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Skillshare

company · in 57 sources (2019–2023)

Sources by year: 2019: 8 · 2020: 22 · 2021: 14 · 2022: 12 · 2023: 1

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Also named in the threads: Ali's weekly email newsletter (2018) · Ali says he is going to work on his own Skillshare classes, taking a deep dive into how he makes his videos: filming, editing and post-production. · Ali says he is working on an ultimate study guide video (2023) · Ali: release his productivity class on Skillshare (2020) · On a Zoom call Ali and Angus plan the final details of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, a four-week live interactive course Ali runs for the first time from next week (week of 16 November 2020). · Appendix, Ali's second YouTube channel (2019)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Skillshare classes (23) · Final Cut Pro (9) · passive income (8) · Thomas Frank (6) · Part-Time YouTuber Academy (12) · Peter McKinnon (6) · Brilliant (4) · YouTube (10) · cracking open the black box (2) · Anki (5)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2023

  • 2023-01-05 (said on 2022-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Made as a YouTuber & Entrepreneur (2022) — Ali: Some sponsors, such as Google or Facebook, care more about brand awareness than views, while others value a sponsorship by its conversions: Skillshare tracks Ali's link and raises or lowers his rate. — 00:14:46
    • In 2022 Ali's newsletter was sponsored for the first time; each issue now carries a sponsor, such as Skillshare or Morning Brew, and many sponsors are booked for 2023. — 00:21:05
    • Skillshare works like Netflix, a subscription to watch as much as you like, and pays teachers like streaming royalties: a small amount for every minute someone watches their classes. — 00:29:09
    • Ali's first Skillshare class, on editing videos in Final Cut Pro, took him a day to film and a freelancer two days to edit; since September 2019 it has made a few thousand dollars a month completely passively. — 00:30:04
    • Ali's Skillshare classes made $8,470 in 2019, $449,295 in 2020 and $859,106 in 2021, probably his second-highest revenue source that year. — 00:30:33
    • Because Skillshare also sponsors his videos, Ali can plug his own Skillshare classes in its sponsor reads and earn from both the read and the watch time, a synergy he calls almost unheard of with any other sponsor. — 00:31:02
    • Around mid-2022 Skillshare changed its pricing structure and Ali's monthly revenue there took a hit: $778,131 in 2022, against $859,000 in 2021. — 00:32:42
    • Ali suspects his Skillshare revenue will be even lower in 2023, as Skillshare, hit by the recession, tries to save money; keeping his classes there is still very profitable. (hedged) — 00:32:42
    • Seeing that Skillshare's payments were too good to last, Ali told his team to make and host their own courses: with your own product you are not reliant on a third-party platform and its rules. — 00:35:07
    • Skillshare's change cut Ali's Skillshare revenue by 50% overnight, and YouTuber friends banned from Skillshare lost all of theirs, which is what happens when you rely on a platform you do not control. — 00:35:37
  • …and 1 statement more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

2022

  • 2022-02-04 · How to Make Money Online — Ali: YouTube has monetisation built in, Ali says: AdSense pays by default, and at about 10,000 to 20,000 subscribers brands such as Skillshare and Brilliant start asking to sponsor videos. — 00:28:47
  • 2022-02-25 · How to Grow on YouTube - Live Stream with Ali Abdaal — Ali: All of Ali's material for students is free or on Skillshare rather than a paid course, because students could not afford a paid course. — 01:04:35
    • Ali's team is launching a Skillshare class on how to grow on YouTube the following week. — 01:14:33
    • Ali's new free Skillshare class, a step-by-step guide to starting a YouTube channel, was filmed a few weeks earlier and is being edited; Part-Time YouTuber Academy sign-ups get it free. — 01:15:10
  • 2022-03-03 · How To Start a YouTube Channel - Beginner’s Guide to YouTube — announcement: Ali's Skillshare class YouTube for Beginners is now out, free through a link in the description: creating the channel, the first video, the fear of posting, being on camera, thumbnails, titles and market research. — 00:29:07
  • 2022-04-29 · How to Invest as a Teenager — announcement: Ali has about 12 classes on Skillshare and has just released a new one, YouTube for Beginners, on building a YouTube channel from scratch. — 00:11:05
  • 2022-05-12 · What Am I Doing With My Life? — Ali's business hopes about £1 million of 2022 revenue will come from the YouTube channel and another £1 million from other courses, such as Skillshare and its own. (hedged) — 00:02:26
  • 2022-07-22 · How Much YouTube Paid Me For 10M Views — Ali: The Nine Passive Income Ideas video nearly did not happen: it was meant as a plug for a Skillshare class Ali was making, until at the last minute the team decided to take it seriously as a YouTube video. — 00:03:24
  • 2022-08-26 · 27 Critical Apps That Shaped My Life — Ali's Skillshare classes, made since late 2019, earn his business about $50,000 to $80,000 a month from about 12 or 13 classes paid per minute watched. — 00:22:38
    • When Skillshare took off, Ali's business revenue jumped from about $10,000 a month to about $70,000 a month within a few months. (hedged) — 00:23:07

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2021

  • 2021-02-28 · 10 cheap purchases that improved my life — Ali has eight online classes on Skillshare, two of them on studying for exams. — 00:07:45
  • 2021-04-04 · 9 Lessons From My Favourite YouTuber — Ali: When Ali worries that people will think him a sellout for charging for a course or a Skillshare class, he recalls that he never thought Peter McKinnon a sellout for charging money. — 00:11:27
  • 2021-04-15 · 9 Passive Income Ideas - How I Make $27k per Week — Ali: Skillshare pays $7 in affiliate commission for each referred free-trial sign-up, Ali says, so $100 a month takes 15 sign-ups a month, which is not that hard with an audience. — 00:14:59
    • Ali's business makes about $11,000 a month (about $2,750 a week) in Skillshare affiliate income, and about $450 a month from the Amazon UK store plus a little more from the US and Canada. — 00:16:27
    • If you have a valuable skill to teach, Ali thinks courses are one of the best ways to make passive income: they are fun to create and need few technical skills, as you can put them on Skillshare. — 00:22:31
    • Ali's Skillshare classes make about $60,000 a month, around $15,000 a week and the bulk of his business's $27,000 a week; once a class is made he only replies to comments and occasionally plugs it. — 00:23:18
  • 2021-04-18 · How I Manage My Time - 10 Time Management Tips — announcement: Ali has three Skillshare classes on productivity and time management: one on the fundamentals of productivity, one on his productivity equation, and a third, on productivity for creators with a side hustle, released the week before (April 2021). — 00:10:48
  • 2021-08-15 · Revealing ALL My Investments at 27 — Ali's Skillshare class on editing videos with Final Cut Pro took him one day to film and a freelancer two days to edit, and makes between $2,000 and $5,000 every month without him doing anything. — 00:23:41
  • 2021-08-25 · How to Start a Business from Nothing — recommendation: Ali: Not knowing how to edit, Ali would get a part-time job, save about 700 pounds for a second-hand MacBook and learn iMovie from his Skillshare class or free YouTube tutorials, a few hours a day for a few weeks. — 00:05:43
  • 2021-10-09 · Helicopters, Travel and Film Making - A Conversation with Becki and Chris — Ali says interior design feels to him like a black box needing a qualification, as learning to code does to many people, until you go into it and find tutorials, Skillshare classes and plenty of free material online. (hedged) — 00:03:43
  • 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — Ali's Skillshare royalties ran between $55,000 and $74,000 a month from January to October 2021; with affiliate income, Skillshare has made $716,691 this year (2021), not counting November and December. — 00:23:58
    • Ali started on Skillshare after a friend showed him stats of about $2,000 a month, which seemed a life-changing amount that might let him hire someone, before he had a team. — 00:24:51
  • …and 11 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

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2020

  • 2020-02-27 · How to Study for Exams - An Evidence-Based Masterclass — announcement: Ali: In 2023 Ali puts his evidence-based study masterclass, which over 100,000 people had taken on Skillshare, on YouTube for free as a thank-you to the students who support his channel. — 00:00:58
  • 2020-03-31 · How to Study for Exams - My NEW Masterclass // Behind the Scenes — announcement: Ali's class on how to study for exams is now live on Skillshare: over 35 videos of evidence-based techniques on everything about studying for exams. — 00:08:09
  • 2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali prefers Skillshare to selling courses on his own website for more money: it has distribution built in, and his mostly student audience gets a two-month free trial, then about $9 a month. — 00:23:06
    • Ali's one Skillshare class, filmed in a day and edited by a freelancer in two, made $1,428.86 that week, more than his 63 hours as a doctor, with no work beyond the odd reply to a comment. — 00:24:33
  • 2020-05-29 · How I Ranked 1st at Cambridge University - My Secret — announcement: Ali launches his new Skillshare class, Learn Anything with Flashcards: The Ultimate Guide to Anki. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-09-01 · Gymshark, Inspirations & Pet Peeves - ONE MILLION Subscribers Q&A — Ali currently makes more from Skillshare than from YouTube, but only because he has an audience already built on YouTube. — 00:04:20
    • If he could pick only YouTube or Skillshare, Ali would pick YouTube: building an audience there is relatively straightforward, and that audience can then be funnelled into paid things. — 00:04:49
  • 2020-09-25 · How Stoicism Made Me Happier — announcement: Ali and his friend Sam have just released a Skillshare class on Stoicism, How to Be Happier – A Stoicism Masterclass, on its five fundamental principles and five domains where they applied them. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali's Skillshare earnings were $3,105.89 in January 2020, $300 of it from affiliate links, and $2,643 in February; his class on how to study for exams came out on the last day of March, which brought $5,680.57. — 00:35:17
    • Ali's Skillshare earnings were $29,746.84 in April 2020, $9,340 of it from affiliate sign-ups; after his Anki class came out at the end of May, May brought $40,926.99, and with a productivity class at the end of June, June $56,547.21. — 00:35:44
    • Ali's Skillshare earnings were $62,541 in July 2020, $60,582 in August, $67,363 in September and $66,194 in October; he estimates about $60,000 each for November and December. (hedged) — 00:36:21
    • With seven classes on Skillshare, Ali has made about $515,000 from watch time and affiliate sign-ups in 2020, which a year earlier he would not have believed. — 00:36:50
  • …and 38 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

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2019

Also named in: How to Study for Exams - The STic Framework for Effective Learning, How I use my iPad Pro as a Doctor, Do students need an iPad or a MacBook?, Study with Me + How I Learn New Content