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Lost LeBlanc
Never settle and make TODAY count. QUIT my job to travel the world. This is my story of unconditionally pursuing my passion for filmmaking and travel. I discovered that no amount of money or success would make me happy if I wasn’t doing what I loved. So, I quit. I sold everything I owned and bought a 1-way ticket to Thailand with no money, no real skills as a content creator and NO idea what I was doing.
Why you should travel with Lost LeBlanc: Christian has come a long way from his mobile handheld days and has learned the art of video making and storytelling. Cinematics, quality video. Bali expert. Always brings his girlfriends along.
1.76M subscribers: 162,995,064 views
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.