How Clayton Morris Built Redacted to 3M Subscribers
YouTube Creators Hub
Dusty Porter
4.7 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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In this episode, Dusty sits down with Clayton Morris, former Fox News anchor turned independent journalist with nearly 3 million YouTube subscribers on his channel Redacted News. Clayton shares the complete journey of building one of YouTube's most successful independent news channels, including surviving platform bans, navigating YouTube's shifting terms of service, and adapting to the evolving creator landscape.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the YouTube Creators Hub podcast where each and every Friday, I sit down with a wonderful content creator and I break down what makes them successful, how they've grown their creator business and the ends and outs of what it takes to succeed as a creator. |
| 0:15.1 | And so today is no different. I'm joined by Clayton Morris, a wonderful guest, someone with huge experience as a creator. |
| 0:22.6 | But before we get started, I just want to say really quickly, you will not hear any sponsors |
| 0:27.3 | or ad reads here on the podcast. |
| 0:29.8 | I'm just going to tell you briefly about the things and services we offer to creators. |
| 0:35.2 | Number one, I offer one-on-one coaching. |
| 0:37.1 | Number two, we have a creator |
| 0:38.7 | mastermind group, which is five to ten bucks to get in, and I believe one of the best bangs for |
| 0:44.0 | your buck in the creator space. Next, we have our YouTube channel review and audit service, |
| 0:49.0 | where I record a screencast video showcasing your channel where I believe you should be spending |
| 0:53.7 | your time. |
| 0:54.7 | And then lastly, a couple other free things. |
| 0:56.6 | We have an email newsletter where you can keep up with my business and what I have going on. |
| 1:00.6 | And then lastly, the entrepreneur's toolbox, which is just a running spreadsheet of every |
| 1:05.5 | link tool or resource mentioned here on the podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | So with that said, let's go ahead and jump into this |
| 1:11.7 | week's conversation. Hello everyone and welcome to this week's conversation on the Creators Hub |
| 1:16.5 | podcast. I'm joined today by Clayton Morris, who is a former Fox News anchor turned independent |
| 1:22.3 | journalist. He owns multiple YouTube channels, including his nearly three million |
| 1:26.7 | subscriber channel known as |
| 1:29.1 | Redacted News. |
| 1:30.5 | That is R-E-D-C-T-E-D News. |
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