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TL;DR: Personal finance and career-focused YouTube channels (e.g. investing, budgeting, productivity, and career strategy content) may be an under explored outreach area for EA ideas. I’m asking whether EA orgs have already explored guest appearances or sponsorships in this space, and if so, what the results were.
I sometimes watch ‘personal finance’ or ‘life improvement’ YouTube channels and find myself hoping to see EA aligned guests or ads for EA aligned orgs – so far this hasn’t happened.
Personal finance YouTube channels often have large audiences (hundreds of thousands to millions) and regularly discuss topics that are structurally adjacent to Effective Altruism — e.g. money management, long-term planning, decision-making under constraints, making choices that align with personal values.
There may be a relatively neglected opportunity for EA outreach via:
Many of these channels already engage audiences that are:
This seems like a potentially promising audience for EA-adjacent ideas such as:
Has EA communications work already explored personal finance / career YouTube channels as an outreach space (via guests or advertising)?
If so:
If not:
Has there been any systematic thinking about: