https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPoJPa-shyI&feature=youtu.be
The answer is, of course, “We like short-shorts”, to complete the song lyric from the doo-wop days when Dick Clark was King, but much stuff has flowed under the thing since then.
I’ve spent the past few days and nights trying to load around 100 #shorts onto youtube in a number of different channels, notably ejgoldguru, gorebagg, gorby’s shorts — and I’m planning to put a bunch of sci-fi #shorts on galaxyezine when I get the chance.
Some of my #shorts have gotten two thousand views, most get nothing or just a few nibbles, but the night is yet young, and we shall see what happens after a few days of hanging around.
I’m not sure any of them have made the “short shelf” and I really don’t care — it’s enough to know that one or more of you in our work circle will hit the million-mark.
That’s the game, or should I say, that’s The Game.
The reasoning behind it is that you will be able to hook promotions into your video chain, and derive benefits indirectly.
I don’t even bother at this point to saddle my viewers with advertisements dotted all over the landscape. When the views are in the millions, I’ll reconsider, and I’ll be glad to have a problem like that on my hands.
Yes, indeed. To sweeten the pie and add to the mix, I’ve got some spice: When one of your #shorts videos hits the 1,000 views mark, send me the .jpg and I’ll ship out a prize of some sort — we’re working on it now. At the 10,000 mark, you get another small prize to note the achievement.
When one of your videos hits the 100,000 mark — and some of them will — you get another prize, and when you hit the million mark, I paint for you an original acrylic on canvas, which I’ll ship out to you, but fair’s fair, you cover the packing & postage.
For every #short video that hits the million mark, you get a signed original painting on canvas, so it could result in an entire gallery-full of paintings, if you get lucky on youtube, and you’d be very smart to sell them at the market price, which is pretty good these days.
So that’s one of the ways you can get rich by putting #shorts videos up on youtube.
My most successful #shorts videos right out of the gate are some of my tongue drums — hapi drums — and ctf blowups in the Godd™ Engine, but you never know what’s going to catch on and ride up to the million views level. Anything’s possible.
I’m planning to put up at least one “Definitely Not Minecraft” video — about 80% of the #shorts on the short shelf are by, of, about or for minecraft.
Don’t forget that youtube is counting on you to create original works of art entirely for their benefit, and they want some imagination and experimentation put into it — I can accommodate that.
It won’t be long until the #shorts camera arrives in the U.S. and everyone has the app and can upload a #short with the touch of a virtual button, so take advantage while you still have the opportunity!
You have two weeks, maybe three, before EVERYBODY is doing it — don’t miss this chance. If you need help with this project, get to one or more of our morning meetings and ask for help — you’ll get it.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby