ICG Creator Chat show

ICG Creator Chat

Summary: The Internet Creators Guild is proud to present the Creator Chat podcast, bringing you candid conversations between Hank Green and pioneering creators and industry experts in online media. Brought to you by the Internet Creators Guild, a nonprofit membership organization made by and for creators.

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 Episode 46: January Debrief with Anthony | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:46:12

Today Hank and Anthony are going to talk a little bit about why I have YouTube stories are actually different, and might be a good thing, about how long it has taken (and will take us) to learn how to be better at using the internet, and about how the YouTube algorithm is encouraging longer content (and why that might be bad for users, and actually one of the biggest competitive advantages YouTube has opened up for a competitor). Also, as always, we'll talk about the music industry and how it's screwing us all over.

 Episode 45: Jeffery Cranor | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:54:37

Today we're talking to Jeffrey Cranor who, along with Joseph Fink created one of the first, most successful, and most influential fictional podcasts of all time, Welcome to Night Vale. If you don't know about Night Vale, it is a small town in the desert and it is very dangerous and creepy and you do not want to be an intern at the radio station. It's hilarious, surreal, and horrifying, and it exploded into the podcast world, rapidly changing everyone's minds about what can work in podcasts. Today we're going to talk about the secret sauce of creative collaboration, how we need to invest in partnerships, and work to maintain healthy relationships. We'll also talk about why they have a PR firm, why they didn't take advertising for the first several years of their porject, and about this fancy new thing called "Dynamic Insertion."

 Episode 44: December Debrief with Anthony | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:43:39

Today Anthony D'Angelo and Hank Green chat about the goings on in online video, including a quick note about YouTube Rewind, but also a lot about DEFY Media closing down, how it works, what it means, and how vulnerable creators are to the corporations that we work with. We'll also chat about a bunch of other stuff, including YouTube's recently launched snapchat/instagram-like Stories feature, an interesting step for the platform that might be really fun, but also might be really not what we need right now.

 Episode 43: Franchesca Ramsey | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:09:42

Today we're going to have a fascinating conversation with Franchesca Ramsey, who has floated between being a YouTuber and creating for traditional media. She's had viral comedy videos, and successful hair tips videos, but also she's done stand up comedy, been a commentator on The Daily Show and produces a series for MTV. We're going to talk about how viral success led her to legacy media work, how she picked her agent, how to keep from feeling so alone in this business. We'll also talk some about Twitter's problems and whether they're getting better or worse at handling them, and what role we all have to play in trying to make the internet a less toxic place.

 Episode 42: November Debrief with Anthony | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:53:17

Today it's another chat between me and Anthony D'Angelo, the Executive Director of the Guild. We talk about what YouTube's outages made us think, and what the EU's Article 13 legislation means for the internet (spoiler, it's not good.) But also we've got thoughts on Logan Paul's new movie coming out, but Scare Pewdiepie remaining shelved, what that says about YouTube, and what it says about the maturation of our industry. Finally, we've got some thoughts on what Shane Dawson is up to, and what opportunities it might open up for smaller creators.

 Episode 41: William Osman | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:00:47

Today we're talking to William Osman, along with Cameraman John, makes ridiculous videos documenting his work making ridiculous things....whether it's a vaping beanie, a remote controlled living dog, or the over-powered shopping cart I hit myself in the crotch with at VidCon. If the creations weren't enough, the videos are shot and produced with a subtlety that most mistake for simplicity immersing the viewer in the process and making them feel like part of the team. It's so good, I love his stuff, and I love the conversation we had. I was pretty shocked to find how bad his experiences with YouTube support had been, the pretty weird reason why he started making weird stuff, and the surprisingly old-school way he comes up with video ideas.

 Episode 40: October Debrief with Anthony | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:50:00

Today it's another chat between me and Anthony D'Angelo, the Executive Director of the Guild. We talk about the new Memberships feature on YouTube, how to decide where to go on tour, brand deal controversies, specifically BetterHelp but also just generally what responsibilities creators have, the current state of Net Neutrality in the US, and YouTube's new advertising product where YouTube algorithmically constructs ads for advertisers. Yikes.

 Episode 39: Pat Graziosi (Life Noggin) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:58:03

Anthony fills in for Hank while he's on his book tour and sits down with Pat Graziosi from Life Noggin. They talk about animation, what it's like creating a live show for Twitch and about some of the creators in the earlier years of web video influenced them.

 Episode 38: Lindsay Ellis | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:49:57

Lover and critic of film and media Lindsay Ellis has been making video for about as long as I have...so, like, a long time. But she only started on YouTube about three years ago. Her videos take a huge amount of work and are extremely watchable and compelling even though they're frequently over 30 minutes long. That means the way she has to fund her content, and now her small business, are different from your average YouTuber. Also, as a progressive woman with strong opinions, she is no stranger to controversy as we're about to discuss right now. By chance, as we began recording this video, Lindsay was dealing with a mob of Twitter trolls trying to get her fired from her contract gig with PBS because of a joke she made on Twitter, y'know, because it's 2018. So we'll talk about that, and we'll talk about how she makes more money from YouTube premium THAN ANYONE I'VE EVER HEARD OF and how she built her small team, and about her very weird path to finally moving to YouTube. Everyone, this is Lindsay.

 Episode 37: September Debrief with Anthony | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:50:10

Today Anthony D'Angelo, the executive director of the ICG and Hank will be talking about SO MANY THINGS. What's going on with Fortnite, how do we port the boxing livestream model to anything besides boxing, a little known but fascinating YouTube controversy in the K-pop world, ICG Discount codes for Buffer festival, SAG-AFTRA's deal with the new streaming platform Zeus, apologizing for your old racist tweets, and YouTube overtaking Facebook as the second most visited site on the internet. It's always good to chat with Anthony.

 Episode 36: August Debrief with Anthony | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:56:00

Today is another chat between ICG Executive Director Anthony D'Angelo and I and, of course, the big news now is that Facebook and Twitter had the worst day ever in their existence on the stock market. Facebook lost more value in one day than any company ever has before. What this comes down to is "bad actors" trolls, russian hackers, bullies, and conspiracy theorists, and the markets seem to be waking up some to the severity of some of these problems. So let's talk about that! But also about burnout and stress and success and YoUTube's new hashtags, and YoUTube and Facebook's new patreon-like membership features, what they mean, and why they're different from Patreon.

 Episode 35: Jack Conte | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:54:52

Today we're talking to musician, creator, but most relevantly CEO of Patreon, Jack Conte. We're going to talk about some of the most successful and innovative campaigns he's seen on Patreon lately, whether he sees paid membership features from Facebook and YouTube as a threat, how Patreon and he, as the CEO, handled their misstesps half a year ago, how we are all being expected to be able to handle negative public discourse about us, and also how he manages to run a big ol' company with 170 employees and still make videos and music. So excited to share this one with you!

 Episode 34: July Debrief with Anthony | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:53:15

Today, Anthony D'Angelo, the Executive director of the ICG are going through the news of the last two weeks since VidCon. That means Instagram TV, Alternate Monetization launches, and YouTube's Thumbnail Science Experiment!

 Episode 33: Echo Gilette | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:48:16

Echo Gilette is an artist and YouTuber who has a channel that mixes personality-based content with videos about art, art supplies, reviews, and tutorials. It's a great mix, you get connected with the creator, but she's also filling a need for an existing audience. There's a lot of strategy here. Echo is also just on the edge of turning her channel into what she calls a "Businessy Business." That's an exciting time for a channel with 150 videos, 350,000 subscribers, and a few recent viral hits. She's also a great person to talk to about not just building an audience, but building the audience you want. I'm so excited to share this chat.

 Episode 32: June Debrief with Anthony | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:55:57

Anthony D'Angelo the executive director of the ICG and Hank break down some events from the past couple weeks. We'll go through the Instagram algorithm, net neutrality, YouTube subscriptions and more.

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