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more so this is it today we passed the 1

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million subscriber Mark but without getting too wrapped up in the excitement

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about you know gold YouTube play buttons and that kind of stuff there are some

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other really cool numbers too 200 million views 4.8 million likes 1.8

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million comments 100,000 members of the lonus tech tips community site

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2500 videos over 1,300 years of collective time spent

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watching lonus Tech tips videos seven members of the lonus tech tips lonus

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Media Group production team and three channels now with daily bi-weekly and

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weekly content we have come a long way

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and it is all thanks to you guys our amazing viewers so put together some

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pretty awesome giveaways to celebrate but first it's old man reminiscing time

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so when I first started this channel I was working at NCIX it's an awesome

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computer store in Canada and lonus Tech tips was meant to be complimentary to

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the official NC YouTube channel that I'd already been working on for over a year

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basically I wanted somewhere to put stuff like uh leaked information about

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unreleased products or products that really didn't deserve their own

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dedicated video on the main Channel and where I could let my personality out a

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little little bit without worrying too much about how it would reflect on the

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company image so the initial format lasted for a matter of like weeks

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because and I I legitimately don't remember whose idea this was but I got a

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new performance Target and the goal was to do daily videos I mean it's totally

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insane now that I look back at it so early in the process I remember

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cameraman and I the original cameraman taking an entire week's worth of content

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in this case it was like six p-55 motherboards from MSI and Gigabyte and

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unboxing them on a park bench in one afternoon outside the office so that day

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in August 2009 just over 5 years ago the

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one take policy was devised as a way for

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us to achieve that daily video goal and then from then on we tried to do every

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product unboxing in one take mostly to save on editing time um sometimes it

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hurt the quality of the video I'd make a mistake or forget something or the

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product demo wouldn't work um but I think it added a Charming human element

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and some unpredictability to what was otherwise pretty dry subject matter I

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wish that I could say that I was some kind of YouTube genius who premeditated

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all this stuff but honestly half the time I didn't know what was going to

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happen in alius Tech hiips video I mean here's an SSD that I unboxed standing on

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top of my then girlfriend now wife's bed because the weather sucked outside and

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there was nowhere else to film and I had a video du that night anyway that went

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on for some time until almost 2 years ago now now I realized it was time to

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leave NC and start my own company dedicated to just lonus Tech tips and my

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other video projects lus Media Group was born so real talk time uh my team and I

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went all in onlus Media Group uh the first two members of my team Luke and

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Edsel both changed their education plans to do this with me and I spent just

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about every penny that I had saved over the previous 6 years supporting the

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business for the first 3 to four months until it started being able to stand on

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its own but the investment paid off uh with more time to spend on making videos

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and a team that has since grown to include seven people as I alluded to

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before we've been able to produce what I think is some of the highest quality

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technology content on YouTube and we've done it without ever compromising on

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that daily upload schedule so I'm extremely thankful to my team for

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helping us get to this Milestone but even more than that I'm thankful to you

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guys I mean the viewers out there who are watching this right now without your

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support we would not have made it I knew I was going to have to find ways

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to monetize our content Beyond Google AdSense so that I could pay people a

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living wage and cover my own overhead but I didn't know how you guys would

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react and I'm I'm so thankful that um that you've continued to be supportive

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all this time because thanks to you guys I think I have one of the coolest jobs

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in the world and I get to work with the coolest group of people in the world and

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I guess speaking of sponsorships before I reveal the big giveaway this is a

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great time to also thank our sponsors because without them this whole thing

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also wouldn't work so today's sponsors audible.com normally I talk about how

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they have over 150,000 audiobooks and Gone Girl by Jillian Flynn is a

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seriously mind screwy but awesome ride I actually just finished it and how you

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should go to audible.com Linus and sign up for their monthly audiobook

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membership and all that stuff but I mean come on you guys know what audible is so

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if you want to listen to an audiobook go there they have like everything now

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today I'd rather talk about the way that they've supported lonus Media Group as

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well they were the first non-pc Hardware sponsor that began working with us and

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that relationship actually opened up a lot of doors for us to other non-pc

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sponsors who saw what audible was doing and thought hey maybe this could work

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for us too so today is more about thanks

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audible.com from the bottom of my heart I appreciate what you guys have done and

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I hope my viewers feel the same way and recommend audible to their friends and

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family for allowing small business owners like me to do what we love all

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right so with all that out of the way like tear up here what am I giving away

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to celebrate a few different things actually first up is the Microsoft

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Surface Pro 3 that I reviewed in this video here Austin's got it right now I

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think he's working on something with it but as soon as he's done it is one lucky

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Winner's new notebook tablet surface

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thing next we've got a fullblown gaming

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rig we're talking cor7 4770k 16 gigs of

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RAM 480 gigs worth of solid state storage Gigabyte windforce AR 9 290 the

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custom painted one that we had in our razor machine and you may have noticed

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that I don't actually have the computer here great Point Keen observation um

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that one will be built and shipped to you by me personally and the case will

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be graffitied by me and the rest of the lonus Media Group team including signing

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it and writing whatever we want on it it might totally look like ass when we're

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done but for one lucky winner it'll at least be your ass and finally the linest

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tech tips.com Forum has been asking me for a community exclusive giveaway for a

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long time and since nobody claimed the G550 J gaming notebook that we gave away

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to commemorate our Highlander Guinness World Record land party I am making this

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one for a member exclusive so we will keep drawing from the thread guys you

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got to check the thread for details on how to win all this stuff until we reach

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someone who we feel has been a positive contributing member of the community it

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won't be based on join date it won't be based on post count in fact we're not

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going to tell you what it's based on I'm just going to say that it's going to be

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someone who really sets a great example of the positivity and helpfulness that

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we strive to maintain on the board so to

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win any of this stuff like I just said check out the main video description

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link to the giveaway follow the instructions very carefully thank you

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again for all of your support and uh good luck with the giveaway guys like

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this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment letting

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me know I'm going to read all the comments on this video so just let me

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know you know what do you what do you think of what we've been doing

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um yeah I think that's oh right yeah in

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the video description you'll find links to support us so you can give us a

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monthly contributions that helps us out a lot you can buy a sweet t-shirt like

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this one that helps us out a lot and then you can even just change your

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Amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code uh so we get a small

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Kickback whenever you buy stuff all that stuff helps us out a lot and again thank

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you can't say it enough times