The latest articles on DEV Community by Richard Cohen (@youtube_tycoon). https://dev.to/youtube_tycoon https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4082311%2F7b5e0f8c-741b-4aa4-b25e-f981333a7d06.jpg https://dev.to/youtube_tycoon en Richard Cohen Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:47:36 +0000 https://dev.to/youtube_tycoon/youtube-automation-52n8 https://dev.to/youtube_tycoon/youtube-automation-52n8 <p>Six months ago I was reviewing a client's YouTube channel thinking this won't scale. My agency was good, clients were happy, money was flowing in, but I was the bottleneck. </p> <p>Every channel needing my eyes on it, every strategy session, every review. There's only so much of me to go around.</p> <p>So I started writing down everything I'd learned across 6 years on YouTube. Niche selection. Packaging. Retention. Monetisation. Every pattern I'd seen work across the channels we'd grown to millions of views.</p> <p>Six months later, that document is an 8-week course. And one of our client videos just passed 1.4 million views, $9,800 in revenue, and 19,700 new subs, in 54 days.</p> <p>The system is the system. It doesn't care if you've got a team behind you or you're recording on your phone after work. It just rewards the people who actually use it.</p> <p>If you want the course on how to grow and monetise a YouTube channel, Send me a DM</p> youtube ai passiveincome programming