What does all of this mean? First, it means it's time for a new t-shirt. The last one, modeled here by my friend Marin Female Bodybuilder Megan Avalon, reads "Zennie62.com 11 million viewers and growing." Second, it means YouTube.com/Zennie62 is on pace to top 20 million viewers before the end of 2010. Third, it means the subscriber base is growing and will continue to do so. And it means that Zennie62 is becoming a recognized brand, or as one viewer said at WonderCon SF "You're that guy who just makes these videos anywhere."
That's the idea: YouTube.com/Zennie62 is covering politics, news, sports, and tech with a lot of entertainment industry related subjects thrown in.
YouTube helped a lot
YouTube.com/Zennie62 could not have reached 15 million video viewers without the help of YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley and the YouTube Partner Program Team, especially Erik Brown, who's been there through all the good times and the bad ones, like the TMZ Miley Cyrus Lap Dance Video controversy where TMZ granted the right to use it after a day-long series of negotiations, errors, and misunderstandings. Thanks, Eric.
I have to include thanks to YouTube's Jim Woods, Mia Quagliarello, Yenie Ra, Shenaz Zack and many others at YouTube who know who they are for their involvement and encouragement too. YouTube is serious about helping YouTube Partners build their video businesses. While Zennie62 is on Blip.tv (Yeah, to Blip.tv), Dailymotion, Vimeo, and a total of eight other sites thanks to Tubemogul.com, YouTube has been hands-on in its approach with video-bloggers.
Also, a big thanks to my content friends and partners at The Hearst Corporation including The San Francisco Chronicle, Mediaite, CNN and the iReport team in Atlanta, and CoLoursTV, home of The Blog Report with Zennie62.
Zennie62: Giving people a voice
What's changed about Zennie62 is that it's helped give a lot of people, especially those who were running for local office or people working at small businesses and had no video presence, a voice and a face.
I talk to people even when I don't agree with them. I give them a platform. Also, I've become fearless: willing to use the camera to show what's happening at any time, and to record people giving their view of a subject. But now I want to do something that reflects our growth: add video-bloggers.
I'm expanding Zennie62, both videos and the blog network into a media company called Zennie62media.com. If you have a video camera, are looking for a place where your work can be seen and to learn how to "vlog", and want to make a little money for it, contact me at the email below.
YouTube.com/Zennie62 since 2006; at 982 videos
YouTube.com/Zennie62 has been around since April of 2006 and is up to 982 videos. Which of them is my favorite? I don't have just one.
The first one that comes to mind is "Double Rainbow Over Oakland, California" because it was a great example of spontaneous video-blogging of a rare event. Here's that video:
The second one is of the NY Giants Final Drive at Super Bowl 42 and marks the coming of age of Giants QB Eli Manning:
The third is of then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama who gave a 25-minute speech as Senator Barbara Boxer's guest at her fundraiser in San Francisco in 2007. Obama used no notes or teleprompter; just let it rip and I was there:
The 1,000th Video Series
After Monday YouTube.com/Zennie62 will be just 15 videos from 1,000. And for that, I plan to make my videos 1,000 through 1,005 ahead of time and special. It's Zennie62's 1,000th video series, which will have its own blog and promotion effort. If you have an idea for someone you want to see interviewed for the series, send an email to zennie@zennie62.com .
Finally, thank to the people who've come up to me in airports and shopping centers around America to express what they like and don't like, too.
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