All right, let's do this there. hi. this random mess that I'm sitting on that moment is pretty appropriate considering that that's pretty much what the Eevblog has been over the last 10 years. It's just a random eclectic mess of content.

I started yes, it is the tenth anniversary just snuck up on me today. April 4th 2009 is when I created the Eevblog YouTube channel and I'll get into the history What I can remember off the top my head but up front I Just want to say a huge thanks to everyone who has watched, subscribed, donated, helped out, contributed to the forum, done and all sorts of things over the last 10 years to make this ridiculous thing possible. So yeah, just I don't know what more to say. Huge thanks to everyone who has been involved in the Eevblog in any small way.

um, over the years. So yeah, that's it. Awesome! Thanks everyone! it's been terrific now. Yeah, April I think it was probably like April 2nd or something like that I think might have even been a little bit before that.

But anyway, I got this idea that I'd start this video blog just talking about whatever I saw that you know YouTube had been around for a few years and I saw people doing some things and there really wasn't much if anything out there for engineering. There certainly wasn't a regular episodic content for want of a better word where like people would upload just a regular content. It was more like a random stuff. So I came up with the idea.

In fact, the original idea is what turned into the amp hour I was actually going to do a radio like a podcast thing because I had the podcasting mic for another project which I linked in and I thought hey I've got a good podcast in Michael doing this podcast thing and then I thought well no one's gonna want to listen to me talk to myself I'm like just I don't know what interview myself I just talked about random stuff on my own. it seemed to be boring so I shove that and decided to do video. So I grabbed a 320 an old webcam that I had 320 by 240 lat and and I just like pressed exactly what we have today I just went and back then you had a 10 minute time limit on YouTube so I just press record and then I decided well well no thought if someone's coming in, press record I'd assume waiting for the carpet people to turn up to do the other half at a lab. check out my video on the second channel if you haven't seen it.

that's why I'm sitting on this I'm like this is a bench upside-down symmetrical bench stacking. you know, haven't seen this sort of thing since the Philadelphia Mass turbulence in 1947. Anyway, yeah, I did press record and I started talking about things and I thought like an eevblog like well back then it didn't even have a name I thought that I'd have multiple things in the one video I think I had a book reviewer like a ship of the week kind of thing and a product review which is the original Rygel oscilloscope and all that sort of stuff and then I can't remember how I edited that together I got it just down under the 10 minute mark but I just there was no script I just press record and started talking and then I uploaded it on to my personal YouTube channel. At first I didn't actually have the eevblog YouTube separate channel for it and then I posted it on the AHS electronics Usenet forum which I was a big member of us one of the top posters over there back in the day and I thought maybe you know look if like I'd be happy if like fifty or hundred people or a couple hundred people watch this thing you know I'd be stoked and it turns out yep fifty people watched at the same day and everyone was asking when's the next episode Okay and so I did another episode decide to move it out to the garage lab which was like four or five square.

It wasn't bigger than five square meters, it's like four square meters and that had two benches and a narrow thing to put my chair like this and the camera was right up in my face and as it was just horrible as on air condition so you'd see sweat pouring down my head. for you know in summertime you get the birds chirping in the background and all sorts of stuff. the the lighting, the camera, the audio, it was all horrible and but you know that was the early days of YouTube and I I just thought that was great I loved getting the feedback from this. It's very different to today where my kids are earning millions of dollars a year creating a YouTube content right? there'd be a full-time Youtuber but back when I in 2009 I don't know I have to go through the history of it but I don't think there were was or maybe even a handful of people just scraping by in the in the whole world trying to make a living from making YouTube videos it like it just wasn't thought of back then.

you just did it because you wanted to share content and you wanted to have fun and I've always shared content. I've published my magazine, projects and stuff like that back when I was a kid and I've always had that webs than the technical website. I've always loved getting feedback I'd get back back before the blog I would get like dozens and dozens of emails a week, even letters back in the day where I had to like handwrite or apply liquor stamps send it back to them and that's that's how I replied from my web page back in the day and so I've always been sharing content like that, which has been the rewarding part of doing this. and it's still why I do it and still why I read all the comments and I try and reply where possible.

It's why I contribute to the forum I'm a forum nerd and ya had no idea I thought maybe if I got like wildest dreams, a thousand people might watch me and then that happened in next to no time. and within I think two years Yeah, it was two years. it was up to ten thousand subscribers and I thought, how is there ten thousand people in the world that want to watch just this random thing of this me just bumming around in the lab, basically doing whatever came to my mind. So this day, ten years later I still don't have much of an idea what my next video is.

There's still no script, there's still nothing. I just switch on the camera press record. Maybe it's a bit more than that these days, you know. I might think about it for five minutes before I press the record button, but it's still exactly the same as it was ten years ago in 2011.

I had 10,000 I think I did a video at the one-year mark I was looking at the subscriber growth and I I went wow. maybe in five years time I could like maybe scrape a living doing this full-time and like actually projecting the numbers and stuff like, that. It turns out only a year later in 220 April 2011. Almost two years exactly later that I was retrenched from out Iam, they packed up and moved to China and it I still was not earning enough money from the from the views from the blog business and my side business selling kits and stuff like that to actually make a full-time living from this.

and we were a month away from having a half first child and missus eevblog said go out and get a real job. None of this YouTube Rubbish. you know it's good on the side but yeah so I I got a contract design. it went back to Contract Design Engineering and did that for probably another six months.

But anyway then some things started. Some advertisers started to roll in for the eevblog forum which I totally didn't expect the forums being a like a huge beast in its own right that's just growing. It just started out somebody mentioned hey why don't you have a forum so that we can just chat about each episode and stuff. Yeah great.

I had forums I set up forums in the past for different things are set up the Allas Electronics Yah-hoo Group forum for those who remember that for the few people who remember that but when Yahoogroups was a theme and I had various our forums and among other websites for projects I was working on a stuff like that so I set up a forum and it just organic organically grew over the years to one of the world's leading engineering forums now which is fantastic and I'm a forum nerd. So yeah - I am in the morning there I am on the forum. can't help myself so that's been a very big surprise. There's so many people on the forum who don't even know that I make videos.

they're just there on the forums. just an engineering forum and they go, who's this Dave Jones guy I don't know he runs the forum. no clue I have a YouTube channel which is great I love it and so yeah. 2000 night.

So I went full-time some things started to come into place and advertisers came in. a forum sponsor came in who's still there today supply frame so thank you very much. Um, and that tipped the money over Where the wife was happy that I could actually continue to do this as a full-time living and it was very flexible and stuff like that. So anyway, so I've been doing this full-time for eight years now.

So this is the 10th anniversary today, but almost to the day almost to the day eight years when I started this full-time So I started with 10,000 subscribers and it took me I don't know when I hit a hundred thousand subscribers and got the YouTube silver award, but they didn't send me the YouTube silver award for another like a year and a half two years later or something like that. So I think I was like two hundred and fifty thousand two hundred thousand plus subscribers before they sent me my YouTube silver award and now it's what? 640 thousand I Still cannot believe there's that many people who watch my content and go subscribe to that. But of course the problem with problem with the channel like mine is that it's really an eclectic mix of content. I think I do like a dozen or two dozen different over a dozen different types of videos so that's impossible to keep everyone happy.

I've done videos on this topic before so that's why my subscriber to view ratio the people who viewed versus the number of subscribers is not as as more focused channels and stuff like that. So but hey thank you to everyone who has been watching and and following along and like over the years because I've watched YouTube channels over the years and I've slowly you know like I thought that was I used to watch every single video and then I slowly my interest change your life changes or whatever. Ten years is a long time and I you know it might just slowly stop watching or drifted on to other interests and things like that, but there's there's people who have been still watching. they seem to keep telling me all the time watching from episode one.

now all they've been watching from the garage days, you know, which is fantastic. and yeah, I still do it exactly the same thing. This is basically just my hobby lab. I I don't do any real proof.

Well, kind of sort of working on some professional projects and stuff like that here. but it's basically this is just my hobby lab and this is still just a hobby channel really. And although it's aimed at some, you know, professional content and stuff like that. But but really, it's just me bumming around in the lab doing whatever video whatever interests me that day because I don't really have a plan.

So talking about the future, a lot of people saying where where am I going to be in 10 years time? Well, hopefully still doing the same thing because I Love this. There's been so many youtubers out there who it's almost. It's almost trendy these days to do a Burnout video where you you know they're just so bummed out that they get on camera and go look I haven't made a video for six months because I'm burned out and I want to get back into and get my life in order and stuff like that? I'm definitely not one of those. It's just love bumming around in my lab to think that I can do this as a full-time living.

It's just it's mind-blowing It really is. It's fantastic. So yeah, no plans, No plans to burn out anytime soon. Let me tell you, I'm just too enthusiastic I just love just bumming around with electronics stuff.

although I do the one plan I do have which I started and I never followed through it because half-ass you know that's the eevblog that should be the eevblog like the logo you know, half-ass content with lots of enthusiasm and I started the Eevee Discover channel where I thought I'd go out and visit locations and stuff like that, maybe get the videos professionally edited and have like a season. like you know, there's a season one and you have six or ten episodes or something like that and I still actually have plans to that. In fact, considering that I can't really do anything today I've started this last week, I'm gonna start emailing people today to get access to hopefully get access to some cool places cool things that I can go and look at, studying in Mike you know, in Sydney and then maybe branching out if if I find something worthy to work travel, you know, a decent decent distance for so, but that's the plan so whether or not I actually go through so you'll definitely see some of that content, but it could take a while I plan to shoot it and then maybe edit it because I think it would work better as a series and I don't plan to put that on the main channel I did a survey on this and half the people said main Channel half the people said no make it Evi discover and I kind of want to make more dedicated channel content so the plan is to stick with the Eevblog just doing my what I've always done just a random eclectic mix of content whatever happens to interest me, you know, a couple of times a week. hopefully still trying to keep up a couple of videos a week.

But yeah, a lot of the business stuff gets in the way though. Unfortunately, because yeah, like I've now got a full-time employee David I've got a part-time employee soon as he comes in and does the packing and shipping and stuff like that for me, just the business side of things. that's a bit of a drag. You know it's not just me bumming around in a lab.

There's a lot of, like annoying business stuff that needs to be taken care of and that's a bit of a drag. But anyway, I hopefully will be doing that sort of content. so let me know in the comments down below if you want that I on the evey Discovery Channel I think I will and because it's more focused I like the idea of having a channel that's focused on one type of content. so keep the eevblog for the random mix Evy - just for the you know, just for the less polished, random crap that I upload there that's all within it in the next year I could hit a hundred thousand subscribers on my second channel.

Well, she could get a YouTube Silver Award for that til they still give out the silver awards. if you don't know. last time I checked there were almost 90 thousand channels that have a hundred thousand subscribers. I a YouTube silver award.

It's probably hit a hundred thousand by now actually. and the number of that have a million subscribers is I don't know, it's in that like ten thousand or something. Like it's crazy. It's huge.

It's like five thousand channels or something. It's enormous. and I've done a video on this where I used to be ranked like five thousandth in the world and now I think I'm thirty five thousandth in the world. It's not because my channels going downhill, it's not my channel he's going up.

It's a constant growth. From day one, it's been phenomenal, almost linear growth with the occasional little jump up when I level up in the our YouTube algorithm and stuff like that. But yeah, it's been constant growth. but there's just been an explosion of all these other channels and stuff like that, which is fantastic.

So yeah, I Like that. I'm actually going down in the rankings because it's means there's more people out there doing this and producing cool content which is awesome, but you know there's a lot of I Just tweeted something today about all these kid videos and stuff like that. A billion views per video, a billion and they got like 45 million subscribers. It's crazy anyway.

I still like the U in YouTube and you know that's why. Like Puter Pi, for example, is still great because it's basically just a guy in his room. you know, that's pretty much in, that's what. I am I'm just a guy in my lab.

Um, yeah, it's not a bad hobby lab, let me tell you. Um, it's certainly changed from the dusty days of the The Garage, that's for sure. If you want to know, the secret to getting this far is just persistence doing the same video. note the same video, doing content over and over.

Just keep producing content and hopefully people will like it and subscribe and keep on watching. And if you keep on making stuff people like, they keep on watching. but like channels always grow and change and stuff like that. and I I've done that.

you've probably seen some. a lot of people say it's not like it used to be and I've done videos explaining how yeah, pretty much still is I'm still doing their athletic mix of content that I always have so it's not changed too much. but yeah, it's probably things are a lot more polished. I spend more time editing my videos these days than I used to.

just a little bit more attention to detail just trying out. you know? I'll spend time trying to cut out and to. make the video a minute shorter. so I'll cut out the arms and Mars and take out.

You know if I if I say something twice which is alone I Used to repeat myself a lot. probably having this video anyway. it's a one take wonder. this one used to repeat myself a lot back in the earlier videos and I didn't edit that sort of stuff out now I would edit.

That's what I would notice and edit that sort of thing. But yeah, I'm still just a one-man band doing a video. It's just me and a camera and no script, press, record and away we go. Edit and upload.

so publish and be damned as they say. So yeah. I hope you will continue to watch. I Let me know your thoughts down below of what you want to see in the blog in the next 10 years.

Do you want me to get into that more? Do you want to see that more polish content? Do you want me to get out of the lab? Because I certainly do. I want it locked in the lab for ten years? You get less for murder, right? So I think getting out might be a good thing. but yeah, it's easy to get complacent though. and that's the thing.

It's easy. Hopefully people don't think that my contents been getting in any way. I've been getting complacent in producing the content and stuff like that I Try not to be. You know this occasional week's we're all right.

Mmm, not as enthusiastic as some other week. but yeah, that happens. that's just life stuff. anyway.

yeah I know you're gray here now. back when I started I didn't have the gray hair I'm 10 years older which is crazy but to do this full-time for eight years? Fantastic! So thank you to everyone who's subscribed and helped and maintained the forum Simon and Jeff and other guys who have maintained the forum and the websites and helped out and offered help and assistance and stuff. way. that's really appreciated because I You know it would have been much harder to do a lot of this stuff on my own.

So yeah, thank you very much. And here's to another ten years. I Guess of producing random content, let me know your thoughts of what you want to say. what direction you want to see.

the Am I Still traveling? okay Am I not doing okay is going downhill for you. Please don't speak for anyone else I Like you know I Try and read all the comments, but like nothing's more silly than here we go I'm gonna have a rant. Nothing's more silly than someone who tries to speak for everyone you know, like we don't like this, like who's we like? No, you speak for yourself so please. But yeah.

I Do try and read or not, all the comments can't possibly do it. I Still get like eighty to a hundred thousand views a day I don't know how many comments a day, it's just crazy. But if you want me to read your comments, the best time to do it is just after I release the video. So in the hours or the day after I released the video, that's when I'm reading the comments I Typically don't go back to old videos and read new comments on old videos and stuff like that I do.

Occasionally there's a feature in YouTube where you can go through and it just shows all your latest comments across all my you know for 1,200 videos of 1400 I think on the main channel plus another 400 on the second channel or whatever. So I do that occasionally but more like to comment on the fresh content and stuff like that and as always you can reach me on the forum or David eevblog com send me an email I still I still read all my email I do have a specific fan email address and I sort of read those more in bulk kind of stuff. So I know I do read everything so apologies if I can't reply to get a huge volume of email. but I do read everything and I do can't read every on the forum because there's like 800 thousand posts a day on the former.

used to read every single message on the forum at like I No one could do it. No single person could do it. Not a chance anyway. I've rambled on for long enough.

That's single take. I'm not going to edit this because I don't have an editing computer. There's nothing here. It's just like it's just a.

it's just a pile of mess. anyway. yeah, hopefully the carpets coming in today and then I'll move everything back. sorry if there's no content for like the next week.

It could take us a week to set this thing up again to get back. But yeah. Anyway, let me know your thoughts down below of all the stuff you want to see. So thank you everyone who's watched and subscribed I said all that.

Thanks Catch you next time. Where's the Bloody Stop button? Hi welcome to the EEV blog and Electronics Engineering Video Blog of interest to anyone involved in electronics Design. I'm your host Dave Jones.