Switching to the Amazing DaVinci Resolve Video Editor

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Adobe Premiere Pro is an advanced video editor that comes with many great features. Those features do come at a price, with the software costing £19.97 per month here in the UK. Premiere Pro is included in Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite of apps, which costs £49.94 per month. I have paid for Adobe’s Creative Cloud … Read more

Taking My Tech YouTube Channel in a Different Direction

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I do not enjoy sitting analysing statistics all day long, but from time to time it is important to review things. When I began to analyse traffic stats for my technology channel recently, it quickly became apparent that I need to change things moving forward. The channel continues to grow every week, however I am … Read more

YouTube Changes Mid-Roll Ad Break Policy

The Only Reason to Join a YouTube Network

YouTube refers to any advertisements during a video as a “Mid-Roll Ad Break”. On 27 July 2020, YouTube introduced some changes to mid-roll ad breaks that change the number of advertisements that are shown during YouTube videos. Since most of my videos are longer than eight minutes, these changes effect most of my videos, but … Read more

Why I Use Restream For Live Streams

Restream

Restream is a fantastic online video service that helps you stream videos to multiple platforms and channels at once. I started using the service last year and now use it for all of my live streams. Most people who stream live stream directly to their preferred video platform, be it YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Twitch or … Read more

Small YouTube Channels are Now Demonetised

Last month I spoke about YouTube’s decision to demonetise small YouTube Channels. Their new rule means that any channel that has less than 4,000 hours of watch time within the past 12 months and less than 1,000 subscribers is not eligible to display adsense ads. Yesterday, that new rule went into force and my Rise … Read more

How I Respond to YouTube Comments

One of the most rewarding aspects of being a content creator is interacting with your audience. I’ve always loved publishing content and chatting with my readers and viewers about the topic I discussed. Of course, not evert comment is a positive one, particularly on YouTube. I have been blogging actively since the mid 2000s and … Read more

You Can No Longer Monetise Small YouTube Channels Using Adsense

Famous YouTubers such as PewDiePie have lead many to believe that being a YouTuber is profitable. The reality for most people is quite different. Whilst YouTubers with millions of subscribers make millions, channels that have over 100,000 subscribers normally earn enough for the host to work full time on their channel. This is the dream … Read more

An Update on My YouTube Journey

At the start of the year I set out my goals for YouTube in 2017. I touched upon this again in May 2017 when I passed the 1,000 subscriber mark on my technology YouTube channel. I haven’t passed any milestones on my YouTube channels recently, but I thought it was as good a time as … Read more