
Welcome to my blog!
New blog posts every week about YouTube, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Productivity, and Mindset.
Top 10 newsletters from 2024
I’ve been sending a newsletter every single week in 2024. In this blog post, I will share the top 10 newsletters with the best open-rates from the past year.
My take on the 25.0 version of Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro version 25.0 is here and we have some major updates to the interface that I’m excited to share with you, so let’s jump right into it.
Why Premiere Pro?
I've created over 700 YouTube videos (roughly 450 for my own channel and 250 for clients) and I've made about 600 of those using Adobe Premiere Pro.
In this blog post, I'll explain why.
How to make a circle out of circles in After Effects
If you want to create a circle out of circles in Adobe After Effects, you can do that pretty easily with an effect called “Repeater”. In this blog post, I will tell you how.
My gamification system
How do you track your progress?
What does "productivity" mean to you?
How to edit to the beat in After Effects
Did you know that you can make items dance to the beat automatically inside Adobe After Effects? In this blog post, I’m going to show you 2 different examples of what I mean and how you can use this in your edits.
How to cut out shapes in Adobe After Effects
If you want to cut out something from a shape inside Adobe After Effects, using another shape, there is a quick and easy way to do that, which I will show you in this tutorial.
How to play After Effects composition at the right speed
When editing anything in Adobe After Effects, you want the exported video or animation to play at the same speed as inside the editing software, but that is not always the case.
Start before you are ready
Have you ever stopped yourself from doing something because you didn't feel "ready"?
This mindset can really hold you back. Let me explain how.
How to get your viewers hooked
Did you know you often lose the largest chunk of your audience within the first few seconds of your video? If your opening doesn’t grab viewers immediately, they’re gone. In this blog post, I will share how you can improve your “hooks”.
How to make your YouTube titles 10x better
If you want people to click your YouTube video, your title and thumbnail is super important. Making a great video doesn’t matter if the title isn’t making your potential viewer curious to watch it.
My desk setup (and my best recommendations)
If you work from home (like me), you probably have your own personal desk setup. I want to share what mine looks like, but more importantly, why it looks the way it does and how you can create your own ideal desk setup.
How to focus as a content creator
People say that 'time is your most valuable asset,' but I disagree.
Focus is your most valuable asset (because that is when you get things done and it is even more limited than time).
Why more views is not better (for your YouTube channel)
Everyone wants views on their videos and more subscribers to their YouTube channel but getting more views is not always better. More views can sometimes actually hurt your channel more than it helps the channel.
In this blog post, I will share why that is the case and what you should do instead to help your channel grow.
Your best career path
Your parents are wrong. Let me explain why.
As you go through life and try to navigate different career options, it is common to seek advice or look to people ahead of you for guidance.
That is not always the best move.
Why YouTube? (How one platform can change your life)
When I was a kid, I didn't have access to YouTube.
Not because my parents kept me from it - it just didn’t exist yet!
(In fact, I don’t think we even had a computer with internet until I was 12.)
In this blog post, I will share how this platform went from “nonexistent” to life-changing, in just a couple of years.
Why “working more” is a bad idea
There's a common misconception about work that we need to address.
Everywhere we look, we see advice about "working hard", "working more", and "hustling".
In this blog post, I'll explain why that's bad advice and what we should do instead.
How to make great YouTube thumbnails
Creating effective YouTube thumbnails can be tricky because you're trying to communicate a lot of information in a really small space. You want to describe in words what the video is about but also show some kind of image or illustration.
In this blog post I will share some tips regarding what to think about when it comes to designing a great YouTube thumbnail.
My last blog post (in this format)
These blog posts will change. ✂️
For almost 2 years, I have been sending out a collection of social media posts from the previous week (on various topics) as a newsletter. Images, videos, texts, carousels, tweets...
These newsletters have then been repurposed as blog posts.
But now, this will change.
Trending vs Evergreen - What videos should you do?
You’ve probably heard of the terms “trending” and “evergreen” videos when you study YouTube and how to grow on the platform.
But what is the difference and what type of videos should you make?
In this short blog post I’m explaining this with two practical examples from my own channel (with 5,5 million views).