Last year I’ve created a channel on effective altruism in Russian and made five videos on various topics, focusing mostly on introduction to main cause areas and fighting popular misconceptions on foreign aid (no English subtitles available, sorry). Each video was ~10 minutes long and they got >4000 views in total. With videos, I reached a 50 times larger audience than with offline public talks, but it was very time-consuming. I spent around 30-35 hours on making each video and eventually stopped making new ones, even though the audience was very friendly and people still reaching me out almost every week and asking about new videos. I’ll be happy to share my experience in making these videos if needed.
I think that creating a community space on YouTube and creating high-quality videos would be valuable, and I’ll be happy to hear if someone does this. But the conversion rate from YouTube viewers to actively involved EA members could be very low. That’s why in my videos I focused mostly on fighting ignorance, introducing ideas/​books/​research/​organizations, and creating a better culture of charitable giving without actively promoting EA.
The show should respond to what viewers are interested in seeing content about rather than promoting a particular EA cause or philosophy.
Strongly agree with that, I think the show should introduce viewers to ideas & opportunities rather than promote a particular philosophy.
Last year I’ve created a channel on effective altruism in Russian and made five videos on various topics, focusing mostly on introduction to main cause areas and fighting popular misconceptions on foreign aid (no English subtitles available, sorry). Each video was ~10 minutes long and they got >4000 views in total. With videos, I reached a 50 times larger audience than with offline public talks, but it was very time-consuming. I spent around 30-35 hours on making each video and eventually stopped making new ones, even though the audience was very friendly and people still reaching me out almost every week and asking about new videos. I’ll be happy to share my experience in making these videos if needed.
I think that creating a community space on YouTube and creating high-quality videos would be valuable, and I’ll be happy to hear if someone does this. But the conversion rate from YouTube viewers to actively involved EA members could be very low. That’s why in my videos I focused mostly on fighting ignorance, introducing ideas/​books/​research/​organizations, and creating a better culture of charitable giving without actively promoting EA.
Strongly agree with that, I think the show should introduce viewers to ideas & opportunities rather than promote a particular philosophy.