Quotes About Engagement

I started using YouTube when I really wanted to reach out to the world, and I found a group of people who had the same interests as me.

So, one of the biggest things about YouTube versus any other platform is the built-in audience and discovery tools.

I've got a few things on YouTube and the most I've ever had is about 8,000 clicks over five years.

YouTube, for me, is the primary platform.

Now, with YouTube, the audience decides. You can make something that is 20 minutes long or one minute long.

The thing I love about YouTube is it's almost like having an instant audience for improv.

YouTube has a hundred engineers who are trying to get the perfect next video to play automatically. And their techniques are only going to get more and more perfect over time, and we will have to resist the perfect.

Gaming content is exactly what YouTube wants (the videos are long, the audiences are engaged, and thus people stay on the site).

The best way for me to discover new music is through YouTube, and through my readers emailing me stuff.

I thought magic tricks would be a really good way to start conversations. I looked them up on YouTube and slowly mastered them.

I was acting long before I began making videos on YouTube. But without the platform, would people have paid attention to what I had to offer in quite the same way? I don't think they would have and I think what we pay attention to now has been shaped by social media.

We're not trying to get 2 billion people on Patreon to compete with YouTube.

A lot of people hear the Pomplamoose story and think the moral of the story is to post your stuff on YouTube. I don't think that's the moral at all. The moral is, go where the people are, and be innovative and different. Make something unusual.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive.

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.

Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did.

My party trick is that I ask everybody questions. I'm just nosey.

I'm still involved in the business of Cheap Trick, so I keep my eye on that kind of stuff.

During a campaign, the trick is to spend no more than 15 to 30 seconds with anyone and to keep moving so that you not only shake a few hundred hands but also have a thousand people see you doing it.

I try to make every issue new-reader friendly. I remember being frustrated many times trying to pick up new series that were overladen with baggage. The trick is to make that backstory seem like something compelling that they will want to explore rather than an obstacle course they have to crawl through to get to the story.

With a rowdy audience, the trick is not to go louder and try to beat them into submission. It's to go quieter. As they get loud, you get soft. Then they lean in towards you to listen.

I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked.