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Instagram's algorithm and its built-in Edits app now reward raw, fast, iPhone-shot content over polished studio production, so creators win by increasing posting volume and turnaround speed rather than production value.
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- A creator or business owner who has been sitting on polished but infrequent content and wants to understand why raw iPhone posts are suddenly outperforming it.
- Someone building a personal brand or product who hasn't started posting because they don't feel 'ready' or don't have professional gear.
- A creator who manages an editor or videographer and is weighing whether to bring editing in-house for speed.
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- You're building a long-form podcast or interview show — the video explicitly says that format should stay traditionally produced.
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A creator with a supplements brand says a meeting with Meta confirmed what his own numbers already showed: Instagram's algorithm — and its built-in Edits app — now favor raw, fast, phone-shot content over expensive production. He walks through a live demo of filming and editing a post in minutes using Instagram's own app, compares view counts between polished and raw posts (up to 640,000 views on an unedited iPhone clip), and explains why his videographer just quit to build his own brand. The actionable core: cut the production pipeline, post reactive short-form within 15-20 minutes of the idea, and treat volume — hundreds of reps — as the real skill-builder, while saving traditional production for long-form.
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00:00 – 00:26
01 · Cold open
Claims he's been late to the biggest shift in short-form content and teases why his videographer, Declan, has quit.
00:26 – 02:16
02 · The Pret story
Confronts a stranger who won't post content for his own app despite having business cards and a branded T-shirt; lays out the funnel logic — about 1% of an audience buys at any time.
02:16 – 03:26
03 · The Adapt Jiu Jitsu shoot day
A high-production content day with 100 attendees produced zero usable posts by that night because professional-camera color grading and file transfer took too long.
03:26 – 04:57
04 · 5,000 posts and the Meta meeting
Hits 5,000 Instagram posts but is still financially stretched; a Meta contact tells him Instagram surfaces creators who post through its Edits app.
04:57 – 06:54
05 · Testing the iPhone-only workflow
Has his videographer put down the $5,000 camera; explains UGC and CPM ad models and the deliberate 'nonprofessional' look ($10M/yr creators using wired headphones).
06:54 – 07:49
06 · A short history of short-form
Traces the format through manual captions (2018), pandemic-era algorithmic feeds, over-edited transition fatigue, and now raw 'yap' content — and argues only repetition builds real skill.
07:49 – 10:13
07 · The results showcase
Walks through his own Instagram feed comparing polished vs. raw posts, topping out at 640,000 views on an unedited iPhone gym clip.
10:13 – 14:12
08 · Live demo: shoot, edit, pitch
Hands his iPhone to a staff member with no video experience, films a UGC-style ad for his Newtonic pouches, then edits it live in the Edits app while pitching the product.
14:12 – 15:05
09 · Short-form vs. long-form
Draws the line: long-form/podcast content should stay traditionally produced; reactive short-form should take no more than 15-20 minutes start to post.
15:05 – 16:08
10 · Trial reels and follower fear
Argues Instagram's 'trial reels' feature exists because creators are scared of losing followers by changing style, and that the fear itself is the real cost.
16:08 – 17:20
11 · Why Declan quit
Explains that his videographer is leaving to build his own brand and YouTube channel, framing staff eventually striking out on their own as a feature, not a loss.
17:20 – 17:57
12 · Closing pitch
Final call to post daily for three months and links to his mentorship and content courses.
Lines worth screenshotting.
- About 1% of an audience buys at any given time, so the other 99% exist to be warmed up or lost — audience size is the top of a slow-moving funnel.
- A single high-production content shoot with 100 attendees produced zero usable posts the same day, because color grading and file transfer killed the FOMO window.
- It typically takes roughly 500 posts to become even semi-competent at short-form content, and most creators are only 200-300 posts away from finding their rhythm.
- A Meta contact revealed that Instagram surfaces creators who post through its own Edits app — a built-in incentive to use the tool the platform built.
- An iPhone-shot, self-edited video can go from filming to posted in five to seven minutes — faster than a camera operator can transfer footage off a memory card.
- One of the best-performing paid ads for a $100M supplement brand is unpolished iPhone footage generating 4x return on ad spend.
- Creators earning $10 million a year film into wired headphones on purpose and sometimes use the back camera instead of the front, specifically to fake a nonprofessional, off-the-cuff look.
- Short-form content moved through distinct eras: manually-typed captions (2018, ~45 minutes per 90-second video), algorithmic 'TikTokification' during the pandemic, over-edited transition fatigue, and now raw 'yap' content.
- There is no book, course, or video that substitutes for hundreds of repetitions — skill in content creation comes from volume of reps, including videos that flop or overperform unpredictably.
- A raw iPhone gym video pulled 640,000 views, while more heavily produced posts on the same account pulled far fewer.
- A seven-minute shoot edited in three minutes (a tractor clip filmed at a petrol station) still generated over 100,000 views, showing edit time doesn't correlate with performance.
- A staff member with zero video experience produced usable UGC-style footage just by being handed an iPhone and basic direction.
- Instagram's 'trial reels' feature exists specifically because creators are afraid a new content style will cost them followers — the fear is the obstacle, not the follower risk itself.
- Long-form content should stay traditionally produced and can go out on a multi-day delay; reactive short-form content should never take longer than 15-20 minutes from idea to post.
Volume and turnaround speed now beat production value on short-form.
WHAT TO LEARN
Instagram's own tooling and algorithm reward fast, unpolished, phone-shot posts over studio production, so the real bottleneck for most creators is reps and turnaround time, not equipment.
02The Pret story
- Refusing to post because you're not 'ready' keeps a finished product invisible — a business card and branded T-shirt don't substitute for telling people it exists.
- Only about 1% of an audience buys at any given time, so the other 99% are either being warmed up or being lost — audience size determines the ceiling on buyers.
03The Adapt Jiu Jitsu shoot day
- A single event with a professional camera crew produced zero usable content the same day, because color grading and file transfer ate the window when interest was highest.
- Content needs to go out within hours of an event to create the FOMO that drives people to the next one — a same-day phone edit beats a technically better edit posted a week later.
045,000 posts and the Meta meeting
- Post count alone isn't a finish line — financial pressure doesn't disappear at 5,000 posts, so keep publishing past any milestone you thought would 'arrive' you.
- It typically takes around 500 posts to become even semi-competent, and most creators are only a few hundred posts from finding their rhythm.
- Platforms sometimes reveal their own bias directly — a contact at the platform confirming that posting through its native editing tool is a favored, visible signal is worth acting on.
05Testing the iPhone-only workflow
- An iPhone-shot, self-edited clip can go from filming to posted in five to seven minutes — faster than it takes a camera operator to transfer footage off a memory card.
- Unpolished creator content isn't just an organic-post trend — it's outperforming produced footage in paid ads, with one raw iPhone ad generating 4x return on spend.
- Some of the highest-earning creators deliberately fake a 'nonprofessional' look because raw signals authenticity, not lack of resources.
06A short history of short-form
- Short-form has moved through distinct eras — manual captions, algorithmic discovery feeds, over-edited transition fatigue, and now raw 'talk to camera like a friend' content.
- There's no course or book substitute for volume — skill only comes from hundreds of repetitions, including videos that unpredictably flop or overperform.
07The results showcase
- A raw iPhone gym clip outperformed more heavily produced posts on the same account by a wide margin, showing production time doesn't correlate with performance.
- A seven-minute shoot and three-minute edit still generated over 100,000 views — proof the edit doesn't need to be long to work.
08Live demo: shoot, edit, pitch
- A staff member with zero video experience produced usable footage just by being handed a phone and simple direction — you don't need a trained videographer for UGC-style content.
- Editing directly in a platform's native app (auto-captions, trimming dead air, scheduling) can take just a few minutes per post.
09Short-form vs. long-form
- Not everything should be shot raw — long-form or podcast-style content should stay traditionally produced since it doesn't need same-day urgency.
- Reactive short-form content should never take longer than 15-20 minutes from idea to posted.
10Trial reels and follower fear
- Features like 'trial reels' exist because creators are scared a style change will cost them followers — treating that fear as real can quietly stall growth for years.
11Why Declan quit
- Needing an employee less over time can be a sign the business is evolving in a healthy direction, not a threat to be avoided.
Terms worth knowing.
- Edits app
- Instagram's built-in editor for shooting, captioning, and trimming clips for direct posting; the platform reportedly favors creators who publish through it.
- UGC (user-generated content)
- Ordinary-looking, non-studio video used in ads or organic posts, typically filmed on a phone rather than produced like traditional advertising.
- CPM (cost per 1,000 views)
- A payment model where a brand pays creators based on how many views their sponsored content earns, rather than a flat fee or sales commission.
- Yap content
- Slang for unscripted, off-the-cuff talking video, as opposed to heavily edited, tightly produced content.
- Trial reels
- An Instagram feature that lets creators test a new content style without it counting toward their main follower-facing feed or stats.
Things they pointed at.
04:57toolInstagram Edits app
16:45channelDeclan Jenkinson's YouTube channel and color grading course
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“I'll also explain why Declan, my videographer, has quit.”
10:36
“Off the fly, high volume, low effort, perceived low content is making a comeback.”
14:13
“The beautiful thing is you don't need more. You need less.”
15:05
“But short form, this is a revolution.”
15:55
“But it's time to yap.”
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00:00I have millions of short form content followers, and I must admit, I think I've been late to the biggest change that I think has occurred in the short form content creation space. It's happened right in front of us, and I don't even think the majority of us have realized.
00:14And it was only when I had a meeting with Meta last week that it confirmed my beliefs. In this video, I'm gonna explain to you the revolution that is coming in short form content creation. I'll also explain why Declan, my videographer, has quit.
00:26But just before I get into that, it's very important that everyone watching this realizes you are gonna have to represent your brand and probably with short form to begin with later with long form down the line. Gonna put a guy on blast who I met in Pret two weeks ago. I'm in London.
00:39Uh, we're outside Hoban Station. We're giving out thousands of cans of Nutonic. Go into Pret for a little bit of lunch.
00:43Guy comes over. He's telling me about a Brazilian jujitsu app that he's created with his business partner. Wow.
00:49Then he gives me a business card. Branded. Wow.
00:51He even gives me a branded T shirt. Great. I said, you're making content.
00:55Right? And he goes, yeah.
00:58I I need to start that. So excuse me? Why are you not creating content yet for your brand?
01:02If this app is that important and it's gonna help that many jiu jitsu athletes, why wouldn't you be telling people about it? He said he haven't got the confidence yet to create the content. I said, mate, are you fucking stupid?
01:12You've just cold approached me to promote your business in prep while I'm fucking eating my lunch, and you're too scared to make content which you just put on your phone and post to the Internet? You've got this all fucked up, mate. And I said to him, the reason that I'm never gonna invest in your business is that you won't even show up for your brand, your app, your business, yet you want me to?
01:30In which deranged world does that make sense? I was like, you've got the courage to come up here and tell me about it, you haven't got the courage to make content. Also, in what world do you think it's more important to have a branded T shirt and business cards than it is to tell hundreds, maybe thousands, or maybe tens of thousands of people about what you've built, what you've created.
01:45Not to mention that you should have done that for months before the app was even ready. But, anyway, almost every single struggling business that I work with don't really realize what's happening. You've got your offer.
01:54Certain amount of people need to see it to buy. But for them to see your offer, you need to have a certain amount to send your offer to. And to have a certain amount of contacts to send your offer to, you need a certain amount of people aware of your brand.
02:05Typically, I find that about 1% of my audience will buy from me at any given point. The other 99%, either warming them up to purchase or just gonna let them fuck off. Now last week, one of the businesses that I've invested into recently, Adapt Jiu Jitsu, incredible Jiu Jitsu game by the way, but don't take my word for it.
02:20I own a significant chunk of the business. We did a content shoot day where we invited all of our best customers into London. We trained with them.
02:25We rolled with them. We did a content shoot. We had a laugh.
02:28We had pizza. We drank new tonics. It was an amazing day.
02:31I go home. I'm laying in bed. It's 9PM.
02:34We have no content to show for it. And so I go into the group chat, I say to everyone, yo. Where's the content from today?
02:39Everything was filmed on an expensive high grade camera. The photographers had to color grade the images. The videographers had to upload everything to their computers and color grade it.
02:49We had nothing to show for an event where a 100 people came to a community event. I realized we wouldn't get an edit out on the day. Why did we wait so long to get some content?
02:57Why didn't we just use our phones? We could have put a reel together that we could have posted, and it would take five minutes. I came to realize we're not moving fast enough.
03:04That edit needs to go out a few hours after the event to create some FOMO so that we can flip it and do more events in the future, where of which we get more people to the event, we get more content, we get to put it out there, we create more FOMO, etcetera, etcetera. So that was in the back of my mind. Any of you that watched this channel before know that I will moan at people a lot where you seem to think you've made enough content, and I'm here to remind you that you haven't.
03:23That exact same day we did the adapt filming day, I hit 5,000 Instagram posts. Now that's quite a lot if you think about it, but Instagram wasn't even my first platform.
03:32I was on Facebook before that. There was a period where I was posting on Facebook, I wasn't posting on Instagram. Before that, was on WordPress.
03:37Now just to remind you, even at 5,000 Instagram posts, I still had an Amex build this month that . I'm not even out the woods at 5,000 posts. So the fact you think that you're a 124 posts on Instagram, you're like, where's my fucking Bugatti?
03:54Some of you are just mental. For most of you, it's gonna take 500 posts to become even semi good at making it seem like you know what you're doing. The majority of you, it sounds crazy to say this, are like two to 300 posts away from finding a rhythm.
04:06Now that meeting with Meta, I have a contact at Facebook Meta. Yes. I've got over a million followers on the platform.
04:13But even then, I'm one of their shittest creators. I went in and met with them, asking them, you know, what's going on? What's trendy?
04:18Blah blah blah. And she says to me, why can I not see on your Instagram that you're posting through edits? And I was like, well, I record the content.
04:25I send it to my video guy, Declan. He chops it up. He edits it.
04:27He sends it back. I post it. She was like, and without telling me that I'd be getting more engagement through the edits app, it kinda made sense.
04:37Why did Instagram create the edits app? It's to give creators the ability to shoot content, chuck on captions, chop the fat, and then you can push it quite literally to the platform through that app. I was like, I'm gonna have to test this.
04:48I'm gonna have try it. So over the next few days, anytime we were shooting content, and I'm gonna show you the performance of that in a second, I told Declan to put down his five grand camera. I said, put that down.
04:58You're gonna shoot my iPhone. I took full control. I you go here, film this, do this, get this, take that angle again, come back around, and I get my phone back, and I could edit that entire thing in about five to seven minutes.
05:08Now he couldn't even color grade the footage or even move it from his camera to his laptop in the time that I completed the entire edit. Now would it have looked better on a camera? Sure.
05:16But I'm not sure that one, the algorithm, the edits app, or even two, the people on Instagram right now want to see perfectly curated content.
05:27And how do I know? Well, the answer's been right in front of me the entire time. One of the biggest levers that we're pulling for Newtonic to make millions every month is something called UGC, which stands for user generated content.
05:37Now if we look at a platform like TikTok shop, we could pay a celebrity to go on there and endorse it, but, actually, there's two channels on TikTok shop. One, where you have affiliates. They talk about the product.
05:46They talk about the drink. They then get an affiliate code. They can sell on the platform and get a bit of commission from us.
05:52But then, two, on the other end, you might look to do something called CPM, cost per 1,000 views. And you might then pay people just to talk about your product, have it in their videos, whatever is. That is the way that sales online are going.
06:03Some of our best performing paid ads aren't super polished. In fact, one right now generating four times return on ad spend is filmed on iPhone. So I've had all of these signals in front of me for fucking months, yet I've been attached to wanting to make super polished content.
06:19Have you even noticed how many content creators have come back to wired headphones? And I know the people doing this. They're making $10,000,000 a year.
06:26The reason that they're talking into their microphone while shooting on their phone is they want to give that nonprofessional look. They could even use their back camera instead of their front camera, but they want this effect.
06:36Off the fly, high volume, low effort, perceived low content is making a comeback. We went through a lot of changes in short form content over the last few years.
06:45So we went from back in my day, I had to manually type out every caption on a video. 2018, it would take me forty five minutes to do a ninety second video, just the captions. Then during the pandemic, we saw the TikTokification of social media where content was shown to people interested in your stuff, not people that follow you.
07:01But then we went into this realm of hyper over edited transitions, captions, b roll, and people are exhausted. And now they kinda wanna see a video from someone that's like their friend or something that's sent in a WhatsApp chat.
07:14They wanna be communicated to, not like they're talking to a brand, but a real person. And people are now calling that yap content. But the reason that I don't particularly like the term yap is yap insinuates that what you have said has not been cleverly planned, designed, or strategically thought about beforehand.
07:30Now before that scares you or intimidates you, there is only one way you become strategic and clever in the world of content creation, and that is through thousands of repetitions. There is no book you can read. There is no course you can do.
07:42There is no fucking YouTube video out there that is going to do anything more than you doing hundreds of repetitions of something. Having videos that you think are gonna do well bomb and have videos that you thought might bomb do well. And anyone that tells you otherwise, even my short form content mastery course.
07:55There's that. Doing a thousand fucking videos is gonna do way more for anything out there than you could ever fucking buy from me. Get them both together.
08:02Anyway, now I'm gonna show you some of the results, and then I'll tell you why Declan quit and why he's no longer working with me. But let's get through the results first. So right here is my Instagram feed.
08:12And this morning, I posted about So you're not sure when to Our focus pouches, 61,000. Again, you could say for the amount of followers I have, that's not a lot. But anyway, here, super polished verse x.
08:24I'm gonna bump him for 41,000. See these three here, this row right in the middle here. When I arrived in Ireland, and by the way, here's the edit that I got.
08:32Super polished, 68,000. I've got a comment in front of me. I love iPhone in the gym to show a technique, a 103,000.
08:41These three videos I made in Ireland. Oh, just grab my phone, edit this, have a look at this.
08:51Shot an iPhone. Cut. Trim the fat.
08:54640,000 views. The next one.
08:57I shit you not. We did this tractor shoot in a petrol station. What's the crack?
09:02What's the crack? It took seven minutes to film, took me three minutes to edit. 136,000.
09:07Then here, I saw a funny skit, and I literally, in about three or four minutes, recorded this.
09:15Holding the counter new tonic, trying to get that bit of branding. Declan didn't even film that. Our UK head of retail, James Cox, who's never made a piece of content in his life video wise or done an edit, I just gave him my iPhone.
09:30I said, hold this. I'm gonna walk into you. Now let me go into the edits app.
09:33I'm gonna show you how easy this is. So for instance, if we go back to this video here, I said to a guy that's working at Max Lines Designs, hey. Can you film us from the side?
09:43I wanna get us both looking at the car, happy with it. I then said to him, can you come up close and film me from in front? So he then got a shot of me in front.
09:49I said, okay. Now go in front of him. Get a shot of him.
09:52I said, okay. We're gonna get in the car. I want a shot from the side.
09:55You do have to become a director here. Then we get the footage of the car rolling out. Now everything here is chopped together, and it's very, very quick to do it.
10:03Again, with this video here, all I did was just chop little bits away. If we look at this tractor edit, you'll notice these are just different videos where I've cut different bits, put bits of text, and then I put a bit of music on the end.
10:16The more you do this, the better you get at it. Okay. Let's try and do this in real time.
10:20A lot of people on the Internet like to say that there's not enough research about the absorption of Cognizant through the mouth. Take my finger off. Leave it for a second.
10:28Take a breath.
10:31But what they fail to realize is the actual pouch, we're not just getting it the absorption through the mouth. And I fucked that one up, so we're gonna delete that. I'm gonna start again.
10:41But what they don't realize is we're not absorbing everything here through the mouth. That's just where we're putting it. So what I want you to think about is Neurogum, which is a very popular chewing gum that has nootropics and caffeine in it.
10:52Cool. Now it's zoomed in to 1.2, so I'm just gonna zoom it back out to one. Gonna grab one oh, actually, I'm gonna get one of these.
11:03Then I might even go for a slight scene change. I want you to imagine each one of these being like a little tea bag, and the ingredients in that when they mix with saliva go around our mouth. And, yes, some will be absorbed through the mouth, but the rest of it, we're just gonna ingest.
11:16And it's just gonna go down our track like something else, whether it be pills, whether it be powders. The thing is most nootropics, here's congresin, our main active ingredient of the pouches, they need to be taken with a drink. So unless you've got a drink with you, you can't really do much, and taking a pill without something is probably gonna give you some kind of indigestion or at least some horrible burps.
11:35The pouches mean that all you need is to have saliva. And if you're well hydrated, that's not gonna be a problem. You're probably thinking why I'm making this video, but ultimately, this video is an educational piece where people may not have understood the true benefits of a pouch versus other mediums, and they could walk away from this ninety second video knowing everything.
11:55So if you want to be able to have a pick me up with productivity, with Nootropics, with caffeine, without needing a drink so it could live in your pram or under your armrest in your car, check these out. Head to newtonic.com.
12:05We have a five pack for 25 pounds. So one of these with 20 in it literally costs £5 each. If you don't like it, email me James at newtonic, and I will refund you in person.
12:14I mean, fuck. And the best part is you can get these from the website newtonic.com. It's £25 for five.
12:21So it's literally £5 a pack. There's 20 pouches per pack, which is a lot more than all of our competitors. If you don't love it, email me James@Nutonic.com, and I'll make it right.
12:29Cool. So then from there, the best thing I can give you as far as advice for this would be go to captions and the fact that you can generate caption, which is automated, I can't tell you the amount of headaches that it's gonna save you from.
12:45So you'll notice there are gaps here between it. Almost every time, it makes sense to just cut that or you can drag it closed. People on the Internet like to say that there's not enough re So you see here, just between the two of them, I just can either cut that and these little gaps will be breathing or I've pressed the button and I'm not sure it's recording yet.
13:03The first thing I can recommend is that you just cut those bits. You line it up. It looks like the captions have, you know, not been perfect on this one, but this is just an example.
13:12And that is a one minute reel that I've done off the cuff. I'm not gonna edit the whole thing because you guys will get bored. And then from there, I can actually save that for later and actually edit it and put it out later.
13:23My time to generate that was about two minutes. My edit time would have taken about a minute. I can now export that straight to Instagram.
13:31A lot of people on the Internet like to say, I know that Instagram are gonna reward me on that. And even if you were to say to me, Albert James, now is an optimal time to post. Well, if I go down here to more options, I can schedule the reel.
13:43So there are no excuses for you to not create pieces of content like this. Now for me, to get Declan, to bring him here, to set up the camera, to film, to give him the memory card for him to go to edit it and color grade it and upload it and then export it and then put it on Google Drive and send it back, we are not any longer in a position where we have the time or luxury to do that.
14:01If you have an idea, get it out. If you wanna say something, get it out. You wanna react to a piece of content, get it out.
14:06With the amount of options that we now have, all the barriers to creating content are gone. The short form game is changing, and the beautiful thing is you don't need more.
14:15You need less. Now there are gonna be some caveats. If you've got a podcast, don't film it on an iPhone because you will need to get those clips.
14:22I'll need to go up whatever. And for long form, I still think that it's a good idea to have a good type of filming setup like this so you can hear me well. But I can record this video and put it out in five days, and it's fine.
14:33But if you wanna react to something, if you've seen something online, if something's said on TV and you wanna react to it, that shouldn't take longer than fifteen to twenty minutes max. It's the world we're moving into. That'll be your short form content engine.
14:45Long form will be the same. I arrive to the gym or my studio or wherever you film. I give myself ten minutes to jot down some notes of things I wanna talk about.
14:52I hit record on the camera. I then get this. I export it.
14:55I send it to my editor. He then uploads it into YouTube. We create some packaging for it.
14:58It'll go out. That is a constant variable. I do not see that changing for a long time.
15:02But short form, this is a revolution. Yap content is gonna be the future.
15:07Film, add captions, chop the fat, export, upload. And, again, inside there, there's a download button. You wanna download that once you posted it to Instagram.
15:16Push it to LinkedIn. Push it to TikTok. Push it to fucking Twitter.
15:19Wherever you wanna put it. YouTube shorts. Get it out there.
15:21Do you know why they made trial reels? Because people are scared of losing followers. And maybe that's why I've not been posting as much short form recently.
15:29That could be it because I built an audience of doing fat loss videos that I no longer talk about fat loss. If I was to arrive at my business cold and give myself some advice, should I be putting out super engaging content on a really frequent basis, or shall I be doing nothing hoping that my follower count doesn't go down?
15:43If anything, getting from 1.4 to 1,300,000 could be the best thing that happens to my business and my brand. Trial reels are there for creators that are so petrified to lose followers from putting out something different that they created a whole new system for it.
15:54But it's time to yap. It's time to get out there in front of your camera. User generated content is king for a fucking $100,000,000 business like Lutonic, but also for you and your brand and your business.
16:03And as for Declan, he's been with me in this room for years. I've mentored him in business. And the lot of conversations we have offline, I know that he's going to eventually want to do his own thing.
16:13And this trip back to The UK, I used him less than ever. I needed him less than ever. I've seen the direction in which content is going, and I know that he wants to build his own thing.
16:23You've got about two or three years. If you do not get a grip on all of this social media content, brand, email marketing, landing pages offer. If you haven't got this nail down in three years, you could be fucked.
16:34So Declan knows it's , and if he wants to have his own mega brand, by the way, should follow him on YouTube, and you should definitely, uh, download his color grading course for all of your YouTube creators. He's aware that now is the time, and I'm aware that I actually should be doing more for my iPhone and using him less.
16:48So I just said to him, hey, bro. Do you wanna go do your own thing? He said, yeah.
16:52I'm happy for him. All the people that work for me should quit eventually to do their own thing. Because if I've hired people that just want a salary for twenty years, they may not be the perfect audience for the person I'm talking to on camera nor for the advice that I'm giving.
17:05And, also, if I'm a business coach, right, you should spend a couple months with me in a room and be so gassed to start your own thing. You should be quitting way quicker than that. Even my fiancee, Tay, I turned my back on her for a few months.
17:15She's got her own online business selling programs. I mean, how did that happen? She came to my events, listened to my advice.
17:19What can I say? If wanna work with me, there's gonna be a link in the description. But if you don't put out a piece of short form content every fucking day for the next three months, you are thick as shit, and you're a fucking idiot.
17:29Just like that guy with business cards and a fucking T shirt branded before he even fucking made videos for his own it's just stupid. You can tell it's annoying.
17:38The opportunity is there. If you don't take it, someone else will, and you'll be the one fucking crying about it in a couple years' time. Oh, but I'm a better coach than them, but they've just got more followers.
17:48Play the game, pussy. My channel also recommends you're gonna love this video here if you've enjoyed the absolute barrage of advice I just gave you then. So click on that if you're not gonna buy my shit.
17:57Bye bye.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
James Smith opens with a promise and a tease: a shift in short-form content he says he missed himself, and the reason his videographer just quit. His bet is that raw, iPhone-shot 'yap content' now beats studio polish — and he has the view-count screenshots and a live editing demo to back it up.
Named ideas worth stealing.
02:10model
The 1% funnel
- Audience awareness
- Warm contacts
- Offer exposure
- ~1% purchase
Only about 1% of an audience buys at any given point, so growing the top of the funnel (awareness) and warming the middle (contacts) is what produces more buyers, not any single post.
Steal forany content-to-sales funnel plan
06:54list
The three eras of short-form
- Manual captions (2018)
- Algorithmic 'TikTokification' (pandemic)
- Over-edited transition fatigue
- Raw 'yap' content (now)
Short-form content has moved through distinct production styles as audiences grew fatigued with each previous era, culminating in a current preference for unscripted, phone-shot video.
Steal fortiming a content strategy shift
How they asked for the click.
VERBAL ASK
17:32product
“If wanna work with me, there's gonna be a link in the description.”
Soft plug woven into a closing rant, backed by an embedded live product pitch for Newtonic mid-video and course links in the description.
MENTIONED ON CAMERA
FROM THE DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY CTAWhere the creator wants you to go next.
OTHER LINKSAlso linked in the description.
Visual structure at a glance.
