The Sorry Girls
16 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 23, 2022 by Kelsey MacDermaid · said 14 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Jun 23, 2022
Jun 23, 2022 positive
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Higher creator production quality invites unfair comparisons to network television shows
“With every new step you make, I think you advance yourself into, like, a new bracket of people to be compared with So as our content got more and more show-like, we were now compared with the people on HGTV making these, you know, million-dollar series, and as…”
Jun 23, 2022
The Sorry Girls never paid for ads to grow their YouTube audience
“I mean, we never paid for, like, ads or anything. It was just, it was taking opportunities that came to us, whether it was to be on, like, a local talk show, talking about a DIY project, or just creating those videos that we were excited by, that we knew the a…”
Jun 23, 2022 neutral
Jun 23, 2022 negative
Jun 23, 2022 neutral
Jun 23, 2022 negative
The Sorry Girls rejected traditional TV contracts due to restrictive terms
“We've reached a point where we've had a few television contracts put in front of us, and we have to turn them away just because they're so restricting, and it's not viable for us to do anything in traditional media when we already have something that we've bui…”
Jun 23, 2022 positive
Wright believes YouTube is not oversaturated because distinct new voices still succeed
“Every time I start to think there's not, there's a new creator or channel that pops up that started three months ago and somehow now has more views than we do. So I think there's always space for new voices, and I think that's really what it is, is finding you…”
Jun 23, 2022 positive
YouTube viewers are clicking subscribe less, but viewership diversity is growing
“But I think that people are maybe physically hitting the subscribe button a little less than they were five years ago, but eyeballs on videos and the diversity of where we're now getting views from, I think is still growing, which is really great.”
Jun 23, 2022 positive
Jun 23, 2022 positive
Showing beginners' mistakes authentically made their DIY content accessible and successful
“I think the thing that was really successful for us was showing that online, that this is our first time using this, and we're going to gonna show you how it's not so scary, and it really made it feel more accessible to people out there as well.”
Jun 23, 2022 positive
Negative online comments still benefit creators by driving engagement and ad revenue
“If somebody wants to say something that mean, I think it says more about them than it says about us, and also comments are engagement, so even if it's a negative comment, it's engagement, they showed up, they saw the ad, so.”
Jun 23, 2022
Jun 23, 2022 neutral
Jun 23, 2022 negative
MacDermaid reveals YouTube AdSense does not come close to sustaining their business
“Yeah, not really close. We have a lot of overhead now. It just has slowly, slowly built as we've needed different members of our team to help sustain everything that we have going on. We have a bigger office now, you know, upgraded from that 200 square foot of…”