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There's always that one YR Shorts video that catches your attention while you are scrolling and that you end up watching over and over again. For me its indy music, or just the music people create that feels fresh to the ear. Sounds kinda "vibe-ish" but I guess I enjoy being surprised by how much I like something. And this little band from Argentina sounds like it has something to say. The band is called Pacifica and it's two main group members are Ines and Martina. Ines plays lead guitar and Martina does the bass notes. That's Martina playing an bouncy intro run on the bass before launching into the lyrics (while giving meaningtul eye contact) "Premature rejection I'm just trouble in your head. It's just infatuation or your favorite mistake." She continues with the camara flipping between Ines playing accents on her guitar and the drummer who was doing the heavy lifting with the bass to create the bouncy push for the song. I've heard ...

The video starts with this guy, Mike Waters talking about how he'd just started this YT channel a couple of months back and how he's surprised to have reached 6,700 subscribers. A month after this video was uploaded, he now has 11.5K subs, so he might know what he's talking about. Starting a YouTube channel and growing an audience from nothing. Ziltch. Well, he's grown his own subscriber base fairly quickly maybe he has some pointers you could use to increase the views on your own videos. "Grow an audience", as I heard someone say once. It turns out that Mike has had several YouTube channels in the past and this one is more of a personal challenge to help people, "to serve, on the highest possible level" his audience as he tries to make this into a business. He started by relating he had been reading subscriber comments when one struck him as important because the person had become a bit bored with his content and when Mark prompted him with t...

You're probably considering starting a YouTube channel to make money. You see how massive YouTube personalities like MrBeast can get rich quick. Maybe if you watch him, you'll figure out how to make money and you'll be the next YouTube overnight multi-millionaire. "Step aside PewDiePie, it's MY turn to shine in the spotlight!" And with massive views, buckets of money will rain down. Money from ads, sponsorships, affiliate marketing, selling merch. "Selling merch? Like t-shirts and hoodies and stuff?" You ask. Yeah. Merch. But that's a topic for another time. Let's stick to the plan. Let's take this step by step. First you see how other content creators are managing their YouTube accounts while trying to make some money. This guy, JJ Buckner , he's going to spotlight some YouTube creators telling their various audiences how much they got paid for one month online and how they did it. First, who is "JJ Buckner"? Well, h...

In case you haven't heard, Puff Daddy, Sean Combs or just call him Diddy, was just found guilty of 2 felony counts of the five he had been charged with. He was found guilty of "transportation to engage in prostitution" but was found not guilty on the more serious sex trafficking and racketeering charges. He's still in lockup in NY pending sentencing. Reaction to the news of the verdict pinged it's online way to the ears (and eyes) of these three Twitch streamers who all have something to say about the Diddy verdict. They all have sizeable Twitch audiences (and their names are linked to their Twitch home page). First will be Hasanabi (2.9M subs on Twitch), then Charlie aka moistcr1tikal (5.7M subs on Twitch) aka penguinz0 (17M subs on YouTube). And then, batting third, will be Asmongold on his second channel, Zackrawrr (Where he has 2.1M subs). His main Twitch channel says he has 3.9M subs but Asmondgold says, "Last Live 2 Years Ago". This is a vi...

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 ...

Break out the tin foil hats boys, because PewDiePie is unplugging from the Google mother ship. He's heading offline. He bought himself and Marzia and the various PewKiddos a cabin far away in the woods, off the grid where he plans on growing his own veggies, raising a couple of chickens and start enjoying the good life. Why the big change? Well, for those who like to keep track of such things... PewDiePie Is No Longer In The Top 10 WHAT?! When? How did this happen? Well, while Felix was living his life and doing Felix things as Felix likes to do, like learning how to draw over the last year or so, we were all co-opted and distracted into subscribing to other channels like MrBeast 's flashy content and other stuff (hey, now he's up to 409 million subs and marching ever closer to a billion). So PewDiePie has dropped out of the Top 10 Most Subscribed list. What's Felix's reaction? To decouple himself from Google and try to live a less scrutinized lifestyle withou...

I don't know if you've seen The Crow or not but this is a dark little gem that needs to be on your list of movies to watch. Or watch again. Starring the late Brandon Lee (yes, son of legendary martial artist Bruce Lee) as the main character, or anti-hero, Eric Draven, who died during the making of the movie after being shot by an improperly loaded prop gun. The film was released after Lee's death, becoming both a commercial as well as a critical success and was based on the comic book series by James O'Barr, which was published in 1989 to much critical acclaim.And the music! The soundtrack was amazing and worked perfectly with the story in my opinion. The movie is about the revenge Draven seeks after being resurrected by a supernatural crow a year after his own death (on Halloween no less) trying to save his fiancée Shelly (played by Sofia Shinas) during her fatal attack in their shared apartment at the hands of a gang of criminals. The crow seems to help Draven and...

Get ready to plunge down the old "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" rabbit hole. Its time for another hoedown with Wayne Brady, Brad Sherwood, Colin Mochrie, and of course Ryan Stiles. Host Aisha Tyler asks the studio audience for a topic and they choose "marriage" as the subject and throws it over to the guys as the music begins to play (courtesy of Laura Hall) with Wayne kicking it off. I can't help but laugh out loud just about every time I watch clips from the show on YouTube and this is a good one. Even Colin Mochrie lost it when Ryan invoked "a young Joe Pesci" causing all to fall apart. When they all composed themselves, wiping away tears of laughter, Ryan tried again but broke again replacing the Pesci line with "a young Abe Vigoda", another unexpected reference. I've been watching Whose Line Is It Anyway? since it first showed up back in 1998 with Drew Carey as the host and mostly featuring Wayne, Colin and Ryan. Aisha Tyler does a...

And here's Asmondgold 's take on The Liver King's threats and arrest. First there's him muttering to the camera about Joe Rogan's "gonna pay" and he's all stealth mode creeping through a house dressed in a black hoodie, with his eyes darting this way and that. He looks deranged in my opinion, but watch Asmondgold's reaction. The "Liver King's real name is Brian Johnson and he had his moment in the sun back in 2021 when the Internet turned their bemused eyes on Johnson who was this weird overly muscled character who ate raw organ meat claiming this caused his "neanderthal-like" build and that you needed to do this too for real healthy living. Here's a Youtube Short video of him sitting down to "eat breakfast". But he doesn't really eat much raw meat in the video, showing distain for actual food like the whole foods, slapping it off the table. After being exposed as a fraud Johnson had been STILL desperately ...

Once again, the pitchforks are out, youtubers are out in force, and boy are they angry, and they're calling for MrBeast 's scalp or at the very least an explanation WTF he thinks he doing. Why, you may ask, because isn't Jimmy the beloved smiling face of YouTube from a content creator standpoint? Here's a quick video from OG Youtuber Phil DeFranco where he covers the main points. Well just like the sudden reputational downgrade Elon Musk experienced recently, Jimmy Donaldson, owner and the main driving force behind YouTube's Most Subscribed Channel (with more than 408 million subs) and it feels like MrBeast poked many youtubers in their collective eyes. MrBeast has apparently embraced the dark arts of artificial intelligence and has found a new way to monetize AI and he is offering you this gift (for the low, low price of your creative soul) and a mere $80 a month so you too can forgo forever the tedious challenges of creating you own thumbnails with software ...

I've been a viewer of the videos of LEMMiNO for a long time now, first noticing his detailed, well-thought out content years ago, mostly his stuff about Space, which has developed into a multi-year, episodic series that I've recommended vigorously to my fellow space-nerd friends. The video below is LEMMiNO's most recent video that he's uploaded to YouTube last May 2024 called "The Unbreakable Kryptos Code" that currently has 7.5 million views. Posting the video here does not detract views or Adsense revenue from LEMMiNO at all, as all views and ad money stays with the channel that uploaded it. Enjoy. Now back to our previously scheduled blog post. Like a lot of the really good content I stumble across, LEMMiNO was a smaller channel with niche-like beginnings (in his case an apparent love for "rage comics"), his content slowly morphed into more thought provoking stuff that he calmly narrated in a soft-spoken, almost ASMR-like Swedish accent. But...

For most, Google Adsense is one of the primary revenue streams available to youtubers and Jenn from vidIQ points out some new options for increasing the amount of money flowing towards content creators on the website. If making more money with your Youtube channel interests you, then take a look at this video that's just been uploaded. It may give you some ideas of where you might expand your online endeavors or maybe grab an idea to put on the back burner to followup with later. These might offer some different ways to help crank up the money-making aspects for you. Of course there are the usual methods of increasing the amounts of money you can generate by getting brand deals or sponsorships, selling merchandise (like t-shirts, artwork), using affiliate marketing (getting a small slice of the pie when someone buys something you've directed them towards), digital products (ebooks, templates, software), or things like courses (but please not any of those lame "I made a...

This video came out a couple of years ago, but those longtime fans and subscribers of the Timothy Delaghetto channel will love to see Tim following up with his lovely ex-girlfriend Iliana from back in the early days of his channel. Tim has dropped his old alias, "delaghetto" and uses his real name these days, Tim Chantarangsu, which is a good thing after all, as he's now a grown-ass man, who's married with a couple of bambinos, plus its a little nod to professionism. He's even renamed his old second channel to Tim And Chia Vlogs where they now upload videos about their family, kids, friends, etc, and keep viewers informed about what they're up to these days. But you're here to watch the video with Iliana below, where she appears on his podcast called "No Chaser", so let's take a look. One thing I have to say is shout out to Tim's wife Chia for being supportive and allowing this video to be made, because at lot of people would put th...

I wrote a blog post earlier this month to support JJJacksfilms where he pointed out to viewers than a huge youtuber named DangMattSmith who has been spamming YouTube by uploading the SAME videos continuously. First, take a look at JJJacksfilms' video uploaded today where he shows the 8th time DangMattSmith has posted the same spammy video. If you scroll through Matt's videos you can see the same videos again and again and again. Unchanged, all with the exact same thumbnail and if you look, the same content. As JJJacksfilms points out, this is clearly multiple violations of YouTube's Terms of Service but maybe the website doesn't really care because Matt has a YouTube channel with 15 million subscribers. Wouldn't that lead one to speculate the website might be turning a blind eye because of all that sweet, sweet ad revenue? What say you Google or YouTube? Here's a link to my blog post called JJJacksfilms Smells Spam In DangMattSmith's Video if you wa...