TL;DR Please fill in this form! (<2mins)
At 80,000 Hours, we’re trying to reach more people with our content.
One way we’ve tried doing this is by partnering with YouTube creators and getting them to talk a bit about us on their channel. You can see examples of this here, here and here.
The main question we have when doing this is ‘which YouTube creators should we partner with?’
An important consideration when answering that question is how similar their audience is to our target audience — are they likely to be the kinds of people who find 80,000 Hours’ content useful, or not?
If a YouTube creator is being watched by people who we know are in 80,000 Hours’ target audience, then that’s a pretty good indicator that their audience in general is likely to be a good fit. If you’re reading this, you’re most likely in 80,000 Hours’ target audience.
So: what YouTube creators do you watch? Whose content do you especially like, or think is very high quality?
Fill in this form to let us know!
Don’t try to filter in advance for something like ‘does 80,000 Hours want to work with this creator’ — it’d be most useful if you just tell me who you in fact watch, the more regularly the better. Thank you!
(The form also asks about other media you’re into, like podcasts you listen to, or email newsletters you receive. Info on that would be helpful too, but I’m primarily interested in YouTube right now!)
I think this could also be a forum question and you might get more uptake.
I guess you can easily collect answers to multiple questions through a form. You can also see correlations e.g. if people watch a certain YT channel are they also more likely to listen to a certain podcast. Plus upvotes on Forum can be strong/weak which you may not want and people may simply upvote existing options rather than adding new ones, biasing what was put up early.