Gadgetory

so when the wild untamed world of YouTube videos one man towers above them all sigh the guy who did that song in Gangnam style but thanks to you the viewers we haven't done to Bali for ourselves here at Tech wiki either we passed 1 million subscribers not too long ago and are hoping to hit a million and a half sometime this summer so let's have a look at how our little technology compendium all started as well as a bit of a behind-the-scenes look as to how we crank out new videos for you guys every week you see back in 2013 the channel was originally envisioned as a place for paid content basically meaning commercials for products from companies like Coursera who was Linus Media Group's first ever sponsor and those commercials were a little interesting but we thought our viewers might like them sort of like how some people watch the Superbowl just for the advertisement but the idea for fast as possible follows soon after and if you have a look at some of our older videos they were much shorter one or two minutes of defining a term and running through some bullet points in fact early episodes weren't even scripted and were shot in batches five at a time in those days poor Edsel was editing all of them I didn't just edit that's possible I made fast as possible what it is as well as all daily videos over online as tech tips as well as sponsor projects so it probably isn't surprising that we started hiring more as or soon after including Karen and Nick van Berkel Karen really helped jazz up the channel with higher production values that made our videos more visually interesting and Nick evey brought his own sense of humor to tech with you with his silly editing style that we've tried to continue to maintain to this day and with this expansion of our team textbook you've started to become a place for more conceptual videos instead of just spouting off features for things like new revisions of USB episode is explaining topics such as save PC temperatures and how the pickett power supply became the norm but these kinds of episodes took longer to write and because Linus is writing most of them on his own with some help from Nick light of all people seriously the sales guy he Howard years truly and running the channel became basically my full-time job Dennis are current at cookie editor started here at linus media group the exact same day as i did actually and we're currently a two-person team I contribute scripts research and ideas for visuals while Dennis does a fantastic job shooting and editing so how does a tech with the episodes go from spark and someone's head to a finished episode well first either I or another team member comes up with ideas or gets inspiration by keeping an eye on various trends or even taking suggestions from our viewers on the forum the comment section or Twitter the next step is for me to research the topic and write the script making sure of course that everything you say is well sourced after reviewing the script - to make sure he thinks is not a worthless piece of poop and that I should just pack my things and moved back to North Carolina then it shoots the episodes with the host typically Linus root on our green screen set then after about a day of editing and creating animations and a quick review from me the episode is basically finished of course our sales team also works hard to get ad sauce at the end of our videos so that we can keep the lights on and continue to crank out videos for all 1.3 million of you to enjoy and while we're on the subject of our subscriber count let's go check out the gold play button YouTube centers to commemorate here's a million subscriber mark come on let's go you really did okay so get it out at all oh man you only have a brief ok 1 1 2 3 hey wait a minute look at this thing this is like way smaller than LP he's Halon is why do you get the big play button oh right yeah look at this what do they not understand that I've always got of ideas and Dennis's creativity is stunted so he's so far from Taiwan Ruff's top notch me yeah like really well anyway guys my canned food if you liked it dislike if you didn't I'll leave a comment send me your ideas for new faculty videos and tweet me at JM art 604 let me know what you guys think Solicitors immediate line if you don't nearly human stuff yeah let's do it come on let's go