Happy New Year! Know this post is a tad late, but I was busy filming the next series, and wanted to provide a bit of a retrospective for 2024 and update on the channel for 2025!
2024 was another record year, with 936,000 views, 2,900 new subscribers, and over $5,100 in ad revenue. 27% of all views for the year came from a single video in fact. I’ll give you one guess which one. What can I say, clickbait and the male gaze really is a thing. It’s not something I can or will try and replicate, but I found it almost comical how well that video did relative to all the others.
The backbone of 2024 was the series “Around the World with You,” which was one of my absolute favorites to take and film. I have a cut of the final video, First class on JAL, but it’s not quite ready for publication today. I want to re-record the audio, but the combination of pneumonia, Covid, an 18 day trip, and picking up a parasite from that trip has delayed my production schedule. It will come out in a few weeks.
If you follow along on Instagram you already know that the next series is called “A Nice Redemption.” It’s a series focused on planes and trains that either I or the public has bashed, and I wanted to give a second chance to see if they are really that bad. Things like KLM, TAP Portugal, ITA, and my rematch with British Airways club suites. Of course, the name is also a triple entendre. This will be the core of the content for 2025, and it’s already filmed.
This brings me to changes in the upgrade schedule. I’ve been publishing videos every two weeks for more than 5 years at this point. Sometimes, such as last year, I even went with weekly videos because I had such a backlog of content. This year is looking a bit different due to some potential (positive) changes to my personal life. I’m still just a regular guy with a day job, who has a travel/miles and points addiction. I may not be able to do 20 day around the world extravaganzas moving forward. I will continue to create as much content as I can and release as frequently as possible, but all I can commit to at this time are videos once a month. I’ll shoot for more, but we’ll see what I can do and that does to viewership.
It's also looking like 2025 is the year the channel will hit 10,000 subscribers! I never imagined that I’d even be in that position, so thank you all so much! As promised, I’ll do another AMA then, and I can’t wait to see what we see and do this year!
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Happy New Year! Know this post is a tad late, but I was busy filming the next series, and wanted to provide a bit of a retrospective for 2024 and update on the channel for 2025!
2024 was another record year, with 936,000 views, 2,900 new subscribers, and over $5,100 in ad revenue. 27% of all views for the year came from a single video in fact. I’ll give you one guess which one. What can I say, clickbait and the male gaze really is a thing. It’s not something I can or will try and replicate, but I found it almost comical how well that video did relative to all the others.
The backbone of 2024 was the series “Around the World with You,” which was one of my absolute favorites to take and film. I have a cut of the final video, First class on JAL, but it’s not quite ready for publication today. I want to re-record the audio, but the combination of pneumonia, Covid, an 18 day trip, and picking up a parasite from that trip has delayed my production schedule. It will come out in a few weeks.
If you follow along on Instagram you already know that the next series is called “A Nice Redemption.” It’s a series focused on planes and trains that either I or the public has bashed, and I wanted to give a second chance to see if they are really that bad. Things like KLM, TAP Portugal, ITA, and my rematch with British Airways club suites. Of course, the name is also a triple entendre. This will be the core of the content for 2025, and it’s already filmed.
This brings me to changes in the upgrade schedule. I’ve been publishing videos every two weeks for more than 5 years at this point. Sometimes, such as last year, I even went with weekly videos because I had such a backlog of content. This year is looking a bit different due to some potential (positive) changes to my personal life. I’m still just a regular guy with a day job, who has a travel/miles and points addiction. I may not be able to do 20 day around the world extravaganzas moving forward. I will continue to create as much content as I can and release as frequently as possible, but all I can commit to at this time are videos once a month. I’ll shoot for more, but we’ll see what I can do and that does to viewership.
It's also looking like 2025 is the year the channel will hit 10,000 subscribers! I never imagined that I’d even be in that position, so thank you all so much! As promised, I’ll do another AMA then, and I can’t wait to see what we see and do this year!
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