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New for $5 Backers: Behind-the-Scenes Videos (Patreon)

Published:

2017-12-15 04:01:15

Edited:

2017-12-16 02:12:39

Imported:

2021-10

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Hi all,

We are sharing this first behind-the-scenes video to all Patreon supporters. We have recently received a lot of interest in behind-the-scenes videos. I'm excited to take this task and start giving a better inside look at GN, and I feel like the Patreon backers deserve it -- especially now that you've helped us grow so much. Pre-emptively: sorry, shot this vertically. I don't do cell phone videos, and didn't even think about it. Will get that right next time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UhIjr6OrsE

The current challenges to fulfilling this demand are as follows:

- YouTube only really supports up to 1 video per day. We already do that. Going beyond 1 video per day means flooding/spamming the platform and algorithm, and likely reducing our views overall. We have to avoid this challenge.

- There is a physical limit to how many hours are in a week, and I cannot physically work any more than I already do -- but I really want to do these "BTS" videos.

- Andrew, our main video guy, is already very busy with all our other projects, so I don't want to add to his workload.

The Solution:

I am going to shoot these from my cell phone -- inspired a bit by LTT's FP Exclusive videos -- and set goals to: (1) Not detract time from our existing, important content that you all support, (2) not increase workload of my team in a significant way.

To do this, I will be shooting these alone, and will likely do them after the team is done working for the day. We will post these at no known interval, but I am going to target ~2-4 per month, for now.

We will be releasing these to Patreon backers of $5 and up only for at least 1 week early. After that point, we will either: (1) leave the videos permanently unlisted, e.g. you get exclusive content, (2) send some live to the main channel, (3) send some live to the GNSteve side-channel. What we do with the videos after Patreon-only access will depend on if we think they had something worth sending out to the core audience. This first video, for example, will likely remain Patreon-exclusive. If we ever share it publicly, it'll be on the side-channel, and only after a week or more has passed. If we filmed some super cool "behind-the-scenes wind tunnel build log," for example, we'd probably share that publicly at some point -- it just depends.

We will not place ads into these BTS videos.

This post will go public in 7 days, just so everyone knows our plans!

- Steve.

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GN BTS #1: New Behind-the-Scenes Videos

This is just part of a new effort to post additional information for higher tier Patreon backers. We will be releasing all of these to certain Patreon tiers. Some will go to the main channel at a later date (e.g. +1 week), some will go to this side channel, some will never go anywhere except to those Patreon backers. There is no real formula right now. The idea is to limit time investment, as we must invest our most limited resource into other testing.