Hi all! I am BRAND new (pun intended) on YT so have some flexibility in crafting my brand and I want to do it intentionally. My name is India Witkin and I am creating content about food, travel, history, and self discovery. It will be very documentary style videos (vlogy style + talking head, explainers, interviews). I will have a food series coming out later this year that will be comprised of seasons (8 episodes posted once a week) that will be called INDIA EATS THE WORLD. I imagine this as a YT playlist. I am thinking of either calling the channel and my handle India Witkin OR I am thinking of changing the name of my channel and handle to My Name is India. Alternatively I can have my handle be @mynameisindia and keep the branding to just my name across. I am not a huge fan of my last name and constantly hear how confusing my name is to people ("wait india is your name??"). I know I need to center my name. What do people think!?

I just wanted to share my win for this week. Colby and I were going over my analytics for youtube and I had 20% more views than the previous month and 38% more watch time. Im also up 100 new followers since I started to 2817. Im just getting started and I know I have a long way to go for my goal, but it is nice to see the work paying off. Good luck everyone!

For gaming videos on YouTube the CPM for me is around $3-5. If an affiliate asks for a video ad in a video, how much should you charge them? In the past I gave fixed rates of around $20 (guaranteed 3000 views), but I am not sure what the market price for these things are. Does anyone else have any experiences or rate examples? Thanks

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Current state: 1) Current monthly income? 💰 Job: Enough to feed my family and put money into savings Content: It goes up and down £60 to £80 2) Current online following? 🌍 YouTube: 7084 TikTok: 258 3) Current weekly content workload? ✍️ Days worked: 1 Day Hours worked: 8/16 Hours Uploads: 1 4) Describe your typical work day: 💼 Morning: Wake up at 5.30am by family, attempt to go back to sleep till 8am, make a packed lunch for my son, get him ready for school, bike to school, bike back home. Start work 9am Afternoon: Drink tea, Snack, Drink more Tea, Snack Evening: "Finish" work at 5.30pm, make food, eat with husband. 7.30 to 8.00 Bedtime for our son, Read books, brush teeth. Be the best mum ever! Night: 8pm till 11pm on PC doing more work (not content creation) Bed around 11.30pm 5) Describe how you currently feel about the content you’re making: 🤔 Love most: Community engagement Hate most: Not having enough free time. Willing to sacrifice: Feels like nothing atm Most excited about: Planet Coaster 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Desired state: 1) Dream monthly income? 💰 Job: I would love to have a stable Job knowing it's going to last past March Content: £100 / £200 per month would be amazing! I would love to have a sponsored campaign. 2) Dream online following? 🌍 YouTube: 100k (Silver play button!!!) TikTok: 80k followers 3) Dream weekly content workload? ✍️ Days worked: 2 Days Hours worked: 24 haha never going to happen Uploads: 2 YouTube videos / 3 or 4 TikTok videos 4) Describe your dream work day: 💼 Morning: Wake up at 8am, a magical elf makes packed lunches, I take my son to school and go on a walk with my dog, start work at 10am Afternoon: Have lunch on time Evening: Finish on time at 5pm, My husband cooks dinner haha, Still read storys and be the best mum ever! Night: Spend it playing games and making content. 5) Describe how you want to feel about the content you’re making: 🤔 Love most: To encourage and inspire people, to help them enjoy gaming Hate most: Imposter syndrome