10 subreddits where video creators ask for editing help (and hire)

Why video editors should hunt where creators ask for help

Video editors rarely find clients through job posts. They find them in the rooms where creators complain: the edit is taking too long, the retention graph falls off a cliff at thirty seconds, the thumbnail is not working, the channel needs an editor but nobody knows what one costs. A creator asking one of those questions is a buyer mid-decision — they just have not written a hiring post yet.

The ten rooms below come from our own analysis of Reddit communities, ranked by traffic. One honest warning first: only two of them are hiring rooms. The rest are creator communities, and nobody there wants your pitch. The editors who win clients from these rooms are the ones who answer editing questions well, in public, and let the creator come to them.

Traffic numbers below are approximate weekly visitors from our own analysis. They change over time, but they tell you where the attention is.

The ten rooms

1. r/NewTubers — about 242,000 visitors a week

The premiere community for small YouTube and Twitch creators. New creators ask about editing, thumbnails, retention and growth — the exact problems an editor solves. It is the highest-traffic creator room on this list, and the one where a genuinely useful editing answer gets seen by the most future clients.

2. r/davinciresolve — about 169,000 visitors a week

The DaVinci Resolve post-production community. Editors and creators troubleshoot colour, cuts, audio and delivery here. If Resolve is your tool, a correct answer in a thread here demonstrates the whole service for free.

3. r/VideoEditing — about 96,000 visitors a week

The general video editing room, geared toward hobby and amateur editors, with a professional sister community alongside it. Creators arrive with beginner problems — pacing, audio levels, export settings — and an editor who answers clearly stands out fast.

4. r/premiere — about 85,000 visitors a week

The community-run room for Adobe's video editing apps, including Premiere Pro and Premiere Rush. Creators post broken timelines, laggy previews and workflow questions. If Premiere is your tool, this is where your expertise is most legible.

5. r/youtubers — about 39,000 visitors a week

A room for content creators to discuss long-form and short-form video. Creators here are further along than the NewTubers crowd — they talk strategy, monetisation and outsourcing, which is where "I need an editor" threads actually appear.

6. r/aitubers — about 23,000 visitors a week

The room for AI video creators. A newer niche, but a growing one: creators building AI-assisted channels ask about tools, workflows and what to outsource. An editor who understands AI-assisted pipelines stands out here in a way no generalist can.

7. r/ContentCreators — about 19,000 visitors a week

A cross-platform room for creators of all kinds. Smaller than the YouTube-specific rooms, but broader: podcasters, streamers and short-form creators all ask editing questions here, so one good answer can reach several client types at once.

8. r/YouTube_startups — about 18,000 visitors a week

A room built to help young YouTube channels get a good start, where creators meet each other and compare notes. New channels are the ones most likely to hire their first editor — and the ones most likely to ask publicly what one should cost.

9. r/VideoEditors_forhire — about 8,000 visitors a week

One of the two actual hiring rooms on this list: a place to hire a video editor or be hired as one. Small, but direct — the threads here are people who already decided they want an editor. Read the room's rules before posting your services.

10. r/YouTubeEditorsForHire — about 6,000 visitors a week

The second hiring room: editors and people looking to hire an editor for YouTube specifically. The smallest room here, and the most direct. If you only have time for one room a day, this one and r/VideoEditors_forhire are the two where a services post belongs.

How to use these rooms without getting banned

The pattern that works in all ten rooms is the same one in our guide to finding freelance clients on Reddit without getting banned:

1. Read the rules of each room before you post anything. The creator rooms tolerate helpful answers and punish pitches; the hiring rooms have their own posting formats.
2. Answer questions, don't pitch. A fixed timeline, a diagnosed audio problem, a retention tip that actually works — that is your portfolio, in public.
3. Never send a cold DM pitch to a creator who only asked a question. If they want help, they will reply to your comment or check your profile.
4. Watch for buying signals, not job posts: "who edits your videos", "how much should I pay an editor", "I need help with editing". Those threads are the leads.

Doing this by hand across ten rooms every day is slow. That is what Avrel's community directory is for: it tracks these rooms and scores the threads where someone is actually asking for help, so you spend your time replying instead of scrolling.

The short version

Creators do not post hiring threads. They post editing problems, retention worries and "who edits your videos" questions. The ten rooms above hold hundreds of thousands of those questions a week — and the editors who win them are the ones who answer first and pitch never. If you want the same approach for general freelance work, see our list of subreddits where freelance clients ask for help.

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