Adam Blampied
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BlampCo's YouTube Channel Launches TODAY!!
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BlampCo! Lovely BlampCo!
We're a company, or so they say!
Launching on the YouTube
And the launch is happening today!
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A mere 3 months after launching this Patreon, we're ready to debut BlampCo on YT, a fully-formed channel, with a studio, two flagship shows, and brand-new formats in our pocket! Thank you so much for getting us to this point, as the monthly debriefs have (hopefully) shown, we absolutely could not have done it without you.
Which leaves us with one major question: what happens with the Patreon going forward?
Well, the way we see it we have two options.
Option 1) We begin to thin out content on the Patreon and migrate most things over to the YouTube channel, and rely on ad revenue and sponsorship to cover costs
Option 2) We double down on the Patreon, strip the YouTube Channel of monetisation, and use the (hopefully) more palatable content to act as a advert for the Patreon and all its extra content
We don't know about you, but option 2 sounds MUCH better to us. YouTube is notoriously unstable for income, it places a horrendous stress on creators to chase views above all things, and personally I hate watching long-form content that hits me with an ad every 10 minutes, or videos that take 3 minutes to get to the content because of a sponsorship read.
To be clear, this is not an indirect jab at any specific YouTube channel, please don't take it as such. Other channels have much different overheads than ours and have to cover their costs in vastly different ways. We're just two people, which gives us a freedom that we'd rather parley into less personal revenue but more enjoyable content for the longterm.
In order to keep Patreon at a level where it covers our salaries, and allows to keep investing in better content and high day-rates for our freelancers, we're planning to keep plenty of content coming for you all!
On the Patreon, we're going to keep doing the Rad Time podcast, and the monthly watchalongs - to which we'll add a WWE2K25 MyRise series, followed by more gaming streams.
The zoom-shot Board Rooms will remain on Patreon, and will increase in frequency to two a month from June onwards. They're relatively simple to edit and let us keep gaming with non-Londoners on the regular, as well as offering more paydays for freelancers!
With the authorisation of commissioners, we'll release some of the Bookings and Lists on the YouTube channel to help the channel grow and give us a bit of a headstart on the upload schedule, but some (especially any deep-cut or personal fan commissioned ones) will stay Patreon-exclusive.
We're going to reduce the number of available monthly Booking and List commissions to only one each, as any more than that would give us an overwhelming amount of work. Likewise, the Build-A-Board-Game and Short Story tiers will go, and thanks so much to WolfofRedRoses and Brett Klaczyk for backing them, you wonderful madlads! The video call and board game session tiers will stay :)
We're also planning new formats, and will always strive to find a way to give a bonus something to Patreon for each new series we create. You guys are the heart that will keep BlampCo alive going forward, and our first priority will always be to keep this place great value!
If you have any questions, suggestions for new series, or any thoughts you'd like to share, let us know. It's a huge exciting time and we can't wait to see what comes next!
Here is the link to the channel if you fancy having a look https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DS3FDcD3_5Gchp4MeJvRQ
Now get back to work
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Comments
Lily Petal
I found your YouTube channel last night and was so happy to see you back! Now I have subscribed to YT and pledged here. I cannot wait to catch up on what you have already posted and see all of the new things that will be coming!
Joshua Wilding
I think option 2 is clearly the better of the two, but consider releasing the zoom board game videos after six months on Patreon, they feel like old school NRB, and I'm sure will bring more people over when they realise the enormous (by that point) backlog of episodes! Congrats on the public launch too, I was worried it might take a significantly longer amount of time to get to this stage, but the support has been crazy, and well deserved! I'm a new patron, subscribed because I suddenly realised I missed the golden standard editing and mastering Teri brings to every project, and I look forward to you two going at it in myGM mode! Also, yay Pete, never thought he'd even want to appear in another wrestling video or livestream, and it was a delight to rewatch WM41 with you both. To the future, huzzah!
Jat
Option 2 is great; just make sure theres loads of extra content here to justify people being here and enjoying the membership. Other channels have absolutely sucked with this balance and really only offer "uncut" or "once a month" content, which really makes it feel like a cash grab. Absolutely do Youtube content; just make sure that everyone here feels the value and wants to carry on with it. Good rule of thumb may be, for every video you release on YouTube, release 2 in the same genre here. That way, you are rewarding your Patreons, and also giving YouTube consumers a good reason to upgrade to Patreon.
Taylor
Happy that you're already doing Youtube content! I can't afford to subscribe to anyone on Patreon right now. I don't see why you can't do a combination of Option 1 and 2. Keep Youtube monetization, do the ad reads on certain videos over there. Post videos on Patreon and then after a certain amount of time (1-3 months) you then move those videos to Youtube. It would really suck to have almost all of the content locked behind a paywall. Not everyone that wants to support you has the financial means to do it on Patreon. I get that that is where you'll receive most of your revenue and everyone that is already subscribed to Patreon will tell you that Option 2 is the best because they're already supporting you here and it doesn't matter to them. Keeping Youtube open as another financial revenue option makes more sense than just cutting it off to funnel everyone to Patreon.
