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McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 11:16 AM Apr 2020

Joe Biden Needs YOU (To Sign up for his YouTube Channel)

From the NYT today

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/technology/joe-biden-internet.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Technology
Joe Biden is very famous, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at his YouTube channel.

Mr. Biden has just 32,000 subscribers on the influential video platform, a pittance compared with some of his rivals in the Democratic primary race and roughly 300,000 fewer than President Trump. The videos that Mr. Biden posts — these days, mostly repurposed campaign ads and TV-style interviews filmed from the makeshift studio in his basement — rarely crack 10,000 views. And the virtual crickets that greet many of his appearances have become a source of worry for some Democrats, who see his sluggish performance online as a bad omen for his electoral chances in November.

“This video is 2 days old and it’s sitting at 20,000 views,” one commenter wrote under a recent video of Mr. Biden’s. “This is a guy that is supposed to beat Trump?”

In a normal election year, a former vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee would have no trouble filling an arena. But the coronavirus has forced Mr. Biden to abandon in-person gatherings and adapt to an all-digital campaign strategy — a daunting pivot even in the best of times, but one made even harder by the need to compete for attention amid a pandemic and a once-in-a-generation economic collapse.

The shift has been clumsy for Mr. Biden, an old-school retail politician who relishes face-to-face interactions. He lacks the social media firepower of Mr. Trump, whose 106 million combined followers on Facebook and Twitter dwarf Mr. Biden’s 6.7 million, and whose White House coronavirus briefings have allowed him to commandeer the news cycle. Mr. Biden’s first virtual town hall last month was marred by technical problems, and some of his other digital experiments — like a soporific campaign podcast, “Here’s the Deal,” which did not rank among the top 100 podcasts on Apple Podcasts as of this week — have not gone as well as hoped.


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Joe Biden Needs YOU (To Sign up for his YouTube Channel) (Original Post) McCamy Taylor Apr 2020 OP
He needs to hire some of Bloomberg's creative people. docgee Apr 2020 #1
I pray for that every day. FarPoint Apr 2020 #14
Signed up yesterday DonaldsRump Apr 2020 #2
I'm so out to lunch about youtube that I didn't know you could subscribe. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #3
He left comments on his YouTube video, not a good thing! cayugafalls Apr 2020 #4
Definitely trolled. This video has more thumbs down than thumbs up. Chiyo-chichi Apr 2020 #17
Recommended and book marked. eom guillaumeb Apr 2020 #5
Make it easy for us. Give us a direct link to the sign-up. Baitball Blogger Apr 2020 #6
Here's the link: SaintLouisBlues Apr 2020 #7
Thank you for posting the link. W_HAMILTON Apr 2020 #9
+1 n/t Laelth Apr 2020 #12
thanks...meant to do it the other day.. stillcool Apr 2020 #13
Done underpants Apr 2020 #16
Is this the YouTube channel we are talking about? W_HAMILTON Apr 2020 #8
Is YouTube getting hammered? McCamy Taylor Apr 2020 #10
It also airs as a podcast, Here's The Deal, available wherever people access podcasts eleny Apr 2020 #11
Just subscribed. Hope everyone else does too. KPN Apr 2020 #15
Signed up already! Demsrule86 Apr 2020 #18
Done! OrlandoDem2 Apr 2020 #19

cayugafalls

(5,631 posts)
4. He left comments on his YouTube video, not a good thing!
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 11:22 AM
Apr 2020

Russian trolls are all over it.

Here is the video linked in the article:



Dang that is not good.

Edited to add:

Fortunately, it seems to be only that video.

Baitball Blogger

(46,576 posts)
6. Make it easy for us. Give us a direct link to the sign-up.
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 11:24 AM
Apr 2020

News is blowing by us at Cat 5 levels. Hard to keep up with everything.

W_HAMILTON

(7,813 posts)
9. Thank you for posting the link.
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 11:26 AM
Apr 2020

I went looking for it myself and wasn't sure if this was the correct one or not, with all the imposters out there.

W_HAMILTON

(7,813 posts)
8. Is this the YouTube channel we are talking about?
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 11:25 AM
Apr 2020
https://www.youtube.com/joebiden

If so, I went ahead and subscribed, but I want to make sure since the part of the article I could read didn't link his official YouTube channel and you know how many imposters there are out there...

eleny

(46,166 posts)
11. It also airs as a podcast, Here's The Deal, available wherever people access podcasts
Fri Apr 17, 2020, 11:29 AM
Apr 2020

I listen via iTunes. But there's other access like at Spotify and Stitcher or Biden's campaign site.

https://joebiden.com/heres-the-deal/

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