Regular visitors to the Infinite Frontiers website will have noticed that things have been quiet here for the last couple of weeks. Usually we have tried to add new content weekly, but real life has got in the way recently so we wanted to bring you all a website update as well as give you a teaser for all our plans for 2025…
2024 – It’s A Wrap!
2024 has been a mixed year for us with the site. While we’ve been able to bring you some great reviews and features, we’ve struggled as our active team has become limited. While a lot of people are still working on all of our projects, this is mainly focused on two of our sites so I am currently the primary writer for this website and have to do this alongside everything else in my spare time. It has meant that the site hasn’t been as busy as I would have liked.
While our team has grown for one of our sites (which I would like to expand here eventually) our main growth area has been social media with the launch of a new account over on BlueSky where we’re posting and sharing content on a regular basis both from the site and new material.
YouTube Woes
One of the biggest disappointments for us has been our YouTube channel. While we had quite an active year in 2024 posting over 30 new videos, we’ve recently been hit with a strange anomaly. For some unknown reason, YouTube have been purging a significant number of channels (ours included) and removing a sizeable number of their subscribers and as part of that we have lost over 20% of our subscribers in the last week alone.
The damage – as you can imagine – is substantial and we don’t know how this will impact on the visibility of future videos. There’s been no explanation as to why this has happened. Has it simply been a case of dormant accounts being removed or just trimming bot subscriptions. We simply don’t know. However, we do ask that you spare a few minutes if you can to subscribe and check out the channel. There’s plenty of retro and modern gaming, sci-fi, pro wrestling, and geek unboxing content and we’re sure you’ll find something to enjoy on there.
Working Smarter
One of the key things I want to try to do personally is take a new approach going into next year. As most of you know, as well as being the founder of our entire group, Infinite Frontiers, I take the lead across all four of our sites and our YouTube channel creatively. Frankly, that’s not an easy task at the best of times, especially as everything we do here is in our spare time!
I actually stopped working over a decade ago and I’m a full time carer for my wife so anything I do creatively is done to fit around everything else I do here at home. But spreading my time across five projects in between needing some time to myself to unwind isn’t easy so I’m aiming for a new approach for 2025.
While I obviously can’t find more time to work on our projects, my goal is to use the same amount of time better. If I’m going to do game reviews for YouTube for example, I’ll be writing scripts for several reviews at the same time, capturing footage in bulk and then recording the audio again in bulk. The reasoning behind this is that the latter needs to be done in a separate room and it’s a more effective use of time to record several at once and edit them as needed.
It’s the same for preparing artwork for content online. When I’m scanning images for any of our sites, I’m aiming for lengthy scanning / editing sessions and while it can be tedious doing one job for a few hours, it’s better than lots of shorter scanning sessions.
When it comes to written content, I’ll be taking this a step further. All of our sites have the facility for us to schedule content and if I do find myself in a position to write articles quickly, I’ll take advantage of the situation and plan content weeks ahead and simply schedule them, hopefully getting pieces ready well in advance of when they’re needed. As our readers, you won’t notice anything, but it should make our lives easier behind the scenes!
2025 – What’s Next?
So what are we planning for the next 12 months? Quite a lot, but here are a few of the highlights…
- New Videos -we’ll be working on a lot of fresh content for YouTube including game reviews, more unboxing videos and a few more surprises…
- Reviews – hopefully I’ll be publishing at least one new game review a week, possibly more covering a range of formats – modern and retro! However, it’s my goal to start seeking out more writers to help in this area so we can bring you several new reviews a week so stay tuned!
- Articles – hopefully I’ll be producing plenty of new original features covering all things geek including sci-fi, gaming, TV and pro wrestling.
- News – we are sent dozens of gaming press releases every day so we want to start making use of more of these. While we won’t turn this into a gaming news site, we will start to share more of them with you every week!
So all that said, we’re pretty excited about what the new year holds so stay tuned and if you’re not already doing so, don’t forget to follow us on all our social accounts, YouTube and subscribe to our newsletters for updates as new content goes live on the site!
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