Steve Looker is Back in Atlanta
There’s another live stream video on Steve Lookner’s new Lookner channel on YouTube, entitled “Back in Atlanta…and Monetized!":
This live stream session is recorded in Atlanta, now that Steve has just returned from Boston. He hasn’t even unpacked yet, so he says.
The channel is now monetized, but YouTube Super Chat wasn’t enabled in the live chat for some reason. Steve goes over to his computer to enable that functionality. A viewer named Steve D makes the channel’s first donation, in the amount of $3.00. Other viewers make some subsequent donations. For some reason Super Stickers couldn’t be sent, so Steve goes back to his computer to enable those. Viewer Steve D also sends the first Super Sticker, for an amount of $2.00. It shows a cat animation.
Steve (Lookner, not D) talks about how mobile streaming was enabled while he was in Boston, and that he did some streaming from his phone while there. He checks the quality of the current streaming. It’s not bad, but he says he’s going to improve the lighting. The phone appears to be limited to 720p, unfortunately. Some viewers report the stream is choppy.
He talks more about some equipment he’s ordered to try to improve the video quality. He’s ordered a bigger tripod for the phone or camera, instead of using the small hand-held tripod he’s been using so far. He also has a ring light on order, to try to improve the lighting.
Unfortunately, he admits that he didn’t have time to do a live stream about the dog while still in Boston. He says he was busy with family stuff instead, but says he’ll try to do it the next time he goes back to Boston.
He emphasizes that he wants to do other kinds of content aside from what he’s made so far. Regarding monetization, he thought it would take a month or possibly longer to get monetized, but while sitting on the plane waiting to take off he checked his email and got an email about monetization.
Steve talks about possibly doing some product reviews. He might get a stool for the kitchen area where he’s filming, instead of standing. He also likes the idea of doing streams on random topics, but he doesn’t want to do too many short random live streams in case it sounds out too many notifications that may start to annoy people. Live streaming also uses more phone battery, so he’ll need to remember to start bringing his battery pack with him.
A viewer reports in the live chat that they couldn’t see the live chat replays. Steve checks, and can’t see it on his iPad, but can see it on his computer. So maybe it depends on the device being used?
Steve talks about his flight from Boston back to Atlanta, reporting that he couldn’t control the TV in his seat. He will inform the plane company about it, and thinks he might get a small credit. He confirms that he is feeling better, and isn’t stick like he was in Boston earlier.
A chatter asks if he’ll do a tour of the room in his apartment that he has set up as his Agenda-Free TV YouTube channel studio, but Steve is hesistant to do that. He doesn’t necessarily want to be helping other people who might want to create a show similar to his. He does go into the studio room briefly, but only to show off the YouTube award that he has mounted on the wall, without really showing the rest of the room.
He says that he has to go grocery shopping at some point. He got some carrots to eat on the plane, but isn’t sure that they’re still good, as they hadn’t been refrigerated for a while. He also shows a container of two week old tuna, adding that he won’t be eating it and will throw it away instead. He couldn’t go shopping since getting back because the flight he was on had been delayed 3 hours due to the weather.
Steve wraps up the video by thanking a number of viewers. One viewer asks if he’ll have a Christmas tree, but he says no, as he doesn’t have a good place in his apartment to put it. He likes a functional apartment, with few decorations.
This probably isn’t a very interesting video for people who haven’t been following Steve and his work on his new Lookner channel. It’s more of an update than anything else, but I think it’s also setting the stage for some promising future videos.
- Karl