100%, I kept hearing tid bits from his stream every now and then but I literally only knew when the livestream was going to be live when I actually got the notification for it.
It wasn't marketed well. I learned about it from a random community post on the day of. Plus, I was excited when I learned it's inspired by taskmaster, but many people in chat clearly had no clue what that is
Same. I still have no idea when the next episode is. It is not the job of the viewer to figure out information about a show they don't even know exists.
I think what people mean is it would have been way bigger if Lud announced it a million times in his videos and streams like chessboxing it would have doubled in veiwership.
Comparing it to Mogul Money is also stupid. Ludwig's channel was like 3 times smaller back when it was released, so if the new show is getting as many views, its actually relatively unknown.
Unpaid Intern rocked BTW. That said, I feel like his main argument for it not "flopping" was "it did about as well as the first Mogul Money" But I must call some major copium there, MM was years ago, and Lud has gained a LOT more poplarity in the past couple years for events specifically. To me it was clear for two reasons why this show did not get as many views: 1. Lack of marketing 2. Last minute time change from the little marketing they did do He blames the lack of marketing on the trailer not being ready until a week before the show, but I also think this is a bad excuse. You shouldn't be planning the stream date until you have the trailer and marketing material ready imo THAT ALL BEING SAID. I absolutely loved it, if lud is happy with it: who cares, and the next one will be even better
2 things just to mention, the date was chosen based on everybody’s availability so that might’ve been the best time for it and also while might’ve gained a larger following when it comes to TH-cam videos his livestream average is still relatively the same
I mean sure the viewership could've been a bit higher but at the end of the day 50k is 50k. You don't have to grow exponentially for the rest of time for your events to be successful, 50,000 people watching your show all at once is already a dub imo. I do agree that the advertising was ass though, I only watched it live because it happened to pop up on my homepage, I completely forgot that it was gonna happen until I saw it.
Yeah I also thought it was weird that his bar for "it did well" is based on something done over 2.5 years ago. He surely knows better than that. I agree with you, I literally watch all his videos and streams and I didn't know anything about the show or what it was until the day of and I had to look it up myself. I think the show DID do well, and all that matters is if Lud and Offbrand are happy with how it performs. But yeah I think it seems obvious from my perspective that they could have promoted better so I was a little shocked when Lud doubled down, because he's usually good at owning up to a mistake or understanding how something could have been better. So yeah, seems like major copium. But if he and Offbrand are genuinely happy with it, thats all that matters and who cares
I agree with the marketing feedback. I had absolutely no clue it was happening until I randomly tuned in (on the 2nd or 3rd day? Was there several days? Idek) and had to put some pieces together to realize it was an event/show stream. Mind you I watch most of Ludwig's content, from his main channel to Mogul Mail to The Yard to The Yard patreon. Never heard about Unpaid Intern or an event or a show or even a special stream. Maybe I missed it at the outro of a video or while busy when listening to The Yard, but I feel like something of Unpaid Intern's caliber should for sure be mentioned a few more times in the leading days/weeks. btw I loved the show, I hope we get more episodes/seasons! :)
Same. I 100% thought it hadnt happened yet. Where do I find the video for it? I saw a teaser and it looked good but then I heard nothing. Edit: nvm, I watched a few more min and it seems to be a VOD / livestream. I do not watch those. Ofcourse I did not know about this. If he releases an edited version I will watch it.
fans: "Hey Ludwig, this event was poorly marketed, we'd love to know in advance next time if youre doing a cool stream, thanks!" Lwig: "No, youre wrong, we advertised enough you just dont get it because you're not a streamer like me Mr. Armchair QB."
Yeah, his response to the feedback was so weird, like he seemed bothered that people wanted to actually know about the event before hand. As a casual viewer I had 0 clue this happened until I saw the vod uploaded but tleven then I didn't watch it till later since I had no idea what it was. Seems like a really simple thing to acknowledge that the team could have done better
It doesn't make sense how you can even deny something like this. When you are marketing something, your goal is to reach as many people as possible. When so many people tell you that they never heard about the show, how can you just say "No, you're wrong, you should've known about it."
Agreed, also the take on "I wont listen to your critisism because I am harder on myself than you will ever be" might be the most retaded take he's ever had @@20009152
For real, lmao, so weird to hear him say “What you rocking”? As a response to the viewership. Bro I didn’t even know it happened until the video came out, and only watched it because Schlatt was in the title 💀
I am a huge fan of taskmaster and have been watching for years. Honestly, I loved unpaid intern because it had a lot of the best parts of taskmaster with a whole different group of people that I also love. I loved that you kinda even replicated the dynamic between Greg Davies and Alex Horn. Stanz really aced the Alex Horn role whilst also making it his own. Please keep doing this show I loved it.
as a fan of taskmaster it just felt like that but so much less funny they need really cast and better tasks for it to even close to compare, stanz felt nothing close to like alex horne. Mabye I'm too British
the first "task" they did in unpaid intern was really good and felt unique enough from taskmaster and made sense. the rest of them were complete nonsense. what sort of jokes can come from talking backwards or blowing a bubble
@@Ramsey_erdos professional comedians will always be different than most content creators, this is more about seeing your favorite creators do tasks, maybe it’s funny cause it’s awkward or funny cause they are dumb, but it’s less likely to be funny cause of jokes they make. Ludwig said The final task will be improved upon along with various other things. Stanz was great, he doesn’t need to feel like Alex, he did his job well and he was one of the best things about the show. This show won’t be taskmaster and it won’t be better, but it’s its own thing and does appeal to a big audience.
@@kieran1366it looks like my comment got deleted for saying that the blowing a bubble task was a ripoff of the taskmaster season 6 task “blow the biggest bubble”. If they don’t want the show to be just like taskmaster come up with your own ideas and don’t silence people calling u out on being unoriginal @ludwig
stanz did a great job differentiating himself from alex horne but also filling that same role also i'd like to see some of the Group boys as contestants
I think people only perceive something as "under advertised" because they themselves wanted to have known about it sooner in order to get more hyped for it. Like people hate ads but having an event constantly pushed in your face does make it feel bigger and more important and it helps the event feel satisfying once it actually happens . It's like, trying to get excited for the premier of a new TV show but then it just plays like any other show with no fanfare. Even if it did good, they want the fanfare to make it FEEL like it's doing good
No, there was almost no information given about the show. Let me ask you something. Do you know when the next episode is? The whole point of advertising is to get information to people. Clearly, people are not getting information, which means the marketing is poor.
I did not know this EXISTED until this video! And im a casual viewer of ludwig videos, ludwig clips, and The Yard and yard clips. It was definitely the lack of advertising it. I also think its a different format to the usual videos of your i enjoy so i may not be the audience for Unpaid Intern. And thats okay.
Yeah same, if I didn't get just the VOD of it recommended to me, I wouldn't have known until they talked about it on The Yard. uncomfortable to see Ludwig not admit it was just not advertised well to people who already watch stuff.
Please do more stuff with Daniel. I’ve watched him for years in addition to you and some of the others, and he meshed so well with the vibe. He should definitely be brought back for a winners episode of Unpaid Intern but also he should just be part of more collabs in general.
@@user-gp6lq5mg9z it is all relative. before the stream to his chat he was hyping it up a bit the week before, but once it came out it peaked at like 50k viewers. that GREAT just chatting numbers, but pretty subpar Event numbers. for example, Chess Boxing had about 315k peak, and dodgeball has like 96k average viewers... so 50K is pretty low relative to his other events
On The Yard, Slime asked why he didn't end up in Stanz's role since they had originally planned for that. Listen, I love Slime, he's really funny, but this show doesn't work without Stanz. The assistant (or "Alex Horne") role is all about finding the balance between maintaining structure (explaining tasks/jobs, making sure contestants are able to do their best to complete them, introducing the videos) and enabling comedy (telling jokes, encouraging contestants to try weird strategies, allowing for people to make jokes between the videos). On one hand, it's a gameshow where everyone is trying to win, completing "jobs" to the best of their ability, but on the other hand it's a comedy show where contestants should be daring and should fail, and where keeping score has to be second to jokes, so it's a really tough balance to find, and the assistant is the biggest make-or-break in the show. As Ludwig said, Stanz is a really big Taskmaster fan, and has seen enough to have a good sense of that balance and a willingness to play that role. Anyone else would probably end up taking too much attention or being too scared to take enough, or too focused on maintaining the competition to allow for comedy or too focused on maintaining comedy to allow for competition, and any of those things hurt this show. There's a reason why, in Taskmaster, the assistant role is played by Alex Horne, the creator of the show who had previously hosted two live shows with a similar concept: it requires a deep understanding of what the show should be and feel like. Not to make this already overanalytical comment even nerdier but it's the same as being a dungeon master in a D&D game, you don't control everything and you have to embrace what everyone else is contributing, but you need to be the one who has a sense of where the story is going, gently guiding everyone else towards something that is both what they wanted it to be and what you needed it to be. Slime is great, he's more than capable of hosting a show, we all know he's hilarious and he can enforce rules when he needs to. However, no matter how talented you are, this format requires the assistant to have such a strong awareness of the pace, the contestants' dynamics, the audience's feelings, and overall vibes that it's nearly impossible to nail first try. Luckily, Stanz - although understandably seeming a little nervous in the live segments, meaning he's only going to get better as he becomes more comfortable - has that awareness because he's so familiar with Taskmaster. The first episode of Unpaid Intern was great, day one you hit the ground running, and that is without a doubt because of Stanz.
as a taskmaster fan I did really enjoy it and it did feel different to the source material but in a good way. and i would love to see more episodes done! i think the hardest thing would be having good guests that can play off each other well
I loved the unpaid intern , but honestly I did not expect it, I've seen the trailer on TH-cam but I didn't really gave it a lot of thought and the show felt like it came up out of nowhere, I think a better Idea would've been to either post the trailer on the main channel or put it at the end of couple of main channel videos. Just a thought
ngl i was hoping that it would be more like taskmaster where it was a whole season with the same guests for a whole season and the points were added up at the end. But i really enjoyed watching it and am super excited to watch the next episode.
@@Baegettrue, its also probably harder to get content creators for multiple hours and days instead of a once or twice for one time, but I do get OP’s comment
Yeah, it would probably become an issue when they run out of people who want to and can do it, sense it seems to be in a studio in California. And it seems like a lot of editing to do a whole season, but maybe then they could actually have time to advertise it
Tbh from the thumbnail of the video I didn’t even realize it was a special video I thought it was a vlog or something The thumbnail for this video caught my attention way more!
honestly i think it was a very good first episode, i was so invested that i genuinely stop everything i was doing to watch. I wasn't multitasking while watching. Hope to see more episodes! It was very good the cast for the guests as well, they are so good for the roles
What was going through your brain when you decided to release the Unpaid Intern trailer on your clips channel? Thats a main channel type of upload. Completely fumbled the bag with that
Honestly, I NEVER saw any advertising for it most likely because everything relating to streamer awards was getting pushed to me still at the time. I agree that lud couldve had more live viewers because i was captivated the entire vod. It was the best Ludwig event stream imo. It was amazing and I hope he keeps it up, but if there's anything he can do better its really just mentioning it in his videos like how he did with chessboxing and other events. Doesn't have to be solely a trailer.
to be honest, i watch your stuff pretty frequently and i genuinely had no idea unpaid intern was being released until the video just showed up in my recommended. i knew it existed and what it was about beforehand from the content you put out mentioning it, but i had no idea anything about the date it was supposed to happen for some reason and im not sure if it was because the date wasnt apparent enough or what, but i feel like most people likely had an issue similar to mine in which we knew it was coming but didnt really know an actual date. (also im aware you tweeted about it but god forbid i touch twitter, most normal people are probably similar on staying away from twitter as well)
I loved Daniel thrasher, I’m very interested to see how the show might change if the dynamics are different. I don’t want to say this is just “mogul money 2” or anything, but with mogul money the show was very different when the people knew each other well (the episode with the yard boys, miz+sodapoppin), and those were some of the best episodes, but honestly this episode kind of felt like it was better because none of the people were particularly “associated” with each other. You mentioned on The Yard potentially having Almost Friday on the show, I’m interest to see how that will compare to this ep. I feel like a psychopath writing all this down, but it is really cool to see this very personality driven industry intersecting with this type of content, it’s kind of like Jane Lynch’s “Hollywood Game Night” if the guests didn’t seem like they were being held there at gunpoint
Honestly. This is “bringing back” a lot of nostalgic gameshows/hostshows imo. I really love this form of entertainment and Lud being the show host is absolutely perfect. I enjoyed unpaid intern to its fullest! Especially the full youtube vid.
I really liked the show, and the format. Everythhing was very funny and entertaining. Although the audio has a bit scuffed, on the pod they talked about the crew only having a week after streamer awards to do this, so big props to the audio guys and production. Overall very enjoyable and funny. looking forward to the next ep!
It came up in my TH-cam feed about 2 or 3 days ago, I watched it in it's entirety and enjoyed every second of it. I left it hoping there was another episode to follow. Problem is I just never knew or heard about it until it happened to come into my feed by chance!
It’s just ahead of it’s time. I thought it was a great concept and video. Didn’t know it was coming but it is the type of production that paves the way for many more TH-cam based shows with a good budget to take place. I luv u Ludaddy
I thoroughly enjoyed unpaid intern. I didn’t really hear about it until I saw the upload but it was by far one of the most creative video ideas I’ve seen in a long time. The commercials? Fantastic. You did a great job man!
I saw stanz video and had a helluva time finding it today. Please don't stop I love it !!!! It just needs to be linked in your players videos and promotion better cuz I couldn't find it to save my life
Just saw the edited video. Had no knowledge of what the show was before that. I loved it, and then saw this videos title and got super worried we weren’t gonna get new episodes.
I usually always try to watch his big events live but didnt even know the unpaid intern was livestreamed. Definitely could've mentioned it more in advance as I would've loved to tune in live for this!
Yo, I thought the show was great. The only problem that I had was that I watched the teacher part of it on this channel and it took me forever to find the name of the show. For the future, if you could add a link to the vod in the description, that would be great!
I’m a regular viewer of Lud and had no idea about this event until I saw it live halfway through its run. It was a fun stream with a great cast. Could have done better with more publicity
Bigger number better person In all honesty, I think your community really just wants you to wildly succeed in everything you do. You’re a hilarious guy and make great productions so the longer we can farm you for content the better ❤
I loved the vibes of Unpaid Intern and am excited to see the riffing get better as the show progresses. I would love to see some of the background elements, like Jerma's broken printer act as segues into announcing the "jobs not tasks." It's an awesome show and I'm excited to see more of my favorite creators in new episodes.
I watched it and it was really great and fun, what anooyed me the most and almost had me stop, was the sound levels of the vod. It was very low and the youtube ads then turned out to be -extremely- loud. I couldn't really relax because I had to be on my toes about turning the volume up and down.
i would like to emphasize that while i only knew of the show the day before the stream (from the tweet) and was simply lucky enough to be off work the next day, the actual quality of the show was fuckin immaculate and i loved it
As a big fan of taskmaster, I never even thought of it being a ripoff or even related to the taskmaster until you did the "I legally can't call these things tasks" joke. The concept is executed in such a unique way that it really feels like an original show even though you're just a no-good thief.
I didnt know about it until it was happening, and even then i didnt realize that parts were live and it wasnt just a premiere stream. Also thought it was becoming a series and not just a one-off thing (which i still hope)
Unpaid Intern was awesome! However I think it being under the live section of your channel instead of just uploaded to the videos section, where I look for ludwig content 99% of the time made it a bit difficult/confusing initially to find. Although now that I know an edited video will be uploaded this makes sense. I just didn’t know that at the time. Also the only way I even knew about it was from the community post. But either way it was incredible. Schlatt was my favorite guest ❤️
Only reason i watched it, is because youtube recommended the vod 3 times to me but i kept trying to go back and watch it later but it wasn't on the channel. I was so confused until i finally scrolled down in the VOD section
Influenced by Task Master is a little bit of an understatement: the underling on a smaller chair/desk, the point scoring, the live task in studio, the jazzy music, it's pretty much the exact same with a different theme. Not complaining just observing. Overall how it was put together the editing and camera and scripting was quite impressive. Also there was advertisements for it? Never saw one, only saw the TH-cam upload, so the algorithm was a better marketing campaign than whatever you actually did.
The advertising flopped, I learned about it from the title of this video man
100%, I kept hearing tid bits from his stream every now and then but I literally only knew when the livestream was going to be live when I actually got the notification for it.
I only heard about it from some twitch chatter asking about it in an Atrioc video 🤷🏼♀
Right, and he’s comparing it to the first mogul money, but he’s way bigger now
same
same, i saw the teaser before but had no idea it had already happened
It wasn't marketed well. I learned about it from a random community post on the day of. Plus, I was excited when I learned it's inspired by taskmaster, but many people in chat clearly had no clue what that is
Same. I still have no idea when the next episode is. It is not the job of the viewer to figure out information about a show they don't even know exists.
This is how I learn about most of his events. It's usually from the the yard or a video pops up on my feed, which sucks because I love the events
If only offbrand had a global marketing manager at their fingertips they could use
@@javaupdates4613 I still have hope that he takes the position back and everyone moves on from that incident. We'll see.
I had a feeling it was inspired by taskmaster after watching the first bit, and seeing Stanz there. Since Stanz is a huge taskmaster fan.
I think what people mean is it would have been way bigger if Lud announced it a million times in his videos and streams like chessboxing it would have doubled in veiwership.
Totally! I had no idea what it was before watching it but I heard about chessboxing like a month or two before it actually happened.
I didn't even know about it, just randomly saw it. It's a good sign that everyone feels it deserved many more viewers though.
Comparing it to Mogul Money is also stupid. Ludwig's channel was like 3 times smaller back when it was released, so if the new show is getting as many views, its actually relatively unknown.
Very true, he doesnt need to rely on trailers because he already has a massive platform to talk about it. Guess we'll see for episode 2
Truuuu
Daniel thrasher was such a cool guy! Definitely needs to be brought back for a champion episode
honestly schlatt did incredible too. i know he didn't win so he probably won't be back but all his bits were so funny
please no, hes wonderbread personified
@@jorgelin7479 in a world of designer bread some people WANT good old wonder bread
I've watched him for so long it was insane to see him in an event like this
as a french person, wtf is wonderbread ? a bread brand ? @@jorgelin7479
Unpaid Intern rocked BTW.
That said, I feel like his main argument for it not "flopping" was "it did about as well as the first Mogul Money"
But I must call some major copium there, MM was years ago, and Lud has gained a LOT more poplarity in the past couple years for events specifically.
To me it was clear for two reasons why this show did not get as many views:
1. Lack of marketing
2. Last minute time change from the little marketing they did do
He blames the lack of marketing on the trailer not being ready until a week before the show, but I also think this is a bad excuse. You shouldn't be planning the stream date until you have the trailer and marketing material ready imo
THAT ALL BEING SAID. I absolutely loved it, if lud is happy with it: who cares, and the next one will be even better
2 things just to mention, the date was chosen based on everybody’s availability so that might’ve been the best time for it and also while might’ve gained a larger following when it comes to TH-cam videos his livestream average is still relatively the same
I mean sure the viewership could've been a bit higher but at the end of the day 50k is 50k. You don't have to grow exponentially for the rest of time for your events to be successful, 50,000 people watching your show all at once is already a dub imo.
I do agree that the advertising was ass though, I only watched it live because it happened to pop up on my homepage, I completely forgot that it was gonna happen until I saw it.
Yeah I also thought it was weird that his bar for "it did well" is based on something done over 2.5 years ago. He surely knows better than that. I agree with you, I literally watch all his videos and streams and I didn't know anything about the show or what it was until the day of and I had to look it up myself. I think the show DID do well, and all that matters is if Lud and Offbrand are happy with how it performs.
But yeah I think it seems obvious from my perspective that they could have promoted better so I was a little shocked when Lud doubled down, because he's usually good at owning up to a mistake or understanding how something could have been better. So yeah, seems like major copium. But if he and Offbrand are genuinely happy with it, thats all that matters and who cares
I dislike some of his other events. This show was one of the best
hard agree abt the marketing. even i think marketing 2 weeks out it wouldve got WAYYY bigger numbers def.
“Why not advertise it weeks in advance?”
“Well we filmed the trailer for it a week before”
I watched the entire VOD and it was so tightly done I forgot I was watching a VOD halfway through
I agree with the marketing feedback. I had absolutely no clue it was happening until I randomly tuned in (on the 2nd or 3rd day? Was there several days? Idek) and had to put some pieces together to realize it was an event/show stream.
Mind you I watch most of Ludwig's content, from his main channel to Mogul Mail to The Yard to The Yard patreon. Never heard about Unpaid Intern or an event or a show or even a special stream.
Maybe I missed it at the outro of a video or while busy when listening to The Yard, but I feel like something of Unpaid Intern's caliber should for sure be mentioned a few more times in the leading days/weeks.
btw I loved the show, I hope we get more episodes/seasons! :)
It was only one day.
I’ll say that I had no idea it was going to happen. However, it was one of my favorite things Lud has ever done.
It’s got huge potential.
Same. I 100% thought it hadnt happened yet. Where do I find the video for it?
I saw a teaser and it looked good but then I heard nothing.
Edit: nvm, I watched a few more min and it seems to be a VOD / livestream. I do not watch those. Ofcourse I did not know about this. If he releases an edited version I will watch it.
@@exsnozer The VOD is pretty tight, no time is wasted (aside from a break in the middle)
fans: "Hey Ludwig, this event was poorly marketed, we'd love to know in advance next time if youre doing a cool stream, thanks!"
Lwig: "No, youre wrong, we advertised enough you just dont get it because you're not a streamer like me Mr. Armchair QB."
Yeah, his response to the feedback was so weird, like he seemed bothered that people wanted to actually know about the event before hand. As a casual viewer I had 0 clue this happened until I saw the vod uploaded but tleven then I didn't watch it till later since I had no idea what it was. Seems like a really simple thing to acknowledge that the team could have done better
It doesn't make sense how you can even deny something like this. When you are marketing something, your goal is to reach as many people as possible. When so many people tell you that they never heard about the show, how can you just say "No, you're wrong, you should've known about it."
@@PandaFan2443 Its basically a compliment too, people are saying they wanted to hear about it sooner
Agreed, also the take on "I wont listen to your critisism because I am harder on myself than you will ever be" might be the most retaded take he's ever had @@20009152
For real, lmao, so weird to hear him say “What you rocking”? As a response to the viewership. Bro I didn’t even know it happened until the video came out, and only watched it because Schlatt was in the title 💀
I am a huge fan of taskmaster and have been watching for years. Honestly, I loved unpaid intern because it had a lot of the best parts of taskmaster with a whole different group of people that I also love. I loved that you kinda even replicated the dynamic between Greg Davies and Alex Horn. Stanz really aced the Alex Horn role whilst also making it his own. Please keep doing this show I loved it.
as a fan of taskmaster it just felt like that but so much less funny they need really cast and better tasks for it to even close to compare, stanz felt nothing close to like alex horne. Mabye I'm too British
the first "task" they did in unpaid intern was really good and felt unique enough from taskmaster and made sense. the rest of them were complete nonsense. what sort of jokes can come from talking backwards or blowing a bubble
@@Ramsey_erdos professional comedians will always be different than most content creators, this is more about seeing your favorite creators do tasks, maybe it’s funny cause it’s awkward or funny cause they are dumb, but it’s less likely to be funny cause of jokes they make. Ludwig said The final task will be improved upon along with various other things. Stanz was great, he doesn’t need to feel like Alex, he did his job well and he was one of the best things about the show.
This show won’t be taskmaster and it won’t be better, but it’s its own thing and does appeal to a big audience.
agreed and the blowing the bubble one was a rip-off from Taskmaster Season 6 task "blow the biggest bubble"@@kieran1366
@@kieran1366it looks like my comment got deleted for saying that the blowing a bubble task was a ripoff of the taskmaster season 6 task “blow the biggest bubble”. If they don’t want the show to be just like taskmaster come up with your own ideas and don’t silence people calling u out on being unoriginal @ludwig
stanz did a great job differentiating himself from alex horne but also filling that same role
also i'd like to see some of the Group boys as contestants
love the taskmaster connection lol
little alex horn!!!
PLEASEEE GET DOUG DOUG ON
He would be amazing
Douglas Douglas W
r/wehatedougdoug must protest this
Bringing on OugDoug would be great; we've forgiven him
But not DougDoug. Never DougDoug...
We've hated Oug Doug for a long time. If we have any say about it, he's not getting anywhere near that set.@@HarryLLC
What about dougdougdoug? Will you guys accept him instead of dougdoug?
I think people only perceive something as "under advertised" because they themselves wanted to have known about it sooner in order to get more hyped for it. Like people hate ads but having an event constantly pushed in your face does make it feel bigger and more important and it helps the event feel satisfying once it actually happens .
It's like, trying to get excited for the premier of a new TV show but then it just plays like any other show with no fanfare. Even if it did good, they want the fanfare to make it FEEL like it's doing good
so ur just saying that advertising works
No, there was almost no information given about the show. Let me ask you something. Do you know when the next episode is? The whole point of advertising is to get information to people. Clearly, people are not getting information, which means the marketing is poor.
Well it seems to be perceived as under advertised because a lot of people who already watch Ludwig are saying they had no idea.
I did not know this EXISTED until this video! And im a casual viewer of ludwig videos, ludwig clips, and The Yard and yard clips.
It was definitely the lack of advertising it.
I also think its a different format to the usual videos of your i enjoy so i may not be the audience for Unpaid Intern. And thats okay.
Yeah same, if I didn't get just the VOD of it recommended to me, I wouldn't have known until they talked about it on The Yard. uncomfortable to see Ludwig not admit it was just not advertised well to people who already watch stuff.
Please do more stuff with Daniel. I’ve watched him for years in addition to you and some of the others, and he meshed so well with the vibe. He should definitely be brought back for a winners episode of Unpaid Intern but also he should just be part of more collabs in general.
Only 2000 views in 12 minutes. He’s sunsetting😢
did did unpaid intern flop? flop?
@@user-gp6lq5mg9z it is all relative. before the stream to his chat he was hyping it up a bit the week before, but once it came out it peaked at like 50k viewers. that GREAT just chatting numbers, but pretty subpar Event numbers.
for example, Chess Boxing had about 315k peak, and dodgeball has like 96k average viewers... so 50K is pretty low relative to his other events
did did unpaid intern flop? flop?
did did unpaid unpaid intern flop? flop?
did did unpaid unpaid intern intern flop? flop?
On The Yard, Slime asked why he didn't end up in Stanz's role since they had originally planned for that. Listen, I love Slime, he's really funny, but this show doesn't work without Stanz. The assistant (or "Alex Horne") role is all about finding the balance between maintaining structure (explaining tasks/jobs, making sure contestants are able to do their best to complete them, introducing the videos) and enabling comedy (telling jokes, encouraging contestants to try weird strategies, allowing for people to make jokes between the videos). On one hand, it's a gameshow where everyone is trying to win, completing "jobs" to the best of their ability, but on the other hand it's a comedy show where contestants should be daring and should fail, and where keeping score has to be second to jokes, so it's a really tough balance to find, and the assistant is the biggest make-or-break in the show.
As Ludwig said, Stanz is a really big Taskmaster fan, and has seen enough to have a good sense of that balance and a willingness to play that role. Anyone else would probably end up taking too much attention or being too scared to take enough, or too focused on maintaining the competition to allow for comedy or too focused on maintaining comedy to allow for competition, and any of those things hurt this show. There's a reason why, in Taskmaster, the assistant role is played by Alex Horne, the creator of the show who had previously hosted two live shows with a similar concept: it requires a deep understanding of what the show should be and feel like. Not to make this already overanalytical comment even nerdier but it's the same as being a dungeon master in a D&D game, you don't control everything and you have to embrace what everyone else is contributing, but you need to be the one who has a sense of where the story is going, gently guiding everyone else towards something that is both what they wanted it to be and what you needed it to be.
Slime is great, he's more than capable of hosting a show, we all know he's hilarious and he can enforce rules when he needs to. However, no matter how talented you are, this format requires the assistant to have such a strong awareness of the pace, the contestants' dynamics, the audience's feelings, and overall vibes that it's nearly impossible to nail first try. Luckily, Stanz - although understandably seeming a little nervous in the live segments, meaning he's only going to get better as he becomes more comfortable - has that awareness because he's so familiar with Taskmaster. The first episode of Unpaid Intern was great, day one you hit the ground running, and that is without a doubt because of Stanz.
Agreed
as a taskmaster fan I did really enjoy it and it did feel different to the source material but in a good way. and i would love to see more episodes done! i think the hardest thing would be having good guests that can play off each other well
I loved the unpaid intern , but honestly I did not expect it, I've seen the trailer on TH-cam but I didn't really gave it a lot of thought and the show felt like it came up out of nowhere, I think a better Idea would've been to either post the trailer on the main channel or put it at the end of couple of main channel videos. Just a thought
Don’t really watch livestreams often & didn’t know it was happening but watched the vod and the show was great!
That title spooked me because I loved episode 1 so I'm stoked to hear it didn't flop. Looking forward to future episodes!
ngl i was hoping that it would be more like taskmaster where it was a whole season with the same guests for a whole season and the points were added up at the end. But i really enjoyed watching it and am super excited to watch the next episode.
I agree, I would have loved it to be like that, but at the same time, it would be a lot of work for a youtuber like Lud to do all the crap
@@Baegettrue, its also probably harder to get content creators for multiple hours and days instead of a once or twice for one time, but I do get OP’s comment
Yeah, it would probably become an issue when they run out of people who want to and can do it, sense it seems to be in a studio in California. And it seems like a lot of editing to do a whole season, but maybe then they could actually have time to advertise it
Tbh from the thumbnail of the video I didn’t even realize it was a special video I thought it was a vlog or something
The thumbnail for this video caught my attention way more!
honestly i think it was a very good first episode, i was so invested that i genuinely stop everything i was doing to watch. I wasn't multitasking while watching. Hope to see more episodes! It was very good the cast for the guests as well, they are so good for the roles
I watched it live and I was pleasantly surprised when it came on my notifications! I had no clue Lud was doing it, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I genuinely had no idea it was a thing until after i started seeing clips and i watch nearly every video on your channel and the yard.
I had no idea this show was coming until I saw the VOD. Watched the whole thing on my TV and it was amazing.
What was going through your brain when you decided to release the Unpaid Intern trailer on your clips channel? Thats a main channel type of upload. Completely fumbled the bag with that
Honestly, I NEVER saw any advertising for it most likely because everything relating to streamer awards was getting pushed to me still at the time. I agree that lud couldve had more live viewers because i was captivated the entire vod. It was the best Ludwig event stream imo.
It was amazing and I hope he keeps it up, but if there's anything he can do better its really just mentioning it in his videos like how he did with chessboxing and other events. Doesn't have to be solely a trailer.
I feel like Ludwig did a really good job at reading that first Reddit post, but did a pretty poor job of comprehending it.
Well said
I suggest Masayoshi honestly. That man is super good at bits.
to be honest, i watch your stuff pretty frequently and i genuinely had no idea unpaid intern was being released until the video just showed up in my recommended. i knew it existed and what it was about beforehand from the content you put out mentioning it, but i had no idea anything about the date it was supposed to happen for some reason and im not sure if it was because the date wasnt apparent enough or what, but i feel like most people likely had an issue similar to mine in which we knew it was coming but didnt really know an actual date.
(also im aware you tweeted about it but god forbid i touch twitter, most normal people are probably similar on staying away from twitter as well)
I loved Daniel thrasher, I’m very interested to see how the show might change if the dynamics are different. I don’t want to say this is just “mogul money 2” or anything, but with mogul money the show was very different when the people knew each other well (the episode with the yard boys, miz+sodapoppin), and those were some of the best episodes, but honestly this episode kind of felt like it was better because none of the people were particularly “associated” with each other. You mentioned on The Yard potentially having Almost Friday on the show, I’m interest to see how that will compare to this ep.
I feel like a psychopath writing all this down, but it is really cool to see this very personality driven industry intersecting with this type of content, it’s kind of like Jane Lynch’s “Hollywood Game Night” if the guests didn’t seem like they were being held there at gunpoint
Would absolutely make my day if Almost Friday came on. Agreed with the dynamics point for sure.
those are a lot of big words...
on another note, I would also move to see Almost Friday on the show
Honestly. This is “bringing back” a lot of nostalgic gameshows/hostshows imo. I really love this form of entertainment and Lud being the show host is absolutely perfect.
I enjoyed unpaid intern to its fullest! Especially the full youtube vid.
Unpaid intern was one of the best videos i've seen from you, ludwig
I really liked the show, and the format. Everythhing was very funny and entertaining. Although the audio has a bit scuffed, on the pod they talked about the crew only having a week after streamer awards to do this, so big props to the audio guys and production. Overall very enjoyable and funny. looking forward to the next ep!
this video actually made me watch the whole vod and i hadn't heard about it until like 2 hours ago
It came up in my TH-cam feed about 2 or 3 days ago, I watched it in it's entirety and enjoyed every second of it. I left it hoping there was another episode to follow. Problem is I just never knew or heard about it until it happened to come into my feed by chance!
It’s just ahead of it’s time. I thought it was a great concept and video. Didn’t know it was coming but it is the type of production that paves the way for many more TH-cam based shows with a good budget to take place.
I luv u Ludaddy
I really enjoyed it, but I only found out about it from a notification about going live, and luckily wasn't doing anything at the time
I was pissed when you didn’t air this past weekend. I loved it.
So hyped for the next episode
I caught it live but didn't know what it was lol
Yeah, i totally thought it was pre-recorded and i still didnt get a yt notification for when the vod was posted
I thoroughly enjoyed unpaid intern. I didn’t really hear about it until I saw the upload but it was by far one of the most creative video ideas I’ve seen in a long time. The commercials? Fantastic. You did a great job man!
I loved the format and those picked as contestants. Stanz really aced it. He was SO funny.
Loved the video, cant wait for episode 2!
im actually really excited for any upcoming guests
I saw stanz video and had a helluva time finding it today. Please don't stop I love it !!!! It just needs to be linked in your players videos and promotion better cuz I couldn't find it to save my life
Also when you Google unpaid internship your show is the last thing on there
Just saw the edited video. Had no knowledge of what the show was before that. I loved it, and then saw this videos title and got super worried we weren’t gonna get new episodes.
I usually always try to watch his big events live but didnt even know the unpaid intern was livestreamed. Definitely could've mentioned it more in advance as I would've loved to tune in live for this!
I watched it and it was some of the best content I’ve seen in months
Yo, I thought the show was great. The only problem that I had was that I watched the teacher part of it on this channel and it took me forever to find the name of the show. For the future, if you could add a link to the vod in the description, that would be great!
It was my favorite thing you have done. I agree with the blowing the bubble just because the other tasks were so great.
I recognized the taskmaster format in minutes, but the yoink and twist was perfect. cant wait for more episodes!
NOOOO IT DIDNT PLEASE LUD
Ngl I hope Lud keeps going with Unpaid Intern, it was so fun to watch!
1:26 i just gotta say im on youtube all the time and get recommended lud videos all the time and this is the first ive ever heard of this stream
I’m a regular viewer of Lud and had no idea about this event until I saw it live halfway through its run. It was a fun stream with a great cast. Could have done better with more publicity
I love how people losing their mind about being a video or a livestream meanwhile me as a VOD watcher laughing my ass off.
Bigger number better person
In all honesty, I think your community really just wants you to wildly succeed in everything you do. You’re a hilarious guy and make great productions so the longer we can farm you for content the better ❤
I actually liked this lightly edited format a lot more like this would be great !!
I loved Unpaid Intern!! I didn't get to watch the live, but I watched back the vod and it's probably my favorite content you've ever uploaded!
I loved the vibes of Unpaid Intern and am excited to see the riffing get better as the show progresses. I would love to see some of the background elements, like Jerma's broken printer act as segues into announcing the "jobs not tasks." It's an awesome show and I'm excited to see more of my favorite creators in new episodes.
i didnt realize this happened, boutta go watch the vod
I didn't know it was happening until after, but I watched the VOD and it was honestly one of the funniest things I have seen in a while.
I only heard of the video from the video, never knew it was coming
I watched it and it was really great and fun, what anooyed me the most and almost had me stop, was the sound levels of the vod. It was very low and the youtube ads then turned out to be -extremely- loud. I couldn't really relax because I had to be on my toes about turning the volume up and down.
I actually didn't think about the taskmaster comparison until you mentioned it lol
It wasn't my favorite but your one of my favorites. Looking forward to more projects. Keep creating.
Can we get Michael reeves as an intern
didnt even know the show was a thing until today when i got reccomended the ad reccomended to me
One of my favorite shows! I didn't want the show to end. I love the cast from the first episode.
i loved it, but i saw the edited version and that was my fav version
Any of these major events such as unpaid intern, dodgeball and such I never get any notification for or links on my homepage
IM DESPERATE FOR ANOTHER EPISODE
Unpaid intern was the funniest skit I’ve seen in a while
I didn't hear about it until Jerma mentioned it on his puzzle stream
i would like to emphasize that while i only knew of the show the day before the stream (from the tweet) and was simply lucky enough to be off work the next day, the actual quality of the show was fuckin immaculate and i loved it
Not a Reddit or Twitter guy.
Only knew about the show because of Jschlatt's IG story.
I loved every bit of the show. Fantastic work.
As a big fan of taskmaster, I never even thought of it being a ripoff or even related to the taskmaster until you did the "I legally can't call these things tasks" joke. The concept is executed in such a unique way that it really feels like an original show even though you're just a no-good thief.
Nooooooo I just saw one video of Unpaid Intern and was hoping there was more 😭
I didn’t know about it until I found Ludwig clips of it
Didn't even know you had a new show LMAO
I'll gonna watch it later
I found the vod in my recommendations the day after it happened
I didnt know about it until it was happening, and even then i didnt realize that parts were live and it wasnt just a premiere stream. Also thought it was becoming a series and not just a one-off thing (which i still hope)
It's a fusion of taskmaster and the office.
1:51 “Ludwig hit the griddy please”
Unpaid Intern was awesome! However I think it being under the live section of your channel instead of just uploaded to the videos section, where I look for ludwig content 99% of the time made it a bit difficult/confusing initially to find. Although now that I know an edited video will be uploaded this makes sense. I just didn’t know that at the time. Also the only way I even knew about it was from the community post. But either way it was incredible. Schlatt was my favorite guest ❤️
Only reason i watched it, is because youtube recommended the vod 3 times to me but i kept trying to go back and watch it later but it wasn't on the channel. I was so confused until i finally scrolled down in the VOD section
I rewatched the vod 3 times, cuss it was that good
There was some mic issues where I couldn't hear people talking but besides that it was really good
Daniel thrasher was such an unexpected pleasant surprise. I’ve watched his skits for a while because I’m a music guy, and it was an awesome crossover
I saw the trailer, didn't really know what it was, and subsequently forgot about it
Influenced by Task Master is a little bit of an understatement: the underling on a smaller chair/desk, the point scoring, the live task in studio, the jazzy music, it's pretty much the exact same with a different theme. Not complaining just observing. Overall how it was put together the editing and camera and scripting was quite impressive.
Also there was advertisements for it? Never saw one, only saw the TH-cam upload, so the algorithm was a better marketing campaign than whatever you actually did.
I literally did not know it was happening till the stream
I enjoyed it. Hope it continues.
Literally had not heard of Unpaid Intern until this video
NGL I didn't even know what this show was before this video, sounds cool though, I'll go watch the vid on YT when it comes up.
honestly just mentioning it at the end of some videos would do wonders. I loved it when i watched it but just didn't even know it was a thing