Yes, as of the day before
yesterday, there now is a regional YouTube page for Switzerland, meaning there
is the address youtube.ch. When I first heard of that I wasn't that impressed
as I thought it was nothing spectacular, but a friend of mine changed my point
of view a bit. This post will explain at some point how YouTube works, at least
what I understood so far.
As you might or might not
know, I've fallen in love with YouTube lately. I did two videos, the third is
in the process of being done (I need to refilm it as I hate what I did...), but
to this point I'm rather consuming than producing. When said friend announced
on twitter that it's now easier to become a YouTube partner and that at some
point we might even get a creator space, I started to realize what that really
meant for the local YouTube Community. So at first let me explain you those two
things, "YouTube Partner" and "Creator Space"
There is a thing called the
partner program, I don't know the Swiss rules yet, but in the UK you need to
have 10'000 subscriber and you can get into that program. It includes some
perks like getting money from your video's ads and the possibility to go to the
creator space
The creator space is
literally one of the coolest things ever. The first was opened in London, there
are two in the USA and one opens in Tokyo really soon, at least as far as I
know. It's a place where YouTube partners can hang out, film collabs and even
get professional help on their work. Also there aspiring but not so famous
creators get teachings on how to improve their content. So if we'd get one of
those, it would be a huge chance for the Swiss YouTube community.
I can see a problem there
though. When I asked my twitter friend how many Swiss vloggers, or youtubers at
all, she knew, she had admitted that she knew none, just like me. Where are all
the creators here? I'm sure they're out there, not yet known. So maybe this
whole YouTube thing gives us a voice. Maybe my friend will start producing
stuff, maybe I will, and of course others are already doing great stuff. Let's
see what we get out of this. I've heard that it might be a chance for musicians,
but I'd really like to see about sketch makers and vloggers, maybe some make-up
gurus too.
I still continued to make a
little research and found a Swiss vlogger. The thing is her videos are German,
and I'm not sure about how I like that, I mean it wasn’t „originally Swiss“, as
it wasn’t swiss-german, but it wasn’t as international as it could’ve been if
she used English. There are good German youtubers out there, and I don’t want
to limit their success, but I enjoy the English language way too much. Maybe
I'll do a post about the whole language topic another time, but let's end this
here.
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