Neistat's early YouTube videos got 500 views despite his active HBO show
Casey Neistat · a16z Podcast | I Reject the Term Viral Video · Jan 2, 2019 · at 2:38
YouTube creator Casey Neistat shares how traditional television fame and marketing budgets failed to automatically translate into YouTube views early in his online career.
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“When I started my YouTube channel that I have now, I had a show on HBO that was premiering a new episode every single week with a multi-million dollar marketing budget behind it. But I was putting new videos up on YouTube as often as I could, and I was getting, like, 200 views, 500 views.”
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