How To Make It On YouTube In 2023 - Colin And Samir

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Season 7 Episode 1
00:00 Colin and Samir
01:16 How did you get to becoming thought leaders in the creator economy?
03:17 To what extent would you recommend being a creator as a career? Pros and cons
06:58 How much money were you making in the early days and how much do you make now?
10:41 Starting a job for passion vs. money
26:21 A roadmap to success in the creator economy in 2023
31:07 Advice for a music KZbinr
40:51 To what extent passion is prerequisite for success in the creator economy?
47:43 What are the commonalities you see among the creators who managed to make it professionally vs. the ones who treat it as a hobby?
59:07 The fear setting exercise
01:02:28 What is it like to be a duo of co-founders?
01:10:19 Would you ever start a couple’s channel with your respective partners?
01:15:16 Filming with no commercial intent
01:21:10 Productivity guilt
01:24:36 Finding the format
01:30:46 Format FOMO
01:33:19 Experimenting with formats
01:40:54 To what extent would you recommend starting a podcast to someone who’s new to the creator world?
01:49:23 The story behind publish press
02:04:24 The “Daily Productivity” newsletter
02:09:24 Is going viral a bad thing?
02:12:59 “Brand is more important than reach in the long term”
02:19:07 Long form vs. short form while building a new channel
02:22:16 If you won the lottery, what would change about the way you’re spending your time?
02:24:13 How long should you spend building and creating content before thinking about monetisation?
02:27:52 What are you working on up until the end of the year?
02:29:29 Final pieces of wisdom
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[@millionairemoxie]

You did win the lottery, Ali.

[@ColinandSamir]

Thanks for having us Ali. Such a fun day together in London.

[@jabezivanj]

Is Colin not allowed to talk?

[@taamtitaam]

@colinandsamir You guys rock! Baring your soul, your insecurities... a ten-gun salute to you for that! And thank you Ali for bringing these two together for 2.5 hours... that's like a full-length documentary on the Creator Economy. More of these please! Deep dive, it is!

[@DanielleGlick]

@colinandsamir Your comment @2:12:00 might be the first time I ever paused a video so I could go sign up for a newsletter! Thanks for the great content, all three of you!

[@HalfWayUp]

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[@sharonunwritten]

Their journey is very inspiring. It’s also refreshing to see the interviewers are finally being interviewed.

[@arigutman]

I can answer this for many in two words: just start.

[@thenextlayer]

Fantastic insights, as always when listening to Colin and Samir. I'll watch anything they put out.

[@Copacaxi]

This was such an excellent exchange of ideas to watch. It's refreshing to see inspiring people be inspired by each other. It didn't feel like I was watching an interview, it felt more like I was eavesdropping on an open conversation 🔥 Thank you for this!

[@KevinKolbe]

Wow, WOw, WOW!!! (Wanted to make sure you got the point!). Been a big fan of Colin and Samir for some time but never really heard their story from them. What a fantastic "Deep Dive" interview. And what a fantastic interviewer you are. Seriously. It takes experience to sit back and actually listen, let the room breathe, and ask questions. Solid all the way around. Thank you for sharing!

[@Greenandgold888]

This is a 2.5 hour pod cast! Im going to be up all night watching this! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jahlenearis4012]

This is such a great podcast. Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@RobinMWaite]

🤩🤩🤩 you got Colin and Samir to come to London 🫶🏻🔥🤩🙌🏻 brilliant interview. These guys are epic.

[@JonnelArt]

I love how much they value creativity.

[@soundisamajorpassion]

very interesting right at the beginning as they speak about confidence and identity. For me, building an KZbin channel has been helping me a lot to build that confidence as I experience the ups and the downs and what happens when you really speak up and create the stuff you believe in

[@OvernightClearings]

This is one of the "most" inspiring exchange of ideas interview, we have ever seen in so many years of consistently following podcasts and interviews. There has been an era of watching Ali, then an era of watching Colin Samir...and that all was perhaps to come to THIS interview and take so much value from it - honestly seen in 3 parts over a period of week/10 days, it just stayed open in the window, till the end was finished off today. All that binge watch of these individuals was to find value in THIS content. Thank you Ali, Samir, Colin for such honesty, fun, light heartedness, deep-deep dive, vulnerability and exchange of ideas. Much Regards, A channel inspired by you guys ! Cheers.

[@Keisha2024]

I hate when KZbinrs don’t want to reveal how much they make 😂 we know you make a lot of money, just spit it out because that inspires a lot of people!

[@KiranKumarYT]

Colin and Samir on Deep Dive!!!! It's the crossover that we wanted !!!! (Again)

[@jansleyreal]

13:25 smacked me in the face with a sack of bricks. Wow that is advice I 100% need to hear on repeat.

[@garrisoncollier]

words can’t express how excited i am for this, since i started watching colin & samir ive always thought its a shame they can’t interview themselves i think you’re the perfect person to do it for them too! love this

[@AlphosNZ]

I watched this video when it came out at the start of my KZbin journey at 46 Subscribers and having come back to it now that I've just hit monetisation I have to say the discussion around formats & format fomo has resonated a lot and i'm extremely grateful to you three for sharing your insights and struggles with creativity versus productivity.

[@rodrigoiglesias6938]

Congrats!!!

[@klfigueroa]

"The engine was what unlocked the dream." I sooo love this quote.

[@AnnabelleLeeTx]

Wow 2 hours of colin and Samir?! Such a treat! Very informative and entertaining 👏

[@joshbottz]

So much respect for these guys. They’ve been through it. Whenever I get thoughts of like ‘man, YT is hard, 6 years and still struggling to get views’, I just think about Colin and Samir sticking it out and persevering despite constant failure.

[@henkel777]

The idea of the engine of the business really resonated with me. I felt stuck in one format but now I look at it differently Thanks for sharing that!

[@OldChannelVinDiagram]

DAMNNNN. When Samir talked about Scarcity/Survival "me" not being willing to know "Abundance" me yet. That hit.

[@JulyArtJournal]

love love love your content

[@TheEpicChecklist]

Great questions, great guests, great content. Only bit of feedback is audio quality wasn’t great, lots of soft banging throughout, nearly enough to make me switch off. Hopefully something that’ll change in the future 👍

[@EmbraceTerror]

13:25 WOW!! AMAZING!!! 🎉. ❤

[@letshearit8993]

A very lucky start. Awesome for them and they are great guys

[@Keisha2024]

I like Mr. Beast when he discusses KZbin because he isn’t self absorbed, he tell the viewers good tips to help, and get to the point. This interview was dragging and too focused on themselves instead of giving a lot of advice, it’s like they are trying to gatekeep. I don’t to watch an interview for hour’s hearing all these Amazing things you done, give us what we want to hear! 🙄

[@BLACKSAMARII]

These guys have grown on me and I've learned a lot from their content.

[@hannahvanwagner]

Such a great tube-cast! So many nuggets of wisdom and I loved the openness around "fear setting" and focusing on enjoying the process of creation. Amazing! Looking forward to watching more = )

[@nourinahmedeka9518]

I just love this TRIO. Never did I ever hit on the play button this fast! It's great to you guys again in the same frame!!

[@opendigitaluniversity]

"Success means doing what we're doing now, but in a more comfortable way." Wow. Profound.

[@RetroBreak]

Great conversation. For the daily productivity newsletter talk, the idea of a text, or maybe even a twitter page that you could post to every day, sounds more likely for me to read it every day than an email, usually with emails I see new ones and if it's not something to me directly I'll just swipe to delete it, but a tweet or text I would read all the way through.. Also like the idea of an Ali Abdaal productivity app!

[@lisatwainable]

51:23 great perspective on abundance: an abundance of skills and networks and knows how to use them, to relinquish fears.

[@miguelbinnios]

love these guys. the amount of things i've learned from them is crazy. Such an inspirational story. great episode!

[@ElijahStewy]

This was and will always be an amazing episode. Thanks Ali for making this and great conversation with the boys! Love all you guys!❤

[@DanielleGlick]

@2:12:00 This might be the first time I ever paused a video so I could to go sign up for someone's newsletter! Thanks for the great content, all three of you!

[@candiceevawilliams6]

I love them!

[@alexnicoll95]

So much valuable information here but I really loved the part touching on being able to share the journey with someone else. Happy for you guys!!!

[@MaddyandSascha]

So great to have you guys again on a table, only vice versa ❤

[@Halsartbox]

Such a good watch

[@TrinbagoVibes]

This was an amazing conversation

[@smitinathan]

This was such a wonderful and inspiring conversation! Highly recommend going to the deep end :)

[@thetravellershub]

Followed these guys since late 2018 when their podcast was just audio because they had cool guests and I liked their logo 😂 was great to be along for the ride as they grew over the years. Couldn’t have happened to more deserving folks

[@TheNetflixNook]

Personally, at this time I'm putting all my eggs into the KZbin basket. I know long term it's going to be best to expand to other platforms but with the way time needs and deserves to be spend in other ways I really only have the time, energy and focus for one platform.

[@tobias-steinert]

This interview was amazing. So much I could learn about formats.

[@ishanibandara3346]

My favourite channel and love this episode too. 🙂 Great conversation.

[@veryfake]

Feels like you (Colin and Samir) talk with Jimmy a lot but never learn. Editing doesn't have to be the one thing you enjoy doing. Jimmy himself said that he doesn't want to do it because he doesn't like it. You can find many things that will motivate you to do videos and enjoy the process.

[@carlanthonydelosangeles7411]

Love this episode so much. ❤

[@NickDZ]

Great conversation, some great thoughts, insights and inspiration. 😊

[@Sheneller]

Loved it. 🤿🤿🤿

[@JeroyW]

Ooofff😮‍💨 Great question at 45:34 Ali

[@DeliaSlucutt]

So good. Listened twice.

[@SGXR]

I didn't know I wanted this until it was here. Thanks!

[@autonation.ke1]

this is good

[@mihowbogucki4928]

Creating an Engine and Format Fomo are two nice concepts I’m taking away from this. I love the explanations over various topic a very fresh perspective.

[@financewheels1]

nice 1

[@lulu2L]

Wow…3 hours of wisdom…it was an interesting one and 3 hours was like 5 minutes

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Great podcast

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Love these guys! Been an early supporter!

[@anikethkajjam]

What a help this podcast was in my life!

[@PawFromTheBroons]

It's nice to have them interviewed, for once.

[@MarcusHarcusUSA]

Brilliant discussion.

[@OppaLec]

I've been producing KZbin videos since 2009 and this is such a nice listen. ✨

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great

[@LeagueofJay137]

Awesome informative interview As someone who listens and follows Colin and Samir, it was very interesting to hear bts

[@HRHJoie]

🌊 Diving Deep!

[@dimitriclark8728]

Loved beiing in the deep end as always!

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Great work ❤ keep going ❤

[@willl5970]

GOLD!

[@forthecuriousbrain]

♥️♥️♥️ I’m never this early! Thank you for your content Ali and team 🙏🏽

[@the5xdropout720]

Love this pair!

[@21-abhikhillare8]

Thank you guy's

[@joshmcgoo]

great pod, doc

[@makemoneywithjoannaleyan]

Love you guys!

[@RetroRaconteur]

Awesome interview! Also...I was today years old when I realized why the newsletter is called the Publish Press 😅

[@kamillahrae]

Yes chef! lol great video

[@thedanielaros]

This was such a valuable interview and my introduction to Colin + Samir. It felt like I was in a deep conversation with you all. Thank you all for sharing your own insights on your journey. This is exactly the sort of wisdom I am soaking up, as I am working to jump from the Aspiring Creator phase to the Career Creator. My goal will be to build up to the Creator Industry level in the a few years and be there sitting in the chair having a conversation with you all. Cheers for sharing

This is a dream crossover for me! Thanks you so much!

[@andyyang4872]

Colin and Samir videos are some of my favourite creators❤

[@razabadass]

Thank you teams of Colin and Samir plus Ali! Raza =)

[@SoundConstraints]

So good

[@noonecomics]

37:12 damnn broo, throw me a fridge next time!

[@c4eshahrukh618]

Video request - what did you learn from listening to all the people who spoke in your podcast, mindset change etc. Love to know your thoughts…

[@pranavpawar4731]

The best podcast I have heard

[@KyleMillis]

Samir is a swimmer now?! Swimming KZbin is here for it 👏🏻

[@gaithouri]

nice interview.. thank you .. we who already spending all the time with ourself need a different advice .. 😂😂

[@MrsMonaR]

My question might be dumb.. but lately i am into listening/watching these podcasts on KZbin and wonder, is there any money involved from host to guest at all or other way around.

[@sainttara]

I can not stop listening

[@razabadass]

Fingers crossed!

[@learn.spanish.podcast]

100% inspiring

[@Walkingclaxxic]

This was great ❤

[@goldenballssmith9689]

I need serious help with my website!

[@upper9052]

Been making soccer KZbin videos for 3 years and still no profit. But after hearing this makes me appreciate the journey more 😊

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Hello

[@insightsbyv]

This episode was FIRE. So much value! Loved it💪

[@gaithouri]

Colin is so sweet, cute and amazing person...

[@Muhluri]

That Hollywood guy's advice is great. If you're not willing to do it for 10 years you shouldn't be doing it right now. If you have a dream you should take the most direct path towards it

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