Building An Audience of 20 Million In 1 Year - Masterclass with Jake Fellman

In this episode Jake Fellman talks with Chris Do about the rise of his personal brand, how he grew an audience of 20 million in one year, and how he began his business as a full-time animator at just his early 20s.
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[@drmatthewhorkey]

I met Jake on Clubhouse and was astonished by the work he put into his videos. After hearing him, I always remind myself to not complain about editing ever…

[@nickjanesdotcom]

😊

[@phamlove]

So glad I stumbled on this channel. Chris, you are a phenomenal interviewer and among so many guests on The Futur, What an inspirational human being Jake is! Thank you for sharing this. Looking forward to the next one!

[@thefutur]

Thank you so much. Glad to have you.

[@SGDCTVDUBAI]

Very inspiring! Thanks for sharing. As a 2 year Creator and designer I can relate to many of Jake's experiences, views and advices. Thanks alot Chris, your contribution to inspire and earn well will be remembered for years to come!

[@thefutur]

Glad to hear

[@LivingExclusively]

This young man is wise beyond his years!

[@flyryde]

Just saw this. 2 of my favorite people on the internet 💜 I have a great pic of me and Jake at an event that this reminded me of. I think I gotta frame it 👌

[@Jaimesebe]

This episode is a Jewel!!!!!Thanks for sharing this one guys!!!Truly, inspiring for every creator out there!!

[@shazme4915]

Sorry forgot to mention about young guy . Keep the spirit on you are on track dont walk fast while you walk specially while looking upward 👍👍👍

[@adolphekatia9418]

What an inspiring young man!!! Thank you

[@rithli]

One of my favorite episodes in a while. Thanks to you both for the insight and impressions.

[@fabersoul]

Gotta say this ,Jake's hurt my feelings a little but I can only be proud of someone achieving success through merit and hard work. He is very self aware and I think his lack of arrogance has been a big factor in his success. Though i work hard too, my arrogance has been my downfall. Respect to Jake

[@rpschaer2795]

Thanks for this, loved the teaser !!!

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

24:00 well this tells he had everything to start and keep doing from somewhere , no money needed. People who are broke or in need spend a good amount of the money they get. I would instantly pay a better rent, or use it the haver a better networking.

[@Cs2GamiNG]

Bammmmm! Jake you inspired me.

[@parasocialbondsmetaswvoits9078]

This content value is outstanding! Thanks for sharing!

[@thefutur]

Glad to hear

[@swantonbomber20]

This video speaks volumes Chris thanks to you and your guest host

[@thefutur]

Thank you so much!

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

The Futur is finally back !

[@GeorgeKayesi]

I really enjoyed watching this!

[@tilosobelman3114]

Good job Jake!! Great video Chris!

[@thefutur]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Oluwagbemiga_]

Amazingly cool. Thanks for this.

[@chrisnossoughi9039]

Any advice for a 55 yr old artist about to enter the content building world? I feel quite intimidated by all these amazing young creators who are so fast to adapt to the ever changing social media world. I have very diverse interest and skill …how do I organize all my video and photo content ? And do I need many channels ?

[@frankbfallon]

1) Take your age out of the equation. It has nothing to do with success because it has been shown time after time to come at any age. 2) Be open: learn from everyone who is (again, young and old) and disregard how they make you feel (intimidation, too old, not enough, etc). Your feelings will only hold you back. 4) Take responsible risks, and don’t be afraid to fail… because you will fail, and you can learn a lot from failure. Good luck to you, Chris! 3) Find/build your community: everyone needs support in one form or another. Even if it’s just a simple affirmation. Every little bit helps.

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

49:00

[@thefutur]

I'd start w/ one. use this to inspire you to take action vs. being/feeling demoralized.

[@thefutur]

well said Frank!

[@LennyYT]

Chris, maybe a format that you can explore for Shorts is reacting to designers work just adding your two cents on how to sell the stuff.

[@thefutur]

Good suggestion

[@KimAlbarranTheGameChanger]

So true!

[@IanConnel]

He profits off of an existing trend - Among Us. Same with Mr. Beast did with Minecraft. How do we do this with original ideas? That's the person I want to hear.

[@thefutur]

find cross over content. a mash up between a trend, your expertise and speak about it. I did this with Better Call Saul and sales.

[@freezerburn84]

We need outlines starting from scratch and no resources or access to tech. Starting without basically anything without the ability to wait, to hope, to get lucky.

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

11:41 he said all: following trends…! These people later come later tell you “be yourself “ “be bold” “don’t care about others think”, “make something unique”. For example i upload new original classical music almost every week since 2018 , and work about 5 hours each night daily, to get stuck at 500 subs, less than any tits or butt speaking about ice cream. Meanwhile i am paid to compose music, and invited; so here you can see if KZbin is this angel you said….

[@jonathanacuna]

Love the passion!

[@ComedorDelrico]

I hope the new place Jake's moving into doesn't have rats! 😅 Well done, this interview left a smile on my face.

[@thefutur]

Thank you

[@freezerburn84]

The one thing that needs to be framed is that he obviously had backing likely lived at home few to no bills as he wasn't "needing" a job. These are great but need to framed around the privileges that working class below the poverty line don't have. There's just a lot of wealth privilege here and time privilege too. Not hating his work but without that frame it loses context.

[@thefutur]

We didn’t think a young person living at home with their parents was considered privileged.

[@freezerburn84]

@@thefutur ostensibly is, consider that there's no overhead , no bills, working class poverty line have few resources only have access to out of date tech. Don't get me wrong one can see how he had a good mindset. It's akin to starting Mario kart in 2nd place with a 30sec lead. Obviously something can be achieved more easily than last place, no nitro or blue shells to equal up the level of the challenge. After listening to 6k+ hours of biographical interviews/ audiobooks and podcasts the one common thing success stories have is usually they had a friend or family member let them live with free rent/ board and not having a time suck poverty wage job.

[@OscarTorresWork]

Thank you for posting this! Is he using which one of the listed? Cinema 4D, 3DS Max, Maya, Blender or Lightwave?

[@thefutur]

C4d

[@OscarTorresWork]

@@thefutur Thank you

[@almac8840]

Great work but how is he monetizing his videos on youtube? KZbin wont allow ads on videos shorter the 3 minutes and all his videos are well under that..

[@thefutur]

I don't think he is. it sounded like he wasn't making money and wasn't too concerned about it. he's probably playing the long game.

[@shazme4915]

3k view .1.99M subscriber 25 comments ? . Could you please allow us to think abt

[@fabersoul]

DAFUQ, how and where do freelancers find these clients!?

[@natashalarmielifestyle6983]

Although I live in an environment that has very different factors and context at play, I think was very invaluable! Thank you. Didn't know who he was until this but the conversation has been very interesting.

[@foreigncommittee]

Fantastic video. Thank you for this.

[@thefutur]

You’re very welcome

[@LuciusMaximusReal]

WoW

[@killsounddnb775]

Chris, great interview as always, good quality and content but I'm not really convinced by Jakes work though. It's great for him that his doing so well but I looked at some of his videos and I don't really get it. I think these shorts are ugly and very stupid. -in short: do the social media stats overrule the quality of the work and content? meaning you can make crap and if you happen to get good stats on social media it will automatically mean your work is good, even if it isn't? -in long: Is it because all the kids nowdays are just infinite-scrolling and liking everything that's roblox-minecraft style? Or am I missing something here? I know everybody always try to endorse someone who has lots of likes so they would be associated with them but that doesn't mean their work is of good quality. What I mean is: have the social media stats become the only metric of quality or are we still allowed to have an opinion about the actual quality of the work. People are likely to tag along with something that has a lot of likes simply because they want to be part of that group and not because the content is good. Think about it!

[@thefutur]

it's not the only stat, but it's shorthand that you are doing something that many people appreciate. when you're that prolific as Jake is, you can't make masterpieces every time. but you have to respect this young man's hustle and humility. I do.

[@iammattphinn]

You just need to do the work.

[@thefutur]

that is the secret.

[@thelouiebrand]

8.2k views and less than 50 comments with nearly 2m subs seems a bit off.

[@thefutur]

What should it be?

[@thelouiebrand]

@@thefutur well it should be a lot more.

[@AmyLongUS]

Can’t speak for all the potentially missing numbers, but this is the first The Futur thing that’s shown up in my feed in awhile ... and it was a long scroll down. Been a happy subscriber for years. If others have a similar KZbin feed experience, that explains it.

[@brandonread9809]

will this be on Spotify?

[@thefutur]

I believe this episode w/ Jake has already dropped on the Futur Podcast.

[@Maryam-ev7jy]

👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

if you need i can make music for your animations

[@mariamailing1500]

Whatever happened to matthew anyway?

[@thefutur]

He’s on his own now.

[@Gamer-nt2me]

Orrible 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤠

[@LennyYT]

Consistency above perfect, big takeaways!🙌🙏🫶🚀

[@willybranlund]

Hats off to this kid, he’s killin it!!!

[@socialsimodesign926]

He is amazing and very smart!We can learn so much from Jake! Thank you guys for creating this podcast!🙋‍♀️😺💯