hello youtube this is richard by the time you're watching this I'm out of
here I'm on an airplane summer 2017 I'm doing
my epic 55 day journey I'm going to visit the following countries India Bali
Singapore Italy and then I'm hiking hut 2 hut across 110 miles that toured the
Mont Blanc which takes me across Switzerland Italy and France so I know
what you're thinking or at least what I hope you're thinking which is well what
happens to the YouTube channel nothing we still come to you live Monday
Wednesday Friday and in fact if you put a gun to my head I would say the YouTube
channel gets better as a result of this trip and here's why my 55 day epic
journey has been something I've been planning for a long time and my
commitment to you the audience and the channels never been stronger so we
filmed some really great interesting topics in advance of my trip I plan to
film content while I'm gone I'm going to be staying at Airbnb
I'm going to be interviewing Airbnb hosts and in fact in Bali I'm thinking
about adding property to put in my portfolio so I may bring you along on
that as well and for the new hosts that have been joining our channel Charles is
going to take a different page out he's going to get from behind the camera and
is going to come stand over here and he's going to share with people his
experience from zero to super host in five months and also has a great
perspective on shared rooms so I think the content only gets better and more
interesting and we're still going to come to you Monday Wednesday Friday I'm
still going to be in the Facebook group I'm going to continue to comment on the
YouTube channels so from my perspective and I think you're going to share this
when this is all said and done the content is here and we're going higher
because I love you all so much I have a present that started in November of 2016
when Charles and I attended the Airbnb open in Los Angeles and we were walking
around and we were looking at the different swag that they were selling
and I saw these Airbnb keychains and I thought it was a really cool idea
for me to use them in all my different properties so when guests check in the
key that they receive has an Airbnb keychain and then I thought you know
we're going to launch this channel I think we had one video up and zero
subscribers and I thought it was a really good idea to buy a bunch of these
keychains and then give them away when the time was right and that time sort of
feels right now couple of milestones I'm super excited
to be going on my epic 55 day journey we have a thousand subscribers we have
50,000 plus video views I've got these keychains I think at this point I have
about 19 left and I'd like to give them to you so here's what I want to do I
really want to take you along on my journey I want to show you everything
that I'm seeing in real time and YouTube just isn't the best medium for that in
fact a lot of the videos require a fair amount of post-production and I'm just
not that guy that's the dude back there he's really really good at it but
Instagram is actually quite good specifically Instagram stories it's sort
of behind the scene it's short 15-second snippets it's you know quick and
photojournalism sort of methodology and I think even like this guy could
probably handle that so in order to win one of these free Airbnb keychains
here's with them that ask of you go ahead and follow me on instagram my
handle is at i'm richard verdict charles will put it over here follow me as i
board the airplane i'm going to take a selfie and i'm going to ask you to
comment on that selfie give me a shoutout whatever you feel like and then
we're going to use a random comment generator we're going to pick the 18 or
19 or so winners we'll get in touch with you via DM asking for your mailing
address and then charles will just do his little handy stuff put it in a
envelope and mail it to you really excited to get these keychains in your
hands I'm also really hopeful that you'll follow along come to my Instagram
don't just look at the photos be sure to follow the Instagram stories for the
video and the behind the scenes stuff I'm going to be doing it every single
day and sharing it I think it's going to be super cool I also really need to
reiterate underline underscore highlight nothing changes with the channel in fact
the channel getting stronger and better Monday Wednesday Friday new content
content from overseas new international perspective newbie perspective people
that are just getting started with Charles I think you're going to find it
super cool so I really appreciate your time your interest the love the feedback
the comments it's amazing and I just have a question how come some of you
haven't subscribed really come on guys the conference
getting better subscribe