Drew Stone used his existing 90,000 Facebook followers to launch New York Hardcore Chronicles Live during lockdown, streaming weekly across YouTube and Facebook using StreamYard at $24.95 a month. He built the show to grow and monetize his audience across three platforms simultaneously.
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My Facebook page, the New York Hardcore Chronicles page, has 90,000 people on it. So I did his show and that got me thinking. I didn't set out to be a podcast host or a video host. You know, I did go to college for acting. That didn't last long. I got, I got into music, you know, and away I went. But, you know, the pandemic was just starting at that moment. I knew I was going to be locked in for a while, and I thought, you know what, let me start a show. I'll call it the New York Hardcore Chronicles Live. And I put it on the platform, the platform that, that he, that he turned me on to. It's a platform called StreamYard. StreamYard is a platform similar to Zoom, but you, you, you pay a couple bucks. I think, I think if I remember correctly, Um, you know, there's different tiers, but I pay, I think, $24.95 a month, and it streams— StreamYard puts it out onto 3 platforms. The 3 platforms that I chose to put my show out onto was, um, YouTube, Facebook, and, and I, I, I, I was going to do LinkedIn, but I real— but instead I also stream it out onto my Facebook personal page as well. I chose to go that way.