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Chaudry: YouTube Videos Must Cost Zero Dollars To Sustain Long Term
“A YouTube video has to cost you zero dollars, and you have to be able to do it over an extremely long period of time.”
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Chaudry: Creative Burnout Is Simply Creative Output Without Clear Direction
“And we described this term burnout as creative output without direction.”
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Chaudry: 107 Million YouTube Views In 2021 Yielded $109,000 In AdSense
“In 2020, our channel did 5.6 million views and we made 16,000 dollars. In 2021, our channel did one hundred and seven million views and we made 109,000 dollars. And in 2022, so far we've made 50,000 dollars on seventy three million views.”
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Chaudry: Platform AdSense Payouts Cannot Sustain A Six-Person Production Team
“We have a team of six people who work on the show. That would be hard to sustain a business just on what the platform pays you.”
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Chaudry: Creators Must Define Their Target Audience And Value Proposition First
“I would say that a large part of starting out is thinking about an audience and a value prop and thinking, here's the people I want to make content for. What do I want them to feel? How do I want to transform them?”
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Chaudry: Creator Economy Will Prioritize Deep Connection Over Broad Audiences
“I think the future or the present right now is growing a depth of connection with an audience rather than growing wider audiences, growing deeper. And I think that's something we're going to see a lot of as we move forward in the creator space.”
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Chaudry: Content Creators Face The Same Failure Rates As Traditional Startups
“I think a lot of people can make money right now in the creator economy, but to make a career, I think is extremely challenging. And I think it's just like any other entrepreneurial venture. And I think it's really important to recognize that the term creators…”
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Chaudry: New YouTubers Must Start With Searchable Topics In Underserved Niches
“You know, a lot of times it's important to start with searchable topics within underserved communities so that you can aggregate that initial audience and then introduce your personality into that as well.”
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Chaudry: Character-Driven Storytelling Was Key To Scaling The Lacrosse Network
“So I had another co-founder with me, and both him and I, we felt like we could do the broadcast side, but we knew we were missing this storytelling side. So I was very convinced that it was the stories about the people who played the game that were going to ta…”
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Chaudry: Repeatable Production Processes Unlock Hiring And Predictable Monetization
“Process also enables team. We were able to bring team members on to help us with that process. And it also enables monetization because then you're able to communicate to the industry, you know, what do I do? What can you buy? What's the product that I offer?”
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Chaudry Launched The Lacrosse Network With Only A Camera And Laptop
“I spun up a YouTube channel. I thought about it as the NFL network for lacrosse, and by no means did I have the financing to do that, but I had a camera, I had a laptop, and I had a bunch of ideas.”
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Chaudry: Pivoting Video Niches Meant Starting From Zero Audience Again
“The audience that we had built in La Crosse was not that interested in us talking about Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles. And we were, where we thought we were starting from a position of, we've built an audience, we've done this for four and a half years on YouT…”
