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A clever way to discover new content on YouTube

With hundreds of hours of video 21 Incredibly Interesting YouTube Facts 21 Incredibly Interesting YouTube Facts YouTube is big. Really big. You just won't believe how immensely big it is. I mean, you may think Facebook Video is big, but that's just peanuts for YouTube. Read More You can subscribe to specific users to make sure you don't miss out on their content, but what about users you don't even know?

YouTube really makes it possible to subscribe to topics, making it easy to discover new content and YouTubers. But they haven't done a great job of promoting auto-generated topic channels, and unless you know how to look for them, you wouldn't know they were there.

YouTube explains how these auto-generated channels are created:

These channels are created by an algorithm. If the algorithm determines that there is enough popular and high-quality content belonging to that topic, it will be automatically generated.

It seems that the content ends up in these auto-generated channels thanks to an algorithm as well. YouTube explains:

So how do you find these channels? You're just going to have to use YouTube's search function. So if you are interested in photography as a theme, just search for “photography theme“. If the topic exists, it will appear at the top of the search results.

A clever way to discover new content on YouTube

If you're not sure what to look for, just search for “theme” on YouTube and you can see what's available. You can then subscribe to these channels just like you would a user-generated channel and you'll see the newest videos ending up on that channel.

How do you discover new content on YouTube? Let us know in the comments.