Hey, guys.
My name is Tim Schmoyer, and it's Tuesday.
Time to look at some online video news from last week
and talk about what it means for those of us who
are video creators, starting with YouTube
is now giving you the ability to group
your subscriptions into what they call collections.
Now, if you're like me and on my family channel,
I subscribe to over 400 different channels.
It can become really cumbersome to skim
through my subscriptions and see all these different channels.
It kind of looks like a mess, because there's some channel
that I don't want to miss a single video that they do.
There's other video channels that I could just
be like, oh, you know, I'll get to it if the title looks
enticing.
And it's a step in the right direction,
but it's not quite where I want it to be.
For example, I can come over here to Create New Collection,
and it just gives me all 400 some of them.
And it's not really the best way to
really-- I can click on Add some of these.
I could filter them if I want to search for a specific channel,
and then I can name it.
But it's really a cumbersome way,
especially if I want to create multiple collections
of different channels.
It's really not the most efficient way.
What I wish I could do instead is come through this list
and actually check a couple of them and say, hey, all these
that I've checked I want to add to the such-and-such
collection.
But there's no option right here to do that.
So until then I'll just do my best to use it,
but I really wish that they would
make it a little bit easier for those of us who
have tons of channels that we subscribe
to be able to quickly create different lists
and different categories and collections.
If you'd like to start organizing your subscriptions
into collections, I'll put a link in the description text
below on this video here in YouTube
that will take you straight to that page on your account.
So you can start organizing your subscriptions right away.
Also, last week YouTube made an update
to their YouTube editor, which now lets you just add a slow mo
effect to your videos that you upload to your account.
Personally, I'm not sure why you'd really want to do this.
I mean, pretty much any editing program
that you have will let you control this
in much more detail and do a really good job at it,
whether you're using iMovie.
I think even Windows Movie Maker let's you do slow mo,
so it seems to be a feature for people
who are kind of relying on YouTube for their video editing
stuff, which I don't know too many people who do.
But if that's you, now you can add slow mo effects
to your videos.
So let's say that you are a video creator
and that you are always continually publishing
great, awesome, amazing free content on your YouTube
channel for your subscribers.
Well, what if you have some more premium
content that you want to sell and let people
pay you to gain access that video content.
Well, if you happen to be researching
all the different services out there that let's you add
a paywall to your videos, search no farther.
At realseo.com last week, they posted an article
that gives a review on almost all
the different services out there that you
can use to charge for premium video content.
The one that they seemed to miss is
vidcaster.com, which is one that I like.
I don't currently use it, but I do
like the guys behind that company
and I think they do a great job.
But if you want to check out all the others,
that link is in the description text below this video.
Go down there, click on it, check it out.
And that'll take you to the review
of tons of different ones that are out there.
And finally, it seems like every week,
there's more and more statistics and data coming out
about the growth of online video.
And I don't have to convince any of you guys that is exploding
and it's growing and multiplying.
I usually don't point them out to you guys in every video,
because there's always so much that kind of stuff coming out.
But I do want to point you guys to this one,
because I think it's a good summary of where
the industry is and where it's going.
Back in 2012, there were over one billion worldwide users
who watched and consumed online video.
By 2017, that number is projected
to double to be around 2 billion worldwide users.
In 2012, online video consisted of about 57%
of all internet traffic.
By 2017, that number is expected to rise to about 69%
of all online traffic.
And when it comes to mobile video,
it is expected to grow 16-fold from 2012 to 2017.
In 2017, it is projected that mobile video will
account for 66% of all mobile data.
So the main point is that if you are
an individual amateur creator, now
is the time to get on the online video wave.
And in fact, most of you guys probably
are because if you're watching this video
and caring about what I have to say,
you probably are already on that wave.
So good for you.
At least now maybe you can feel like I do like, hey, maybe
I'm on to something that will one day be way bigger
and really catch on, as if it hadn't already.
I'd love to hear from you guys in the comments below.
Where do you project that your channel and your video content
will be by the year 2017?
For me personally, I hope that it
will be not only a full-time income for me
and to support my family, but also to support
more of you guys and to really just help
you guys who have a message that you are passionate about,
I want to do my best to help you guys communicate that
through online video in a way that really changes peoples'
lives and influences the people who really need
to hear what you have to say.
So that's what I'm about, and I really
hope that video creators by that time
can really do that well for you.
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