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The Podcast Now Has Its Own YouTube Channel

I moved the linkarzu podcast interviews to their own YouTube podcast channel, without deleting the old episodes from the main channel.

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By Christian Arzu
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The Podcast Now Has Its Own YouTube Channel

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The podcast now has its own YouTube channel

I created a new YouTube channel for the podcast:

This is where the public edited full podcast episodes will live going forward.

The main linkarzu channel is not going away. That channel will continue to be the place where I upload my regular content about Neovim, terminals, keyboards, Linux, open source tools and my personal developer workflows.

But the podcast interviews needed their own place.

How the podcast ended up on the main channel

When I started doing the podcast and interviews, I published them on the main channel because that is where the audience already was.

That made sense at the beginning.

I already had people watching my videos there, I already had the channel set up, and I wanted to share these conversations with the same people that follow my regular videos.

At the time I’m writing this, the main channel has around 284 regular videos and around 48 podcast episodes.

So it wasn’t just one or two random interviews anymore. It became a real part of what I make.

Why this started to feel wrong

The issue is that these are very different types of content.

Most of my regular videos are less than 10 minutes. A lot of them are very specific, like a Neovim plugin, a terminal setup, a keyboard, a Linux workflow, or some open source tool I’m using.

The podcast episodes are completely different. They can be close to 2 hours, and they are more about conversations, interviews, background stories, opinions and how other people work.

So I started thinking about the people subscribed to the channel.

Someone may subscribe because they want long podcast interviews and they don’t care about my shorter Neovim, terminal or keyboard videos.

Someone else may subscribe because they want my regular videos, but they don’t want a 2 hour podcast episode showing up in the same feed.

At first I was also wondering if this could confuse YouTube recommendations, because one type of video is short and the other one is long.

But I don’t want to pretend I know exactly how YouTube handles that. I didn’t make this decision based on algorithm speculation.

The clearer reason is much simpler:

  • Different viewers
  • Different expectations
  • Better organization
  • Better branding
  • Easier for people to follow only what they care about

The podcast exodus

I’m calling this move the podcast exodus.

Not because I’m abandoning the main channel, that’s not what’s happening.

The main channel is still active and will continue receiving my regular content.

The idea is just to stop forcing every type of content into the same place.

If someone wants my daily or regular videos about Neovim, terminals, keyboards, Linux, open source and developer workflows, the main channel is still the place for that.

If someone only wants the podcast interviews, the new YouTube podcast channel is the better place for that.

What happens to the old episodes

I originally wondered if I should delete, private or unlist the old podcast episodes from the main channel.

After thinking about it, I’m not doing that.

Those episodes already have views, comments, links and history attached to them. Some people may have shared them, saved them, or found them through the old playlist.

So the existing podcast episodes will remain public on the main channel.

I’m also not going to duplicate all the old full episodes on the new podcast channel.

That would be messy, and I don’t want to create confusion with duplicate uploads of the same conversations.

The old podcast playlist on the main channel will stay here:

How livestreams and new episodes will work

Podcast livestreams will still happen on the main linkarzu channel.

That is where the current audience already exists, and that is where people can join while the stream is live and participate in chat.

Anyone can join the livestream while it is happening.

After the livestream ends, the recording becomes available to members on the main channel.

A few days later, the edited final episode is released publicly on the new podcast channel.

So the flow will be:

  • Livestream on the main channel
  • Replay available to members on the main channel after the stream
  • Edited public full episode on the new podcast channel a few days later

Relevant clips may still appear on the main channel when they fit the regular topics of that channel.

For example, if a conversation has a good section about Neovim, terminals, keyboards, Linux or developer workflows, that clip may still make sense on the main channel.

If you’re here only for the podcast

This is the part I want to make very clear.

If you subscribed to the main channel only because of the podcast interviews, and you don’t care about my regular videos, it is completely fine if you unsubscribe from the main channel and subscribe only to the podcast channel.

I don’t see that as a negative thing.

I would rather have the right people following the content they actually want, instead of trying to keep everything mixed together forever.

The same applies the other way around.

If you like the shorter regular videos but don’t care about the long interviews, you can stay on the main channel and ignore the podcast channel.

That’s the whole point of separating them.

If you want the podcast interviews going forward, subscribe here:

If you want to go through the older episodes that were published on the main channel, the playlist is here:

The main channel will continue as usual with my regular videos. This just gives the podcast its own proper home.

Community-driven promotion

Do you want to promote yourself in my channel? I’m not talking about a company like notion, brilliant, and all those other ones we’re using to seeing. I’m talking about you as a person, do you have a project, course, youtube channel or product and trying to reach an audience?

If interested, pricing and all the details can be found in this other page

You’re a fraud, why do you ask for money, isn’t YouTube Ads enough?

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