**The Evolution of DIY Videos: A Year in Review**

This year has seen a significant growth in our DIY video production, with a vast majority of views coming from our "How to" tutorials. We've had an impressive top viewed video vault for this year, showcasing a diverse range of projects that cater to various skill levels and interests. Our most viewed video of the year was "How to Install a Microwave," followed closely by "How to Hang a Microwave Over Your Stove." These videos demonstrate our expertise in providing practical and informative content for DIY enthusiasts.

We've also had great success with other videos, such as "How to Wire a Single Pole Light Switch" and "How to Install Fold Stone Panels on the Wall." The latter video was particularly well-received, showcasing a unique and cost-effective way to achieve a feature wall look without breaking the bank. Our viewers have been eager to learn new skills, and we've responded by creating more comprehensive tutorials that cater to their needs.

**Lessons Learned from Last Year**

Last year was an excellent success for us, with a solid foundation established for our DIY video production. We had a good number of videos released, each one receiving significant views and engagement. However, we learned some valuable lessons from the experience. One key takeaway was the importance of adapting to changing trends and audience preferences. We noticed that there was a growing interest in tool-based tutorials, which became a major focus for us in 2017.

We also realized that our initial approach might have been too broad, covering a wide range of topics without sufficient depth or detail. As a result, we made a conscious effort to refine our content and provide more in-depth tutorials that cater specifically to the needs of our audience. This shift towards more specialized content has enabled us to connect better with our viewers and establish ourselves as a go-to resource for DIY enthusiasts.

**Equipment Issues and Technical Difficulties**

Despite the many successes we've had, 2017 was also marked by some technical difficulties that affected our video production. At the end of the year, we encountered equipment issues that resulted in lower-quality videos than usual. This led to a noticeable delay in releasing our final video of the year, which we eventually released as a shorter three-minute tutorial on "How to Change a Fluorescent Fixture to an LED Fixture."

We've since addressed these technical difficulties and corrected many of the affected videos. Our team has worked tirelessly to resolve the issue and improve our equipment, ensuring that all future videos meet the high standards our audience deserves.

**Looking Ahead to 2018**

As we look ahead to 2018, we're excited to share some of the exciting projects we have in the pipeline. We've already shot a batch of new videos that will be released throughout the year, including several tool-based tutorials and more comprehensive DIY projects. Our goal is to continue providing high-quality content that meets the evolving needs of our audience.

We also appreciate the feedback and suggestions from our viewers, who have been instrumental in shaping our content. We encourage everyone to share their ideas for future videos, which will be carefully considered before production begins. With a renewed focus on quality and innovation, we're confident that 2018 will be an even more successful year for us.

**A Message from the Creator**

I'd like to extend my gratitude to all our viewers who have supported us throughout this journey. We're committed to providing you with informative, engaging, and entertaining content that inspires creativity and confidence in your DIY endeavors. I'm proud of what we've achieved so far, and I look forward to seeing what the future holds for us.

As we move into 2018, we'll be releasing new videos on a regular basis, each one carefully crafted to meet the diverse needs of our audience. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work through any remaining technical issues, and we're eager to get back to producing content that exceeds your expectations.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi I'm Shannon from host improvements comm and we're at that point in time of the year again where we're gonna do our quick review for 2017 we'll just have a little bit of a look back at some of the things that we accomplished and did and you guys watched and then near the end of the video I'm gonna have a look forward at 2018 and we'll talk a little bit about what you might see coming up so first off I just want to thank everybody all our subs and anybody else who's been watching liking subscribing and commenting on all the videos and content that we've put out in the last well since 2010 we've been going on so you know we've got seven years pretty much in the books right now and I think we've progressed at a pretty good pace hopefully keeping everybody interested enough to keep tuning in so I just want to thank you all secondly I just want to touch on our patreon we you know have a lot of faithful supporters on our patreon if you don't know what the patreon is you can check out the link in the description below and and have a look there it's it's basically kind of like a little tip jar for us people who produce content and put it on YouTube here so that you supporters can go in and help us out a little bit financially if you want to so so what's a tip jar for me with patreon like I said I just want to touch on a few few things we generally have been trying to give out a shout out to our top contributors for the year or really for lifetime is what it is so these guys they've not only been on there for a fair amount of time supporting us every month but they've also built up a nice amount of support for us and we greatly appreciate it so on that list this year we've got Brice Warren Anton Bruce Peter and John so those individuals there they've really stepped up to the plate and we very much appreciate your help as far as longtime supporters these the guys going guys and and maybe even women at some point right now it's all guys on the list but these are the guys right back to the beginning they've been there most of them pretty much from day one sort of things so so on the longtime supporters of patreon for us we've got Ian Jordan Eric Michael and Kirk so all those guys have been there for quite a while the may not be our top contributors I don't think any of those names cross over but they're there in whatever capacity they're able to do for us and we appreciate them just as much and everybody else in between at some point hopefully we'll get your name on these lists but there's just we've got quite a few supporters there and it's it's hard to get everybody in there so but eventually you might see your names okay so let's see what's our next point Oh something that we were quite proud of actually this year as far as our subscribers we passed the 300,000 a subscriber mark so I think right now basically at the end of 2017 we're sitting at three hundred and twenty two thousand subscribers so you know we we just love it when people would click that subscribe button and just keeps that number going up and up and you know if you know anybody who DIYs or does any of the stuff that we typically show here pass us along to them and hopefully they'll subscribe as well and we'll get that number even higher for next year at three hundred twenty two thousand not that's actually a jump of 86 thousand subscribers in 2017 so that's a that's a significant number for little old house improvements we're we're getting bigger every year so that's great something else we've seen is a fair amount of growth on the forum and just general busyness over the whole you know website and forum and YouTube and everything in 2017 for those of you that have never used our forum or never even checked it out maybe we'll include a link to that as well in the description and if you want to just go down there and go over and check it oh that's that's the best place you know if you're watching one of my videos and you have a question about one of your projects or you know just something that I did in the video it's way better off to go to the forum and ask that question there because I will directly get back to you or one of we've got a few guys there now hanging out in the forum that are really helpful in all aspects too so if I don't directly get back to you with an answer one of them those guys will and it's just the best place for for questions like that because we can give you a direct answer we can converse back and forth a little bit better than just placing your question in the comments the comments we're getting so many now it's really hard to keep up with that so if you if you're putting a question in the comments chances are I'm probably not gonna see it and likely not respond to it either so like I said put your questions in the in the forum and as far as the comments go you know all the great vibes you can give us all the likes that sort of stuff that's that's a great place for the comments so and always click like the little like icon on the videos as well if you've liked what we've produced there so that helps us so we got that out of the way what was my next point this is where I'm going to do a little bit of a year in review as far as videos so we uploaded 28 videos this year that's down a little bit from last year but what we're trying to do is stay on a on just a nice pace you know we're not over burdening you with a whole bunch of stuff but you can come to expect that our videos are coming out on a regular pace we've been switching the days that we release around a little bit throughout the year trying to find just the right fit right now I think we're on Saturdays and hopefully we can find that right day that works where we can get the most people's attention so but Saturday's right now is when you'll see our our releases every two to three weeks so videos we received 20 million views this year so that's that's a hundred and thirty seven million minutes of our videos watched one hundred and thirty-four thousand likes 7,500 comments so 20 million views that's that's a good number of views for what did I say 28 videos so now that I guess our 28 videos was just start what we release this year we've got over what do we have 200 and that's a good question I think we have about two hundred and thirty videos two hundred and forty s videos so all those twenty million views would be spread out over top all over all those videos and all those numbers are pretty good increases from 2016 so top video this year now this is the one that got the most views was watched watched the most it was actually a video we shot probably I'm gonna guess that it was two years ago and that was how to cut a circle out of a floor tile not a video I ever expected that would get the amount of views that it's getting but I'm not gonna not gonna bash it at all it got 5.5 million views all on its own just this year that one video why I don't know I guess there's a lot more people that need to cut a hole in a tile than I ever thought but anyways that's our top viewed video vault of all time for this year the most viewed video that we produced this year there was a they're fairly close the top two or three so I'm gonna list them so how to install a microwave lets the hanging microwave over your stove rearrange that one was had our top views for videos that was produced this year how to wire a single pole light switch that one had lots of views as well how to wire switched receptacle again just posted this year but had some of the top amount of views and then we had the video showing how to install the fold stone panels on the wall was kind of a feature wall it was a nice little video and I think it turned out really well in the end you know the overall look of the stone and it's a less expensive option as opposed to using real stone and it still looks pretty good so so if you haven't seen it check that out so last year like I said 2017 was good we had great numbers we had you know a few less videos but I think the quality was there we did we went a little different this this past year we had a lot more how to use tool type videos and it's maybe where we should have started way back in the beginning show you guys how to use the tools before you show the projects that you can use them in but anyways we we did a lot of those there's going to be a few more coming up this year and that kind of gets us to what I want to talk about in 2018 so we've already planned quite a few videos I think we've got I think we've got about five or six sitting in the queue ready to ready to be released we had a little bit of a problem at the end of 2017 with some equipment issues the video quality turned out not to be perfect on the last six videos or so that we shot of the year while at the end of the year they want weren't all released last year we released one you probably have seen it it was about three or four minutes and it was a video showing how to change a fluorescent fixture to an LED fixture by simply changing the ball boat a pretty short video a pretty common project though that I think a lot of people are doing converting you know grad jizz maybe your office space or whatever over to LED but we did have and I know you notice that we did have a little bit of technical difficulty with the with the video quality so like I said we had shot a bunch of videos that in that same time span we've been looking at all the other videos I think we finally found the problem so we've got it fixed other than that one video we've corrected all the other ones but you might have noticed we kind of missed a few videos here at the end of the year and that was because of this problem that we were trying to bear out what was what was going on so so sorry about the bit of delay in December we had a few weeks go by with with nothing coming out but starting in January we're gonna get back on pace and and away we go so we've got a few videos ready to go like I said they're they're uploaded they're scheduled for release and hopefully our video quality is better so looks good so we'll see what happens once it actually comes online for 2018 I think I already mentioned you probably gonna see a few more tool videos again we're gonna try to do a few more of those but we want to get back on track with some projects as well so we've got some electrical videos coming out they seem to be what a lot of people are really wanting to watch so we went a little more in-depth with a with a few of those projects and like I said you're gonna see those coming out here in 2018 Saturday releases I already talked about oh so on in the comments of this video perfect spot if you have some suggestions for videos for 2018 and in the future just list them down here in the comments perfect spot for us to have a look at it I know we did it did this last year we actually used some of those some of those comments turned into videos so we appreciate the suggestions and you know we can't can't do them all obviously and some are just just not doable we've we've got to have the right scenario to do to do the videos unless it's something we can mock up fairly quickly so so I appreciate everybody that watched in 2017 and I hope you stick with us for 18 it's going to be another great year I hope and yeah let's just see what happens thanks a lot for watchinghi I'm Shannon from host improvements comm and we're at that point in time of the year again where we're gonna do our quick review for 2017 we'll just have a little bit of a look back at some of the things that we accomplished and did and you guys watched and then near the end of the video I'm gonna have a look forward at 2018 and we'll talk a little bit about what you might see coming up so first off I just want to thank everybody all our subs and anybody else who's been watching liking subscribing and commenting on all the videos and content that we've put out in the last well since 2010 we've been going on so you know we've got seven years pretty much in the books right now and I think we've progressed at a pretty good pace hopefully keeping everybody interested enough to keep tuning in so I just want to thank you all secondly I just want to touch on our patreon we you know have a lot of faithful supporters on our patreon if you don't know what the patreon is you can check out the link in the description below and and have a look there it's it's basically kind of like a little tip jar for us people who produce content and put it on YouTube here so that you supporters can go in and help us out a little bit financially if you want to so so what's a tip jar for me with patreon like I said I just want to touch on a few few things we generally have been trying to give out a shout out to our top contributors for the year or really for lifetime is what it is so these guys they've not only been on there for a fair amount of time supporting us every month but they've also built up a nice amount of support for us and we greatly appreciate it so on that list this year we've got Brice Warren Anton Bruce Peter and John so those individuals there they've really stepped up to the plate and we very much appreciate your help as far as longtime supporters these the guys going guys and and maybe even women at some point right now it's all guys on the list but these are the guys right back to the beginning they've been there most of them pretty much from day one sort of things so so on the longtime supporters of patreon for us we've got Ian Jordan Eric Michael and Kirk so all those guys have been there for quite a while the may not be our top contributors I don't think any of those names cross over but they're there in whatever capacity they're able to do for us and we appreciate them just as much and everybody else in between at some point hopefully we'll get your name on these lists but there's just we've got quite a few supporters there and it's it's hard to get everybody in there so but eventually you might see your names okay so let's see what's our next point Oh something that we were quite proud of actually this year as far as our subscribers we passed the 300,000 a subscriber mark so I think right now basically at the end of 2017 we're sitting at three hundred and twenty two thousand subscribers so you know we we just love it when people would click that subscribe button and just keeps that number going up and up and you know if you know anybody who DIYs or does any of the stuff that we typically show here pass us along to them and hopefully they'll subscribe as well and we'll get that number even higher for next year at three hundred twenty two thousand not that's actually a jump of 86 thousand subscribers in 2017 so that's a that's a significant number for little old house improvements we're we're getting bigger every year so that's great something else we've seen is a fair amount of growth on the forum and just general busyness over the whole you know website and forum and YouTube and everything in 2017 for those of you that have never used our forum or never even checked it out maybe we'll include a link to that as well in the description and if you want to just go down there and go over and check it oh that's that's the best place you know if you're watching one of my videos and you have a question about one of your projects or you know just something that I did in the video it's way better off to go to the forum and ask that question there because I will directly get back to you or one of we've got a few guys there now hanging out in the forum that are really helpful in all aspects too so if I don't directly get back to you with an answer one of them those guys will and it's just the best place for for questions like that because we can give you a direct answer we can converse back and forth a little bit better than just placing your question in the comments the comments we're getting so many now it's really hard to keep up with that so if you if you're putting a question in the comments chances are I'm probably not gonna see it and likely not respond to it either so like I said put your questions in the in the forum and as far as the comments go you know all the great vibes you can give us all the likes that sort of stuff that's that's a great place for the comments so and always click like the little like icon on the videos as well if you've liked what we've produced there so that helps us so we got that out of the way what was my next point this is where I'm going to do a little bit of a year in review as far as videos so we uploaded 28 videos this year that's down a little bit from last year but what we're trying to do is stay on a on just a nice pace you know we're not over burdening you with a whole bunch of stuff but you can come to expect that our videos are coming out on a regular pace we've been switching the days that we release around a little bit throughout the year trying to find just the right fit right now I think we're on Saturdays and hopefully we can find that right day that works where we can get the most people's attention so but Saturday's right now is when you'll see our our releases every two to three weeks so videos we received 20 million views this year so that's that's a hundred and thirty seven million minutes of our videos watched one hundred and thirty-four thousand likes 7,500 comments so 20 million views that's that's a good number of views for what did I say 28 videos so now that I guess our 28 videos was just start what we release this year we've got over what do we have 200 and that's a good question I think we have about two hundred and thirty videos two hundred and forty s videos so all those twenty million views would be spread out over top all over all those videos and all those numbers are pretty good increases from 2016 so top video this year now this is the one that got the most views was watched watched the most it was actually a video we shot probably I'm gonna guess that it was two years ago and that was how to cut a circle out of a floor tile not a video I ever expected that would get the amount of views that it's getting but I'm not gonna not gonna bash it at all it got 5.5 million views all on its own just this year that one video why I don't know I guess there's a lot more people that need to cut a hole in a tile than I ever thought but anyways that's our top viewed video vault of all time for this year the most viewed video that we produced this year there was a they're fairly close the top two or three so I'm gonna list them so how to install a microwave lets the hanging microwave over your stove rearrange that one was had our top views for videos that was produced this year how to wire a single pole light switch that one had lots of views as well how to wire switched receptacle again just posted this year but had some of the top amount of views and then we had the video showing how to install the fold stone panels on the wall was kind of a feature wall it was a nice little video and I think it turned out really well in the end you know the overall look of the stone and it's a less expensive option as opposed to using real stone and it still looks pretty good so so if you haven't seen it check that out so last year like I said 2017 was good we had great numbers we had you know a few less videos but I think the quality was there we did we went a little different this this past year we had a lot more how to use tool type videos and it's maybe where we should have started way back in the beginning show you guys how to use the tools before you show the projects that you can use them in but anyways we we did a lot of those there's going to be a few more coming up this year and that kind of gets us to what I want to talk about in 2018 so we've already planned quite a few videos I think we've got I think we've got about five or six sitting in the queue ready to ready to be released we had a little bit of a problem at the end of 2017 with some equipment issues the video quality turned out not to be perfect on the last six videos or so that we shot of the year while at the end of the year they want weren't all released last year we released one you probably have seen it it was about three or four minutes and it was a video showing how to change a fluorescent fixture to an LED fixture by simply changing the ball boat a pretty short video a pretty common project though that I think a lot of people are doing converting you know grad jizz maybe your office space or whatever over to LED but we did have and I know you notice that we did have a little bit of technical difficulty with the with the video quality so like I said we had shot a bunch of videos that in that same time span we've been looking at all the other videos I think we finally found the problem so we've got it fixed other than that one video we've corrected all the other ones but you might have noticed we kind of missed a few videos here at the end of the year and that was because of this problem that we were trying to bear out what was what was going on so so sorry about the bit of delay in December we had a few weeks go by with with nothing coming out but starting in January we're gonna get back on pace and and away we go so we've got a few videos ready to go like I said they're they're uploaded they're scheduled for release and hopefully our video quality is better so looks good so we'll see what happens once it actually comes online for 2018 I think I already mentioned you probably gonna see a few more tool videos again we're gonna try to do a few more of those but we want to get back on track with some projects as well so we've got some electrical videos coming out they seem to be what a lot of people are really wanting to watch so we went a little more in-depth with a with a few of those projects and like I said you're gonna see those coming out here in 2018 Saturday releases I already talked about oh so on in the comments of this video perfect spot if you have some suggestions for videos for 2018 and in the future just list them down here in the comments perfect spot for us to have a look at it I know we did it did this last year we actually used some of those some of those comments turned into videos so we appreciate the suggestions and you know we can't can't do them all obviously and some are just just not doable we've we've got to have the right scenario to do to do the videos unless it's something we can mock up fairly quickly so so I appreciate everybody that watched in 2017 and I hope you stick with us for 18 it's going to be another great year I hope and yeah let's just see what happens thanks a lot for watching\n"