This article was first published in 2019 and has been rewritten from the ground up. The old version opened with two claims worth retiring for good: that YouTube is the world's second largest search engine, and a block of...

This guide replaces two older Sprizzy posts that split the same list across two parts. Everything here has been re-checked against YouTube's current documentation, and the mistakes that turned out to rest on folklore rather than evidence have been...

The work is not over when the upload bar hits 100 percent. What you do in the hours after publishing decides whether the video reaches the people who already subscribed, and whether you can tell a genuinely weak video...

This article first went up in 2019, and nearly every platform detail in it has changed since. The brand marketplace it told you to join closed its self-serve doors, the merch site it named renamed itself, and YouTube quietly...