Brent

@goelks Videographer | Former Dinos Student-Athlete & Videographer

[Brent @lemonspread]

Some 🍋 for Combine and Draft season 👀

[Edmonton Elks @GoElks]

The MOST exclusive look to date.
Get a look behind the scenes of the 2026 CFL Combine in the newest Elks Original Series 'Inside Run'.

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[Brent @lemonspread]

Mission accomplished & exceeded 🫡

Between the two preseason game highlights we’ve totalled 46,000 views

[Brent @lemonspread]

Third season in a row we’ve done preseason game highlights and we’ve seen significant growth each year.

I was expecting we’d see 35-40,000 views between the two games, but I have a feeling we’ll be surpassing 40k based on the first game

[Brent @lemonspread]

Had to drop a banger for the first game trailer of the year

[Edmonton Elks @GoElks]

Preseason finale. Time to set the tone.

#GoElks | https://t.co/HDyzPCH55u

[Brent @lemonspread]

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[Edmonton Elks @GoElks]

Friday plans? Already made. See you at kickoff.

#GoElks

[Brent @lemonspread]

@GreyCupBound You’d have to look at other platforms and content to get a better idea.

The demographics of highlight packs on YouTube have heavily shifted in the last two years.

It use to skew heavily to younger people watching on their phones. Now it’s heavily 45+ watching on their TV

[Brent @lemonspread]

Third season in a row we’ve done preseason game highlights and we’ve seen significant growth each year.

I was expecting we’d see 35-40,000 views between the two games, but I have a feeling we’ll be surpassing 40k based on the first game

[Brent @lemonspread]

Even better is who’s watching it.

50.2% are new viewers who watched for the first time.

65.6% of views are from Canada.

[Brent @lemonspread]

The most interesting metric is where the views are coming from.

I expected a significant percentage to come from YouTube and external searches, but that amounted to only 9.4%

80.3% came from browse features. Aka subscription feed and home page feed.

[Brent @lemonspread]

I don’t understand the point of TD MyInsurance online when I always have to call to put a car on parked car insurance

[Brent @lemonspread]

The OL group has been calling Domenico Piazza “Pizza” so far this camp and I find that hilarious.

Top camp nick name

[Brent @lemonspread]

A little work done in Fusion

[Edmonton Elks @GoElks]

Birds Eye View 👀

#GoElks

[Brent @lemonspread]

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[Edmonton Elks @GoElks]

Camp energy on full display🏕️

#GoElks

[Brent @lemonspread]

Can we go back to having boring politics again? That was way better than having democracy sabotaged

[Brent @lemonspread]

How convenient that the UCP ignores the petition to stay in Canada, but pays attention to the separatist petitions AND passes laws that prevent you from removing your name from said separatist petition.

The UCP is doing some absolutely alarming things

[Elections Alberta @ElectionsAB]

NEWS RELEASE – Message to Albertans re: Unauthorized Use of List of Electors.

Read more: https://t.co/eJZABTBQiO

[Brent @lemonspread]

Drie Nederlander in het CFL?

Love it

[Ottawa REDBLACKS @REDBLACKS]

GLOBAL PUNTER TO OTT‼️

we've selected 🇳🇱 P Paul Geelen from Southern Illinois University.

#CFLDraft

[Chad Morehead @_Chad_Morehead_]

Since I have helped set the smsports community ablaze tonight I will add this.

To the department heads who are dealing with exec staffs and ADs who are going to look at Chat 2.0 and start asking questions like how quickly can we downsize, it is your job to advocate for your departments and educate the powers at be on what this actually is, powerful tools that if used properly can help your departments become more efficient.

It is also your job to remind them that AI can’t go sit on a baseline or sideline and capture content or mic up a player. It can’t go to an OV and make a connection with a family or athlete, and cant cover an event. It also can’t understand what a coach means when they say something like “just add that thing you did four graphics ago that I told you I liked.” And I’d love to see how it interprets “it just doesn’t pop enough for me.”

The fact is creatives are just as important to their athletic departments today as they were yesterday and if you oversee a department, like I do, it is your responsibility to everyone who reports to you to make sure that message is heard and understood.

[Brent @lemonspread]

Now we can freely edit like our entire library of footage is local.

The long waits to transfer footage from the server to our stations is eliminated.

Drag and drop whatever into our projects and we can just go.

[Brent @lemonspread]

We made a monumental upgrade to our workflow in the past month.

We were wasting so much time transferring footage over a 1gb connection. We had been looking at upgrading to 10gb, but ran into road blocks with our exiting infrastructure.

[Brent @lemonspread]

Upgrading our networking would have been $80k for a whole new core network switch.

So instead, I worked with our IT Manager to repurpose a server that wasn’t being used and got budget for some 10gb NICs.

[Brent @lemonspread]

WE ARE ALL DINOS 🦖🦖🦖🦖

[Cami Kepke @CamiKepke]

Alex Singleton declaring himself an honourary Dino ✅

U Calgary announcing the next phase of a new year-round stadium on campus ✅

So many ball jokes (but actually, fellas, check yourselves) ✅

Had a blast emceeing the @UCDinos 5Q Dinner!