 100 videos on his YouTube channel, but he's pulling in £5,000–£7,000 a month ($6K–$9K) from it. In this episode, the man behind some of the

Quitting Your Job for YouTube: Pros, Cons & Runway With David Voorhies

What does it actually look like to leave a stable corporate job and go full-time as a creator? In this episode I sit back down with David, a returning guest and acrylic p

He Made a Video for His 90-Year-Old Mom. Now He Makes $100K a Year

On the Creators Hub podcast, Dusty Porter interviews YouTuber Rich Bowlin (over 200,000 subscribers with under 250 uploads), a retired attorney and CEO of a religious non

Is the Algorithm Broken? Real Creator Questions Answered (2026)

One of you asked if you should quit YouTube. Another's got 200 subs and feels invisible. Today I'm answering the real questions creators are asking about growing on YouTu

He Quit Corporate at 44 | Hit Full-Time YouTube in 12 Months

Episode 500! Ty Myers left a 20-year corporate career at 44 and hit full-time YouTube income in 12 months — with no prior video experience. He breaks down his $3,500 ment

The Truth About Making Money on YouTube in 2026 | Josh Summers

In episode 499 of the Creators Hub podcast, Dusty interviews entrepreneur Josh Summers from the All Things Secured YouTube channel about building a nearly 431K-subscriber

The YouTube Tools 90% of Creators Are Wasting

  This week is a rare double-shot solo episode — two of Dusty's Creator's Corner monologues bundled into one main feed drop. Part one breaks down the underrated trio of

Ghost Hunters Creator: "I Would've Started YouTube 16 Years Ago"

What happens when the guy who created one of the most successful paranormal TV shows of all time walks away from network television and plants his flag on YouTube? In thi

How This 33K Channel Makes $5K a Month (No Sponsors)

What does it really take to build a profitable YouTube channel in a niche everyone says is "too small"? In this episode, Cody Moneymaker pulls back the curtain on how his