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The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

#287 - (NKA Vids) Nigel Alexander

The Nine Club With Chris Roberts

Chris Roberts

Sports, Society & Culture, Leisure, Hobbies

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Nigel Alexander (NKA Vids) discusses getting his first job & sponsor by 118 Boardshop, meeting a young Paul Rodriguez, getting his first camera, making the Forecast video, starting skatesite.com, making a push on his YouTube channel & working with Network A, his first check from YouTube, finding skaters for his youtube videos, working for Powell Peralta, dealing with YouTube comments and much more! Timestamps 00:00:00 Nigel Alexander 00:04:22 Skating both switch and regular comfortably 00:06:03 First job & sponsor was 118 Boardshop 00:06:51 Making the Forecast video 00:10:06 Starting skatesite.com 00:13:10 The Proof video 00:14:40 Our Sponsor: Athletic Greens 00:16:15 Making the push towards YouTube and working with Network A 00:22:39 His first YouTube check 00:23:24 Jeron was Nigel's plug in high school (for skate product) 00:26:04 How Nigel got his first camera 00:31:39 The YouTube thing 00:44:38 Finding skaters for his YouTube videos 00:51:20 The effects of being a YouTuber on one's mental health 00:54:27 Nigel's upload schedule 00:57:46 Misconceptions about YouTube 01:05:02 is YouTube still as lucrative as it used to be? 01:05:30 The importance of YouTube thumbnails 01:09:39 Andy Schrock 01:12:12 Finding your niche on YouTube 01:15:17 Nigel's relationship with P-Rod 01:32:32 Notable moments while filming 01:38:29 Andy Anderson going big 01:41:25 Andy Anderson doing freestyle in the olympic park contest 01:43:25 Andy Anderson overload on YouTube? 01:45:02 working for/with Powell Peralta 01:51:40 Dealing with the YouTube comments Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, we are back home. We're back at the nine club. Everybody today. We have a very special

0:06.0

special

0:09.0

Special guest Mr. Nigel Alexander is with us. How are you dude? What's up, dude? Chelling dude. Thank you so much for coming on the show

0:17.0

We really appreciate you. Thanks for having me. Definitely a lot of people request Mr. Nigel Alexander to come on the show

0:25.0

There we go. We got him. Finally got him. Hey, you're like the most you're the original

0:32.0

skateboarder youtuber, dude. I think I've ever like out of all the skaters most YouTube dude. Yeah, basically

0:38.0

Basically, so I was funny when you guys show you guys start talking. I can see the glare and Chris's eye get like flare up because he loves talking YouTube. Yeah, I do

0:49.0

I absolutely love talking YouTube because once you get into a world, it's your world, right? And it's fun because like

0:56.0

And I watch Mr. Beast interviews and everything and he's right too and a lot of people they don't understand it, you know

1:02.0

They just think you upload something whatever you some people go viral some don't I don't know, but it is it's a hustle

1:08.0

It's a grind. It's a full-time job and it's interesting because there's algorithms. There's a

1:15.0

You know, cover thumbnails. There's this. There's titling. I mean, there's so much stuff that goes into it and you've been doing YouTube for 17 years.

1:28.0

Who's that? It's he, huh? It is heath. Heath has been on the show before on blast. I don't know.

1:36.0

Heath. Hey, what's up, dude? Hey, we're on the show right now. When I meet you

1:45.0

I'm like, so land of 99, baby, so far in the 2000. Yeah. I think it was still in a 99. Okay. Amazing.

1:57.0

Did you see the month? What did he say? Tail ended. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. That was the main question I had for you. I just had to make sure I'm pretty sure I got

2:06.0

Everything else straightened out in my head. So when we talk about you. Thanks. Heath moment. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. Heath. Love you, dude.

2:14.0

All right. Sorry about that guy. You're good. You're good. You're good. Anyway, what I'm saying was like you're I mean, you've been doing YouTube for 17 years since the beginning since the beginning.

2:27.0

And I think that it's it's a constant battle of figuring it out as you go too. I mean, we're still learning. They always turn, you know, they're updating their they update everything.

2:38.0

Yeah. So it's it's a constant battle, I think. And I mean, we're like when you first started six, let's see 17 years ago. Let's turn back to the clock 17 years ago. YouTube comes out and you're just like, hey, this is cool.

2:54.0

We could upload our own videos. Let me do that. Yeah. It was a it was a really amazing thing for me because, you know, being behind the camera all the time, I'd always witness all this skating, but back then it was only like four and one or a very select amount of avenues to put footage out.

3:13.0

So I noticed right away, I was like, oh my God, we could show anything we want. So right away, it's like when I knew we could do that, I took my VX 1000 a skate lab, set it up on a tripod.

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