100+ Vlog Ideas for Beginners

Staring at the camera you rattle your brain for inspiration. Nothing! I hear you and I know what you’re going through.

The search for the first idea for a vlog can be long, chaotic, and depressive. I have lived through the phase and don’t want anyone else to be in that situation.

I have put together a list of 100+ vlog ideas for beginners. Whenever you’re out of ideas, visit this page.

These ideas will inspire you and get the creative juices flowing. Let’s get started.

Lifestyle Vlogs

1. My Daily Routine

Take viewers through a typical day in your life. Give them a glimpse of your morning yoga session, grocery shopping, breakfast, traveling to work, and evening winding down routine before bedtime.

2. Spend the Weekend with the Audience

Make videos on how you spend the weekends as compared to your routine during the weekdays.

3. Weekly Favorites

Review the past week with the audience. Showcase the important things that happened during the week, and share the favorite things you did, the challenges you faced, and the plans you have for the next week. 

4. Planning for a Special Event

Show the viewers how to plan a special event. The event can be an office gathering, your child’s birthday party, or a surprise party (with the video published after the party, of course). 

5. Daily Life Hacks

Use your vlog to share tips and tricks to simplify common everyday tasks. This can include videos on simplifying cooking, house cleaning, laundry, transportation, etc.

6. Adopting a Minimalist Lifestyle

Money saved is money earned. In this challenging economic environment, videos on living minimally have the potential to draw in plenty of viewers. Showcase how to live minimally and the benefits it brings.

7. Take Viewers on a House Tour

Invite the audience to your little nook of the world! Show the different rooms and their unique features. This can serve as inspiration for their own house. 

8. Redecorating Your Room

Document the process of decorating or remodeling your room. Share the planning process, inspirations, and design choices, and show the whole project.

9. Handbag Essentials

Your video can show the handbag must-haves for every woman. This could include a secret snack, comb, lip balm, pepper sprays, and a whole lot of just-in-case things.

Personal Growth and Self-Improvement Vlogs

10. Share Your Growth Story

Inspire others with your personal growth story. Share your journey of personal hardship, self-discovery, and confidence building.

11. Reinventing yourself at the Workplace

Share how to handle stress and pressure at the workplace. Offer tips on improving productivity and handling office politics.

12. Goal Setting

Many students, professionals, and budding entrepreneurs are unable to realize their full potential because of poor organizational skills. Use videos to teach them to set goals, prepare schedules, and achieve their targets.

13. Time Management

This is a critical skill for success for everyone. Through videos offer advice on the effective use of time; how to reduce time wastage and how to use time effectively.

14. Tips on Journaling

In this chaotic world, journaling can keep your life organized. Share tips on how to maintain a personal journal for mental health and personal growth.

15. Share Your Self-Care Routine

Inspire viewers to prioritize self-care by listing the seven pillars of self-care. Share your daily and weekly rituals for total relaxation and rejuvenation.

16. Inspire with Your Weight Loss Journey

Show the path to a healthier lifestyle by documenting your weight loss journey. Share your fitness goals, workout routine, diet, and motivational tips.

17. Overcoming Addiction Challenge

Addiction comes in many forms: smoking, drinking, drugs, spending money, shopping, and more. Use vlogs to provide guidance to those fighting these battles.

18. 24-Hour Challenge

In each video, complete a unique and exciting task like surviving with 20 dollars a day. Such videos can be fun and entertaining, allowing you to attract a large number of viewers.

Travel Vlogs

19. Travel Documentary

Don’t talk about top tourist destinations; show them. Provide the viewers with a list of best local attractions, cuisines, and tourist hotspots.

20. Holiday Planning

Through your vlog help holidaymakers plan and organize their vacations. Share inputs on hotel booking, itinerary planning, travel insurance, and more.

21. Home Away from Home

People planning a vacation don’t need to peruse hotel brochures or customer testimonials. Your review videos on best vacation stays can help viewers find their dream accommodation.

22. Road Trip Vlogs

Create a documentary of your latest road trip through scenic locations, delicious roadside cuisines, and hidden gems. Make viewers feel they are right beside you, enjoying the trip.

23. Cultural Explorations

Educate your viewers about different cultures, social setup, unique customs, and traditional festivals. Take your viewers to locations, peoples, and cultures, they have never seen and experienced before.

24. Solo Camping

Document your time spent in the lap of Mother Earth. Let your viewers see your survival instinct take over. Your travel videos may encourage others to take up camping.

25. Travel Bloopers

Educate the audience about the things to do and not to do during vacation. Your valuable advice can prevent the viewers from making common vacation mistakes.

26. Affordable Vacations

Show to the world, it’s possible to explore the world on a budget. Share tips on how to cut costs without sacrificing comfort during travel.

27. Vacation Tips and Hacks

Sharing valuable vacation tips and hacks based on your experience. Your videos can make their travel smoother, more efficient, and more enjoyable.

Foods and Cooking Vlogs

28. Capture Hearts with Cooking Vlog

You can create tons of videos by showcasing your cooking skills. Start with simple recipes and branch out to complex dishes from around the world.

29. Eatery Review

From street food stalls, cafes, and restaurants, to 5-star hotels, review these places and share your honest review with the viewers.

30. Summer Special Recipes

Use your culinary skills to quench the thirst of viewers this summer. Demonstrate the art of making mojitos and other summer beverages.

31. Seasonal Fruits and Veggies

Explore the most popular fruits and vegetables during various seasons.

32. Healthy Snack Ideas

Food cravings can force you to eat unhealthy foods. Show your viewers how to make nutritious snacks like fruit salads, energy bars, nut chikki, and more.

33. Grocery Haul

Take your viewers on a virtual shopping trip and offer tips on finding the freshest local produce and favorite staples.

34. Festive Eats

Share festive vlogs on vibrant and flavorful recipes that create a festive atmosphere. Offer ideas on how to bring festive cheer to the table.

35. Kitchen Organization

The kitchen is the one room that needs organizing more than any other place in a house. Share tips to declutter the space, organize utensils, and keep the room clean and efficient. 

36. Food Challenges

Entertain the audience with food contests such as an eating contest, cooking a full course meal in an hour, a cooking challenge between two local chefs, and many more.

Health and Fitness Vlogs

37. Health and Fitness Tips

Share your expertise on various health and fitness topics. There are scores of topics to discuss which means you’ll be busy for months.

38. Home Fitness

Not all fitness enthusiasts join a gym. You can cater to their needs by making videos on home workout routines, fitness plans for people of various age groups, how to plan a home gym, etc. 

39. Health Product Review

Give your honest review about the latest workout machines, fitness gadgets, and supplement reviews. Create buying guides that can help viewers make an informed decision.

40. Diet Plans

Share your opinion on various diet plans. Show them how to modify the plan to suit the audience’s health goals and lifestyle.

41. Nutritional Facts

Teach your viewers how to interpret the nutritional chart of various food items. Share the nutritional benefits of foods, address common food myths, and advice tips to follow a balanced diet.  

42. Yoga Videos

Demonstrate various yoga poses and techniques. Share the proper way to perform various breathing techniques with the right mudras to use for each technique.

43. Psychological Wellbeing Vlog

Make videos on various mental health topics. You can share your opinion or invite experts to talk about stress management, how to cope with anxiety, and when to seek help.

44. Fitness Challenges

Encourage the audience to participate in your fitness challenges such as the 30-day workout and weight loss challenge, 10,000 steps per day challenge, no-fried food challenge, etc.

45. Home Remedies

Create videos on home remedies for common ailments and health challenges such as minor burns, bruises, headaches, nausea, etc.

Hobbies and Interests Vlogs

46. Puzzles and Board Games

Share tips on cracking crossword puzzles, Sudoku, scrabble, risk, checkers, and others.

47. Video Games Vlogs

Video game streaming is one of the fastest-growing niches. You can start by live-streaming your gameplay with commentary.

48. Handyman Videos

Make videos out of the work you do around the house. This can include painting chairs, building a workbench, replacing a faucet, and repairing a floor.

49. Origami Vlogs

Both kids and adults love origami. Publish videos that teach this ancient Japanese folding skill to the viewers.

50. Gardening Videos

Through your videos show the audience how to create their own kitchen garden or a tiny English flower garden.

51. Painting Vlogs

Teach kids how to draw and paint. The videos can cover everything from simple geometric shapes to landscape drawings with pencil shading.

52. Beginner Tips

People don’t approach a teacher to learn a new skill, they turn to videos. You can create tutorials on knitting, sewing, birdwatching, and other hobbies.

53. Vlogs on the Hobby of Collecting

Share your knowledge of finding, acquiring, storing, organizing, and cataloging of rare maps, coins, stamps, and other items of interest.

54. Passive Income Vlogs

Help viewers find a second stream of income. Try yourself first and teach them how to distinguish genuine projects from fake, fraudulent ones.

Technology and Gadgets Vlogs

55. Digital Product Review

Try the latest software, apps, and electronic gadgets and share your honest experience of using these products.

56. How-to Videos

Nowadays digital and electronic products have become so complex that people need a little help in setting up and using them. You can create videos that’ll help them install and use the products.

57. Tech Event Vlogs

Cover local tech events and share the latest scoop of news and interesting happenings to a wider audience.

58. Technology Tips

How to stop apps from tracking your phone activity, how to take a screenshot using a phone, and how to update your internet security software – these are just some of the tricks, hacks, and useful information you can share through your videos.

59. Tech Repair

Show how to fix minor glitches that happen in electronic products such as phones, computers, televisions, etc. Such videos could save the viewers hundreds of dollars spent on repair.

60. Comparison Videos

Like me, there are many who shortlist a handful of products and take a long time to ultimately pick one. Through your videos, you can help the audience distinguish between similar products for easier decision-making.

61. Gadget Buying Guides

Nowadays, buying guide videos are indispensable for anyone planning to buy a new gadget. Make videos that educate viewers on best features, brand research, product history, etc.

62. Tech Prediction Videos

I read a book on AI written 25 years ago. Watched a Stephen Hawking interview about AI telecasted 10 years ago. Similarly, you can share your thoughts on developing technologies that can play a crucial role in our lives in the future.

63. Jugaad (non-conventional) Solutions

Make videos on low-tech, innovative, and cost-efficient solutions to common tech problems.

Fashion and Beauty Vlogs

64. Fashion Trends

Share your insights into the latest fashion trends including the most popular color patterns, and trending styles for men, women, and children.

65. Cosmetics Review

You can create a ton of videos reviewing cosmetics and fashion accessories. Test the latest products and discuss their quality, price, and performance. 

66. Skincare Routine

If you’re proud of your fresh, soft, and supple skin then teach others the secrets of maintaining young and healthy skin.

67. Hairstyle Tutorial

Provide your viewers with step-by-step tutorials on creating the latest hairstyles. You can instruct them on creating the perfect everyday style and unique styles for special occasions.

68. Manicure and Pedicure Videos

Create videos that help viewers achieve saloon-quality manicure and pedicure at home. Also, discuss the products they would need for basic nail care.

69. Makeup Essentials

Under this category, you could include videos on putting together a makeup kit for travel, essential items for morning and evening makeup, and must-know makeup tips.

70. Sessional Fashion

Educate fashion enthusiasts about the must-haves for every season. Provide daily wear inspirations, style guides, and the latest outfits for the current season. 

71. DIY Cosmetics

Skin care and achieving healthy hair need not be a costly affair. Teach your audience to make their own skincare products with ingredients available at home or easily purchased in the local stores.

72. Thrifting

Show viewers where to find high-end cosmetic products at affordable prices, how to update existing wardrobe to match the latest trends, and how to get your hands on budget products at online and offline stores.

Creative and Artistic Vlogs

73. Music Tutorials

Cover the basics of classical music from the west and east. You can also hold discussions on how music has evolved over centuries in different parts of the world.

74. Understand Art Vlogs

Most people appreciate art but have little understanding of it. Make videos of famous artists and their best works.

75. Photography and Videography Videos

Nowadays, everyone wants to take pictures and videos. Share tips on choosing the best camera setting, how to take quality photos, how to film and edit videos, etc.

76. Audiobooks

Create audiobooks on popular titles, both fiction and non-fiction. You don’t have to spend a dime to make audiobooks on copyright-expired books.

77. Classic Works Vlogs

Create summaries and reviews of novels and non-fiction books. You can talk about the authors, characters, and historical context, analyze various themes in a book, etc.

78. Poetry Discussion

Conduct solo or group sessions on poetry, from fun limericks to sonnets. You can read and discuss famous works of poets like Lord Byron, PB Shelley, etc.

79. A Day in the Museum

Take your audience on a museum tour, explaining the significance of the object in the collection. You can start with the local museums that hold historical artifacts of the bygone days.

80. How to Write Vlog

The ability to write persuasively is an incredible skill to possess. Through your videos guide your viewer into become a better writer.

81. Author Interviews

Use your vlog as a platform to highlight authors and their work. Invite them for an interview to discuss their latest book.

Informative and Educational Vlogs

82. Brand Videos

Create videos on businesses and their founders. You can provide information about their history, vision, market share, yearly turnover, competitors, future prospects, etc.

83. How It’s Made Vlog

Take your audience behind the scenes of some iconic products such as Lays and Heinz. You can also show the viewers how food products are made, packed, and transported.

84. Interview Tips

Interview skills decides the future of a person. Provide tips on preparing and successfully cracking job interviews.  

85. Landing a Job Tips

Individuals know the right job is out there. Through your videos provide viewers with tips to finding and applying for the right jobs.

86. Math Videos

From basic geometry to complex calculus, every math concept can be effectively taught using videos. Use diagrams, graphics, and examples to help the audience easily understand math concepts.

87. Back in Time Videos

The history of civilization is a few thousand years old, the history of humans is a few hundred thousand years old, and the history of our world is a few billion years old. Pick one chapter in our long history and start making videos on that subject.

88. Science Made Easy

Science is complex, but make it easy for your audience through videos that provide simple, clear, and easy-to-understand explanations.

89. Learn a Language Vlog

Make tutorials to teach the letters, grammar rules, and sentences of the language you know very well.

90. Pet Videos

Make videos on pets like cats and dogs. Share information on interpreting pet behavior, caring for pets, and adopting pets.

91. Politics Vlog

Invite friends to discuss everyday news, from local politics to a country’s international relations.

Entertainment and Community Vlogs

92. Reaction Videos

Share your genuine response to songs, trailers, movies, and other content. Bear in mind that the success of these videos depends on your personality and authentic commentary on the content.

93. Social Experiment Videos

Capture genuine human behavior like recording a passerby’s reaction to an open manhole, an injured puppy, or a disabled person trying to cross a road. Even if it isn’t your content, you can share your thoughts on human behavior in such situations.

94. Best Social Media Content Videos

Make a collage video on top-x memes or videos from various social media platforms.

95. Movie and TV Series Review

Review the latest and old classic movies and TV series. Share your thoughts on your favorite characters, storyline, and plot twists.

96. Sports Discussion

Air your opinion about your favorite team, their performance, and analysis of the latest game. You can invite others for a group discussion as well.

97. Top Ranked Content

Make videos on the best content on various OTT platforms. Provide information about highly anticipated upcoming movies, books, web series, etc. 

98. Go Green Videos

Share tips on reducing carbon footprint, recycling, increasing green cover around the house, and rainwater harvesting. Provide information about various environmental movements happening around the world.

99. Local Community Vlog

Amplify the voice of the local community through your videos. Cover local charity events, and interview prominent local citizens, business leaders, and sportspeople.

100. Comedy Sketches

Make everyday scenarios the subject of your comedy skits. You can also parody popular movie scenes or imitate actors and politicians.  

101. Short Story Vlogs

Create audio moral stories for kids. You can make it more interesting and fun by including animation to connect with the viewers.

Final Thoughts

The proper place for a vlogger is in front of the camera and not sitting at the desk brainstorming for ideas.

These 100+ vlog ideas should be enough to get you started on your creative journey.

Start vlogging and if you stumble upon ideas, not on the list, then kindly share them with us, so that your idea can inspire others.