 Hey, what's up everybody, welcome back to the channel. My name is Brian and today's video is going to be a short one talking about the future of this channel this next year, 2023 and what my plans are with it, what I'm going to focus the channel on. I've had quite a few new subscribers lately and I just kind of want to give you guys an idea of the focus that this channel is going to have as well as a secondary channel that I'm creating for some other things so that I don't confuse the audience too much of this one or confuse YouTube on how to actually, you know, put the video out. All right, so I've been working on this channel for several years off and on and probably my main issue with this is just consistency. I have a really hard time of like continually making videos month after month after month. I'll go through little spurts where I'll make, you know, five or ten videos or something and then I'll take a two or three month break. Something just happens or even maybe a six month break like I've done recently. And then I'll start making a bunch of videos again and apparently this is not great for YouTube. Apparently the algorithm or whatever system there is doesn't really know how to continually promote you when you have these breaks and so I wanted to having a lot of views from search and things like that for, you know, Unreal Engine or Blender or the couple of Jazzmaster videos that I've made and it's really kind of confused what this channel is really all about and it's really a creative channel. It's where I just put all of my creative endeavors outside of software development any other thing that I do like Unreal Engine or Blender or guitar stuff or music stuff or whatever else filmmaking all of those things. Those are all part of this channel and it's going to continue to be such probably not quite as much on the guitar videos although those are some of my biggest videos and I've had the most views on and the most watch time on those videos. You know, it's really about one guitar and it doesn't really make us a lot of sense for me to continue making videos on that. If you disagree with that, make sure you leave me a comment and say, hey, Brian, we want to see more Jazzmaster videos. Tell us more about this or if you want to see more music production videos, make sure you let me know because otherwise that's going to kind of be not the main focus of this channel going forward. It's going to be more filmmaking focused, camera focused. I still use my Lumix GH5 and my Blackmagic Pockets and my camera 4K. Make a few more videos about that. Those are still pretty popular cameras in this day and age. Great cameras for me. They do the job for what little I use them for. So probably make some more videos about that, but probably lay off of the music stuff a little bit. All right, so blah, blah, blah, all of that to say. I have a new channel that is dedicated to just software development stuff. I had debated earlier and I had kind of teased this in a previous video that I was going to start involving more software development information into this channel as my main channel. The more research I've done on that, I feel like that's probably a really bad idea. I think I would just be further confused in the YouTube algorithm, not really being very clear about what I'm going to be presenting to the subscribers of this channel. So I'm just going to push that off to a different channel. And, you know, I've already made my first video there and I've got the second one in the works. So I'll put a link in the description for that channel. And if anybody here is interested in software development or DevOps or Terraform or Jenkins or any of those types of things, that other channel is for you probably. I'm still going to be doing mostly filmmaking and Unreal Engine stuff on this channel. That other channel will be all for my software development stuff, which I know quite a bit about. And for some reason, I haven't made a lot of videos about that in the past. I'm going to change that this year and I'm going to just flood that channel with all kinds of software development information around computers and all of that stuff over there. So subscribe over there if you're interested in that type of thing. So on the topic of watch time, I've gone back and forth on this. My my own personal attention spent on YouTube is like, you know, five or ten minutes and I'm pretty much, you know, unless it's a super interesting video, I'm pretty much already tuning out. And I've kind of have translated that into the way that I create videos for this channel and I tend to make shorter videos. You know, when you have a lower watch percentage of each video, that doesn't turn into a lot of watch time across, you know, a lower number of subscribers. And so, you know, the recommendation from YouTube as well, you know, make longer videos. Well, you know, I'm not super exciting over a long period of time or even a short period of time. And so I have a difficult time of making an hour long video and getting anybody to watch more than just four or five minutes of it. So that's not really an option for me. YouTube also says, hey, make a lot of short videos and then hope that lots of people see them and click on them and watch them. That's a little bit more my speed, but then I tend to make these short, you know, lower produced type videos just to kind of get them out. They're not as good as they could be. And so watch time is low on those as well. So I'm kind of stuck in the middle of, you know, how do I make, you know, short engaging content that is actually watched by my subscribers? And along that point, not a lot of my subscribers watch a lot of my videos. The vast majority of my video views are from unsubscribed people. They don't typically turn into subscribers. So I don't know, maybe I've just killed this YouTube channel. Maybe maybe I've, you know, surpassed my 1000 subscribers but haven't hit my watch hours to get monetized yet. And even if I do get monetized on this channel, you know, how much of a struggle is that going to be to actually keep myself motivated to make videos around filmmaking and Unreal Engine and all of this stuff? I don't know. So watch my videos and like and comment and become, you know, more a part of the conversation and let me give you what you would like to see. You know, make sure that you interact and comment and I'll try to respond back. I try to be good about responding. Sometimes it takes me a little while, but I generally get back to everyone. So I appreciate the people that do comment and watch the videos. Thanks everybody. Thanks for subscribing. Thanks for watching. You know, if you feel like watching more of my videos or longer videos or just turning a playlist on and letting it roll, I really appreciate that. Anything you can do to help out this channel motivates me more to create more content around filmmaking, Blender, Unreal Engine, all of these types of things. So let me know that you like this type of stuff and I'll make more of it.