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Passport Heavy is your in-depth guide to everything you need to know about everywhere you want to go and the places you have yet to discover. Founded in 2016 by an experienced traveler and innovative marketer, Jubril Agoro, Passport Heavy is a video production company created to connect and inspire a new generation of travelers. Passport Heavy is one of the biggest travel channels on Youtube delivering authentic video content on destinations worldwide alongside creative film-makers, social media travel influencers, and photographers. Don’t miss our free city guides, packed with the do’s and don’ts of popular destinations and undiscovered gems you need to see, all available for download.
Why you should travel with Passport Heavy: Local authentic storytelling. Visual storytelling. Traveling with purpose. Digital Nomad lifestyle, Central America, South America, Belize.
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Perhaps it s no surprise, then, that vlogging is becoming a big business. Though many vloggers make only $20 a day (barely more than $7,000 a year), the most successful are raking in as much as $7 million annually. One especially successful vlogger who often plays in the travel space, Casey Neistat, even built a spinoff app to help creators share their videos, then sold it to CNN last November for $25 million as part of the network s push to compete with YouTube. Travel creators are poised to steal the spotlight on these video platforms, just as they have on Instagram. By and large, their influence is being wielded on YouTube. According to a study that was run in part by Google (YouTube
This is great insight, Meubelen!
Some vloggers are intentionally using Youtube to monetize and establish a carrer while others happen to stumble into it; the opportunity is there to earn a stable income.
On page 11, I showcased the Vagabros, and they began as phone-held-travel-vloggers growing to having their own broadcast television show on Hulu and Tastemade.
The success of Yotube and it’s creators will bring competition (if they can survive) and this will lead to new and innovative platforms for creators of all types.