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Some of you will have read this on social media, and paid Patrons will know this already, but we're just checking all bases.

However… Big changes are coming to all things Digitiser, and all things I do that are not-Digitiser. This is kind of huge for Sanja and I, and we’ve been wrestling with it to one degree or another for over a year now.

Firstly, and I know this will make many of you happy, at some point in the next few weeks all the older videos – the desk nonsense, the stuff with Gannon et al – will be getting put back on the channel as they were before. We’ve had them unlisted in a playlist for a while now, but there’ll all be public again.

Why did we do that in the first place?

Well, because our newer vids were only really getting recommended to the Cheapshow channel, and nobody who saw them on there ever clicked on them. That’s basically it. We thought we’d see if making them unlisted would help, but even now we’re still mostly only getting recommended to Cheapshow, and it’s continuing to limit our reach.

So… y’know. It wasn’t because we were ashamed of that stuff, or wanted to erase our own history… just that it was stopping videos that we’re really, really, really proud of from getting seen by a wider audience.  

So, that’s that.

Secondly, we’re going to be moving Digi Level 2 over to the Digitiser channel, and after the summer we’ll be launching a brand new series presented by myself and Paul Gannon, featuring a host of guest stars and characters - Drong’s Challenge.

In the future, Digitiser will be a kind of experimental space for anything that’s kind of that ‘classic’ Digi vibe. If, say, we want to do some more Mr Biffo’s Found Footage, Digi Deluxe, or Golden Bean… that’s where it’ll appear.

But the big thing that we’d love your support on is the launch of our new channel – Biffo And Sanja. From now on, when we do one of our out-and-about videos, or one of the bigger, more epic, docs, this is where they’ll appear.

Aside from the utter nonsense of our newly-launched Bubblegun podcast, Biffo And Sanja is going to be our main focus and where our regular videos appear.

Starting from scratch is a big risk for us – frankly, we’re scared – but we’ve not rushed into this. After a lot of thinking, and consulting our Patrons and channel members, we’ve decided it’s the best thing for everyone to separate what we’re doing now from what we used to do then.

We never intended to pivot with the sort of content we made – it kind of happened organically for us. During a tough few years, going on adventures, getting out of the house, was exactly what we needed, and during that I rediscovered my love of research.

But…! We know some of it has been a far cry from what we were doing, and thus not to everyone’s taste. Generally the videos get better views now than before, but we also know it has been at the expense of some goodwill.

Completely by accident we stumbled upon a format that we’re absolutely passionate about, where I get to stretch every creative muscle, and we want to keep doing it. We continue to punch above our weight with full-blown productions where we travel the country – and that’s not going to change.

There’s nothing on the channel yet, but there will be very soon, and we hope plenty of you will come to watch. We may also be moving a few of the more recent videos over there as well, providing YouTube doesn’t hate us for it. It’s going to take us a while to grow, but we feel like we’ve stagnated – which is a shame, because we also believe we absolutely deserve a bigger audience for what we’re doing. At some point we’ll be setting up a new website where everything we do can be in one place – all the videos, podcasts, etc. – but for now, Patreon is kind of the hub for all things Biffo.

We aren’t the biggest brand (or whatever) going, so we absolutely rely on our community. They’ve helped us through challenges, had our backs, and – yes – without them pledging every month we simply couldn’t afford to keep going. And, because we’re stupid, we’ve committed to making videos that cost money.

Times are tough for us all, but if you’re able to offer your support you can do so for a mere £1 a month – barely anything – you also get access to years’ worth of bonus videos, blog posts, and other assorted bits and bobs. You’ll also be part of a very special community, get to interact with us, and even – at the higher tiers – have Zoom chats.

Thanks for reading, you lot. Go subscribe and hit the bell to be notified when the first Biffo And Sanja video goes live.

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