Angela Yee Quotes

Even in the days of early YouTube, we always focused on narratives, and we always focused on franchises. We didn't do a lot of vlogging and stuff like that.

I would come home after school and begin to create videos, because there was people waiting to see new content from me.

I've just always been making videos. And then I just put them online and, luckily, they all took off.

I want to put some effort into a bunch of different types of videos. I don't think I'm gonna do 'Man On The Street' messing with people, I don't think I'm gonna do over-the-top wacky comedy.

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

By creating fantastic content and spending zero time on audience development, you are certain that you will not succeed on YouTube. You have to focus on audience development as much as you focus on creating content.

Viral videos aren't just about being funny. They're about identity creation.

I have 60-plus videos on YouTube and over 30 million views. Of those 60, only three or four are branded videos. I built that audience by telling stories the way I like to tell them.

On my YouTube channel, I put up 3-4 videos a week, and I spend a lot of money to maintain that content. When I travel, I travel with a videographer and a photographer no matter what.

One of the hardest things to do when you launch a channel is find a voice.

Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.

For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.

When I first started, I wasn't trying to go viral. I just liked making funny videos, content that people would enjoy.

People didn't go on YouTube to get famous back when I started.

I'll make some TikToks, who knows?

All of my videos, everything I upload is short and edited.

Video is just exploding on Instagram - motion is the new filter. We're going to help people use visuals to tell their stories.

I want to stick with movies, but I also want to stick with YouTube. I'm never going to give up YouTube. I'm never going to stop making videos for the people who continue to watch them. That's my home base. That's what I love; that's what I know.

I'm a YouTuber; I want to share my information. I want to share my tips and tricks and hacks and everything I possibly can with my audience because they've done so much for me.

My channel is my baby. Some women have babies; I have a YouTube channel.

I don't really follow the rules of like - not traditional, but how everyone does YouTube. And it's kind of made me more cautious and conscious of what I put into my videos.

I had heard about Vine through Twitter, and my first video was of me freaking out on my couch. Back then I had 5 followers.

I was doing Facebook comedy videos; then I moved over to Instagram, and then I hopped on Twitter. That is where I really was a master. That was the first place where I could go viral.

When I started making Minecraft videos, there was already a ton of them out there. But when I started introducing the storytelling element, which no one had done before, that's when my Minecraft traffic started picking up.

I started making videos to post just for my friends to see, and people really liked them. One day, I realized they had a couple thousand views on YouTube - I hadn't even known other people were watching them.