Sunday, June 28, 2026

YouTube Adventures

I continued reading and dabbling and kept my radar open for opportunities.  I purchased a small / cheap course on creating profitable YouTube channels.  Everything was simple and easy enough to understand.  

I noticed a small channel with videos of top songs every year. But it had horrible thumbnails and I knew I could do better. I downloaded the top 30 songs of every year from Billboard and took 20 second clips to stay under copyright. I taught myself basic video editing with Adobe Premiere.  I started stitching these clips together. The first few videos were pretty anemic, but I committed to creating 50 videos. After about 15-20 things started to snowball and engagements went through the roof. At the peak, the channel was getting 1-2M views/month resulting in $5-10k revenue.

It was a great start and really boosted my confidence. Unfortunately there wasn't a great way to continue to scale and grow the channel.

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