Welcome back!
How are your IELTS studies going?
If you hadn’t heard by now, Youtube has made some sweeping changes to how it is dealing with small content producers. They’re basically wanting channels with a minimum of 1000 subscribers that regularly visit, and a minimum of 4000 hours watched per year. My EziEnglish channel has 3000 subscribers, most of which only ever watched the channel until they passed the IELTS exam, and many videos of just a few minutes each, so unlikely to generate more than 1 hour of watching per month. The trouble with ‘educational content’ is that there is little reason to keep producing it once you have taught what you need to teach. There’s barely any change to the information. And even if there is, that would be just one video.
So, of course, I’m pretty sad that Youtube has decided to mainly focus on entertainment and news videos and forget educational channels. With no regular video output, or the only option is to keep recreating the same output, I’m pretty sure most educational content on Youtube will begin to disappear.
Sad.
So, rather than fight another collapsing market, I’ve removed my videos from the Youtube index, and will just post links to them here from now on. If you’d like to see more, please bookmark this site.
Speaking of which, here is video 80. Enjoy!