I just got accepted into the partner program on my third brand new YouTube channel in 2026. I've been on YouTube 15 years, but I deleted everything after getting super burned out in 2025. If you want to see what is working to absolutely grow like crazy on YouTube from scratch in 2026, I'm going to give you the most essential information right here.
I've received partner acceptance letters in the last few months on three different channels. My newest one, Jerry Banfield, got accepted into the partner program about 59 minutes ago. Before that, I made a channel and it got accepted into the partner program within a month. And another channel got accepted into the partner program on April 3rd, a little over a month after I started it. So I am making YouTube channels that get a lot of organic traffic, and there's a very, very simple system around that.
Here's my first channel. I made it on March 21st, 2026, and it now has 3,000 subscribers and 348,000 views. This channel cranks out hundreds of dollars a month in ad revenue, but it's also the number one driver of getting people to go to my website at jerrybanfield.com and spend money with me as well.
The key context here: I'm a full-time YouTuber. I have no other job. I deleted everything last year. I tried to do something else — nothing else worked. So I started six brand new YouTube channels in March, and I've now got five to six hundred thousand organic views across all these channels. And I'm grateful that I've got people on my website buying my community chat. People schedule calls. People join my Skool. I've got a book, and people drop tips. And if you want to talk YouTube, you can have a call with me — I have incredible information about YouTube. And I keep it super simple.
The Simple Truth Nobody Selling You a Course Will Say
If you want to succeed on YouTube, this is what it really takes — and almost everybody else is making things complicated for you. They're trying to work you up into spending a whole bunch of money with them instead of giving you the simple truth: if you want views on YouTube, you need to film videos as fast as possible.
I know this goes against what a lot of people tell you, because most people tell you quality, quality, quality. They try to sell you a course on making better quality videos — better thumbnails, better titles. In my experience, that is terrible advice for the majority of you. Because unless you have a massive amount of knowledge about YouTube, you are in most cases going to be incapable of just making better titles, better thumbnails, and better videos. It will be hopeless. That won't work. Not only will it not work — you'll waste your time, you'll waste a bunch of money, and you'll come up with much less than I've got just grinding out videos.
In fact, if you look at the top channels on YouTube, they have more videos than I have. They have more views than MrBeast. They grind out videos. That's what they do. That's what I do. Some people want to debate the quality of my videos, but you can't debate the quantity: 646 videos published since I started this spreadsheet on May 18th, 2026. That's seven videos a day, mostly long form. That's 77 minutes of watchable content — watchable according to some — 77 minutes of watchable content, on average, published over the course of 90, 91 days. And that's every day.
So the secret is you need to be able to make content as fast as possible. That's what you really need to do. One of the easiest ways to do that is grab your phone, just holler at your phone, upload that to YouTube, put any kind of title on it, any kind of thumbnail, and do that over and over and over again. If you're just starting out and you've got a smartphone, you have everything you need. You don't even need to buy a microphone. You don't need a camera. Just do one video a day, every day — make a vlogs channel and do that every day for a few months. Then we'll see if there's any potential for you on YouTube. If you can't at least do one long-form video a day, like 10 or 20 minutes talking about your life, there's no point in you trying to do anything else on YouTube.
Most of the people selling stuff on YouTube want you to think there's some secret they know. Maybe you think you'll learn something that I don't know. There's not. It's effort. It's grinding. It's repeated iteration. It's showing up every day. And the secret is, if you can make videos as fast as I do, you have a very high shot at getting all these partner acceptances, getting ad revenue on a bunch of channels, and having a business system. In fact, I'm wondering which channel will be monetized next — at this rate, the YouTube coach channel and the dating channel are in competition to see which will be the fourth monetized channel I get this year.
Paycheck Channels: Two Crypto Channels, Two Audience Signals
Let me show you the other channels that I've got monetized. My second channel was a crypto reviews channel — the first two channels I mentioned are both crypto channels. What I call those are paycheck channels. If you want to do YouTube full time, you need to find a very clear problem, a very clear pain point, and solve it for people on a daily basis. That's what I did with my ICP channel. I made content for people in ICP, which I believe is the most advanced tech in crypto — game-changing infrastructure for the future. And then people want reviews of these garbage coins in crypto that are honest, which almost nobody does. So I made a second crypto channel.
Most people would ask: why didn't you just do all your crypto videos on one channel? Because I tried that. You need to make very specific content for each of your channels, so the algorithm knows exactly what kind of viewer it should show your videos to. The algorithm decides you're an authority on certain things, and then it brings your audience in. But if I do one channel and put all kinds of crap on it, the algorithm gets all garbaged up and can't tell who it should show my videos to — and then my satisfaction scores go down.
So I do one channel just for ICP. All I do on that channel is videos hyping ICP, every single day. I do a video about ICP every day. It's an ICP video every day, getting thousands of views every single day. And then I bring people to my website on all those videos. If I talk about Bitcoin there, it's only to bring it back to ICP. Then my crypto reviews channel takes a different strategy: it brings people in on a bunch of these other garbage coins — that's my attraction point, my audience point — and then I show them ICP from there. I'm basically doing the same kind of content, but I'm doing it two different ways to two different audience signals. And it works. I've used the tier-maker kind of thumbnails on a lot of those videos, because those work best, and that brings an audience in.
The Vlogs Channel Anyone Could Replicate
Here's another channel — my vlogs channel, the newest one, the one I just got accepted into the partner program today. This is a channel where I'm just doing vlogs. The first two channels you might not be able to replicate immediately so easily, but this channel you certainly could. It's literally just me talking about my life. What's interesting is I talk about the things that most people would keep to themselves. There's literally a video of me crying on camera and talking about this woman I met — some solid drama on there. I talk about crying while walking home from my date with this woman.
I tried some other stuff on this channel, but I lasered in: vlogs. Every day a vlog. Every day a vlog. Because if you think about it — what kind of content would you wish you'd done every day, 20, 30, 40 years from now? I've thought about this as someone who made content for 15 years and deleted all of it last year. The only content I really care about over the long term is vlogs: just take 20 minutes from my day, every day, and talk about my day, whatever was interesting. Then I put the most clickbait, sensational series title I can on all of it, and I bring people to my website. And this channel is getting its own organic discovery.
Cross-Promotion and Session Time
What's awesome is that when you have multiple channels and you do videos on them, they can all cross-promote each other. That's the real secret — do all these different videos on different channels, then cross-promote your channels. Right now I'm cross-promoting my vlogs channel, which you might not have realized I had. And that helps the outcome. The algorithm gets the right audience in on each channel, but the system also gives me outliers. Not everybody who watches my YouTube coach channel is going to go watch my dating channel, my Jerry Banfield show vlogs, my gaming videos — which are some of the funniest, craziest content I put out — or my crypto videos. But what this does is give me depth.
That means somebody, for example, discovers this podcast in their feed organically, and then they decide: oh, I like his dating content, I'm going to go watch his dating channel. My dating channel has got hundreds of subs right now and thousands of watch hours in the last month — on pace to be monetized in the next month or two. I tried a bunch of stuff on my Jerry Banfield dating channel that didn't work as well before. I just kept testing, and I figured out: what I need to do is personal stories. If I do personal stories on my dating channel, people resonate with those a lot more, because everybody else is doing how-to tutorials and telling people what they should think. What's really resonated? Take a title like "Men, stop giving up so easily on women" — that's much more generic than my newer ones: "I started cold approaching women. It worked immediately." "I was better at dating before I tried to be nice." "I stopped pretending to be friendly with women." "I spent $350 on Hinge in seven days, then deleted it."
What's happening here is that my dating channel and my vlogs are cross-promoting each other, and then my crypto videos are cross-promoting with my dating channel and my vlogs too. All that cross-promotion helps get more watch time across all my different channels. So if one person finds my vlog, then starts watching my dating content, YouTube looks at the session time and says: wow, somebody found this guy and they spent a lot of time on YouTube because of finding him — therefore, we're going to push his channel more, because this guy's keeping people on YouTube. Same thing with my ICP videos.
The Funnel Between My Channels
So people find my ICP videos — or actually, in the main funnel I'm running right now, people find my crypto reviews videos. Then they go to the ICP channel. Then they go over to the Jerry Banfield vlogs. And then some of them come to the dating channel, the games channel, or the YouTube coach channel from there. All of this is possible because I crank videos out as fast as possible.
To me, long form should be the basis of your content to begin with, because long form has great discoverability and builds depth. But once you've got your long-form content nailed and you can crank that out, then I start going into shorts, because shorts give me additional free discovery. Take the Jerry Banfield channel I just got monetized — I got that monetized mostly off long-form content, but now I'm expanding into shorts. On average, these shorts should get about a thousand views each. Some of them will get less, like 160 views, but others at some point will get 5, 10 plus thousand views.
And all these shorts feature me. A lot of people try reaction videos, which becomes problematic over the long term. How much time does that take? It takes you too long, and then the main point of the video is not you. All my videos are all about me. Who put this thing together? Me. That's who. Across all my channels, all my videos are about me — my shorts are about me, my longs are about me. I do react occasionally to other people's videos, but only if they're somebody who already supports me. All my shorts are just little stories, and they're giving me additional discovery that then helps me get more subscribers. My long-format videos are cranking in watch time, which gets me monetized easily, and the shorts crank in the subscribers. The shorts bring more people into the longs, and it's one big feedback loop.
Quality Is Debatable. Quantity Is Not.
The secret for all of this is you need to speed up your creation. Literally stop thinking about quality. The real question is: how do you guarantee quantity that's as high quality as possible? Some people make slimy comments, or narrow-minded, shallow comments like, "Oh, you're the king of slop." Here's the thing — and Gary Vee said this in one of his videos I really liked — quality is debatable. You can debate whether my videos are quality or not. That's your opinion. I love my videos and I'm proud of them. And some people say I'm a cult leader. But what you cannot debate is quantity. There's no debate that I've published 646 videos — that I've uploaded 646 videos to YouTube in just over three months. That's not debatable. And what gets results is that which is not debatable: quantity.
Now, yes — I don't just upload AI slop videos where I'm grinding out crap. What you see is that I have a very strong proof-of-human offering. Proof of human is becoming a premium in an age where people can grind out decently done AI videos talking about all kinds of stuff. What's special is that my videos, which are mostly unedited, have a raw, human, authentic feel. And that is also fast and easy to create. Take this very post: all I did was see that I got my partner acceptance today, paste the screenshots into ChatGPT, and say, put all three of these together in a thumbnail. I pay $200 a month for ChatGPT and $200 a month for Claude Max.
Then I also put all this stuff on my vlog, which gives me additional discovery — not that much additional discovery, but it makes everything have some level of permanence. And it compounds. For example, I filmed several videos today, and thanks to Claude, which took the transcripts and turned them into blog posts, I now have 1,287 blog posts on my website. Google sends people directly into my website. I let AI crawlers come in so AI knows what I'm talking about. Then people come into my website from my videos, directly from Google, from word-of-mouth marketing, from shares — and they spend money on my website and in my chat community. And I'm putting up more and more products.
A Mentor With Results to Speak for Themselves
For example, I'm going to put up a YouTube coaching program, which will basically just be having calls with me. If you really want to get good on YouTube, what helps is having a mentor who's got results to speak for themselves, who is going to be available to support and help you, and that you're going to be accountable to. I've helped people build channels to hundreds of thousands of subscribers and tens of millions of views — and all they did was talk with me once a week, every week, for a few months. I helped cut through the BS. Because where most content creators go wrong is wasting too much time on things that aren't important. You waste too much time editing when you should just practice speaking and refuse to edit your videos. I guarantee that if you refuse to edit your videos, you will stop umming and ahhing. And when you mess up, make it a funny moment. Laugh at yourself when you butcher the introduction.
This is something I discovered a decade ago. I did a two-hour, unedited Facebook ads tutorial. Obviously, one of the best kinds of content you can make is teaching people very concrete things they want to learn — that's getting more difficult with AI, but there are still things AI struggles to help with, and you can test out helping with different things. An hour into that two-hour tutorial — which somebody was actually watching, an hour deep — I was going through and writing some ad copy, and I said, "You know what? We're going to put a period on that motherfucker." And this guy went off in my comments and became a super fan. He said, "I was laughing my ass off so hard. I couldn't believe that in this Facebook ads tutorial you threw in something like that just offhand, and I started laughing so hard at it." That's your raw, authentic human experience.
Use AI to Check the Terms and Conditions
Now, you do need to be aware of the terms and conditions. Since I grind out so much quantity of content, I use Claude to check that I haven't violated the terms and conditions accidentally — because I'm cranking out so much content. And then I learn what to say to be a good boy on YouTube. Especially when you're starting out, you should have AI checking your content before you upload it, so you proactively avoid things like community strikes. After 15 years on YouTube, I've got a pretty good idea of what to say and what not to say. At the same time, some things can take you by surprise.
So that's the basic system I've used to monetize three channels since March 21st — about five months. Three YouTube channels monetized from scratch in five months. And at this rate, I'm going to have another one or two channels monetized by the end of the year. The one channel that's kind of dragging is my gaming channel — I haven't actually been playing that many video games, and we're still working on that one, trying different things. My gaming videos are some of the funniest stuff I make. Some of the most viral I've ever gone was for gaming. Like the video "Jerry Banfield's funniest pop your head up Scarface Warzone solos" — you will just go nuts. If you want to see a totally different side of me, and why I went viral before on Facebook gaming, that video is hilarious. I still watch it every now and then, it's so funny. What you can see is that I'm having fun doing my videos.
Why Not Just Do Crypto Content?
The last question I'll answer: you might be thinking, well, why don't you just do crypto content only? That pays the bills. It'd be so much easier to do two videos a day. I did that before, and I hated it. It's boring doing YouTube full time on nothing but crypto content. And this is what almost all these other people selling you courses will not address. They'll tell you to be an authority. They'll show you how to be an authority, tell you to pick some little niche and sell coaching programs to that niche. But if that's all you do on YouTube, it turns into a job. It's boring. Your creativity is stifled. If you really want to be a fantastic YouTube creator, you need to organize your entire life around being creative. I would know what the better long-term strategy is, because I deleted everything after burning out doing crypto crap for two years and then trying other stuff without making it all quite work. Now I've got it all working. I love the content I do. I love that in the same day, I recorded two or three crypto videos earlier today, I recorded this for my YouTube coach channel, I'll record a dating video if I have time, and I'm going to record a vlog right after this. Some days I'll record a bunch of gaming videos all at once — and I have old gaming footage I can use.
My 30-Minute Production Workflow
If you really want to do YouTube full time like I do, it's actually pretty simple: grind out videos as fast as possible, then keep increasing your quality and speeding up your production process. I film on OBS — if you search Jerry Banfield OBS, Jerry Banfield Equipment, or Jerry Banfield Studio, I show my entire setup, how everything looks in my studio and how I've got it all arranged. Literally all I need to do is hit the record button on the Stream Deck. As soon as I stop recording, I drag the file into a folder and start uploading it. The metadata is ready, it's checked for community guidelines, I copy and paste, and the video is live on YouTube. A video that took 20 minutes to film will probably take me 30 minutes of real time total — a couple of minutes of prep work to get the thumbnail background, 20 minutes of talking, and then five to ten minutes afterward to get the video uploaded. I can repeat that process across all six of my channels. That's three hours of real time to post six long-form videos a day. And when I have some extra time, we hammer out the shorts to increase discoverability.
So there you go. I just gave you better information right here than some of these people who hardly know anything about YouTube except how to make money off people who don't know any better — better information than I've seen anyone else cover.
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