[0:01]Hello YouTube. I'm Sam and I'm here to
[0:04]talk to you about autonomy for content
[0:06]creators.
[0:07]Before I do that, I want to note I'm
[0:09]reading from a script, something I don't
[0:11]normally do. Hopefully, you'll forgive
[0:13]the performance.
[0:16]Two years I've been uploading videos to
[0:18]YouTube, over 800 videos in that time on
[0:21]two different channels.
[0:23]I tried to build a community there, but
[0:25]it failed.
[0:27]And I realized it wasn't because of me.
[0:30]It wasn't because of my audience. It was
[0:32]because this is how YouTube is built.
[0:36]They give you the appearance of
[0:37]community but not the depth. They
[0:40]control what tools you have access to
[0:42]behind subscription numbers.
[0:44]They turn you into a product and your
[0:47]audience into consumers.
[0:50]So, I built something to fix that. And
[0:52]now I'm ready to share it with you.
[0:56]That's the end of the script.
[0:59]From here, we're just going to play it
[1:00]by ear because that's what I've been
[1:02]doing for two years and on over 800
[1:04]videos.
[1:06]So, if you visit the description of this
[1:08]video, you'll be able to come to this
[1:12]page, Autonomy for Content Creators, and
[1:14]read about this yourself.
[1:16]Before we do that, I'm going to show you
[1:20]essentially what I'm offering.
[1:24]So, this is the transmission section of
[1:26]my website. This is where all of my
[1:27]videos are, all 800 of them.
[1:31]I can take your entire YouTube catalog
[1:33]and do this for you.
[1:39]On each page, you have the transcript
[1:41]for the video with timestamps and even
[1:44]these section titles which you can turn
[1:45]to chapters in your YouTube
[1:46]descriptions. All of this can be
[1:48]automated.
[1:51]um different features for browsing
[1:52]previous or next or timelines. This is
[1:55]just the most recent videos. There's
[1:57]lots of different ways you can do this.
[1:59]That's all
[2:01]um customizable based on on what we
[2:04]agreed to do together.
[2:06]It can write titles, descriptions, it
[2:09]can give you keywords, tags, it can
[2:12]extract
[2:14]anything you talk about in a video. So
[2:16]in my case, I'm extracting actions and
[2:18]entities here. But it can you can
[2:24]extract data from your videos
[2:27]based on the context of what your
[2:28]channel is about. So that's that's
[2:31]something that we would have a
[2:32]discussion about. I extract other
[2:35]things. So these other tabs, structure
[2:38]and patterns.
[2:41]So I'm not signed in right now. This is
[2:43]live. Uh, another thing that I built for
[2:46]this is a subscription layer. So, sort
[2:48]of like Patreon. Um, only you own this.
[2:52]This is yours.
[2:54]This, if you sign up for this, it
[2:58]goes into my Stripe account and
[3:03]there's just no middle layer. Just me. I
[3:05]can do this for you, too. This is
[3:06]already all this stuff is already built.
[3:08]So, I'm just going to sign in here.
[3:13]So, if you're subscribed to my channel,
[3:16]to my website, uh you would have access
[3:19]to content that I'm not making publicly
[3:22]available. That's what this is. I still
[3:25]upload these particular videos to
[3:27]YouTube, but I just have them unlisted.
[3:29]I could host these videos myself if I
[3:31]wanted to. Um, but then I'd incur more
[3:34]costs with storage and streaming and
[3:36]things like that. I just use YouTube as
[3:38]a layer instead of the container. I have
[3:41]my own container.
[3:43]And that's what I'm offering others.
[3:46]I also have another tab here called
[3:48]mirror. Um, this is probably not
[3:52]relevant to most uh YouTubers, but for
[3:54]me, I
[3:59]I have artificial intelligence look at
[4:01]my videos and then mirror them back to
[4:03]me. And I discover a lot of interesting
[4:06]patterns. I find that it has helped me
[4:09]grow as an individual over the past two
[4:12]years.
[4:14]It's the first clean mirror I've ever
[4:16]had in my life, actually.
[4:19]I can also offer this to others, but
[4:21]this is um a little less what I meant
[4:25]for this video to be focused on, but
[4:27]this is something you can explore if you
[4:28]wanted to. You would have to be a
[4:30]Sanctum Sanctum subscriber. That's what
[4:33]I call my service. You can call yours
[4:34]whatever you want. You can design your
[4:36]pages however you want.
[4:40]You can have your own domain name, your
[4:42]own website with all of your videos,
[4:44]your entire archive
[4:46]with index data,
[4:50]searchable.
[4:55]You can automate things like what your
[4:58]descriptions on YouTube are, the
[4:59]metadata for that, automatically create
[5:02]the tags and things like this.
[5:05]And you can
[5:08]you can make layers for for your your
[5:12]community like I'm using Sanctum.
[5:15]That's the start. That's the initial
[5:17]page. If this interests you, go to the
[5:20]Autonomy for Content Creators page, read
[5:23]about it, and get in touch.