Various updates.

"...had more unfavorable to advertiser calls against us lately." Huh? Sorry, don't grok this. Someone is saying you're unfair to advertisers? On Patreon or TheirTube? Unfavorable in what way? Seriously, I think you need to get a product-placement deal going: Chevrolet [you drive a Sub', right?], Lee/Lyman/RCBS ["Can't buy ammo for your vintage rifle? Load your own!"] and of course, all the gun auctions you can eat ["Where do I find my vintage rifles? Gunbroker.pawn!.." etc.] ;-) All joking aside, I hope you do find some method of increasing your viewer base that works for you. Maybe buy a few targeted ads on the History channel & Mail Call FB pages [Does Mail Call still have a FB page now that R. Lee is t.u? Sorry, I don't FB to any significant extent... #ALLHAILLUDD! ]

Bruce Brodnax

I'm getting about 6 hours sleep a night while producing absolutely no video content. I hope you're not apologizing for a lack of productivity.

I totally understand, I'm just so glad you do all this for us. Y'all rock.

Old Man Winter

We actually did try this. Unfortunately our episodes have calls to Patreon, other videos, descriptions, and links. All of this is forbidden. So we burned about 10 hours getting the first 10 episodes submitted and had them all rejected without major editing. I'd like to revisit it sometime but it would require an editor to fix as I'm out of available time.

C&Rsenal

This is something I'd like to approach if I can ever unload my work some more. Mae going full-time would probably free up enough for something like this. In the meantime we did the Minute of Mae to reuse range footage and gain Instagram and Facebook followers.

C&Rsenal

r/guns is generally familiar with us but also has some heavy anti-self-promotion rules. So I have to approach them sparingly. We have had a public Discord for some time. It's on the main site, at the bottom.

C&Rsenal

I have never used it but could take a look. Trouble is every attempt outside of YouTube has resulted in no real trackable net but taken a lot of bandwidth and time to establish.

C&Rsenal

Forgotten weapons and InRange are now both on Amazon prime. Looks like a company called Gold Harbor Media made movies out of their episodes. Could always look into that.

David Gummo

In today’s culture, anything to do with media and firearms seems to border on criminal. Even if you do nothing wrong, you, WE, face this obstacle. The fact that your presentation is so heavily based in History is most likely the saving grace. There might be no hope for a show that was produced for the fun of it. There is a interesting perspective, if you are in trouble, we will give you the shirt off our back. If you seem to be doing well and progressing on schedule, the concern melts away. Great art gets produced to satisfy an artist’s demons. It’s frosting if it is a commercial success too. All I can say is, “” keep doing what you do, I will keep loving it!””

A Pete Bingham

Othias, personally I love the depth you go in your videos, however most YouTube viewers won't watch something longer than 20 minutes. I want you to keep the length of the videos but maybe you can do condensed versions for those with shorter attention spans. Say a 10-15 minute teaser or very general overview on the off weeks. That or maybe show the whistle taters more often. Hope this helps, keep up the great work!!!

Old Man Winter

Many Youtubers post their videos regularly in similar themed sub-reddits to gather interest, and it tends to work decently (at least it works better than the YouTube algorithms), but I don't know if there's much of a gun community there. Setting up a Discord may be also a good idea; if you get a pair of decent moderators you trust, you don't have to do anything. Both Forgotten Weapons and InRange have discords for their patreons (Ian never shows himself there and Karl appears once in a blue moon). It's a good way to keep an active and involved community around you whit minimal initial effort and no maintenance.

PHP

If your goal is just more viewership ,then have your content posted on MVgroup.It might not reap benifits initially,but you will reach another audience.

Ethereal