2019-07-27

I’ll try to make weekly update posts with all the activity of the week. This is partially to report to my Patreon supporters, but also to show people thinking of supporting my channel what I am doing.

The most important change to my process was to introduce thumbnails made in Inkscape. Using the tex text extension, I was able to format equations and formulas for the math videos.

As I am more or less “caught up” on Basic Mathematics with several videos uploaded and ready to be launched, I have been turning my attention to the next series to cover. It seems Thermal Physics is the way to go, so I have been exploring textbooks on that subject.

The launch of the Discord server has been going very successfully. Already we have ~10 visitors. If you want to chat with me, the Discord server is the ideal place.

Videos that I did this week include:

For My Basic Mathematics series, I released 6 videos:

For my Theory of Python series, I released

The next will likely see the following videos:

Basic Mathematics:

  • 15.1 The Complex Plane

  • 15.2 Polar Form

  • 16.1 Inductions

  • 16.2 Summations (in 2 or 3 parts)

Python:

  • String and Byte Literals

  • String and Byte methods and operators

  • Unicode, ASCII and Encoding

  • Tuples

  • Tuple methods and operators

  • Star Expressions

  • Full Assign Statement (augmented, parallel assign, star assign)

We have had 10.4k Views from 168k impressions (2.9% CTR) in the last week corresponding to 23.7k minutes of watch time (2:22 average view time) by 4.4k unique viewers. 75 new subscribers joined us, putting us past the 18.5k subscriber mark. 39% of our traffic comes from our playlists, 25% from YouTube search, 10% from suggested videos, and the rest from external or unknown sources.

We made $11.60 in YouTube ad revenue.

My goal is to increase the CTR by tweaking the thumbnail, as well as increase audience retention by focusing on a better first few seconds of video time.

I am looking forward to the months of August and September as that is a time when many people start searching for and watching the sort of content I produce. I anticipate launching my Thermal Physics videos a week or two before students begin returning to University to take advantage of the college rush.