Creators talk about the impact of the platform

In the 20 years since its creation, YouTube has grown from humble beginnings to billions of videos that are seen every day, but can you publish videos on the platform to offer a viable race? We talked to some of South Yorkshire’s favorite creators about how the website changed their lives.

Ruth Amos de Sheffield addresses children invent things. The channel has 71,000 followers and has been operating since 2015.

Primary children send their invention and Ruth ideas and their colleague Shawn give them life.

“There are many different ways in which you can earn money with YouTube, there are ads, sponsors, collaborators or you can have things like Patreon, where people support the work you are doing.

“Very often, she is a content creator who makes many of these different forms, not just one of those things,” she says.

“When he grew up, you couldn’t see someone’s channel about the creation of robots or kitchen and that is the surprising thing about YouTube: all our hobbies have found a home there as some of those viral moments.”

The channel has executed collaborations with the television program Channel 4 Taskmaster and had an opportunity to break the global guinness records.

According to Ofcom, more than 80% of the three to 17 years use the site. A survey conducted by the Lego Group in 2019 suggested that a third of British and American young people wanted to be Vloggers.

However, there are more than 100 million channels on the site, some with just a handful or followers or video watches.

Would Ruth recommend the race to children who send their invention ideas?

“I think it is a career that anyone can do because you are interested in the creative content, and you are creative, it is actually something that many people can try,” she says.

“If some Wags are a youtuber, I would also think about their other skills, because some of the most popular channels are channels in which people are filming tremors doing something else. So think about their ability.”

Lee Fuechcliffe, from Barnsley, has been filming content for the platform since he was 15 years old.

He started with games of games before trying sketch videos and then challenging the videos.

His channel took off when he started playing the monopoly of McDonald’s. He spent hundreds of pounds on the chain trying to win a £ 10,000 prize ticket.

“I never won it, I lost a lot of money, but people saw that video,” he says.

“I have always had the love of creating videos and entertaining my whole life, that’s why I have gone to that from school.

“YouTube is my university and I get my title there, because you can see everything I have done.”

Outside the back of his channel, Lee became a television presenter with CBBC, starring in the screen with Madcap Puppet Hacker T Dog.

He said that YouTube’s experience had made television change much easier.

“Instead of doing a screen and auditions, it was like, ‘We have seen your videos, here is your microphone, here is your headset, off you pop,'” he says.

“It is an obsession and it has become a race that I can do every day. There are no interruptions because it is difficult to turn off something that you love so much, and needs a constant turn of plates.”

Steve Garbutt, 55, directs Yorkshire cars restoration in Doncaster with his son Shane.

The couple has been creating YouTube videos for the past five years and their business has boomed.

Steve says they had gone from a warehouse of 1,000 feet at 10000 feet, and three or four cars to more than 40.

“You have to put many hours on YouTube, because you not only have to do the job, you have to change camera and lighting, and you are doubling your workload. Then you have to go home and edit all your images,” he says.

“I’ve always dropped a little coach, I like my devices and things. My original training when I left school was on computers. And at 21 I changed career because I played that there were too many people doing it.”

They were on the platform offering free cars restoration to the famous youtubers like Mat Armstrong, which has 4.5 million followers.

“You have to be very intelligent, you have to look where the opportunities are. Instead of money, it gives you many opportunities.

“Our first opportunities were to restore the famous youtubers cars for free, in return, we publish for us and send ourselves to people to look.”

They have also worked with the Stig by Top Gear, Mike Brewer from Wheeler Dealers and Jonny Smith from The Late Brake Show.

They originally expected the channel to earn money, but they soon found the support they received more rewarding.

“We receive as many good comments that makes you want to make another video. Even if the financial reward is not there, because it is like Mat Armstrong, it is not as profitable as everyone thinks,” says Steve.

“The amount of hours he dedicates does not guarantee that type of money, he must be paid more. But the reward is massive.

“I would encourage anyone to not only do youtube, to make sure you get a race and base your youtube on something you love.

“Do not believe that your niche explodes and will make you famous.”