My Old Guy, Career Change channel has grown since my last post. today2024-12-222024-09-23subscribers95969372total views36K20K2K I deleted my other channel, John’s Film Photography. It wasn’t going anywhere. I concluded my vision for it wasn’t compelling.

My Old Guy, Career Change channel has grown since my last post. today2024-09-23subscribers69372total views20.0K2.3K My other channel, John’s Film Photography, hasn’t gone anywhere. I’m mulling what to do with it.

Today, YouTube deleted my Old guy, Career change channel. I appealed the deletion. While my appeal was pending, I learned this was a YouTube snafu that affected many other content creators. YouTube replied to my appeal and said, We're sorry we did this, and we've reinstated your channel. Except they've removed six of my videos … Continue reading YouTube deleted my channel then torched it →

Unless you’re a celebrity, building an audience for a YouTube channel is a long, slow climb. My Old Guy, Career Change channel has been up for 14 weeks. My first 10 videos were terrible but that’s normal for new content creators. As of today it’s amassed 2.3K views and 72 subscribers. My other channel, John’s … Continue reading YouTube progress →

I started the Old Guy, Career Change YouTube channel 10 weeks ago. In that time, I published 15 videos. I've noticed a few things. Making a good video is hard work. I'm still climbing the learning curve. I record about three times the raw video for the finished product, and spend about six hours doing … Continue reading Reflections on my YouTube channel →