Shane Dawson Quotes

I really grew my own fan base. I started posting videos on YouTube with the help of my parents.

The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.

Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.

In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.

To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.

The whole purpose of MixBit is to reuse the content within the system.

You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago.

Me, personally, I don't upload video to YouTube.

People think that you upload a video, and it goes viral, and then you're a YouTube star, and I'm like, 'Nah, no.' In total, with all of the channels I've done, I've uploaded anywhere from 400 to 1,000 videos to the Internet, and each one of those takes a whole day to make.

When Google reached out to me in 2011, they wanted me to build out their female lifestyle vertical. When they were starting with that initiative, they were giving each production house a million dollars to produce content.

As far as tech videos go, we try to present things as realistically as possible.

Since developing my blog and YouTube channel in 2013, Little Lights of Mine, I've connected with some of the most passionate people around the world.

When I build for YouTube, there isn't necessarily an end goal. I have an idea of how I want a thing to work, but if it doesn't work that way, I can always adapt the story. The story is the main driver, not the machine.

I can't stay in the same place for more than 20 days because I need to make a video every single day on a different topic.

Could I stay at Bayern my entire career? I'm not the type of person who looks that far ahead. I am setting short-term goals instead.

I don't know how long 'The Vlog Squad' will last, but I think for YouTube, as long as you adapt it can last a while.

I want to see more people push what it means to be a web show... because it's very difficult to make a living making those types of shows.

I do media work but I don't do broadcast on TV. I'm a content producer and creator, so I just go out there and produce awesome content.

We were very fortunate to be in YouTube in the very beginning. There wasn't a lot of content on there, so we were pretty easy to find on YouTube. That was really helpful in growing our channel.

My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a music video.

I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I was more interested in that. Music is a little bit more automatic.

We love the flexibility that print and digital formats give us, and diving deep on a print feature can be one step in a longer project that generates a lot of digital stories.

It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.

A lot of the things I was doing on YouTube nobody was doing at the time, and now everybody is doing them, and I think making movies - I know a few Youtubers have done it, and hopefully this movie does well and more YouTubers want to take a risk and make movies, and I'm excited about it.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one.