Hi Guys, i recently got the chance of interviewing Nadine Sykora, a youtube travel vlogger currently in new zealand working and having fun at the same time.

Check out the interview.

Hey Nadine, How are you doing? Great to have you on YHP

Hey! Thanks so much for having me on here 

Can you kindly give us some background information about yourself?

Well, to put it short I’m a 22 year old video content creator on YouTube! I’ve been producing short silly videos for about 3 years now. My content ranges anywhere from short skits and parodies, to travel vlogs and warcraft videos.

How did you get involved in vlogging? Dint you feel a bit shy or scared about putting yourself out there?

Well, I stumbled upon it one day while surfing the internet and just thought to myself, “hey, I could do that!.” So I bought a webcam and started doing just that. As for being scared, I wasn’t intimated until I started receiving my first hate comments.

Those comments are hard to not take personally when you first start. As for shy, I’ve never been shy about my videos, maybe while filming, but defiantly not while posting.

What are you looking to go into from your YouTube vlogging?

It is hard to say because every year YouTube changes into something completely different, and you say you would like to go one direction one year, and then the next year a whole lot of different doors open up and suddenly your looking forward to something else. You just have to have an optimistic outlook and be able to adapt to change.

You’re currently in New Zealand working or should I say enjoying yourself, how did it all happen? Getting a job where you can do what you enjoy?

Well I recent graduated University last summer and I decide that since I had never done any pervious traveling before now was a perfect time to go since I had no previous commitments. So I signed up with SWAP, which is a working holiday visa program that allows me to legally work and travel as much as I want for a year in New Zealand. (that was the country I picked)

You have the #1 Most Subscribed Channel in New Zealand. What did it take for you to get to this point?

A lot of commitment. People don’t realize it but to have even a semi decent YouTube channel, you have to constantly be putting out new content and always be keeping up with the latest trends. It’s a lot of upkeep, but if you really enjoy what your doing, you don’t usually mind.

Have your videos gotten you into any trouble? If so, how?

None of my video have gotten me into trouble. I’m a very clean and safe person with my videos Haha, that’s probably a lame answer.

How do you cope with rude comments and negative feedbacks on YouTube?

It’s really tough when you are in a bad mood or if your feeling down to NOT let the negative comments get to you. As much as I like to say just ignore them, I am only human and when you are constantly being told all these negative things about you, it’s really hard to not let it get to you. I try to just step away from the computer and deal with the comments when I’m in a better mood.

As a YouTuber, how do you earn your income from YouTube as well?

Like all partners, we earn ad revenue sharing income, so it’s a percentage of the ad impressions Google puts on our videos. As well as, there are also other contracts that come in so you can make money from those.

What has been your most memorable moment so far?

My most memorable moment so far filming would probably have to be my Miley Cyrus video parody I did, where I ended up running around Auckland, New Zealand dressed in a chicken suit and jumping into a fountain. Haha, that was a crazy filming day.

What should we be expecting from you in the future?

Everything, the future is such a wide open canvas right now, I would like to tell you where my videos are going but the truth is, YouTube and I change so often, after only a few months I could be doing something completely different. What I can tell you is that I hope to be doing YouTube videos for a long time still.

What tips can you give you others outside looking up to you or advice in getting involved in the industry?

YouTube takes time and patience, things don’t happen overnight and therefore you have to be very passionate about what you do. Practice makes perfect, even with YouTube, overtime your videos and you will mature and you’ll be able to grasp more about what it is your really good at and succeed at making those types of videos.

Thanks Nadine for doing this, will be waiting for some postcards

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Charlie” McDonnell is an English teenager and YouTube vlogger from Bath, Somerset. He is the third most subscribed YouTuber in the United Kingdom, he has 212,679 Subscribers:

He first came to prominence when a video entitled “How to Get Featured on YouTube” was featured on YouTube’s homepage.

His YouTube fame attracted so far much press to Charlie:

Charlie was interviewed on BBC News. He also participated in the Euro 2008 Zeitgeist Google conference, a conference to honour online users of popular websites

He was one of three online guests on the BBC chat show Lily Allen and Friends in 2008.

He was also featured in a recent advertising campaign for Confused.com, speaking directly to his camcorder about the savings the site offered and its new layout and ease of use.

He featured as a guest on Robert Llewellyn’s Web series Carpool in the episode broadcast on 15 May 2009.

In Early June 2009, Charlie visited Los Angeles to attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009.

He attended Microsoft’s Xbox press conference, where ‘Project Natal’ was announced.

He was invited to a ’special area of E3′ Two days later and was one of 30 exclusive people from around the world to try out Natal.

WHAT AN INTRO…..RIGHT!

Hi Charlie, how you doing?

Just great thanks! Sitting at home on a comfy chair, in an even comfier dressing gown that I got just today, with a cup of tea. And it’s not even 6pm yet. I’m living the dream, or something.

Can you give us brief details about your background information?

I was born and raised in a city called Bath, lived here all my life doing the fairly normal, mundane things that normal, boring people do. Then, as a method for procrastinating from exam revision, I found YouTube and video blogging, and “since then my life has never been the same.”

Can you tell us what you do?

I’m a video blogger, posting direct to camera videos on my YouTube channel whenever I feel like sharing my thoughts on something with the world, or sharing something a bit more creative, or a bit insane. My most recent video for example, involves me seeing how many marshmallows I can shove into my mouth, which was a challenge submitted to be by one of my viewers. I put the blame on them for all the slightly more insane challenge videos that I do, but at the same time, I didn’t exactly have to put marshmallows in my mouth until I vomited, so I really only have myself to blame.

Describe/outline your typical day?

Some days I’ll decide to be a bit creative and post a YouTube video, which usually takes me about three hours, all the way from having a video idea, to shooting, editing, and uploading it to the net. Other days I’ll sit at home surfing the net for interesting things just like another nerdy lad my age. And then there are the days that I spend working on internet based TV shows, doing talks on Tech conferences, and doing interviews with people about my strange life. I haven’t gotten used to that last kind of day just yet.

How did you get started vlogging?

As I mentioned before, I started vlogging because I found out that revising wasn’t too much fun, so I started posting vlogs, which is something that I discovered after watching a video about vlogging that was on the front page of YouTube at the time … though I can’t for the life of me remember what that video was! Must have been pretty good though.

What do you do except vlogging?

I’ve always been a big fan of computer games, writing music and drawing, which is what I do to fill up my spare time. Having said that though, those parts of me do tend to find their way into my videos every now and then, as all the vlogs really are is a reflection of me and my life – just in three minute chunks on the internet.

How did you get to be the third most subscribed YouTuber in the UK?

It was just a nice bit of luck if I’m honest. I’d been making videos for about a month, I’d built up an audience of around 150 people, when someone at YouTube was kind enough to feature one of videos on the front page of the UK homepage! I went up from 150 people to about 4000 in two days, and ever since then I’ve just been slowly building up my audience to get to the stage that I’m at now.

I mean one of your videos has been featured on the Oprah winfrey show, it doesn’t get any bigger than that? How did you feel about that?

I would adore it if that was actually true, but unfortunately, it’s not. I got an email once saying that the US TV show “The View” wanted my permission to use a 5 second clip of one of my videos in a montage about YouTube videos, but it never went any further than that email. And then, somehow, that event Chinese Whispered into being “one of my videos was featured on the Oprah Winfrey show” – I should probably just accept the fact that the false information is always going to pop up in the future and pretend that it really did happen, but alas, I can’t help but want to tell the truth … mainly because I find it quite funny in itself.

If you were to start a business, what will it be?

I guess that technically, I already have a small business, because I make a little bit of money from the google adsense adverts that YouTube puts next to my YouTube videos. If I was to start up something new though, I might set up a little T-Shirt company – doing quirky little designs that might go well on T-Shirts is a pretty fun pastime that I have.

What will you say to anyone looking to get subscribers or views on YouTube?

I’d always say to people that, If you’re making YouTube videos because you want to find some kind of YouTube fame, then you’re doing something wrong. What I always try to do is put as much effort into my videos as I can, because my responsibly isn’t to the audience, it’s to the videos. If you focus all of your efforts on making something great, rather than trying to make something that you think will get views, you’ll have a lot more fun, and you’ll get much more respect.

How do you pick topics to speak about on your YouTube channel?

All I ever do is pick out the most interesting parts of my life, which are never too hard to spot, you just have to wait for something funny to come up.

You decided to shave your hair off online and raised over £4,000, i mean that’s pretty awesome right?

It was pretty fun! I did it on the eve of my 18th birthday, and stayed up till midnight with a live audience counting down to the moment that I got a bit older. I thought it would be a nicer thing to do rather than go out and get plastered with some mates, which is something that I wouldn’t enjoy in the slightest anyway. I’m a bit of a dork – tea and my bedroom are much more fun than booze and hangovers as far as I’m concerned.

You’ve been invited and attended so many events just of your fame on YouTube? How does it feel?

It’s a little odd that my story seems to interest people so much, because the things that now seem pretty normal to me turn out to be really interesting to those that are uninitiated to the YouTubey world that I inhabit.

I heard you are a partner with YouTube and you actually get paid monthly? Getting paid to do what you like doing right?

I get a little bit from the adverts that YouTube put next to my videos, but not nearly enough to keep me sustained forever! It’s a nice little bit to save me having to get a job waiting tables or something, so I’m very lucky to have it.

What would you do if there was no internet?

I have a feel that my existence would just be very normal and boring, working in a respectable job and becoming part of the machine. Thankfully, there is an internet, and it’s pretty brilliant really.

Where do you see in yourself in the next 5 years?

Hopefully doing what I’m still doing right now, but working with whatever the new social media advances are. It’s really had to be sure though because everything that I’m doing is so new, there’s no set career path for a video blogger to take, it’s possible that this could all fall through in a year or so, but I really, really hope that it won’t.

What qualities have you developed as a result of running being online?

I’m getting a bit more of a head for business, and I’ve definitely become a lot more confident. I used to be the shyest kid in school – I’ve changed a lot since then, and it’s all thanks to the exposure that YouTube’s brought me.

What has been your most satisfying moment online?

There was this one time when Stephen Fry started talking about me in an online interview, and then I ended up meeting and becoming friends with him as a result. I still can’t quite believe that happened.

What is the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever done?

I’m guessing that you mean something other than painting myself purple, drinking ketchup, shoving marshmallows in my mouth till I was sick, trying or rap, sending a letter to the Prime Minister asking to become a Knight, and posting it all on the internet? Nope, can’t think of anything.

Are you currently working on any projects?

ChartJackers is the biggest project that I have on at the the moment, and probably the biggest project that I’ve ever done, period. I’m working with three other Youtube personalities (nerimon, JohnnyDurham19 and Jimmy0010) to try and crowd-source a pop song, get it into the UK charts, and we’re doing it all for Children In Need. And the BBC are making a documentary about it too! If you want to find out more about that, go to youtube.com/chartjackersproject

Thanks Charlie, we appreciate you being able to give us some insight into your online world.

Check out his YouTube page: Charlie
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