YouTube

company · in 29 sources (2018–2020)

Makes: YouTube Studio, YouTube AdSense, YouTube Premium

Sources by year: 2018: 5 · 2019: 5 · 2020: 19

Threads

• Ali promises to play World of Warcraft: Shadowlands and stream it on Twitch when it comes out in November (2020) — promise, open (updates through 2020, not reported done), 2020

Also named in the threads: Ali, a fifth-year medical student at Cambridge University, is co-founder of SixMed, a small company running courses for medical school applicants, and has taught its BMAT Crash Course for five years. · Ali's vlogs: medical elective, final year and junior-doctor life (2017) · Simon Clark's YouTube channel inspires Ali to start his own · A girl with a Cambridge medicine interview the next day recognises Ali and Katherine at dinner, the first time Ali is recognised (2017) · Ali promises to start reviewing tech as a tech YouTuber (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. · Thomas Frank gets on a Skype call with Ali and introduces him to Standard, the agency Ali joins (2019) · Workflow, Ali's series on Nebula of deep dives into how he uses his apps · Ali's one-year sabbatical from medicine (2020) · Ali streams on Twitch (2020) · Ali predicts YouTubers will stretch videos past eight minutes instead of ten after YouTube lowers the mid-roll threshold (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).

Often together

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

Netflix (7) · Skillshare classes (8) · Thomas Frank (5) · 6med (7) · Slack (3) · Obstetrics and gynaecology (5) · Cambridge (10) · Gary Vaynerchuk (3) · passive income (4) · Tiago Forte (3)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

• 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
  • 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
• 2020-04-23 · 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'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
• 2020-07-26 · 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 — 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
• 2020-09-09 · 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
• 2020-10-04 · 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 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
• 2020-12-28 (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
  • 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
• …and 93 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ali says he will definitely keep his YouTube channel going for at least his two foundation years, if not much longer. — 00:02:01
• 2018-05-24 · 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
• …and 5 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018