Grow on YouTube with This No-Fail Strategy with Travel Vlogger Nadine Sykora: The YouTube Power Hour Podcast 390
“Always do what the platform’s pushing, because that will be your easiest way to grow and hack the system.”
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Nadine Sykora is one of the top travel video content creators on YouTube where she has made over 800+ videos gaining over 48 million + views. Over the years she has written, produced, and created content on campaigns for some of the biggest international brands, companies and tourism boards. She has appeared in Forbes, CNN, BBC, US Today, Observer, NBC, Mashable, Lonely Planet, BuzzFeed, Matador Networks, Yahoo Travel, Huff Post & more.
Nadine has also presented & spoken on expert panels at Google, the Canadian Media Producers Association, VidCon, Buffer Festival & the Travel & Adventure Show. She Co-MC’d the International Luxury Hoteliers Conference plus was a keynote speaker at the Women in Travel Summit.
Nadine’s extensive experience, reputation, and on camera personality are highly sought-after in the travel and social media industry. All these factors make her one of the top creators in her field.
I was so excited to have Nadine on the show, as she’s pretty much one of the OG YouTube travel vloggers. She started on YouTube way back in 2005 when pretty much all you could find was sports and television clips, and sketch comedy skits, filmed on people’s webcams. Her experience has really run the gamut of the evolution of YouTube and the rise of the influencer! In this episode, Nadine had so much to say about growth on YouTube, how to grow on YouTube in 2023, and how to have a sustainable, long-term career on YouTube. There are tons of amazing tips and strategies, and I know you’ll love to hear what Nadine has to say about what she’s learned from her long career on YouTube!
“It’s a gamble you have to take as a creator: what are you putting your time and effort into? Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you get it wrong.”
In this episode we talk about…
- How Nadine got started on YouTube…. Way back in 2005!
- How YouTube has evolved in the last 18 years
- The freedom that a career as a YouTuber gives you, especially moms!
- Treating YouTube as a business and how it affects the creative process
- The rise of short-form video and how if affects the long form video creators
- How Nadine creates short-form content
- Experimenting with short-form content as a creator
- Nadine’s biggest struggle as a content creator
- How to know when it’s time to move on
- Nadine’s biggest advice for anyone looking to have a career on YouTube
“It’s like exercising a muscle. The more you do something, the better you’re going to get at it, and because every platform wants short form content, it’s worthwhile to exercise that muscle.”
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