Shadowing Practice: I Tried Promoting My Channel With Terrible Ads - Learn English Speaking with Video

Here's a fun fact.

YouTube has over 100 million ads on its platform.

And not all these ads are good.

In fact, a lot of them are spam or scam ads, as we've taken a look at in the past.

But today's gonna be a little bit different, because I myself am going to be posting some of these ads.

And not just any ads, scam ads.

And you're probably asking yourself, Sam, why would you purchase some of these scam ads and buy into this terrible ad system on YouTube?

And the reason being is simple.

I wanna promote my channel.

That's right, I'll be making and running five different types of ads.

Four of them will be scam ads, and the last one will be an actual ad to see whether or not ads actually work on YouTube.

Also, I want to see if scam ads are better than normal ads.

Because maybe there's a reason people are running them.

Anyways, we obviously have a lot to do, so without further ado, let's do this.

Now, historically, YouTube has had many scam ads, like cryptocurrencies, NFTs, MrBeast giveaways.

I think I even saw, like, a MrBeast pee in a bottle once.

Although, maybe that was, like, a thumbnail that I put out a couple of months back.

I don't know.

It's all the same.

However, there's a lot out there, and so I want to catch myself up with a recent YouTube scam meta, so then I can figure out what four scam ads I'm going to make.

And what better way to find this than to just go into the trending tab

and just start watching videos like the good old days?

Let's go on to a KSI video and see what we're getting served.

Some of these aren't going to be scams, keep in mind.

Like this green gobbler doesn't look like a scam, looks pretty legit.

Ah, but find a soulmate from the Philippines, some like AI avatar.

See, this could be interesting.

Imagine like a Sambucha hot new singles ad just popping up on your YouTube feed.

That's exactly what we're going to do for the first one.

So I'm going to commission my thumbnail guy to create the sexy Sambucha singles in your area picture because honestly, like, I feel like I have to do this offline.

I don't know if you guys can see me in action trying to put this together, but I will show you the finished product, and then we'll ultimately make it into some sort of video.

We'll figure that out, though.

All right, let's keep bouncing around here and going into some other videos.

What's this?

Squid Game Season 2 by Netflix.

Come on, show me an ad.

Nothing?

Dr. Mike just destroyed Mr. Beast.

How Penguin Z destroyed all-in-one social platform.

That's not really a scam.

Let's keep it moving.

Play Free Obby.

Ah, okay.

Ah, I know what we're doing.

So seeing that made me think of these like mobile game ads that are clearly scams.

I actually had a video where I played a hundred of them.

It was kind of fun, honestly.

But I think I'm going to make a mobile game, or at least the ad portion of it, and it's going to be me like ultimately reaching the YouTube channel.

How does that sound?

Maybe it's like me going through like a bunch of different YouTube obstacles to ultimately get to the subscribe button.

And along the way, like maybe something happens to me.

Like maybe I get fat or skinny.

I don't know.

So I'm going to commission a developer to actually create this for me.

Is that crazy?

No, we need to because obviously I want to promote the channel.

So I figured it's too much money to create an actual mobile game.

So I think instead I'm going to hire somebody to make like a 2D character animation similar to this.

So I found this guy Divyesh, 4.8 stars.

$250 is not bad for a 60 second animation.

So if I could just do something like this, I feel like I'd be pretty happy with like a Sambucha avatar.

And obviously not this part, but just something 2D.

It's like there's like a goal, like we're going to like the finish line with the finish line being like the subscribe button.

I think that's good.

So we're going to wait to hear back from Divyesh.

Hopefully he can help us out here.

All right, again, this find a soulmate from the Philippines has popped up, and I don't know what to do with this.

So I think I'm gonna go ahead and interpret this as like an AI ad.

So maybe I have to make like an AI ad.

What if I do like one of those fake Sambucha ads that it's me on the bottom, but it's not actually me reacting to what's on top.

So I'll just take a clip of me in which I'm reacting to something, and then I'll change what it is up top.

And it's like me like reacting to a clip as if it's just like my YouTube channel.

Does that make sense?

Well, it's gonna make sense because I'm going to whip that up right now.

All right, I think I have an idea of

which short I want to use my reaction from

because I think there's one where I'm just like in shock and in awe And I think it'll be a good one.

So what was it?

When DVD hits corner.

Okay, here we go.

The greatest moment of my life.

This video It's like also like my most viewed video, but how about it's me in the bottom and I'm just like eating

and then I get super Hyped when I see this.

I think this looks good Okay This is such a stupid shirt.

Why did 45 million people watch this and 3.7 million people like this?

This is the worst piece of content I've ever put out.

But anyways, we're gonna use the bottom.

So I think what I'm gonna do is I'm going to act as if I'm just doing what I'm doing.

But up top, it's somebody about to subscribe, then they pull away, and then they actually subscribe at the end.

It's gonna make more sense when I make the video.

So I'm gonna put it together and then we'll ultimately watch it.

So I got something from the US Money Reserve, which is gold ownership and Bitcoin is technically digital gold and digital gold is a cryptocurrency.

And so there is NFT.

So I think I'm gonna make a really scammy NFT or NFT video promoting my YouTube channel.

I mean, that's as scammy as you can get.

So let's make it.

So right there, I feel pretty good about having four solid scam ads.

So they're all in the works right now and they'll be created hopefully sometime within the next couple of days.

I think the mobile game ad's gonna take some time, but that's fine.

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In the meantime, we're gonna create the fifth ad though, which honestly isn't a scam ad, and it's actually the most earnest, honest ad of them all.

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And that is an actual ad.

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So I'm going to create an ad right now, live, for people to ultimately see this and then subscribe to the channel.

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Hey, what's up, everybody?

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My name is Sambucha, and I'm a YouTuber, and I would love it if you would come join us in our next video.

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So I am a YouTuber with 8.3 million subscribers at the time of this recording, and I hope you can make it 8.31.

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I make shorts.

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I make longs.

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I'm a variety YouTuber who dabbles in challenges, gaming, lots of gaming, and a ton of fun other stuff.

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I do a lot of different collaborations, and I love my audience because they're very cool, including you if you're a part of us.

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So I hope you'll join us, and if you want to, all you have to do is join the channel right here below by clicking the subscribe button.

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I'll see you in the next video.

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Thank you so much for watching, and here's a really cool outro that you can enjoy now.

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Peace.

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That was live.

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You're gonna notice there was no cuts right there.

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That was just a live ad, right?

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Put me on like, I should be a streamer.

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That was legit.

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Right?

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Zero cuts.

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You didn't see a single thing.

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I love it.

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But of course, I want to get it professionally edited.

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And so that entire clip is going to be shipped off to a professional editor to make something

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that is ultimately good for a YouTube ad.

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So as far as the channel that I'm doing this on, it's a channel called For Sambucha.

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Like somebody literally made this channel for me.

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It has 300 subscribers.

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I'm like, hey, I'll take it.

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They put in a picture of me when I was on vacation.

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And I don't even know where I was, the Dominican Republic.

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No videos or anything.

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That's all fine and dandy.

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However, what we're going to do with this channel is run the ads

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because if you didn't realize there's a promotion tab basically right here And if you click into it, you can get started to promote your channel and business on YouTube.

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Very cool So get started.

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I guess you have to create like an ad sense account

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and then your goal could be audience growth video views So in our case, we want people to drive to Uh the audience

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because we want to grow the channel

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and then you select a video from the channel So I'll have to post it here.

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I don't have any right now and then yeah, so on and so forth So once we have the videos, I'll upload them onto this channel and then we'll heavily promote them and we'll see if I go from $2.99 upwards.

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I'll give about a week to run or so and we'll see what happens.

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In the meantime, I will see you guys when the ads are created.

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I never know if I should do this thing.

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Like does it matter?

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I don't think it matters.

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Who invented that?

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That's so stupid.

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Just Alright guys, so it's about a week later

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and all five ads are officially made

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So we're gonna check them out right now for the first time

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and then we're gonna go ahead and post them to promote it and then we'll see what the results are.

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All right, so this video is a 25 second short

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that basically promotes a fake cryptocurrency or NFT project that I put out, allegedly, and it uses like an AI voice in the background that's not actually me promoting it.

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And it's just one of those classic NFT scam ads.

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I'm excited to see this.

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Well, actually, let's see, because maybe not.

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I'm sure some people will actually fall for this.

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Hi, I'm Sam Butcha.

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I'm excited to announce the launch of my new crypto project called ButchaCoin.

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Starting a coin has always been a dream for me.

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I named the coin after me, Sam Butcha.

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I worked with a bunch of professional people to make this coin come true.

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And I can promise you guys that if you buy the coin, you will get millions back.

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This will overtake Bitcoin.

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Since this is an exclusive coin, you can only claim it if you subscribe to my channel and check my bio.

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So make sure to subscribe as fast as possible.

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Amazing, I love it.

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I actually genuinely feel like I should be making a coin now because that landed super well.

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I don't know if it landed as well for you guys as it did for me, but I'm convinced.

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I'm all bought into Sambucha coin.

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Okay, that is great.

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I'm ready to promote that.

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I think it also makes sense that since I'm creating five separate scam ads to promote my brand, I also should probably do a more legitimate one in the form of maybe building a website for myself

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because websites obviously help you build your brand.

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And so the website that I'm creating is called sambuchahello.odoo.com.

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And this website is going to be the hub for anybody who comes across it randomly, I'm not sure why you would, to then be like, oh, let me go ahead and subscribe to this guy's YouTube channel.

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So not a scam, an actual legitimate one, but I think it's nice to do the contrast here.

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So I'm using Odoo because it's completely free and you'll get a custom domain name for an entire year, which is obviously super huge, unlike some other players in the space.

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And it's just a couple of clicks because I'm not super like technical, so I can't really do this.

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Okay, so I think it makes sense to create a blog and this would be for my YouTube business.

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You wanna call it that.

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Oh, nice.

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With the main objective to get leads.

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No, inform customers about the truth and you choose a color palette.

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Okay, so YouTube is like reddish.

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So let's go ahead and get something close to red.

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I guess this is red.

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No, that looks better.

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Add pages and features.

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So what do we wanna include on here?

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I think we just mainly wanna put in like, maybe like services and they'll be like, I provide great YouTube content for free.

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You just have to click subscribe and I'll go ahead and build my website.

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So choose my theme.

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This is very nice.

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I'll choose, let's go ahead with this theme and bam, just like that.

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It is now over the course of like less than 60 seconds, creating an entire website.

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So as I was saying before, Odo is completely free and it provides for you a custom domain name for an entire year.

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And they also have unlimited hosting and support.

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They also have chat GPT integrated within it.

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So you can rewrite, reword, re-lengthen and change the tone of the text for certain sections seamlessly.

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So basically it's free, it's fast and it's simple.

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So you don't have to be technical whatsoever and you can just create a website, which is like insane.

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All right, so I made a couple of adjustments to simplify the site and this is what we're left with.

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So SambuchaHello.odoo.com will provide us with this and we will track whether or not this provides any sort of traffic.

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But now let's get back to some scam ads.

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All right, so this next one, I apologize in advance for, But it is actually the thumbnail of this video that you're watching right now.

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So you know that I don't clickbait because I'm actually using this in the video.

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But here we have it.

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Feast your eyes on hot YouTubers in your area.

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And then this is a very real picture of me.

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That is exactly what I look like, of course.

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I have a lollipop and then some lipstick on.

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I don't know why that's there.

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I did not instruct Amir to make that.

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Anyways, so I'm excited to put this out.

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I also put it into like a 30 second video where it's just the picture playing for 30 seconds, just in case I'm unable to make a banner ad.

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So I wonder how this is going to land because this one's definitely the most experimental.

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Of course, we're trying to emulate the hot new singles near you vibe.

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And this is what we came up with.

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So I'm excited to put this one out in particular.

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I think this will really drive traffic to this Ambucha channel.

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All right, so now there's two versions of this ad that we're about to watch.

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And this is basically the fake reaction on the bottom with something up top.

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So it's like they're using my likeness, but they're promoting something.

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And in this case, they're promoting subscribing to me.

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So there it is typed in, somebody searching it.

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I don't know if we could play the full music because it might get copyright.

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All right, and you'll see I'm leaning in He's about to subscribe.

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Yeah Good, and then he pulls away and you'll see I'm like okay.

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That was close, but then he's coming back

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Wow chills

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Actually just got chills watching that and it was so good

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that we also had made an IRL version just in case you're not on Desktop

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and that looks a bit unfamiliar to you look at this.

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All right, so it's basically the same idea and and instead, you're gonna see it's somebody, they're considering subscribing, and then all of a sudden they're like, you know what, nah.

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And they pull back, and I'm like, okay, that was close.

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And then here we go again, he's going in, he double thought, he's gonna double tap, here we go.

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I think that's actually a compelling video to put out.

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I think that is like genuinely a good video that will get people to subscribe.

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All right, this one I'm excited to show you.

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So I had commissioned the guy to make a mobile game Fiverr of me going through some like task.

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I have no idea what I'm about to watch

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But it is a 30 second short

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that I will be using to promote my channel I don't know what this is gonna contain.

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This is my first time watching it.

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So let's check it out All I already see K

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so slimmed down a bit in like a dress suit and then I guess this is me.

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So let's see Speed Kai Who is that?

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Logan Paul What?

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That is the greatest video that I will ever put out like bar none.

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Okay, so that is the mobile game ad.

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I He did it.

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He did well.

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He did well.

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What can I say?

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Great job.

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Thank you for helping out on that.

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And then of course we have the actual ad

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So this is just like a legitimate ad to get people to subscribe to the channel

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And this is like the more mature version and then I have a kids version as well.

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So here's the normal version Hey, what's up everybody?

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My name is Sam Bucha, and I'm a youtuber And I would love it

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if you would come join us in our next video

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So I am a youtuber with 8.3 million subscribers at the time of this recording

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and I hope you can make it 8.31 I make shorts.

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I make longs.

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I am a variety youtuber who dabbles in challenges gaming

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and a ton of fun other stuff I do a lot of different collaborations, and I love my audience because they're very cool Including you

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if you're a part of us So I hope you'll join us and

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if you want to all you have to do is join

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the channel right here below by clicking the subscribe button I'll see you in the next video Thank you

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so much for watching and here's a really cool outro that you can enjoy now peace.

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I love it.

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That's perfect That's exactly what we're looking for here, and then the kids version.

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Hey, what's up everybody?

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My name is Sam Bucha, and I'm a youtuber and I would love it

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if you would come join us in our next video

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So I am a youtuber with 8.3 million subscribers at the time of this recording, and I hope you can make it 8.31 I make shorts,

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I make longs, I'm a variety youtuber who dabbles in challenges, gaming, and a ton of fun other stuff.

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I do a lot of different collaborations, and I love my audience because they're very cool, including you if you're a part of us.

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So I hope you'll join us.

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If you're that age and you're watching, let me know because you probably shouldn't be.

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By clicking the subscribe button.

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I'll see you in the next video.

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Thank you so much for watching, and here's a really cool outro that you can enjoy now.

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Peace.

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Wait.

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He's got the sandwich right now, right now.

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Right now right now Don't waste a second find out how Wait Subscribe to Sam Butcher Right now right now

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Join the crew and take a bow That is cinema right there.

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Why do I like unironically want to use that for my outro now?

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Okay, that is great.

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All these ads are fantastic So we're gonna go ahead and post every single one of these Okay,

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the title of this one's gonna be hot new youtuber in your area definitely not made for kids Subscribe to Sambucha.

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So here we have the mobile game.

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I'm gonna say brand new mobile game at Sambucha.

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Okay, here's another one.

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So this is gonna be the IRL version of the subscribe.

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Then I'm gonna say subscribe to Sambucha on PC for those who are on their PC for it.

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Okay, so for this we're gonna have the kids version of the ad of course.

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That's gonna be the normal version.

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Finally, we have new Sambucha cryptocurrency NFT project at Sambucha.

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I mean, for the main goal, I think it makes sense to just go pure video views.

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Website makes no sense.

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We don't have a website.

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And then audience growth doesn't make sense because there's no additional videos on this channel.

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So I kind of just want people to see the general Sambucha ad.

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So I think video views.

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All right, now we're going to slot in some videos.

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Oh, that looks so good.

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All right, we're going to target mainly the United States.

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And I think we should target English-speaking countries because let's face it, I'm English.

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Well, I'm an American, but I speak English.

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Now, what are we going to spend to the end date?

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Oh, I could wait.

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How long can I make this promotion?

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Ooh, let's run a, I want to run like a very tight three-day promotion

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because I honestly want to put this video out too.

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So let's run it to October 21st. I'm filming this on October 18th.

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So it'll be a three-day sprint and I'm going to, the goal is to get like maybe, I was thinking like a thousand views per video.

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So what's budget?

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Can we get that with 50 bucks?

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It's kind of crazy.

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Oh, it looks like we could.

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What is the average of that?

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21. Okay.

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I think we could promote all of these videos for about 50 bucks.

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A hundred has better performance.

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Okay.

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So maybe I'll do a hundred then.

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Five videos, five, 600 bucks.

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That's fine.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So I just went ahead and promoted all, I guess we have seven videos now because I have two different versions of two of them.

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But yeah, they're pending.

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So as soon as these launch October 21st, I'll come back and review everything and we will see how things go.

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Hopefully a lot of people end up subscribing to the channel.

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And also hopefully a lot of people don't think this is fake because it is a legitimate campaign that I am running. So subscribe.

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All right, I'll check back in in a couple of days.

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Okay guys, so it's been officially three days.

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The promotional period for these multiple ads has ended.

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So I'm excited to look into these stats now to see how many views they got, to see if there's any comments and also to see if my main channel gained any subscribers, or I guess the channel that I posted this on.

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So we're going to see if this was a successful campaign.

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All right, so clicking into the content here.

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Okay, first off, whoa, that's actually absurd that we have a video that got 5,000 views.

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What?

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That's crazy.

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So subscribe to Sambucha Kids version got 5,000 views.

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Wow, that's more than what they had projected.

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And then as far as shorts go, I mean, not super well.

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It looks like some of these got zero, which honestly like isn't the best to see.

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Nobody commented on a single thing.

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So I don't know how helpful this ultimately was.

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If we were looking at the analytics, the grand total subscribers, we lost six.

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So somehow we actually lost subscribers, which is kind of sad to see.

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But I will note that the views were up on this channel.

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And also interestingly, the average view duration on this video was 98%.

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So what that means is that the average length of a person who viewed this was 50 seconds of 51 seconds.

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So people watched this entire video for whatever reason.

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I don't understand why, I don't understand how.

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What I do like is that nobody actually called this out as being a Sambucha experiment, which means if you're seeing this, you definitely didn't see any of these ads,

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which is good because I feel like the last couple of experiments I did, people kind of like understood what I was doing before I posted the video, but this one's a bit different.

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Now, interestingly, and I don't know what this says about me, But the one

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that has me just like sort of plastered on there with my Fabio hair had the lowest average view duration

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and the lowest views of qualified videos.

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Not sure why.

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I thought I looked pretty good there.

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Now, if we're taking a look at some of my subscriber data, what we want to look at is October 18th to 20th to see

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if we gained a lot of subscribers on those days relative to other ones.

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So October 18th, 19th, 20th.

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Okay, well, looks like it was the lowest of the month, which doesn't look great for us.

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But all right, I guess this campaign was an absolute failure because there wasn't really any redeeming qualities to this.

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I didn't gain any subscribers disproportionately.

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The channel I posted it on only got a total of

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like 6,500 views with most of them coming from one video

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and nobody reached out to me telling me they found the videos.

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So is it worth promoting on YouTube?

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Probably not.

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I would just make normal content and then post it.

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Every other experiment I did ended up being a lot better.

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So why would you pay for ads?

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Just make good content.

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All right, guys, well, that's the video.

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So thank you so much for watching.

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And if you want to see more content, make sure to click here, click here.

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Otherwise, subscribe on your way out and I will see you next time.

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Peace.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “I Tried Promoting My Channel With Terrible Ads”. This video has 389 sentences and 4473 words to shadow. The speech runs for 18:44. The speaker talks fast, about 239 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
subscribe verb	/səbˈskɹaɪb/	To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
scam noun	/ˈskæm/	A fraudulent or dishonest deal. A swindle.
subscriber noun	/səbˈskɹaɪbɚ/	A person who subscribes to a publication or a service.
coin noun	/ˈkoɪ̯n/	A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
cryptocurrency noun	/ˈkɹɪp.toʊˌkɝ.ən.si/	A digital currency based on a cryptographic system, usually having no central issuing or regulating authority.
outro noun	/ˈaʊt.ɹoʊ/	A portion of music at the end of a song.
dabble verb	/ˈdæb.əl/	To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble.
thumbnail noun	/ˈθʌm.neɪl/	The fingernail on the thumb.
buck noun	/ˈbʌk/	A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad, skunk and kangaroo.
anyways adverb	/ˈɛn.iˌweɪz/	Anyway, anyhow, in any case.
react verb	/ɹiːˈækt/	To act in response.
scammy adjective	/ˈskæ.mi/	Of or relating to a scam; fraudulent.
soulmate noun		Someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally or uniquely compatible or has a special, almost spiritual connection.
interestingly adverb		In an interesting way.
avatar noun	/ˌæv.əˈtɑː(ɹ)/	An incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go ahead verb	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	To proceed with; to begin.
put out verb		To blind (eyes).
come back verb		To return to a place.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
pull away verb		To move ahead.
bounce around verb		To discuss or brainstorm (ideas) on a topic.
come across verb		To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

We'll figure that out, though.
Ah, I know what we're doing.
I mean, that's as scammy as you can get.
I'll see you in the next video.
How long can I make this promotion?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if you buy the coin, you will get
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	Reserve, which is · anybody who comes · year, which is
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	we've taken · has popped · I've ever put
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	be created · be shipped · is run

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 188 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, gonna, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thumbnail /ˈθʌm.neɪl/, lengthen /ˈlɛŋθən/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: duration /dʒʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, disproportionately /ˈdɪs.pɹəˌpɔɹ.ʃən.ət.li/, reddish /ˈɹɛdɪʃ/, promotional /pɹəˈmoʊʃənəl/
Long words — get the stress right: cryptocurrency /ˈkɹɪp.toʊˌkɝ.ən.si/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, animation /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/, disproportionately /ˈdɪs.pɹəˌpɔɹ.ʃən.ət.li/, unfamiliar /ˌʌnfəˈmɪli.ə(ɹ)/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like subscribe, scam, subscriber.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?