Rene Ritchie, the previous editor-in-chief of Apple-focused website iMore who has been a full-time YouTuber for the previous two years, is becoming a member of YouTube as its new creator liaison, he announced on Wednesday. As creator liaison, Ritchie will serve inside YouTube as an advocate for creators and work with creators to assist them higher perceive YouTube, he stated.
On YouTube, Ritchie has grown his personal channel to greater than 325,000 subscribers, and I rely myself as one among them. The vast majority of his movies are deep dives on Apple-focused matters, and I be taught so much from his really encyclopedic information of the corporate.
3/ And, in the neighborhood, serving to creators to higher perceive how YouTube works, educating, empowering, and most of all, listening. So we will all higher profit from every part YouTube has to supply
— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) July 20, 2022
Ritchie has clearly labored arduous to community inside the YouTube group; his video saying his new job options customized clips from a number of creators, together with massive names like MrBeast, iJustine, and MKBHD. As YouTube continues to increase options like Shorts, livestreaming, and improved remark spam removing instruments, Ritchie’s expertise constructing his personal channel, his connections with different creators, and deep information of tech set him as much as be a super candidate for the liaison function.
Ritchie will probably be YouTube’s second creator liaison. The primary, Matt Koval, left YouTube in February. As a part of the function, Ritchie will probably be taking up the @YouTubeLiaison Twitter account — his face is already the account’s avatar. And although he has a brand new job, Ritchie says he’ll proceed engaged on his private YouTube channel.