G'day Sam ,met you last night at the meet up Danny's bar, I think it would be very hard to be a new utuber today ,as there is so many of them , but you have the gift of the gab , explain things very well , I hope you keep going , take care .🤠
I have been following before you moved, I’m a TH-cam addict. You are talented in this, I haven’t missed any of your videos. You’re real and talk about real issues. Please keep knocking the door you are great at this.
@@GoneAdrift genuinely love what you have to say. Keep posting, regardless of how you feel, remember your living the life most would dream off. You wake up in Thailand
I already mentioned to you when you Did the Cambodia video, that was awesome and different. Too many Thailand vloggers now and all saying the same crap, blah blah blah. Thailand over vlogged. Do the Cambodia thing, you were a natural there, you’ll be on a winner. You have a better personality than your mate Keis.
There are not many youtubers as authentic as you are, Sam. I´m positive you´ll keep going on to be successful on this platform! 🙏 Cheers from Cologne, Andy
I've also been watching your channel since before you moved to Thailand, and agree with others about your talent and creativivity. You hit a couple bumps but are back on your way up brother!
I came to your channel through watching Keis One, I enjoy watching your videos as they are a wide range of topics that interest me. I enjoy your colab's with keis especially your live streams together. Keep up the good work in life and future videos.
Great points. I'm really beginning to understand that "quantity over quality" is so important at first. Your channel is a perfect example of how quantity leads to quality - as the frequency you've been releasing new videos has increased, the quality of them has shown dramatic leaps forward too. And it's great you're already earning enough to meet basic expenses from this - it'll only get better!
Sammy, quite to the contrary, I think your videos have been fantastically imaginative, innovative and entertaining. Imho, you've been hugely successful at providing a great variety of content, stunning visuals, and a genuine, authentic, true-life personal 'back story'. In doing so, I feel that you've jumped significantly ahead of many other vloggers. 🙂
Do a bike tour around rural Thailand do every province in Issan that might appeal to wider audiences. Yes they’ve been done before but not enough imo. Paddy Doyle and CB media exploded their channels by showing the Thailand nobody sees
going to be honest- I wasnt much of a fan of the chanel early on. But i have to say, kinda growing on me. Just being honest about yourself and mistakes and useful tip. Im gone a drfit! - anyways, glad i stuck around
Keis One & You have both been indirect mentors for me. Though my channel is only half the size of yours; I feel like this video is definitely point on with my story. Niche is key, pointing towards the information your viewers want. Trying to stay focused on key areas. Expanding in a timely manner. I think you guys are awesome; your work makes me want to be better myself. Good luck.
I am following most of the names you gave in the video. You are equally good, or sometmes better that most. I would say you and Keis are on the same level. Your conclusion is correct, just "grind" more :-) . But I would say there is a factor when you get bigger. The videos get repetitive. Keis just make it.. But people like Buzz start to get boring. Just a tip for the future.
I keep an eye on some of the states for smaller TH-cam channels. Yours isn’t too bad for the number of subscribers with quite a few videos having more views than subscribers. While other channels have twice as many subscribers and half the views. Keep up the good work mate, love your work…
What a fascinating insight to how TH-cam works and explained so well. Thank you and keep on doing you, I like this branching out that you are doing, it is great.
Damn, Keis really is a shark isn’t he. You could put him in India doing something he’s never done before and he’d find a way to be highly highly successful at it. What a great friend and mentor to have 👍🏼
Fark what is wrong with people. You come across really good so keep the videos coming. I unsubscribed from Keis because he made a political comment I could not swallow but I didnt abuse him I just moved away. So you are never going to please everyone but I watch you every episode. Live the dream keep grinding you are providing entertainment. Me been in Thailand for 18 months and moved here mainly from watching Keis videos he motivated me to leave Australia and NZ and try it here and am having a ball. Remove the negative people and leave them behind keep moving forward.
🙏🏻🙏🏻 Yeah I tryyyy to keep my own bias and political views to a minimum here but they do show sometimes 🤣 Funnily enough Adam’s so A-political compared to me face to face Hope you’re thriving bro!
I really like Adam's videos - his content around motorbikes, gaming, retro, travel and living in Thailand resonate with me. But I also appreciate he does not cover bars and girls and Soi 6. His editing is also very good and video length ideal. The amount of You Tuber's, particularly in Pattaya, is overwhelming currently, similar and focused on nightlife - and most of it is terrible. Just the videos on Soi 6 every single day is crazy. My advice is to get out of Pattaya - it's been overdone. Find your thing.
Thanks for the inspiration. I will be returning to Thailand for about 2 weeks soon & it will hardly be a holiday. Doing at least a video a day, maybe 2 some days, as the long term plan is to move to Thailand or possibly the Philippines, & hopefully make some money from TH-cam, but yeah,it takes time, effort & dedication. I have a "day job " at the moment in Australia, but it does interfere with my ability to do what I really want to be doing. Unfortunately, I need the money though. Coming up with ideas can be hard. You don't want to do something that has been done by numerous other people if possible. And if you do, you really need to find a way to put your own spin on it.
Sammy I think stating during the video that you can't ever be 'as big' as some of the other TH-camrs based in Thailand does more harm than you may think. You have to believe in yourself and be engrossed in the passion and grind that it takes to succeed. Nothing is easy and I can promise that every single TH-camr you mentioned there had there own myriad of struggles and endured times where they didn't believe they would make it. There are numerous examples in this space of accidental success and gaining traction in ways that you would not have thought possible. As even Keis said his most successful video was one he almost didn't make it. Your storytelling ability is second to none. Some of the documentary style videos you made is Isan were fantastic and very moving. Figuring out a way to transfer that ability to a larger market or to a larger audience could be a strong recipe for success. If you go 100% in this venture I'm overwhelmingly confident that you will succeed. Good luck going forward.
Such an inspiration. From drunkard to chugging along. If you can get your basics costs covered from TH-cam your laughing. Be a massive weight off your shoulders
You should on the side do art work when you got time. Open an online store displaying wall arts and tshirts and when you 20 to 50 designs, connect your shop to your youtube channel
I really enjoy both you and Adam’s videos … neither of you operate the way I do when I’m in Thailand and that variety is a good thing. I like seeing people move through their lives in different ways. And you often question yourselfs and self improvement is always good.
go for it,,,great video, I follow Kris and you guys are fun to watch, Ive been to Bangkok for five weeks last November and love the content and the great memories your videos bring me, Ill be moving there soon and can't wait to get there...Cheers
Thanks mate. That is a topic I have been wondering about for some time. "Do these guys make any money out of this?" The over abundance of content about "life in Thailand" from people that have been there one or two days on holiday as opposed to someone that has been there for years must really upset the algorithims. It's good to see you can cover your living expenses.
Thanks for the videos. I like when you and Keis are videoing graffiti and pretty scenes along the canals. Thailand and Asia in general has such a rich and technically beautiful art/architecture scene that goes relatively unappreciated. It’s such a difficult subject to present since it reflects such different socio economic segments within a society. Thailand is a strikingly beautiful country.
I admire you for putting your life on display, I come from a photography background and have a unique life in Isaan but really don't want my life on display, maybe I'll overcome it in the future
I think you can still make it! You just have to work hard and pump out a video every two days. Don’t give up and don’t go home without a fight. You may have started on the wrong path, but you can still turn it around. Keep making videos and we will keep watching!
This is both interesting and disconcerting. I don't want to see any one person's video more than once a week. It takes too much time. I'd way prefer a single good video a week than multiple videos. Several of the TH-camrs I watch regularly have reduced their work to one video a week. I think that's great when you already many viewers, because it's a phase of doing a good job for viewers you have, rather than making an algorithm happy so that it spreads you around. As for more risqué content, if you can capture an audience, it probably doesn't matter if it's demonetised. Queen of Pattaya has multiple videos with over a million views. Even if those ones don't make money, the huge influx of subscribers pretty much ensures that she gets 10s or 100s of thousands of views on videos even if it's just a hotel review.
@@CaptainKremmen Regarding the navel-gazing content that can come out of brisk daily vlogs… One lengthy high quality, well researched video per week would be my dream. Alas, at least in the early days, if that video tanks… a week’s work becomes unpaid :(
@@GoneAdrift Yes, this platform is not how I'd like. I thought online videos would be like the web. You'd want to watch something, so you'd do a search and get results ranked for you. Oh, no. Instead, searching functionality is terrible and nothing is meaningfully ranked. (They even took the "dislike" totals away.) The platform caters for users watching the same creators over and over again, like TV. It's predominantly set up for us to become drones. And it makes sense, sadly. The viewer who wants to find what they want and just watch that isn't worth as much as the viewer who'll just sit and watch stuff endlessly. So the algorithm just feeds us more of what we had before on as many days as possible. There you go. My rant should count for some "engagement" by YT's algorithm, even though it's basically saying how much I hate YT's algorithm.
Focus on travel and food in my opinion! That is what most people want to see for new ideas and places. Just dont paint again 😂😂😂😂. By the way love your videos. Been following keisy for about 2-3 years now
Very interesting. Looks like a hellish job to me. It is easy to spot when the TH-camr is desperate to find a content idea. The idea in this video is good.
I feel like many of the Thai youtubers have plateau’d, exceptions aside. While I like and respect Keis a lot, he should move to the next level. Stay himself, don’t use a narrator voice and move more towards a direction like a 2024 version of what Vice used to do. That creates a brand that is sustainable long term.
He’s covering two bases at the moment, first one is satisfying the existing audience with fun honest day to day vlogs / the second is those well researched and cinematically adept docos with voice overs. The way the algo works, it favours one or the other but not both. Credit to him for servicing both old and new audiences in a Moses parts the sea-esque manoeuvre 🌊
I have a couple suggestion for you. I like shorter videos. 10 - 20 minutes or so. Rarely will I do 30min videos or longer. Don't put too much fluff scenes in there. Keis has a nice balance because people don't want to see you just talking either, but they like some interesting scenery snips in there. I don't know if Keis does it, but I would build a folder with hundreds of good filler snips. Keis has done videos of being on a train and he might have a few 3 -5 second filler snip though out showing the building landscape or traffic below. He may have recorded those 3 months to a year before. I have no idea, but it fits the story line and stretches your video a little. In your most recent videos, I see a lot more sponsorship adds. For now, I think it is the right amount, to a touch heavy. But they are not too intrusive either. Learn what ever Yoda Keis will teach you.
Pleasing a wide audience is all but impossible I’m learning :) 50% of feedback is “less fluff, visuals and music - more information please” And the other 50% of feedback is “less yak yak more pretty stuff” I agree 12 minutes average is the sweet spot
I run a channel about life in Brazil, but I’m nowhere near as good of a storyteller as you are. Honestly, I blank out on camera-or at least that’s my excuse. Since TH-cam doesn’t pay well unless you’ve got big numbers and great retention (which I don’t), I offer consultations about Brazil to make money out of this. After 26 years here in Brazil (I was raised in the US), I’ve gained a lot of knowledge, but it’s frustrating how many people expect free info. I’m grateful for those who hire me, but the freeloaders who think I do TH-cam for fun are out of control. It seems like Brazil’s affordability, like Thailand’s, attracts a lazy, entitled, cheap crowd. I get that inflation is real, but why does everything have to be dirt cheap to be considered a “great deal”? I see this a lot in videos about both countries. I’m Brazilian-American, a native speaker of English and Portuguese, and fluent in Spanish and I even speak Italian. I know Brazil inside out, but 9 out of 10 people don’t value my services because I don’t charge local or minimum wage rates. I’ve even had clients pay my rate and then suggest I should charge less. Anyways, It’s their loss. They’ll just have to figure things out on their own. It might cost them more, but learning through adventure can be fun, so the cheapskates should be fine. Lol. Your content is great, I think you will make it as big as the other you mentioned.
Sam, great to see you making videos on a a more regular basis. Also, enjoyed your explanation of how moneterisation works. I suppose you just need to work out who your target market is - and I'm guessing it's not people who spend all day and night in walking street. Just a question - does it make a difference if I don't watch a video to the end? as I'm guilty of often doing this.
Do not go out at night. Do not drink. Go to more general tourist locations and make under-10-minute videos every day. There is a Portuguese village you can visit. Few people go there.Bangkok’s Hidden Portuguese Village: The Kudichin There is a small island on the river north of Bangkok. Koh Kret There is a national park below the river Sri Nakhon Khuean Khan Park . There are many places around the city without a lot of exposure from foreign youtubers. The same applies to Pattaya. You could make two short videos about the same place, seven minutes each. Viewers are more likely to watch two short videos than one long one. TH-cam is over-saturated with nightlife videos in Thailand You will more than likely have to shun your friends for a few months while doing this. The cost of success. 😞
@@GoneAdrift yes,,,,,, and...... concentrate on work... or wake up in Oz. In my life, three times I have returned tgo the USA from either Thailand or Saudi or both, and everytime, I wake up in the morning thinking, What did I do??
You forget that some of those channels are/were illegal, done without proper work permits. Most of those TH-camrs needed to get vaccinated against COVID to travel and may suffer the consequences.
Might be a good idea to get yourself a channel related shirt with youtube info on it. It might help draw locals and other expats who don't know you to find your channel.
Hey Sammy have you ever thought about becoming male model ? Asians loves Fantang good looks totally different from us ! Make a vlog as a never been done content calling “ super model “ Perhaps you may need good connections I’m sure you’d have already FC in the industry!!! Good luck , Cheers ❤ Pat_Thai
😂 drunk keyboard warriors , yeah even I’ve had a moment like that or two , till you wake up the next day and look for that comment to remove it. Us humans have issues that’s for sure…. 😂
There's nothing wrong with starting a youtube channel to make extra revenue, but when it comes to Thailand think there's too many out there already and you will make it hard on yourself. Also, I see many people think way too easy of it. They will just make some videos and when it's not working out, they start to beg for money and if people don't pay, they can no longer provide "helpful" videos, since they're doing it all for the viewers. CB media, wasn't a Thailand youtube channel and he already had a huge car fanbase, and car shows in Thailand were a big part of it. So then he had 2 different niches, which helps. But since you love graffiti, have you considered making videos on that? I think there is a massive audience for that, right? And if you incorporate graffiti in Thailand to it, that;s 2 birds in 1 stone.
It sounds as if one has to build up a library of videos, keep them offline, then start publishing them weekly or bi-weekly for a year. Is that a good plan?
In my opinion the best time to edit and release videos is right after you’ve shot the footage. I’m still excited to review the footage and spend the hours in the chair processing it. A year after the fact could become very tiresome right? Also one wants to stay relevant, responding to current events, changes.
Your videos r excellent. You a little hard on yourself at times🙂 Nobody is perfect bro. Maybe do more videos, to increase your cash flow. People will watch, take care. Be safe
Who gets popular is all controlled. It has nothing to do with how good or well received your videos actually are. Plus yt could pull the plug on you at any time. It’s really a horrible deal. People would be better off putting their time into anything else. Anything.
@@kayb4995 serious truth in this 👍🏻 At the top levels, news programs and record labels have different rules but at beginner level - it’s all on you. Massive gamble as the plug gets pulled all the time, sometimes even in administrative accidents on their end! Fear not, I save 49% energy for other investments of time
I am wondering what are the dangers of being a youtuber and public figure online. Do u guys think 10 years from now if u still wanna be present online ? Being out there in public eye could potentially bring you stalkers, blackmailers, all this kind of crappy people. Any idea how to go with that ? Any worries ? Any thoughts brother ?
It’s brought all those things already. I didn’t talk about it because it might scare away folks just starting their TH-cam journey. Yeah, we both want to be off the platform in 10 years :) You have a crystal ball sir 🙏🏻
@@GoneAdrift but we don't want you off the platform bra. :))) I been following you and keiss for months. Love your content. Both of you are awesome at what you do mate.
Dunno who that Adam guy is but he sounds like he has a bit of experience but yah cant rely on TH-cam thats for sure you need other ways to make money on the TH-cam platform
I do like you and your videos. However, the videos you made with your ex girlfriend were "better", because they were about real Thai life. Now you have the problem that you need to compete with regular Thai content from other farangs. Nevertheless, wish you all the best.
Clearly, you're doing a business so success is based on revenue stream....no money no honey! Also, I think very few of these Ytubers make good money based on any western standard. The market is saturated and I'd bet my left nut a lot of these Ytubers are working illegally...better ways to make money.
Well so much of the truly fascinating aspects of this country and this whole region really can not be spoken about publicly. I’m reconciled to the fact that not everything is meant for tv and can just be enjoyed in the moment, without camera or comment
The issue I find with a lot of you guys doing videos in Thailand is that topics are running out and then it just turns into a video of seeing another bar or restaurant.
Creating new, educational, entertaining, and fresh content that people really want to watch is obviously the challenge. I don't have the answer and realize I would not be a successful YTer. My understanding is that many channels have a life of 3 to 5 years before becoming repetitive and stale. Just like most TV shows. I do wish you all the best and hope you find a niche, but if it was easy everyone would be successful.
This vlog gives us a lot of insight into the world of TH-cam. Keep pushing ahead mate & you'll get to where you want eventually. Thank you to yourself & Adam for sharing what you've both been learning along the way. 😉👍
Just learn the language so more thai audience will notice you . Make yourself stand out from other falangs just saying. Thai people loves all forms of social media stuff way more then the west.
@@hercrazymatchesmycrazy1372 Uhhhh you reminded me about something I forgot to address hey! Gaining a large thai audience unfortunately will bring the ad revenue down a lot because you’d lose the higher paying farang advertisements. It could very easily kill a channel, any channel.
You have a special gift, mate. I think you are an excellent storyteller. I really enjoy your content. Keep grinding, buddy!
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Amen
I think this Johnny guy is onto something here that might be very very good...!
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G'day Sam ,met you last night at the meet up Danny's bar, I think it would be very hard to be a new utuber today ,as there is so many of them , but you have the gift of the gab , explain things very well , I hope you keep going , take care .🤠
I have been following before you moved, I’m a TH-cam addict. You are talented in this, I haven’t missed any of your videos. You’re real and talk about real issues. Please keep knocking the door you are great at this.
Stoked when I meet people who’ve followed since pre-move! Thank youuuu!
@@GoneAdrift genuinely love what you have to say. Keep posting, regardless of how you feel, remember your living the life most would dream off. You wake up in Thailand
I already mentioned to you when you Did the Cambodia video, that was awesome and different. Too many Thailand vloggers now and all saying the same crap, blah blah blah. Thailand over vlogged. Do the Cambodia thing, you were a natural there, you’ll be on a winner. You have a better personality than your mate Keis.
@@chrisvic5017 I’m going to put some serious thought into into a long visit there.
If you treat it like a hobby, you make peanuts.
If you treat it like a business, you can make a living.
There are not many youtubers as authentic as you are, Sam. I´m positive you´ll keep going on to be successful on this platform! 🙏 Cheers from Cologne, Andy
I've also been watching your channel since before you moved to Thailand, and agree with others about your talent and creativivity. You hit a couple bumps but are back on your way up brother!
I came to your channel through watching Keis One, I enjoy watching your videos as they are a wide range of topics that interest me. I enjoy your colab's with keis especially your live streams together. Keep up the good work in life and future videos.
Great Vid Sam. You two make me laugh.A true friend is hard to beat & both of you show just how strong your friendship is.
I respect your openness and honesty it shows in your videos 👏
Couldn’t imagine entertaining thousands of people, glad ur up for the challenge, keep goin bud
Great points. I'm really beginning to understand that "quantity over quality" is so important at first. Your channel is a perfect example of how quantity leads to quality - as the frequency you've been releasing new videos has increased, the quality of them has shown dramatic leaps forward too. And it's great you're already earning enough to meet basic expenses from this - it'll only get better!
@@pavinder hope you’re well mate :)
Sammy, quite to the contrary, I think your videos have been fantastically imaginative, innovative and entertaining. Imho, you've been hugely successful at providing a great variety of content, stunning visuals, and a genuine, authentic, true-life personal 'back story'. In doing so, I feel that you've jumped significantly ahead of many other vloggers. 🙂
Do a bike tour around rural Thailand do every province in Issan that might appeal to wider audiences. Yes they’ve been done before but not enough imo. Paddy Doyle and CB media exploded their channels by showing the Thailand nobody sees
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I really enjoyed this video. Content was solid and production of it was quality. Keep it up!
going to be honest- I wasnt much of a fan of the chanel early on. But i have to say, kinda growing on me. Just being honest about yourself and mistakes and useful tip. Im gone a drfit! - anyways, glad i stuck around
Appreciate it matey!
Keis One & You have both been indirect mentors for me. Though my channel is only half the size of yours; I feel like this video is definitely point on with my story. Niche is key, pointing towards the information your viewers want. Trying to stay focused on key areas. Expanding in a timely manner. I think you guys are awesome; your work makes me want to be better myself. Good luck.
I am following most of the names you gave in the video. You are equally good, or sometmes better that most. I would say you and Keis are on the same level. Your conclusion is correct, just "grind" more :-) . But I would say there is a factor when you get bigger. The videos get repetitive. Keis just make it.. But people like Buzz start to get boring. Just a tip for the future.
Grind!! ☺️💪🏻
It must be hard to come up with content for your channel but I think you are doing your best,keep going.
I keep an eye on some of the states for smaller TH-cam channels. Yours isn’t too bad for the number of subscribers with quite a few videos having more views than subscribers. While other channels have twice as many subscribers and half the views.
Keep up the good work mate, love your work…
Thank you for your eternal positivity and support brother
What a fascinating insight to how TH-cam works and explained so well. Thank you and keep on doing you, I like this branching out that you are doing, it is great.
Absolutely Outstanding
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Good vid mate. I changed niech from gold prospecting to travel vids. Deleted 200 vids. The algarithum hates me now haha
That's a tough pivot!!!!!!!
Mate - this is a great video, you’ve looked at the technicalities of TH-cam but added to that the human element required to make a TH-camr successful.
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very good
Interesting. Your best videos have you in the daylight . Away from the bright lights and dark nights.
One of your best videos and excellent compare/contrast with Keis. Id go as far as saying that content is what people pay for. Well done.
Damn, Keis really is a shark isn’t he. You could put him in India doing something he’s never done before and he’d find a way to be highly highly successful at it. What a great friend and mentor to have 👍🏼
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Fark what is wrong with people. You come across really good so keep the videos coming. I unsubscribed from Keis because he made a political comment I could not swallow but I didnt abuse him I just moved away. So you are never going to please everyone but I watch you every episode. Live the dream keep grinding you are providing entertainment. Me been in Thailand for 18 months and moved here mainly from watching Keis videos he motivated me to leave Australia and NZ and try it here and am having a ball. Remove the negative people and leave them behind keep moving forward.
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Yeah I tryyyy to keep my own bias and political views to a minimum here but they do show sometimes 🤣
Funnily enough Adam’s so A-political compared to me face to face
Hope you’re thriving bro!
I really like Adam's videos - his content around motorbikes, gaming, retro, travel and living in Thailand resonate with me. But I also appreciate he does not cover bars and girls and Soi 6. His editing is also very good and video length ideal. The amount of You Tuber's, particularly in Pattaya, is overwhelming currently, similar and focused on nightlife - and most of it is terrible. Just the videos on Soi 6 every single day is crazy. My advice is to get out of Pattaya - it's been overdone. Find your thing.
@@phuketprivateisland441 touché.
I’m hanging to go to Saigon 🤤
Very interesting insight into TH-cam. Good advice from Keis One too
12k m8 to the moon..
You can do it because you have been doing it😎👍👊🔥💪
Well done ,mate ,keep it up
Very interesting Sam, you Aussie Australian😆
@@snitchy87 🤣🤣
Hang in there Sam! You may not get to crazy numbers but I believe you will do fine! See ya tomorrow! I still owe ya a dinner....
Keep it rollin.thats it
Great video! I’m actually one of those “wannabe” TH-camr in Thailand and this video had a lot of tips. Cheers!!
Thanks for the inspiration. I will be returning to Thailand for about 2 weeks soon & it will hardly be a holiday. Doing at least a video a day, maybe 2 some days, as the long term plan is to move to Thailand or possibly the Philippines, & hopefully make some money from TH-cam, but yeah,it takes time, effort & dedication. I have a "day job " at the moment in Australia, but it does interfere with my ability to do what I really want to be doing. Unfortunately, I need the money though. Coming up with ideas can be hard. You don't want to do something that has been done by numerous other people if possible. And if you do, you really need to find a way to put your own spin on it.
Nice. Thank you
Stay safe Sam. I think you are doing a good job👍
Good work and keep believing Sam. Good information for sure.
Sammy I think stating during the video that you can't ever be 'as big' as some of the other TH-camrs based in Thailand does more harm than you may think. You have to believe in yourself and be engrossed in the passion and grind that it takes to succeed. Nothing is easy and I can promise that every single TH-camr you mentioned there had there own myriad of struggles and endured times where they didn't believe they would make it.
There are numerous examples in this space of accidental success and gaining traction in ways that you would not have thought possible. As even Keis said his most successful video was one he almost didn't make it.
Your storytelling ability is second to none. Some of the documentary style videos you made is Isan were fantastic and very moving. Figuring out a way to transfer that ability to a larger market or to a larger audience could be a strong recipe for success. If you go 100% in this venture I'm overwhelmingly confident that you will succeed. Good luck going forward.
Appreciate your comment and wisdom mate :) 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Excellent vid, one of the best ones yet I've found on what it takes to be successful at this game, looking fwd to more!
Such an inspiration.
From drunkard to chugging along.
If you can get your basics costs covered from TH-cam your laughing.
Be a massive weight off your shoulders
You should on the side do art work when you got time. Open an online store displaying wall arts and tshirts and when you 20 to 50 designs, connect your shop to your youtube channel
I really enjoy both you and Adam’s videos … neither of you operate the way I do when I’m in Thailand and that variety is a good thing. I like seeing people move through their lives in different ways. And you often question yourselfs and self improvement is always good.
My CPM is $30-$60 per 1000 views here. Niche depends a lot on income too. Something a lot of people are considering so great video 😎
go for it,,,great video, I follow Kris and you guys are fun to watch, Ive been to Bangkok for five weeks last November and love the content and the great memories your videos bring me, Ill be moving there soon and can't wait to get there...Cheers
Thanks mate. That is a topic I have been wondering about for some time.
"Do these guys make any money out of this?"
The over abundance of content about "life in Thailand" from people that have been there one or two days on holiday as opposed to someone that has been there for years must really upset the algorithims.
It's good to see you can cover your living expenses.
If you learn, grow and improve yourself, it's not a mistake, just a misadventure mate.
🙏🏻🙏🏻 touché
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Thanks for the videos. I like when you and Keis are videoing graffiti and pretty scenes along the canals. Thailand and Asia in general has such a rich and technically beautiful art/architecture scene that goes relatively unappreciated. It’s such a difficult subject to present since it reflects such different socio economic segments within a society. Thailand is a strikingly beautiful country.
Strikingly beautiful indeed!
I admire you for putting your life on display, I come from a photography background and have a unique life in Isaan but really don't want my life on display, maybe I'll overcome it in the future
Your as good as the big names even better in my opinion...not a show pony keep it up champ
I think you can still make it! You just have to work hard and pump out a video every two days. Don’t give up and don’t go home without a fight. You may have started on the wrong path, but you can still turn it around. Keep making videos and we will keep watching!
Loved it, ill try to comment more if it helps u, thanks
@@HuaWei-xr5ji it does!!! :)
Love your authenticity and passion on subjects other than just travel. Keep up the good work sir.
This is both interesting and disconcerting. I don't want to see any one person's video more than once a week. It takes too much time. I'd way prefer a single good video a week than multiple videos. Several of the TH-camrs I watch regularly have reduced their work to one video a week. I think that's great when you already many viewers, because it's a phase of doing a good job for viewers you have, rather than making an algorithm happy so that it spreads you around.
As for more risqué content, if you can capture an audience, it probably doesn't matter if it's demonetised. Queen of Pattaya has multiple videos with over a million views. Even if those ones don't make money, the huge influx of subscribers pretty much ensures that she gets 10s or 100s of thousands of views on videos even if it's just a hotel review.
@@CaptainKremmen Perfect summary, I couldn’t agree more
@@CaptainKremmen Regarding the navel-gazing content that can come out of brisk daily vlogs… One lengthy high quality, well researched video per week would be my dream. Alas, at least in the early days, if that video tanks… a week’s work becomes unpaid :(
@@GoneAdrift Yes, this platform is not how I'd like. I thought online videos would be like the web. You'd want to watch something, so you'd do a search and get results ranked for you. Oh, no. Instead, searching functionality is terrible and nothing is meaningfully ranked. (They even took the "dislike" totals away.) The platform caters for users watching the same creators over and over again, like TV. It's predominantly set up for us to become drones. And it makes sense, sadly. The viewer who wants to find what they want and just watch that isn't worth as much as the viewer who'll just sit and watch stuff endlessly. So the algorithm just feeds us more of what we had before on as many days as possible.
There you go. My rant should count for some "engagement" by YT's algorithm, even though it's basically saying how much I hate YT's algorithm.
Excellent! I admire your openness, determination and honesty. Hope your hard work grows into more and more success for you. All the best mate 👍
Focus on travel and food in my opinion! That is what most people want to see for new ideas and places. Just dont paint again 😂😂😂😂. By the way love your videos. Been following keisy for about 2-3 years now
Appreciate your long term support and valuable comments mate, always 🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@GoneAdrift i also like how you mix in culture in your videos as well because I learned from it. Keep up the good work.
Very interesting. Looks like a hellish job to me. It is easy to spot when the TH-camr is desperate to find a content idea. The idea in this video is good.
Keep it going.. your videos getting better, you’re a good story teller, and you have a great friend with good advices, you will get there. 💪🙏
Keep fighting and never give up mate 💪💪💪
Glad to watch this video. Very informative. 👍
Cheers mate
I feel like many of the Thai youtubers have plateau’d, exceptions aside. While I like and respect Keis a lot, he should move to the next level. Stay himself, don’t use a narrator voice and move more towards a direction like a 2024 version of what Vice used to do. That creates a brand that is sustainable long term.
He’s covering two bases at the moment, first one is satisfying the existing audience with fun honest day to day vlogs / the second is those well researched and cinematically adept docos with voice overs. The way the algo works, it favours one or the other but not both. Credit to him for servicing both old and new audiences in a Moses parts the sea-esque manoeuvre 🌊
good stuff. thanks for sharing this info. it let's me know to not start a youtube channel myself.
I have a couple suggestion for you. I like shorter videos. 10 - 20 minutes or so. Rarely will I do 30min videos or longer. Don't put too much fluff scenes in there. Keis has a nice balance because people don't want to see you just talking either, but they like some interesting scenery snips in there. I don't know if Keis does it, but I would build a folder with hundreds of good filler snips. Keis has done videos of being on a train and he might have a few 3 -5 second filler snip though out showing the building landscape or traffic below. He may have recorded those 3 months to a year before. I have no idea, but it fits the story line and stretches your video a little. In your most recent videos, I see a lot more sponsorship adds. For now, I think it is the right amount, to a touch heavy. But they are not too intrusive either. Learn what ever Yoda Keis will teach you.
Pleasing a wide audience is all but impossible I’m learning :)
50% of feedback is “less fluff, visuals and music - more information please”
And the other 50% of feedback is “less yak yak more pretty stuff”
I agree 12 minutes average is the sweet spot
Nothing to say, so this is for the algo 😎
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Great video mate, i think we've all made mistakes, its dealing with them in the right way that counts 👍
I've got 186 subscribers lol
@@rhysypoo 185 more than I had when I started! ☺️
The Philippines may be better choice
I run a channel about life in Brazil, but I’m nowhere near as good of a storyteller as you are. Honestly, I blank out on camera-or at least that’s my excuse. Since TH-cam doesn’t pay well unless you’ve got big numbers and great retention (which I don’t), I offer consultations about Brazil to make money out of this. After 26 years here in Brazil (I was raised in the US), I’ve gained a lot of knowledge, but it’s frustrating how many people expect free info. I’m grateful for those who hire me, but the freeloaders who think I do TH-cam for fun are out of control. It seems like Brazil’s affordability, like Thailand’s, attracts a lazy, entitled, cheap crowd. I get that inflation is real, but why does everything have to be dirt cheap to be considered a “great deal”? I see this a lot in videos about both countries. I’m Brazilian-American, a native speaker of English and Portuguese, and fluent in Spanish and I even speak Italian. I know Brazil inside out, but 9 out of 10 people don’t value my services because I don’t charge local or minimum wage rates. I’ve even had clients pay my rate and then suggest I should charge less. Anyways, It’s their loss. They’ll just have to figure things out on their own. It might cost them more, but learning through adventure can be fun, so the cheapskates should be fine. Lol.
Your content is great, I think you will make it as big as the other you mentioned.
I hear you loud and clear mate 🙏🏻
Agree on all fronts :)
Keep up the videos! good luck 🙏
Thanks Jase!
Sam, great to see you making videos on a a more regular basis. Also, enjoyed your explanation of how moneterisation works. I suppose you just need to work out who your target market is - and I'm guessing it's not people who spend all day and night in walking street. Just a question - does it make a difference if I don't watch a video to the end? as I'm guilty of often doing this.
Do not go out at night.
Do not drink.
Go to more general tourist locations and make under-10-minute videos every day.
There is a Portuguese village you can visit. Few people go there.Bangkok’s Hidden Portuguese Village: The Kudichin
There is a small island on the river north of Bangkok. Koh Kret
There is a national park below the river Sri Nakhon Khuean Khan Park .
There are many places around the city without a lot of exposure from foreign youtubers.
The same applies to Pattaya.
You could make two short videos about the same place, seven minutes each. Viewers are more likely to watch two short videos than one long one.
TH-cam is over-saturated with nightlife videos in Thailand
You will more than likely have to shun your friends for a few months while doing this.
The cost of success. 😞
You’re bang on about having to reduce time spent on friends in order to focus on work. One of life’s great challenges right!?
@@GoneAdrift yes,,,,,, and...... concentrate on work... or wake up in Oz. In my life, three times I have returned tgo the USA from either Thailand or Saudi or both, and everytime, I wake up in the morning thinking, What did I do??
You forget that some of those channels are/were illegal, done without proper work permits. Most of those TH-camrs needed to get vaccinated against COVID to travel and may suffer the consequences.
Ohhhh negatory captain. TH-cam is not against the law.
They all have ample paperwork.
Head back to Middle Earth Gandalf
I could be a huge TH-cam star, only for two things holding me back, my lack of commitment and a complete lack of talent….
Fairly apt description of me 🤣🤣🤣
Might be a good idea to get yourself a channel related shirt with youtube info on it. It might help draw locals and other expats who don't know you to find your channel.
Hey Sammy have you ever thought about becoming male model ? Asians loves Fantang good looks totally different from us ! Make a vlog as a never been done content calling “ super model “ Perhaps you may need good connections I’m sure you’d have already FC in the industry!!! Good luck , Cheers ❤ Pat_Thai
@@pat_thai ❤️Comment of the week, again, goes to you Sir hahaha
😂 drunk keyboard warriors , yeah even I’ve had a moment like that or two , till you wake up the next day and look for that comment to remove it. Us humans have issues that’s for sure…. 😂
There's nothing wrong with starting a youtube channel to make extra revenue, but when it comes to Thailand think there's too many out there already and you will make it hard on yourself. Also, I see many people think way too easy of it. They will just make some videos and when it's not working out, they start to beg for money and if people don't pay, they can no longer provide "helpful" videos, since they're doing it all for the viewers.
CB media, wasn't a Thailand youtube channel and he already had a huge car fanbase, and car shows in Thailand were a big part of it. So then he had 2 different niches, which helps.
But since you love graffiti, have you considered making videos on that? I think there is a massive audience for that, right? And if you incorporate graffiti in Thailand to it, that;s 2 birds in 1 stone.
It sounds as if one has to build up a library of videos, keep them offline, then start publishing them weekly or bi-weekly for a year. Is that a good plan?
In my opinion the best time to edit and release videos is right after you’ve shot the footage. I’m still excited to review the footage and spend the hours in the chair processing it.
A year after the fact could become very tiresome right?
Also one wants to stay relevant, responding to current events, changes.
Your videos r excellent. You a little hard on yourself at times🙂 Nobody is perfect bro. Maybe do more videos, to increase your cash flow. People will watch, take care. Be safe
@@irabankston3390 thank you mate ☺️
Who gets popular is all controlled. It has nothing to do with how good or well received your videos actually are. Plus yt could pull the plug on you at any time. It’s really a horrible deal. People would be better off putting their time into anything else. Anything.
@@kayb4995 serious truth in this 👍🏻
At the top levels, news programs and record labels have different rules but at beginner level - it’s all on you. Massive gamble as the plug gets pulled all the time, sometimes even in administrative accidents on their end!
Fear not, I save 49% energy for other investments of time
I am wondering what are the dangers of being a youtuber and public figure online. Do u guys think 10 years from now if u still wanna be present online ? Being out there in public eye could potentially bring you stalkers, blackmailers, all this kind of crappy people. Any idea how to go with that ? Any worries ? Any thoughts brother ?
It’s brought all those things already. I didn’t talk about it because it might scare away folks just starting their TH-cam journey.
Yeah, we both want to be off the platform in 10 years :)
You have a crystal ball sir 🙏🏻
@@GoneAdrift but we don't want you off the platform bra. :))) I been following you and keiss for months. Love your content. Both of you are awesome at what you do mate.
Dunno who that Adam guy is but he sounds like he has a bit of experience but yah cant rely on TH-cam thats for sure you need other ways to make money on the TH-cam platform
@@lmapicas3279 💯
I started 2008 lol
What you need is a GF with nom yai....get her on every video and nobody will even care what your subject matter is 5555
just do more graffiti/art videos
I do like you and your videos. However, the videos you made with your ex girlfriend were "better", because they were about real Thai life. Now you have the problem that you need to compete with regular Thai content from other farangs. Nevertheless, wish you all the best.
Yep yep, agree with most of this too
Clearly, you're doing a business so success is based on revenue stream....no money no honey! Also, I think very few of these Ytubers make good money based on any western standard. The market is saturated and I'd bet my left nut a lot of these Ytubers are working illegally...better ways to make money.
Well so much of the truly fascinating aspects of this country and this whole region really can not be spoken about publicly. I’m reconciled to the fact that not everything is meant for tv and can just be enjoyed in the moment, without camera or comment
Watch a guy sarasota tim with his limited talwnt he is putting out 4 videos a day he is at 63k sunscribers little to no editing
The issue I find with a lot of you guys doing videos in Thailand is that topics are running out and then it just turns into a video of seeing another bar or restaurant.
@@malcolmlewis4278 As others have said below, one should probably get out of Pattaya, travel the country, show the bits that aren’t well documented
Creating new, educational, entertaining, and fresh content that people really want to watch is obviously the challenge. I don't have the answer and realize I would not be a successful YTer. My understanding is that many channels have a life of 3 to 5 years before becoming repetitive and stale. Just like most TV shows.
I do wish you all the best and hope you find a niche, but if it was easy everyone would be successful.
Another quality video mate. Can’t get over the abuse the guy was giving you on Facebook 😂
I know Mr.Adam The Keis1 when Pendemic start in Thailand.He still here NOW!🙏❤️Respect
And Mr.Sammy will be his Badboys then Full Team.😂😂🤣🤣🍻
You will do well Sam and smash thru 20k subs in no time. Adam will smash thru 100k too...
Thanks
Thank youuuuu my man
This vlog gives us a lot of insight into the world of TH-cam. Keep pushing ahead mate & you'll get to where you want eventually. Thank you to yourself & Adam for sharing what you've both been learning along the way. 😉👍
Just learn the language so more thai audience will notice you . Make yourself stand out from other falangs just saying. Thai people loves all forms of social media stuff way more then the west.
@@hercrazymatchesmycrazy1372 Uhhhh you reminded me about something I forgot to address hey!
Gaining a large thai audience unfortunately will bring the ad revenue down a lot because you’d lose the higher paying farang advertisements. It could very easily kill a channel, any channel.
25000 baht a month isn’t bad at all man! I’d consider that pretty good for a TH-camr in the U.S. so you’re doing alright buddy. Keep up the work!
@@eddiejohnson4434 🙏🏻🙏🏻
I really like your honesty. Keep it op 👌💯
We like your videos Sammy. Always fun and positive. Damn the haters.