Here's my set-it-and-forget-it system for running six YouTube channels. If you have multiple interests but worry about posting too much, mixing topics, burning out, or confusing the algorithm, this is exactly how I do it.
One video a day, staggered and batched
I publish one video a day on each of my six channels on a staggered schedule, so anyone following all six doesn't get hit with all the notifications at once. The system lets me batch: if I'm feeling dating content, I'll film 10 dating videos at once and schedule them over 10 days, so I'm covered even when I don't feel like that topic for a while.
The two rules
Don't publish more than one video a day on a channel, and don't put many different topics on a single channel. When I tested putting everything on one channel, it hurt me: someone watches a crypto review but skips the gaming, dating, and coaching videos, and YouTube reads that as a bad experience and penalizes the video. Instead, make your channels feed into each other. YouTube heavily rewards session time, so when someone finds me on a gaming video and then watches a dating video and then my daily channel, the original video ranks higher and so do the others — separate channels, cross-promoted.
Quantity and one funnel
If you want to be full-time, you need quantity, so I film fast — a quick thumbnail, a quick title, and a short, value-packed video — and I add occasional live streams on monetized channels to deepen the community. Because I'm always making videos, I don't have time to obsess over metrics, which is freeing. And I keep one consistent monetization funnel: every video, on every channel, sends people to jerrybanfield.com to book a call. That lets me schedule a week or more ahead, take call-heavy days or days off, and keep the whole thing relaxed. If you want help with your strategy, watch my YouTube coaching playlist here.