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2020

2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — Ali wanted Workflow to be a deep dive into the niche, nerdy specifics of how he uses his apps to maximise his productivity, a granular level of detail that he says does not work well on YouTube. — 00:01:52
2020-01-14 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps (2020) — recommendation: Ali replies to viewers' specific questions in YouTube comments through the YouTube Studio app, which shows all the comments across his videos in chronological order. — 00:18:27
2020-01-29 · 48h Study With Me + Highlighting Tips — Ali: Unable to explain lung and chest wall compliance to a five-year-old from the lecture notes alone, Ali finds YouTube videos on the concepts and watches parts of them at double speed to get to the insights. — 00:03:51
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali, a doctor working in Cambridge, says his channel has recently hit 600,000 subscribers, and he marks it with this Q&A. — 00:00:00
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — recommendation: Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked how often a beginner YouTuber should upload, the channel recommends one to two times per week. — creator comment
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: Before starting YouTube Ali did not really know what he wanted to do there; he knew he wanted to make educational content for medical students to help market his business teaching courses for medical applicants. — 00:00:29
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: When Ali first decided he wanted to be a YouTuber, around 2008, he wanted to do music production and be the next Kurt Schneider. — 00:00:58
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — recommendation: Ali: When starting on YouTube, Ali says, you just start making things; over time you niche down as you learn what resonates with people, so it is a case of trying a lot of things and seeing what is fun and what sticks. — 00:01:03
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — recommendation: Ali's first tip for someone starting on YouTube: focus on quantity rather than quality, because your first 100 videos will be absolutely terrible; the advice came from his friend Simon Clark. — 00:02:33
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — recommendation: Simon Clark (quoted): In a video about three years earlier, Simon Clark said a new YouTuber's first 50 videos will be awful, so churn them out as soon as possible. — 00:02:54
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: YouTube has changed Ali's life and the lives of many people he knows who took it seriously, Ali says, but it requires a huge amount of consistency over a very long period of time. — 00:03:37
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali calls it next level that you can make money from YouTube without viewers paying anything: very few business models work that way. — 00:03:57
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: Because the world is so uncertain, Ali calls a five- or ten-year plan a bit pointless; his principle, from Daniel Gross, is to maximise randomness and optionality, increasing the surface area for opportunity so he can seize serendipitous chances. — 00:04:51
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali publicly thanks Thomas Frank for changing his life: on a Skype call around September 2019 Frank introduced him to Standard, the YouTube agency Ali is now part of. — 00:06:34
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — Ali: The most valuable thing Ali has done outside his academic and medical career is his YouTube channel, which has given him many opportunities and a lot of income. — 00:13:38
2020-04-17 · Answering your Questions — recommendation: Ali: Starting a blog is a flywheel, Ali says: at first nobody reads it, but like a flywheel it is very slow to get going and unstoppable once it is going, as with a YouTube channel. — 00:14:43
2020-04-23 · This is Incredible - iPad Pro Magic Keyboard Impressions — Ali: The Magic Keyboard's trackpad is as good as a MacBook's, Ali says, though much smaller and with a physical click, and he expects it to significantly increase his productivity on the iPad, especially for selecting text. — 00:02:56
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: YouTube pays a video's creator whenever a viewer watches one of its ads; on Monday 23 March 2020 Ali made £95.66 in AdSense from 97,723 views, about £1 per thousand views. — 00:02:26
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: A photography YouTuber like Peter McKinnon probably makes a lot from Amazon affiliate links because his viewers buy expensive cameras and lenses; Ali's viewers buy books, pens or board games, so he makes little. (hedged) — 00:05:50
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: Casey Neistat, a YouTuber with over 10 million subscribers, has said publicly that he makes $10,000 to $100,000 per sponsored video, and more on some deals. — 00:19:34
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali's YouTube AdSense revenue for the week was £947, more than his weekly spending of £701 ($879) on mortgage, bills, food, car insurance and apps. — 00:20:00
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: YouTube is one of the very few platforms where creators make money while the audience pays nothing and advertisers pay, a business model with value exchanged on all fronts, Ali says. — 00:20:29
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: Becoming a YouTuber is very doable, Ali says, but takes a lot of time, effort and hard work, and there was a lot of luck in his own case; he takes no credit for it. — 00:20:52
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — recommendation: Ali: With that level of consistency, Ali says, YouTube income can fund your lifestyle, though it takes ages to build up. — 00:21:22
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali went from earning nothing on YouTube to cents a day, then about $100 and $500 a month; now AdSense alone brings $3,000 to $4,000 a month, enough to fund his lifestyle indefinitely. — 00:21:22
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — recommendation: Ali tells anyone thinking of starting YouTube to absolutely go for it. — 00:22:07
2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali: Notion, one of Ali's favourite apps of all time, is mainly his project-management tool: video schedules, online classes, his website, book reviews; he has made five YouTube videos about it. — 00:04:47
2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali puts his more detailed, niche app videos on Nebula, because on YouTube he likes to appeal to a wider audience. — 00:07:09
2020-05-05 · My Favourite Mac Apps · What's on my MacBook Pro? — Ali's Slack groups also include Standard, his YouTube agency, Pretty Okay YouTubers, a group of other YouTubers, and the A Team, his squad. — 00:17:53
2020-05-19 · How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels — announcement: Ali: Asked for a video on working with remote video editors, Ali answers it will probably be part of his Skillshare class about becoming a YouTuber, being too niche for a video. (hedged) — creator comment
2020-05-19 · How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels — Ali: Over 13 years Ali has done all three levels: he started selling services as a web and graphic designer, then sold products for medical school applicants and online question banks, and now leverages his YouTube attention. — 00:01:54
2020-05-19 · How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels — Ali has followed this playbook on his YouTube channel since 2017, after years of following Gary Vaynerchuk and Tim Ferriss, who flooded the market with valuable free content. — 00:14:39
2020-05-19 · How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels — recommendation: Ali advises teaching yourself HTML and CSS with free YouTube tutorials, HTML in a day and CSS in two days, and then building your own personal website. — 00:16:39
2020-06-23 · My Favourite Productivity Book of All Time — Ali: Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky both worked at Google designing products such as Gmail, YouTube and Google Hangouts, which Ali says gives them insight into why such services are so compelling and how to keep them from taking over our lives. — 00:00:29
2020-07-26 · The Surprising Benefits of Gaming — announcement: Ali plans to play the World of Warcraft expansion Shadowlands when it comes out in November 2020 and stream it on Twitch, and maybe occasionally on YouTube. — 00:04:53
2020-08-04 · How to Make Money from your Passion — Sarah Dietschy says that once a YouTuber has a certain audience, they feel like a product of the algorithm and have to cater to its needs. — 00:04:32
2020-08-04 · How to Make Money from your Passion — Ali says that even in the very saturated YouTube market, starting today and making things people find valuable and useful can completely change your life. — 00:05:30
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: In his year out Ali means to pour fuel on the fire of his YouTube channel: diversify revenue away from YouTube, focus on his blog and make more courses, which he hopes will be fun, done while travelling and assets that compound. — 00:09:43
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: Flow state brings fulfilment, Ali says: making YouTube videos, editing and website work get him into it, and so do medical conditions he knows well enough. — 00:15:18
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: With the YouTube channel taking off, plus courses, Skillshare classes and affiliate products, Ali no longer needs medicine to make money, so he now practises medicine for fun. — 00:27:07
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali worries that people follow him on YouTube only because he is a doctor who went to Cambridge, and that his productivity and study tips lose value if he is not walking the talk. — 00:29:39
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: If he were not a doctor, Ali thinks his YouTube channel would probably not be as successful, and without Cambridge behind him it might not have gained momentum at first. (hedged) — 00:30:08
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali: Even at its current size, Ali's YouTube channel and income streams still feel like a house of cards that could come crumbling down at any moment. — 00:30:08
2020-08-06 · My Last Day as a Doctor - Reflections — Ali started his YouTube channel in June 2017, he thinks, with absolutely no idea what level it would reach. (hedged) — 00:31:55
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: Asked how YouTube pays creators when Premium subscribers see no ads, Ali says creators get a proportion of the viewer's Premium subscription fee. — creator comment
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: Asked whether YouTube takes 45% of the £11,618 he made in the last 28 days, Ali says that figure is what he himself is making. — creator comment
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: Answering a viewer who did not subscribe for videos on how much he makes, Ali says his previous video on his income inspired more than 20 people to start YouTube channels and Skillshare classes, judging by their messages. — creator comment
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked where his YouTube gold play button is, the channel says it has not arrived yet. — creator comment
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: To make money on YouTube, Ali says, a creator first joins the YouTube Partner Program, which now needs at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of total watch time; once approved, they can turn on ads. — 00:00:29
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: YouTube sells the ad slots on creators' videos to advertisers through its Google Ads program, so advertisers pay to show their ads on different types of content. — 00:00:58
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali started his YouTube channel around June 2017 and made 77 videos before he turned on monetization. — 00:00:58
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: In the six months after turning on monetization, April to September 2018, Ali made £6,106.42 from YouTube. — 00:02:05
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali says three factors decide how much a creator earns on YouTube, and the most important of them is watch time. — 00:02:05
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: Nobody knows exactly how the YouTube algorithm works, Ali says, but YouTube's creator team has hinted that much of it rests on watch time: videos that keep people watching and on YouTube longer get recommended more. — 00:02:35
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: A few years ago YouTube allowed mid-roll ads only on videos over 10 minutes long, so many YouTubers artificially stretched their videos past 10 minutes. — 00:04:31
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali's YouTuber friend and colleague Shelby Church broke down her YouTube earnings and found that her videos over 10 minutes earn over three times as much revenue as those under 10 minutes. — 00:04:31
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: In the last couple of months, Ali says, YouTube changed the rule so that a video now only needs to be eight minutes long to carry mid-roll ads. — 00:05:21
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: After YouTube lowered the mid-roll threshold, Ali expects creators to be less keen to stretch videos past 10 minutes and more keen to stretch them past eight. (hedged) — 00:05:21
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: The CPM does not all go to the creator, Ali says: YouTube tends to take a 45% cut, and from a $10 CPM a creator gets only $6.50. (doubtful: $6.50) — 00:06:49
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: YouTube recently introduced a metric called RPM (revenue per mille), which Ali says is a more accurate idea of what the creator takes home. — 00:06:49
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali made basically nothing from YouTube until he turned on monetization on 17 April 2018. (hedged) — 00:09:15
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: After monetising, nine months and 77 videos into YouTube, Ali made between £5 and £15 a day from ads, which felt like winning at life because it paid for a takeaway every day. — 00:09:45
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: In June 2018 Ali posted his video on taking notes on his iPad at medical school, and his daily YouTube revenue jumped from about £5 to sometimes £40 to £60 a day. — 00:10:10
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: Making about £50 a day, around £1,500 a month, from YouTube in mid-2018 felt like cheating to Ali: real money, not a few pennies. — 00:10:39
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali's YouTube revenue has risen exponentially over the last six months, since the COVID-19 lockdown started. — 00:11:19
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali says the lockdown was good for his YouTube channel because suddenly many more people were sitting down to watch videos. — 00:11:19
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali's YouTube ad revenue reached £578 on Friday 3 July 2020 and £711.11 on Sunday 23 August 2020. — 00:11:19
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali's YouTube revenue grew slowly and steadily and then suddenly, only in the last six months, which he likens to a video game character who starts at level one and reaches the end game. — 00:11:48
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali's estimated YouTube revenue was £11,618 in the last 28 days and about £90,000 over the channel's three-year lifetime, so the last month made up about 10 to 12% of it. — 00:12:18
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali's CPM over the last 28 days is £5.50 but his RPM only £1.68, because many viewers use ad blockers, YouTube takes a cut and other factors. — 00:12:47
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali's junior doctor salary was about £3,000 a month before tax; his pre-tax YouTube ad revenue of the last 28 days is three and a bit times that. — 00:12:47
2020-10-04 · My BIGGEST Rejections in Life — Ali: To do content marketing for SixMed, Ali created his YouTube channel in 2017, first making videos on the BMAT and interview preparation, topics from his 2012 brainstorm. — 00:19:58
2020-10-04 · My BIGGEST Rejections in Life — Ali has taken a break from full-time medicine because his YouTube channel makes so much money that he can afford to travel the world and do what he wants. — 00:20:27
2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali started YouTube in the summer of 2017 with about 47 subscribers, and reaching a large subscriber count was not even on the cards for him. — 00:01:04
2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali disagrees with the line in YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki's award letter that little can match the satisfaction of one's voice reaching a million people, because of hedonic adaptation. — 00:05:49
2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali: Hedonic adaptation applies to Ali's YouTube numbers too: once one new subscriber delighted him; now a day with 1,000 extra subscribers instead of 2,000 feels terrible. — 00:07:39
2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali hates the YouTube Studio app because the first thing it shows is how the latest video ranks against the previous ten, and a low rank sends him into a spiral. — 00:08:21
2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali says he has always cared about money, always treated YouTube as a business and always been interested in teaching; he sees his videos as teaching people at scale. — 00:13:40
2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali: Though Ali promoted the Part-Time YouTuber Academy only on Twitter, Instagram and his newsletter, a commenter on a YouTube video called him a scammer for releasing a $2,000 course on doing well on YouTube. — 00:15:08
2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali says who he is results from circumstances and luck: he was lucky to have a few unfair advantages that he stacked up to build his YouTube channel. — 00:18:12
2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali was first recognised around November 2017, four months into YouTube: at a restaurant in Cambridge, which he thinks was Italian, as Katherine told him off for neglecting her for his videos, a girl with her Cambridge medicine interview the next day thanked them for their interview advice. — 00:20:01
2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali: The gold creator award for a million subscribers, with a letter from YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, arrived in the mail a month or two before the video; Ali says it does not feel like anything. — 00:23:59
2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali has recently taken up the philosophy of doing the work so you can keep doing it: YouTube is an infinite game with no end goal, and he wants to keep playing because it is fun, profitable and helps people. — 00:24:26
2020-11-18 · Perfection - M1 MacBook Air (2020) Review — recommendation: Ali: Before buying an M1 Mac, Ali recommends anyone relying on a niche app to search Google or YouTube to check it has been updated for the M1 chip; he says 99% of viewers will have no issues. — 00:06:15
2020-11-22 · My PRODUCTIVE Apartment Tour (2021) — Ali: Asked whether he will stream World of Warcraft: Shadowlands once it is out, Ali replies only that he will see. (hedged) — creator comment
2020-12-01 · Tough Choice - M1 Macbook Air vs Macbook Pro — recommendation: Ali: Those who watch a lot of Netflix or YouTube on their laptop, especially outdoors in summer, may appreciate the M1 MacBook Pro's brighter screen, Ali says. (hedged) — 00:08:16
2020-12-06 · 1400 MILE Road Trip in the Tesla Model 3 — Ali: The Tesla's big screen with YouTube and Netflix made charging stops pleasant: instead of getting out, they watched clips and even a Netflix show in the car. — 00:22:16
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: Unsure whether an income video was in poor taste during the pandemic, Ali polled Twitter, Instagram and YouTube; in all three about 85% said he should post it. — 00:00:58
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali admits his first reason for making an income video is that such videos get a lot of views, which every YouTuber's career is built on. — 00:02:00
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: After Ali's May 2020 income video, he personally knows at least a dozen people who started YouTube channels and online courses because of it. — 00:02:58
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali started his YouTube channel in 2017, in his fifth year of medical school; it took 52 videos to reach 1,000 subscribers, and two videos a week for a year made basically no money. — 00:04:35
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: To earn Google AdSense a YouTube channel needs 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time; it took Ali 52 videos and six months to reach 1,000 subscribers. — 00:11:29
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: In 2017, six months of YouTube, Ali made 59 videos, had 1,600 subscribers by the end of the year and made £1.76 in revenue. — 00:11:29
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: By the end of 2019 Ali had 209 videos and around 450,000 subscribers, and made £33,186.14 in AdSense that year, almost his junior doctor pay and a full-time living for a UK YouTuber. — 00:12:50
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — recommendation: Ali tells beginners that progress on YouTube is slow but compounds: anyone complaining about not reaching 1,000 subscribers before making 52 videos should know that is how long it took him. — 00:13:41
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali teaches on the Part-Time YouTuber Academy that success, on YouTube and in everything in life, equals work multiplied by luck multiplied by unfair advantages. — 00:16:13
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — recommendation: Ali: Work on YouTube, Ali says, means consistently putting out lots of content and making it as useful as possible: research, finding what the audience wants, teaching yourself, presenting it clearly. — 00:16:13
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali says that in YouTube videos, businesses, online content or writing, the more you put out into the world, the more you increase your surface area for lucky events. — 00:19:24
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — recommendation: Ali: You do not need unfair advantages to start YouTube, Ali says, and they should not be a barrier, but to stack the deck in your favour, work with your unfair advantages. — 00:20:57
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — recommendation: Ali's three-step formula for anyone starting on YouTube: make useful videos, publish them once or twice a week and keep going for two years; he guarantees it will change your life, though not the numbers. — 00:23:41
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: Most people who start a YouTube channel, Ali says, do not stick with it for two years. — 00:24:27
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: Affiliate income took ages: Ali made nothing from affiliates in his first year on YouTube and a few thousand pounds in his second, and only from the third year did it become a large number. — 00:27:44
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali got his first sponsorship in July 2018, a year after he started on YouTube, when he had 120 videos and 50,000 subscribers. — 00:28:28
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — recommendation: Ali's way to make money online: useful free videos on YouTube once or twice a week for two years, then Skillshare classes; his first came in September 2019, nearly two and a half years in. — 00:39:31
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali: The Part-Time YouTuber Academy is for people who treat YouTube as a business; about half its students had profitable businesses on the side, a very different market from the people who comment on his videos, such as a 16-year-old student in Pakistan. — 00:44:52

2019

2019-01-20 · My Favourite iPad Pro Apps — recommendation: Ali's to-do list app, on his iPad, Mac and iPhone, is Things: he splits his lists into areas of his life, such as his company SixMed, YouTube and the videos he wants to make. — 00:00:45
2019-06-04 · iPad Mini Review - The Perfect Consumption Device — recommendation: Ali highly recommends the iPad mini to someone who only consumes content, such as Netflix, YouTube and web browsing; any kind of creator is far better served by the budget iPad or the iPad Air. — 00:04:27
2019-06-05 · Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote — Ali has always wanted to cover a tech event but never felt enough of a tech YouTuber; now that his channel has grown, he feels he has the right to. — 00:06:57
2019-06-05 · Top 5 Highlights from Apple's WWDC 2019 Keynote — Ali: People now come up to Ali in the street to say they bought an iPad because of him. — 00:07:27
2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali: Free writing in a paper notebook, a few pages of whatever comes with arrows and diagrams, sometimes over a latte in a coffee shop, has given Ali lots of insights and ideas for his website and YouTube channel. — 00:00:51
2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: When Ali started making YouTube videos, setting up his microphone, light, camera and screen took so long that it was a big passive barrier to filming; streamlining it to reduce the friction made sitting down to film a lot easier and more pleasant. — 00:09:05
2019-07-02 · Monthly Favourites #10 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: YouTube retention graphs show that only about 10 to 15 percent of viewers watch Ali's videos to the end. — 00:10:55
2019-11-14 · Arrogance, Expectations & Inspiration - Personal Q&A with my Brother · Ali & Taimur Abdaal — Ali says his YouTube channel has affected his life massively: he is occasionally recognised in the street, a sort of "F-list celebrity" whom people who have seen the videos meet with a positive image. — 00:08:34

2018

2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — Ali says his YouTube channel has just hit about 8,500 subscribers and thanks viewers for caring about his content enough to subscribe. (hedged) — 00:01:38
2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — announcement: Ali says he will definitely keep his YouTube channel going for at least his two foundation years, if not much longer. — 00:02:01
2018-04-05 · Finding out my Foundation Year Jobs - Quick update — Ali: In his stressful final year, Ali says, YouTube is a fun side project he does with no concern for money or numbers, putting out content he hopes is useful. — 00:02:01
2018-05-24 · Behind the scenes of Cambridge University Medical School - Med student VLOG #35 — Ali attends the Cambridge clinical school's Away Day, a big faculty meeting, where he has been invited to give a presentation about his YouTube channel. — 00:00:00
2018-05-24 · Behind the scenes of Cambridge University Medical School - Med student VLOG #35 — Ali: In his talk Ali says he has been making YouTube videos for nine months and has made about 110 in that time. — 00:02:15
2018-05-24 · Behind the scenes of Cambridge University Medical School - Med student VLOG #35 — Ali: Dr Davies emailed Ali the week before, asking him to talk about his channel and suggest how the clinical school might use a platform like YouTube to improve the student experience. — 00:02:15
2018-05-24 · Behind the scenes of Cambridge University Medical School - Med student VLOG #35 — recommendation: Ali proposes that the Cambridge clinical school make its own YouTube channel of high-quality educational videos for medical students. — 00:02:39
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — announcement: Ali: After about a year on YouTube, Ali says his channel enters its "season two" from 24 July 2018, because everything changes now that he is no longer a student. — 00:00:16
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — Ali's YouTube channel is on almost 50,000 subscribers; a few months earlier it had 5,000, which then seemed huge to him. — 00:00:29
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — Ali calls his YouTube channel a side project and semi-career that has been one of the most fun things he did in his final year of medical school. — 00:00:58
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — Ali says that in his very first video, made about a year earlier on his medical elective, he said the main purpose of a year of YouTube was to prepare for vlogging life as a junior doctor. — 00:01:50
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — Ali says everyone advises YouTubers to focus on one particular thing, but he will politely ignore that advice and mix niche videos for medical students with general videos on tech. — 00:04:59
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — Ali asks viewers to suggest videos for him to make; he cannot answer every YouTube comment but still tries to reply to every Instagram message. — 00:05:28
2018-07-23 · A year on YouTube - Channel / life update — Ali is folding up his other side projects to focus on making YouTube videos, which he finds really fun and which seem to be going down well. — 00:07:51
2018-08-03 · Life Advice - 50k subs Q&A — Ali says his greatest change at university is getting better at not caring what people think, which starting a YouTube channel, bringing a camera to lectures and vlogging in public required. — 00:11:18
2018-12-08 · Ask Doctor Ali - 100k subscribers Q&A — Ali's YouTube channel has reached 100,000 subscribers, and this video is his 100,000-subscriber Q&A. — 00:00:00
2018-12-08 · Ask Doctor Ali - 100k subscribers Q&A — recommendation: Ali's advice for starting a YouTube channel: just do it, upload video after video, and accept that your first hundred videos will be absolutely terrible. — 00:15:17