Well, this isn’t what I expected.
A while back, I wrote here about the absolutely massive pile of video content I have built up on my YouTube channel, with shows prepared throughout 2027 and into 2028 already. I discussed a plan I had to try to reduce this overstock of videos, by moving to releasing videos daily in 2028, rather than just five days a week, as it will be in 2027.
This has not really worked.
You see, I was going to move to a daily series of videos based around “Elite: Dangerous”, but had issues getting it to work with OBS, my video recording software. Then I was going to do “No Man’s Sky”, but decided that felt too grindy and boring. So what to do?
I fell back on good old reliable “Lord of the Rings Online”. Now that I have it working right on my new-ish laptop, everything is going great, and it has been a perfect choice!… except that it hasn’t been enough.
So in steps “Starfield”, where I’m also producing daily videos in 2028. Surely this would be enough to slow down my rate of content creation? Yes? Of course, it must be! 14 videos a week has to be enough to cut down on the crushing glut of pre-produced stock, right?
So I’m sitting here, writing this post at the end of September, for release in November, about my plans for even more video content to come out in 2028. This is my life. I’d say I need a vacation, but friends, this is what I do for fun! If I had a real vacation, I’d just make even more content, like I did back in July, and will most assuredly do during my Halloween break.
Anyway, what’s the plan, then? I’ve been looking over my YouTube analytics, and it appears that – to my utter confusion – my Casual Sunday videos garner more views on average than anything else I create. Is it the variety of content being offered? The on average shorter videos? Do people just not like the other series’ I make? Who can say! All I know is that these “Casual Sunday” videos are doing quite a bit better than the weekday stuff, whatever the reason may be.
That’s something I should grasp on to.
So now that I’m basically 45 days done into 2028, and after this weekend will easily have all of February and then some completed on both current daily video series, I’ll be stepping back and working on a third daily video series for the channel in 2028.
As you can likely guess, the plan is to start making daily videos like the “Casual Sunday” shows I already create. These are great because I don’t have to remember where I was in the game due to taking a week off to work on a different game, since these are all just quick-hit sessions. I’m going to try to line up seven different games, and assign each one to a different day, maybe like “(Vampire) Survivors Sunday”, “Brotato Monday”, and so forth. These are just working titles at this point, nothing is set in stone.
I’m going to toss myself into this project in a couple of weeks, once I have the two current shows done into early March 2028, and see where this takes me. If it doesn’t work out, oh well, no harm no foul. In that case, you won’t even have seen it anyway, so no biggie.
My two primary daily shows are top priority, of course. I probably should wait until I have them both done through the middle of 2028, just to ensure I will be far enough ahead to ensure they are completed, but seriously… you should see how fast I’m knocking these shows out!
I can currently do at least 14 videos a night, over a roughly nine hour session each time. Doing this each weekend night lets me produce two weeks of content for each of my current daily shows in 2028 every weekend. At this rate, I’ll be halfway through 2028 before the end of 2026, producing content faster than ever!
The whole point was to slow myself down, not to speed up. If I don’t figure something out, I may have to move to a fourth daily video series, which will likely lead to burnout, but hey…
The show must go on.