There's three million channels in the partner program. So you're not competing with 100 million channels. There's three million channels in the partner program. But if you wanted to look at the goal that you have, if your goal is you want 100,000 subscribers, you want a silver play button, you possibly want to become a full-time content creator, that's roughly around 600,000 channels in the world. Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the YouTube of Creators Hub podcast. If you're looking to start, grow, or monetize your YouTube channel, this is the show for you. I interview wonderful creators each and every week on Friday's 6 a.m. release time, and you can either listen to it on your podcast player of choice, or you can watch it here on YouTube, if that is your preference. We have no advertisers for the show. We're just going to let you know what we provide to creators. Number one, I offer one-on-one private coaching, links down below. I do channel reviews and audits. If you're not quite ready to hire a creator coach and invest that amount of money, you can get me to review your channel.

And thirdly, we have a mastermind group.

I release exclusive podcast episodes on that feed.

Five bucks a month gets you in.

You get access to our Creator's Corner Mastermind call every month.

And we're really beefing up the kind of offerings over there.

So for five, ten bucks a month, you're really getting probably the best bang for your buck. And also we have a email newsletter called The Entrepreneurs Minute, letting you know things that are interesting to me, what's going on behind the scenes of my business. And it's a great tool, never spammy, released on Fridays. And then if you're looking for the things that are mentioned throughout the show from every guest I've ever had on, We have a running spreadsheet called The Entrepreneurs Toolbox. All of that will be linked and

mentioned down below. Now, with that said, let's go ahead and jump into this week's conversation.

I'm joined today by a friend of mine, also fellow YouTube educator. I read you a little bit about

my friend Roberto Blake really quick before I introduce him.

He's a seasoned entrepreneur, YouTuber, digital marketing expert known for empowering creators

through his Create Something Awesome Mindset. He's the founder and CEO of Awesome Creator Academy

and so much more. Over 500K YouTube subscribers and beyond. He frequently speaks to industry events.

He just recently got back from a YouTube event not too long ago, and we're certainly

going to be talking about that.

But if you're trying to grow on YouTube or thinking about starting a YouTube channel,

he is one of the guys that you will be listening to for a while.

Roberto, how are you doing today?

I'm doing great. Thanks for having me, Dusty. Over 600,000 now. Oh, 600K. I had some old data, some old stats. It's now 600,000. I understand that. Yeah, we're almost to 640K almost now, yeah. Good for you. I enjoy these conversations with you so much. We've done them. Now, this is the fifth

or six one that we've done towards the end of the year. I also have Nick Nimman on and we do

the state of YouTube hour and a half long chat. And so I have really good friends and I have people

who are way smarter than me. And that's why I started this podcast is to learn from them. And you

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