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).
project history · status: last documented in 2020 (looked back on in 2024) · last event: milestone (2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied)) · last mentioned: 2024-05-21
| date | event | what | video |
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| 2020-11-11 | announced | 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). | A Productive Day on Vacation in the Canary Islands 00:00:29 |
| 2020-11-15 | milestone | The first cohort of Ali's Part-Time YouTuber Academy, a four-week live, intensive, interactive course released a few weeks earlier, starts on 16 November 2020. | How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers 00:15:08 |
| 2020-11-24 (said on 2020-11-20, implied) | milestone | At 10.05 Ali starts preparing the evening's live session of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, in week one of its four-week live course with 400 students and a thriving community. | A "Productive" Day in my Life (Lockdown) 00:00:58 |
| 2020-12-22 | milestone | The first cohort of Ali's live cohort course, the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, with 360 students, is about to finish, and registration has opened for cohort two, starting in February 2021. | PRODUCTIVE Day in the Life of an Aspiring Gymshark Athlete 00:01:56 |
| 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) (happened 2020) | looked back | Ali had the idea for the Part-Time YouTuber Academy around August or September 2020 and first thought of a Skillshare class or selling it for $100 or $200 on his website. | How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber 00:40:27 |
| 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) | milestone | Expecting five or ten sign-ups, Ali got 360 paying customers for the first cohort of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, which ended the week before, with revenue of $294,000, about £220,000. | How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber 00:42:02 |
| 2024-05-21 | looked back | The Part-Time YouTuber Academy made about $294,000 in 2020, about $2 million in 2021 (a pandemic jump, when live cohort courses were the craze), $1.7 million in 2022 and $3.6 million in 2023. | A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses 00:07:29 |
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What is said about it
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- 2020-11-11 · A Productive Day on Vacation in the Canary Islands — announcement: Ali has not mentioned the Part-Time YouTuber Academy on YouTube before, only on Twitter and his mailing list; its next cohort is in February 2021. — 00:00:29
- 2020-11-11 · A Productive Day on Vacation in the Canary Islands — Ali: On the beach Ali works on the Part-Time YouTuber Academy knowledge base in Notion, meant to answer the most common questions of the course's 400 students. — 00:02:28
- 2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — announcement: Ali: Enrolment for the first Part-Time YouTuber Academy cohort is closed; the next cohort will be in February 2021. — 00:15:08
- 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 answers that nobody is forced to buy the Part-Time YouTuber Academy and that he is not selling a result but 24 hours of live teaching on Zoom, with homework, guest workshops and a full-time team. — 00:15:37
- 2020-11-15 · How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers — Ali: The first Part-Time YouTuber Academy cohort has 400 paying students, and many scholarships were given to people who cannot afford it. — 00:15:37
- 2020-11-24 (said on 2020-11-20, implied) · A "Productive" Day in my Life (Lockdown) — Ali Abdaal (channel): Asked whether the Part-Time YouTuber Academy requires an existing channel, the channel replies that it has total beginners too, but they have to be very serious about it. — creator comment
- 2020-11-24 (said on 2020-11-20, implied) · A "Productive" Day in my Life (Lockdown) — Ali and his team are working on automatically tracking Part-Time YouTuber Academy students' channel goals and homework, so they can reach out to students who seem to be falling behind. — 00:02:26
- 2020-11-24 (said on 2020-11-20, implied) · A "Productive" Day in my Life (Lockdown) — Ali: The Academy's two-hour live session, with around 250 students on Zoom, teaches the idea generation machine for never running out of content ideas: eureka-moment strategies, the birdsong technique, the coal mining method. — 00:02:55
- 2020-11-24 (said on 2020-11-20, implied) · A "Productive" Day in my Life (Lockdown) — Ali: After the live session Ali has a Zoom catch-up with the team and the Part-Time YouTuber Academy's five peer supporters, who have been running their own support sessions. — 00:03:24
- 2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — announcement: Ali: The second cohort of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy runs in February 2021, and registration is open. — 00:42:24
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: Podia, which first hosted the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, shows revenue of $2,676,437.99 for Ali's courses. — 00:08:00