How Comic Andre Meadows Found His Groove with YouTube Assist
Megan O’Neill In addition to regularly scheduled content, including shows 'Black Nerd Rants' and 'Awkward Talks With Girls', Meadows has honed his YouTube skills with the help of YouTube itself. Meadows says that he began his YouTube channel for fun. He started out with a video that was simply an audition tape for a television show and began posting music video parodies and sketches here and there. The company offers a variety of programs for up-and-coming creators.
"A lot of people have fun with YouTube," explains Andre Meadows, creator of 'Black Nerd Comedy', "but there’s also a business side to it." In an interview with Beet.TV at SXSW, Meadows explains how his YouTube channel evolved from a hobby into a full time career. Meadows was a part of YouTube’s Next Vlogger program—a hand-on program that gave video bloggers equipment and training, and is also currently enrolled in a class at the new YouTube Space in Los Angeles. In the video, Meadows talks more about these programs as well as his experience as a YouTube creator. However, at the first VidCon online video convention he realized that people were actually making a living from creating YouTube videos and he decided to turn YouTube into a career.