hello so this is a bit more of a personal video and and it's nothing new if you've looked at
my twitter if you've looked my linkedin on my facebook whatever um you'll see that i reach the
criteria for monetization on youtube if you don't know what that means it basically means i joined
something called the youtube partner program and it essentially means i can put out on my videos
uh i add a small income from those ads when people watch my videos so it doesn't impact the viewer as
much you just might see a couple more ads when you when you're on my channel it has been a journey
i think that this has been the biggest milestone for me when i first started youtube it was never
about money i genuinely didn't even think it was possible i knew like famous people had youtube
they earned money from it but i didn't think it was something just like someone like me could do
and i'm not by you mean saying it it's it you earn a fortune at all because it depends on your views
and your watch hours but to have just been able to reach this is incredible for me and i do feel
quite proud and so this is kind of like a thank you as well to anyone that is watching this anyone
that's watched my videos before whether it's one two whether you've religiously watched all of them
like genuinely thank you because i couldn't have got that and without you because in order to join
the youtube partner program there is some criteria so first we have to reach a thousand subscribers
and i reached that a few months ago now i can't exactly remember when i tried not to get fixed
on the numbers but pretty much every day every couple days i was texting my boyfriend to say
what exactly exact subscriber count i was on so we were constantly monitoring how close i was
i kind of started to care less and then i think that's kind of when it went up because it was a
shock and i wasn't tracking it as as religiously when i again when i first joined i didn't even
think 200 subscribers was possible because youtube is a lot harder to gain some loyalty in terms of
twitter people follow me on there people follow me on instagram whatever and i feel like it's easier
to get i mean for example i started my youtube and my twitter at the same time right i've almost
7 000 um followers on twitter and i've just got i think 1.7 k subscribers at the time of filming
this so literally like six times the amount of people i have on my twitter and on my youtube
because i think you really have to win people over for youtube it takes a lot more to click
subscribe than it does to click follow and that is something that i learned very early on so i
initially aimed like 200 subscribers to so to have kind of like exceeded that massively means like
such a great deal because it means that it kind of validates that what i'm doing is useful and that
it's providing benefit to people and it means that something to me as well it means that i've kind of
got that audience now so it kind of gives me a reason not to give up on doing this so i reached
a thousand subscribers which was felt amazing and it really was special and then the next thing was
the four thousand watch hours so in order to join the youtube partner program you have to reach four
thousand watch hours so that means if i play if i post a video for one hour and one person watched
it that's 60 that's that's one watch hour 60 minutes one more shower and it's a lot it
really is a lot considering videos on youtube are typically probably around 10 minute mark someone
might like three minutes something like 12 minutes it really does depend but 12 minutes that's that's
not anywhere near one much hour and so to get 4 000 watch hours is a lot so i think at time of
filming this i've got about 150 videos out each one of them has been carefully planned recorded
recorded again when i wasn't happy with it edited it and promoted online in order to get those watch
outs up it's not the same as views so some of my videos might have 3 000 views but that's not 3
000 more channels that's probably more like 200 watch hours and the next thing to note on that
as well it has to be 4 000 watch hours from the last 365 days so i've been doing youtube for a
year and four months now so in total i think i have like four and a half thousand watch hours
but they expire when it gets to 365 days and it keeps rolling over it's quite confusing to
explain it got it took me a while to get my head around it as well but essentially i needed a lot
of people to be watching my videos this kind of motivated me and put a little pressure on me to
put more videos out there that were more useful that people are going to be engaged in
and i post a video on my thoughts on molly may publishing a book and that did really well for
me that got me a good few hundred watch hours which i think kind of like boosted it massively
and then in the last few weeks i've basically just been texting my family and my boyfriend
saying how many watch hours i was on sometimes it went down and dipped sometime it peaked and went
up it really was just a game of like seeing how well it's doing each day and i was looking at my
analytics to see where peaks might come and go and i didn't want to get too kind of ingrained on it
and obsessed with it and it did work on my favor when i did reach the 4000 because i checked it the
day before and it was three nine six six watch hours and then it updates once a day so i loved
on the next day thinking it might have gone down and it was 4003 and like i honestly could cry it
like it went up so much in that day um i don't really know why i don't know what it was from
i haven't looked into it i don't really care i just saw that it was 4003 and somebody i i filmed
myself as as i was logging on and i was like oh my god oh my god i've literally just reached it
and it just felt like that that light bulb that clicking moment of everything i've been doing
has been doing it for a purpose i've got a reward from it i don't want you to think like listening
to this it's always been about the money because i said i just genuinely didn't think it was even
possible and it's always been about sharing my knowledge when i did an apprenticeship with
bloomsbury publishing the reason i started this was to share the knowledge that i gained from that
when i have spoken to hiring managers about interviews and application processes it's about
helping people and put my advice out there and it's been a personal thing as well for me like
from someone that uh kind of like struggles with this kind of thing standing here with
a camera and a tripod and a microphone it's quite daunting and it still doesn't get old
and so it's helped me with confidence and self-esteem to a certain extent as well
and things like putting makeup on and doing videos without makeup that really helps me
so it has been beneficial in so many ways to me and i really really do hope it has been beneficial
to other people as well i've got some fantastic like reviews if you like messages online or dms
saying like people got jobs or interviews and stuff which like makes me feel amazing it makes
me feel really like worth it and it wouldn't have happened without the youtube about me putting the
videos out there it feels like a reward i keep thinking about tick tock sounds like it's a reward
but it does feel like a reward because i've been doing this for sort of like a year and a half now
and that has been basically a second job i spend basically every day when i spend lunch time just
checking my analytics i spend evenings editing and weekends today and saturday and my weekends are
always filming days i'm constantly planning weeks in advance contacting people for interviews like
it is for long and i like it that way it makes me feel like i've got a purpose and it's as i said
it's provided so many benefits and especially connecting with new people online as well
i wouldn't change it it is just it has been a lot and to be doing it for free a lot of the time when
i put in money for camera microphone for example and the time obviously it does now feel like i'm
getting a little something back um which i'm quite proud of and i'm quite proud that i've stuck it
this long you know i've posted one to two videos a week for a year and four months so enough about
like me like genuinely thank you because as i said this literally wouldn't have been possible
for me to start making 50p on some ads without you guys watching it and i've made some like
what i call friends online just from people that have been really engaged and always sharing my
stuff retweeting and it really does mean a lot and i see the same sort of names coming up again
and sometimes like i'll message you guys to be like it doesn't go unnoticed like i really do see
it so thank you so much commenting on my youtube videos helps massively for the youtube algorithm
as just like watching and sharing on twitter and stuff like that gets more exposure for me
and hopefully more people that are going to find this useful you know my target audience is kind of
publishing hopefuls and people in the publishing industry so everything you're doing thank you i
i by no means i'm like the next youtuber this is a very small channel and i will be earning
pence but it is it's something at the end of the day and it makes me feel like
it's kind of like that validation i really hope this doesn't you know like put you off thinking
that oh i'm now making money from it and because i said it will be minimal and i'm still going to put
in the same amount of work i'm still going to be planning weeks in advance and providing
you with the content that i like creating and i hope it's beneficial to you too
so that is my mini run over basically just an announcement a little life update if you
don't have me on other socials just thank you so much i've reached a milestone that
i hadn't even thought was possible and i'm very very happy so yeah thank you