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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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