 What happens if you post consistently to YouTube for, I don't know, say a hundred days? Well, stick around, I'm gonna tell you. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And in this video, I'm gonna be talking all about my first hundred days on YouTube because that officially came to an end this morning at 4 a.m. And so what I thought I'd do is give you a little wrap up of the stats. And for those of you that didn't know, when I set out on this little YouTube journey, I set myself the goal of making a hundred videos in my first hundred days on YouTube. And not necessarily one a day, I should add. I wasn't that crazy. But to average out at a hundred videos over that period. So I did have to make up for a couple of days that I took off. But why a hundred days? Well, a wise old man once said, sorry, Doc. So Doc Rock once said that you don't even need to consider looking at your stats until you hit a hundred videos. And so I thought, well, why don't I just get those hundred videos out of the way? And then I'll have a proper excuse to go and have a look at my stats. So that is what we're gonna do today. It's have a little bit of a dig into the analytics and I can show you what has happened with my channel in that time. And so that you can perhaps get an idea of what you might be able to expect from your first hundred videos, whether or not you crammed them into a hundred days or not is entirely up to you. Now I should say that in this process, I did actually do everything or try at least wherever possible to do everything purely organically. So I didn't tell my however many thousand Facebook friends or people on email lists and things like that. By the way, I say a thousand Facebook friends. I don't really have a thousand friends. I don't know how I've got that many people on Facebook that I seem to know, but I think I can probably count my close and dear friends on the finger of one finger. So anyway, let's get into the stats shall we? And I'll show you where we're up to. And by the way, this is sort of a continuation of my weekly live streams that I've been doing where obviously I do all my video tutorials and things like that. But then every week I always have my, for me it's Saturday morning, but for a lot of the world, it's often Friday afternoon, Friday evening. So if you're in the US, it will be Friday at around about five or six PM, Eastern Standard Time. So in that live stream, I usually give an update on where I'm up to in terms of my progress towards this goal. So I'm just gonna stick to the same format for the beginning of this video. And I'll pop up this little slide that I always put up. So this is my 100 videos in 100 days. And today is the end of day 100. And so I'm just giving you a little summary. And I did actually hit 100 videos. That was my, actually it was my last live stream was on day 99. And that was in effect my 100th video. So I've made a total of 45 hours of content that is now available for the world to see on YouTube. So the average video length is around about 27 minutes. I say around about, I have got a spreadsheet that I can tell you it's actually 27 minutes, two seconds. But there you go. And in the, this time I've grown to the channel from zero to 300 and 11 subscribers. And as I say, that is organic. So I've not been bringing anyone in, although I have been, you know, active in places like the e-cam live community and places such as that. So it's not like I've just been sitting back and posting and letting YouTube do all the work just by virtue of me being active in those communities. People have found me through that. So you'll just have to take that into account. So next is the total watch hours is 1.5,000, 1,500 watch hours. And then the total views across all of my videos is 15,000. It's actually not, it's 14,893, but I just rounded it off for neatness. And so that it would fit into the box. So the two key figures there for anybody who's been doing their research on YouTube and looking to start their own channel will probably be thinking about the target that a lot of people have, which is the holy grail monetization on YouTube. It's a dirty word, isn't it? And so a lot of people are aiming for those two figures. And that is basically, you need 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours on your channel within, I think within a 12 month period, before you're eligible to be monetized and the monetization comes through running ads on your channel. And so you get a little slice of the ad revenue. For me, this hasn't been a sort of huge motivator or driver for me to get to that point. I'm well aware that it's not like you reach that point and then suddenly the money truck backs up to you. So I want to know illusion about that, but it is just a number, isn't it? It's, you know, why do 100 days, 100 videos in 100 days. So a next big milestone might be the 1,000. Actually, I do have another milestone, but I'll tell you about that a little bit later. But yeah, so 1,000 is a nice number to aim for, I suppose. But I do just want to sort of reiterate the fact that if monetization is something that you are serious about and you want to do it, then don't think that you do have to wait for YouTube to do their part and pay for your content because there are ways that you can monetize your channel far before then. And in fact, I was able to monetize and by monetize, I mean get in a small amount of money, I think before I got to 50 subscribers. So it is possible to do earlier. Now I'm going to do a whole separate video all about the monetization side of it because I'll be doing basically like a cost revenue analysis of the channel. So I'll share with you all of the costs that I've had, the subscriptions, the things like that that I pay out, but then also what I've been able to make from revenue from the various different sources that I have through the activity on the channel, basically. So that will just give you an idea of what is actually possible. And I can tell you now that the channel is totally cost-neutral. So it's not actually costing me any money to do all of this stuff apart from my time. So there is that and you can judge for yourself what that's worth. But anyway, that is where we are in terms of the stats. I will go into the analytics and I'll have a little bit more of a deeper dive into that because there are certainly places where I can see how I could, if I wanted, if I wanted to go down the purely down the numbers route there are ways that I could certainly change things up to increase my numbers and get more subscribers, get more views and things like that. But we'll look at those a little bit later. And what I thought I'd do now is I'd also just show you what my top five videos were. I thought you might be interested in that out of a hundred videos. And that sort of is related to the point that I've just made, actually, in terms of what I could do to change things up because you might notice a bit of a theme. And in fact, before I put these up, my videos so far have been, I would say probably about 75% have been in some way related to e-cam live. It is the program, in fact, this is probably a good time, isn't it? e-cam live is the program that I use, the live production environment that I use on my Mac to make all of these videos. It's what enables me to make all these videos in one take, live to tape, if you like, or live to my hard disk. And then I just simply upload them to YouTube from there. It's also what I use to have all of these overlays and things like that to do things just like this, putting this up on the screen. And it's really a joy to use. I mean, it's such a classically Mac app, if you are a Mac user, you know what I mean by that? There's something really joyous about using it. And if it was a food product, I would be sure that they were lacing it with some sort of drugs because I am quite an addict to it at the moment. So yeah, e-cam live has just been something that has been at the forefront of my mind and it's been bringing a little bit of joy to my life. And so that's what I seem to be making my videos about. The channel itself when I started was originally going to be more sort of like Mac productivity and things like that. So all about how I get things done on my Mac. And it just seems that in the last 100 days, what I've been getting done most is making videos. And so hence, e-cam live has been up at the top of the list there. But with that in mind, you may be then surprised to see what my top five videos are because they're not necessarily totally e-cam live. So the top video that I did was a video all about the Stream Deck 5.0 software release when it came out. I was a bit lucky on the timing with that because I woke up here in Thailand before most of the rest of the Western world was awake to the news that it had been released. And so I made my video straight away, having downloaded it and gone into it and figured out how everything worked. And so I released that video and that has been by far, as you can see, three times more than the next highest rated video with 1,800 views on that video alone. So then the next one down is when there was a recent product release from Algato, makers of the Stream Deck, you may just have noticed that connection. And I basically, I hadn't actually bought any of the products or got any of them in my hand, but I just did a sort of, I suppose a reaction video really to my thoughts on all of the new product releases and explaining how they may be beneficial to people. And so that was my next highest video. Next we come to the first entry from e-cam in the chart. And it was all about e-cam and how I use it with Stream Deck. So there's the Stream Deck getting back in there. And that was 600 views. Next was one of the first videos I did actually, which was all about this microphone, the Shure MV7. And it was kind of my review of it after two months of use. So that one had 590 views. And then the next video down from that was all about Stream Deck profiles and how I use profiles instead of folders now, having seen the light on my Stream Deck. And so that was the next most popular. So one thing you'll notice about there is out of all of them, there is one that doesn't include the word Stream Deck or Algato makers of the Stream Deck. And that one is just one all about this microphone. So my main content, although it has been e-cam live, is not necessarily my most popular. Now, am I gonna totally change? Am I gonna go down the Stream Deck route and just be a Stream Deck channel? Because I could probably make another 100 videos just on the Stream Deck and the use cases for it. Well, if I was really just going purely after the stats, that is exactly what I would do. But I'm not, so I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna carry on doing what I'm doing, which is basically just making the videos that I enjoy making because I think that that then comes through most in the videos themselves and it's more fulfilling then to just be doing that rather than feeling like I've got to chase numbers because I think that that might be a dangerous game to start getting too fixated on numbers. And then what happens if I go down that route and then at some point there's a big mass uprising against Stream Deck and the evil empire that's built around it and people start going over to Loop Deck and then I'll be screwed then, wouldn't I? So I'm just gonna keep doing what I've been doing. But it is just interesting to note that you can get this sort of information once you've been out there for this amount of time, this short amount of time. But as Doc said, getting to that 100 videos, you can really start to drill into these statistics then. So with that said, let's have a quick look, shall we? At some of the actual statistics rather than ones that I've just popped up on the screen. So here we are in my YouTube analytics channel and here you can see the views. You can also see how it's gone up over time slowly but surely and yet there are sort of spikes. I can tell you now what these spikes are. This spike here, that is that first video that I told you about that had the most views. This is the Stream Deck 5.0 software release and that had a big spike up then. This one here is the Elgato product release. So there's that one there. And then this one recently was actually where I put out a couple of videos which turned out to be quite popular. That one was actually about the Ecamm Live Beta. That one seemed to have quite a lot of traction. I'm quite surprised actually by how many people in the Ecamm Live community are also in the Beta community. So I think if you go into the Ecamm Live, if the facebook.com slash groups slash Ecamm Live there are about 15,000 members and then in the groups slash Ecamm Live Beta I think there are about 5,000. So a third of the people more or less are also beta testers or at least interested in it. So that is quite a nice little stat to see how people are getting into the beta. By the way, that's what I'm using to make this video. I've just been full into the beta since it came out really and it's really quite stable as well. This is probably a good time to say I'll leave a link to the video I did all about the beta in the top corner for people who are interested. But in any case, that is what that spike was. Oh, and then I also did a video about how you could use Ecamm Live to try and emulate a full TV studio effect. And those two came out at the same time and both seemed to get quite a lot of traction. So that's why that spike was there. But you can see how it could be that if you were too into these stats and you suddenly saw there was this spike here you could get disheartened when it dropped back down to these levels. So really, you do have to take them with a bit of understanding of what's driving them and not to get too disheartened if they don't always go in a long line upwards. There will be peaks and troughs and so just to get used to that, I suppose. So the next one we have is the watch time. So you can see how this has changed over time as well. Again, these spikes, it's all just similar to the first one. So the views, obviously if I've had more views of particular videos, then it makes sense that the watch time will be higher as well. So that is something to be expected. And then you can also see the number of subscribers. So you can see how it's been fairly sort of consistent but there have been spikes. So again, when that Stream Deck 5.0 video came out then there was nine people subscribed on that day because they had seen the video and subscribed to the channel. So hello, if that was you. And then there's other sort of events where I've had more subscribers. Sometimes it's just that I've posted in a group or something like that. And so people have found me like that. But it's been fairly consistent. I would say that the average, if you like, of a sort of daily number of subscribers has been slowly increasing. So it's slightly more now than it used to be but it's just been fairly steady really. So it's between sort of, I don't know, three and five or seven or something like that every day. Something like that. Well, obviously, if I've done 100 days and I've got 300 subscribers, then the average is three a day, isn't it? The rate of them seems to have been getting more just recently. And so this is where you can see in YouTube studio the sort of ranking of your videos and this is where I've got these figures from in terms of the number of views. So this is quite an interesting place to look in YouTube. So again, this is in the YouTube studio in the analytics section. And you can also have a look at things like reach. So here we can see, I do find these sorts of things quite interesting. I don't know if I'm alone in this, but I do find these sorts of stats interesting and it's also talks about the traffic sources as well. So what this one is talking about here is by impressions. That's the number of times that my little thumbnails, my little videos have been shown or possibly even in Google search where they've been recommended. And you can see that this is something that has been increasing over time. And that would make sense because I have got a sort of an increasing back catalog if you like. So there is obviously going to be people searching not just for my latest video, but also my older ones. And so that collection is constantly getting larger and larger. So you would imagine that it would show up more and more. So that sort of explains that trend upwards. And then here we've also got the traffic sources. So you can see that we've got some from browse features from YouTube search and suggested videos. So these top three are basically all related to YouTube essentially. So if somebody's browsing and then my thumbnail comes up in their feed if you like, then that would be there. Then obviously people who have searched specifically for something that is YouTube search and then suggested videos is once somebody's watched a video and then it suggests another video to them afterwards. So you can see that actually it's well over 50% of my sort of traffic if you like has come from these YouTube related suggestions or browse features, things like that. And then there's also some external traffic and some from channel pages and some from others. So this section over here, sorry, if I stop spinning around so much. So we've got the impressions and how they led to watch time. Now this is basically, if you're familiar with funnels and conversions, you can sort of think of this in a bit of a similar way really. So the total impressions is 190,000. And then from those impressions, there were basically 8,600 actual views. So that means that of the 190,000, here you can see 4.5% clicked through my thumbnail to go and actually watch the video. Now, I don't actually know if that's good or not. I don't know what an average would be because I haven't compared this to anybody else. It's just really a little metric for my own viewing to see, well, and yours obviously, to see how this might change. So if I suddenly noticed that my click-through rate is less than 4.5%, I might think maybe there's something wrong. You could obviously do some split testing and things like that, where I test out different thumbnails to see if I get better traction or something like that. I'm sure I should do that and I will do that as an experiment at some point. But again, it's not something I'm desperately hunting for is these little improvements, but I certainly will be doing it for the experience and to understand what things that make a difference. So then once we've got the number of impressions or the views from impressions, then it also tells you the average view duration and that is six minutes 24. Well, bear in mind that my average video length was 27 minutes, then there's a lot of people tuning out, isn't there? So maybe I'll take that bit on board and see what I can do about that. So then the total watch time in terms of hours from impressions is 920. So if you remember what I mentioned about my total watch time was, I'm forgetting, 1,500 hours. 900 hours of that has come from the browse features, which I suppose would make sense because it's obviously, you know, people have found it and they've clicked on it. So you would think that people want to see what they've clicked on as opposed to just happening upon it randomly. So then the next one is the external sources. So you can see of those, here we go, this external source, 9.9%. So 10% of my traffic came from external sources, while 60% of that, so 6% overall, came from Facebook, 19.3% of that came from Google search and then some from Yahoo and so on. So that is just basically the sources of them. Next, we've got playlists and the source of my watch time from all the traffic that has come from my playlists. So I've got different playlists. I've got one for Ecam Live, stream deck for my how-to guides and things like that. And so you can see that the majority of my watch traffic from those playlists has come from my Ecam Live playlist. Well, that would make sense because that's the biggest playlist, it's got most videos in it and stream deck is closely following that. So that is a handy little feature just to see which playlists are most popular. You can also see on traffic source from YouTube search. So this will tell you what people have actually been searching for and surprise, surprise, this might explain those videos that I put up earlier that had proved popular. The highest rated search term was stream deck 5.0, then stream deck, then stream deck Mark II, then sure MV7 and then Algato stream deck. So that is what the most people are searching for that are finding my channel. So again, if I was gonna go after the numbers, I would just focus on those things but I just love Ecam so much. Did I tell you about Ecam? So I tell you what, I tell you what, this might be a good little segue because if you are interested in live streaming and you're interested in Ecam Live and interested in YouTube, then there's something that you may want to know about. And that is the leap into live streaming bootcamp. And this is something that's been organized by Ecam Live and it's from the 13th to 17th of September. And you just go to leapinto.live and it's basically five days of great content by absolutely amazing creators. All of these wonderful people, Pat Flynn, Diana Gladney, all of your favorites from the world of YouTube, Marshall Fox, they're all there, Adrian Salisbury, you've probably seen on the Ecam channel, Doc Rock, Kirk Nugent, all of these amazing people. And they're all gonna be at leap into live and you can get your ticket. And I know what you're thinking. It's gonna be thousands, isn't it? Well, maybe there's a special offer. You can get it for hundreds. No, it is $20. So if you are in any way interested in content creation, you definitely need to be here for this. It is gonna be absolutely awesome. I'll certainly be there, obviously. It's a virtual conference though, so don't worry. You don't have to travel. You can do it from the comfort of your own home or wherever you want, in fact. And yeah, it's definitely something not to be missed. So 13th to 17th of September, leapinto.live to get your ticket. And there is, by the way, a separate Facebook group just for this. So they'll be sharing content in there as well and people will be able to obviously chat and converse and share their experiences from the event as well. So definitely look forward to seeing you there. So anyway, that is a little extra segment about Ecam Live. And back to the stats. So we can also see traffic sources from suggested videos as well. So this is where basically there's been another video and my video has been suggested at the end of that. And again, it doesn't surprise me that a lot of these are basically streamed eccentric, shall we say. So that is a summary of those stats. You can also look at the impressions and click-through rate and how that has changed over time. So it makes sense that at the beginning, there was a bit of a spike there. That's when there was only basically me and my daughter and a couple of other people knew about it that every time a video came, they would click-through on it. But then slowly, this is just sort of averaged out to around about the four and a half, five marks, something like that. So that's been fairly flat since then. Next, we've got the number of views. So that's similar to, you can see how that's sort of relatively flat, slowly increasing, I would say ever so slightly, but that's been sort of fairly consistent as well. And then next one we go to is engagement. And so here you can look at the watch time. So there is the total watch time, but you can also look at how the average view duration has changed over time as well. So that's sort of bouncing around in this area, sort of between what's that, four minutes and eight minutes thereabouts and it's around about there. So take from that what you will. And so this is also interesting on a sort of video by video basis. You can actually go through and have a look at when you click on the video, it will show you the basically audience retention. So you can see at what point people fell off and stop watching. Now this was my only short that I did on YouTube. I didn't count that in my stats because it was obviously less than a minute, so it didn't seem worth it. But if I click on one of these other videos, this is a more common pattern. There's a sort of big drop off at the beginning when they see my face and think, oh, I don't want to watch him. And then it just sort of slowly tails off. And sometimes it's more rapid tail off like that one. And sometimes it's more that people stay until the end. So I need to do more teasers, don't I? I need to say wait until the end to get some great information that I'm not going to tell you at the beginning. Oh, that one was a very good one, wasn't it? I don't know what I said. I wonder what I said there. But anyway, so as I say, it is a bit of a rabbit hole with all of these stats that you can go into. But it is just interesting to see the sort of level that you can dig into, to see your audience retention and things like that. And there's certainly things that you can learn from this. I mean, if you did actually seriously want to do what I've just said, put in some teasers and try those sorts of things. Maybe switch out your titles and maybe leave out the titles. I always have my little title segment in, but I should try taking those out and see what happens with the audience retention. Maybe tease with something that's coming at the end to see if we can get people to stay until that last minute. This is exactly how you would go about doing that. And you would really be able to see what effect it had. So it is good in that. In fact, I might do that as a little experiment. I don't really like teasing too much. If I'm going to tell you something, I'd rather just tell you, but I'll perhaps give that a go in the next few videos. So next one is the top videos. This is where I got those stats from for those top videos. And then also the top videos by end screen. So this is where when I do my little end screen, so something like this where I say, I've got more great videos coming up next. Check them out over here. Well, when I do those end screens, the bottom of those two videos is always a playlist. And the top video is always one that YouTube recommends. Now I did a video all about end screens and how you set them up. So I'll leave a link to that video. But basically what this little section here is telling me is it's telling me of the videos that have been recommended by YouTube to viewers in that top little video slot. It's telling me which one is the most popular that people have clicked on. So that's just interesting to know which one of those is getting most traction. And there's obviously conclusions that you can draw from that. So you might want to look at the thumbnails and see if you've got two different styles of thumbnails, does one get more traction than others? That's definitely a good way to judge that. Then you've also got the top playlist. So I mentioned that I have playlists on the other side as well. So that is definitely another way that you can have a look to see which playlists are getting most traction and people want to click on. And then the last point here is basically when you do your end screens, as you'll see in that video that I did, if you want to watch that one, for the end screens, you have the option of either putting a video, a playlist or your subscribe button or a few other different elements. But as I only actually use the video best for viewer or the playlist, that's obviously the only two that have actually featured there. And then there's a couple of people have pressed on the subscribe button that comes up at the end as well. Next, we have the top cards. And the cards are basically those things where I say I'll put a link up into the top corner. So it tells me which ones have been most popular. For some reason, these stats aren't actually showing. So I'm not sure quite why that is, except this one. Create icons quickly and easily for stream deck is showing up, but these ones are not. So I'm not sure what's going on there. Next one is the audience. So this is where you can see basically the difference between either returning viewers or new viewers. So you can see how that changes over time. So again, this big spike in new viewers there, 162. That was when I did that stream deck software update video. And again, you can also see down here when your video, your viewers are on YouTube. So it looks like these little hotspots here, which is my time, this is local time, which is sort of Tuesday morning, early hours of the morning or Sunday late evening, Friday early morning, my time or Sunday AM, Saturday AM rather. These are the times when my viewers are active on YouTube. So if I really wanted to time my videos perfectly to be dropping into people's feeds just at those times, that's how I would do it. In fact, actually I just basically make these videos and I'll put them out. That is the science that I've developed for it because sometimes I just think that I know that there are people waiting for them because I do have at least one or two people who have asked me for specific videos that I make. And then I just think I'd rather just get them out so that if there's somebody who wants to watch them, they're there. There's no point holding it back, is my view. And especially as I have been just creating a video a day, I didn't see the need necessarily to just time them perfectly. Unless if I was doing one video a week, then maybe this might be a good way to gauge exactly when the best time to drop that video might be. You can also see the other channels that my audience watches. So no surprises there. Ecam live, livestreamingpros.rock, Kat Mulvihill, Tom Buck. If you haven't checked out any of those, definitely go and check them out. I highly recommend all of them. So no surprises there. This section here is actually a TubeBuddy thing. So this is giving recommendations again. It's actually telling me the best time to post. Although with it being in dark mode, you can't actually see it too well here, but it's saying Sunday at 10 p.m., Monday at 10 p.m., Tuesday at 12 a.m., Wednesday at 10 p.m., Thursday at 9 p.m., Friday at 12 a.m., or Saturday at 9 p.m. That is just specifically for me, but that is telling me when the best time to do it is. And if I'm gonna post weekly, it's telling me Tuesday at 12 a.m. Indochina time, which is where I am, is the best time to post. It also tells me, if I click on this button, it'll tell me what the best time to livestream is. So I can click on that one, and it should update these, and it's telling me 2 a.m. on Tuesday again. So there we go. And that is from TubeBuddy, actually. So this is a little plugin for YouTube, as opposed to the YouTube interface itself. And I've found over my 100 days that TubeBuddy has been really interesting. And so if you haven't checked out TubeBuddy, then definitely head over to takeonetech.io slash TubeBuddy and download it and give it a go. I've just realized I've got some background music. So that's not normally there, but I hope you enjoy it. I feel like I'm in a little jazz lounge now. So, yeah, basically it's a plugin for YouTube that gives you a lot more stats and things like that that you can use and also helps with things like writing your descriptions, your keywords and stuff like that. So that has been a really good little bonus and helped me along with making sure that everything is all in line and as it should be for all of my videos. So definitely check that one out at takeonetech.io slash TubeBuddy. The starter plan, by the way, from memory is I think around $8 a month. But if you've got less than a thousand subscribers, it's half price. So it's only $4 a month and it's well worth it in my estimation. So that's TubeBuddy. So back to here, the music just cut straight out. I'm not even sure how that music's in there to be honest, but there you go. We've also got on here, we've got the geographies. So 35% in the US, 7% in the UK, some in Thailand and so on, but you can just see where all your viewers are. So you might want to bear that in mind when you're sort of planning things like live streams and things like that. Next is the watch time that I've got from people who are not subscribed compared to subscribers. So it's around about 60% non-subscribers and 40% subscribed people, age and gender. So predominantly male, I'm afraid. So not much diversity here. Then the next one is age groups. And the main age group is 35 to 44, which just happens to be my age group. I'm just inside that 43, so there we go. That is my demographic, if you like. Then you can also see here on the subtitles. So 93% have no subtitles, but actually quite a lot of people watch it with subtitles. I'm guessing that's partly because my accent is so hard to understand, but more than likely. So I know a lot of people watch these things where they just want to watch and read rather than listen. Like they're on a bus or something like that or wherever they are, I don't quite know. But it does just sort of highlight the importance of actually making sure you have got closed captions, subtitles, whatever you want to call them. And yeah, having those in place because although they are generated automatically by YouTube, I should say, you don't have to create these yourself. But if you can upload your own, then it does all help on YouTube, but it does look favorably on people who do that because of this very reason. That is quite a large percentage of people that may be watching your content with subtitles. So definitely worth bearing that in mind. And that there is basically a summary of the statistics. We've looked at subscribers and how that has changed. And so here, if I go down to the monetization section, this is the one that I just wanted to mention, you can see that you've got these little icons here. So this is 311. And look at that. My subscribers have gone down. Somebody, well, I've been making this. Has it dropped off? Let me have a little look. Oh, no, they haven't. 311, I thought I'd lost one then. Thought I'd lost one. So that is 311 and 1,000 required for monetization and 1,462 public watch hours, 4,000 required for monetization and zero community strikes. So it says I'm ineligible for monetization if I've got any community strikes, but I don't think I'm gonna be a naughty boy into anything like that. So that is basically a summary of what happens when you post for 100 days and the sort of growth that you can expect to have, or at least post for 100 videos. I'm purely speculating here because I've only done it for 100 days with 100 videos. But presumably if those videos were stretched further out, then the sort of figures that you'd get may end up being slightly more because you're the content's around for longer, although you might be slower overall to get there in your 100 videos, if that makes at all sense. So what else have I learned from my first 100 days, my first just over three months on YouTube? Well, when I set out on this little experimental journey, part of the reason was to, as I say, see what happens when you post regularly and what sort of growth you can expect on YouTube. It was also an experiment in actually just sitting down and making these videos because I do just make them all sort of off the cuff without any real preparation. I obviously prepared a little bit because I filled out all of these little forms, didn't I, here in these little fields with my stats, but that is the limit of the preparation that I do. And usually most of the things I do are tutorials where I'm not actually really preparing. So I just sort of sit down and think, how would I explain this app or something like that to people? So I generally don't do a lot of preparation. Sometimes there is a few things to sort out like getting websites loaded or occasionally I do preparation with some things that might be required for a demo, but generally I just sort of sit down and do them. And so part of the reason for doing the channel was for me to get more used to this process of just being able to sit down and make these videos. And I did go back and watch one of my first ones, actually, just the other day to see what if I could notice any difference. And I don't know, I'll let you be the judge of it, but I did see that I was a little bit more comfortable than I was when I first started. And one of the reasons for that is that I now have people who I have become familiar with, who I know that are watching. And so rather than when I first started where I was just literally talking into the camera, feeling, to be honest, a little bit stupid, just sitting here in my basement, talking to myself, now I'm actually talking to real people. I'm talking to you. So that's who I'm talking to when I'm making these videos. I'm talking directly to you. And so if you're anybody that is maybe struggling with actually getting going and you've maybe possibly, if you're like me, a recovering perfectionist, are feeling a little bit self-critical at times, then rest assured that the majority of people don't. I mean, obviously there are some people who switch off after six minutes, you know who you are. But the majority of people are very supportive and they just actually wish the best for you and they want you to succeed. So that has been a big thing for me really is the support that I've got from the community in doing this and from the people who've been watching and reaching out and connecting with me as well. I really enjoy that side of things. And to be honest with you, any sort of sense of things need to be perfect or all of that side of stuff rapidly went out of the window as soon as those connections started to be made. And so it's been really far more rewarding than I ever could have imagined to be honest with you when I started out. It was possibly now I look back maybe a little bit selfish of me to think that I was just doing it for my own personal development because it's all about the way that you can help other people and it's almost a crime to withhold your information and not just be able to give it out to people who may be wanting to learn something from it. So that's been one of my biggest takeaways. And it's also the reason why I've come to the decision I have really, which is when I set this goal of a hundred videos in a hundred days, I sort of thought that what I would do after that was maybe reduce down to maybe doing a couple of videos a week, something like that, just to obviously keep producing the content I was never gonna abandon it, but just sort of reduce the flow a little bit. But I've basically decided I'm just gonna carry on at the rate I am. And so my new goal is 365 videos in a year. And so that is what I'm aiming for now. So I'm gonna keep maintaining the same rate of production as much as possible. Again, not necessarily every day, but I will definitely try and make it that every week at my weekly live stream, I'll be up to date with my videos. So if you do wanna catch the live stream, as I said, it's always on a Friday evening US time. I'll say that, because I know that 60% of my viewers are in the US. So six PM Eastern Standard Time on a Friday, and that is my four AM here in Thailand. So if you do want to catch up and see how things are going and progressing, then that is the place to do it. I also do open up the phone lines, as it were. It's not phone lines, obviously, is it? But there you go, you know what I mean. So there we go. I always put this up at the start of my live stream. So anyone wants to join in, can just click the link and not click it, they can type it in. I'm afraid you can't click on the screen as yet in YouTube. So you can click on the link. I've just said it again. You can type in this link into your browser and then come and join in. So if anybody fancies coming and joining me on the live stream, then watch for when I go live and then follow the link and then come on and have a chat. I'm always open to people coming and joining in and having a little chat about how things are going and so on. So I'm going to be looking at ways that I can actually develop the live stream as well. And I'm also thinking about combining it with a podcast as well, so that I'll take a section at the front, maybe that's going to be the podcast update on progress towards the goal. Thanks to Greg for the suggestion there from my last live stream. And yeah, really sort of developing the live stream out a little bit more than it has been up to now, which has basically just been an ad hoc sort of update on progress, but I'll leave it there for now because I do feel like I'm just waffling on now to be perfectly honest. And that is part of the problem of just doing these live with no script. Sometimes if you don't have a script, then there's nothing no script to keep to is there. So as I dig myself further deeper and deeper into this waffling rattle, if you found this interesting and useful, then please go and leave a comment and just let me know about what you're doing on YouTube and how you're finding it. And if you've got any specific questions about what I've talked about today and how I've found my first 100 days or anything like that, then do go ahead and ask that. And don't forget to like and subscribe while you're down there as always. Like I said, I will be doing a video all about the sort of monetization aspect of it because this has been totally sort of self-supporting as it was up until now. And so I'll be doing a video about that and also how I'm going to develop that side of things going forward as well. But I'll leave a link to that in the top corner when I do it. In fact, I will have done it much earlier in this video when I make that video. I think it's time for me to get out of here, don't you? I'll leave a link to some of my other videos over on the right-hand side. And until the next one, bye-bye, have a great day.