Amayzine
Since I started vlogging alongside presenting, I have become a very happy girl. I am my own boss, I decide what I say, where and when I work, and what my videos are about, and sometimes… I even get paid to travel! What a luck! Indeed, but that doesn't happen by itself. 8 things that happen behind the scenes in the life of a vlogger.
- We really do find it embarrassing to walk down the street with a camera or worse, with a selfie stick, but hey, you have to do something for a fun video.
- We edit anytime and anywhere. So sometimes even after going out at 3:30 AM (I’m not kidding), on the train, in the car, and last Sunday I got up at 6:00 AM to finish my weekly vlog. finish my weekly vlog.
- Unlike the TV and blog world, the YouTube community is very close-knit. Everyone knows each other and many friendships develop. This is also because you mainly grow in reach by making videos together (collabs) with other vloggers.
- We don’t vlog for the money (that usually comes after a year) or for the fame. We do it because we love making videos and inspiring our followers.
- That whole vlogging may seem like it’s done on a whim, but we all have a professional lighting set at home, multiple lenses, and before we start vlogging, we spend half an hour setting up the background properly. For example, is there a flower in the shot? Is the mess out of the way and is my shirt not too busy on camera? How is my hair/makeup?
- Even though there are many vloggers who post a video daily or weekly, that doesn’t really mean they film everything. You see a lot, but when we are crying on the couch or at mom and dad's, it’s usually off.
- On vacation, there is often one stress day and that is our fixed upload day. Uploading often goes quite slowly in your hotel room, so (to the great annoyance of my boyfriend) we look for a café/another hotel where the upload speed is good.
- Most videos you see on a YouTube channel are made voluntarily. We earn almost nothing with the pre-roll ads (commercials for a video), at most a few tens per month (except for people with millions of views like Enzo and Mascha). The real money we earn by collaborating with commercial brands we are fans of.
