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Content Creator Ken Pierce Celebrates 17th Year On YouTube

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Hey there my friends, I’m so happy that you’re joining me because today I’d like to pause the creativity for a moment and share a little bit of the personal side of the fence with you all. Today, March 25th 2023 is actually the 17th year of my using the YouTube network. Now for those keeping score that means I’ve had my own personal YouTube account for almost as long as I’ve had the PiercingMetal website which was launched back in April 2005. That anniversary post is coming soon enough so please be patient as I reflect on my first, original YouTube profile/channel etc. Since it is a personal account, its simply called @kenpierce

So you might be saying “Wow Ken, with a YouTube Channel that old you must be one of the original legends in content creation” and well, my answer would have to be nope because while I created the original account in 2006, I wouldn’t even get around to posting anything on it until 2011. Hindsight being 20/20, way back then no one knew what was going to happen with these networks and how people became not so overnight sensations from them. I was using YouTube a lot to watch videos and concert posts and be able to like and comment on them while in the background I kept saying to myself, “one of these days”. Truth be told, “one of these days” ended up happening in 2008 when I decided to launch a Channel for the PiercingMetal site but I am not here to talk about that channel just yet. I’ll do that in April because that Channels own 15th Anniversary is not long after the websites own 18th birthday ;p


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Ken Pierce Media Celebrates 2nd Anniversary Of Branded YouTube Channel

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Hey there my friends, I am taking a brief pause from the day to share the news that I am celebrating some social media stuff. Today marks the 2nd Anniversary of the Official Branded Channel for the Ken Pierce Media side of the fence. The branding itself is closing in on its third year of existence and if you’ve been following along with any of the development narratives that have posted to the website you know that this once very simple idea has expanded into something much more comprehensive in overall reach. What began as a simple scratch-pad Blogspot is now a full-on professional level website with more than 5.9K posts and “10” social media profiles. The Ken Pierce Media use of the YouTube Channel is definitely less than that of the @PiercingMetal and @PiercingKen brands but is still of vital importance in the extension of the overall idea.

At the time of this network’s anniversary you will see that there aren’t a whole lot of videos on the Channel yet. The way that I’ve been using this Channel is to post when there is something that crosses all of the brands dividing lines. There are more of the new Shorts on the Channel which are often ported from our similarly branded TikTok account as it works out best to do it like that. I’ve been having fun using this area to broaden the KPM world a little more and ask that everyone who is reading this to both “Subscribe” and click the “Notification Bell” to ensure they won’t miss out on anything. It also helps if you click the like and leave a topical comment. For those who don’t know, you can’t secure an Official URL for a Channel until you reach 100 Subscribers and nothing can be monetized until you hit 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours. Fortunately its easier to find this Channel thanks to their new Handles initiative but we are miles away from the other milestones needed. That’s where the audience and supporters of our content come in and its why we are asking for your brand support. The link is down below, and as I wrap this one up I say thanks for all the interest in this part of the creative puzzle. I enjoy using this to entertain and inform you all.

Click @kenpiercemedia to be brought to the Official Channel.

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Celebrating My 15 Year Anniversary Achievement In WordPress

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A few short days ago, I received a notification in my WordPress Administration screen that I had just reached a 15th Anniversary Achievement on the platform. Pretty cool right? Now since I love to discuss milestones and anniversaries I figured this was the perfect time to look back on that first sign on and how its all grown since then. So my initial process in creating a WordPress was to have a side blog to the already running for years PiercingMetal website. I created a very humble blogspot and called it “PiercingMetal Musings” but since it was related but not connected to the original site all of the traffic would not add to the numbers that the PiercingMetal site was accruing day by day. When I learned that an installation of WordPress could be placed under the proper domain, I took the plunge and imported those posts into that area and used the same name. Now the WordPress traffic would work with the proper HTML Site. The site was now 50% Old School and 50% New School. In 2014 I converted to WordPress on that side of the fence (discussed HERE) and then later on that same year merged the “PiercingMetal Musings” blog into the main site (discussed HERE). From then on it’s been all WordPress all the time with each of the creative branches and voila – 15 years deep into this method of web-publishing. Let’s take a look.


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