The Business Of The Channel Has A NEW Direction ️ UPDATE ️
cheers this video is going to be a little bit different because i need a beer i've just made a decision and it feels good and i'll explain everything as we go but i've made a decision that's going to cost this youtube channel thousands of dollars potential money in the future um and uh look the whole video today the whole day's filming has been all over the place today there will be no intro this video is mainly about the business side of the youtube channel and very little about where i am and i'm really sorry about that because today i genuinely went out and i'll show you bits and pieces i went out today and filmed an entire video or attempted to here in canon it is a beautiful local thai village thai tourist thai resort town here on the beautiful stretch of beach in kanong in nakhon si tamarat province koh samui's in the distance there's people playing volleyball and enjoying the beach behind me um but today i got sidetracked i got sidetracked um in a bad way let me explain so i have 25 000 subscribers and we're getting about 20 000 views a video okay that's amazing thank you so much for watching my videos and because of that i've been getting emails from brands from companies that want to do product placement paid sponsorships that kind of thing and i knew that day would come as the channel grows because i have been part of another youtube channel called the budgeteers me and my best friends we spent four years part-time making a travel channel and as that grew we started getting brands approached to us and we always said yes because it was a a pet project of ours and the money that we got from the the brands and the products that we were promoting enabled the content the content would never have happened if we didn't get that kind of money because we had to quit our jobs we had to leave our place of work for six seven weeks nine weeks at a time to go make videos so we justified working with brands because it enabled it enabled the content however we're in a position right now where the content that we're making on this channel and that you're watching and enjoying and i'm loving making is making money it's making money um i've shared on this channel a few times uh you know i took you for thai food and we talked about my aspirations for the channel then i shared with you how much money the youtube channel made in its first month of existence and it was like minus 300 but now we're making profit um and so i i got distracted look let me just explain right so the first the first part of the video that i filmed this morning i brought my macbook with me because i want to look at the edit i was editing this at lunch like i always take you know two three hour break during the day and i was editing the beginning and during the course of this day and during the course of going back and forth with two companies in emails and and and talking about what was happening to you guys it allowed as i was talking aloud to you about them and about the opportunities i went from agreeing and justifying to now being completely against the whole thing you know when you say something out loud and it makes business sense but it doesn't feel good in your heart it's kind of basically what happened today so let me explain so at the beginning of the video i'm in canaan right and i've got my motorbike and i'm talking about today we're going to explore kanom and it's all great but then um things go a bit weird but not at the beginning at the beginning i want to show you this part because this part is genuine i i actually went home i went to chiang mai um i had to do some business and at the beginning of the video i wanted to show you and share with you parts of that journey so let me let me keep this bit in let me show you what i filmed this morning okay um i'm back um and when i say i'm back what i'm actually mean is i'm back um what i didn't show you uh the last video i was in kopangyang and uh after that i actually went home i went back home for about five days four days five days not back to england but back home to chiang mai um i knew i had to go back in june at some point and uh but it came around a little bit earlier than i thought so i just decided to fly up to chiang mai i parked at my bike at suritani airport when i went inside all of the flights were cancelled thankfully mine wasn't and then i flew to bangkok i switched planes i got on another plane it was packed absolutely packed and then i got to chiang mai and when you come through the airport it's fine there's basically no restrictions to go to go anywhere on a train on a plane or on a bus i actually cut quite a bit of that out because it went on for seven minutes of me talking about my trip to chiang mai um then i went for breakfast and had a full english breakfast at frankie's cafe one of you guys recommended frankie's cafe thank you i had a lovely breakfast i had a lovely flat white and i talked about it and then i went for a bike ride and uh i tried to oh i found this really cool road let me show you this part because i do want to show you a little bit of cannon because this is my kanam video believe it or not um i found this incredible up and down road uh just take a look at the footage it was incredible i haven't driven a road like this oh down steep and up this road is hot this road is weird why is it so up and down i've never driven a road like this before have you oh god okay all right i actually feel like i'm gonna throw up oh my god we're pulling some serious g-force on the honda right and then um i did some other bits and pieces but then i went and i parked the bike in this like field that had these like native american um painted style sticks sticking out the ground there were just coconut trees that were dyed but they painted them and it made it look like that native american you know what i'm talking about right it kind of looked like that and i was discussing the paid partnership the paid sponsorship transition i was i was trying to justify the fact that i was going to work with some brands and some and sell some products 26 of you think it's a good thing you see you think it's good you think it's good for the channel it's good for the brand uh sixty percent of you say they are annoying but i get why you do them and 14 say that it ruins the video so that's really important information i kind of had enough data for me to gauge from you guys the audience because let's face it the channel is doing well because i'm making good videos but that you're watching and you're enjoying so it's working hand in hand um so i decided that with your blessing i was going to work with some of these brands there were brands and products that i actually use um and i would be happy to promote okay um if you're one of the people who said like it ruins it for me i get it i get it i get it but just kind of feel where i'm coming from try to listen to what i'm saying and i'll stick to the agreement of if more opportunities come through we'll limit them so it's not in every video it's very seldom and it's only something that's good does that sound okay so at that point of the video i'd convinced myself that i was gonna with your blessing yes some people would you know not like it but most of you had an idea that it was a good thing um or that it was a little bit annoying but you understood and then oh and then i went to this beach and everything went wrong okay everywhere everything went wrong that could have gone wrong i tried to fly my drone and it was acting weird and it was bouncing around and it i just felt like i was going to crash my drone in the sea so i didn't get a good drone shot um then i drove over there and the beach was really really kind of like underwhelming the weather was bad there was trash on the beach i forgot my sd card in my camera so i just walked around vlogging with my gopro with no external audio and it was a complete and utter shambles and the reason why it was a shambles was because my mind was on these email conversations i was having with two companies and they were asking for a lot they were asking for like entire videos creatively interwoven with what i do but talking about what they make and trying to sell it they didn't just want you know a mention uh they wanted quite a lot and they were offering good money they were offering good money now i'm not gonna say how much money it was or anything like that because you know i think that's against the rules it's not good etiquette i'm not going to say the name of the company or what they were offering but in return for money they kind of wanted a lot and i was trying to push back and say no no i'm happy to talk about your products because i use them i'm happy to sell those products to my audience because i recommend them but let me do it the way i want to do it let me do it for a minute um and we'll go from there and they were we just didn't really well we were having emails today and i just felt bad like they were asking a lot for me and i was caving i was saying okay yeah far enough yeah my channel is new yes i don't have a hundred thousand subscribers okay maybe you're right yes okay that maybe we'll just work this out and then and then and then i was driving along the road and um i kind of came to a realization right this is how i imagine youtube this is how i imagine this this this channel right there is two sides to it there's the and two sides to me involved in this channel as the person who creates the content and makes the content edits films does it i'm the one man band okay so everything is on me so on the left hand side i i see this as an artistic venture i see this as a creative platform for me to upload fun educational entertaining videos and i use my artistic flair in my video editing my silliness my my personality comes through and i i consider that because it's you know entertainment and you enjoy it i consider it to be an art form um i genuinely i i see it as an artistic venture and so i feel like i'm an artist and you know youtube is the canvas thailand is the paint and i'm the artist painting it all together for you to enjoy on the other side i quit my job teaching to make a youtube channel so that in the future it would start making money because of google ads and things like that and we are we're making money we quickly grew and we are growing every day because i feel like my artistic side is just going wild three videos a week and i can say what i want within reason and do anything and have fun climb mountains kayak around and have no interruptions other than ads coming into youtube if you don't have youtube premium um you'll see ads however the business side of me knows that i should sell products in my videos for money for good money it will improve the financial business side of the channel but as the business side grows the artistic side slowly dies in equal measure every minute you sell a product a bit of the artistic originality soul is eaten away in my opinion i feel that because i'm really like i see it as an art form i also see it as a business i'm really conflicted can you imagine if like you know somebody like beyonce was you know singing about coca-cola for one minute during one of her songs on her album she'd get paid a lot of money for it but also everybody would probably think she was a sellout and she'd lose fans but she'd also make a lot of money and uh obviously i'm not beyonce and obviously i'm not getting a deal with coke for billions of dollars but that's how it just felt it just didn't feel right so i ended up responding back to this this lady today again i won't tell you what company whatever but i wrote back and i said and this is like five emails and i'd already confirmed that i was gonna work with her um and i've just written to the other company that was asking for way too much um that i'm not interested but i just wrote back to her and i said hi i'm really sorry i've actually just talked myself out of doing this i just don't think while my channel is still so new and so authentic that i should be selling products or companies within my content i might do in the future but just for now i don't feel it's right i hope you understand and she's she said i absolutely understand don't worry now i just want to also say i know this video is a bit different um i want to say how i justified saying no apart from the fact that it doesn't feel right the amount of money that we're making from ads on my videos versus the amount of money that these brands were offering me i actually just like looked at it according to my analytics if i want to make the same amount of money that they were offering me i would just have to make two good videos like pro videos that perform well if i get a video that gets 30 40 000 views if i get two of those that's how much money they were offering me okay so i've just come to this to the eye to the uh to the what's the word i'm looking for conclusion that if i want to make this amount of money that they're offering me all i have to do is work harder on the channel i just have to make two more videos so that's what i'm gonna do i am going to turn down every single paid opportunity that comes my way for the for for the for the foreseeable future i don't really understand why i would change my mind unless it was like a stupid amount of money for a company that i literally use every day and they were really lacks about what they wanted they were like yeah just here's a billion dollars and talk about us for five seconds that's never going to happen so in order to counteract that i'm going to work harder i'm going to make four videos a week instead of three for the next few weeks maybe months i'm gonna upload monday no no wednesday friday saturday and sunday four times a week it might be wednesday friday sunday monday or it might be wednesday friday saturday sunday you might get three in a row on the weekend because if i work harder i can make more money and then i can not have to you know sell something to you guys i can just make more videos for you guys that you enjoy to watch and i enjoy to make i think it's a win-win situation i get to just be real and talk about what i want whenever i want about what i want within reason obviously you can't say anything bad about anyone or incite hate or anything like that because that's obviously the rules of youtube what i'm talking about is i just get to make more videos i get to go more provinces well not more provinces but i get to just not take a few days off a week take one day off a week and just work hard when i went home to chiang mai apart from getting a haircut new shoes and fixing some things in business uh like personal stuff um i also had a realization that i just need to work a little bit harder um three videos a week might seem like a lot but i know i can do five but i also don't want to overwork myself and then i was conflicted with the whole should i do this shall i do that and so i've just decided today during the course of this adventure around canon that i'm not gonna do it i'm not gonna sell anything on this channel for money i'm just gonna make more videos and have more adventures i i hope you appreciate that i know some of you are probably like oh paddy just it's a minute long who cares get the money talk about the product and and go laugh all your way to the bank but i think it's different now the artistic side of me beat up the business side of me today on the bike let me know what you think was it a good decision is that stupid decision do you care you probably clicked off this video 12 minutes ago when i said that it wasn't about thailand just look behind me look this is kanam look there's kanam come to kanam um tomorrow we drive to nakhon si tamarat the day after we're gonna go camping in the mountains of nakhon si tamara then i'm going to drive up to trampon then we're going to do ranong and then we're going to leave phuket phuket's going to come later because it's too restricted right now then we're going to go up up up up i'm going to work harder i'm going to drink less beer get early nights wear sunscreen be more responsible when it comes to my gear because i'm just i'm treeing it like like oh wait is that even plugged in i hope you could have i hope you could have heard me my my mic thing wasn't even plugged in the hallway that would have been really typical i'm gonna watch this footage back now and i bet it's rubbish i think it's a good thing thanks for watching thanks for understanding and i'm going to do a live stream on sunday tomorrow this video is going to come out on saturday so come join the live stream uh about seven or eight pm thailand time tomorrow q a hang out have a beer and talk about anything all right cringy finish of a video as usual canon
2021-06-12 15:19
