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We dig into @WatchMojo 20-year climb and the choices that made the brand durable: focus on pop culture, a reliable list format, and a bet that YouTube would become television. Ash shares fair use tactics, Content ID battles, and why evergreen thinking outlasts trends.
• four pillars for scale across focus, lists, YouTube programming, and legal rigor
• how fair use works in practice and why systems matter
• navigating Content ID, platform neutrality, and policy pressure
• building evergreen lists instead of chasing virality
• spin-offs like MissMojo and MojoPlays and what worked
• when experiments stall and how to sunset or pivot
• shorts for discovery, mids for revenue, longform for FAST growth
• platform strategy across YouTube, Snap, TikTok, and Instagram
• starting from zero: picking niches, testing white space, staying authentic
0:00 Setting The Stage And Guest Intro
1:13 Twenty Years Of WatchMojo
3:00 Finding Focus In Pop Culture
5:55 Betting On YouTube And Community
10:25 How WatchMojo got Copyright Licensing
13:00 Fair Use 101 And Legal Playbook
21:30 How to figure out what Evergreen clips to use
26:14 Mistakes Ash learned from
32:50 Let's Play Content
35:00 Long form Lists vs Shorts
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We dig into @WatchMojo 20-year climb and the choices that made the brand durable: focus on pop culture, a reliable list format, and a bet that YouTube would become television. Ash shares fair use tactics, Content ID battles, and why evergreen thinking outlasts trends.
• four pillars for scale across focus, lists, YouTube programming, and legal rigor
• how fair use works in practice and why systems matter
• navigating Content ID, platform neutrality, and policy pressure
• building evergreen lists instead of chasing virality
• spin-offs like MissMojo and MojoPlays and what worked
• when experiments stall and how to sunset or pivot
• shorts for discovery, mids for revenue, longform for FAST growth
• platform strategy across YouTube, Snap, TikTok, and Instagram
• starting from zero: picking niches, testing white space, staying authentic
0:00 Setting The Stage And Guest Intro
1:13 Twenty Years Of WatchMojo
3:00 Finding Focus In Pop Culture
5:55 Betting On YouTube And Community
10:25 How WatchMojo got Copyright Licensing
13:00 Fair Use 101 And Legal Playbook
21:30 How to figure out what Evergreen clips to use
26:14 Mistakes Ash learned from
32:50 Let's Play Content
35:00 Long form Lists vs Shorts
