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Hey everyone. It's been approximately 4 million seconds since I received my head injury and
although I'm making good progress I've still got a way to go.
And the past few days I've not been feeling particularly great, and so I wasn't planning
on making a video this week, if it wasn't for the fact that I have some huge news to
announce.
As of Friday of last week, I resigned from my job at ChannelFlip.
For those of you that don't know, ChannelFlip is a UK multi-channel network that I have
been working for the past 3 years, with the job role of 'YouTube Marketing Jedi'.
I was first approached by them in 2011 because the company wanted to engage with the YouTube
community, and become a place that could help content creators take their projects to the
next level.
I was currently working in construction as a labourer, doing whatever I could to pay
the bills, and it was actually just 2 days after I publicly announced I was calling video
blogging a day, that received a phone call from the ChannelFlip CEO's.
When approaching Google asking if they knew anyone who understood the community and created
content themselves, they were given my name.
And so I was called in for a meeting, and it truly felt like destiny calling.
In the past I had worked for BBC Comedy Online, and at one point they had asked me to encourage
my YouTube friends to make them content for free.
I told them I wouldn't do it, out of principle.
The YouTube community means the world to me. I've always done my best to focus on integrity,
doing what I can to help others achieve their dreams. And ChannelFlip allowed me to do this.
Within 1 year of joining I helped bring 110 channels into their network, and took their
monthly web views from 500,000 to 50 million.
The company was happy, the YouTube partners were happy and therefore I was happy.
It was the first time I had ever felt truly trusted and believed in by a company I worked
for. ChannelFlip's support had allowed me to take my passions and skills to a level
far more professional than when I first began.
And over the years I had the opportunity to work with so many different, very talented
people, exercising my strongly held ethos of doing what I can to help build their online
presence, whilst maintaing their integrity and their visions.
However as I've grown up with YouTube since 2006, I am constantly trying to find ways
to use this technology to better society as a whole, and to create vehicles for social
change.
So when The Guardian newspaper approached me with an opportunity to help them become
one of the biggest YouTube news networks, it felt like destiny calling all over again.
It has been a real privilege for me to work the past 3 years at a place that felt like
a home, and with people that I truly regard as family.
My colleagues respect my decision. They are incredibly pleased for me, and so over the
next few weeks I hope to be in a good position health wise to return to work and help with
the transitional process of my departure.
This is a beginning of such a huge chapter in my life, and so today I wanted to share
this announcement with you.
It is such a dream come true for me to have this opportunity to bring journalists from
around the world together, and give them a strong platform to build their online audiences
whilst maintaing their integrity when they are reporting the truth.
And so from May this year, I will be working for The Guardian as their Video Marketing
Manager.
Than you to everyone out there who has ever supported and believed in me, and that includes
everyone at ChannelFlip, because without you guys, I wouldn't be in the position that I
am in today. So thank you very much.
And trust me, I would so love to jump about and shout with excitement right now, but my
injured head won't let me.
So my words and my smile will just have to do with communicating that.
Yes!
Adios 'til next time.
Surely if there was ever a time to click LIKE on a video, this would be one of them. I'm
doing it.