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 filled out the form. It was mildly annoying to write down the channels/newsletters I regularly watched/read, since the text cursor would return to the beginning of the textbox if I went to a new tab. It's a minor problem, though. I believe this has to do with the fact that the form has "Short answer" questions, rather than the "Paragraph" question. I suggest having the latter next time, since it mean that the annoying behavior above does not occur. Also, it means that I can separate the names using line breaks, rather than using commas and spaces (which is what I did).
Thank you for the feedback - sorry you had a slightly frustrating experience!