Naenna took up the opportunity, and quickly started earning good money at just 15. Stack shared how he landed a job with MrBeast thanks to a Twitter DMĪ similar thing happened to Ayden Naenna, who saw that a tweet from a creator who was looking for someone to edit a video for him. Read King's tips to network and build relationships in the YouTube industryĭavid Stack, who freelances for different creators, worked for a year for MrBeast after he contacted the creator's lead video editor via Twitter DMs. 'I'm constantly DMing people and I don't think there is anything wrong with admitting that you are a fan of someone,' she previously told Insider. It may be enough to show drive and dedication and make the right connections online, even without meeting creators in person. Taylor King, who has edited videos for YouTuber Alisha Marie, built her way into the job through networking and doing free work for creators to learn editing skills. How to become a YouTube video editorīecoming an established editor often depends on building the right connections. While some YouTube creators, like MrBeast, have in-house teams of editors that are employed full time, other editors work as freelancers and run their own businesses. Video editors, in particular, are in charge of selecting, cutting, and arranging the footage of videos.

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