Q1 2024 Report
Introduction
Hello everyone! This is Loyd Osborne, Founder and CEO of ScytedTV Studios. I’m here to give the first quarterly report of 2024, also happening to be the first one we’ve ever done. I’ll be covering everything from before 2024 up until now. But first, let’s start with a little bit about me and my goals for ScytedTV.
ScytedTV has been around since August 16th, 2022. I’ll be honest, we’ve done a lot, but not as much as I wish we did in the last 2 and half years. After all, I am a full-time high school student graduating this June, so I have to work with the extra time I have. After High School, my plan is to focus more on the studio and get a part-time job to start covering for the expenses of some of our shows.
My goal is to have released a new season or the first season of 2-4 more ScytedTV Original shows, including my upcoming show “Clever Remarks” by the end of 2024, leading into 2025. This will definitely be a challenge with our limited team members, but it won’t stop us from trying!
Appreciation
Ever since the beginning, we have functioned purely on a volunteer basis, and we honestly couldn’t do it without everyone who has helped. With that, I would personally like to thank ALL of the following people (this is going to be a long list). Here it is the list in alphabetical order:
AdmiralTrina, Aja Pryor, Annabelle McIlwain, Bea Cifra, Camille Castermant, Chea Kwang-ho, Cheyenne Daisey, Christian Shooks, Cody Brown, Connor Tompkins, Corey, Dominic Evans, Dylan Smith, Emmalee Phair, Erin, Hadrian Haslam, Hollie Malcolm, Jela Francis, Jeremy Pfeiffer, Jonathon Reed, Joseph Robertson, Kamalarajah Punitharajah, Katie Stepp, Katie Goodfellow, Landon, Leah, Leevi Gunnels, Lily Robertson, Mansell Haslam, Milo, Nia Louise, Niall Daly, Olivia Alvarez, Persephone Quill, Quinn, Rebecca Goulty, Rose O’sullivan, Rozhina Tajmirriahi, Yaman Ahmad, Zay Wilson.
And I’m sure there are more, but I honestly can’t find them all. So thank you all for everything you’ve done to help ScytedTV, I appreciate it more than you know. If I’m missing anyone, PLEASE let me know so I can update it, because I want to make sure everyone is listed.
2022:
The EEF Project
During 2022, we released our very first special titled “10 Years of CrankGameplays” in appreciation of Ethan Nestor (formerly CrankGameplays) and his work over the last 10 (now almost 12) years on YouTube. This video has amassed 1,214 views since it was released, with him also watching it live to thousands of viewers on his 10 year anniversary stream (around 1:30:00). Later that same day, he released his video ALSO titled “10 Years of CrankGameplays”, which we were not expecting to have the same name.
In October of 2022 on his birthday, we created another short happy birthday video for him titled “It’s His Birthday”, which has gotten 132 views since it was released.
2023:
YouTube Gameshow
In February of 2023, we released our very first original series titled “YouTube Gameshow”, which has now been archived from the main ScytedTV Studios channel. This was originally released on the host’s YouTube channel, but is no longer available. You can also watch the show on its show page here: scyted.tv/show/youtube-gameshow
Inside Mind
Skipping ahead to June 3rd of 2023, I released the first ever episode of my podcast, “Inside Mind”. The first season only lasted 3 episodes, featuring Jonathon Reed in episode one, Bea Cifra in episode two, and Emmalee Phair in episode three. We do plan to produce another season of the show at some point, but we don’t have a timeline of when that is going to happen.
Streaming Service
Also during 2023, we tested out the concept of a streaming service in August, featuring content that not only we created, but also content from other small studios. This only lasted until November 18th, when it shut down for good due to a lack of funds and content to publish to the platform. About a month and a half after the shutdown of the streaming service, we released the website you are currently reading this on.
A New Era
In September, I started realizing that I couldn’t do this alone, so I started looking for new team members on Casting Call Club. Eventually, I met Jeremy who premiered his show “Ink & Ideals” to ScytedTV in October, and he brought in Landon who premiered his sketch-comedy series, “Landor’s Shorts” in late November (which has now also been archived).
During this time, I started developing departements within ScytedTV: Production (ran by Camille Castermant), Creative (ran by Cody Brown), Content (ran by Jeremy Pfeiffer), Talent, and Community (both ran by me at the time). Our goal with creating these departements was to have dedicated teams of people who focused on different elements of our productions, basically passing our shows from departement to departement depending on what stage of production the show was in.
After some time of using that system, we noticed that there were some issues with that original concept, because it’s not that easy to just pass it on to a different team of people. Instead, we opted for a per-show team where we would have a team of people for each show that would all work together on the show, rather than it being passed between departements. This helped us streamline our processes, because we didn’t have to worry about all of the extra communication between departements to pass things around since everyone was on the same team.
This Quarter:
That brings us to 2024, where we are now actively producting 5 shows: ScytedTV News and Ink & Ideals (produced by Jeremy), and Clever Remarks and Milo’s Life (Produced by me and Camille), and a 5th show with a currently-undecided name, produced by Christian Shooks. We do have a 6th show in pre-production, but we’re not far enough along yet to announce any details.
Shows such as Ink & Ideals and ScytedTV News are released whenever new episodes are ready. Milo’s Life is released weekly on Friday’s at 4pm PST / 7pm EST, and Clever Remarks will begin releasing regular episodes every other week at some point in 2024, with behind the scenes videos every other other week.
“Quality over Quantity”
During this quarter, I started enforcing the policy of “Quality over Quantity”. I realized that we were pushing too much for regular uploads to our channels, causing for some uploads that weren’t high quality, or were heavily rushed. Instead, I shifted the focus to creating a smaller roster of high-quality and long-term shows that wouldn’t release until they were completed. We wouldn’t rush these shows to release, they would be scheduled when they were finished; an example being Clever Remarks, which won’t get a release date until we have completed post-production.
Dedicated Channels
Another change I made was the switch to dedicated show channels on YouTube. Majority of our shows (mostly long-term shows) have their own dedicated YouTube channels that they post to, although it is up to the producer of the show of whether they want to post their shows to the main channel or a dedicated channel. If they choose not to upload the show itself to the channel, it is used as a shorts channel.
My theory is that high-quality shows will thrive better in the algorithm on dedicated channels where the algorithm is meant just for their specific show. For Example Milo’s Life and Ink & Ideals used to both be on the main channel, which caused both of the shows to have less views because they were competing with each other. Now that we’ve moved Milo’s Life to its own dedicated channel, it has been getting many more views, which I personally don’t think that is just a coincidence.
Brand Refresh
We have done a complete brand refresh for ScytedTV that introduces a new look for our studio. For more details on this change, check out our blog post on it: “New & Improved”
The Future:
Over this next quarter, our plan is to double down on our production efforts to ensure we can produce quality content for you. My main goal is to have Clever Remarks’ post-production almost complete to start releasing Clever Remarks in mid to late 2024.
Checklist of items to include: (still need things to add to this section)