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more so let's just do the unboxing then with without the without trying to slate
uh this this is pretty exciting it came I was absolutely floored by how heavy it
was I actually had a really hard time getting it out of the outer cardboard
packaging um I mean other than the size
it's pretty much exactly the same as the
box that the silver one comes in I think they give you a slightly different
letter actually you get a shorter letter
100,000 subscribers that's more than double the size of BL bloopity you
delivered the audience at YouTube you set the gold standard etc
etc thanks for being awesome sincerely look this one's
blurry I'm starting to feel kind of ripped off here with this 1 million
subscriber hibid jibid all right so let's take off the foam
cover and that my friends is an
extremely large wall plaque that I have no freaking idea where I'm going to be
able to hang up but one that I am
extremely proud of and extremely thankful to you guys for making possible
because let's face it unless a million
of you actually it's going by the time this video is published it'll be closer
to 1.4 million but you know takes a I'm sure it takes a little while to make
these and ship them out it takes a million of you to click that button for
us to get this plaque and it's extremely exciting I mean it yeah yeah it's uh it
really makes me think about what it took for us to get here because some people
have very explosive growth on YouTube
and uh they sort of start up their
Channel and then all of a sudden it's like oh I'm huge now with us it was a
very gradual progression we went from this kind of handheld style before to
this more presenter type style we started scripting and we've gone through
so much solution that I feel like I I
don't explain enough to you guys I mean at the very beginning of lonus tech tips
all it was was a way because I had no time a way to have videos on product
pages extremely quickly we never expected anyone to subscribe to watch me
open a box that wasn't the plan we just expected people to know what was inside
that motherboard so they'd know if they had to like buy an extra SATA cable when
they you know built their PC that was all we really wanted from it and
honestly the reason Reon that I think what I think was a huge part of the
success at the time was the quantity of videos that I produced I was doing up to
one and a half videos per day 45 videos a month early in the process so I would
go out in the parking lot and I would shoot 10 at a time in a given in a given
week with the old NC cameraman who still works at NC by the way and honestly that
that wasn't something that we planned we didn't kind of carefully go well gee I
think 45 is probably about the right number of monthly videos that was my
quota I mean I was an employee at NC it was like okay we need to have videos on
all these product pages how are we going to do it we got one guy who makes videos he better make a lot of them that was
that was the entire that was the entire plan um so the style like the the off
the cuff you know penis jokey kind of
getting things wrong and just kind of rolling with it style developed um just
naturally not out of a plan but just because that's who I am and I had no
time to do anything better so when we
eventually split from NCIX and I I hired
my first two employees Luke and edzel and we became lius Media Group the
objective wasn't for us to you know keep doing 45 unboxings a month you know with
the lowest possible quality to get you know to get products because that was
another thing I loved about making these videos what I would get I would get access to all these products and while I
was often you know reviewing some graphics card in the middle of the
freaking night and uploading my video at you know 4:00 a.m. or whatever else I
mean it was fun I enjoyed it it was it was a total it was a total blast but all
of a sudden we were out on our own you know there were three of us now so you
had real mouths to feed I can't I can't pay people in graphics cards
unfortunately as much as as much as I wish that were the case because we certainly have lots of them um so we had
to figure out how to evolve and one of the first things we did was we started
another Channel Techquickie which is coming up on 500,000 subscribers which
is extremely exciting and another thing we did was we pushed to improve our
quality and that was something a lot of people objected to they kind of went
well no we love the like the camp you know handheld move in and around the
product style of lonus tech tips we don't want anything different but I
think the results show that it was the
it was the right thing for us to do because it's enabled us to to experiment
with our content in ways that we never could before from the humble beginnings
in the garage back when we were you know recruiting for for interns because it
was the only way we could get all of our work done because we had no money and no
time uh we now have six employees we're
moving into our new headquarters in about two months and um the future is an
extremely extremely exciting prospect for us and that's really a big subject
that I want to talk about in this video today now you guys may have seen the
news quite recently that YouTube is cracking down on the ability of content
creators like us to monetize their content independently in certain ways
and to be quite clear I understand why they're doing it they take a 45% cut of
the Google AdSense revenue for those little text ads that pop up or those
pre-rolls that run before the videos and that's what you know Google figures is
YouTube's cut for hosting this video service and bringing the subscribers to
you but where that gets tricky is that
that is completely beyond our control we can't affect you know Google's uh cpms
that is the amount of money we make per thousand views we can't affect that in
any meaningful way we can't affect whether Google actually serves ads onto
our videos or puts them somewhere else because they're always playing
algorithmic numbers on their sides and one of the big problems that's come up
recently you guys might have seen the video that um Game Theory Game Theory
did about the subscriber box is Google's not even delivering the audience to us
in the way that we expected anymore more where they're playing games with what
shows up in people's subscriber feeds even if they have subscribed to your
channel depending on what they're watching at the time so things are going to change over
the next little bit you're still going to see Integrations in our videos
because we've found ways to make it so that they fall within YouTube's rules
and we can still continue to talk about you know Dollar Shave Club or
Squarespace or Intel or whatever else the case may be but we're going to be
looking for different ways to um cover
butts in case that goes away all of a sudden because unlike other channels
that have maybe one primary host who also does all the shooting and all the
editing it's a oneman show where the only consequence if you know their
revenue is cut in half is that they make half as much money but are still very
comfortable for us we have half a dozen employees we've banked on being able to
turn this into a business that can really support us and and allow us to
grow personally and professionally so uh we have to we have to keep finding
different ways to do that there are a number of ways that we've already been doing over the last little bit so things
like t-shirts um things like a monthly contributions for our Forum you get kind
of like a cool badge if you join our community and stuff like that but we
also have to find ways to reach you guys that are that are different so we might
start to leverage um you know creating an emailing mail list or something like
that hey did you miss our videos because yo your subscriber feed doesn't work we
may also experiment in fact this is pretty much a foregone conclusion at
this point with other video platforms such as vessel where there's an
incentive in terms of better ad revenue
for us to release our content there a little bit earlier than YouTube so stay
tuned for all of that I guess that's the plan um thank you very much for being
here with us all this way it's been an extremely exciting ride and here's to
the next million or by the time you're watching about 600,000 and I hope you
guys continue to be a part of it as we push forward into newer excuse me oh I'm
getting all emotional into newer and uh and and more exciting content formats
like the recent scrapyard Wars that's definitely something we want to do more
of because we hear you guys loud and clear that's what you want to see and uh
I do hope you know that we are listening over here speaking of listening like the
video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it we do listen to that leave a
comment preferably on the Forum we have that Linked In the video description uh
we do listen to that as well also linked in the Forum we've got somewhere where
you can buy that merch I was talking about give us a monthly contribution
like I was talking about change your Amazon bookmark to one with our
affiliate code like I was talking about I should probably do like a detailed guide for that actually I've had a lot
of people ask me for it but for now it's linked in the video description and I
think that pretty much wraps it up as always don't forget to subscribe to lus
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