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This agent sold an extra $10,000,000-$20,000,000 every year, for 3 years from YouTube with only 1,000 subscribers.

So how did he do it?

He started with no following, only a webcam, and without fancy videos.

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Can confirm this (55+ channels in total generating $1.5-2M/mth in income for agents). In real estate, podcasting, etc. we’ve seen the same thing.

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I’ll die on this hill.

The algorithm rewards consistency (per channel) across topic, messaging, format.

All the people preaching “be yourself” and posting 5 different topics are missing the point.

The new personal brand can cover 5 buckets, but if you want superior reach, it’s gotta be across 5 channels.

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The wealthiest people in the world are creating content now.

$30M Sales CEO. $300M Garage Door Company Founder. $1B+ Ventur Capitalists.

It's why OpenAI bought TBPN for a rumored 9-figures.

Business owners who understand how to own their attention & distribution will win.

We have agents who land $1M to $10M listings & buyers from content.

Agents who win in the next era will build local brands.

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The difference between a real estate agent and a real estate brand:

Agents promote listings. Brands build audiences.

Agents compete on commission. Brands compete on trust.

Agents buy leads. Brands earn attention.

Agents start over every January. Brands compound every year.

Which one are you building?

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@Delta this is insane. I was past security for 2 hours, checked my luggage, with my ticket, I check my app 15 minutes pre flight and my reservation was gone.

I was dropped from the flight. Zero message.

After having to spend $2000 to get here I’m having to spend $500 to get on the same flight I booked.

Now I’m at risk missing my little bothers wedding on top of it.

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The strangest thing about real estate:

The more successful agents get, the more they want to build something else.

Courses. An agency. A gym.

Yet the top ones I talk to doing $10M–$100M get really good at the boring thing and never stopped.

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The YouTube algorithm is proof that everything will be AI-recommended soon. Netflix. DoorDash. Etc.

Recommendation → Chat → Search.

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@hunterhammonds I’d love to test

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@Chris_Smth This is easily one of the best breakdowns of the numbers and scale.

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$10B Mega-Merger Reshapes Real Estate Industry (here are the numbers)

Compass acquired Anywhere, rolling Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Sotheby’s, ERA, Corcoran, and more under Compass and swelling the network to roughly 340,000 agents in 120 countries.

On announcement day, Anywhere stock jumped 50–60% while Compass fell 12–16%.

Wall Street likes the scale, worries about the bill.

Numbers that matter:

Agent share of the industry

340k agents vs 1.45M NAR members = 23% of all Realtors wearing a Compass-Anywhere jersey.

Sales capacity proxy

Anywhere supports around 1.2 M sides annually.

If you convert sides to homes (÷2), that’s 500-600k homes/year flowing through Anywhere’s network before layering Compass on top.

With U.S. existing sales hovering near 4 million annualized, Anywhere alone touches roughly 12–15% of closings, and Compass accounts for another 18% so not only do they have 1/4th of the agents, they have 1/3rd of the listings.

Volume dominance

Compass was already #1 with $231 billion in 2024 sales volume.

Anywhere ranked #2 at $184 billion.

Together, this is a two-headed giant by volume before any “synergy” lift.

Exclusives math (the quiet moat)

Estimates say 30% of Compass listings are Private Exclusives (not publicly advertised on the MLS).

If the merged firm lists 600k homes/year (illustrative: half of 1.2M sides are list-side), then even holding 25% exclusive at launch would mean 150k homes debut off-MLS/Zillow/Homes/Realtor.

With 1.1 million active listings nationally this summer, that’s roughly 14% of visible inventory temporarily inside one company’s walled garden.

Portal pressure test

Zillow’s Listing Access Standards (24-hour rule) were designed to blunt off-MLS momentum. Compass sued to block them.

If a combined Compass-Anywhere normalizes a 20–30% “private-first” cadence at scale, Zillow faces a true dilemma:

Hold firm and risk showing fewer homes, or loosen standards and lose leverage.

Where consumers might go

Zillow still dominates traffic with 227 million avg. monthly unique visitors, but Homes has surged to 110M uniques, with Realtor at 62M and Redfin with 44–50M.

Fragmentation gets real if big chunks of inventory sit outside MLS feeds.

Bottom line

Two years from now, we may look back at this deal as the moment the balance of power shifted from portals back to brokers, from MLSs back to private networks.

In the interim, expect intense competition (and likely more litigation) as Zillow, CoStar, and Compass all jockey for the upper hand.

For now, Compass and Anywhere are betting that bigger is better.

Few moves in recent memory have had such potential to upend industry norms.

Compass’s takeover of Anywhere could finally be the story that “changes everything,” and the hard math behind it shows why:

Control the listings, and you control the game.

Sources: Compass Press Release; ResiClub Analytics; HousingWire; Real Estate News; AP News; NASDAQ; Homes/CoStar data

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I will die on this hill.

After analyzing 1272 YouTube high-performing outlier videos this year (and posting hundreds) across 150+ channels, longer videos perform better.

YouTube is the new TV.

It's the only FREE streaming platform on every single TV now.

Most channels have over 60% viewers watching YouTube on TV.

So the viewer behavior is used to 30, 60 minute and 1-3 hour long videos.

We saw this well over 1.5 year ago, but many didn't believe me.

Here's the stats from the 1272 videos:

- Range: From 2:55 to 1:54:05
- Median length: 17 minutes 26 seconds
- 68.3% of videos fall between 10-30 minutes

We're seeing 8 minutes being a great minimum bar. 10-30 minutes being the new standard. And when you have great content or can create visual variety (like tours) then 30-60 minutes can stand out. The competition for longer videos is low.

Low supply. High demand.

YouTube rewards time on platform.

Aim for 15-25 minutes as the primary content length
The simple bottom line answer is that longer (better) videos will get rewarded more on YouTube now.

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After 10 months building an AI agent (failed multiple times & spent thousands) & spending hundreds a month on AI tools, I learned something painful:

AI content is being completely oversold.

Everyone's racing to post more with AI.

The real winners are those who share what only they can say.

Our best performing videos aren't AI-generated "Pros and Cons of Living in Tampa."

They're agents actually walking the neighborhood. Showing where they eat. Explaining why they love living there. Real stories from real people.

AI can write "Top 10 Tampa Neighborhoods."

Only you can say "Here's why I love living here, and what surprised me."

This is finding your "market of zero." Where you have zero competition because no one else has your story.

The truth:

If AI can write it, it's probably not worth posting.

Different beats more.

New beats recycled.

Experience beats information.

That's the lesson from posting over 150 YouTube videos a month, which will generate over $11M in total GCI this year.

[Andrew Bayon 🧱 @AndrewBayon]

I will die on this hill.

After analyzing 1272 YouTube high-performing outlier videos this year (and posting hundreds) across 150+ channels, longer videos perform better.

YouTube is the new TV.

It's the only FREE streaming platform on every single TV now.

Most channels have over 60% viewers watching YouTube on TV.

So the viewer behavior is used to 30, 60 minute and 1-3 hour long videos.

We saw this well over 1.5 year ago, but many didn't believe me.

Here's the stats from the 1272 videos:

- Range: From 2:55 to 1:54:05
- Median length: 17 minutes 26 seconds
- 68.3% of videos fall between 10-30 minutes

We're seeing 8 minutes being a great minimum bar. 10-30 minutes being the new standard. And when you have great content or can create visual variety (like tours) then 30-60 minutes can stand out. The competition for longer videos is low.

Low supply. High demand.

YouTube rewards time on platform.

Aim for 15-25 minutes as the primary content length

The simple bottom line answer is that longer (better) videos will get rewarded more on YouTube now.