Starting a naturist Youtube channel

[Maurits]

My fiance and I are discussing the idea of potentially starting a youtube channel surrounding naturism once we're married. For context, we're both from Europe and I got her into naturism when we started dating. We were discussing the type of content we would focus on and we like the concept of the channel Nick & Lins (https://www.youtube.com/@NakedWanderings/featured ). They never show explicit nudity, but it is still all naturist focussed content. We aren't necessarily against showing full nudity, but youtube doesn't monetize it and we don't really like the idea of it being behind a paywall or anything like that. I feel like we also attract more genuine naturists this way rather than creeps that just want to see the nudity. The drawback though is that part of what we want to accomplish is the normalization of nudity and naturism, which would be taken away partly by having to blurr nudity.

In terms of content my idea was to have "general" naturist videos, for example where we visit a resort or show new places or do things like q&a's/discussing topics and on the other hand have a series of videos along the line off "trying things naked" where we try something new naked in every video. At the start it would be more simple things like trying gardening naked, trying baking naked or trying hiking naked, but eventually we could also approach more locations and more people and do bigger activities like trying pottery naked, trying archery naked or trying bouldering naked. So actually activities people go and do outside of their homes. I feel like this will also appeal to a younger crowd and also a more non naturist crowd since people that know very little about naturism might not be that interested in yet another naturist resort video but if they see "trying minigolf naked" they might me more intrigued and then they see nudity in a different way than they are used to. We are 27 and 26 and want to also show there are plenty of naturists around our age out there.

We still haven't decided on anything or if we even want to commit to it, but we're both quite open to it, because it's something we're passionate about. We are still just in the brainstorming fase so any ideas and thoughts are welcome. Also I am happy to answer any questions :)

[Randall_Kimball]

I wonder if Substack would be a good platform.  I use it to also host my podcast. Substack does have the video component to it and it's a growing blog service.  Maybe, it could be worth a look?

[Shiden Kai San]

I think its a great idea!  A few thoughts immediately sprang to mind, in no particular order:

1) Creating videos and running a Youtube channel can be fun! It can also be a lot of work. If you haven't already, sit down and write down what you both truly want to achieve with this channel.  Is it just a passion project, where there's a minimum expectation for income?  Or are you hoping for this channel to become a business / an actual job?  The answers to these questions will set your expectations and approach accordingly!

2) Youtube is still the place to be for long-form video content.  No question.  If your goal is to reach as many people as possible, that's where you'll want to be.  Personally, I don't think blurring content is necessarily a bad thing. So long as the content you create is engaging, people will come back to see you.  Not your genitals.

3) I like the idea of a "doing it..naked" series.  IE:  Walking the dog... NAKED!  That kinda thing.  Sure, the video titles will need to be a little sensationalized to draw attention, because thats how the people/the platform works.  But I could see that approach being unique in the YT space and effective at drawing views. If all goes well, that kind of content will propel you a lot closer to fulfilling your goal. It's certainly better than the usual "we went to a nudist beach for the 20th time" type of content.

4) As you already know, most people in their 20's/younger have fairly short attention spans when it comes to social media. If that's who you're appealing to, then the editing, pacing, and subject of your videos will need to match their viewing habits and expectations.

5) Lastly, despite all of what I just said, don't pressure yourself to nail it the first or even tenth time. The biggest and most important step is posting content. Become comfortable with the content creation process and being on camera first. You can focus on the rest, once all of that is sorted.

Good luck and have fun!!