#50, How Many Videos Should You Make?

Waikiki Past Midnight, Waikiki, Hawaii, May ‘08, artistic view.


Change In Direction, North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, May ‘08, artistic view.

A small anniversary today, I managed to write 50 blogs! I definitely should write more often, but actually there would not be enough to write about, I’m afraid. Always try to have something to write about, and avoid writing just for the purpose of writing. So big congratulations to me. The traffic to this blog is slowly picking up, and does depend on how many new things are published. From time to time, I wonder if the subject matter is correct, please tell me what you think. Checking again my YouTube video subscription update as of Sat, July 5, 2008, here are stats and my comments. It appears that there is already a limit of 20 videos imposed by YouTube, very good. Why not ask for quality and not for quantity?

#	USERNAME	COMMENT
20	expertvillage	Many videos on the same subject.
20	katalina2007	Do they have to be so short?
20	tHEnOOSEsWINGS	Classical music is fine, but at this volume?
19	iThinkVideos	I don't think videos!
18	clockworkmeltdown	No doubt some kind of meltdown!
13	Aceswolf	A video per day for the whole year. No, please, no! Stop!
11	lockergnome	Henry Ford of videos is slowing down! Getting older, wiser?

Are you convinced that making lots of videos on YouTube works? There is no sign of that. If you look at the 100 most subscribed list, there are people who made over 500+ videos in the past two years and are moving toward an exit on that list, or already exited it some time ago. This actually is a good sign. I do not have many of those people on my subscription list, although I used to have. As you well know by now, producing good videos, I mean quality videos, takes plenty of time, and can also be quite expensive. After making those videos for a while, you are going to either exhaust your subjects, get bored, start to think that it is just not worth spending so much effort and money. Theoretically being in a YouTube Partner Program, was supposed to take care of some of those issues. But does it?

Dinner: Near vegetarian with some chicken, iced tea, at Fresh Choice, http://www.freshchoice.com. Two large, ripe, and juicy organic peaches later in the evening.

Blog recommendation: How to Change the World by Guy Kawasaki, http://blog.guykawasaki.com/.

Interesting to check: Fifty Most Influential Female Bloggers, http://northxeast.com/.