Today, we interviewed Will Tennyson, one of YouTube’s biggest fitness creators, with over 3 million subscribers and 1 billion views. Will breaks down his most popular content and the strategies he's used.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Introduction
0:33 - How he came up with the idea for a video
2:58 - How much he made with the 10 million view video
3:41 - What his RPM is
7:03 - How he came up with the idea
11:40 - How he organises collabs
15:21 - What his dream collab would be
15:53 - I Arnold would be a dream collab for him
16:24 - If he’s the reason Bryan Johnson blew up
18:24 - What his specific audience is
20:48 - How he comes up with his new ideas
23:49 - How long it takes to finalise an idea into a video
24:55 - How he plans his video shoots
26:54 - How he handles IRL videos without controlling the outcome
29:18 - If there was a video he was super excited about but ended up flopping
31:01 - How the scripting process looks for him
32:02 - How he writes those jokes
42:20 - How the strategy team has helped him
43:59 - How he’s built a content strategy around food
50:10 - How he thinks differently when making shorts
52:35 - If he cares about reaching 10M subscribers
56:25 - If that approach helped him to avoid burnout
1:01:23 - How much time he spends on YouTube
1:03:50 - Why he puts that stress on himself
1:04:57 - If he is happy
1:07:07 - The advice he’d give to someone trying to grow a YouTube channel
1:09:30 - What channel he’d invest in