G'day Sam ,met you last night at the meet up Danny's bar, I think it would be very hard to be a new utuber today ,as there is so many of them , but you have the gift of the gab , explain things very well , I hope you keep going , take care .🤠
I have been following before you moved, I’m a RU-vid addict. You are talented in this, I haven’t missed any of your videos. You’re real and talk about real issues. Please keep knocking the door you are great at this.
@@GoneAdrift genuinely love what you have to say. Keep posting, regardless of how you feel, remember your living the life most would dream off. You wake up in Thailand
The issue I find with a lot of you guys doing videos in Thailand is that topics are running out and then it just turns into a video of seeing another bar or restaurant.
Creating new, educational, entertaining, and fresh content that people really want to watch is obviously the challenge. I don't have the answer and realize I would not be a successful YTer. My understanding is that many channels have a life of 3 to 5 years before becoming repetitive and stale. Just like most TV shows. I do wish you all the best and hope you find a niche, but if it was easy everyone would be successful.
I already mentioned to you when you Did the Cambodia video, that was awesome and different. Too many Thailand vloggers now and all saying the same crap, blah blah blah. Thailand over vlogged. Do the Cambodia thing, you were a natural there, you’ll be on a winner. You have a better personality than your mate Keis.
There are not many youtubers as authentic as you are, Sam. I´m positive you´ll keep going on to be successful on this platform! 🙏 Cheers from Cologne, Andy
I came to your channel through watching Keis One, I enjoy watching your videos as they are a wide range of topics that interest me. I enjoy your colab's with keis especially your live streams together. Keep up the good work in life and future videos.
I've also been watching your channel since before you moved to Thailand, and agree with others about your talent and creativivity. You hit a couple bumps but are back on your way up brother!
This vlog gives us a lot of insight into the world of RU-vid. Keep pushing ahead mate & you'll get to where you want eventually. Thank you to yourself & Adam for sharing what you've both been learning along the way. 😉👍
Great points. I'm really beginning to understand that "quantity over quality" is so important at first. Your channel is a perfect example of how quantity leads to quality - as the frequency you've been releasing new videos has increased, the quality of them has shown dramatic leaps forward too. And it's great you're already earning enough to meet basic expenses from this - it'll only get better!
Sammy, quite to the contrary, I think your videos have been fantastically imaginative, innovative and entertaining. Imho, you've been hugely successful at providing a great variety of content, stunning visuals, and a genuine, authentic, true-life personal 'back story'. In doing so, I feel that you've jumped significantly ahead of many other vloggers. 🙂
Do a bike tour around rural Thailand do every province in Issan that might appeal to wider audiences. Yes they’ve been done before but not enough imo. Paddy Doyle and CB media exploded their channels by showing the Thailand nobody sees
I am following most of the names you gave in the video. You are equally good, or sometmes better that most. I would say you and Keis are on the same level. Your conclusion is correct, just "grind" more :-) . But I would say there is a factor when you get bigger. The videos get repetitive. Keis just make it.. But people like Buzz start to get boring. Just a tip for the future.
Keis One & You have both been indirect mentors for me. Though my channel is only half the size of yours; I feel like this video is definitely point on with my story. Niche is key, pointing towards the information your viewers want. Trying to stay focused on key areas. Expanding in a timely manner. I think you guys are awesome; your work makes me want to be better myself. Good luck.
Great insight in being yourself Sam - the niche is forming, this is a great video in not only zoning in on the RU-vid knowhow, but showing an up and comer benchmarked to what worked well for one other, all around good content! Keep it up
going to be honest- I wasnt much of a fan of the chanel early on. But i have to say, kinda growing on me. Just being honest about yourself and mistakes and useful tip. Im gone a drfit! - anyways, glad i stuck around
What a fascinating insight to how RU-vid works and explained so well. Thank you and keep on doing you, I like this branching out that you are doing, it is great.
Great summary and words of advice from the King himself - Keis. I’ve watched him grow from the Pandemic era and he definitely has earned his notoriety. You have so much talent as well and common sense so I’m already impressed with your attitude and honesty. Stay at it, you’ll make it (maybe not RU-vid videos but something else).
I keep an eye on some of the states for smaller RU-vid channels. Yours isn’t too bad for the number of subscribers with quite a few videos having more views than subscribers. While other channels have twice as many subscribers and half the views. Keep up the good work mate, love your work…
Fark what is wrong with people. You come across really good so keep the videos coming. I unsubscribed from Keis because he made a political comment I could not swallow but I didnt abuse him I just moved away. So you are never going to please everyone but I watch you every episode. Live the dream keep grinding you are providing entertainment. Me been in Thailand for 18 months and moved here mainly from watching Keis videos he motivated me to leave Australia and NZ and try it here and am having a ball. Remove the negative people and leave them behind keep moving forward.
🙏🏻🙏🏻 Yeah I tryyyy to keep my own bias and political views to a minimum here but they do show sometimes 🤣 Funnily enough Adam’s so A-political compared to me face to face Hope you’re thriving bro!
Thanks for the inspiration. I will be returning to Thailand for about 2 weeks soon & it will hardly be a holiday. Doing at least a video a day, maybe 2 some days, as the long term plan is to move to Thailand or possibly the Philippines, & hopefully make some money from RU-vid, but yeah,it takes time, effort & dedication. I have a "day job " at the moment in Australia, but it does interfere with my ability to do what I really want to be doing. Unfortunately, I need the money though. Coming up with ideas can be hard. You don't want to do something that has been done by numerous other people if possible. And if you do, you really need to find a way to put your own spin on it.
I really like Adam's videos - his content around motorbikes, gaming, retro, travel and living in Thailand resonate with me. But I also appreciate he does not cover bars and girls and Soi 6. His editing is also very good and video length ideal. The amount of You Tuber's, particularly in Pattaya, is overwhelming currently, similar and focused on nightlife - and most of it is terrible. Just the videos on Soi 6 every single day is crazy. My advice is to get out of Pattaya - it's been overdone. Find your thing.
I'm with Jonny. Love your stories and any time you do anything involving boats as I am a fisherman, love the water and anything to do with boats - which is where I first stumbled across one of your videos (out on the water in Sydney Harbour) and liked it (also subscribed). I have a past connection with Thailand which is also why I enjoy following your channel's journey.
Hey Sam, you actually answered your own question ref content. You’re living in a tight budget, show what you do to save money. Where ?what do you eat? How much is rent and costs. I’m sure you get the drift. Good luck Sam I’ll catch you at your meet up tomorrow.
I really enjoy both you and Adam’s videos … neither of you operate the way I do when I’m in Thailand and that variety is a good thing. I like seeing people move through their lives in different ways. And you often question yourselfs and self improvement is always good.
go for it,,,great video, I follow Kris and you guys are fun to watch, Ive been to Bangkok for five weeks last November and love the content and the great memories your videos bring me, Ill be moving there soon and can't wait to get there...Cheers
Damn, Keis really is a shark isn’t he. You could put him in India doing something he’s never done before and he’d find a way to be highly highly successful at it. What a great friend and mentor to have 👍🏼
Sammy I think stating during the video that you can't ever be 'as big' as some of the other RU-vidrs based in Thailand does more harm than you may think. You have to believe in yourself and be engrossed in the passion and grind that it takes to succeed. Nothing is easy and I can promise that every single RU-vidr you mentioned there had there own myriad of struggles and endured times where they didn't believe they would make it. There are numerous examples in this space of accidental success and gaining traction in ways that you would not have thought possible. As even Keis said his most successful video was one he almost didn't make it. Your storytelling ability is second to none. Some of the documentary style videos you made is Isan were fantastic and very moving. Figuring out a way to transfer that ability to a larger market or to a larger audience could be a strong recipe for success. If you go 100% in this venture I'm overwhelmingly confident that you will succeed. Good luck going forward.
Thanks mate. That is a topic I have been wondering about for some time. "Do these guys make any money out of this?" The over abundance of content about "life in Thailand" from people that have been there one or two days on holiday as opposed to someone that has been there for years must really upset the algorithims. It's good to see you can cover your living expenses.
Thanks for the videos. I like when you and Keis are videoing graffiti and pretty scenes along the canals. Thailand and Asia in general has such a rich and technically beautiful art/architecture scene that goes relatively unappreciated. It’s such a difficult subject to present since it reflects such different socio economic segments within a society. Thailand is a strikingly beautiful country.
Such an inspiration. From drunkard to chugging along. If you can get your basics costs covered from RU-vid your laughing. Be a massive weight off your shoulders
You should on the side do art work when you got time. Open an online store displaying wall arts and tshirts and when you 20 to 50 designs, connect your shop to your youtube channel
Mate keep going, your content is genuine and interesting. You could always make a series going on a hunt to track down and interview one of the original Aussie vloggers, Dead Farang. The bloke was a pioneer but has gone off-grid, but is still over there apparently.
I admire you for putting your life on display, I come from a photography background and have a unique life in Isaan but really don't want my life on display, maybe I'll overcome it in the future
Sam, great to see you making videos on a a more regular basis. Also, enjoyed your explanation of how moneterisation works. I suppose you just need to work out who your target market is - and I'm guessing it's not people who spend all day and night in walking street. Just a question - does it make a difference if I don't watch a video to the end? as I'm guilty of often doing this.
I think you can still make it! You just have to work hard and pump out a video every two days. Don’t give up and don’t go home without a fight. You may have started on the wrong path, but you can still turn it around. Keep making videos and we will keep watching!
Very interesting. Looks like a hellish job to me. It is easy to spot when the RU-vidr is desperate to find a content idea. The idea in this video is good.
This is both interesting and disconcerting. I don't want to see any one person's video more than once a week. It takes too much time. I'd way prefer a single good video a week than multiple videos. Several of the RU-vidrs I watch regularly have reduced their work to one video a week. I think that's great when you already many viewers, because it's a phase of doing a good job for viewers you have, rather than making an algorithm happy so that it spreads you around. As for more risqué content, if you can capture an audience, it probably doesn't matter if it's demonetised. Queen of Pattaya has multiple videos with over a million views. Even if those ones don't make money, the huge influx of subscribers pretty much ensures that she gets 10s or 100s of thousands of views on videos even if it's just a hotel review.
@@CaptainKremmen Regarding the navel-gazing content that can come out of brisk daily vlogs… One lengthy high quality, well researched video per week would be my dream. Alas, at least in the early days, if that video tanks… a week’s work becomes unpaid :(
@@GoneAdrift Yes, this platform is not how I'd like. I thought online videos would be like the web. You'd want to watch something, so you'd do a search and get results ranked for you. Oh, no. Instead, searching functionality is terrible and nothing is meaningfully ranked. (They even took the "dislike" totals away.) The platform caters for users watching the same creators over and over again, like TV. It's predominantly set up for us to become drones. And it makes sense, sadly. The viewer who wants to find what they want and just watch that isn't worth as much as the viewer who'll just sit and watch stuff endlessly. So the algorithm just feeds us more of what we had before on as many days as possible. There you go. My rant should count for some "engagement" by YT's algorithm, even though it's basically saying how much I hate YT's algorithm.
Focus on travel and food in my opinion! That is what most people want to see for new ideas and places. Just dont paint again 😂😂😂😂. By the way love your videos. Been following keisy for about 2-3 years now
It’s all of content in southeast Asia that is redundant. But you can always find a unique niche for content. Just think out of the box and be genuine about it and more viewers will follow.
I feel like many of the Thai youtubers have plateau’d, exceptions aside. While I like and respect Keis a lot, he should move to the next level. Stay himself, don’t use a narrator voice and move more towards a direction like a 2024 version of what Vice used to do. That creates a brand that is sustainable long term.
He’s covering two bases at the moment, first one is satisfying the existing audience with fun honest day to day vlogs / the second is those well researched and cinematically adept docos with voice overs. The way the algo works, it favours one or the other but not both. Credit to him for servicing both old and new audiences in a Moses parts the sea-esque manoeuvre 🌊
Thank you for sharing this Sam. I love watching you, kies and mac with your takes on thailand and youtube. In 8 days am starting my backpacking journey on a budget from Norway to japan. Visiting 24 countries. I plan to make 3-4 videos every week and do some livestreaming ontop of that. Mostly around how to travel, what i spend money on, what i got with me, what my toughts on the traveling scene is and such. I hope to see all 3 of you when i visit thailand. You are all inspiring. And i love this insight and that you easily share tips and how much you earn. Alot of people dont want to do that. Keep up the good work. See you in november/desember hopefully :)
@@Pointern Mate, will you post your RU-vid link here? I can’t follow through from the comment section. As Keisy would say, have you started yet? I reckon crack into prep-videos right away!
It sounds as if one has to build up a library of videos, keep them offline, then start publishing them weekly or bi-weekly for a year. Is that a good plan?
In my opinion the best time to edit and release videos is right after you’ve shot the footage. I’m still excited to review the footage and spend the hours in the chair processing it. A year after the fact could become very tiresome right? Also one wants to stay relevant, responding to current events, changes.
I run a channel about life in Brazil, but I’m nowhere near as good of a storyteller as you are. Honestly, I blank out on camera-or at least that’s my excuse. Since RU-vid doesn’t pay well unless you’ve got big numbers and great retention (which I don’t), I offer consultations about Brazil to make money out of this. After 26 years here in Brazil (I was raised in the US), I’ve gained a lot of knowledge, but it’s frustrating how many people expect free info. I’m grateful for those who hire me, but the freeloaders who think I do RU-vid for fun are out of control. It seems like Brazil’s affordability, like Thailand’s, attracts a lazy, entitled, cheap crowd. I get that inflation is real, but why does everything have to be dirt cheap to be considered a “great deal”? I see this a lot in videos about both countries. I’m Brazilian-American, a native speaker of English and Portuguese, and fluent in Spanish and I even speak Italian. I know Brazil inside out, but 9 out of 10 people don’t value my services because I don’t charge local or minimum wage rates. I’ve even had clients pay my rate and then suggest I should charge less. Anyways, It’s their loss. They’ll just have to figure things out on their own. It might cost them more, but learning through adventure can be fun, so the cheapskates should be fine. Lol. Your content is great, I think you will make it as big as the other you mentioned.
I have a couple suggestion for you. I like shorter videos. 10 - 20 minutes or so. Rarely will I do 30min videos or longer. Don't put too much fluff scenes in there. Keis has a nice balance because people don't want to see you just talking either, but they like some interesting scenery snips in there. I don't know if Keis does it, but I would build a folder with hundreds of good filler snips. Keis has done videos of being on a train and he might have a few 3 -5 second filler snip though out showing the building landscape or traffic below. He may have recorded those 3 months to a year before. I have no idea, but it fits the story line and stretches your video a little. In your most recent videos, I see a lot more sponsorship adds. For now, I think it is the right amount, to a touch heavy. But they are not too intrusive either. Learn what ever Yoda Keis will teach you.
Pleasing a wide audience is all but impossible I’m learning :) 50% of feedback is “less fluff, visuals and music - more information please” And the other 50% of feedback is “less yak yak more pretty stuff” I agree 12 minutes average is the sweet spot
