Here's a nice YouTube studio screenshot for you:

That's how many long form YouTube views I've got in 2026.

Now you might look at that and think "man, Tintin is such a hero I want views like that too"

And you'd be right to think so. It certainly is nice when videos pop.

But that's not my favourite bit about this graph.

This is:

All those little ▶️ icons are videos posted. Week in week out, I kept posting.

And it paid off.

It almost looks exactly like one of those motivational graphics you see around the place:

It sounds cliche, but the best part about the video popping off wasn't the actual views it got. It was the fact that I kept going long enough to see that happen. That I didn't stop.

That's the most satisfying part.

And believe me, it felt discouraging sometimes as a self-proclaimed "YouTube guy" to see 500 views on a video.

But the game is the game.

And the funny thing is, my business was doing just fine with 500-2,000 views per video on average.

It felt as if my videos were getting more views than they were, because I would hear from so many people that they'd been watching them.

Now I am in a "make money" niche, which means you can have fewer views, get fewer customers at higher prices and make the business work.

But I work with lots of channels in different niches like health, relationships, music and even dementia care, and getting 1,000 - 5,000 of the right views per video, is all you need.

Especially if the goal is $100k+/year, and not millions.

Every now and then it's great to have a video get 5-10x your normal views, and if you post 52 videos in a year, it'll happen 2-3 times.

But what's more important is the base view count. The actual returning audience who come back week in week out to learn from you.

So here's some extremely simple advice that I like to think about when it comes to both YouTube and business:

1. Start
2. Keep going
3. Get better

That's it. I know if I do those three things, it's a lot harder to lose.

Tintin 🫡

P.s.

We sold out our 5 available spots for July inside The $100k YouTuber, after selling out June too.

This week has been a blast with the latest $100k squad members.

The programme is now closed until mid September. If you'd like to be the first to know when it re-opens, join the waitlist on this page here.

P.p.s. this is a pic of me taking a call between trains at Paddington station in London. Sometimes the hustle catches you off guard, and you have to hotspot your way out of trouble.

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