Ken Burton tells the Truth about Machinima! His FULL Story on its Rise & Fall

Ken Burton is a real pioneer and legend of doing commentary videos on YouTube and was signed to Machinima in 2010. He inspired me to start doing content on YouTube and with his humorous, uplifting content he always represented a comforting opposing pole to all the other highly competitive and skill focused content creators on Machinima.

I feel honoured and privileged to have gotten him to tell the story about his experience with Machinima in this one hour interview. We go into details about the early days of the American multiplatform online entertainment network, as well as his experiences with other creators like Hutch, Sark, Seananners, JackFrags, Tejps and many more. I hope you enjoy this little podcast interview.

You can find the new Ken Burton YouTube channel with all his podcast stories here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm0Jo40miM8qyZOtYWe_Onw

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
1:25 How did you get into doing commentary videos 10 years ago
5:33 When Ken uploaded his first YouTube video
6:39 How Machinima made first contact in 2010
9:36 Kens first Skype call with the Machinima office
11:46 How Ken became a premiere director at Machinima
13:47 Working with Machinima while based in the UK
14:24 How Ken worked with Sark, Nanners & Hutch at Respawn
15:31 How was it to get so much hate for being bad at CoD?
17:18 When did your Machinima career peak?
20:50 The story behind Machinima UK
21:01 Gamescom 2011 with Sark, KSi, Syndicate and how Ken shared a room with Tejps
25:26 How Razer, Virgin Atlantic, Red Bull and MAD CATZ wanted to sponsor Machinima UK
27:41 Ken visits Machinima offices in LA to pitch Machinima UK
28:40 Why Hutch, Seananners and Sark hated Ken
34:19 Why Machinima was never built to be sold
35:13 When YouTube started to screw everyone over
37:35 The beginning of the end
38:50 Gamecom 2013 was awful
41:07 How Machinima UK was shut down without Ken knowing
43:26 Why Ken deleted all his channels
45:40 Why Hutch, Nanners and Sark didn't want to be associated with Ken
51:02 Do you regret that Machinima was deleted?
52:01 Ken's Radio Respawn appearance
55:20 Ken still gets recognised in the street
55:41 The 'K.E.N." gamer tag
56:40 Wings of Redemption hated the KEN gamertag
1:00:02 Ken wrote a book & recorded the chapters as Podcast Stories
1:02:04 Is it still possible to 'make it' on YouTube or Twitch?

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