30,000 Subscribers, Really? Wow! And Should You Start Your Own Channel? 

Baltimore, MD - Doug, don't undermine yourself. You are a GREAT teacher. You deserve this greatly. Only 30k followers - come on people, sign up more! You have worked so hard for what 6, 7 plus years, maybe a more if you include your photography. I have always said, you are the MAN! You know everything! I have learned so much. I love Whitt. She is awesome! I have built my whole MOBILE production truck with your videos. THANK YOU so much, Doug! We all love you, man. 🙂

Congratulations, Doug!!!!! 😍Well deserved!

What I love about your perspective, content, what you know and do, it isn't tied to the most expensive broadcast gear, but it's also not limited to basic or constrained (consumer or prosumer), you're about getting solutions, quality and reliability, what can work and what doesn't. You also see all the pros and cons, cost v benefit, points of failure, etc. Understandably, you need to have a passion beyond RU-vid clicks to do what you do.

Congrats Doug, and, keep going! The topics you cover have been really good, and your down to earth approach when sharing knowledge about each topic makes the information very accessible, which makes the content a great resource. I'm sure there's more to come - things are evolving constantly when you step back enough to see it, so there's likely always going to be a place for more content going forward if you continue to have the passion and willingness to share it! 👍

Congratulations! You are a fantastic teacher. I found your channel thanks to my wife. I had a some roadblocks solving some production issues and she helped me search for solutions. After she shared your channel I've binge-watch your content. You inspired me to get serious about video production. Letting you know you changed my life.

I once asked you in a comment, "Why are there not that many subscribers" and you answered, "Well the market is very niche". I understood, But still would want to say, a huge part of me being kinda good at what I do is because of your channel, and your topics and realistic scenarios when explaining something. going the extra step. Thank you so much for your time. And you're very much appreciated aswell. It always makes me really want to teach and do what I do with my collegues online. You really inspire me. Thank you.

Congratulations on getting to 30k subscribers! More importantly the majority of your videos have many thousands of views and I can't see your watch time, but the cumulative watch time is more important than the number of subscribers. I think back to the photography class you taught over 10 years ago and I thought you were a great teacher then. Persistence is also important because for most people it's giving them experience and practice to get better where they wouldn't be increasing their skills if they weren't continuing to do something. I sometimes see new channels started and within a few short days or weeks they're hundreds of thousands of subscribers (or more) and I admit I'm kinda jealous, but I value the skills I'm gaining by persisting. I can certainly tell a difference in the quality of my videos from 5 years ago (and longer) and I know there's at least a few people who appreciate my content. I recognize I'm not great at making videos that mass appeal, but I make videos that I know I like to watch. Frankly I just like making videos so I decided a long time ago to just keep making them for fun, and success will at the very least be that I have done something with the pictures and video I was already capturing instead of just leaving them on my hard drives never to be seen.

Congratulations from France !

Doug- you are amazing! So proud of you!!

Congratulations!! Idk if I’d say it’s interesting…but your videos are very educational and helpful. In this day and age being able to put quality video online is important for all sorts of personal and professional uses.

Congratulations Doug! been here for years seeing you slowly grow and it is amazing to see you hit this incredible milestone!

Well done Doug and great to see you looking well. I have had a few years out of the loop but looks like I have some catching up to do here! Catie Lake x

Take care, Doug! I've learned a lot from you!

I also remember the StudioTech video production channel. At the time, they were the place to go. Unfortunately, they suddenly stopped at their peak, when their studio had reached a vedy nice level. But fortunately today, there’s you. Nowadays there are so many channels with a great deal of knowledge and your channel is one of them. It’s so good that I keep coming back. Your opinion seems deeply honest, not trying to always ride on the latest wave, but keep delivering very interesting information you cannot find in a similar way on other channels!

Love your content! You clearly know what you're doing and have a straight forward approach. Thank you so much and congratulations on the milestone!

Well done, Doug, it’s well earned, always interesting and useful, and great to get another perspective on ways to do the job.

Thank you so much. I'm in the process of building a mobile audio video Livestream rack and have pretty much watched all of your videos for guidance and inspiration. Much appreciated.

Congrates Doug. ... have learned a lot from you. Thank you

Well you just earned another sub! Realized I've watched a lot of your content, and it's been extremely helpful.

Congratulations! Happy to be part of this journey. Thanks for all the work! Good times...

Congratulations Doug! 🎉🎉 I have learned a lot from you over the years

Many thanks for sharing your valuable information and experience with us

Congrats! 😃

Thank you for all of the broadcast knowledge and experienced that you have shared of the past 4-5 years! I learned a lot of the initial fundamentals of broadcast production hardware and workflows from this channel and that served as a stepping stone into the larger world of broadcast knowledge. I'm now going into 5th year working in broadcast and my 3rd year working full time at a large broadcaster. If your goal with this channel was to spread knowledge about the tech that runs broadcasts, then you have most definitely succeeded! Congrats Doug!

Congrats on 30k mate! Well deserved! Maybe I should start up a channel too.. :)

haha.just found your channel...from Nirobi,kenya.

i am happy for you. Keep the great work.

You are good teacher because you share al these info foor free. You give every one the opportunity to learn to be one day a video technician or getting better in their job. Even People that cant afford rent al the gear, spend the time or knowing People to figure this out. Only good teacher take time off to teach other ones, and also taking the risk that some Will maybe getting better than you. We need more People like you that knowledgeable and want to give their knowledge for free. I think 30.000 other People thinking same and appreciate you and your channel

Great content! Keep it up!

Well deserved!! U have single handedly upped my video game big time. Thank you!! ❤🙌

30K 👍Congratulations for hanging in there, and releasing new stuff. Even live Q&A while making SDI cables for a flypack. Brilliant! That was a good episode. Keep on rockin'!

Congratulations!!

Thank you for the videos, I've been able to use the information you give and integrate it into my livestream production on a regular weekend on RU-vid. Keep up the good work

This is just a beginning 1 million sub just a matter of time🎉

Also I love the studio! Have you done a tour? Love the grey wall with the rgb lighting.

Congratulations on this Milestone. Much success.. One question though, Do you have any recommendation for best HEAVY DUTY Fiber HDMI cable for on the road work instead of installed in studio?

Would you please consider overviewing this topic? What are your soup-to-nuts opinion(s) of utilizing binaural / spatial audio in media streaming and video production? Thank you in advance.

Hey Doug!! Do you have any recommendations for portable power stations for outdoor livestreaming? For running gaming laptop and multiple displays for long hours around 6-8 hours?

Hi I was watching one of your older videos on Nginx but it didnt have conments. I was wondering if it would be possible to send RTMP to Nginx as a local server and then have Nginx push HLS to RU-vid. The reason would be to add a large HLS playlist buffer as sort of a custom stream cache in case of network inconsistencies. I guess the data flow would be RTMP > Nginx > HLS playlist > RU-vid. The question is, if you lost internet connection, would Nginx pushing HLS to RU-vid pause and then pick up where it left off? Or would it skip upon reconnecting to the internet? Or would it completely disconnect from RU-vid all together.

Olá Preciso de sua ajuda Tenho o davinci Resolve studio 18.5 e tenho um Hyperdeck Studio hd pro acontece que quando faço a edição de um vídeo e exporto para o cartão ou ssd do gravador não consigo que o gravador Hyperdeck studio hd pro faça o Playback ja tentei varos codecs no menu do gravador e mo davinci resolve Tenho também um Hyperdeck mini e acontece o mesmo. Ja testei no Premier pro cc 2023 em Prores proxy e também não faz o playback a gravar funciona tudo bem Não sei se o seu também faz isso Agradeço muito sua ajuda Obrigado

I think one should not start a channel with succes in mind. Just start a channel because you like to create videos or a video about something. You should not care about the number of subscribers or likes. That way it stays a nice hobby without the nagging things for viewers like misleading titles, asking for likes and subscribers, advertisement smoothly turned into videos etc etc. I just posted a very niche video about how to take a stuck XLR out without having to dismantle the complete unit and a niche video about how to connect audio to an atem without loosing the balanced transport when you use a longer cable. They got more views then I thought and that is nice but I never intended to build a channel and I still don't. Just a nice side hobby :)