Gamer Superstar - Chapter 67

67 – Vlogs?
I looked at his analytics screen and smiled when I saw the difference since the last time I looked at it 2 days ago.

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Monetized views: 422.295 = $358

[Numb – 438,717 views] +36,876 views

[In The End – 465,071 views] +47,976 views

[The Lazy Song – 1,368,032 views] +194,684 views

[Boyfriend – 167,876 views] +106,438 views

[Boyfriend Live – 36,321 views] +36,321 views

[48,240 subscribers] +6,131 subs

[Spokify Music Plays: 519,000] +78,000 views = $312

[Instabram: 23k followers] +6k followers

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The amount of views I’d been getting over the last few days now that I had other videos on the channel was very high, as all the videos were growing, and adding it all up made the daily channel views skyrocket!

Not to mention how surprised I was to see that the Boyfriend Live Version video was doing so well!

In just a few hours, the video had already gotten 36k views!

That was still a little less than The Lazy Song had gotten when I posted it, but it indicated that the song would probably get more views than the other songs on the channel, which was great news.

Adding up the views from MeTube and Spokify, I had earned over $600, but I could only withdraw that money every 30 days, so even if these two sources of income increased the amount I earned, I would still have to wait until the beginning of the next month to receive it.

One thing I was happy to think about was promoting my Instabram in the video I posted today.

Since the Boyfriend Live Version video showed my face, I had no reason to hide it anymore.

Looking at the comments on the video and the messages I received on MeTube and Instabram, most of them said the same thing.

[I’ve literally played this 100 times and I’m not exaggerating…]

[OMG, BlackVelvet finally showed his face! He’s so beautiful!!!]

[Help, I wasn’t prepared for so much beauty! This music video is amazing, and he’s wonderful!]

[I’m speechless! He’s too perfect!]

[I’m in love! He’s even more handsome than I imagined!!!]

[Bro has voice, looks cool, makes good music, now we can see that he is even handsome, how can I compete?!!]

[I saw my girlfriend watching this and came to see what it was, now she is not my girlfriend anymore :)]

[…]

Despite the messages from guys complaining about their girlfriends, I can’t blame them for getting angry about the lyrics of a song like this, because I’d be angry too if it was my girlfriend listening to it that often.

From what I’ve analyzed of the MeTube Analytics difference between my songs, while Numb and In The End had an audience ratio of 65% male and 35% female, The Lazy Song had a ratio of 55% male and 45% female, but Boyfriend is on a completely different level.

Boyfriend had 83% female and only 17% male, and as far as I could tell, that gap was only getting bigger, so that song was the one that was most responsible for me getting the most female audience.

The advantage of the female audience was that the girls weren’t as exclusive as the guys.

While the guys only listened to songs that were made with them in mind, or songs that were somewhat generic, the girls were different.

As long as they liked an artist, they would listen to both female-oriented and male-oriented music, making that audience more loyal.

However, I didn’t want to focus only on the female audience and leave the male audience behind, because tapering off is only an alternative when you have no other choice.

With my talent, because the system supports me, I could diversify my audience to appeal to both audiences.

And if the comments on the song on MeTube were like this, when I opened the DMs on Instagram, I was shocked by the number of people who messaged me.

To take advantage of the MeTube promotion, I also took a photo that Selena took of me at the concert and posted it on my profile while promoting the MeTube video.

In this way, MeTube brought viewers to Instabram, and Instabram brought viewers to MeTube, creating a chain of promotion.

Compared to my previous posts on my profile, which were photos without my face and only got about 400 likes, now that I’ve posted my first photo with my face, the likes are already at 1,800 and rising.

Editing the song today earned me a new skill.

[Video Editing Lv 3

Effect: Develops a better understanding of video editing techniques, increasing the user’s skill by 3%. This includes mastery of video editing software, cutting techniques, transitions, visual and sound effects, color correction, and filter application. It also improves your ability to tell stories visually and create engaging videos by 3%. Gain a tangible advantage by learning the fundamentals of creative and professional video editing].

The scene where the cameraman filmed me with my back turned wasn’t actually a scene of me singing Boyfriend.

It was a scene from another song I was singing at the time, but since no one could sing either, it was difficult for the audience to know which song it was.

So I used this snippet to tell the audience I already had about the tension on my face.

This was only possible after the skill went up to level 2.

With a skill like this at level 2, the effect was much more practical than with a more complicated skill, because in 2 months of training, the improvement I would get in video editing would be much greater than 2 months of trying to design a rocket.

But one thing stuck in my mind now that I could film myself.

“Maybe I should start making long videos?” I asked myself in surprise.

Since I could already show my face, making long videos could get me a bigger audience, more views, and therefore more money.

While a music video earned me $0.85 per thousand views, from what I researched, a video longer than 10 minutes could earn me between $4 and $12 depending on the topic of the video for the same amount of views.

So while The Lazy Song video earned me $850 for 1 million views, I would have earned at least $4,000 if the video wasn’t about music.

But I wasn’t going to complain, because not only did that money help my family pay off their debts, it also helped build my name, so if I started making longer videos and got more views, it would all be thanks to the popularity I’d gained from the songs.

“Are you thinking about doing vlogs?” Liv asked, scaring me to death.

“Where did you come from?” I shouted as I put my hand to my chest and breathed heavily.

“I came to call you to dinner, but you were so focused on your own little world that you didn’t even hear me talking to you, even talking to yourself in the bedroom…” She complained as she rolled her eyes at me.

“My bad, but yes, I’m thinking about the possibility of making longer videos, maybe vlogs.” I explained. I explained. “But I’m not sure yet, it would be weird to change the theme of the channel, it would divide the audience and maybe reduce the reach of the songs.”

Nodding her head, Liv also started to think: “Why don’t you record the backstage of your shows? You can make vlogs like that, still keep the same theme as your channel, but you can get more people to listen to your music and turn the people who have already heard your songs into your fans”.

When I heard that, I was surprised.

“That’s a great idea Liv!” I laughed as I hugged her.

Unlike before, when she would pull away or try to push me away, she didn’t do that anymore.

She just accepted the hug and her face turned red with embarrassment.

“The problem is that it’s going to be very difficult to record…” I thought of a problem.

“Don’t you have an agency? Tell them that, they take 20% of your salary, you have to have a reason to pay them that.” She complained, rolling her eyes again.

I laughed at her explanation, it made sense. Selena herself told me that if I had any problems I could just talk to her, if I asked her for a cameraman like the one she got to shoot my music video, wouldn’t that be easy for her?

“Let’s have dinner, you can talk to her in the meantime.” Liv said as she got up and went to the kitchen.

I followed her and started to send the message to Selena.

[I’m thinking of starting vlogs to capitalize on the popularity of my channel, can you get me a cameraman?] I sent.

This time she didn’t answer right away, probably busy with something else.

It was only after dinner that she replied. [Yes, I can, but since the income from MeTube is yours, we can’t afford a cameraman].

Reading this, I nodded, it made sense, since I wanted to keep the profits from MeTube, she can help me find a good cameraman, but the cost of keeping that person would be mine.

[No problem,] I replied.

I didn’t know what the average price of a cameraman was, but as long as the price wasn’t like $500 a day, I thought I could afford it.

I looked at it as an investment, even if I spent money now, that money would come back quickly.

If I posted one video a week with 50k views, that would make me $300, which was close to what the cameraman could charge, so if the video made more than that, that was profit, not to mention the hidden profit the videos would make on my songs as well.

Within minutes, Selena sent me a list of names of videographers with their portfolios.

Some were extremely professional, with impeccable quality, but their prices were also very high, charging $2,000 a day.

Others were very amateurish, but the price was also low, only $100 a night.

Looking at the list, I looked for a young man who was willing to learn and had decent qualities.

With time, I could learn more about him and use [Teach Lv25] to teach him how to improve so that he could have a level in the future.

Among the names with these criteria, there was a very promising young man with talent who didn’t charge too much.

The quality of his recordings was good, his price was only $200 a day, and he was only a few years older than me.

When I looked at his name, I was surprised that instead of putting his name out there for other people to contact him, he used a nickname.

[JKing]

If it wasn’t for the contact information he left explaining his status in the portfolio, I wouldn’t have even known what he looked like since his profile picture was a white and blue tiger.

A little suspicious, I decided to at least do a test. If the quality was good, it would be good to train him and increase his salary over time.

Adding his contact number to my phone, I decided to send him a message first.

[Hey, your portfolio was recommended to me, are you free to shoot this weekend?]

While waiting for his reply, I took the time to develop my game a bit more and relax my mind.