My YouTube History

Hey guys, Ryan (TheRyanLamont) here and I recently removed my YouTube history from the NZYTcommunity blog, to make way for more succinct bios from multiple authors. So I thought I’d post my YouTube history here for you all to read. Here’s a brief summary of my YouTube life.

I started on YouTube back in 2008 with my channel TheNewZealandishBrit. I was welcomed straight into the community and got 100 subscribers within my first week! It was an awesome way to start my YouTube career. Then over the following months I attended gatherings, meet-ups and stayed at various Youtubers houses, as we all became friends. The community was awesome back then, full of support and such. Then I made a few other channels as my subscribers on TheNewZealandishBrit became less interested in my videos. Then the NZYT Community took a dive and I lost those friends I had made.

Then on my birthday in 2009 I made my main channel TheRyanLamont. I wanted to start building an audience for my future filming endeavors, getting my name out there. So, I started afresh on TheRyanLamont. I uploaded my short film, which sat at 3,385 views before I removed it, and then made my first vlog on that channel on December 14th 2009. But NZYT was still reasonably dead at this point (in fact it was for most of 2010) After a few videos in January I then took a 5 month break from youtube, leaving my channel abandoned. I blame school, but really I was just lazy.

I then returned in June with ‘JUSTIN BIEBER SHOES’ which currently sits at 10,136 views [as of 22 July 2011]. I made a second video, ‘The lands of DISNEYLAND’ about my trip to Los Angeles and then left my channel until October again. I had a bad habit of abandoning my channel throughout 2010. I managed to keep weekly videos for a month or so in October, and my video views and subscribers grew steadily. But soon enough I failed at keeping my videos consistent and didn’t make my 2010 goal of getting 1,000 subscribers, instead remaining on 744 subscribers, 256 away from my 2010 goal. But I really didn’t deserve to after all that channel abandoning.

Then after I had finished my exams in November I was free from then till February when school started again, so I decided to start something I had been thinking about, planning and wanting to do for months! The NZYT Community blog! I was scared that no one would read it, that NZYT would remain dead, and that my time would be wasted. But look at us now! The blog has led to the discovery and promoting of various new kiwi vloggers, and a real growth and unity in the community. I spent a few hours a day writing blog posts for the site, in the early months, and even more time planning future posts and promoting the site and watching NZYT videos. I had put a lot of work into running this site, but it was all worth it! I’ve found so many awesome kiwi vloggers that I watch regularly now. And I feel as I’ve managed to revive the community a bit through this blog. I just hope it’ll continue and grow!

I’d struggled to stay consistent with my video posting throughout 2011 due to my busy final year of school. But of course, there’s always simple laziness to blame too. I generally got a month of weekly posting, before I became too busy to post. Then I was back again in a few months with promises of consistent posting, which always fail. Basically, I posted consistently a week or so before the holidays, then throughout the holidays, then I stopped till the next holidays. I’ve embellished this post with videos that represent key moments in my ‘YouTube life’, so above I posted video of me talking about my experience at a 4-day course at South Seas Film School, the school I intend to attend next year. It’s scary thinking about next year, especially from a YouTube point of view; Limited access to internet, huge workload, busy schedule. I doubt I’ll be posting on YouTube, or here, too regularly next year. But we’ll have to see what happens. As for now, I’ve got videos planned and I’m trying to make the most of the free time I have now.

Now as I add this final paragraph to this post I realise how far I’ve come on YouTube. I’m back to posting regularly, having managed to do so for the last few weeks, and I’ve got a new vlogging style and set up. I’ve even started using my second channel RyanLamontVideos, allowing me to pump out even more content. I’m really motivated to keep going with YouTube, even though I’ll soon be faced with my final school exams in November and then the move onto further education in 2012. It’s a time full of change and it’s exciting!

So that’s all my YouTube related history. If you want to know more about me as a person then feel free to read my ‘About me’ section.

Thanks for reading guys!

-Ryan Lamont

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