My Dedicated Author YouTube Channel

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I made a promise to myself to follow Grok’s advice wherever it leads me.

Before consulting the AI model, I simply uploaded my author videos to an existing tutorial channel that I’ve been running for seven years. But Grok suggested creating a dedicated author channel—even though I currently have no audience at all.

On my tutorial channel, the author videos get buried anyway, and it simply doesn’t look very professional to have my writing-related content mixed in with video editing and graphic design tutorials.

So, a new YouTube channel was born: Author Michael Brig.

The goal is to post weekly videos about:

  • My 5-year Grok project
  • Books I’ve read
  • My AI comic projects
  • Book trailers
  • Writing tips (possibly in the future)

The channel will be exclusively about my writing hobby and the books and comics I publish.

If that sounds interesting, check it out and subscribe!

Next Topic: Grok’s Top 30 Writing Tips (Grok Diary – Day 187)

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I like to ask Grok in between what bigger topic to focus on. This gives me ideas for the future. However, Amazon Ads is something that I only want to start looking into when I’ve got the basic set up of my author platform finished. Maybe it’s a topic for year 2 or even year 3 in the 5-year-project.

In September I’m going to ask Grok for the top 30 writing tips instead. That is certainly a more beginner-friendly topic than paid ads.

You can follow my Grok Diary in real time here: @michael_brig

Is YouTube the Only Video Platform to Focus on? (Grok Diary – Day 186)

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A couple of years ago, I tested BitChute, Odyssee and Rumble. I couldn’t find traction with tutorials or video essays. It seems like these platforms are primarily made for creators and audiences who where booted from YouTube after the 2016 election.

Sadly, YouTube definitely needs a good competitor to do better.

You can follow my Grok Diary in real time here: @michael_brig

Should Authors Livestream on YouTube? (Grok Diary – Day 184)

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Livestreaming is very far at the end of my to-do-list. Without a basic audience it might be just a waste of time. I once had a podcast about fitness and nutrition in German. I didn’t really go through the roof and it never created a good funnel for podcast-listeners to check out the website and books about fitness and health that I had back then.

So, find an audience first, livestream later.

You can follow my Grok Diary in real time here: @michael_brig