Comedienne Christine “Happy Slip” Gambito was among the first video creators to receive ad revenue shares through YouTube’s partner program. She’s a poster girl for professional independent online video. Three years and 300,000 subscribers after she first hit the ‘Tube, Happy Slip celebrates by showing us the evolution of her equipment, along with a remastered version of her very first YouTube video.

Aspiring online video moguls and marketers, take note. Success in online video is about authenticity and consistency, not fakery and one-hit wonders.

Originally posted on September 16, 2009 @ 10:15 am