Clive Thompson·Oct 21, 2021At Last, a Way To Watch YouTube at 3x, 4x, or FasterOh my god you people talk so slowly — I love watching instructional videos on YouTube. Last weekend, I used one to figure out how to replace the back tire on my bike. YouTube is fantastic for explainers where you really need to see something, and where a textual explanation isn’t as useful. Indeed, the ease of shooting video…You Tube6 min read
Thomas Smith·Aug 16, 2021How to Make Money From YouTube’s New Shorts PlatformYouTube Shorts could give TikTok some serious competition — Ever since Snapchat launched the format--and TikTok made it blow up--shortform vertical video has been everywhere. Instagram jumped on the vertical video bandwagon with its Stories and Reels features, and Facebook (which owns Instagram) cloned the format as Facebook Stories. During the pandemic, vertical video has exploded, with the average…You Tube11 min read
Matt Klein·Mar 31, 2021Your YouTube Playlists Don’t Belong to YouHow I’m dealing with the loss of a playlist I’d been curating for 14 years — I remember the first video I watched on YouTube. It was also the first I saved to my Favorites playlist. “Muffins” is an absurdist ad for a bakery, whose long list of muffin flavors descended into bird, fire, and blood. I was 13 years old and it was the funniest…Social Media6 min read
Thomas Smith·Feb 26, 2021How I Make Thousands on YouTube, Without Being YouTube FamousHere’s how I’ll make thousands of dollars this year — It’s 9:30 in the morning, and I’m talking about a fan. Specifically, I’m creating an in-depth video review of a Honeywell HYF290B tower fan. Pulling up the camera on my phone, I hit record and spend the next four minutes and 22 seconds discussing the fan in intimate detail —…Strawberry 20217 min read
