On Monday, I posted a video for the Clash of Clans Clan Wars Karaoke contest. To be honest, it wasn't my great video - it basically involved me rocking side to side, singing badly, accompanied by a vibrating pig.
And the pig wasn't even vibrating.
As I write this the video has scored over 2,000 views - not exactly up to Gangnam Style, but it is four times more views than my second most viewed video.
It's attracted a lot of comments, and the dubious honour of receiving more dislikes than likes, but nevertheless I've found myself checking my channel statistics a couple of times just to see the view count soar way beyond my usual, so if you have watched it, thanks.
And I hope it didn't scar you too badly.
While I'm talking about YouTube, YouTube have just started their latest Creator Academy Boot Camp - even though I've completed the academy before, I'm retaking it to refresh my memory and hopefully connect with some other YouTubers. It's well worth doing if you're a YouTuber that would like to improve.
Finally, this blog wouldn't be complete without pointing you over to Tim Clark's blog where he's talking about the challenges of modern life, and what we need to do. Well worth a read - I for one look forward to Tim's control of the planet, I'm sure he'll do a perfectly acceptable job.
Showing posts with label youtube creator academy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube creator academy. Show all posts
Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
No Chocolate cake
Sometimes I feel bad when my son cries. Okay - I always feel bad when he cries.
But then he turns to me and goes "Want Chocolate Cake!".
A) Not that upset.
B) Clearly lining himself up to "be upset" when the desired cake does not appear.
C) I want cake too.
Anyway - I finished!
I finished the YouTube Creator Academy last night. It's been a really valuable exercise to learn more about YouTube and how to sort your videos out to make them more attractive to potential viewers, and it's also let me experience a lot other channels by other creators that I'd normally totally miss. I particularly recommend TheNickCrompton - very funny plus I believe he's from somewhere in Yorkshire so that's always a bonus!
If you haven't already seen it here's my welcome video to my YouTube Channel:
Apart from that I've now put a page up on my website about guest posts - I've started getting people talking about working together on stuff so I thought I ought to have some guidelines in place. If you really want to you can check them out.
And if you did contribute on Kickstarter to the second season of My Gimpy Life, well done! The target of $50,000 has been passed, so they're going to have the money to make the season. Jolly good.
But then he turns to me and goes "Want Chocolate Cake!".
A) Not that upset.
B) Clearly lining himself up to "be upset" when the desired cake does not appear.
C) I want cake too.
Anyway - I finished!
I finished the YouTube Creator Academy last night. It's been a really valuable exercise to learn more about YouTube and how to sort your videos out to make them more attractive to potential viewers, and it's also let me experience a lot other channels by other creators that I'd normally totally miss. I particularly recommend TheNickCrompton - very funny plus I believe he's from somewhere in Yorkshire so that's always a bonus!
If you haven't already seen it here's my welcome video to my YouTube Channel:
Apart from that I've now put a page up on my website about guest posts - I've started getting people talking about working together on stuff so I thought I ought to have some guidelines in place. If you really want to you can check them out.
And if you did contribute on Kickstarter to the second season of My Gimpy Life, well done! The target of $50,000 has been passed, so they're going to have the money to make the season. Jolly good.
Sunday, 9 June 2013
YouTube Creator Academy
Currently my son is taking great joy in organising things. In his playroom he has a load of letters and numbers, and given time he'll arrange them into piles of:
Well, it keeps him out of mischief.
Do you have a YouTube channel? Are you interested in getting more views, improving your channel, and all that kind of thing?
If so, have you checked out the YouTube Creator Academy? It's an online course discussing the various features of YouTube (especially the new YouTube One channel layout) and how to make your videos more popular. I've started doing the course and I've certainly found it of value - I've mucked about with my channel homepage (if you've not visited my YouTube home, head over to https://www.youtube.com/ravenswingthog and check it out) and added a new welcome video too. It's actually quite challenging, it encourages you to work with other YouTubers on the course and it's really highlighted to me just how far I have to go in improving the quality of my content to compete! But I'm working on that. If you do like my videos though, if you do have a YouTube/Google account, please do like my videos and subscribe to my channel if you can - and feel free to let me know what you'd like me to make, I love feedback! Feel free to leave comments on YouTube, email me, or tweet at me at @ravenswingthog - it's all good.
Not to over do it but if you haven't donated yet on Kickstarter for the second series of My Gimpy Life (first series available here) you've got till Friday 14th to donate - as things stand they're just under $10,000 short of their target, so if you were planning to put some cash in, head over to Kickstarter before the deadline passes.
- Numbers
- Foam letters
- Hard plastic capital letters in one font
- Hard plastic capital letters in a different font
- Hard plastic lower case letters
Well, it keeps him out of mischief.
Do you have a YouTube channel? Are you interested in getting more views, improving your channel, and all that kind of thing?
If so, have you checked out the YouTube Creator Academy? It's an online course discussing the various features of YouTube (especially the new YouTube One channel layout) and how to make your videos more popular. I've started doing the course and I've certainly found it of value - I've mucked about with my channel homepage (if you've not visited my YouTube home, head over to https://www.youtube.com/ravenswingthog and check it out) and added a new welcome video too. It's actually quite challenging, it encourages you to work with other YouTubers on the course and it's really highlighted to me just how far I have to go in improving the quality of my content to compete! But I'm working on that. If you do like my videos though, if you do have a YouTube/Google account, please do like my videos and subscribe to my channel if you can - and feel free to let me know what you'd like me to make, I love feedback! Feel free to leave comments on YouTube, email me, or tweet at me at @ravenswingthog - it's all good.
Not to over do it but if you haven't donated yet on Kickstarter for the second series of My Gimpy Life (first series available here) you've got till Friday 14th to donate - as things stand they're just under $10,000 short of their target, so if you were planning to put some cash in, head over to Kickstarter before the deadline passes.
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