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Part-Time YouTuber Academy (2020)

project history · status: running · last event: milestone (2024-11-26) · owner: Ali

Parts: Ali launches the Inner Circle, a $50-a-month alumni membership of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy (2020) · Ali promises a video on the operation behind the Part-Time YouTuber Academy (2021) · Ali promises to tell viewers what he decides about the future of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy (2022) · Ali suspects his business will make a lot less money from the Part-Time YouTuber Academy once it stops running live cohorts (2023) · The channel promises plenty of Part-Time YouTuber Academy scholarships once the course moves to an on-demand model (2023) · Ali offers Hanil, a vet who sent in a question, free access to his YouTube course if he reaches out (2024)

Told alongside: Ali promises a 20-hour course on treating YouTube as a business, to be filmed the following week (2022) · Productivity Lab (2024) · Ali builds a team for his online business · Ali's first book, which a publisher asked him to write (2020)

About: Part-Time YouTuber Academy

date event what video
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
2021-01-20 milestone Ali and his team hold a call with the Part-Time YouTuber Academy's peer supporters to hear about students' problems and plan sessions for the second cohort, which starts in mid-February 2021. A RIDICULOUSLY Productive Day in my Life 00:05:01
2021-01-31 (happened 2020-11) looked back Ali meant his Part-Time YouTuber Academy, run in November 2020, for five or ten people; its first cohort had around 350 people paying decent sums to learn from him. How To Beat Imposter Syndrome 00:00:50
2021-02-18 (said on 2021-02-14, implied) milestone The second cohort of Ali's Part-Time YouTuber Academy starts the next day, 15 February 2021, and Ali does last-minute preparation so it runs smoothly. My INSANELY PRODUCTIVE Valentine's Day 00:03:06
2021-03-04 milestone The second cohort of Ali's Part-Time YouTuber Academy is under way, and he spends a huge amount of time in Google Slides preparing its presentations. My Favourite Mac Apps - What's on my Macbook Pro 00:03:21
2021-03-08 milestone Ali gives a live workshop on Notion for beginners to the students of the current cohort of his Part-Time YouTuber Academy. A STUPENDOUSLY Productive Day in my Life 00:06:31
2021-03-24 milestone The live sessions of Ali's Part-Time YouTuber Academy have been running for the last six weeks. My Toxic Relationship With Productivity 00:11:40
2021-04-15 milestone The Part-Time YouTuber Inner Circle, the academy's alumni membership, makes roughly $2,800 a week; it is not very passive, with three or four events a week plus co-working on Zoom twice a day. 9 Passive Income Ideas - How I Make $27k per Week 00:25:42
2021-06-13 looked back Starting the Part-Time YouTuber Academy while reading Who Not How, Ali reached out to friends he had made on Twitter to ask how they had done the same, instead of figuring it out alone; this massively accelerated the academy's learning curve. 8 Surprising Habits That Made Me A Millionaire 00:05:50
2021-06-13 milestone The Part-Time YouTuber Academy's first launch made about $300,000 and its second about $500,000, with very good reviews; Ali credits getting the right people involved rather than his team doing everything themselves. 8 Surprising Habits That Made Me A Millionaire 00:06:19
2021-07-07 looked back Before launching the Part-Time YouTuber Academy to the public a few months earlier, Ali feared nobody would sign up or that he was out of his depth; with his Stoic reading, the fear told him he had to do it. How to Live more Intentionally 00:04:19
2021-07-14 milestone Ali's business has run three cohorts of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, his six-week live online course, this year (2021) and aims to run four next year (2022). How much I spend in a month… 00:06:20
2021-08-01 milestone Ali's online course, the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, is in the middle of its third cohort, which he says is going pretty well. The Mindset Shift That Changed My Life 00:06:23
2021-10-09 (happened 2021-10-11) milestone Ali says the Part-Time YouTuber Academy is launching on Monday (11 October 2021) and viewers can sign up. Helicopters, Travel and Film Making - A Conversation with Becki and Chris 01:08:22
2021-10-10 (happened 2021-10-11) milestone Charlie Houpert and Ali are partnering for the next cohort of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, whose enrolment opens the next day (11 October 2021) at 4 p.m. UK time. In Conversation with Charlie from Charisma on Command #ptya 01:00:39
2021-10-20 milestone Ali's team has just launched the fourth cohort of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, and he thinks about 300 places sold within the first day or two. (hedged) Everything's Changing - Life Update 00:10:41
2021-10-20 (happened 2020-10-19) looked back Almost exactly a year earlier, on 19 October 2020 as Ali recalls, he and Angus sat down with sticky notes to plan a YouTube course, which became the Part-Time YouTuber Academy. Everything's Changing - Life Update 00:11:36
2021-10-29 (happened 2020) looked back Planned sensibly, the first cohort of Ali's Part-Time YouTuber Academy would have taken about six months to plan; in reality it took about two weeks, and then they put the course out to see what happens and iterated, in a scrappy-startup way. 8 Lessons I Learned From Elon Musk 00:12:26
2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) (happened 2020-10) looked back Around October 2020 Ali had the idea of a self-paced YouTube course for a few hundred dollars, like a Skillshare class; Tiago Forte and David Perell, who ran cohort-based courses, strongly advised making the Part-Time YouTuber Academy one. How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 00:26:16
2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) milestone The Part-Time YouTuber Academy made about $2.59 million in 2021, over half the business's revenue: scary reliance on one golden goose, Ali says, but good because it is not intrinsically tied to his personal brand. How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 00:30:03
2022-01-21 milestone The first business goal for 2022 is three successful cohorts of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, hopefully with 1,500 students and revenue of about £3 million or $3 million. (hedged) My New Life Goals (2022) 00:18:02
2022-02-04 looked back When Ali first launched the Part-Time YouTuber Academy he only tweeted about it, not mentioning it on YouTube for the first two cohorts, and had an avalanche of people wanting to sign up. How to Make Money Online 00:31:56
2022-02-25 milestone Enrolment for the next Part-Time YouTuber Academy cohort opens at 4 p.m. UK time on Monday 28 February 2022. How to Grow on YouTube - Live Stream with Ali Abdaal 01:21:49
2022-03-03 milestone The Part-Time YouTuber Academy, which Ali suggests for the get-good stage, runs a live cohort three times a year. How To Start a YouTube Channel - Beginner’s Guide to YouTube 00:30:05
2022-05-12 (happened 2020) looked back Ali's team expected 10 people to sign up for the first cohort of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, started around October 2020, but 360 signed up. What Am I Doing With My Life? 00:06:51
2022-05-12 milestone After five cohorts, over 2,000 students have gone through the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, which has fairly accidentally become the biggest revenue driver of Ali's business. What Am I Doing With My Life? 00:07:33
2022-06-21 milestone The second brain helps Ali's teaching: he prepared a live talk for a hundred Part-Time YouTuber Academy students in about two minutes in an Uber, finding supporting evidence in his notes. How to Organise your Life - Building a Second Brain 00:14:18
2022-08-05 milestone Ali's team has made over $2 million selling the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, mostly through its email list rather than the YouTube channel, where he tends not to mention it. How to Start an Email Newsletter 00:02:55
2022-08-09 milestone The Part-Time YouTuber Academy is running a live cohort, one of the three main courses Ali sells. How I Make $4 Million Per Year - The CBM Framework 00:01:56
2022-09-18 milestone The live-cohort Part-Time YouTuber Academy runs a few times a year. My London Studio Tour (2022) 00:11:47
2022-11-01 (happened 2022-10) milestone In October 2022 Ali's team holds an event in London for 100 alumni of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, where he gives a talk on staying consistent with a side hustle like YouTube while enjoying the journey. A Day in My Life as a YouTuber 00:00:00
2023-01-05 (said on 2022-12-15, implied) milestone The Part-Time YouTuber Academy, a live cohort course on Zoom launched at the end of 2020, has run seven cohorts (one in 2020, three in 2021, three in 2022) of a few hundred people each. How Much Money I Made as a YouTuber & Entrepreneur (2022) 00:36:34
2023-01-05 (said on 2022-12-15, implied) setback The Part-Time YouTuber Academy made $1,759,238 in 2022, a decrease Ali puts down to neglected sales and marketing, the recession and the price rises. How Much Money I Made as a YouTuber & Entrepreneur (2022) 00:39:25
2023-02-04 milestone Ali says a new cohort of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy launches in a few weeks; about 2,000 students have gone through it. (doubtful: like 90) How to overcome the fear of getting started. 00:06:15
2023-02-14 milestone The Part-Time YouTuber Academy will run its final live cohort in April and May 2023, the last time it runs live. If I Started a YouTube Channel in 2026, I'd Do This 00:11:28
2023-03-22 milestone The Part-Time YouTuber Academy, run as live cohorts for about two and a half years, holds its very final live cohort in April 2023; Tommy, who sells it, is creating the next products, meant to be evergreen courses. Why I Have 12 Full-Time Employees (as a YouTuber) 00:13:44
2023-03-29 (said on 2023-03-13, implied) milestone The Part-Time YouTuber Academy, whose final cohort has done phenomenally well, runs as a live cohort for the final time in April 2023; after that it becomes an evergreen self-paced course. My Goals for 2023 - Life Update 00:06:20
2023-04-05 milestone The latest cohort of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy brings Ali's business $1.6 million in revenue in 30 days. 9 Business Lessons - How I Made $1.6m in 30 Days 00:00:00
2023-04-16 milestone Ali's team made about $2.5 million in sales of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy while hosting it on Podia, and has now moved everything to Kajabi. How to Build a Website with No Code (2026) 00:12:40
2023-05-10 (happened 2020) looked back Ali's audience turned out to be mostly YouTube beginners, so the Part-Time YouTuber Academy was moulded to be far more beginner-friendly, reached product-market fit and became a multimillion-dollar product. 5 Steps to Start Your First Business 00:12:42
2023-07-01 milestone Ali has taught over 3,000 students in his course, the Part-Time YouTuber Academy. I Asked MKBHD and Mrwhosetheboss How to Grow on YouTube 00:00:48
2023-08-02 (happened 2023-07-12) milestone Ali's team launched the evergreen, self-serve version of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy on 12 July 2023, and it brought in $245,000 of revenue on day one. 12 Tools I Use to Run My $4m Business 00:12:39
2023-09-27 looked back The Part-Time YouTuber Academy was making millions a year, but asking himself whether he would keep teaching people to be YouTubers if he won the lottery, Ali answered not really, so his business turned it from live cohorts into a pre-recorded evergreen course. Starting A Business is Easy, Actually 00:12:29
2023-10-04 looked back For three years Ali put out free weekly videos summarising books, sharing study tips and lessons from building his business before selling anything; then he built and sold his first course, the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, which did well and made a lot of money. How to Monetise Your Audience 🥊 00:00:29
2023-10-06 milestone Ali has taught over 3,000 students in the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, and his team analyses their data to find what makes the most successful ones stand out. 9 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started YouTube 00:13:08
2023-12-08 looked back After becoming a full-time YouTuber Ali launched the Part-Time YouTuber Academy; by the end of 2021 his channel had 2.5 million subscribers and the business made $4 million that year, which he puts down to the pandemic, when live cohort courses were all the craze. Everything's Changing - Life Update 00:06:21
2024-03-01 (happened 2020) looked back Ali came up with the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, the thing that most moved the needle for his business, while journaling with a notebook and pen in a Cambridge coffee shop in summer 2020. 7 Mistakes to Avoid While Building Your First Business 00:17:13
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
2024-10-04 milestone About 5,000 people have gone through the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, and Ali's analysis finds those who succeeded broadly leaned into some unfair advantage. How to Start a YouTube Channel - Beginners Guide (2026) 00:38:06
2024-10-29 milestone Since 2020 Ali has run the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, an online community where over 20,000 students have taken his courses on starting, growing and monetising YouTube channels. 5 Things I Wish I'd Done Sooner On YouTube 00:00:29
2024-11-15 setback Ali's team tried to spin the Part-Time YouTuber Academy off into its own business and brand, which overcomplicated everything; in November 2024 it decides to sell everything under Ali's own name again. I Got Married and Moved to Hong Kong! (Life Update) 00:16:13
2024-11-22 looked back The first cohort of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy, the course Ali started in 2020 after quitting medicine, made about $300,000 in sales, more money than he had ever seen. (hedged) How I Built a New $1m Business in 12 Months 00:05:40
2024-11-26 milestone Ali says his Part-Time YouTuber Academy has helped over 20,000 students grow their channels and has been running for four years. 13 Brutally Honest Lessons to Grow on YouTube in 2026 00:00:00

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