This is by no means stellar in the world of Shorts (the top ones get millions of views) but this is an instant outlier for my channel and is great to see the potential it implies. My new channel is @thesmallcrown if you are interested in taking a look. 4 shorts videos in and the research I did before launching this channel is already proving true. The channel has jumped to 74 subscribers in 2 days since launch mostly from the outlier video. Viewership is mostly 24-44 year old women which is the demographic I was wanting to target. I think the cute kids in the video is helping that. The viewership has shifted from predominantly Australia and India to USA, Australia and United Kingdom. This channel is part of my strategy to have a flywheel of content that leads to itself. Online viewership builds brand awareness and evidence of people enjoying the experience. It gives me a catalogue to point people to for live bookings at festivals and events that I can charge for, which builds my digital content for the channel by recording at the event. As viewership grows I get to be my own brand sponsor to promote shows and other products people can purchase or shows I want to point them to online (eg the web series I am writing that will be on another channel). One feeds the other. I was out a another community festival yesterday doing it all again. Got 20-30 usable clips of people playing and had two people yesterday asking me about coming to other live event they are running. At this stage - yes - it is an hours of my time with no direct return - but I call this the capital investment in building the product. I know a few other people in here are doing stuff on YouTube - what are you working on for your channel atm?

It's a comment, and it's positive but I want to correct the grammar 🤣🙃

Most important gig of the year :) She asked me to build some games for her reception and my wife made the wedding dress. Here is a little snippet of both. The dress was patterned from scratch, the lace panels on the bodices, sleeves and bottom trim had sequins and beads all added by hand. I also MC'd the reception at her request so I was a bit distracted and forgot to get some photos on my phone at the event. T'was a good day and everyone had a great time.

I'm going to see if there's a chance that we can fund theatre work through Skool. https://www.skool.com/live-theatre-fueled-by-skool-1706/about I've set up a new community. It's freemium at the moment so I just need three people to join so that it can be seen in Discovery. If you want to join for free so that way I can get it discovered, that would be amazing. What I'm hoping is that people love the idea, again, looking for ways that are things that are not currently on Skool that I can try and be first in the market to. If you can help me out by jumping in and becoming a member of that group so that we can get it seen in Discovery, that would be amazing.

Got to go to the premiere of an indie movie I had a non speaking role in. The director is a young guy I worked with as an actor a bunch of years ago who went on to create Australia's first single shot feature film. It rocketed him into regular film work as a producer and director. So pleased to see him succeed in the way he has. He did something remarkable and it made a huge difference. Some inspiration there for sure.