Hi Everyone Hope you have been enjoying the peace and quiet in my absence! It's been a crazy ten days... Two hemispheres, three countries and three vastly different time zones. Delayed flights, failed flights, emergency landings, rescheduled flights, an apartment that turned out to be like a bondage den!!! It also had dodgy electrics that only half worked and kept banging and flashing! But I walked in deep snow, saw beautiful city night skies, Vancouver Fog, the stunning winter scenery of Squamish and Whistler, ate loads of delicious vegan food and walked the very worst poverty stricken and drug ridden streets of the city at night, by accident, which was kind of scary but made me feel how blessed I am. Now I am in Kent, in the UK, with my sister who I haven't seen for almost 7 years. Storm Chandra has been buzzing around but it's nit been too bad here. Planning a trip to Kendall, Glasgow, Skye, Inverness, Edinburgh, Lindisfarne and then Rochdale, but if the forecast and predictions of blizzards and blankets of snow are accurate I am not sure of that will happen! TBH I am citied out, though I would like to see Skye again, and the Highlands. My Mum and ancestors hail from Wester Ross. I was holding out against Manchester but then my sister finally had to divulge that she had booked us a tour on the Coronation Street Experience!! Corrie is something I got addicted to last year, having never watched it before, and it is my comfort food! YouTube seems far away, I have made a couple videos but not even looked at them, I feel so ungrounded and like nothing is real. I came here to catch up and try and sort of land myself. So big love to you all and looking forward to reading the posts I have missed! The photo shows one of our planes dumping 40,000 gallons of fuel into the atmosphere :(

Today I've committed to starting a two week trial to see how effective video clips are by releasing 1 at 11 am and one at 8 pm (9 hours between each clip). The clips I'm starting with are from videos that have higher views or considered evergreen videos. This was done by comparing lifetime and 28 day stats. My objective is to see if the clips will drive traffic to full length videos with an end screen and pinned comment (I found out that you cannot put an end screen if the clip is less than 25 secs long). The clips are more appealing to me versus a short because I get watch time from the clips, as I am not monetized. What are your observations and thoughts using clips?

Am most of the way through listening to this but if you're a vlogger here is encouragement from Sean Cannell about vlogging! This is what this video covers: 0:00 Why vlogging is back on YouTube 1:20 The state of vlogging in 2026 2:32 How YouTube is taking over the living room 7:47 Why 30 minutes is the ideal video length 11:00 Short videos fried our brains & now we want depth 15:17 The algorithm doesn’t care who you are... only what you talk about 23:33 Vlogs aren’t dead. The old way of vlogging is. 32:10 Why real beats perfect now. (The winning vlogging formula) 39:23 Window of Opportunity & why most people quit too early

@Lucy Caldicott was generous enough to spend some time with @Marv Duffy and I to talk us through her journey recently where she went from 66 subscribers to now 10,000! Lucy's channel is UCE1-AwL_CUdQCZ3aaXyh--w and the viral video is below. I think it has grown a few thousand views since yesterday actually 😂 I highly recommend watching this if you want to find out about the viral video, how she navigates what videos to make next and some tools she uses. Thanks again for not gate-keeping anything, Lucy. You deserve this beautiful success - it is just the beginning for you and so motivating for us to see 🥰

I've added some new categories! 📣 Updates: any new updates/events/Coffee Hours I can post on here 👋 Intros: used to be 'What's Your Channel?' 🏆 Wins: for any small, medium or big win, we want to hear all about it 💎 Gems: for any tips or snippets of info, or how to's or anything that really helps you 🎉 Fun: for anything fun you've seen or found or done ❓Questions: if you have a question for the group 💬 Chat: general chat or observation or sharing what's been on your mind lately 🦾 Challenges: used to be '90 Day Challenge' but can be Vlogmas challenge, January Challenge, etc 📝 Document Your Journey: same as before, anything you want to share regarding your journey Also, I want to encourage you, if you were thinking of it, to start a Skool community. We are never too small to start, and we keep hearing the risks of building houses on rented land, so not all eggs in one basket. If you were to start, please consider using my affiliate link if you wanted to but no pressure. Anyone using an affiliate link means that creator will "earn 40% commission when you invite somebody to create a Skool community". https://www.skool.com/signup?ref=5f3f1bd55cba4467bd176abc05cd6331