HAPPY MONDAY! HERE'S KNACK-KNACK

Morning! Hope you all had a lovely weekend.

As you’ll have seen, the latest Bubblegun is out now. This is mine and Sanja’s favourite episode so far. I generally don’t listen to them back outside of editing, but I’ve listened to this one three times. You are not ready for the boy called Knack-Knack…

New channel is off to a better start than expected. We thought we’d get around 1,000 views for the first video, but it’s actually more or less in line with what we had for the last couple on the Digitiser channel. Not bad for a video that’s just a kind of city guide thing. Also, subs are at nearly 1,700 which – again – is about four times what we expected at this stage.

I’m mentioning the views only because… well… we’ve both felt pretty kind of unwanted the last few years, and this year in particular. It’s just nice that there are a few more people than expected who are willing to watch us. Ultimately, the only metric we’re really caring about is that we’re on a channel where people are there to watch what we want to make – doesn’t matter how many there are, so long as they’re there for the right reasons. It makes all the difference, and we both feel like a weight has been lifted.

The comments we’ve had on the car video we put up on the Digi channel kind of confirmed everything we’d long suspected – that the audience was completely split down the middle. I did get exasperated over one comment on Saturday and go into over-explaining mode. He was being a little rude, but mainly it was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

It has been a tough transition over the past couple of months, but feels like we’ve shifted the energy.

We’ll probably move the Lincoln video over to Paul and Sanja this week. We don’t expect you to watch it again, but if you were able to, I dunno, find thirty seconds to comment and have it play in the background while you’re doing something else, it might help. Upper tiers should have the outtakes video this week too, in which we take you on a geeky tour of one Nottingham street.

We’re filming again this weekend, so you should have another video next week. We’re back on the horsey big time.

We’re also only a month away from filming our Halloween special, which some of you are going to be a part of. Very excited about that! Thank you again to TJ for sorting it all out.

Oh! And just to say… sorry if you’ve commented on here and I haven’t replied. We’ve been juggling comments in about 20 different places over the last week. We’ve read and appreciated everything though. We’ll aim to be better!

Right. Need to crack on. It’s my birthday tomorrow so I want to take the day off, and then we’re away Friday, so got a lot to get done.

Thanks again, gang. And hello to the new Patrons!

Paul