Qualified for YPP after 12 Years on YouTube

YPP means; YouTube Partnership Program

 

I have an art YouTube Channel that would be 13 years old this month. The issue is that the channel just wouldn’t grow. This partly due to the infrastructural challenges I have as a citizen of a third world country. I can’t have clear camera and when I manage to get a meritocratic HD video shut with my phone, it is hard and expensive to upload GB video. I just can’t produce a quality visual on YouTube which is my shortcoming. I also procrastinated and wasn’t consistent.

 

I have another YouTube art Channel that had zero followers until I uploaded a video that had nothing to do with art. I did about 5 more video on the topic that was unrelated to art and the second video got me the 1000 subscriber and 4000 watch hours alone. So art for me is evidentially not a popular niche for me. I can’t make the visual and artistic effect that might be valuable to the different art community on YouTube. I was a very active user are Nigeria biggest online Forum (which drives the most traffic to my videos), however not up to 3 persons from Nairaland ever subscribed to my channel despite I have auto requested for subscription in all my 1000+ comments.

 

So my videos are not appealing to the art community online (so far).

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Upcoming Nigerian artist should ignore trying to get into big galleries.

 For the past few years, I have come to the conclusion that it is fruitless chasing the big galleries in Nigeria (if and only if) you are an upcoming Nigerian artist without an art degree.

It is better to just grind online and identify yourself as a so called "outsider artist". Ignore the big galleries because they would reject you except you have started making waves on your own. They would come to you when you don't need them anymore, and has already started making a name for yourself independently.

Change is the only constant and those old "gate keeper" are getting obsolete. The traditional way of doing things are getting lose in the digital age. Now we have artist selling digital NFT for millions of dollars on their own without a gallery (having their own collectors and fans).

Even before the 2020 global pandemic and subsequent lockdown, many traditional galleries in England were closing down in mass. These days, the big galleries are active online and the majority of their follower are aspiring artist that are mostly ignored by these galleries.

This is just my opinion as a 12 years veteran online artist. I have made up my mind to never try to "suck up" to any big galleries. I reject them because they were useless when I needed them the most.

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My failing art blog – Is Blogging Dead?

 

My failing art blog – Is Blogging Dead?



Look at the statistics for my blog. This is discouraging. I would like to boost my traffic. Only 17 views for the whole month?



The first thing that came to my mind is that; I must ride trending topics… I might use my intuition to try and figure out how I can do this. Of cause I would document what I do here.



Every time I work (when I work), I would make sure I put in a years’ worth of work on that day (that means I dive in)… Right now I don't know if blogging is still a thing or it has really been over shadowed by SOCIAL MEDIA.




With only 17 views a month, it would be a successful blog if that single blog post gets 17 views.

 

Failing Art Blog (only 17 views in a month)

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AdSense unit display ads after entering PIN

I finally got my AdSense PIN delivered to me via mail. This is after 5 months of my first request and being demonetised in the first week of February. Coincidentally, a few left-wing political channels on YouTube were kick out of the YPP (YouTube Partnership Program). Guys like Graham Elwood were hit and I am sure if he is patient and smart about it, he would get back in next month.

 

It was distressing and I made my second request for the PIN on February 6th 2021. I got the mail yesterday 25th. I thought it was stolen during the #EndSARS civil unrest in Nigeria back in October because my first request was on October 4th 2020. I went to the post office to complain that a mail I was expecting has not yet arrived 5 months later and I was told that no post office was looted during the riots. So I stated suspecting that may it was the global pandemic that made the mail to be frozen somewhere.

 

I spent my whole time at work manually turning on the monetization setting of all 500+ videos on my channel.

 

Anyway, as of now 10pm Friday 26 February 2021, all my websites are displaying ads again and my videos too. It gave me a new appreciation of that source of income. I think I might concentrate on generating something from it. You never know what you have until it is gone.

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Challenging myself daily and trying to apply the philosophy of winning daily

There was a motivational speech I heard but never saw the speaker. I thought it was Jocko Willink but the speaker cuss a lot and I suspect it isn’t him. The speaker taught that to be a winner, you must try to win daily and if you win every-day (little by little), you would eventually just be a ‘winner’. Basically ‘incremental progress’ explained in a way I have never hear it explained before.



It also remains me of Dr Aziz on YouTube who once taught about accepting challenges with a phrase of “Bring it on”.



Today: I intend on making personal list of things (that if I do, I would consider that day as a win, these are usually unpleasant things that I have been procrastinating or would probably procreate on). Just two or three main goals & the rest are minor goals which might sum up to 30 items daily (however, the most important task would be the first 3).



Today being Tuesday 9th February 2021, I would do some deep cleaning (might take 4 to 6 hours) from laundry to washing my bike, toilet and room. Secondly, I would study for my exams and thirdly I would just make a quick sketch that would be filmed to be uploaded on YouTube (I might not have the time to upload it on YouTube due to my double shift just for today). 

 

 

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