I help Creators make better content & grow their YouTube Channels.
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Joined July 2018
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👉 Earn Your Audience's Investment.
One of the biggest mistakes I see YouTubers make is assuming people will care about whatever they have to say.
They see established creators successfully cover a variety of subjects and think they can do the same, but they're missing something very important...
Their viewers know them and are invested in them.
Most viewers don't know you. They aren't invested in you.
Some viewers, however, may be invested in the conversation you're having.
By staying true to that conversation, showing up consistently, being authentic, and building trust, you can help that relationship evolve.
Over time, your audience may shift from:
"I watch you because I'm interested in what you know."
to:|
"I watch you because I'm interested in how you think."
And that's an incredibly powerful shift, but it's one you definitely have to earn. ☮️
Don't sleep on @YouTube's "Ask Studio" AI feature inside of YouTube Studio.
I asked it to look at the highest performing content across my channel in the last 90 days, find what it thought were the reasons that content performed well and give me 5 strong content ideas for a video I should make next.
Ask Studio gave me options I thought were terrible.
I winced pretty hard at this one: "Create Viral Motion Graphic Titles & Sound Design - DaVinci Resolve"
I asked it to explain why it thought that might be a good target.
Ask Studio said it thought my audience would respond to a video showing how to create on-screen text elements in combination with sound effects.
I liked the idea but I thought the title sounded completely wonky.
After having a reasonably deep conversation with Ask Studio (where I may have used some cuss words), I thought, "What the hell, I'll give it a shot".
I scripted out what I thought was the best way to execute on that idea and dropped that video while I was in N.Y.C. at the Made on YouTube event last month.
I actually showed the initial results to the YouTube team while I was there.
So far this year, it's been the strongest long-form video for it's time frame on my channel for an abstract metric you don't hear discussed too much, "Sustained Daily Views".
It's driven about 85,000 views (mostly from Browse) in the first 30 days and continues to consistently drive about 2,200 views per day.
This is a video that will likely bring hundreds of thousands of views to my channel over a short period of time and perform well in the long run as evergreen content.
Talk to YouTube Studio.
It's getting pretty good at responding. ☮️
Creators,
If your struggling with how to get the background music in your videos to sit exactly where you want without overpowering your vocal, this should help. ☮️
👉 youtu.be/CWc1jOjWTEA?si=xk7B…
A lot of people have been asking me about the @Blackmagic_News 20% OFF sale currently happening until November 20th.
Yes, DaVinci Resolve Studio is on sale for $236 USD (lifetime license) as compared to it's usual $295 USD.
But! A bunch of Blackmagic Design hardware is also on sale and many of them come with a full DaVinci Resolve Studio license INCLUDED!
Some of them are killer deals.
Like spending an extra $54 over the usual license price for a Speed Editor and also getting a full DaVinci Resolve Studio license included for FREE!
I spoke with the team and the main product page has been updated with all of items that are on sale and it clearly shows which include DaVinci Resolve Studio.
You can check out what's on sale HERE:
👉 blackmagicdesign.com/product…
Here's one of the coolest things I've seen in a while!
Some of you may know my friend @PhilStarkovich, the former CEO and co-founder of TubeBuddy before he sold the company a few years ago.
Apparently he's a sports card & memorabilia collector and I recently learned that he also once worked at Upper Deck, helping to make the very cards he collected!
(All these years later and this dude still surprises me 😅)
He's no longer collecting, so he's taking his entire collection of sports cards & memorabilia and just GIVING IT ALL AWAY for FREE to other collectors! 😳
If you're interested in some of it, or just want to check out his mission & his collection, you can learn everything you need to know on his website.
Website: philgoodcards.com/
And you can also subscribe to his YouTube channel to watch the giveaways.
Phil's YouTube channel: youtube.com/@PhilGoodCards/v…
This is only the 2nd time I’ve seen @Blackmagic_News do this!
DaVinci Resolve Studio is ON SALE for a limited time!
Get it now for 20% off! 👉 blackmagicdesign.com/event/d…
This sale also applies to some of their killer hardware too!!
With YouTube's new monetization requirements hitting in February, 2027, Creators are going to need all the help we can get being able to create original (not AI Slop), high-value content even faster than before.
For me, editing is always the bottleneck. That typically takes me more time than ideation or filming.
But check this out;
@OpusClip just dropped their AI Producer.
It's a plugin that you can download and use for FREE by adding onto your exisiting ChatGPT or Claude desktop app.
Just drop in your raw footage and it does the rest. AI Producer handles rough cuts, punch ins, zooms, captions, B-roll, motion graphics, music/SFX, etc.
It's like having a video editor right into your AI model of choice.
It uses your ChatGPT or Claude subscription to do all of the heavy lifting.
AI Producer edited this entire video from raw footage that definitely had lots of mistakes and retakes.
You can download everything you need HERE:
👉 producer.opus.pro/
For any Creator who needs to hear this;
Honor your audience. But never let them hold you hostage. ☮️
YouTube channel hijacks are on the rise again, it seems. Three Creators I know have been hit this month and had their channels hijacked and stolen.
DO THIS NOW!
Get all of this information and put it somewhere safe that you can quickly access in event of a hijacking.
👉 Full Channel URL: Must be the standard format (e.g., ://youtube.com), not a custom /c/ or legacy /user/ URL.
👉 Channel ID and Handle: Your unique channel identifier and @username handle.
👉 Recovery Email and Phone Number: The original recovery contacts (or a fresh, uncompromised Gmail address you created for YouTube support to communicate with you).
👉 Recent Video ID: The ID or link to a video you recently published on the channel.
👉 IP Address: Your approximate or specific IP address active around the time the hack occurred.
👉 Timestamp of the Hack: The approximate date and time the unauthorized takeover happened.
👉 Pre-Hack Screenshots: Images or proof of your channel name, banner, or dashboard before it was altered.
👉 Description of the Incident: A clear summary of how the compromise happened (for example, a phishing link, fake sponsor email, or stolen session cookie)
If your YouTube channel is hijacked, use the link I'll post here to fill out the hijacked channel recovery form, which will ask for the above information to get the recovery process moving quickly.
👉 support.google.com/youtube/a…
This is how brands help build communities.
@Blackmagic_News has signed on as a partner/sponsor of my YouTube channel for another year! ❤️
But here's what I really want people to understand:
This partnership doesn't just benefit me, it benefits the hundreds of thousands of people who come to my channel to learn, improve their skills, and hopefully become better creators.
Let me explain.
And THIS is where brand partnerships can make a real difference.
Blackmagic Design's support allows me to continue producing free educational content that otherwise wouldn't be financially sustainable.
The benefit extends to every person who has learned something new, solved a problem, or become a better creator simply because my "DaVinci Resolve for Noobs!" series exists.
TL;DR
Without Blackmagic Design as a partner/sponsor, "DaVinci Resolve for Noobs!" wouldn't exist.
That's not an exaggeration.
Their investment helps keep free educational content available on YouTube to the people who need it.
👉 The brand provides the funding.
👉 The Creator builds the content.
👉 The community receives the value.
👉 More people enjoy using the product.
That's how great brands help build communities and conversely, how great communities help build brands.
And that's why partnerships like this matter so much.
Shout out to @Blackmagic_News for being such an awesome partner 🤘😎🎸
Meta’s Muse AI claims it can shop for you, make purchases, manage appointments, interact with websites, and handle all sorts of tasks on your behalf.
But to do all that, you have to trust it with access to some pretty personal parts of your digital life.
I've been struggling with my own "line in the sand" when it comes to AI use.
So here’s my question:
How much access would you actually be willing to give an AI agent in exchange for that kind of convenience?
And would you trust Meta with it...? 🤔
REMINDER!: Stay Vigilant 😠
Another YouTuber caught when he wasn’t paying enough attention.
All of his content is gone.
Now we have to try to recover his channel ☮️
Make sure you have all of the information available NOW if you need to fill out this form and the ability to do so from another logged in account when it isn’t available to you: support.google.com/youtube/c…
@YouTubeInsider
@TeamYouTube
youtube.com/@askyourcomputer…
