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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...