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- 0:00If a creator is trying to handle all of that on their own,
- 0:03you're going to eventually get stale, old, or boring.
- 0:06Do you have an accounting department and an HR department?
- 0:09Today, I wouldn't hire friends and family.
- 0:12The reality of renovations is that things go wrong.
- 0:14That felt like we're about to lose the channel.
- 0:17I'm Christina, the CEO of Home Renovation DIY.
- 0:20We have over 4 million subscribers on YouTube.
- 0:23My father, Jeff, is the creator and host of the channel,
- 0:26and he teaches homeowners and trades professionals
- 0:28how to renovate and repair their homes.
- 0:30Okay, Christina, could you please tell me
- 0:32about the different revenue streams that you have?
- 0:35So, I mean, our bread and butter
- 0:37is definitely long form AdSense revenue on YouTube.
- 0:40That would be our most stable
- 0:42and the majority of what makes up our pie chart.
- 0:45But, you know, because of the nature of renovations,
- 0:48people are actively coming to our channel
- 0:50to research which products and materials
- 0:53they should be using on their project.
- 0:55And at this point, Jeff has built an immense amount of trust
- 0:58with his audience.
- 0:58And so they really do come to him looking for that recommendation.
- 1:02So now with
- 1:02the addition of YouTube shopping, I mean, it makes it so easy both for our viewer and for Jeff to be
- 1:08able to recommend products and then people can shop it right directly from the content.
- 1:12What's the right way to use YouTube shopping?
- 1:14Because I've used it with my clients.
- 1:16I work for
- 1:17a bunch of people who have written bestselling books and we haven't had a lot of success.
- 1:20So
- 1:20we've actually dismissed it.
- 1:21Well, I think it has to be super organic and authentic.
- 1:25People,
- 1:25especially today consumers are very smart to when they're being sold to it's like i don't know if
- 1:30you ever watched the truman show but point in the show when the wife turns around and she's like
- 1:35holding up the cereal you don't want to be doing that and sometimes we have to tell jeff like
- 1:40jeff you're sounding like an infomercial here it's not so much him taking a moment to hold up a
- 1:44product and whatever but it came naturally that people were asking in the comments jeff what was
- 1:50that specific tool you used at 10 minutes and five seconds well now it's like so natural that we can
- 1:56link it and sometimes he calls it out you know but really it's mainly just him authentically using
- 2:02products the way he normally would and then us on the back end just linking it in the time stamped
- 2:08manner back to affiliate marketing in general that was a great way in the beginning to help
- 2:13create additional revenue streams for the channel overall you know through amazon um now lots of
- 2:20other major retailers have their own creator programs like Home Depot and Lowe's as well.
- 2:24So you can create those links in your videos.
- 2:26And then if you have larger audiences on Instagram or
- 2:30TikTok, that means you can create storefronts on those places as well.
- 2:33When is a suitable time to
- 2:35start taking that seriously?
- 2:37I think when it comes to affiliate, it's something that you can do
- 2:40right away.
- 2:41People are naturally going to ask you, what tile did you use in that bathroom?
- 2:45you know especially in this category so why not but I would be careful about becoming a salesperson
- 2:52right away I do caution that trust takes a long time to build and an audience takes time building
- 2:58a community I would focus on that as your primary effort and instead use it more as a way to answer
- 3:05those frequently asked questions because I do think sometimes creators think of from a monetization
- 3:10standpoint first and I don't know if you're going to build a long-term career in the creator world
- 3:17that way.
- 3:17Sponsorships would be another category.
- 3:20You know when Jeff first started creating content
- 3:22it was 10 years ago.
- 3:24The renovation industry was not spending money on creators at the time.
- 3:27That
- 3:28was a really new thing and he made a deliberate effort in the early days not to do the typical
- 3:32ad reads in his videos.
- 3:34Now I am not going to fault a creator for putting ad reads into their
- 3:38videos, you do have to make money at the end of the day.
- 3:41That was a decision that Jeff made,
- 3:43and I think it has served him very well.
- 3:45And I think over time, as we launch our own product
- 3:49business, this will be something that we're like, that was a great decision to make.
- 3:54Memberships is another revenue stream for you.
- 3:56Could you please talk to that a little?
- 3:57Yeah, memberships happened super organically.
- 4:00In the beginning days of the channel,
- 4:02Jeff started to notice that homeowners and trades professionals were asking detailed
- 4:06questions in the comment section.
- 4:08So he's really realized that that's an opportunity to grow.
- 4:11So in all of his videos back in the day, he used to say, you know, let me know what project you're
- 4:15working on, what questions you have, I'll answer all of them.
- 4:18And he used to spend hours every
- 4:21night answering every single question.
- 4:23He ran into the issue, though, that he couldn't quite
- 4:26see what the situation was because people couldn't share pictures.
- 4:29So at the time, my mom helped him
- 4:31on the back end of the business.
- 4:32And so she found someone to create an off platform membership
- 4:36program.
- 4:37And so they enabled memberships on YouTube.
- 4:39And so for years, Jeff has been helping
- 4:42one on one these like small groups of members with their projects.
- 4:46I see.
- 4:46I see the passion
- 4:47kind of bleed through.
- 4:48It's not surprising to hear that he's in the comments responding to
- 4:52everybody.
- 4:52Is there any other revenue streams that are part of the pie?
- 4:55Every once in a while,
- 4:56we'll act as a production company to create content for brands that lives on their owned
- 5:01and operated.
- 5:02We've created a few television commercials, things like that.
- 5:05But I mean,
- 5:06for the most part, we're pretty focused on our audience.
- 5:10I want to pivot just slightly.
- 5:11You have
- 5:11been referring to him as Jeff, but he is also your dad.
- 5:16Yes, the majority of our team is family
- 5:19members.
- 5:20I mean, it happened kind of naturally.
- 5:22This started out as a side gig for my dad.
- 5:25He was
- 5:25a contractor of 25 years who thought, you know, I'm going to put marketing material up on my
- 5:30website.
- 5:30And then my brother said, Dad, you're really good at this.
- 5:33You should put it on YouTube.
- 5:34And he was like, what's YouTube?
- 5:36And so he's a total visionary type and looked around to see
- 5:39who was creating content at the time.
- 5:41And he noticed that none of the HGTV stars were posting
- 5:45on YouTube.
- 5:46And he was like, they must not be allowed to.
- 5:48If I'm consistent with this and I
- 5:49focus on community, I can crush this.
- 5:52And that's what he did.
- 5:53So in the early days,
- 5:54my mom was in her evenings and weekends, like helping him, you know, paying contractors and
- 5:59helping out.
- 6:00Then I started helping him with social media initially to help promote the channel.
- 6:04And when short form came out and TikTok, I really felt like, Dad, this is an opportunity.
- 6:09You have
- 6:09to jump on it right away.
- 6:11And then my husband was a firefighter and we convinced him to take a year
- 6:15leave to come and revamp our content team.
- 6:18And then my brother, Matt, he's like the muscle on
- 6:20the channel.
- 6:21He helps my dad with the renovations as well.
- 6:24I think it's an easy and sometimes
- 6:26perfect choice to expand by bringing family or friends on board to the team.
- 6:31But I also feel
- 6:32like it could be problematic if you don't do it with sensitivity.
- 6:36When is the right time to bring
- 6:38on a family or friend?
- 6:39And when is the wrong time?
- 6:40What's the right process?
- 6:42I feel like I could do a
- 6:43TED talk about working with family.
- 6:46I think in the beginning days, you're really looking for
- 6:49generalists to help you.
- 6:51You're looking for someone who can wear many hats, who is willing
- 6:54to experiment and try new things, who can be self-taught, and who can just look and identify
- 7:00for areas that need work and then can run with it.
- 7:03You also want people that see things differently
- 7:05than you.
- 7:06You don't want like-minded people working on building something new with you because
- 7:11then you will miss things.
- 7:13Because if everyone looks at things the same way without an opposing
- 7:16opinion or without the ability to say, I know you're the creator here, but I think you're making
- 7:21a mistake.
- 7:22Without that, you know, you can run into challenges.
- 7:25But then over time, you stop
- 7:27meeting generalists and you need experts.
- 7:29And so as you build out your team, you're going to start
- 7:32to be like, I need someone who knows more than me in this category.
- 7:36Today, I wouldn't hire friends
- 7:37and family.
- 7:38Today, we're at that point where we're looking for experts in their field.
- 7:42What is the trade-off with working with family?
- 7:45It must be hard to separate work from home life.
- 7:49Yeah, we over the years, we've come up with strategies and every individual person has a different amount of energy that they can put into work.
- 7:58I feel like my dad and I, we can be at a family event and just be in the corner talking all night long about work and like never get tired of it.
- 8:07But then other people might be like, we just filmed a 10 hour day and we just are out for dinner.
- 8:13Can we please put this aside?
- 8:14And so we've had to identify like, OK, we're overachievers.
- 8:18Let's slow our roll a little bit.
- 8:20And it's important for our family members who aren't in the business to also feel like they can talk about what is interesting to them.
- 8:27When you're managing your family, you have to be very careful that like when we're in a meeting and something happens, I'm not speaking to my brother or my dad or my husband.
- 8:37I'm speaking to Eric, head of content, or Jeff, the creator.
- 8:41And so that's why you hear me when I'm personally talking about my dad.
- 8:44I say dad.
- 8:45And then at work, I refer to him as Jeff.
- 8:48It's kind of like a little trick for me that this is like my co-founder, my creator that I support.
- 8:55It's a little bit different.
- 8:56Let's talk about your role in this entire operation.
- 9:00You are the CEO.
- 9:01What does your
- 9:02day-to-day look like?
- 9:03You know, in the first few years, it was very much like setting up the
- 9:07building blocks for the business.
- 9:09I was doing a lot of networking.
- 9:11I was meeting a lot of other
- 9:12creators and creator teams because I was trying to really solidify what our business model and
- 9:18plan was going to be.
- 9:19It was a lot of meetings.
- 9:20It was a lot of hiring.
- 9:22It was a lot of creating
- 9:23the team.
- 9:23But now that that portion of the business is set up and we know what our goals are,
- 9:28it really is about executing those.
- 9:30So we've been developing a product behind the scenes for about
- 9:33a year now.
- 9:34And so this fall, we are launching our product business.
- 9:37So a lot of my time is spent on
- 9:39that while the rest of the team is entirely focused on YouTube and our media business.
- 9:44The business as a whole is 10 years old.
- 9:46In YouTube terms, that's a pretty long-standing
- 9:48business, which is great.
- 9:50I imagine kind of early on, everybody was wearing a bunch of different
- 9:53hats and titles weren't super duper important.
- 9:55But now that you've expanded into like this very
- 9:58legitimate, very strong company, does it look more like a standard traditional business?
- 10:04Do you have
- 10:05an accounting department and an HR department?
- 10:07Like, are you thinking about business on this
- 10:09level at this point?
- 10:10Oh, yeah.
- 10:11Jeff can really focus on the creative side and creating the best
- 10:14content for our channel ever and he doesn't have to think about like where the tax is filed
- 10:19was that contract executed are our rights being protected in that contract or on the product side
- 10:25like are we still on track for launch date have we hired the next editor all of those things
- 10:30that can really cloud your brain that's the kind of stuff that like if a creator is trying to handle
- 10:35all of that on their own they're not going to achieve the type of success that someone like
- 10:40Jeff is wanting to achieve.
- 10:41One thing I'll add to that is we haven't hired everything in-house.
- 10:46We're quite deliberate about keeping our teams small, but then outsourcing things.
- 10:50So I have
- 10:51outsourced our accounting and our legal and our bookkeeping services.
- 10:56And then we have several
- 10:57contractors for things like thumbnails and editing.
- 11:01And it just helps make it so that we are not so
- 11:04in the weeds of building a massive bloated company that now the majority of my time is spent in HR.
- 11:11Is that the best way for someone in your position to learn how to be great at your position?
- 11:17Because
- 11:17there's not a lot of CEOs in this industry.
- 11:19They are coming, but there are people who are years
- 11:22behind you where, you know, they kind of started out in content or they wore multiple hats.
- 11:26And
- 11:26then all of a sudden it's like, oh, we've got something really big and substantial here.
- 11:30How
- 11:30do I learn how to do that job effectively?
- 11:32Where are you finding these resources?
- 11:34Well, you know, I've never been afraid to teach myself something.
- 11:38And today we have everything available to us at our fingertips.
- 11:42Like we can, you know, pull up Claude or chat and I can go into deep diving on a topic that
- 11:47I knew nothing about.
- 11:48Pretty incredible.
- 11:49And it has been super, super helpful as we're approaching launching a product business where
- 11:54this was entirely new for us.
- 11:56But for the years leading up to now, I would say don't be afraid to hire professionals
- 12:01and say to them, hey, I've never done this before.
- 12:04You have the experience.
- 12:06Can I pay for an hour or two of your time where you can just give me advice on this?
- 12:11What specific resources have been the most helpful for you in your role?
- 12:15In the media business side, so like learning what's to come.
- 12:19Colin and Samir's podcast was immensely helpful.
- 12:23Podcasts like yours where you can just like listen to other creators and honestly creator
- 12:28teams, you know, because we often focus on the creator, but the people behind the scenes
- 12:32running the show is really, really helpful.
- 12:34Also reading books from people like Bob Iger, the CEO or former CEO of Disney.
- 12:40His memoir is incredible, isn't it?
- 12:41Oh, it's such a good book.
- 12:43I think there's so much to learn from the past, even though our future in the next 10
- 12:47years from now is going to look vastly different from today.
- 12:50There is somewhat of a repeating cycle and things that you can learn from the past to
- 12:55see like knowing what I know about YouTube and what I know about the future of commerce
- 13:00and media and then knowing what happened before, I can piece those things together to go.
- 13:05I have
- 13:06a pretty good idea of where things are going.
- 13:08One thing that I am always a little bit fearful of
- 13:11is I don't know what I don't know.
- 13:13So I need to uncover those things growing into a role.
- 13:16It's
- 13:16like, OK, we probably need an accountant.
- 13:18That's pretty obvious.
- 13:19But what what things do I not
- 13:21know that I need and how do I uncover those things?
- 13:24You're speaking my language.
- 13:25And the
- 13:25amount of times I've said that to people and been like, what don't I know is coming my way yet?
- 13:31Because that's the truth.
- 13:32And you can listen to every podcast and read every book and things
- 13:35will still surprise you.
- 13:37But what gives me comfort in those moments is I can look back on the last
- 13:41six or seven years of working in this industry and building this company with Jeff.
- 13:46And every
- 13:47single time something big has happened or an obstacle has been put in my way, I found the
- 13:52solution and a step forward.
- 13:54I have a lot of trust in my future self.
- 13:56And I tell myself this often,
- 13:57like, oh, yeah, I don't know what the answer is in October.
- 14:00But I trust that I will make the right
- 14:02decision as I approach that.
- 14:03And so that gives me confidence.
- 14:04It like helps me sleep at night,
- 14:06that kind of stuff.
- 14:09Looking back, what were some of the major obstacles that you came across?
- 14:13And how did you solve them?
- 14:14Mistakes that we've made along the way is maybe just like misreading
- 14:18a situation.
- 14:19So in the early days of the channel, it was following Jeff renovating his farmhouse.
- 14:24And then after that farmhouse was done, he really like wasn't sure what to do next.
- 14:30And so he thought
- 14:31that, you know, it's YouTube, you got to go big, you got to do crazy things, you got to do something
- 14:35different.
- 14:35And so he bought a church and he was like, I'm going to renovate this church.
- 14:38And
- 14:39really quickly, it was like not the greatest idea.
- 14:42It was like going to be a lot of boring work on
- 14:45camera, like installing like HRV systems, a complete plumbing overhaul.
- 14:49It's not that the
- 14:50audience was looking for something new.
- 14:52In fact, what they wanted was to be able to go, that's what
- 14:55my kitchen looks like.
- 14:56That's the problem I ran into with the silicone on the edge of my sink.
- 15:00And so at the time it felt like, oh my God, we just invested all this money into a property.
- 15:06We're probably two or three years out before this is even done.
- 15:10Like, what do we do?
- 15:11And the
- 15:11renovations already started so no one's going to want to buy this you know so how do we get rid of
- 15:16it now I can look back and think like that wasn't that big of a deal that's so solvable like we came
- 15:21up with a unique strategy where we created a bit of content and we were able to sell the property
- 15:26to another DIY couple that was looking to take on a big challenge but at the time that felt like
- 15:31we're about to lose the channel you know like no one wants to watch us anymore what are we going
- 15:35to do and so it's easy to look back now but I think it's really coming back to like the importance of
- 15:41trusting yourself and like take a beat.
- 15:44Like no one needs to freak out.
- 15:46I want to pivot this
- 15:47conversation to content itself.
- 15:50Can you please walk me through the process from start to finish
- 15:55from ideation to upload of a long form video?
- 15:58Well, with the renovation industry, we have the
- 16:02it's two sided.
- 16:03It's really great because we don't have to spend hours thinking about what are we
- 16:08going to create today?
- 16:09Because we can look at a house and go, okay, next up is the kitchen or next
- 16:14up we're building a deck, you know, and then it pretty, it easily follows the story of the
- 16:19renovation.
- 16:20So when we look at a video, it used to be that the camera would just follow Jeff on his
- 16:25site.
- 16:25And in the moment he was like producing in his head on what this video is going to be.
- 16:30And
- 16:30then they would film the content and then come up with the thumbnail and title afterwards.
- 16:35And that
- 16:35would be that.
- 16:36You know, over time, especially as Eric came in as our head of content and built out
- 16:40a team, we've now come up with a strategy so that we're not posting everything Jeff does.
- 16:46We are
- 16:46simply posting what we know the audience is going to want to watch.
- 16:50So we'll look at a house
- 16:51holistically and be like, all right, in this bathroom, we're going to show, of course, the
- 16:57installing of the tile, the shower pan, but we're not going to do a video on installing a vanity
- 17:03because vanities have historically not performed very well.
- 17:06Let's maybe film a short form for that instead
- 17:08or have an off-camera day
- 17:10so that Jeff can take a bit of a break
- 17:11and just install it without filming.
- 17:13From there, our team will meet
- 17:15and we'll talk about what's the reason
- 17:17a viewer wanna click on this video?
- 17:19What's the value we're offering here?
- 17:22And is there like a unique angle on this video?
- 17:24Is there a mistake that most homeowners will make
- 17:27that Jeff can fix?
- 17:28Is there a product that will make this process easier
- 17:31for them?
- 17:32And then from there, Eric will meet with our producer and Jeff.
- 17:36And it's evolved over time now where it's a little bit more of like a writer's room
- 17:40where they just shoot ideas at each other.
- 17:42Jeff will talk them through the renovation process.
- 17:44And from there, the content team will make like a video framework, which then is brought
- 17:49onto site when they're filming.
- 17:51Our videos take longer to produce than most because he's actually filming these projects
- 17:56in real life.
- 17:56We don't have a contracting crew that comes in to do it for him.
- 18:00And then our editors will work off of that framework.
- 18:03Our producer will update them on any changes that happened because the reality of renovations is that things go wrong.
- 18:10And so Jeff will show what went wrong, how he fixed it, and then it'll go into post.
- 18:15You're renovating a house, maybe a kitchen or a deck or a bathroom.
- 18:19Is there a window where you wait before doing another one?
- 18:23Do you feel like some older videos are getting remade a bunch of times and are you having success remaking similar videos?
- 18:29Yeah, I mean, the strategy on YouTube is always like, once you see something works, do it again and do it again and do it again and do it again.
- 18:37And I think that was like a mental block that Jeff had to kind of break out of initially, because in his mind, he was like, well, I already did a toilet install.
- 18:44Why would I do another one?
- 18:45You know, I've got to do something different now.
- 18:47But in reality is like we've now had like multiple toilet installs do really, really well.
- 18:52Just because we've put a new one out doesn't mean that the old one all of a sudden doesn't perform.
- 18:56What we find is like our viewer is actually they love researching projects.
- 19:00And so they may watch three of Jeff's toilet installs because he may say something in one that he doesn't say in another or encounter a problem like in real life in one that he didn't encounter in another.
- 19:12So it's OK to do that multiple times.
- 19:14getting 1% better in every single video and always looking for a little bit of experimentation
- 19:20because naturally like when you're filming or when you're creating content for over 10 years
- 19:25what worked 10 years ago doesn't necessarily work today and it won't necessarily be what an audience
- 19:30wants to watch five years from now so if you're only ever doing your one format that works you're
- 19:36going to eventually get stale old or boring or fall out of relevance so it's really important
- 19:41to always be experimenting with new styles of content.
- 19:44So that way, like, don't be afraid of a 10 out of 10
- 19:47with those experiments, because every once in a while,
- 19:49you'll get a one out of 10 and you're like,
- 19:51ooh, that's something that I need to drill down on.
- 19:53And then you might discover you have a new content bucket
- 19:55that you didn't know existed.
- 19:57YouTube is a very extreme platform.
- 19:59Everything is either the biggest or the smallest
- 20:01or the best or the worst.
- 20:03Have you ever resisted the urge to,
- 20:06okay, I've made a kitchen.
- 20:07This one looks great.
- 20:08The next kitchen is gonna be a little bit crazier.
- 20:09The next kitchen is going to have a water slide in it.
- 20:12The next kitchen is going to be on a roller coaster.
- 20:13Like, how do you draw the line between doing the same thing and maybe just changing the
- 20:18color of paint versus actually leaning into the craziness of the platform?
- 20:22Where are your constraints?
- 20:23I think that's where Eric, our head of content, does a lot of his work with Jeff is like Jeff
- 20:29is naturally always looking to make it crazier and crazier and crazier.
- 20:33And Eric's the one kind of like pulling the reins just a little bit because let's do what
- 20:38no one else can do.
- 20:40Definitely.
- 20:41Jeff is the largest renovation channel on YouTube.
- 20:44Let's
- 20:44make sure that we're using the resources that we have available to us to create the best videos
- 20:50ever.
- 20:50But also remember who the audience is.
- 20:53It's got to be relatable.
- 20:54It's got to make sense for
- 20:56the viewer.
- 20:57It has to be like, like I said earlier, that's what my kitchen looks like.
- 21:01And so if we
- 21:02install that water slide, all of a sudden people are like, Jeff is out of touch.
- 21:06What happened?
- 21:07Another YouTuber off the deep end, you know?
- 21:10Fair.
- 21:11That's fair.
- 21:12Okay.
- 21:13It is the year 2026 and YouTube is a turbulent place.
- 21:17The only constant is change.
- 21:19How are you thinking about social media this year compared to the past few years?
- 21:24I think we don't quite fit in the typical.
- 21:28A lot of times you hear about like niching down, niching down, niching down.
- 21:32And I think that's really important in 2026 because we all see very hyper algorithmic
- 21:40feeds.
- 21:41Everything is very tailored to me.
- 21:43When you and I open up our algorithms together, we're going to have very different content.
- 21:48So I think it's really important.
- 21:49But because we have been creating content for 10 years now on the platform, our audience
- 21:55is really spread out.
- 21:57We have homeowners looking to research and renovate themselves.
- 22:01We have homeowners looking to research and then hire a contractor.
- 22:05And then we have trades professionals who are learning to upskill or a plumber comes
- 22:11home at the end of the day and they want family-friendly content they can put on that's
- 22:14interesting.
- 22:15And so they put us on the television.
- 22:17So we have to appeal to a wide audience.
- 22:20And so niching really, like really, really niching down doesn't necessarily work the
- 22:24same way for us.
- 22:26So we tend to think a little bit differently than what would work in the 2026 content strategy, you know, because extremes work, right?
- 22:34Like if you're in the middle, you are just not seen.
- 22:36You're either on one end of the extreme or the other these days.
- 22:39And so we just really nailed down to providing a ton of value for our audience.
- 22:45You know, so that way, like if someone watched us and learned how to build a shed six years ago, when it comes time to renovate their bathroom and they turn us on, they know exactly what they're going to get.
- 22:54But they're like, wow, Jeff really improved his production value.
- 22:58Like that's what we're looking for is the long term.
- 23:01There are opportunities coming out to YouTubers this year and maybe some of last year that were kind of new.
- 23:06So things like fast channels, for example, licensing your back catalog to Samsung TV and Roku and Pluto and all those things.
- 23:12There could be speaking tours for certain creators.
- 23:15Are any of those like side opportunities that have emerged?
- 23:18Are they things that you discuss within your team?
- 23:21Yeah.
- 23:21You know, it's really crazy because when I talked about how my dad is super visionary,
- 23:26even 10 years ago, we created like a chart of all of the aspects that our business could
- 23:33be at one day and where we eventually want to be.
- 23:36And like all of those things you just mentioned are on that chart and more.
- 23:40You know, I really think we're building a really unique media business from the very first decision that my mom had of putting him in that blue polo shirt that was super recognizable.
- 23:51All of those early decisions have really positioned our channel in a really unique way for that future growth.
- 23:57And so I think that all of those things are on our horizon.
- 24:00It always just comes back to is that 2026 or is that 2027?
- 24:05And so we're very focused on our product launch this year.
- 24:09But I think you'll see a lot of those other things fall into play over the next few years for us as well.
- 24:14Who is a creator that's on your radar that's worthy of a shout out?
- 24:17Okay, so I have a Canadian creator that I want to shout out.
- 24:21And it's accidental because I didn't even realize they were Canadian initially.
- 24:25They're a DIY couple that are renovating their house, Sabrina and Andrew.
- 24:29And they are an incredible example of creators that found traction on short form on TikTok and then leveraged it over to YouTube.
- 24:39And they have an incredible long form series where they're renovating their house and they are absolutely crushing it.
- 24:44Are you friends with them now?
- 24:45No, I mean, I've DM'd them as like a fangirl, but I don't think they make the connection that I'm a part of home renovation.
- 24:52So I hope to meet them one day.
- 24:54Future collab.
- 24:55Hopefully.
- 24:56Hopefully this little podcast can make it happen.
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- 25:29© transcript Emily Beynon