Like most folks, I got started with YouTube as a convenient way to share videos with friends and family. I didn’t really care or pay any attention to how many followers or views I had. Then I got into making some short promotional videos for my business – First Landing Autocare and I started to see some outside interest in the stuff I was publishing. We’re not talking the kind of following that would allow me to monetize my channel, but it was enough to energize me to keep producing content. I’ve collected some tools to help edit what came off of my phone into semiprofessional video with annotations, titles, music, etc.
I started recording just about any activity that I thought might be instructive and it soon encompassed drone flights, my auto restoration projects and more content for my auto repair business. I enjoy fixing stuff and, as my grandkids were growing up, any time a toy or car or ??? broke, they would say “It’s okay – Grandad Fix it.” With that in mind I created my Grandad Fixit channel. It now contains a collection of content that has enough views and followers to keep me interested in producing content
A lot of the stuff, such as my Land Rover and Morris Minor videos don’t have a huge audience potential, but the auto repair vignettes are of interest . One video in particular has over one million views and climbing. Why? I have no idea, but I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to sprinkle that magic dust on the rest of my videos.
Recent political convulsions related to social media have caused me to explore other places on the internet to store my content, specifically on Rumble.com. But Rumble has issues. This guy has done a deep dive into trying to use Rumble as a platform for his 2A contentand found it falls short of YouTube today, but that may change with time.