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A Forbes article revealed that celebrities on press tours are finding YouTube channels get them far more views than the late night TV circuit, with Ryan Reynolds promoting his film on Hot Ones being a prime example. And why wouldn't they? Nobody wants another polished, pre-vetted interview when they could watch a Hollywood star trying to answer questions with tears streaming down their face from spicy chicken wings.

Amelia Dimoldenberg started Chicken Shop Date by simply asking a chicken shop owner if she could film in there, and now she's interviewing Jennifer Lawrence over chicken nuggets. It's the juxtaposition of glamorous celebrities in your bog-standard high street chicken shop with sticky floors that makes them relatable, and that's exactly what audiences are craving over legacy media.

After twenty years presenting mainstream TV, Holly Willoughby has launched her own YouTube lifestyle channel (currently sitting at six thousand followers), and the business case is obvious: on ITV she owned nothing and saw none of the ad money, but on YouTube she owns the audience, the sponsorships and the IP. That's the lesson for entrepreneurs: carve out your own corner of the internet, because nobody can take that off you.

It's like Gary Vaynerchuk warning business owners to buy Facebook ads before big companies priced everyone out: celebrities and corporations are moving onto YouTube, and it's only going to get more saturated. Being on YouTube now is the modern equivalent of having a shop on the high street versus being in the middle of nowhere. It's not a marketing task anymore; it's the difference between being seen and being invisible.

Forget millions of followers: with roughly eight thousand people on our email list and twelve thousand LinkedIn followers between us, we never have to chase sales for an agency that only needs five or six clients. A small, loyal audience of the right people who trust you will support your business for years. It's not about becoming famous; it's about making your mark.

Lyndsay posted something this morning that got zero likes, and that's fine: it's information, not failure. Test constantly, examine why things worked or didn't, improve one percent each time like Mr Beast, and consider posting more often on platforms that allow it to fast track your learning. TBPN had barely any viewers when they started their daily three-hour live show; they just sold to OpenAI for a hundred million. It takes time either way, so you might as well start.

A belief changer that works for any niche: no one cares about super polished videos anymore, no one cares about appearing on TV shows anymore, here's what they're doing instead. It grabs attention because it challenges something your audience assumes is still true, then immediately opens the loop on what's replaced it.

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It's so easy to get seduced by views and engagement, but ultimately sales are what we're all here for, and video absolutely delivers them. The research backs it up: 85% of consumers say videos help them make a buying decision, and 82% of marketers say social media video gives them a positive ROI.

You can only track what people click, but real buyer journeys are far messier: someone watches your YouTube video, then buys through an email link days later, or watches Alex Hormozi and goes straight to Amazon to type in his book title. The two big mistakes are ditching video because "you can't attribute anything to it" or treating it as a soft awareness-only channel. Even the trackable stuff alone shows a huge ROI; the untrackable stuff is a bonus on top.

When we ran our web design agency, high-end clients paying tens of thousands didn't choose us because our websites were wildly different from the competition's. They chose us because they liked us. Unless you offer something literally nobody else can, you are the differentiator, and video is how people decide "I could actually imagine working with them."

Short, snappy 30 to 60 second videos posted consistently are your giant fishing net (Lyndsay's metaphor, don't judge). Nobody hands over ten grand off the back of one Reel; it compounds day in, day out until people label you as "the person who helps with X". And crucially, don't just teach: anyone can get teaching from ChatGPT now, so it's your opinion, your take and mindset-shifting ideas that earn the follow.

This is where your frameworks, systems and intellectual property come in: Loom-style videos walking through your methodology with diagrams (who doesn't love a good diagram?), like our Content Fortress or Daniel Priestley's two-person scout team. We've generated hundreds of thousands of pounds off the back of sales calls where we simply share a diagram of our system. It's work to package your process up, which is exactly why most people don't do it.

The direct pitch: a personalised video sent straight to a prospect ("Hi Jenny, I spotted a few things on your LinkedIn you could improve...") or a video sales letter on your sales page. We landed our biggest ever client with a single personalised video, but here's the catch: it only worked because when he went to check us out, the attention and authority content was there to back it up. You need all three A's, and once you find your weekly cadence across them, leads and sales become genuinely predictable.

A massive open loop that instantly signals an opinion is coming, and it feels urgent, like you've just grabbed your phone because you had to say something. It works in any niche: I can't be the only one that's noticed the latest iPhone update, or that's noticed this trend in your industry. Nobody can resist finding out whether they've noticed it too.

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No problem at all. I've used episode 2 as you've written it, and I'll bump the number up each time you give me a new transcript (just note that if we do this in a fresh chat, a quick reminder of the episode number helps). Here's the full version:

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For the first time ever, more media companies have been bought this year than software companies, and more of them are being snapped up by non-media companies than ever before. And before you switch off at "media company", we're not talking Sky or Netflix; these are small business owners who've built niche content platforms with loyal audiences, and they're selling for millions.

Pat Walls spent years interviewing founders honestly (revenue numbers, mistakes, the lot) and built around 800,000 fiercely loyal YouTube subscribers. When HubSpot bought his company, their explanation mentioned nothing about profits or products; in their own words, they were buying trust. That's what a faceless corporation can't create for itself.

OpenAI buying TBPN, a three-hour daily live podcast with a couple of hundred viewers on a good day, makes zero sense as a sponsorship play. What they're actually doing is buying up the territory so competitors like Perplexity can never advertise there, the same reason SEMrush bought Brian Dean's Backlinko (much to Ahrefs' very public bitterness about their links "starting to get removed").

This fear stops people building a personal brand, or makes them pull back way too early. But Martin's Money sold for around seventy million with the founder's face plastered everywhere, and nobody stopped buying Virgin Records because Richard Branson was front and centre. Let your personal brand champion and fuel the business until it's actually sellable, then pull back if you need to.

Showing up live at the same time every day, spending twenty hours a month personally in your community, giving real feedback: it's difficult, it doesn't scale, and that's exactly the point. In a world of AI content, the rare, human, effortful stuff is what makes customers stay and what makes competitors think twice. People might buy the hype, but they stay for the community.

Simple, endlessly swappable (easiest, simplest, smartest) and it works in basically any niche: the easiest way to start a podcast, to grow your community, to get consistent with video. It's so effective because most audiences feel overwhelmed, and this hook instantly signals there's an easy way in. Or, as the ad that inspired it put it: here's the easiest way to get a hundred million for your content business... get two billionaires to fight over it.

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Companies mentioned in this episode:

• HubSpot
• Starter Story
• OpenAI
• TBPN
• The Hustle
• Backlinko
• SEM Rush
• Ahrefs

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In a rare interview with The Times, LinkedIn CEO Dan Shapiro revealed his formula for success on the platform: insight plus personality. Insight means someone has to actually learn something, and personality means bringing your tone of voice and the essence of who you are, but he draws a firm line between personality and personal, and says keep it professional.

This is where we respectfully disagree with the CEO. From Stephen Bartlett's life updates blowing up compared to his business content, to our own candid posts about health issues (and even a gardener's AI mock-up of our garden becoming one of our most popular posts ever), the evidence is clear: personal content performs brilliantly on LinkedIn, especially as the line between work and life keeps blurring for entrepreneurs.

The reason personal gets a bad name is people doing it wrong: shoehorning a story about Sunday's football into a weird lesson about boardroom communication. Instead, share genuine value or a story with no forced link, then simply add a PS at the bottom: "FYI, I share insights like this in my newsletter every week, link below." That one strategy, the Everyday CTA, brings our clients hundreds of leads every single week.

Counterintuitively, longer videos (up to LinkedIn's fifteen minute limit) work brilliantly because they sit in the main feed where people can actually see your link, whereas short vertical videos get shoved into the swipe-happy Shorts feed. Barely anyone is posting YouTube-style talking head videos natively on LinkedIn, and it's one of the few ways to reach corporate audiences who can't exactly scroll YouTube at their desk.

Shapiro confirmed LinkedIn now uses AI classifiers to detect generic AI content and limit its reach, which is a bit rich given they spent years begging you to rewrite every post and comment with AI. Either way, the takeaway is the same: your own stories, anecdotes and IP are the only way to stand out, so ask yourself "could someone else have written this?" and if the answer is yes, make it more you.

This one works because it leads with emotion and opinion, and people can't help but wonder what's wound you up today. It's endlessly reusable too: it bothers me that more people don't know how to get leads from LinkedIn, how to use this iPhone setting, how to use this software. (And yes, the spicier "it pisses me off" version works too. We tested it this morning and LinkedIn didn't burn down.)

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YouTube's new AI chat feature (US desktop only for now) lets you have a back-and-forth conversation — like Claude or ChatGPT — except instead of text answers, it serves up long-form videos and Shorts. And it's no coincidence: with Google owning YouTube and Gemini already recommending Shorts in its results, this is clearly where they've been heading all along.

Search used to be the way people discovered your videos, but these days it's less than 10% of views (under 6% on some channels) — the recommendation algorithm does the heavy lifting now. So the big question is whether Ask YouTube just replaces those tiny search numbers, or whether it changes how videos get recommended full stop.

The worry is that shoehorning search-friendly questions into your titles means sacrificing the intrigue and curiosity that actually gets the click from the 90-odd% who find you via recommendations. The answer is probably both: keep titles and thumbnails intriguing for humans, then do the AI-friendly stuff under the hood — question-based timestamps, proper chapters, solid descriptions, even title slides with text on screen.

This could be a new lease of life for those slowly dying videos you published months ago — throw the transcript into Claude, ask what questions people would have about it, and update the timestamps and descriptions accordingly. Same logic as refreshing an old thumbnail: you don't need brand new content to squeeze more out of the old stuff.

Two questions before you post: is it something you genuinely care about, and does it impact your audience? If yes to both, go for it — but don't copy business influencers who lean into politics for attention, because they make money from eyeballs and sponsorships, while you make money from selling your services. Being opinionated doesn't have to mean being political.

It's counterintuitive and self-deprecating, which instantly drops people's guard — plus "dumb" signals it'll be simple enough for anyone to copy. Best bit: it's endlessly reusable across different services and audience segments (the dumbest thing I did to get leads, to hit 10k subscribers, and so on).

Companies mentioned in this episode:

• vidonary.com
• Bingeability
• YouTube
• TikTok
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Claude
• ChatGPT
• Gemini

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