Author: Adit Pinheiro

YouTube has become a gold mine over the years. With over 30,000 hours of content being uploaded to the platform every hour, there is nothing you can’t find as a viewer. As a creator, the earning potential has exploded in the last couple of years. Ryan Kaji is a good case in point, having earned $29 million from his YouTube channel “Ryan’s World” just in 2020. Given the huge potential for a creator, these are 7 tips to help improve the quality of your YouTube videos. 1. Use a Unique Thumbnail YouTube thumbnails make or break videos. How many times…

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, Discord should be an application most of you are familiar with.The VoIP and instant messaging platform has been around since 2015 and currently has over 140 million monthly active users and 300 million registered users as per businessopapps. With a valuation of $7 billion, Discord is not just any platform. Fun fact, you can make money on Discord. There are certain niche servers that charge a membership fee and some have associated Patreon accounts where members can send over tips.These are just two of the many ways you can make money on Discord.…

If you are looking for the shortest possible answer, then here it is. Signal is quite easily the most secure messaging platform currently. Stick around to find out why exactly it is so. WhatsApp currently holds the top spot in the messaging service niche. Why? Simply because of the convenience. With around 2 billion active monthly users, the user-base of WhatsApp is light years away from both Telegram and Signal. While the former has a current monthly user count of about 400 million, Signal only has around 10-20 million. This number is a drop in the ocean compared to WhatsApp,…

Given that YouTube wants you to earn every view and subscriber, the short answer to this is no. But there are too many videos on the platform for YouTube to care about people buying them. If they do find out that you have bought views or subscribers, you do stand the chance of losing them all. Photo by Tingey Injury Law Firm on Unsplash Why does YouTube not encourage you to buy YouTube views and subscribers? YouTube runs on ads, and people need to click on these ads for YouTube to earn money. Many social media boosting services use click…

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According to stats gathered in 2020, people watch about 5 billion videos on YouTube every single day. Looking at this fact alone, a potential YouTuber might be inspired. “Given that these many videos are watched daily, it shouldn’t be that hard for my video to get views, right?”. Sadly, the truth is far from this. Almost 99% of the videos on the platform do not get 1000 views. It makes more sense when they understand that approximately 300 minutes’ worth of video is uploaded every minute. Yes, every minute. What people need to understand is that with each passing day,…

The word “mixtapes” is making a revival. If you don’t know what a mixtape is, well, then you missed out on a golden era of sharing music. Before the days of Spotify playlist sharing, if you wanted to create a compilation of your favorite music, creating a mixtape would be the go-to. Creating a mixtape with your crush’s favorite songs was the best way to a girl’s heart. Now though, it can also help you earn some extra cash. Although, we could spend hours discussing mixtapes, here we dive into two services that strive to keep the medium of mixtapes…

LiveMixtapes is an online mixtape streaming service that began in 2006 and has cemented itself as one of the leading online mixtape services out there. Having started with a catalog of just over a couple of mixtapes, the service now boasts about 18,000 mixtapes with many being released by the day. Similar to other music streaming services like Spotify and SoundCloud, up and coming artists stand to gain a lot from LiveMixtapes. Artists that release music through these mixtapes are paid a certain amount depending on the existing user base. With that being said, it goes without saying that to…

The whole world has gone on complete lockdown. Everything seems to have turned upside down, and the life we grew used to living has had to change to adapt. One thing we can all agree upon is that YouTube has become a platform for everything during this pandemic. Doctors are using YouTube to spread awareness, news channels are reporting and keeping the world updated on the status of things, artists are taking to #STAYATHOME concerts, and influencers are trying to mobilize support for various organizations that are on the frontlines fighting this pandemic. Whatever be the reason, user interaction on…

Spotify is in a league of its own when it comes to music streaming. Yes, it does have competitors like Apple Music and SoundCloud. The fact that Spotify raked in about $7.44 billion in revenue in 2019 (29% increase from the previous year) is a testament to the fact that the Swedish music streaming service is not playing games. The service since it rolled out in 2006, has amassed about 248 million active monthly users. The numbers went up by a million just a week after it was launched in India in 2019. The service isn’t just a blessing for…

Spotify as a music streaming has exploded massively over the last few years. It currently averages about 250 million monthly listeners with about 113 subscribers paying for the premium service. The service prides itself on its ever-expanding features and continuous updates. Even though the service has been around for more than a decade, there are things that most users still aren’t aware of. Here we look into 10 things you probably didn’t know about Spotify which could very well enhance your experience on the service and probably get the best out of using it. 1. The Radio Feature on Spotify…

Spotify has had massive success over the years with monthly active listeners crossing 250 million. These numbers mean maximum exposure for well-established artists, while also serving as a launchpad for new artists. As new songs get uploaded by the day, getting seen on platforms like these, becomes tougher. As an artist, some certain tips and tricks can get you more online visibility. Here are 10 tips to increase Spotify monthly listeners and podcast plays count. 1. Get your music into playlists Playlists play a huge role in boosting numbers in Spotify. It is probably the most effective and free way…

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Spotify has grown massively in the last five years. The service boasts an approximate of 217 million active users, of which 100 million are premium subscribers. Spotify also offers users incredible exposure to new music through playlists. Playlists form a huge part of why Spotify has the success it has. There are different kinds of playlists on Spotify. Personal Playlists: Playlists that are created by artists to gain traction for their music.User Playlists: Regular users also have a chance to add their favorite songs into a playlist. This can be made public so others can also follow it.Editorial Playlists: This…

More than 500 million users, available in 155 countries and 75 different languages. These would be just some of the statistics to describe TikTok, the video-sharing app that has taken the social media world by storm since its inception in 2016. And ever since ByteDance acquired Musical.ly in 2017 and merged it with TikTok in 2018, the growth has been exponential. With all the hype surrounding this platform, there must be reasons why TikTok has become so popular. Here are 7 reasons why it is popular, and why you should be on TikTok. Increased exposure and popularity The average time…