Hello everyone, welcome back to Keep Productive YouTube channel it is
Francesco here and in today's video we're doing a 100k
Sort of like a small stone video. We're gonna be talking that about the journey that's happened so far and also sharing with you
What's next which I'm very excited to announce to you today?
and
we will be doing a giveaway because that's what we traditionally do with the
milestones is we do like we did a 10k 25k and 50k giveaway, which will hopefully
Reward you for all of your support, but this first part of the video the journey
I just want to take time to thank you guys and tell you how we've come to where we are today
And then second part is like where we're going next, which is going to be pretty exciting
but yeah the first part so let's start with the first part the journey, so
For those who don't know the YouTube channel was started five years ago. I started my first into the first new University
and it was really based on I had a weird interest in productivity tools and
Decided that it would be cool to share it with
Online in general in tutorials. We did things like evident predictions to do its tutorials
Trello, you know, it was literally like touching on so many different tools
and then as the years went on like interest became more current and I
think we grew this amazing community of what we have today like with so many people talk in the comments people email and
We generally just gotten to chat about apps and how we used them
So the community was born from a weird interest of mine that I just had to share online
But it was just a cool opportunity
So it's been going for five years now and we haven't had the key productive name for that long two years
November 2017
We released the branding very early days branding then we released a new version of branding
We're very lucky today to have new branding which I'm very excited to share with you guys. But it really I
Honestly, I'm shocked at how we got to this number
I am blown away because still feels like a small community the way that you guys are and the way that we share and
React in comments and things like that
Just feel so small still which like in a good way like it doesn't feel like wow
we we have reached hundred thousand subscribers, but at the same time we're like small and
And it feels like nice. It feels like a cozy community
so, I think that's a good opportunity to take take a time to thank you guys you
Guys haven't just helped me like with obviously support in the community
but like last year the start of last year was really like
it was just a very hard time for me personally and
I think in a weird way work helped me to get through it. This channel helped me to get through in terms of like
not distracting me, but at the same time like making
Things a lot easier to get back into the routine of life. So
You know when I saw of your comments and questions and that really got me sped back into this
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And
And the great thing is I really do love this
Like this is the best thing I am honestly the luckiest man in the world to be doing
This is my job because I have wanted to do it since an early age
Like I remember having a mad interest in productivity tools and thinking that I should apply for productivity tool companies
I remember applying forever. No mer applying todoist and
Weirdly like when I look back I'm like I'm glad those things didn't work out because this is where we are today
and I get to be
Like exactly the person and the thing I wanted to do since I was a kid, so it's all up to it
It's all thankful for you guys
and this is a good opportunity to thank the
Who I call mentors?
those people who have supported me in not just a channel, but the the marketing sign of staff the
Trajectory side of stuff like there are a lot of people who've been who have been in my path that have been amazing Mike Vardy
Steve dotto tiago forte alex icon my good friend, Dan Underwood
They're just a Scott frees and Carl Pauline. I
honestly could be here all day listening the names because
they've been so
amazing and I lot of the time I couldn't my internet uncle's because they've helped me to
learn about business, but also about how I should
And what can be helpful. So a big thank you to those guys like wouldnt be able to do that without you
so that's amazing and
also like a big thank you to the brands like although
Here on the channel like we do cover a range of tools and we try to be as impartial as possible
Although I have my favorites
The brands have been really instrumental in supporting the channel like brands like Trello notion todoist
Mark Monday ever know like so many brands same box
Woven, like they've all been instrumental in supporting the community through sponsoring videos has made
More of a sustainable project and now I'm doing this full-time
Which is amazing because I can put all my time and attention to it and hopefully give you the best experience
Because that's really really important all round. So
I think it's amazing
Thank you to you all you've been an amazing part the community and I can't wait for the next chapter
speaking of the next chapter is
Exciting today because I get to share with you guys the new logo
The new logo is not just a loon logo. It's a new brand
We worked really hard. Well I said we really hard we worked
With Roy Rivera have really did all the hard work. He's a designer
Based in Barcelona. I'll include his link in description if you enjoyed the logo, obviously, you can reach out to him for work
But he put together this sort of brand guidelines which we've never had for KI productive
then logo is
fresh, it's minimal and it's simple and I really like that and I think moving forward as we
Update everything which should be happening today. I should be sitting going crazy and pressing buttons as we release this video
But yeah, it's it's a simple logo that I think reflects the brand really
Well, the logo is very simple. And as you can see around the edges, you've got the calendar which we had on the last
Logo, we have the little squiggle at the top which is notes more information and the middle tick is for
Tasks, so we've kept that similar
sort of style and the great thing is Roy paid real attention to the symmetry the
Typography so we've got two new typography
For those who are interested in the typography side staff
We've got a monster wrap bold, which is lovely and a Massena serif font in italicized
Which is beautiful as well
So you'll be seeing that start to roll out in videos
Which I think you'll fairly enjoy to see a few variations to the logo here. We're also working to
Get a video done as well to sort of introduce each new video
We do here on key productive
But I think this branding steps forward into a new chapter it
Take a little bit of time for me if I'm honest to sort of warm to it
But now I love it. Like it just made sense. Like I think it's because we've gone from such colorful
Complex logo to a very simplistic one that I think will stand the test of time which is good
So a big thank you to Roy
you may also notice in this video that we've
Had new music which has been put together and composed by Connor. Connor has a fantastic YouTube channel
I'll included a link in description and also his website. He this one as a
Thank you
To the key productive. Well, he just produced it for keep productive, which was absolutely amazing
So him having his artistic talent there both Roy and Connor. I think his sort of push keep productive a bit more forward
So you probably wondering what else is next
We're just going to be continuing this content flow. Like we're going to be making sure we review lots of different apps
Apart from this video. I've been trying to pay more attention to the quality of the content in terms of developing more
better quality videos
More concise a bit more round and I hope you've seen that in the last at least since the Evernote filing cabinet video
That we produced
and we're just
producing more
In December, I will be launching a brand new course. Well, it's gonna be a
much more improved
Detailed course called the art of choosing the best to do list
Application and its really an insight into how do you can choose the best one?
So I'm really excited with that and I've that's my first ever solo course
I'm work with anybody else on which I'm really excited for and will be pricing it based on your feedback of everything else
Really reasonably, I think so. I'll include and probably due to launch videos for that. But I'm really excited for the new branding
I'm excited for the new chapter. This is obviously gonna point us in to
More videos and more creative stuff. So I look forward to next year doing some more documentaries. Hopefully we'll get some lined up
But I just think you guys have been thoroughly awesome. So, you know, thank you for such a long journey like five years
It's gone mad, and I'm finally like actually
getting into this I suffered with a lot of impostor syndrome throughout this and a lot of like
Doubt about whether I should be crying videos on productivity tools and it's literally taken me like five years to actually be comfortable
with what I'm talking about
And actually making sure that I'm backing everything up so
You know, I wouldn't be able to do that without you guys, you know
Like critiquing me presenting me feedback and also praising me where praise was relevant
But thank you guys. Like I don't want this video just be continually like need to go
Thank thank you. But honestly, it's been amazing to you know, get to know you and
I'm really grateful. So thank you guys
look forward to next chapter and
Let's get the new logo rolled out and new branding and let's get the course out too because that's gonna be exciting but guys
Thank you very much. And I'll talk to you guys in our regular uploads Cheers ever. Am I?
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