Hi Everyone! Thank you all for being part of this journey!! After 6 months of posting 1 long form per week and mostly posting 1 short 4-6x a week (only for the past 3 months with the shorts) I've reached monetization! It's official!!! PINCH ME!!! Super excited!!! 🥳

I’ve gotten a ton of great feedback on this video and I also think it’s the missing piece for a lot of you to growing faster. I don’t usually post my videos here but this is a must watch. 👀

I just put up a Short I actually filmed months ago but I never used my drive in to my Philly Skyline video about City Hall talking about it for 40 seconds from I-95 in the car. The long form video has 58 current views on Historic City Hall with Willam Penn’s statue atop. I released the Short as a fun history “Where is it?” It actually appears for a few seconds. 1 comment so far which is nice for a Short

YouTube's new 3-tier viewer metric is a game-changer: ✅ New Viewers = your discoverability is working ⚠️ Casual Viewers = they know you but don't need you yet 🎯 Regular Viewers = your "core" (watched 6+ months consistently) Channels with high Regular % get homepage priority in 2026. Here's the strategic question most creators miss: "What can I create ONCE that viewers want WEEKLY?" Not daily news (burnout). Not random topics (no pattern-building). Try this instead: 1. Pick ONE weekly recurring segment 2. Track Casual → Regular conversion for 8 weeks 3. Double down on what works Examples: - "Friday Founder Updates" (your niche) - "Tuesday Troubleshooting" (help + consistency) - "Weekend Workshop" (hands-on value) Currently testing this with my coaching clients - early results show 2-3x faster Regular Viewer growth vs. random posting. Anyone else adapting to this shift?

Google's losing ad revenue to AI Overviews (those summaries at the top of search results). Their solution? Push YouTube videos HARD into "how-to" search results. Every video gets slapped with an ad before it plays. That's Google clawing back what AI summaries are stealing. This is HUGE for creators. Your videos now show up in Google Search AND YouTube recommendations - double the discovery potential. I just committed to going all-in on YouTube in 2026 because of this shift. Question: Have you searched for a "how-to" lately and noticed videos dominating the results? Check your own niche queries - I bet you'll see the same pattern. 👇