Hey everyone it's been a minute since i've recorded a proper video for my channel as
you can see by the title of this video I have some news for you All good things I promise but before
I share the news about my new job with you i think it's proper for me to say a few things about
TubeBuddy I joined TubeBuddy back in January 2020. I had no idea about the crazy two years that I was
walking into I don't think anyone did at that time there were 12 amazing incredible TubeBuddies on
the team that's what we called ourselves including the four co-founders now that's pretty crazy if
you actually think that with that 12 person team there was probably something like five
or six million installs of TubeBuddy already which means basically five to six million
youtube channels that have installed TubeBuddy and using it on a regular basis it was pretty
intense you can imagine the amount of social media comments support questions emails partnership and
affiliate requests sponsorships and updates that our little crew of 12 were handling
on a daily basis now a couple months after i started in march 2020 i headed to San Diego
to hang out with the TubeBuddy team in person i had already known Phil, Jim, Eric, Chuck, Katie,
Andrew, Ike, Ana, Tammie, Jonathan and most of the crew from attending VidSummit and Vidcon
in the past but that trip on March 2020 was the first time hanging out with them as an official
TubeBuddy and i stayed in San Diego for about 10 days or so to attend Social Media Marketing World
and another conference in La Jolla in San Diego after that trip i went back to Vancouver and BOOM
Covid hit and the world pretty much locked down pretty quickly and so for the next several months
we did a lot of virtual summits zoom calls online conferences and events we even ran a 24 Hour
Quaranstream to raise money for families that were hit hard by COVID now we're going to fast forward
to November 2020 and the news of BEN aka Branded Entertainment Network acquiring TubeBuddy for an
undisclosed amount ;) goes live our entire core team of TubeBuddies decided to stay and it was
a great fit to be part of the BEN family now real quick for those of you that aren't familiar
with BEN aka Branded Entertainment Network it's a privately held company owned by Bill Gates and yes
that's Bill Gates you know Windows, Microsoft, Solitaire, Minesweeper, MS-DOS you know that
Bill Gates now BEN was in the product placement and influencer marketing business they still are
very much to this day they're killing it they're really owning that space and as well they were
in the personality rights business through another company that they own called Greenlight Rights now
if you're interested but a bit of a warning personality rights is super interesting you
can Google it but like I said a little bit of a warning you can go down a really deep rabbit hole
here and it's a pretty crazy one but anyways fast forward some more into 2021 the team now continues
to grow which is amazing more resources more team members we're growing like crazy all during
this crazy COVID times that we're living in we continue to reach some really cool milestones like
our 8 millionth channel to install TubeBuddy we hit 550,000 subscribers on our Youtube Channel
and at this time travel restrictions started to ease up a little bit and allow some travel I got
double vaccinated so we even managed to meet up as a team some for the first time in San Diego last
summer 2021 we had a blast getting to know each other even better and during this time
I've been doing some work you know of course launching training assets and resources for
affiliate partners providing training materials for affiliate partners running live workshops
for our partners and launching a new YouTube series to showcase our top affiliate partners
and a bunch of other initiatives that I'm not gonna list here at the risk of you know losing
the engagement you know we know that retention is everything on YouTube right so now the affiliate
revenue channel was growing and so that brings us to today I'm excited to share that I've accepted a
role as the Head of Partnerships at Uscree.tv if you're not familiar Uscreen helps brands of all
sizes monetize and distribute videos online with a really robust video monetization and
distribution platform we've got a team of over 100 amazing individuals from all over the world that
helps over 11,000 creators brands and businesses monetize videos and make money doing what they
love I won't get into the details in this video but it's an incredible opportunity and a wonderful
next step in my career to go from partnership manager at TubeBuddy to Head of Partnerships at
Uscreen the entire TubeBuddy and BEN team have been nothing but amazing in supporting my move
if you're watching this and we had the chance to work together during my time at TubeBuddy thank
you so much you've made my time at TubeBuddy so rewarding it's a joy for me to continue to be a
part of the creator community and to be able to in some small way make an impact in your success two
things that I want to leave you with before you go to the next video one I know that I've been quiet
on my channel over the last few weeks that's about to change stay tuned for weekly videos, interviews
Q&A sessions with some of your favourite creators and live streams again are gonna be back so we're
gonna be back at it so keep an eye for those notifications and if you'd like to connect
with me to discuss your courses or memberships or want to become a Uscreen affiliate partner reach
out via email it's down below in the description let's connect and discuss ways that we can join
forces and with that thank you for tuning in to this update and i'll see you in the next video.