
Yesterday morning, I woke up to some great news:
YouTube accepted our channel into its Partner Program.
In case you donāt know what that means: Weāre monetized!!!
After almost a year on the platform, our Like + Subscribe Realness journey truly kicked into overdrive when a slideshow/montage we made went semi-viral.
Seems weāre not the only ones who love gay love and vintage photography.
As of this morning, Love Is Love #1 has 119K views. Well over a third of our channelās total lifetime views. With most of those views in the last three weeks.
Itās far from our best video. But itās popular and has taught us a ton. Both what works and what doesnāt. For better (and worse), Weāve been making more videos and trying new things. Our YouTube āstrategyā is pretty simple:
IDEATE
CREATE
CURATE
ITERATE
Only time will tell which videos will work and which videos wonāt.
In the meantime, weāre excited to keep celebrating this win.
And making more videos we hope both YouTubeās Algorithm and Audiences enjoy.
Thanks for reading!
Clint
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Sincere congratulations, Clint and team. It's an amazing result!!š As a fellow youtube creator, I understand well the frustrations, confusions and sometimes hard work that never gets to meet the expectations you have for it. Because for some reason it just doesn't fly as well as you think it should. At the same time, the videos that you think won't perform the best sometimes outdo everything. Go figure!š¤£š Looking forward to more of your amazing work coming our way soon. Thank you again for everything you're doing to raise the visibility and awareness that Love is love no matter where or how it is found.š
Congratulations!