Before you start shooting your own YouTube videos, there is one thing that you need to have: a camera. In this article I will review 5 camcorders from 2017 - some of them very cheap and beginner-friendly, others more oriented towards semi-professional users. You can jump directly to the reviews using the following table of contents:

However, maybe you’re still asking yourself if you should buy a camcorder or a different kind of camera. In that case, here are some considerations:

Whether you’ve just started on YouTube or you’ve been running your channel for a while, sometimes it’s hard to come up with good ideas for the next video.

This is especially the case if you have done a lot of similar videos in the past, so you might want mix things up once in a while:

In order to help you get inspired and find new ideas, I created the following (and quite extensive) list of possible ideas for your YouTube videos.

While some of the ideas on this list will work better for vloggers, others will work better for informational channels and businesses.

However, I think the best way to come up with new ideas is to keep an open mind and just play around with what comes into your head.

So let's dive right in...