Boy – where to start with this episode? We covered so much.

We briefly mentioned the new 15-inch MacBook Air and the Beats Studio Buds+ and then we rolled up our sleeves and got down to our normal YouTube business.

This time around we cover shorts, live streams, my first Google pay cheque and Alex’s 65,000 subs. More than that, we chat about quanitiy over quality, the roll of Substack and is one video per week enough to keep YouTube happy?

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00:00 Intro

01:25 15inch MacBook Air

07:27 Beats Studio Buds+

30:45 Shorts

11:30 Audio testing – sound stage etc

13:35 Are we spoiled with good tech? Who do we make videos for?

15:00 AdSense seasonality

16:30 The ideas for content

19:00 Looking at your metrics

20:25 Making boring content interesting

23:15 David’s first Google payout

23:50 How much these channels cost us to run?

24:50 Alex and his 65,000 subs

26:00 The thought of giving up & gaining subs

28:15 Are YouTube doing their bit for us?

33:20 Quantity over quality

36:10 Is one video per week enough?

39:00 The lack of scale-ability of YouTube

42:05 Re-purposing content

46:30 Newsletters & Substack

50:00 Using an Avatar

52:10 Shorts – are we being lazy?

56;20 Hijack on Apple TV+

58:55 Alex takes on the Metaverse

60:00 You reap what you sow

63:00 YouTube Live

66:00 Monetising Live Streams

68:00 The benefits of a call to action