Building Practical Engineering with Grady Hillhouse
Grady Hillhouse started making woodworking videos as a hobby while working as a civil engineer. That experiment eventually became Practical...
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YouTube Creators Hub
YouTube Creators Hub is a podcast for YouTube creators looking to grow their YouTube channel for business or personal use. The podcast is hosted by Dusty Porter who is YouTube-certified and...
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Evergreen Videos and a Business Beyond Ads with Marco Bucci
Marco Bucci started posting art videos as an experiment. Over time, teaching became the foundation of a full-time creator business. This wee...
From Sewing Hobby to Full-Time Creator with Chelsea Swindle
Chelsea Swindle started sharing sewing projects online because she wanted something creative of her own—and a way to contribute to her famil...
Better Titles, Thumbnails, and Hooks with Ian Lauer
You can spend days making a video—but will people click it, and will the opening make them stay? Astronomer and creator Ian Lauer joins Dust...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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 th...
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 numb...
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, fo...
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 chang...
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 Christe...
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...
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 episod...
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...
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 attor...
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...
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....