Can you believe it? We are only 4 issues away from the 1-year anniversary of this newsletter! 🤯 I knew I had to be consistent when starting it, but honestly, I’m quite surprised that I haven’t missed a single week.

On a very different note I’m rediscovering the Skateboarding niche on YouTube and got fully sucked into the Braille drama. Is that something you would care to hear more about?

💛 Valentin

Becoming a Full-Time Creator

In June I was in Berlin at an event hosted by Blackmagic Design. One of the highlights was meeting MrAlexTech in person. He has one of the most popular Tutorial channels for Davinici Resolve and I learned a lot from him.

A month later I can happily share a full conversation with Alex that is really fun. In it he shares his thoughts on becoming a full-time creator, what his benchmark for success is, a super simple strategy for creating consistent content, and acting naturally on camera.

But my personal favorite part of the episode is his insights into creating and selling digital products.

He started by making transitions and templates that simply didn’t exist. Having them made his editing life easier and gave him something extra to offer to his viewers.
While he was learning about creating them he gave them away for free, with the option to donate. Over time he developed his own preset packs that are best in class and have become fully paid products the community loves.

Plus, he still offers more lightweight versions for free giving everybody a chance to try them.

This strategy creates such a win win scenario for everyone and it’s something I’d recommend to almost any creator.

Make something that fixes a problem for you and offer it to your audience for free.

You might be surprised where that leads to.

Watch the video or listen to the uncut podcast

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A Week in MKBHD’s Life

If you ever wondered how MKBHD and his team are able to put out multiple high quality videos each week you finally get an answer in this video.

I always find it fascinating to see the inner workings of larger channels and how surprisingly simple it often is.

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The Cinematic Shots of Natalie Lynn

Natalie Lynn is one of those YouTube New Wave Creators that creates cinematic vlogs without working for the algorithm. Yet her videos get half a million views and more.

In this distinctively different episode of Digital Spaghetti Natalie breaks down some of her most iconic shots and how she uses drone footage in a unique way.

Fun stuff to click on

Watch

Digging the Greats trades his phone for an iPod

Linus builds the ultimate truck simulator rig

Max Vega mods an 80s Camera to record HD

Jay Alto teaches you how to form a cult (kinda)

Aprilynne Alter created an in depth video on idea generation

Etymologynerd explains the real origin of “podcast”

Listen

Grey and Myke talk about perfectionism on the Cortex Podcast

See all my thumbnail variations.

Clickpilot* is the tool I use to improve my thumbnails and test them against other channels in my niche. I’m still trying to figure out a “formula” for the packaging that I can be 100% confident in.
The episode with Louise is doing exceptionally well and I was trying to play off that for Alex but every guest is different and it feels a bit boring to just call videos:

He/She is ….. Without even trying.

So here you can see the full ideation process for the latest video with all the little tweaks to the image and title made.

Browse through to get some inspiration and let me know if you think there is room for improvement.

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