 Welcome to the live stream. It's been one year on YouTube and that is what I'm going to be talking about today. How have things gone? How have things turned out compared to what I was expecting? How have I done in terms of my goals? I think you all know what's happened there. And what are the plans for the future? So that's what I'm going to be talking about today. And first of all, hello, Mr. Paul Duncan, Mr. Moderator extraordinaire. And hey to Jeff as well, my UK contingent. Great to see you as always. I always appreciate you showing up because I know that how later is in the day there. So yeah, good evening to you, sir. So yeah, how are we doing and what's the plans going forward? Do you know what? My stream deck pedal is not working. Well, there we go. We've had our first failure of the stream. Why is that not working? I've usually got a standby pedal, but never mind. I'll have to do it the traditional way and click a button. There we go. So, so yeah, it's a year ago today. I was doing my life. Does that mean that I was I'm actually I'm actually the day after the full year? Must be, mustn't it? If it's, if it's one year ago today, there we go. So nice to see you, Keely. But yeah, one. Yeah, thank you very much. Oh, thank you very much. Recovering perfectionist. It's very good that I am a recovering perfectionist because as you will find out, this has not been perfect in terms of meeting my goals. Great to see you as well, Michael. Nice to see you here. Another person in the late time zone. So yeah, the the reason for starting the channel. I thought I'd just go back to the reason for me starting the channel and just thinking back to the first live stream that I did, which was basically to no one. In fact, there was only one viewer live and that was me watching on an iPad just to make sure it was actually coming through. In fact, I think the very first live stream I did, I was using restream and I don't know what I'd done. I did something wrong. And so I went live and then suddenly loads of little pop-ups open that I wasn't expecting in terms of just like it was it opened up my YouTube page opened up something else. I don't really know to this day what exactly I did. But either way, I actually ended the live stream immediately and then just said forget it and just went live to YouTube instead. But so that is that was a year ago today. And when I started the channel, hello, David, just sliding in. I'm a little bit. Where is it? There we go. Nice to see you. Yeah, when I started the channel, the purpose was for me to practice this whole thing of creating a tutorial videos in one take. That was kind of the the motivation behind doing it. But it's really grown into something that I hadn't anticipated in terms of or really I suppose not anticipated and expected in terms of just all the wonderful people that I've become connected with. I mean, all you lovely people in the chat for one. And then all the people who comment on videos and things like that. It's been it's been a real pleasure and kind of like an unexpected aspect to it. I suppose it's not even stupid to not expected it. But it really has been like the best part of it has just been getting to know all of the other wonderful sort of creators in the community. And by the create the community, there are several communities really. There is the sort of wider e-cam live community, which is a bit funny really given that the channel was intended to be about just sort of tech and productivity. In the end, it's become a bit of an e-cam channel really. The majority of my videos have been about e-cam. In fact, I'm just looking at my total video counts is recorded videos is about 214 videos I say about is exactly. And I think around about 90 of those have been e-cam. So there has been a real sort of predominance on the channel of e-cam related content. And that's just because I just love it so much. And it's been being a real enabler. If you want for me to create content, I wouldn't have been able to create the number of videos that I have done without e-cam live just hands down. There is no question about that. It has been the thing that has enabled me to be doing what I'm doing really. And so yeah, this sort of whole process of creating videos in one take was the driver, but there's been so much else has come out of it. So I thought I'd just take a little look at where we are in terms of my goals. The first goal that I had when I set up the channel was to do 100 videos in 100 days. And that was because of the wonderful Doc Rock mentioning that you can't really take any pay too much attention to stats and things like that until you've done your first 100 videos. So that was the motivation for doing 100 videos in 100 days. I did do that. I set myself the stretch goal of 365 videos in a year. And I've basically not done that. That is where we are. In fact, if we just have a look at the stats so far, or now the end of the year, it's week 52, day 365 and 287. So quite a long way short really of the 365 target. 46 shorts, which I don't really count. And as of today, 1,977 subscribers. I'm still really sort of... Yeah, it's one of those things really. When you start looking at numbers in terms of views and subs and stuff like that and actually think about it in terms of an actual mass of people, if you want, it is quite astounding really. And I know these numbers by people who are on millions or hundreds of thousands of subscribers. I know this number is all relative, isn't it? But to me, it still feels like quite a massive number of people. So I'm truly appreciative of everyone who's watched, commented, subscribed and so on. So thank you all. And seeing these numbers has been obviously a big motivator to keep me going and knowing that I am speaking to at least 1,900 people or so. So 150,000 views in the year as well. That's another one of those sort of mind-boggling numbers to me at the moment. And then 14,500 watch hours. So yeah, those are the stats. I probably could have done the 365 as of the beginning of Leedsida, was it? Where I got off to a really good start and then I've just had some other stuff that's just had to take priority over the past. Certainly the last month really, middle of April. So if I just put out another couple of videos a day. As it is, this is actually my first video onto the channel in May. So I haven't put anything out for the last two weeks. Which is not good from a consistency point of view. I envisaged this changing, going forward. Probably not in the next couple of weeks. Next couple of weeks. I'm definitely not going to be doing one video a day, but maybe a couple of videos in the next couple of weeks each week. And then, and obviously my weekly live stream. And then as of June, I expect things to pick up a pace, shall we say. And we're talking about that a little bit later. So in terms of a little bit more detailed stats, because I do keep detailed stats of these sorts of things. If I come over to here, this is my spreadsheet. So that is actually where we're sitting. 287 videos, and I've been a bit cheeky. I've encountered today this one I'm doing right now. In fact, that's the 14th, isn't it? I've already got an error there. Correct my spreadsheet. So yeah, it is 287 videos. 214 recorded videos, 73 live streams. And look at that, 78 videos remaining. I suppose I could still make them all today, if I make 78 videos. But the total runtime, if you were to sit down and watch all of my videos back to back, is six days, four hours, 13 minutes, and 57 seconds, and whatever this one turns out to be. God help anyone who decides to do that. But anyway, I do find that number quite interesting and tracking that. I don't know why it just appeals to my geeky mind. And the average video length was 30 minutes, 59 seconds. And that's something that I did aim to do by the way, is when I started, I did want my idea for the videos would be that they would average out around 30 minutes. So quite pleased that I did at least achieve that one thing. So that is where we are in terms of the actual videos. Now, one of the things about the way that I've been doing them up until now, apart from obviously CEDA, which was a bit of a practice for batching videos because for the majority of the year, what I had done was I've talked about this at length before, but basically just to very briefly summarise, it was always my morning time was my YouTube time. So I'd get up at 3 o'clock and then do my morning meditation, have my coffee, my journaling, whatever. And then four till six or sometimes seven was always my YouTube time for me to make these videos. And what that meant was if ever I missed out on that time, then basically that time was gone in the day and I didn't have any videos sort of queued up or anything like that, so to speak. So yeah, basically if I missed a day, I missed a day and it meant that the next day I had to try and make two videos in that time basically to try and make up for it. So really that wasn't the best way to go if I was intending to build a real sort of consistent approach to it. But when I started out, I wasn't necessarily thinking about it from that point of view. I was obviously trying to do a video a day, so I clearly was, but I mean, I probably wasn't taking it as seriously as I needed to in order to just do that. And yeah, spending a bit of time to get these videos queued up so that I always had a bit of a buffer to play with is something that I could have done differently and I definitely will be doing differently going forward as well. And yeah, I've got a few other things coming up and ideas for not just the channel, but things that I'm going to be doing with, you know, with Take One Tech that aren't necessarily on YouTube as well. So I'll be talking about that a little bit later. What I will say though is, and I've mentioned it before, the sort of community aspect of it, the e-cam community has been wonderful and wonderfully supportive and great to sort of learn from everybody in there as well and hopefully share a little bit with the people in the community too. But then there is sort of like going in a level, we've got the Let's Get Live community and everything that Doc has done to foster that community and obviously all of the people within it and it's just been a, yeah, a real motivator. I mean, going to Doc's office hours every Sunday for me, Sunday, my early morning Sundays has been something that has been a real sort of, to have that accountability has been a real sort of motivator to me and specifically, by the way, didn't go to any of the Doc sessions before I launched my channel. I knew that I was going to sign up and start going along to the office hours sessions, but I didn't want to do it before I actually started the channel because I thought if I get everything planned but then I start going down that road, then it might actually distract me from getting going. So I wanted to just get the ball rolling first before I joined the group. So it was effectively one year ago tomorrow that I had my first session in Doc's office hours and that's just been, yeah, I can't speak highly enough of the group and of the man himself. It's been, yeah, a lot of what I'm doing now has come from things that I've learned from Doc or things that I've got from the people in the group, the wonderful community in there sharing everything that they're doing just the accountability that comes from that. And then I'm in, yeah, some other little accountability groups which, again, have just been wonderful. You know who you are. So it's, yeah, it's a case of the community aspect of it has been the biggest reward I've got from all of the stuff that I've done on the channel, to be honest. And as I say, I'm intending to grow my community in terms of my Discord, so I suppose I should just mention if you can find the button. If you're not already a member of my community, head over to takeonetech.io-slash-discord and, yeah, you can find a great, in fact, I'm just thinking, I don't think I've added Keely's later, Keely from Discord for Creators did an amazing video recently, sort of like an overview of two really, really great, clear, concise overview of, first of all, what Discord is and how to get into Discord. So, yeah, it's, that was, that was an amazing video, Keely. And I just, I don't, as I was watching it, I was thinking, you've done in two minutes, what I did in basically two long, drawn out, waffly, 20 minute videos. That is something that I do need to address going forward in my videos, in terms of things that I've learned. My initial videos, I do seem that I feel like I'm doing it a little bit now, really. In my recorded videos, though, I did tend to spend a whole load of time on what I was going to be talking about. And there's been a few comments. I've not had any negative comments, really, on the channel, as such. I've had some insightful criticism in, I would say, maybe three or four comments over the whole time of the channel. And they have generally been related to the fact that I do have a habit of waffling. If I was editing, I'd probably be cutting out a lot of it, but that's part of the thing of the channel. I'm not. Well, the result speaks for itself, Keely. It was a layer of love and it worked out perfectly. Well done on that one. So, I've just realised my pedal is still not working. I wonder why that is, never mind. So, I've lost my train of thought completely now. Oh yes, I was just singing Doc's praises, really, wasn't I? And the community for the channel itself, that, again, past 30 days, I would say, has been a bit of a write-off in many respects for stuff that I'm doing on the channel, related to the channel. But I do intend to, as I say, probably not in the next couple of weeks, but maybe the weeks from June onwards, just trying to be a lot more active in the communities in general, but also growing my server, my take one tech server. Hey, Rich, always great to see you here. I'm just laughing at our little LinkedIn exchange the other day. So, I'm losing my train of thought once again. Let's have a little look then, at the stats in terms of what has actually happened in the past year on the channel, because let me have a little look. Where are we? So, it was also, as well as practising this whole process of the one take video production process, another reason for starting the channel was really just to find out what happens if you do sort of post consistently and see what sort of growth can be achieved. So, I did post just the other day actually on my sort of personal Facebook page and now my LinkedIn page as well about the channel. But for the first, well, until like last week I hadn't actually made it public anywhere apart from it being just public, if you know what I mean. So, I hadn't sort of broadcast it to identified any existing email lists or anything like that. The idea was just to see what happens if you're just totally organic with the growth of the channel. So, this is basically that result. This is what I've achieved. Apart from the channel violations and the copyright claim there, this used to look so nice and friendly whereas now it looks like I've been a naughty boy again. But down here, this is where we're at 1,977 subscribers. And if I go over to the analytics this is how it's looked. I really am intending. And please hold me to this. I really am intending to get back to the consistency in there in June. So, here we are with the sort of the views over the past year. Spikes have been when I've been posting content. Although actually I'll say something. The last two weeks since I stopped posting my CEDA videos every day I have noticed that the subscribers have returned to going up rather than during CEDA. I found those a few negative days where people got sick of the sight of me and the same thumbnail as well crucially. So, there's a lesson to be learned there. I just did all of my CEDA which was, by the way, create every day in April in case anyone missed it. And I did create every day in April but usually it was by my daily live streams. But, yeah, all of those thumbnails were just exactly the same which is really a bit ridiculous. I should have made them a bit more on topic. So, yeah, I don't know if you heard that but there's a little gecko got in somehow. And these little geckos, the sound that they make sounds just like tutting. It goes tch, tch, tch, tch. So, it sounded like as I was making excuses there the gecko was just shaking his head. Tch, tch, tch, tch. Anyway, so, yeah, this is where we're up to. There you can see so I got monetized on the channel in New Year's Eve basically and that is the sum total of the revenue. So, I will just keep highlighting this as we go forward because people do say, you know, oh, I don't expect massive numbers of, from advertising revenue. I'm totally grateful, of course. I'm not don't want to play that down but that is the sort of, you know, that's what I've got basically since the first of January from the video content and stuff like that. Obviously that changes as you, obviously as you get more views and things like that but that is where it is. In terms of the actual revenue for the sort of channel or the brand if you like that since since the start of the channel, I think at the New Year's point when I made a video about, you know, having just got monetized, I think at that point I was, I had made around about $6,000. I say made the revenue from the channel was about $6,000 in terms of things like Buy Me a Coffee. So if you're enjoying this content then the best way to support the channel on a one-off or ongoing basis is at buymeacoffee.com slash take one tech. So that featured into the revenue but then also things like people booking consultation calls if you think I could help you out in your tech life then you can book a consultation at takeonetech.io slash consultation getting in all the links today. So that was another source of revenue but then also like affiliate revenue and things like that. I think at the moment I haven't actually just looked it up today, I probably should have but I think in terms of revenue for the channel excluding the Ecammalive masterclass which is kind of like, it is another add-on. I'll do a full update on that at some point but for the part from that for the channel it's around about $10,000 or something like that so that's basically a year of hard work and commitment as summed to that but obviously it's led to other opportunities and things like that in terms of promoting the Ecammalive masterclass I should have got my thing ready for this I do feel a little bit unprepared today for some reason but there you go so yeah the Ecammalive masterclass is obviously something that came out of it I've got some other courses in the works as you know, as you well know some of these have been in the works for some time and are getting on for five or six months late at this point but let's not dwell on that too much but the Ecammalive masterclass is basically a complete course covering everything from beginner through to advanced level in Ecammalive and it's not just actually Ecammalive it does also cover things like how to create engaging presentations using PowerPoint or Keynote in conjunction with Ecammalive and then of course taking those into meeting software such as Zoom, I cover Teams and I also cover Discord as well so that's all covered in the Ecammalive masterclass I also have the full tutorial on how to use it with Stream Deck and Loop Deck I am really in love with those two devices well certainly Stream Deck is growing on me and I cover all of that in the course as well you can sign up at ecammalivemasterclass.com if you head over there there is another sort of slightly long form video that explains what it's all about and shows some of the content in there as well there are $150 worth of bonuses included in the course as well so when you sign up those are discounts and freebies and things like that so in terms of some icon packs and so on so $150 worth of bonuses and the course itself is $147 and that is actually lifetime access as well so once you sign up it is lifetime access to the course and the idea is that the course isn't just a static course it will be continually updated as Ecammalive gets updated so it becomes your online go to resource for all things Ecammalive so that's the Ecammalive masterclass at ecammalivemasterclass.com so I will be rolling out some other courses as well I'm not going to say the name I'm not going to say the word, the Z word it's coming that will be done by the end of this month I'm not even going to say next week but by the end of this month and I'm actually doing an event with Ecammalive as well so Ecammalive holding an event which is going to be related to Zoom that I'll be doing a little bit later I just realised perhaps I shouldn't be saying that just yet but the course will be done by then in any case and then I do have some other courses planned too so yeah just coming back to revenue very briefly though it does just go to show that although there is the monetisation of aspect of YouTube that people focus on but there are plenty of other ways that you can monetise the channel as well I probably will do a full sort of breakdown of this either in a video or maybe a longer form written post I'm going to start getting into more written content as well and with the channel what's happened just very recently is I've been accepted onto the Amazon influencer program and what that means is that basically now I can livestream to Amazon and for those that the uninitiated those that don't know what that means is first of all I can make videos for Amazon so when I'm doing product reviews and things like that then I can post those to Amazon and they will appear on the product pages potentially for those products and then in the same way that you can get revenue from Amazon affiliate revenue just as in the bottom of all of my videos you'll find my sort of gear list and stuff like that with Amazon affiliate links well if you are making video content for Amazon that appears on the product pages then if somebody goes and watches your video as part of their browsing experience then they will you will get credit if they then go on to purchase the product but you can also do Amazon lives and with the Amazon live streams basically the way that they work is just like a YouTube live but you can also add in products to a they call it the carousel which is sort of at the bottom so instead of having my lower third here well still probably would have that but just below that then there would be on the Amazon live page which I think is only available in the US at the moment but I might be wrong about that but then down below you would see a carousel with up to 40 products and so as you're you know it could be that you just do a regular stream but you know you have all of your gear down there or it could be that you're doing a stream where you're highlighting specific products and talking about them and so you can have this carousel that people can browse but then you can also during the live stream you know make featured products so if I was talking about for example a live streaming setup or something like that then I could just have all the different things that I'm using and highlight them as I'm talking about them and then you obviously get the yeah again the revenue from people who are the affiliate revenue from people who click and go through to a purchase from those so that is something that I'm actually quite interested in because there's been a few different ideas that I've had for obviously the live stream that I do on here this one right now that you're watching and this has always been I think that I did originally which was it was intended to be sort of sharing my experience of growing the channel to a certain point so that's why I've always been doing my little you know channel updates and things like that sorry I've just noticed hello Aubrey great to see you here sorry about that I didn't spot that just down there and thank you for all the links by the way Paul and Keeley so where was I got distracted there I completely lost my train of thought so the the Amazon live is where I think I was going oh yeah so these live streams have been a bit of an update but then sometimes I would have focus on different topics and things like that I did I haven't really done it for the past couple of live streams but I was getting a bit more intentional about you know covering a specific topic obviously learning from from doc and modelling his process of having you know the sort of content upfront thinking about those lovely people on the replay hello people watching on the replay and then you know sort of Q&A and chat and stuff like that towards the end so with the the youtube channel I will still be doing those and doing this same time same bad time same bad channel and again getting back to being a bit more intentional and focusing on some topic related to this sort of stuff that I cover on my channel but I am thinking of actually doing a separate show on Amazon in fact too in fact so one of them is something that I wanted to do for a while actually which is an interview show but that one is something that I've never really felt how it would fit into the youtube but it's something a little bit different but I think that it might work really well for for Amazon but then also for LinkedIn so I'll come on to my LinkedIn a little bit later so whilst I'm not going to be doing multi streaming because I do totally agree that having sort of a sporadic audience or split over different different platforms is not the the best approach I do think that there's the the interview thing is something that would work well actually for Amazon live but for LinkedIn so I may do that one as a stream to both of those platforms or I may just do it to Amazon live but then repurpose the recording and put that in other places too that one would also be a podcast so I did start a podcast after I did three episodes in week one two and three of my time on youtube I've talked about this before but it was very unimaginatively called my youtube journey and that was something that I intended to document the whole process of growing the channel the thing about it was it was a total sort of not afterthought but a really it was a really unconsidered thing that I did it was a case of starting the youtube channel and I was all all excited about everything and thought wouldn't it be great to do a podcast about it yeah let me do it I spent all of 30 minutes designing the artwork which totally shows by the way if you ever saw it and just set everything up and then that was that that was me doing a podcast but I didn't really have any any real process for it in terms of time allocation that was another thing then I felt like it needed to be a little bit more polished so I needed to do a little bit of editing in terms of removing oms and urs and things like that and so I did start to use Descript for that I think when I was still subscribed to Descript I haven't been to subscribe to Descript for a while because I just wasn't using it so that was that I probably will get back into that for some of the stuff that I wanted to do going forward but yeah I didn't really have the sort of commitment to doing the podcast so the one that I will be doing though is for this interview show I'm not going to say too much about the sort of what it's going to cover or how it's going to work but hopefully that will be something that I'll get up and running I would say in June again I'm being realistic here but yeah starting to do so that would be a weekly a weekly show that I would do actually on Amazon and then that as I say also repurpose it as well hello Andrea great to see you here nice to see a new face and I'm glad you glad you like the content and finally it useful so yeah we're doing that that Amazon that interview show on Amazon but also I'm going to start doing something that is more specifically gear as well so obviously being product related there are lots of different tech products and things like that that I use that would really be suited to an Amazon live show because obviously the whole point about that is talking about products I've tried to stay away from doing too much about specific products on my channel because I didn't want to get too mixed up between it being is it a product channel or is it a you know doing product reviews tech reviews and stuff like that or is it a you know more of a tutorial side of stuff so I do want to try and mix that up a little bit and so do a specific product live stream product based live stream I should say on Amazon live so that is another one I'll be doing so those are basically two new things that I'll be doing there and I mentioned LinkedIn LinkedIn is something that I have I've been on for years but I haven't been on it for years if you know what I mean I've had a LinkedIn profile but I've just basically neglected it I haven't been using it I hadn't been using it for anything really and I think the last time I logged in was probably maybe four years ago something like that certainly in any in any great way I've not been using it so what I've done is I've actually sort of been and updated my LinkedIn profile so if we're not connected on LinkedIn feel free to go and connect there I've dropped a link into the description of the video but I'll just drop one in here as well and this is my my profile over there so I've really just sort of trimmed out all the stuff that was in there before obviously it's got all my history in that but yeah I've just really focused on it being that this is my LinkedIn profile focused on everything that I'm doing with take one tech and with the channel so I am looking to do as I say more you can see there I've got a bit more of a focus on I've even put LinkedIn Live, Amazon Live and YouTube Live all there having different things I'm looking to do another show particularly for LinkedIn as well so obviously I cover a lot of stuff about you know I think I even say on the header of my YouTube channel is helping you be more I forget the word now efficient, effective and productive with tech in business because the people who book consultation calls with me just one last plug for that who book a consultation call with me are looking generally for help with you know using the stuff that I'm talking about in business so there's really they fall into two camps that people who book calls with me typically are business owners or managers or something like that and they're looking for ways to either improve their productivity through some of the productivity stuff that I talk about or it's related to the sort of tech side of stuff with you know e-cam and live stream and things like that so oh great great to connect with you on that Victor one came over there welcome to the stream and thanks for the follow there Victor so having something on LinkedIn that is covering the same sort of stuff that I'm covering on the channel but really with a sort of more business focus as well so I'm looking to start to do some live stuff there and then also obviously the video content as well that I'll be doing still on YouTube YouTube's still the primary focus but then doing the sort of repurposing of the content to LinkedIn as well hey Kath great to see you here I see that you've been on your holidays hope you're having a wonderful time I've been loving all the pictures that I've been seeing are you still in Hawaii by the way or have you moved on from Hawaii now but yeah great to see you here Kath so I've lost my train of thought this is my thing you see I've got the squirrel mind easily get easily get distracted so yes I will be trying to as well do a bit of repurposing of my content this is something that I've just been absolutely terrible at I just do not like the prospect of repurposing content going through and doing any editing and things like that and even considered the possibility of having somebody do that for me so doing the longer form stuff and then have somebody create all of the micro content and stuff like that so I'm looking into some possibilities in terms of that and I'll report back on that because basically looking to sort of outsource some of the the things that I just never look forward to I never look forward to going back and looking at my own stuff first of all second of all I don't look forward to having to go in that and then then yeah go and chop things up and repurpose it hey Chris another UK contingent here's me getting distracted again well I've been a bit busy I've been a bit busy with other stuff the past two weeks this is my first official video on YouTube in two weeks so apologies for the lack of it it will be picking up shortly so do want to get back into or get into rather repurposing the content for other platforms I know that Doc's been all about the the reels and things like that I've still got my Tiktok, my reels and shorts that I intend to work on although those actually are not really a repurposing thing I certainly can repurpose the content once I start my my interview show then there'll be lots of possibilities there for actually repurposing content creating small snippets snippets to I can't speak to promote the shows and stuff like that so that is the sort of side that I'll need probably need to look for a little bit of help with but in terms of the you know the regular shorts and Tiktok videos those are generally just the case of me sitting down and getting things getting things done I should be making up for lost time what can I say Chris? Appreciate it though so yeah that is that is really the sort of plan going forward is yeah some the live on my weekly live year here then also a interview show which I'll be doing certainly it'll be on Amazon live because there will be a sort of product element to it but then potentially I might actually livestream that to LinkedIn as well I'll have to think about that because I am on board with not being on board with multi streaming if that makes sense I'd see the issues that causes but then yeah doing a specific live to LinkedIn that is more sort of business focus as well and then also the product live streams so basically for live streams a week it would be that I'd be doing to those different platforms but then yeah just getting into this process of creating more content I will be doing a lot of them product stuff though a lot of product sort of reviews you know that sort of stuff for the for the Amazon channel that is going to be something that I will be posting to the YouTube as well because it'll all be you know I do do you know video reviews on this microphone for example I've had this for a year I need to do a sort of one-year review of it stream deck loop deck all those sorts of things so we'll be doing those sorts of product videos I don't want to necessarily sort of go down the route of turning the YouTube channel though into just a you know a product channel it will still be focused on the you know the initial aim of it which was all about the software and productivity and stuff like that but where there are product videos that I make for the Amazon channel that fit within the YouTube stuff as well then I will be doing those. The thing about Amazon as well which is quite interesting is there is the opportunity there to do a number of different sort of you know not completely different shows you still need to have a sort of focus on it but I see the opportunity there to have a little bit more variation in the sort of things that are covered because they can be you know Amazon live you can have specific shows on specific days and things like that so I could see the possibility there to be a little bit broader in scope potentially I might live to regret this but then just purely the you know the whatever it was you know live streaming gear or tech gear that I cover on this channel but we'll have to see Keely oh you're still in still in Hawaii that's got to be so lovely you should drop in and say Doc hook up with Doc say hello let's have a look going to the stage where I finally do my description of my live stream the same day and pick out a few moments for repurposing and then lose the plot from there yeah I really need to do need to do it the issue that I've had just recently is just not having the time for not feeling like not making the time for anything but yeah definitely need to get into the repurposing and hey great to see you Albert as always as well long time no see I know it's my first video in in two weeks so looking forward to hearing what I have to say it may be a case of the replay I think I've almost say it all so far so that is what that is really where I'm up to with the channel and what I've got planned is I should say that I mentioned before that my the way I've been making my videos up until now is just you know having this sort of morning time I am carving out a lot more time for the for the channel and for Take One Tech in general so not just the YouTube but the stuff on LinkedIn the stuff on Amazon Live so rather than it just being you know a couple of hours early morning before work starts I am rolling this in to become more of the work that I'm doing if you know what I mean because I've got to say it is the thing that is sort of top of mind even though I haven't been able to have the time for it all the time it is the thing that is often like top of my mind it's something that I I've really have enjoyed enjoyed doing enjoyed growing the channel enjoying all the connections that I'm making and it's become really you know kind of the thing that I do think about the almost the most so yeah it's definitely going to become more of a focus just so that I can make sure that I can you know not be inconsistent in terms of posting and stuff like that I just need to be a little bit more consistent about it oh heading to Madrid oh that's very nice well I hope you have a wonderful time over there what a lovely place to go and get married in Madrid let's have a look oh you haven't been on there in six years either yeah I've I let LinkedIn just totally slip myself as well so yeah I'm with you I'm with you on that one Andrina you've been on YouTube for a while however I just started to put out content I eventually went and started live streaming I've no gear yet I have no idea of what gear to start with yeah the basics well that is the yeah so when I my first live stream a 2012 Mac and an iPhone 11 you can do a lot I don't know if you're using camo or something like that there's a great app camo by reincubate that allows you to use your iPhone as a webcam so when I started my channel and I say when I started because I've still got it the camera that I'm using is now an 11 year old Canon EOS 60D I have had plans to upgrade it I had to buy me a coffee thing actually my goals was to get the Sony ZVE10 and then I just basically slept on it and then it was out of stock and I've not got around to doing anything different but I'm still using a 10 year old Canon that it was the camera that I bought when we were expecting our first daughter and this was I had this vision of me becoming an expert photographer because it's one of these a camera is the ultimate tech gadget for someone like me really all these different settings menus all that sort of stuff something for me to really get into but I never really got into photography which surprises me I think it was one of these things of I'd never put the time into actually sort of learn it and learn how to use a camera properly so the majority of pictures I ever took with this camera were just on the auto settings still I'm really pleased with the results that I got out of the camera but anyway so that is what I've been using for my channel it is a 7 year old DSLR camera and it's done fine I've not got the latest and greatest the lights that I had and the other lights that I still had still have are some really low cost soft boxes that are you can change the temperature of the light if you change the bulbs it's kind of like that they just take regular bulbs so nothing fancy there I've got a top down camera which is an iPhone 5XS or 5S 5XS came out around the time of the iPhone 8 I think so it's pretty old iPhone 6 I remember it's pretty old anyway and that's what I use for my top down camera I've got an over the shoulder shot which is just basically a Logitech webcam C920 so the only thing that I really bought for the channel to start with was a stream deck because I was going to be doing everything live using e-cam live and so the stream deck was to control that by the way that is another side benefit of doing this channel for me is the stream deck because I bought it thinking it's for live streaming but it's just become such an essential part of my whole workflow really yeah it's it's been amazing what the stream deck has done I mean that's been the other apart from e-cam live being a focus of the channel the next sort of second place in terms of videos being all the stuff I've done about stream deck because it's just a great great tool and they actually probably have accounted for a lot more of the views so I get far more views on videos that I do about stream deck than I do on the the ones that I do about e-cam in general just because obviously stream decks are much more widely used device but so in terms of when I started the channel the thing that I actually the things that I bought were I invested in the stream deck and this microphone the short mv7 because I needed something a little bit better for that but yeah the rest of the gear it hasn't mean anything special I've slowly added little things like my little lights that I've got behind the nanolite pavo tubes and then obviously I'll say obviously but in end of last year so last week of the year I basically made a better studio space all of my first videos up until December were basically just all green screen so and by green screen I just mean I'd been out and bought some green cloth and stretched over I made a frame and stretched over behind me use the e-cam built in green screen feature to do that so that's what all my initial videos were and in fact my my first live stream was actually a video called I think it was called live streaming on older gear or something like that just because I basically just cobbled everything together so you certainly don't need the latest and greatest and I am a total tech geek and I do get the gear acquisition syndrome of wanting all the shiny new things but I do tend to resist it quite a lot really because I am as I say still on these these old lights I do intend to replace these with something a little bit more with a bit more control so at the moment I've got two looks basically what this one or I've got the witness protection scheme look so they're either on or off but really I could do something a little bit better with my lighting so that it's not just kind of like that full on I mean there's no there's no refinement in the lighting it's just kind of like blasting my face with with lights so yeah certainly a lot I can do on there but yeah just a case of not letting that hold you back and I'm guessing that you're not but let's have a little look Chris mentioned about streaming on multiple platforms as being an issue can you explain why this is not a good thing it's basically so when I started I did one of the first things I set up was restream as well so there was a I spent a month before my first official sort of live stream my first video to YouTube I'd spent a month getting things set up so that was setting up a website setting up you know all the overlays things like that in Ecamm the way that I wanted that to look and then setting up the services like TubeBuddy which is great by the way I've got to say that TubeBuddy's been a big help TubeBuddy, takeonetech.io slash TubeBuddy to get a free trial of that it's been really really useful for me actually in terms of acting as my upload coach and stuff like that as I was starting out making sure that I'd done all the right things but then afterwards you know going and doing some sort of analysis of thumbnails and stuff like that seeing what's working it's been really good so yeah that was something else I set up but the the restream was also something because I thought let me just restream to everywhere so oh I say everywhere it was my basically a Facebook page YouTube I was also going to Twitch there was also a couple of other platforms now this is a thing I'd never even heard of the platform but I just thought I'll let me give it a go and see what happens there as well so I was streaming to I think four or five places in the beginning I can't even remember what one of them was called now but the idea being well surely it's better to reach a wider audience the thing about it is obviously the power cut but my my UPS has kicked in oh there we go that's my light resetting on the back wall that means the power has come back on again so we've got disco lights for the time being now let me see if I can just do that if the power cut goes off they all reset so they've reset to that never mind I'll leave that there for now it's party after all it's one year on YouTube isn't it what can I say so the yeah streaming to multiple platforms the thing is like obviously everyone now who is watching because I've only been going to YouTube since last two or three months or something like that you can all see each other you can all see the comments and you are all together watching this thing whereas streaming to multiple platforms then you're basically creating a segmented audience where some people are in one place and some people are in another now I do see people doing this where I can sort of see why they're doing it and how it can work apart from just reaching wider audience potentially but and if they're doing stuff where they're maybe not taking as many comments or not including them then perhaps there is that as well I also see people doing it on Amazon Live a lot where they're streaming to Amazon Live but their YouTube channel as well but then they're telling the people on YouTube get over to Amazon so they're doing it to try to bring people in those lights behind me are just getting hilarious now so I can see why they're doing that I don't think I'll do that but that is the reason it's just sort of segmenting the audience basically that's why it's potentially not a good look so start with the network and not stream with I'm missing the reference for that one so that is one thing I've only been let down once by internet connection here so we do have really fast internet in Thailand it's really fast it's been 100 meg up and 100 meg down so it's really both ways as well often people quote like download speed when I say people I mean internet providers they'll say you know what meg broadband is but often that's only the download speed is often far worse so I'm quite lucky here that we that we that we've got good internet I'm just laughing at Paul's comment yeah it does feel like there's some sort of some sort of alarm system going off doesn't it yeah but it was funny actually when I went back to look at my LinkedIn profile because it was yeah as I say something I'd certainly not updated it for ages but I mean looked at it for four years and there was lots of stuff there that was really a bit out of date so oh thanks for the link for Kammo Kammo's great that's what I use for my top down shot it's also what I use if I'm when I say if I'm on the road I'm rarely on the road these days with yeah I'm barely moved from between the house and the the studio so which is in the garden by the way so it's not like I don't know how far to commute but when I've been away then Kammo's been great for dare I say there's Edward for Zoom because it means you can just use your regular you know phone or whatever for for Zoom calls as well as you know obviously any YouTube stuff that you're doing well thank you Keely you were already ahead of me it seems and there we go yeah so that is I'm just catching up with the comments here you've already answered all of these things you're already ahead of me it seems I'm just catching up so yeah if you've got audience on different platforms and want to bring people over that is that is kind of the thing with the LinkedIn as well for me because I do have quite a lot of connections on there it's all relative I suppose but I think I'm just looking right now it's a 1600 followers 500 plus connections whatever that is so yeah I do have people who I know on there although those people they know me from four years ago so but I do know that some of the stuff I'm covering would still be useful for those so I will be posting some of my video content to LinkedIn as well what I don't want to do is just post you know just basically blanket post the same stuff to everywhere so that's that's something I won't necessarily be doing but yeah certainly taking snippets and trying to get people over to other platforms where that particular content is the interview one is one that's that's kind of like this for me because I do think it would be a really good interview thing to do on LinkedIn as well as on Amazon so I've got to think about that I might just what I might do is do the live on Amazon but then post the recording of it or something like that to LinkedIn we'll have to see about that no problem glad it was helpful I'm just thinking about the setup and stuff like that definitely Chris if you haven't already definitely check out Keely discord for creators that could be something that works really well for your industry because I know that you work with other people in the industry as well thank you Carly that's very kind of you I shall put that to good use and top up my coffee cup a little bit later on really appreciate that Carly so that's just popped up I've still got some more catching up to do here in fact I didn't even put it up there we go thank you very much stupidly reading it to actually put it on screen I really appreciate that though that's wonderful um you could get grids for softboxes to shape and control the lights yeah to be honest it's more about just the control of the levels of them I've already got my as always I've always got my gear wishlist sorted out I'm going to get some nun lights I'm basically going to go all in on nun lights so I've got these Pavotube these behind me these two but then I'm going to replace these sort of main lights the key light with nun light four zero sixty basically I'm going to copy dog that's what I'm going to do I am going to get some other sort of camera angles going on for some of the other stuff I'm doing as well and so it'll be more than just this back wall that people are seeing so I will be upgrading some of the other lighting in there as well and going all in on the nun light seems to make sense because of the the remote control that we've got for that and you can control it from the mobile do you know what I might have to just do something about these lights bear with me he says although the remote is not working there we go we've got one up we've got one of them stopped anyway I've got more on the side you see there we've got to stop too there's still one blinking on the other side but it's out of view I think so there we go these are nun lights the back lights that I've got there are some I forget how much they were they were like a few dollars or something for like the long strips and then they've got these little remotes so not much control over those I'll probably replace those at some point as well but yeah so where was I the nun light you can control with the mobile app but then because on Monterey you can install iOS apps on the Mac I actually installed the iOS app to control the nun light on the Mac and then I made a keyboard maestro shortcut to go and click so basically with a a click of a keyboard maestro button which I've then programmed into stream deck I can basically control the lights behind me just by pressing a button on the stream deck and they will sort of come on and off so having all of the studio be full on nun light would just make total sense because then it would just be a single push of a button so so yeah just to your point Michael it's they're just big soft boxes I could do something to them I can change to lower wattage bulbs and things like that but it's just more kind of like the intensity of the light is is relatively fixed so I will be will be upgrading those I'm going to do a whole series of videos about you know what I do so I've got this sort of plan of things that I'm going to upgrade on the studio I will upgrade this camera I do need to do that because you can't do the you know the the product shot trick where you say here it is and then it comes into focus my camera hasn't even got auto focus so there's no auto focus I have to literally go and press a button or actually I've got a little remote shutter button so if I want to focus my camera I press this button so doing that and then pressing the button is not not a good look so I will I'll probably not wait for the ZVE 10 to be honest because I don't know how long I'm going to be waiting so I'll just get something else to to use in the meantime some other Sony I am going to go Sony obviously because I don't want to get told off by the master duck so I'll be upgrading that at some point but yeah once I've got all the stuff in I'll probably just do it in one go like just strip everything out that I've got in here and replace it also I'll do a series of videos like that as well people also oh yeah so you're talking about having audiences in different places yeah you do get that having where you know you've basically got these different sort of things on the side of the the you know the the things showing comments on different platforms of this I'm guessing you're talking about so there is that but yeah it's just not quite the same as being sort of in the chat and then it does rely on actually having that on the screen as well so you're not really getting the same sort of community interaction although that is perhaps good for if you are streaming to multi platforms and you want people to see what it's like on the other platform and get them over there and then there is that so yeah so 25 years ago on the internet connected the internet has always been really good since I moved here it was and I've been here 16 17 years now it was quicker than the UK certainly back then and it's just always stayed ahead I don't if this is still the case but I remember a couple of years back that Thailand had the highest sort of daily usage of Facebook for any country like people spend more time here on Facebook than than anywhere else which I don't think is entirely a good thing in fact I'm quite sure it isn't but there you know people over here most people are you know really sort of heavy users of the internet so and you know like 4G was rolled out here years ago before it was in lots of other places so we have always had good internet connection in fact one of the things I did here for years was designing and building houses and so I'd often be doing sort of walkthroughs in remote parts of Thailand where you'd think I'm in the middle of nowhere here there can't possibly be a good signal and yet the signal was good enough for me to be on you know FaceTime on 4G just walking around a house in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the the Thai jungle or the back you know the back waters of Thailand it's always been really great so because a lot of the people that we were building houses for were experts who were back in their home country and we were building them a house in Thailand so yeah I'd be on video calls with people in the middle of nowhere it's quite amazing and the connection was so great oh yeah so audio and lights first well that was I get you so people focus on the audio and lights but if you haven't got an internet connection then that's no good so I totally get you there I'm liking Speedify as well that's another good one so having Speedify so I'm connected to my internet connection my home internet over Wi-Fi I'm also plugged into it on Ethernet and then I'm also tethered to my mobile that's another thing over here I've got basically an unlimited mobile plan with unlimited tethering and they don't throttle it either so I can actually just have my iPad links to my mobile laptop as well and yeah that's another one just get really fast internet connection from that in fact I think I've done a live stream just purely from the 4G mobile as well but yeah definitely internet is a thing the other thing I'd say is good is getting a UPS I've had UPS which is an uninterrupted power supply by the way I've used those for years I always use those and have them on the router whichever you say but then now like having it in so I've actually got these key lights plugged into an uninterrupted power supply and then also I've got my modem in the house is also plugged into one and then also my computer as well into another one so the power went off and nothing was interrupted apart from the disco lights at the back there that were just plugged into a regular socket so so yeah oh you've got that have you you've got the 4G 60 yeah that's exactly the one that I'm intending to get or two of them at least one for either side and yeah I won't be going and getting the the full Kali sorry Kali softbox what was the the big lantern so yeah Kali for her yoga studio has got the massive massive lantern style softbox and yeah that was quite an event getting that set up we're all watching on Doc's office hours so you have not been able to get the non-light base station thing working I keep forgetting to look up for help the base station have you got a physical base station then or are you talking about the mobile app what I found with the mobile app was the mobile app on the phone it was I'd come into the studio and then it wouldn't it wouldn't necessarily be connected to the lights so like if I've got these lights on and then I walked out with my phone and then I came back in again and I pressed the little button to switch them off it was like it had lost connection because it was done over bluetooth one of the benefits I had with actually setting it up on the desktop so using the mobile on the desktop is obviously I'm always going to be with my desktop when I want to control these lights because they're in the studio I'm not moving anything around and it meant that once they've made the connection with the bluetooth then it's always connected so I found that it's actually been for me it's been more reliable having the mobile app for the non-lights on my desktop than it has been to use it on the mobile and it means that they're literally there with the touch of a button rather than rather than using the mobile the mobile app is absolute pants well I agree with that actually I agree that there could be some bigger improvements made to the interface you can set up different what do they call it different scenes and stuff like that but what you can't seem to be able to do is set up a whole series of presets using the same lights I might be wrong about this but it seemed like what I wanted was different presser button and then would be a completely different lighting setup maybe I'm wrong but I can't see how to do that I can see how to set presets for them but not a whole series of different lighting setups might be wrong about that but anyway just having it on my desktop just means that I can basically toggle them off just like that I'm just pressing the stream deck button and then they come back on again so that actually using the mobile app on the desktop has sort of solved a lot of that for me because it's just I only ever really want to turn them on or off so you've got the transmitter I've not looked at that I probably will look at that when I start getting some other non-light equipment hey did it now the ZVE-10 showed up on B&H today he says typing in the B&H website I'll do that later I won't bother all of you with it I've just typed B&H and I've got B&H hospital in Bangkok that's not the one that I want never mind ok ok I will yeah 1.2 meters wow that is big isn't it yeah the one I was looking at for the blimp yeah the one I was looking at for the non-lights that I'd get the 4s or 60s is it's not going to be quite that big but my use case is slightly different it's going to be a lot closer to my face so let's have a look right I'll definitely you know that that is what I'm going to be looking at immediately after this we'll have to see the app simply won't load 95% of the time for me I've had a reset and it's hmm that's interesting it's just a bit frustrating really isn't it have you tried it actually on the Mac as well see how that works I just wasn't a fan with it on the mobile at all but we'll see yeah I've got it installing on the Mac and if you get stuck I'm just thinking what the video was called now but I've got a video about actually linking it with Keyboard Maestro knowing what a fan of Keyboard Maestro you are will be coming that might be worth having a look at well I think I am about done it's 8 minutes plus 6 here in the morning I'm not going to be making any more videos today I will be checking out the B&H website are we taking the kids swimming today it is I've got into a bit of a bad habit of letting things encroach into my weekend so a couple of months ago I just basically ruled out doing anything at the weekend apart from I say anything I do this live stream and then I have obviously the Sunday morning I wake up at get up early I wake up at 1 o'clock to watch Dark Live and then all of the stuff with the office hours and stuff like that on my early morning Sunday mornings and then I have an early morning nap usually about 6am go back to sleep for an hour and then yeah just spend time with the family so no videos over the weekend but I will be trying to get out at least a couple of videos a week for the next two weeks and then mark my words June you're going to see an uptick in the content that's coming out and that will be on all of the platforms so my YouTube live streams LinkedIn live live stream and then also two for Amazon live as well and then yet creating some more of that content and yeah I will obviously still be sharing the process and things that I'm learning along the way and any questions or anything like that related to anything I've covered in here you can always reach out either on the comments always great to get comments a bit hard to track comments although I have been using agorapulse which although I've still been neglecting comments a little bit more it's a lot easier to track conversations in comments on YouTube because I always used to be that I'd get the initial comment and then I'd reply to it and then any sort of follow on conversations were a little bit hard to follow there's something that I think they need to address in YouTube studio really but agorapulse makes it easy to sort of follow along with all of those those things in any case so I've been using using that a little bit more and oh thanks Keely for dropping the link into that video and well thank you very much Adriina and Adriina sorry great to see you and always nice to see nice new faces in the in the comments as well so yeah if anybody's got anything else that they'd like to discuss or anything like that you can always contact me either through my LinkedIn now I've left the link to that in the description or of course one final time I'll just mention the discord as well which is this one over here if I press the right button takeonetech.io and that is that is all for me thank you I'm pressing too many buttons now pressing too many buttons thank you all for stopping by it's been great to see you all here and I shall catch you all in another video very soon and for those watching on the replay I'll leave a link to some other videos over on the right hand side bye for now