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College of Production round up: Make the most of YouTube and online drama with a culinary twist

Ben Toone

Assistant Content Producer

I鈥檓 Ben Toone, assistant content producer at the .

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Have you heard of Jack Harries? Two million plus subscribers to his have made him something of a YouTube celebrity. He, along with 鈥檚 Richard Herd and 鈥檚 Chris Howard gave their advice on how to run a successful YouTube channel in our .

Jack Harries, Richard Herd and Chris Howard chat about running successful YouTube channels


From making the content short and snappy to maintain the audience鈥檚 attention to collaborating with other YouTubers, making best use of features such as annotations and playlists and their preferred equipment to use - with YouTube pushing to take on TV and be the place that people come to watch video, TV producers should take note!

From factual short-form content on YouTube to . Sandy Nicholson talks about how he wrote and produced , the world鈥檚 first cooking show with characters and a plot.

The series was funded by crowdsourcing with fans donating towards the production of the series after watching a pilot. It鈥檚 a continuing trend with many low budget film-makers turning to the fans to raise funds through sites like or and broadcasting on the web rather than pitching to traditional broadcasters.

The added bonus with this approach is that you actively engage with your audience, something that resulted in the Comfort Food team being deluged with pictures of desserts made by the audience as they watched the show!

Comfort Food: the first cooking show with characters and plot


Keep your profile relevant to the work you want and the professional you are鈥. Sound advice from our editor as he delivered a on getting your career profile noticed online to a live audience and on Twitter at the .

From choosing the right platform to how to present your ideas and content, we鈥檝e storified all the questions and useful tips, not only from Paul but from our ever helpful and resourceful Twitter followers.

Finally, a quick word on : a week-long event looking at digital ideas and innovation for the Welsh creative industries. Welsh broadcaster from the event with sessions up on YouTube.

主播大秀CoP and live tweeted from the event and there鈥檒l be some articles to follow. You can find out more about one of the innovative online drama鈥檚 featured on one of Monday鈥檚 talks, Pobol y Cwm spin off PyC, in our .

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