 Today, we learn about how to grow your channel and set up collaborations, and then we're going to find out who our three winners are in our $100,000 sponsorship powered by freedom. I'm your host Tiffany, and you're watching Impulse. What is up, freedom? My name is Zesty Mike, and today we're going to talk about one of the most effective ways to grow your channel, collaboration. If Jim Bob has a thousand subscribers and you have a thousand subscribers, chances are you guys don't share the same subscriber base. So if you guys do a collab together, then you guys are going to be promoting yourselves to a thousand brand new people. This is why collaboration is one of the fastest ways to grow your channel. Now there are good ways and bad ways to go about setting up a collaboration. Hey yo, Jim Bob, you wanna make one of them collaboration videos? Well that depends. What type of video do you have in mind? I don't know. I just want all your subscribers. For some reason, YouTubers are often intimidated by collaboration or just sometimes doing it flat out wrong. Now the easiest way to go about collaboration is to find channels that have similar subscriber bases as you. A good rule of thumb is to add a zero and take away a zero from your subscriber base, and that would be a good place to start looking for people to collaborate with. So for instance, if you have a thousand subscribers, look for anybody that has between a hundred and ten thousand subscribers, and chances are you'll get a good response out of the people that you contact. Now it is possible to collaborate with larger YouTubers as well. It's not quite as hard as what you guys might think, but we will touch on that in the later part of this video. So freedom time for some collaboration etiquette. Don't spam their Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube with comments like, Hey Jim Bob, can we make one of them dare videos together? Instead compose a friendly message and send it to their business email. If a few days go by and they haven't responded, then you could follow up with their social media of choice and say, Hello Jim Bob, I'm writing you this message to see if you might have received my friendly email. And keep in mind, not everyone is going to respond to you. So if they don't respond, just move on to the next one and try again. Now you might be wondering, how do you receive their business email? Now it's actually quite simple. You're going to go to the tube of view, go to their channel, click about, and then you're going to see an option more times than not. This says business inquiries. You click that tape in the capture code and then it gives you your email and you could send them your friendly email. Now when we come back, we're going to be talking about how to collaborate with larger YouTubers, making friends, making videos, growing your channel. It sounds like my cup of tea. I like friends. Oh, you like friends too. Oh, yes, you do. Oh, you like kissing lady faces. You're persistent and now in no particular order, it's time for our two runners up in the $100,000 sponsorship picked by Heartbeat Chrome. And you get to choose from these select prizes brought to you by our partners with freedom. If you want to know more about the $100,000 sponsorship, check out the video in the sidebar for more information. And now to Conn Ardastrick, who's still part of my job in this show to announce who the runners up are. Hey, Rick. Our first runner up is Mr. Crazy Knifer. He went ahead and helped the freedom family out in real time by providing responses to his comment that asked for channel and graphic design reviews. Our next runner up is Ensonarq. He contributed to the video's topic and started some great discussion amongst the freedom family about when it's OK or not OK to use the copyright flagging system on YouTube. Congratulations, Freedom Partners. And remember, you're still eligible to win first prize in a future impulse episode. And now the Zesty dude. Who does his name Zesty? Is he like Penpeel, like Lemon's ass? And we're back. Congratulations on placing and well done. So in my past, I've collaborated with Onision, Swift Karate Chop, Ed Bassmaster, Todd from Barely Political, SMP Films and a few other big YouTubers. Onision was my first big collab and I had about 500 subscribers and at the time he had about 800,000. So why did Onision want to waste his time on a small channel like mine? Because I had something to offer him. Each and every one of you have a talent that you're good at, whether it's something you could apply to videos is a different story. But take that talent and embrace it and see who can use your talent. Whether it be filmmaking, you can work with a filmmaker. Whether it be you're a musician, you can make music for people. Or you're a graphic designer who can make awesome graphics or intros for people. Or even if you're a voiceover artist or if you're just a gamer who is really funny. Take these talents and see who can use this and who could benefit from using your talent in their video. Now if your talent is something this YouTuber needs, chances are they're going to want to work with you. Because they're going to be able to get whatever they're needing for free. And then in return you're going to be able to get exposure from their channel. So it's a win-win situation for both. So figure out what your talent is, find who needs it and then offer up your talent to anyone who might need it and hopefully get some responses and start growing your channel. So today's viewer question comes from ThatSquid and asks, how do you keep background sound out of your video? For example, wind, weather or people in other rooms? Awesome question, ThatSquid. Now there are a lot of editing techniques you could use to clean up your audio. But that takes a lot of work and a lot of time and it can get annoying if you have to do it each and every time you want to make a video. Instead look for a directional mic that's only going to pick up sounds directly in front of it instead of what's behind or around or anything else. A lot of mic issues occur if you're simply using the wrong mic. Now a directional mic is only going to tune out people in the other rooms because it picks up what's right in front of it. Now weather on the other hand is a completely other story. If you're talking about filmmaking, I recommend using a shotgun mic and then get a windscreen for it and you can even go as far as putting a dead cat around it which sounds a little odd but if you're a filmmaker you'll understand and if that's not even enough then you could use a blimp to put around it and if that is too expensive for you you could simply put a sock on your shotgun and it will tune out a lot of the sound. Now if you're talking about gameplay commentary I'm a little concerned why there's weather inside your house but you might be talking about what's outside again so again what I would recommend is getting a directional mic. I personally use the Audio Technica 2020 and you can get it right up close and it's only going to pick up your voice and nothing else around you. So now outside the room I'm going to go ahead and play one of my videos on my phone turned up all the way so we can kind of show you what we're talking about how it will tune out the different sounds that are behind it. Alright so I had my phone outside the room playing one of my vlogs from the other day so now when I talk about random care at Pingle and Sasquatch, Dingle Dong, Thing Dong, Ding Dong Dong you can't really hear the sound in the background and the door is open. So now if I shut the door you can't even hear the noise in the background or if you can it's very subtle and if I add background music over top you're not going to hear anything at all and that's simply because the mic of choice and we never did any editing. Anyways that squid thank you for your great question. If you want to be featured in the next video be sure to leave a comment down below ask me a question I'll do my best to answer each and every one of them. But anyways guys that's it for me if you want to see more of me or Brittany even we have a daily vlog channel where we post up videos every single day you can hang out with us, subscribe the links are in the description or in the annotations and the end slate and you can actually even see the making of this new set. I love hearing from you guys and can't wait to hear more from you. But now back to Brittany for the moment you've all been waiting for. The winner of today's $100,000 sponsorship powered by Freedom. Thanks Zester. Now for the moment you've all been waiting for let's see who's going to win $250 in grand prizes and you get to choose from all these lovely products brought to you by our partners with Freedom. Now let's hear from Rick since the only attention he's going to get is from his robot friends. And today's winner is K-Shot. K-Shot's advice is to keep the video short and sweet as well as to stay consistent with your uploading schedule. K-Shot was incredibly active in the comments and feels it's wrong that YouTubers exploit glitches but at the same time it's also part of the game. K-Shot FTW. K-Shot you're full of win. Congratulations Freedom partners on a job well done. Remember guys, share your knowledge. Discuss today's topics and interact with other Freedom partners in the comments below. You too could be rewarded for helping the community grow as a family. Hope you guys enjoyed this episode of Impulse and tomorrow Brittany's going to be going over some news on VidCon 2015. Until next time, I'm your host Tiffany and I like friends.