How Amelia Dimoldenberg built a hit YouTube Show

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Colin and Samir

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4.9 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This week we're talking about Amelia Dimoldenberg's hit YouTube Show, Chicken Shop Date. Amelia has been creating content for the past 8 years, starting with a written column and slowly turning it into a hit YouTube Show that has had musicians like Ed Sheeran, KSI, Jack Harlow on. She's even caught the attention of Drake, who recently asked if he could come on the show. In this episode we break down what makes the show successful and pull 7 critical lessons from her 8 year journey as a creator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Chicken Shop Date is one of our favorite new shows on YouTube, and the host, Amelia Dmoldenberg,
0:04.6	has landed some of the biggest names in music, including Drake.
0:07.9	Drake DM'd her asking to be on the show.
0:10.6	Oh my God, Drake's just DM me.
0:13.3	That's when you know you made it.
0:14.4	Each show averages around 2.2 million views, and the show has taken its creator on a wild eight-year journey that is just getting started.
0:21.9	So today we're going to break down why chicken shop date is so successful,
0:25.3	as well as talk about Amelia's eight-year journey and how she ended up catching the attention of Drake.
0:35.1	One of the first reasons why this show is so successful, I think, is because it just
0:38.5	opens straight up into conversation.
0:40.2	It just gets going.
0:41.5	I'm a really big fan of chicken nuggets.
0:45.2	Here's the thing about YouTube.
0:48.2	The title and the thumbnail essentially give you the context to what you're clicking on.
0:51.9	So once you click on it, you don't really need additional
0:54.6	context, which I've been thinking about a lot for our show because we have a talk show. But for
0:58.5	hers, what I thought was so powerful, as you click on the episode, you're just in the conversation.
1:03.5	She's not like, today we're here with Jack Harlow and we're going to talk about this. You're
1:07.3	just in it. Right away, you can understand the tone. What's popping?
1:12.4	Hmm. Good start. Chicken fingers. That's great. Some hot sauce. And let's carry on. Oh,
1:19.5	a little messy. So like a lot of the best interview shows on YouTube, like hot ones, I would consider
1:24.6	one of the best shows on YouTube. There are multiple
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