I did say: "Where the kids go, the parents follow. " And where do kids go? Video. What hasn't and doesn't work well today with miles & points coverage -- and that has been the video stuff -- can be a different story tomorrow.

Yes, for video especially, charisma matters. Selling hot-air with charisma? It's been done before too. With regard to the talk about the profitability of companies on the internet providing content "for free", at the time and for years after it didn't work out profitably for many such companies. A lot went bust. And even for those that got listed or otherwise got into the big bucks at the time from VC/PE/private offer-funding, the "internet bubble" went "pop" on a bunch of investors too.

While things that haven't worked well before or don't work well now may well work out better tomorrow under different circumstances, timing/sequencing matters to get good returns on investment. Is the time right now for video in this space? Time will tell. As I understand it, that Kara and Nate travel stuff doesn't have as its focus the miles and points stuff; instead their focus is on their trips and not on extracting value out of miles and points.

The problem with rando YouTube videos is that it�s not easy to quickly skim through things. With a blog you can do a quick scroll and make a decision as to whether you want to read it closely or just skim through and look at pictures. Much more difficult to do that with YouTube.

YouTube videos are very easy to skim through using the control bar at the bottom plus screen preview. The best YouTubers even provide time markers between the video sections to make it easier to skip around. So I always start by skipping ahead to the boarding video then focus on the layout of the cabin and seats. Then I skip ahead past the ridiculously long take-off videos to the drinks and meal service. Just as fast as scrolling through OMMAT's Infinite Photos (OIPs). And with the videos I can see the whole cabin and pause on things I want to look at more closely - such as seats that Ben did not sit in or different angles of the middle seats (which my wife and I prefer but Ben eschews). With OIPs I only see what the photos show.

YouTube also often has several videos featuring the same cabin and service, so I can get a crowd-sourced view of them.

To me, blogs are the Facebook of cabin reviews. Quaint and sometimes helpful, but NOT my go-to anymore.

I can't stand YouTube flight reviews. Most of them are 15 minutes of cringeworthy video of some schmuck with overly dramatized reactions to everything they see. Nontop Dan, I mean, Nonstop Dan is a prime example.

I hate to give them credit, but if you really want up-to-date reviews, TPG's not bad so long as you just quickly gloss over the images and pay no attention to any of the text or CapitalOne affiliate links.

Again, don't be shy about skipping around in videos past the fluff to the meat and you get a very satisfying experience. A skill I perfected on Youporn!

social media = easy monetization

sad that people do not understand most video content is solely to generate revenue, and the posters are not trying to be accurate including regarding their opinions/beliefs/etc. the algorithms are a related problem where posters are designing content solely to be autoplayed advantageously.

there is an element of truth to the good old days of internet when it was 'insiders only' and there was limited monetization

kokonutz, hilarious comment, but its very easy to skip around where you are looking for something in video, whether you can skip in real time or not. i was surprised how well i was able to do with a movie ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantium_(film)) that i had seen before, where i could not see the video while skipping. (on demand at hotels is nice.) anyway, when the video content is monologue for details, can either be impossible or difficult.

frankly, i've moved along an evolution where i have abandoned television, then movies, then watching stuff on internet for information, then listening to stuff on internet for information. if i can't read it, i'm very unlikely to try parsing a video, and can't imagine many situations where i am going to invest much time in watching/listening to 'content'

Raffles, lots of people blow a lot of money even when they do not have much income. the US is unique in just how much people spend, and is insane in terms of the credit that is available. IIRC the last time i looked at government breakdowns by income/spend, the bottom 20% by income had negative income (no idea what that means) and spent around $20,000 per year, average, for that bottom 20%.

some very wealthy people do not spend much money on anything, sometimes that is why they are very wealthy. and obviously wealth and income are different (stock wealth)

In what way could they be helpful to you?

For example, a blogger might explain why certain business class seats might be preferable despite not seeming so at first glance. Eg, my wife and I will choose window and aisle seats on certain airlines for day flights vs. center-cabin seats. Although they are not both aisle-access, on many airlines the center seats have different pace of service and we prefer to eat at the same time so the window/aisle seats are preferable to us.

That's far more likely to be explained in a blog than in a video - and if it's in a video there's a good chance I've skipped past that explanation.

I'm no fan of Dan's content, but gay jokes are pretty inappropriate.