Soner Abay

co-founder, head of ai, @VidRushAI

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@jeoste_ @marclou I would love to join as well 👋

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@Dykros Amazing!

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@n0buddyn0se dm me

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Now you you can create up to 40 minutes videos with a single prompt!

We just closed a $1.2M pre-seed round!! We’ve launched privately, and VidRush videos have already generated 200M+ views on YouTube.

https://t.co/ep72U6uTaQ

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Isn't the pricing supposed to go lower or at least stay the same? You take away 2.0 models and the replacement is 4x more expensive than 2.5 flash lite? If it goes like this everyone will go for open source models as output quality got really competitive already.

You should compare it with Mini Max M2.5 at this pricing.

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@saman_9848 @VidrushAI @noahmorris dm me please

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@Olcay_Mercan777 @Adam_DelDuca dm me

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@Murad_ampar Please dm me

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@XchrizB Only on Vidrush

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I think imperfection is what makes human-generated content feel authentic.

The same goes for voices and images, when everything is too perfect or over-polished, it starts to feel inauthentic.

At VidRush, we've designed voices that don’t sound like studio recordings, but more human, with varying pacing and emotions.

We also created topic-specific voices where we emphasize changes in certain categories of words that would suit your content the best.

Working closely with @elevenlabs, we’ll be building more of these soon.

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@AntonToniti Please dm me

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@HilalKemerr bana dm atabilirsin

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Little side note, we named these voices after our most active users in the community :)

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@Adslots_io @noahmorris please dm me

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@emrelerd @HuggingModels @noahmorris It seems a bit more conversational style than narration.

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@EnricPedro @noahmorris congrats 🔥

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I can finally share my YouTube AdSense revenue from December. Bag secured.

Best month ever. Around 90% profitability thanks to Vidrush channels (kudos to @noahmorris, @sonerabay & co).

Some advice for those interested:

- Many people think it is the tool. It is not. Vidrush speeds up production, but if your mindset is “I will copy this Vidrush channel that is doing well”, you will NOT succeed. You might get a few outliers, but long-term profitability is unlikely.

- Any niche can be reframed. My best performing channel is in a niche that has been done thousands of times. The difference is the angle.
And yes... that angle is now being copied and reshared by people who cannot even come up with their own.
The key is NOT the niche. It is how YOU frame it to make it feel fresh to an audience that has already seen this type of content hundreds of times.

- Call it niche transfer, angle hacking, whatever you want. The point is the same. What generates this revenue is not Vidrush. It is the skill of presenting existing information in a better and different way. Vidrush allows me for faster testing and WAY faster scaling once I see outliers, plus I do not need to manage multiple editors (higher profitability + time, which is the biggest asset).

- This was Q4, so RPMs were unusually high. January is already looking closer to half of December.

- Thumbnails and titles matter a lot. Get inspired by outliers, but do NOT copy them. I see my best performing niche now flooded with copycats. If your strategy is to imitate other channels, you will lose. Hundreds of others have access to the same tools you do. Focus on what actually makes your content different and unique.

- Do not bother with proxies, anti-detect browsers, or aged accounts unless you are running risky channels. And even then, what is the point of hitting $30k months if that money never reaches your bank account? Is that really a long-term business strategy?

- Final advice. If you see a niche being shared on X, Discord, or Telegram, do not bother. You are already late. Learn to create your own angles instead.
Tools will be copied. Angles will be stolen. The only real moat is your ability to think and execute better.

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@SageSignal I am not against AI avatars. I am against impersonation.

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Most of these AI Avatar videos feel just wrong. Old people do not even realize these people are not real.

I know it sounds a bit ironic as we do automated generations but at least the process is closer to real human teams(at least we are trying).

We need to accept that AI is here and not going anywhere but it shouldn't mean we should do a speed run towards AI slops.

Responsible AI matters.
Fact-checking matters.

We could implement this in a couple of days within VidRush. But we shouldn't. Time will show.

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@666YTA If that AI avatar doesn't claim to be a real person its better.

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@prithvireddy_dr @VidrushAI I will dm you

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@Dykros We should let users bring their own raw content and end up with polished videos. This will go along with improving regular vidrush editing and pacing.