 everyone we did it we made it to the end of twenty twenty one uh... and what's cool is we're kind of kicking off twenty twenty two with a bang uh... we're giving away a hundred dollars in cash money everybody uh... to any new subscribers and say any or every pretty much if you are a new subscriber from now through january twenty seventh uh... you will get an opportunity to win a hundred dollars in cash is exclusive for new subscribers you can't unsubscribe resubscribe doesn't work that way you have to be a new subscriber to be eligible for that hundred dollars cash event i might be doing something for new subscribers every single month in twenty twenty two but we'll see what happens there we're also going to a three copies of pokemon legends arceus to pretty much everybody mean you have to be subscribed to the channel but it doesn't matter when you subscribe uh... to enter the head down to that by real sweet link down in the description or the pin comment we're going to a three copies of the game by the way which i think of the january twenty eight the day after we end up hundred dollar cash one so pretty exciting stuff here for the month of january now when i get to the end of every year uh... at this channel i like to look back and not look back at the year that was nintendo we got a podcast and and all those conversations that we do there will probably have a having even more in-depth podcast uh... coming up here next week uh... talking about twenty twenty two as that's our first podcast of the new year but i like to look back at the channel itself how it performed from up your metrics uh... performance will even get into revenue numbers because i'm not someone who sits there and pretends the channel doesn't make real money maybe when it gets to a point that i have other paid employees i probably got to start worrying about privatizing some of that data because then you have other people involved right now it's just me i'm the only person he's worried about it so i obviously have to can take that into consideration what i find really interesting in looking back at this data and by the way we'll get into some new ideas as well for twenty twenty two and some goals and things that i want to accomplish uh... i want to first just kind of look back at the year that was so if we actually go back to twenty twenty because that's really uh... where we start to get into some comparisons here uh... in twenty twenty we have three point two million views which is nothing to scoff at that's a lot of views uh... we gained sixteen thousand and five hundred new subscribers in twenty twenty and we had around five thousand actually this is exactly five thousand nine hundred and twenty two dollars in revenue on youtube that doesn't count any direct donations that might happen in live streams but does count super chats and all that so yeah five thousand nine hundred twenty two dollars in revenue in twenty twenty uh... let's just say twenty twenty one uh... it's interesting it's better in some ways worse than others but which much you care about most uh... we had actually four point one million views this year four point one that's almost a million more views in the year before that to me is insane uh... we had fourteen thousand six hundred new subscribers this year so yeah about a couple thousand or so less of new subscribers in the year prior although of note of that sixteen thousand five hundred new subscribers fifteen thousand of them came in one month in september when we were caught up in the algorithm so if you actually go back to the year before twenty twenty uh... we only had two thousand new subscribers that year near before that we only had four thousand new subscribers so setting aside that really one month anomaly in twenty twenty it was also on pace for only a couple thousand new subscribers so to me fourteen point six k over the course of the year where there's no particular month that just stands out as this is the month we gained all those subscribers means that we have more consistent growth in twenty twenty one so i still view that as a win now what's interesting here is i was going to get to the revenue numbers uh... market hiding the numbers obviously are finalized around the final day of december but at least through uh... two days ago uh... we are sitting at just over twenty three thousand dollars in revenue that is what almost four x the amount of revenue we had last year in fact the channel has never really made more than six thousand dollars in any given year in terms of just add revenue in super chats and memberships and stuff like that so to sit there and say twenty three thousand dollars in revenue this last year this channel is pretty insane it definitely was unplanned and i had no idea that this was going to happen and obviously the increase in views helps but nine hundred thousand more views equals that much more revenue more like than you know we might have something else to talk about here so let's get into the videos in the views in particular so back in twenty twenty we had three hundred and fifty total standalone videos and a hundred and fifty livestreams kind of funny how that worked out exactly that gives us five hundred total pieces of content produced last year in twenty twenty uh... but when you do the division on the total viewership uh... to that we ended up with about six thousand four hundred views per piece of content in twenty twenty and again outside of the month of september if we eliminate that we actually only had about two million views and only around two thousand views per video so twenty twenty was really built around a single month in twenty twenty one we had three hundred and seventy seven standalone videos so a twenty seven video increase more than a video per day like we were just short of a video per day in twenty twenty we actually did more than a video per day on average uh... i know i think we can stop at some days i produce more than one video we also had a hundred and forty three livestreams this year which was seven livestreams less in the year before but i think people can agree we've been a bit more consistent especially from the summer moving forward with our livestream content that gives us five hundred and twenty total pieces of content so twenty more uh... pieces of content that we had the year before but the average view count per piece of content we produced this year was seven thousand eight hundred and eighty four that is obviously a nice fourteen hundred view increase per piece of content over last year that to me is maybe one of the best metrics here we could talk about oh yeah isn't that revenue great it is uh... but yeah that increase in views is really what i like to see views per per piece of content produced matters a lot to me and i i can tell you right now i'll throw out a video and i can't guarantee it's going to get eight thousand views or close to eight thousand views but on average for the course of every month it's going to average out to around that because some videos are going to perform even better than that so yeah that's really really great and obviously showing consistent growth here in twenty twenty one in a way that we've never really consistently experienced at this channel so twenty twenty one overall was obviously a big win just from the metrics perspective uh... one thing we're going to get into here are the key moments of twenty twenty one uh... that i find from the channel so we rebooted the nintendo prime podcast and built an entirely new set for it uh... this set's actually changed three times throughout the course of the year that to me is also really exciting uh... i like the practical set i think the podcast that's better than ever we brought back these mics at some point here these are really awesome mics we got back in 2018 eighteen twenty thirty five uh... very accurate sound uh... high quality makes our audio version even better uh... so yeah speaking of the podcast we also move the podcast to its own uh... channel quite recently um... and it already has one thousand six hundred eighty subscribers i think at the time of recording here uh... and yeah we're getting some decent views over there although we're obviously pushing views a little bit uh... with our giveaways right now so uh... like the pokemon legends are kissing bonus entries for even just like checking the channel out so yeah that's really cool and obviously we have some goals for that channel as well as it is directly linked to this one uh... beyond all of that we hosted our first massive e three events some of you guys might know and might not know we did were live for twelve plus hours for straight days during the three uh... and it became the largest live streams we've ever done during that event we gave away three thousand two hundred dollars worth of goods to one hundred and seventy two different winners uh... so that is just wow uh... and yet they became our most viewed live streams of all time consecutively each all of each of those streams rank as our top four most viewed streams ever not just due to length but also due to how many people watching the average over seven hundred live viewers per day every day that is insane getting up beyond all of that we did a lot more giveaways than just that e three event uh... we gave away three switch all as this year we gave away a playstation five this year and in total cuz i don't want to go over every single thing we've ever given away especially the copious amount of each of gift cards during live streams uh... we have spent fifteen thousand dollars on giveaways give or take you know a few hundred dollars uh... we also spent eight thousand dollars on new equipment this includes a new editing computer uh... a new uh... editing laptop that we originally were going to take the e three but then obviously we did three here uh... included the new uh... studio lights the new camera cuz our main camera broke right before uh... a new monitor and a few other accessories and microphone lapel mic and and some bunch of equipment during the three some cam links and a whole bunch of crap uh... we spent a lot of money on that if you do the math that means we basically spent the entirety of the revenue of this channel back on the channel either giving back to your on equipment i can't guarantee that's always gonna be the case for now always gonna need to buy thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars of equipment every single year on these desks and these mats and everything else uh... but but we don't want to keep the giveaways going so we'll see uh... what happens there but yeah obviously uh... we just really decided to put all our money back into the channel and back into you guys and i think that was a very smart investment if you see how twenty twenty one turned out for us uh... also twenty twenty one we had our channel hacked for the very first time you guys might know shiba inu or whatever happened at the end of october uh... honestly this is probably what kept us short of even more subscriber goals we might even have a couple thousand more subscribers at this point maybe we'd even hit eighty k because that really wrecked our momentum and it took us a while to bounce back in youtube's algorithm and we're still not all the way back uh... we also because of that hacking rejoined an mcn screenwave media now represents us uh... they are uh... very good company i can get out of the contract pretty much any time i want if i'm not happy uh... they don't touch super chat revenue they don't touch membership revenue and that's a big one for me because all other mcn's want that part of the revenue they only care about the revenue we get through ads uh... and that's cool they also have a good sponsorship deals are working on something right now with the company uh... and i'm pretty pleased so far with them but we'll see if i continue to stay with them but one thing they do help us with is in a hacking situation they have a separate way to access the account that i don't so if my email or log in ever gets stolen or the logging key that's logged in the browser gets taken and i get hacked again they can actually literally do something about it without necessarily having to contact you to they also have direct contact with you to which will really help speed things along and we won't have to take so many you know a week plus to get this all dealt with that being said uh... that's just looking back at the key motion twenty twenty one obviously you guys have your favorite moments at the channel favor pieces of content uh... i was a couple of the most viewed piece of content the most but like the most viewed piece of content was like a zilla thirty-fifth rumor video night i really you know is a low-light video is a highlight video i guess it highlights the year that was a lot of rumors uh... so there is that i suppose uh... in twenty twenty two though i have some goals first up is a health goal and this is just a goal that i i put up every year and so far i've completed this two years in a row and that is that i want to weigh less at the end of twenty twenty two or i should say on january first of twenty twenty three then i do on january first of twenty twenty two and i can safely say i've already achieved that over last year and hopefully will be achieving that over this year i'm not going to give you guys my exact weight but at the rate i'm going and hoping by summer you guys can notice a slimmer looking nintendo prime even though i'm probably still going to be a bit of a pudgy boy uh... beyond all of that uh... i do want to get our internal prime podcast channel to ten thousand subscribers if you haven't subscribed yet please go check it out the building down in the description uh... to that i i really want to get that up to ten thousand subscribers i really want to get that podcast kind of flourishing on its own and not always so reliant on uh... what we do here because the podcast is a very different kind of show we always a special guest uh... i think it's a it's just an exciting thing we do every week uh... but i want to make i kind of the pockets of its own thing it does have its own separate support system as well as well at patreon dot com slash nintendo prime that i barely ever talk about but that's literally for the podcast uh... so if you guys want to go support the pockets directly that's the best way to do that uh... i also want to reach for the stars of it with this channel i want to see if we can hit a hundred thousand subscribers in twenty twenty two and i know we're entering a period where a lot of people don't care about subscriber counts i think subscriber counts don't matter i disagree because in the year that we have the most consistent subs subscriber growth not only do we have the best revenue year we've ever had we also have the most consistent growth in average viewership clearly showing there is a correlation as long as you're an active channel and not obviously doing anything super controversial that's going to ruin your reputation and make people run away and then you end up with a five hundred thousand subscriber channel that can only give five hundred views for video and that happens a lot uh... i'm very consistent uh... and that was one thing that i had a goal for twenty twenty one was to be more consistent i was very sporadic in twenty twenty and i feel like by the end of this year things have gotten a lot more consistent you now know videos are coming monday through friday you know the podcast is every wednesday unless we have to move it for a special guest or because eric or i get sick or have a cancellation uh... you know that we're gonna do you know at least a gaming live stream every tuesday uh... we're going to have obviously our q and a stream tonight we're doing a live stream for new year's eve but we normally do live streams on friday so it just happens to line up that hey we have to do a new year's eve live stream on a night that we usually stream anyways so that's gonna be a lot of fun yes we will be running that stream all the way to midnight on the dot probably ending it you know five minutes or so after that i think i'm gonna be tired uh... and i got my children they're going up the next day but yes we will make it to midnight central time and some people hit it before us like eastern but hey you know what we're gonna we're gonna go all the way till it's midnight for me and celebrate that just for a brief moment uh... who knows we'll have some drinks and some fun with that but that's that's going on tonight so hundred thousand subscribers to hit that we would have to gain more subscribers in a single year than we've ever gained before it would have to be roughly five to six thousand more subscribers than we gained this year uh... can it be done i have no idea you guys really decide that i just make the content uh... i do the giveaways and i just kind of hope you guys want to stick around uh... so yeah there's that uh... behind all of that uh... i also want to improve the quality of our videos uh... i want to always i i would say if you go back and watch my content from twenty twenty and even the beginning of twenty twenty one uh... and you watch my content today you will know that by the end of twenty twenty one i did achieve my goal of better higher quality more consistent content than at the beginning of twenty twenty one and all of twenty twenty and again that's my goal every year by the end of twenty twenty two all my content to be better better edited better put together better audio presentation we get better as a host uh... whatever that entails i am my you guys might think you're huge critics of me all the rumor videos over this or the clickbait the block trust me on my own biggest critic and i wanted to get better in a lot of ways inconsistent audio the screaming whispering i understand i try to level the audio i want everything to be better by the end of next year so that is a goal that i have in the back of my mind i'll be on all of that i do want to get us to uh... ten thousand viewers per video on average uh... that's kind of a sweet spot on youtube uh... where you could start to get some real sponsorships like we've had sponsorships this year but i mean like the the high quality high-end sponsorships that we work with bad companies but the ones that pay well because the ones that pay well are the ones that enable us to help reach another goal that i have for the end of this year this is a crazy goal and i don't know if it's gonna be achieved and i'm not dropping out of college i'm still in college full-time i'm not dropping out of my other work about quitting my other job right now but i do have a long haul goal that in twenty twenty two or by the end of twenty twenty two i want to quit my job and do youtube full-time i don't know that's realistic i mean twenty three thousand dollars last year sounds like a lot it could easily go back to five thousand next year there's no guarantee that this growth continues uh... and i have three children and a house and a dog i can't just survive on twenty thousand a year that doesn't work plus i don't want to stop doing our giveaways and getting back to the community and improving the channel behind the equipment we need to buy to progress further so not quitting my job but i would like to get to a point where i can seriously consider it and maybe quit it by the end of the year if possible if not it's okay it's not like i'm banking my entire future on this but it would be nice and you know if you guys want to write a nice round number here is i think in the state of wisconsin think it was cheaper to live here i would say if we could make about fifty thousand per year that would be where you start to consider okay it's time to maybe do youtube full-time that's enough to support my family for now and obviously you know i'm a student complete college and everything will still worry about you know if the youtube channel grows past a fifty thousand but yes that will be a goal not just in the total revenues to be sponsorships the donations the memberships the patreon everything combined uh... and then once we get to that point and beyond we can start to consider hiring others i don't know if we're going to hire anyone specifically by the end of the year you guys will determine that uh... but yeah that's just something i have in the back of my mind one thing though is i want to add some new content uh... one piece of new content i want to add is game reviews that's right i want to dabble in game reviews and you might go when they just do it then not that simple name i donate why isn't it that simple to just do game reviews they take time i do find time to play games uh... but it took me six weeks to beat metroid dread that's not going to work for a game review six weeks later and i didn't really one hundred percent it i didn't do what i think i would need to do to do a full review and i don't want to just do your average joe you know eight-minute little review that just basically tells you whether or not to buy the game i will say i plan to do youtube shorts in addition to those reviews we have a youtube short review and then the big review in the short review is basically quick summary no spoilers and let's you know if it's worth your money or not uh... and then obviously you have the bigger review which will be a lot more in-depth it'll go into a lot of conversations around different aspects of the game the likes the dislikes why i feel certain way about certain things what i enjoy in these kind of games and what i might not enjoy so this doesn't mean i'm just gonna focus on games that i know i like i can also do games that i know i don't like uh... like pokemon brilliant diamond that i'm playing right now uh... so yeah i would say i want to do these but they're very time-consuming and between college and work and children uh... and i'll see this youtube stuff there isn't a lot of time to dedicate to getting that done so you have to sit down and actually play the game for long sessions in a short amount of time uh... so this is going to require your guys's help at least for now maybe you won't always require you guys's help but if we want to expand that content that's what our patreon is going to be for as well if our patreon can get up to two thousand dollars per month from you guys uh... yeah that's where okay we're doing we're doing at least a couple game reviews per month at that point uh... but again that's up to you guys no pressure to actually go over there again this is more of a dream hey if you want to go support us at patreon.com and get us to that two thousand mark and then i can actually do you know game reviews every month a couple of them you guys can even the patrons can even pick what games i'm going to be reviewing sweet uh... but until then i just appreciate your support uh... and all the other things that happen with the podcast because of that support but yeah that's uh... that's just something that i have a goal for and i would love to dive in time is money as they say and i can't spend more time doing work on this channel without taking time away from my other job and i can't afford to take time away from my other job without being able to replace the money i make there so that again that also helps us get towards that goal of being able to do this full time all right um... so yeah some other things i want to shoot up for the stars for here uh... i want to give away to get bigger and better next year i have some ideas behind that i don't want to share quite yet uh... i want to obviously grow as a host and as a person in human being hopefully you guys will agree that has happened this year will continue to happen i think twenty twenty one was the least controversial year this channel yet and i hope that that just continues to be the case moving forward i i i feel like we've been rather drama free here in twenty twenty one and i want that to continue there could be disagreements with the content i make how i make it uh... my disagreements i have with fans sometimes but the difference in that and things that have happened in the past is a long time viewers will know uh... i want the general impression to be that and the twenty twenty two nintendo prime and myself have become a much better channel at the start and i do believe that i don't talk about before i did on twenty twenty one obviously the dream is to be a full-time youtuber um... so yeah that's kind of it guys that's my looking back at twenty twenty one looking forward to twenty twenty two some goals you'll notice i didn't make a bunch of content promises in there i've done this before like i want to do a prime news thing i want to do um... you know i i don't know an arguing with yourself idea i want to do um... this uh... conversational discussion video article idea i want to do this i want to do that there are a lot of things i want to do at this channel but most of that stuff isn't realistic to consider until after we're already doing youtube full time it's not something to consider to do along the way because again doing youtube full time means i'm full time at least forty hours a week sometimes more depending on what it needs to be done i have ideas for a live news show i've got lots of concepts out there um... that aren't really worth me promising or exploring until we nail everything we're already doing now and do it even better and then get to that point where we're adding in those game reviews as well we add all that into the channel and that's already new content that you can expect on weekends that would be really wonderful because i'd love to drop my reviews on weekends unless we have like a review embargo because we got a review copy of a game which we never get review copies of games so i'm not really too worried about that ah all right i think we're good right did i speak enough did i tell you guys enough that i give you enough information hopefully you guys enjoy this i know only the most hardcore of my fans will be watching uh... so thank you guys and i'll catch you in 2022 or i guess on tonight's live stream that'll be the last time to see me in 2021 by the way will be live streaming all the way till 2022 because it's new year's eve catch you guys in the next video