Henry Belcaster

Founder & CEO, Clipt · 1 appearance on the record.

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Henry Belcaster is the co-founder and CEO of Clipt and co-founder of Smart Nonsense, running media production and animation studios for creators and podcasts. Alongside Dylan Jardon, he produces short-form business and educational video content reaching millions across digital platforms.

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Opinion

Belcaster: Casey Neistat's creative style is a copy of Tom Sachs

“I used to like put Casey Neistat on the ultimate pedestal. Then I found out Casey Neistat's actually just a carbon copy of his brother, Van Neistat, who's just a cop carbon copy of the artist, Tom Sacks, who's probably a carbon copy of 10 other things.”

Henry Belcaster Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 39:53 How To Monetize A YouTube Audience | Dylan Jardon & Henry Belcaster

Insight

Belcaster: Successful entrepreneurs increasingly pivot to audience building after exits

“In terms of like trends we're noticing is all of these entrepreneurs, they get to the top. They've sold their thing. They've accomplished their mission, their North star, whatever. And then they're like yeah, I just want to go make content now. I want to build…”

Henry Belcaster Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 13:26 How To Monetize A YouTube Audience | Dylan Jardon & Henry Belcaster

Disclosure

Belcaster: Clipt Reinvests 100% of Revenue Into Content

“Correct. All of it. Every, every cent.”

Henry Belcaster Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 20:27 How To Monetize A YouTube Audience | Dylan Jardon & Henry Belcaster

Disclosure

Belcaster: Clipt struggled with churn due to a lack of sales expertise

“Clipped works for the 30 customers. We have this churn thing is, is a problem yet. Like, I don't know if it's a product market fit thing. We like literally didn't know how to do sales. So there was no inbound. And we weren't running any sales process on anybod…”

Henry Belcaster Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 31:34 How To Monetize A YouTube Audience | Dylan Jardon & Henry Belcaster

Assertion Partly supported

Belcaster: I have 1.5M subscribers and Jardon is nearing 1M

“I've got a million and a half subscribers. Dylan's nearing in on a million.”

Henry Belcaster Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 5:52 How To Monetize A YouTube Audience | Dylan Jardon & Henry Belcaster

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Jardon: Clipt founders generated one billion YouTube views without monetizing them

“Like Henry and I, we got a billion views last year and we have no idea how to make money off of that.”

Dylan Jardon Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 2:33 How To Monetize A YouTube Audience | Dylan Jardon & Henry Belcaster

Disclosure

Jardon: Clipt founders refuse to monetize their YouTube content with ads

“The key part is we refuse to do ads.”

Dylan Jardon Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 6:26 How To Monetize A YouTube Audience | Dylan Jardon & Henry Belcaster

Disclosure

Jardon: Clipt was hidden from audiences because it was a 6/10 product

“Honestly, we haven't promoted Clipped our company in the past very much because we're like, it's kind of like a six out of 10 product right now. Like we're not proud enough to like promote it to our audience. We want to like go back and refine it, which is kin…”

Dylan Jardon Nov 23, 2023 ▶ 10:01 How To Monetize A YouTube Audience | Dylan Jardon & Henry Belcaster

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
How To Monetize A YouTube Audience \| Dylan Jardon & Henry Belcaster	Nov 23, 2023	8m

Henry Belcaster

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