- It's been seven years, honey. - I know—wow.
Seven years since we've worn our wedding outfits.
I gotta hold it like this.
What do you think?
You know how they say it takes a village to raise your kids?
- Our YouTube community is our village. - Our village.
Get up!
- This is my lovely wife Ebony. - And this is my wife Denise.
And we are Team2Moms.
- Those are your brothers. - Looks cute!
We've been on YouTube for about four years now.
Yes, our first video was about Obama.
Two terms!
Two terms, two chains, for another four more years.
When we first started on YouTube, our format was literally just once a week
and we did vlog style, which is just, you vlog whatever is in the moment.
Question number 3: how much did it cost us to have Olivia through the fertility treatment?
Being a creator, it's so easy to just sit in front of a camera
and start talking about content and having a conversation with your...
- That's the easy part. - That's the very easy part
but post-production, post-everything when you're like—everything is down
and you've got the kids crying and it's like, to find that space to be able to
record more frequently, or as much as we would like to, is a lot.
- It's Ebony. - It's Denise.
It's Lucas—I'm joking, Olivia.
We have vastly changed from our first video to now
in several ways, first way being
- we knew nothing... - Nothing about camera—all we knew is that
red little button to press and record.
- Just the basics of press and record. - And we used to do this weird like
- bubbly thing on the screen... - There was just so much wrong with our—
You know, I would laugh seeing my first video right now.
Lighting was horrible.
We didn't know about that, nor did we really pay attention to all of that.
And I think that this journey from the first video to now
- We learned so much, yeah. - So much about aperture...
- ISO. - And ISO and its relation amongst each other
and how it affects your lighting, now we have the right audio to help
the sounds sound very crisp and clear.
High five, yay!
So for us, that meant investing some time upfront to do some research.
And to test the best ways for us to shoot our videos
that best fits our life and schedule.
Right now, we are trying to set up to record.
You have to upload a certain amount of times during the week, during the month
you have to have continuity on your channel, on this platform.
- Because you see more of an engagement. - You see a higher engagement
with your audience, a better retention time with your audience
if you have sustainability and continuity on your channel.
There's so much I wanna tell you guys in this vlog.
And of course that's very important to your viewers
- when they see such great quality of work - Quality, it just makes them wanna
click the video even more because of the quality in itself
just looking at a video and saying, "oh man, this looks really awesome"
makes someone really interested in watching the video.
We would definitely give some advice to other creators
since we've learned so much.
The first thing is to create a concept for your channel
like a specific series, I think all creators should do that
because a lot of creators just randomly talk about whatever's trending
or what's popular today.
And also have a place where you can just turn on the camera
you don't have to do what we used to do before
and put the camera in front of us, which would take a really long time to do.
Yes, you're just talking up a storm, right.
It helps the entire community when you upload more content
because you're bringing more of an audience to the platform
to YouTube as a whole, what keeps YouTube running is
people watching YouTube videos.
So if you are uploading regularly and you're creating good content
and you're creating consistent content, your audience will grow.
Yeah, so before it was a bit of a challenge and a bit daunting for us
and now it's become a lot easier with us and finding the time and the set-up
where we can just film.