Help Us Reach 200: Thank You for the First 50
Fifty people have subscribed to Chillhouse Live on YouTube.
By internet standards that is nothing. To us it is fifty people who heard something they liked and decided they wanted to hear it again. We are a small channel and we are genuinely proud of that number, and we want to say thank you properly before we ask for anything at all.
What two months built
The channel is about two months old. In that time it has grown into more than we expected, mostly because we work on it a little every single day.
- A 24/7 stream that never stops. Audio and video, running around the clock, on YouTube and as a radio station.
- 128 videos, including the hour-long mixes. One to two new mixes go up every week.
- A radio station with real reach. Since 23 June there have been 20,860 tune-ins from 94 countries and 809 cities. That one still surprises us every time we look at it.
- A podcast, so the mixes come along in whatever app you already use. It went live at the end of July and passed 273 downloads in its first two and a half weeks, with the weekly count more than doubling every week so far.
- A website with all the mixes in one place, a live listener map that shows where the music is playing right now, and a blog where we write about the music and the rooms it suits.
- A shop, for anyone who wants to wear the thing they listen to.
Around 767 hours of music get listened to every 28 days. Somebody, somewhere, always has this running.
What it is actually for
We build this for the hours that need a floor under them rather than a spotlight.
For working and concentrating, when you want rhythm without drama. For chilling on a slow afternoon and for winding down at the end of a long day. For bars and lounges in the early evening, for cafes and restaurants where the music has to sit underneath the conversation, for hotel lobbies, spas and waiting rooms where the right sound makes time pass more kindly.
And for being on the move: in the car, on the bus, on the train, on a plane at night with the window blind down. Long journeys are one of the places this music does its best work.
One stream, all of it. Press play and forget about it. That is the whole design.
The one thing that would help
Which brings us to the ask, and we will keep it short.
We would like to reach 200 subscribers on YouTube.
Not because the number is magic, but because of what it does. Right now every new mix starts from zero and waits to be found. With a couple of hundred subscribers, a new mix reaches people on the day it goes up, and that early response is what decides whether YouTube shows it to anyone else. Two hundred is the point where the channel stops shouting into an empty room.
Everything else we can handle ourselves. People listen for hours, the stream runs, the mixes keep coming. Subscribers are the one thing we cannot make on our own.
What stays exactly as it is
- The stream stays free. All of it. No paywall, no login, no account.
- We will never interrupt a mix to ask for anything. Music you can leave running is the entire point.
- We stay in our lane: deep house and chill house, warm and unhurried, and nothing else.
- If you want to play it in your bar, cafe, studio or waiting room, you may. You always could, and it stays that way.
How to help, in order of how much it does
- Subscribe. One click, here. It is free and it is by far the most useful thing anyone reading this can do.
- Turn the bell on. A subscriber who gets notified is worth several who do not.
- Let a mix run all the way through. Uninterrupted listening counts for more than clicks do. The video stream on a second screen while you work does more than you would think.
- Tell one person. Not the whole internet. Just the friend who works with headphones on, or the one who runs a cafe.
- Play it in your space and tell us where. Hearing where the music ended up is the best part of doing this.
Thank you
To the fifty: thank you. Thank you to everyone who has left the stream running through a work day, to every city on that map that keeps coming back week after week, and to everyone who pressed play once and stayed.
We are going to keep working on this every day, so that whatever you are doing, there is something good playing underneath it.
Subscribe on YouTube - then put the stream back on.
