Lost Generation: Is YouTube Ignoring the Over 50s Crowd?

[@SerendipiD]

The quality has been improving consistently, so you're definitely doing the right thing.

[@djandyward]

Thank you x

[@paulhelsby]

How did I not know about this Channel before now? Probably because I remove all social media years ago. It just popped up in my newsfeed and I thought.... I hope that's THE Andy Ward, and it is :) Subscribed and looking forward to watching all the content

[@djandyward]

Easy mate... Been a while ! I put this video togethen I was just learning video editing and doing my best to grow the channel. There are some brilliant interviews under the LIVE tab if you have missed those. Good to hear from you.

[@paulhelsby]

@@djandyward Cheers mate. Ive been delving into northern soul a lot lately and watching a lot about Colin Curtis, and it was your video with him that popped up on my YT feed, that helped me find this channel. Can see you've got Paul Stuart on there too... looking forward to watching all these mate, all the best, -Paul :)

[@DjKhu]

super interesting thoughts and ideas

[@djandyward]

Thanks for watching. How did you do with the live loop?

[@TracySunshineStott]

Love it 🥰

[@djandyward]

Thank you.

[@joolee_b]

An interesting topic to talk about and to consider how KZbin influences this above subject matter. I do think KZbin is missing out on a valuable audience. Having gone to a META meeting last year in regards to engaging on social media. It seems the same message is still the same, content, engagement, authenticity, consistency, and know your audience. Maybe KZbin might catch up with the lost generation 🤔.

[@djandyward]

I'm not sure if they're missing out. Maybe alienating somewhat?

[@joolee_b]

@@djandyward hmmm.

[@nick6895]

Stick to it Wardy & keep the faith generally people of a certain maturity should i say tend to stick to people of their own age.We aren’t like our parents but equally we also are not young anymore ,we are the limbo generation one foot in firmly in the past yet not that backwards we can’t use Uber or Spotify 😂 A great example of a successful older KZbinr has got to be the Mac Master I’m addicted to his content as he deffo knows his audience feel free to check him out if you have not already 👍🏻

[@djandyward]

Thanks for the words of support. As soon as I saw BENIDORM I turned off lol.

[@TimMoore72]

Just keep doing what you do and if the audience is there it will come. Might take longer, but in our 50s everything does 😉 Nothing wrong with applying learnt editing techniques and ideas, but if you get to the point of feeling like you're "sensationalising" for the sake of views, you've probably gone too far.

[@djandyward]

Thank you. I’m thinking… at what point does the extra b roll (the clearly professional footage I used) become necessary or likewise surplus to requirements ? I’m not against putting the graft in but if I just want to share thoughts do I really need to add the bells and whistles ! I guess that’s also what I was trying to get across.

[@chrisbaron70]

I like it because it’s real and no hype

[@djandyward]

Yea buddy. Lots to talk about soon.

[@scottsaul]

I’ve heard that if you put the word cats in your tags you will get more views because a lot of people look for cat stuff 🙏👍

[@djandyward]

HaHa, I'll give that a miss but thanks.