Bradshaw's Blog

Stop using CapCut. Right now! CapCut is one of those "free video editors" that caught on with online folks because: 1- it was free 2 - it was easy to use It was one of those new "thingys" that was popping up everywhere for the last couple of years and you were being told "You GOTTA use this!" to make ALL your videos! It has layering, and all the other bells and whistles sure to entice novice video makers and newbie editors to download CapCut. But then. Some of the "free options" that made this free app so appealing suddenly migrated over to the "paid option". It's still good, it's still good, we all told ourselves. Then we found out that CapCut was from the good people at BiteDance who are the Chinese company behind TikTok and the United States has been giving that company a big old case of the stink eye for allegedly giving users' data to the Chinese government. This has proven to be almost an open wound in the eyes ...

Not usually one of those guys keeping track of which animation studio is killing it recently versus which one's falling back after a run of "flops", but I have to give a nod towards what SONY 's been up recently on the animation front recently. They started putting together a diverse body of work on the animated side of things, while, to some, those studios like Disney haven't really kept their eye on the prize as far as good animation is concerned. There'll probably be plenty who will rise up in righteous indignation at anyone disparaging the Mouse House but Sony deserves some "attaboys" for getting a few things right. This is just acknowledging Sony Pictures Imageworks for doing a good job with the new animated movie "Kpop Demon Hunters" which was just released on Netflix. But they should also get some kudos for bringing us films such as 2022's "Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse" which I still think of as one of the be...

Always interested in finding out how much someone is making with Google Adsense and HeyJohnScott gives us the lowdown on how much money he's been making with YouTube Shorts. This video was uploaded to his employer's channel ( vidIQ ), but it looks like today is his last day and he's leaving the nest and will be flying on his own. So how much money has he made anyway? Well watch his last video below from vidIQ called "How much shorts ACTUALLY make now (after the update)". He reveals he's made over $20K over on his personal channel which has 315K subs (nice) and just 6 total videos (with most a couple of years old) but around 33 YouTube Shorts. Most of his longer form videos have sparce viewership under 5K views but one older video with a nice total of 231K views. Most of his traffic is from his shorts which get millions of views. Nine of his YT Shorts have over 10 million views each, and one has 43M. The rest are still doing good, just with a smaller viewe...

I think I'm Team Venus Flytrap in this little scenario rather than Team Black Widow. Spiders kinda give me the creeps but I am enough of a "Sigma" to be able to get rid of that creepy-crawler that's living rentfree in your bathroom that keeps you from going in there. The thumbnail for this video caught my eye so I had to watch this one. Its likely one of those "AI thumbnails" that a lot of people are perturbed about, like those created with MrBeast's "inspirational" AI thumbnail offer that had many responding with heated words. Its still a good one though (likely Photoshopped). But you're reading this waiting til I get to the video, so I'll let you watch. I'm wondering if I can take bets on who is going to win this battle of nature? The spider looks robust and scarily big enough to shrug off the little mouthy part of the Venus Fly Trap. But who knows for sure? Let's see... The video was uploaded by TerraGreen who have run...

Good question. If you're Reno and you have a YouTube channel and you feel you've somehow blundered into a 10,000-strong audience, you might ask yourself if you can you make money with a relatively "smaller audience" like this one? How can you compete with all the huge accounts that generate millions upon millions of views like PewDiePie and MrBeast? And he didn't "blunder" into that subscriber count, he posted repeatedly for most of the four years he's had this account, with a 2 year gap when he was swimming in college. Here's a link to his YT channel: Reno James But for the last year or so he's been posting again and getting some traction as now he has 2.2 million channel views and 400-plus videos uploaded. He's put in the work. The video that's below has 40K views and it was posted just 2 weeks ago. It hasn't gone viral but it raises some interesting points if you're looking to monetize your YouTube channel or just l...

You've just uploaded your video to YouTube and now you're watching the view counter crawl upwards as the hours pass. Will this banger of a video finally be the one that breaks through? Will you get 100K views? Or (gasp!) will be the one that generates 1,000,000 views? You have visions of Adsense millions dancing 💃 in your head. Maybe this time you'll hit the jackpot and make a boatload of money while your subscribers and others enjoy your content. Maybe you'll see a record on your first day with the most views recorded in one day, but you think that Mr Moneybags, MrBeast probably has that record too. But, nope. Surprisingly, MrBeast DOESN'T have the video that has received the most views in 24 hours. He did, but then a new gunslinger showed up and stole his thunder. Below you'll find most of the videos that have the most first day views. The video with the most views was the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI (bet you forgot about that one, didn't ...