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more so this is it today we passed the 1
million subscriber Mark but without getting too wrapped up in the excitement
about you know gold YouTube play buttons and that kind of stuff there are some
other really cool numbers too 200 million views 4.8 million likes 1.8
million comments 100,000 members of the lonus tech tips community site
2500 videos over 1,300 years of collective time spent
watching lonus Tech tips videos seven members of the lonus tech tips lonus
Media Group production team and three channels now with daily bi-weekly and
weekly content we have come a long way
and it is all thanks to you guys our amazing viewers so put together some
pretty awesome giveaways to celebrate but first it's old man reminiscing time
so when I first started this channel I was working at NCIX it's an awesome
computer store in Canada and lonus Tech tips was meant to be complimentary to
the official NC YouTube channel that I'd already been working on for over a year
basically I wanted somewhere to put stuff like uh leaked information about
unreleased products or products that really didn't deserve their own
dedicated video on the main Channel and where I could let my personality out a
little little bit without worrying too much about how it would reflect on the
company image so the initial format lasted for a matter of like weeks
because and I I legitimately don't remember whose idea this was but I got a
new performance Target and the goal was to do daily videos I mean it's totally
insane now that I look back at it so early in the process I remember
cameraman and I the original cameraman taking an entire week's worth of content
in this case it was like six p-55 motherboards from MSI and Gigabyte and
unboxing them on a park bench in one afternoon outside the office so that day
in August 2009 just over 5 years ago the
one take policy was devised as a way for
us to achieve that daily video goal and then from then on we tried to do every
product unboxing in one take mostly to save on editing time um sometimes it
hurt the quality of the video I'd make a mistake or forget something or the
product demo wouldn't work um but I think it added a Charming human element
and some unpredictability to what was otherwise pretty dry subject matter I
wish that I could say that I was some kind of YouTube genius who premeditated
all this stuff but honestly half the time I didn't know what was going to
happen in alius Tech hiips video I mean here's an SSD that I unboxed standing on
top of my then girlfriend now wife's bed because the weather sucked outside and
there was nowhere else to film and I had a video du that night anyway that went
on for some time until almost 2 years ago now now I realized it was time to
leave NC and start my own company dedicated to just lonus Tech tips and my
other video projects lus Media Group was born so real talk time uh my team and I
went all in onlus Media Group uh the first two members of my team Luke and
Edsel both changed their education plans to do this with me and I spent just
about every penny that I had saved over the previous 6 years supporting the
business for the first 3 to four months until it started being able to stand on
its own but the investment paid off uh with more time to spend on making videos
and a team that has since grown to include seven people as I alluded to
before we've been able to produce what I think is some of the highest quality
technology content on YouTube and we've done it without ever compromising on
that daily upload schedule so I'm extremely thankful to my team for
helping us get to this Milestone but even more than that I'm thankful to you
guys I mean the viewers out there who are watching this right now without your
support we would not have made it I knew I was going to have to find ways
to monetize our content Beyond Google AdSense so that I could pay people a
living wage and cover my own overhead but I didn't know how you guys would
react and I'm I'm so thankful that um that you've continued to be supportive
all this time because thanks to you guys I think I have one of the coolest jobs
in the world and I get to work with the coolest group of people in the world and
I guess speaking of sponsorships before I reveal the big giveaway this is a
great time to also thank our sponsors because without them this whole thing
also wouldn't work so today's sponsors audible.com normally I talk about how
they have over 150,000 audiobooks and Gone Girl by Jillian Flynn is a
seriously mind screwy but awesome ride I actually just finished it and how you
should go to audible.com Linus and sign up for their monthly audiobook
membership and all that stuff but I mean come on you guys know what audible is so
if you want to listen to an audiobook go there they have like everything now
today I'd rather talk about the way that they've supported lonus Media Group as
well they were the first non-pc Hardware sponsor that began working with us and
that relationship actually opened up a lot of doors for us to other non-pc
sponsors who saw what audible was doing and thought hey maybe this could work
for us too so today is more about thanks
audible.com from the bottom of my heart I appreciate what you guys have done and
I hope my viewers feel the same way and recommend audible to their friends and
family for allowing small business owners like me to do what we love all
right so with all that out of the way like tear up here what am I giving away
to celebrate a few different things actually first up is the Microsoft
Surface Pro 3 that I reviewed in this video here Austin's got it right now I
think he's working on something with it but as soon as he's done it is one lucky
Winner's new notebook tablet surface
thing next we've got a fullblown gaming
rig we're talking cor7 4770k 16 gigs of
RAM 480 gigs worth of solid state storage Gigabyte windforce AR 9 290 the
custom painted one that we had in our razor machine and you may have noticed
that I don't actually have the computer here great Point Keen observation um
that one will be built and shipped to you by me personally and the case will
be graffitied by me and the rest of the lonus Media Group team including signing
it and writing whatever we want on it it might totally look like ass when we're
done but for one lucky winner it'll at least be your ass and finally the linest
tech tips.com Forum has been asking me for a community exclusive giveaway for a
long time and since nobody claimed the G550 J gaming notebook that we gave away
to commemorate our Highlander Guinness World Record land party I am making this
one for a member exclusive so we will keep drawing from the thread guys you
got to check the thread for details on how to win all this stuff until we reach
someone who we feel has been a positive contributing member of the community it
won't be based on join date it won't be based on post count in fact we're not
going to tell you what it's based on I'm just going to say that it's going to be
someone who really sets a great example of the positivity and helpfulness that
we strive to maintain on the board so to
win any of this stuff like I just said check out the main video description
link to the giveaway follow the instructions very carefully thank you
again for all of your support and uh good luck with the giveaway guys like
this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment letting
me know I'm going to read all the comments on this video so just let me
know you know what do you what do you think of what we've been doing
um yeah I think that's oh right yeah in
the video description you'll find links to support us so you can give us a
monthly contributions that helps us out a lot you can buy a sweet t-shirt like
this one that helps us out a lot and then you can even just change your
Amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code uh so we get a small
Kickback whenever you buy stuff all that stuff helps us out a lot and again thank
you can't say it enough times