I Regret Starting My YouTube Channel Like This (Watch Before It's Too Late)

26 Feb 2026 · 29 min
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Matt Parr built a YouTube empire as a teenager chasing ad revenue, then watched it collapse during the ad-pocalypse. He now treats YouTube as a marketing funnel, not a money printer: one long-form video per niche that sells courses and digital products instead of relying on CPM ads.

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