- Mr Beast just bought a portion of the VidSummit.
- And you're probably wondering why?
Why did I buy part of VidSummit?
Well here's why.
At the time I'm recording this video,
I have 8,000 subscribers and 1.8 million views.
So whenever you see this, compare these numbers
to whatever I have when you watch this.
In the last year, I've gained 15 million subscribers
and most people don't realize this,
but it wasn't my first year.
- [Man On Rocks] Whoa.
I'm a slip.
- [Narrator] So sad.
- I know, shocker.
I've actually done YouTube for eight years
and for the first five years I was just, you know,
figuring things out and I didn't really get anywhere.
Oh, I'm shaking a lot.
Sorry, my hands shake.
Let's set this down.
Did that fix it?
When I had 10,000 subscribers,
me and my small YouTube friends at the time
would literally, not even joking, spend hours
every single day just studying data,
looking at our videos,
analyzing how we could make them better.
So the average watch time's gonna be below 10 seconds.
YouTube's gonna see that,
and it's not gonna appear at the top of the search result.
We relentlessly pursued it,
with thousands of hours in Skype calls and phone calls,
I kid you not.
And, you know, over the years,
we just started to figure YouTube out.
Yeah, but how did we know this would take forever
and not realize it would take forever?
If I knew five years ago what I currently know now,
I'd be so much further ahead
than where I currently am, it's crazy.
Knowledge on YouTube is key and it's very important that
you surround yourself with the right people,
because you guys do rub off and influence each other.
Which is why Derral is one of my mentors
and we were actually having a strategy meeting one time
and, do you still have that picture from it?
- [Camera Man] Well, I think it's on your phone.
- Is it, well, if we find it, it's right here.
And it was at that meeting,
that Derral told me about VidSummit
because I was always telling him that
I wanted more data-oriented YouTube friends
than the few ones I had.
And he was like "Jimmy, that's exactly why I made
VidSummit, for people like that to connect."
- [Male Speaker] So take advantage of everyone
that's sitting around you who also just wants to just...
(makes vomit noise)
Vomit video, and just, vomit on each other and whatever.
- I was like wow, this is literally
what I've been looking for.
Because as weird as it sounds,
I've always wanted to make something similar to it.
So yeah, just a place where people can get together,
share data, talk business,
and not really worry about holding back.
I experienced my first VidSummit last year,
and to keep things short for this video, I really loved it.
The Youtubers, the atmosphere, the business people,
everyone's just so friendly, and great, and knowledgeable
and it was literally exactly what I wanted.
And again, I'm omitting details here and there
to keep the video short, but basically
I loved the first day of VidSummit,
as biased as that sounds.
And, literally right then and there
I knew I wanted to be a part of it.
So I started to hound Derral,
and I was like hey, sell me part of it.
Which surprisingly, he was pretty quick to
come around to that deal.
It probably helps that me and him
consistently talk about data on a regular basis,
and he was just like "yeah, makes sense."
(clanking sounds)
That's how I became part of VidSummit,
no crazy story here.
I'm actually speaking this year at VidSummit,
and in my totally unbiased opinion,
my speech alone is worth you coming.
(Bell Sound)
If I could go back in time
and just talk to my 13 year old self,
and just sit him down and just tell him
how I blew up, how I got 22 million subscribers,
just things I learned along the way,
that's exactly what I'm gonna be talking about
in my keynote at VidSummit.
So make sure to purchase your Vidsummit tickets.
You could potentially save five years
worth of grinding on YouTube.
Like literally, if I took this knowledge
and gave it to younger me...
Let me know what you think about the quality.
I would be five years further
along my YouTube career than I am now.
So, it is worth your time.
Pewdiepie, pewdiepie. (shouting)
So honestly, if you're serious about YouTube,
you really want to be the best you can,
you need to come to VidSummit.
You could potentially save yourself
years worth of learning
by just studying people who have already
been through all the things you're trying to learn about.
You know, where you want to be.
I think it's worth your time,
and I hope you come.
But, yeah, hey future me, you'll probably forget
about this video and be like,
what the heck is this? (laughs)
I'm just really bored, I should be
studying for a history test.
You'll probably know which history test I'm talking about.
Hopefully I didn't fail it, or by the time you
see this you probably won't care that I failed it.
I'm probably gonna fail it, because I'm not studying.