[tomashubelbauer]

Those talking head vlog-style channels are more personality driven whereas big production channels are usually more content-driven. Big grain of salt here obviously, but IME the chips more or less do fall this way when you look at the bigger picture. If you're not going to put effort into standing out on the editing and production style, do you have a good enough on-screen personality to compete with the current top-dogs in whatever niche you'd enter? My guess would be that it would be much easier to stand out based on your knowledge you have to share and the effort you put into the presentation than on personality, because not everyone can be authentic and interesting enough on camera, or be a good enough actor.

Edit: on second read I realized the tone of this comment could be read as dissuasive. I wanna clarify that I mean the opposite, I do support you in trying to launch a YouTube channel, I know far too many people who I think would make for great YouTubers I'd watch! But I do feel like you're underestimating aspects of this just based on a figure estimated by a web-site which probably doesn't have fine-enough grained access to YouTube data anyway and I think it would be better to come into it with realistic expectations.