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Chapter 1: What is the significance of The Vergecast becoming a daily show?
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Welcome to The Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of daily podcasts. I'm your friend, David Pierce. And as of today, The Verge Cast is in fact a daily podcast. We're going to be in your feeds and on your YouTubes or wherever you find The Verge Cast five days a week. I would say in general. We have lots of ideas about what we're going to do, but almost no religion about any of it.
We have lots of series we're going to try to do inside of the Verge cast. Lots of fun bits that make more sense to do in a daily podcast world. The show where Nilay and I yell at each other once a week is basically not going to change. So don't worry if that's the Verge cast you know and love.
But in this expanded format where we get to do more stuff and we get to do it on a faster timeline and we get to be more just engaged in your life and with the news every day, I'm very excited about what we're going to get to do here. Today on the show, we're going to talk about posting. with one of the original posters, Casey Neistat, who spent years posting something on the internet every day.
And he has a lot of thoughts about what it takes to do that and also what it looks like to do that now in 2026. So we're going to talk about it. But first, here is a look at everything happening on The Verge today. It's 90 Seconds on The Verge for Monday, June 1st, 2026. NVIDIA made a big announcement of a new chip line called the RTX Spark, which it says is the most efficient PC chip ever built.
Did it offer any kind of statistics or numbers to back that up? No, it sure didn't. But NVIDIA seems to have big plans to take the best of its gaming technology, the best of its AI technology, and the best of mainstream computing needs and smush it all together into one chip that can do everything. The first devices are coming out this fall. I promise you they're going to cost a fortune.
But this is one to watch out for. This week is also Computex, the big computer trade show. And one of the big themes of the year seems to be everybody from Dell to Acer to frankly, just about everybody else trying desperately to compete with the MacBook Neo. $600 laptops are about to get a lot better. This week is also Microsoft.
Build developer conference, and just two things to keep an eye out for at Build. One is the Copilot Super app that I think is coming. We're going to get the combination of all of Microsoft's Copilot Assistant stuff, all of the coding stuff, all of it in one place. This is the new trend for AI companies, and Microsoft's on it too.
The other is just a lot of little things designed to make Windows nicer to use, because frankly, that's long overdue. Last bit of news for today, Anthropic has confidentially filed to go public. We don't know a ton of the details yet. They're still mostly under wraps.
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Chapter 2: What insights does Casey Neistat share about daily posting?
But the reality was I found myself in a situation where, because I was just about to launch my own venture-backed startup, that I had never been further from...
making movies because i was so kind of distracted so the idea was like let me create a let me upload every day and i'll make like a video every day about my startup and it would promote the startup and i had endless material and then it turns out like five dudes in a room writing code is really an interesting subject matter
And it eventually sort of consumed every aspect of my life in like this perpetual search for interestingness to make the videos. But it wasn't much more considered than that.
Yeah. But I still think there's something in that insight of like, not just I'm going to make a bunch of videos and promote my startup, which I think is a...
relatively normal insight to have had in 2015 but there's something about just the sheer volume play of it that it seems like even existed in your head then you're just like I'm going to do this and then again and then again and then again and I'm going to keep doing this there must have been some kind of idea about like this must add up to something
No, in fact, it was the, no, it was the opposite because David, I treated my YouTube channel as this precious thing, I think misguidedly early in my career where like I'd never monetized any of my videos. It was for me, I thought of it as like a forum where I just put like really great videos that I was proud of. And I remember like posting, you know, daily vlogging back in the day was just like,
kids holding their camera up being like now i'm going to get coffee this coffee's good now i'm gonna get in my car i'm in my car now and it was this diary sort of thing but it was not it was not considered like real content creation or creative expression and i remember like day three or four of uploading my daily videos somebody was like i saw comments like casey's a great
Video creator, this is so beneath him. What's he doing? And I was like, shit, I'm so busted. Because there was a little part of me that felt like that. I felt like I was diminishing my work. So all of the learnings of the power of daily, like I said, really came in retrospect. My foresight in getting into it was much more... skeptical, which is a generous way of framing it.
I would say it was much more like deeply insecure and uncomfortable with what it was. But what I learned from it is something much, much more powerful, which is like, and I think this is the opportunity you have in going daily, which is when you have a daily conversation with an audience, podcast, video, radio show, whatever it might be,
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Chapter 3: How did Casey Neistat's early experiences shape his approach to vlogging?
And then there's a portion of our audience that is like, shut up and talk about tech news. And it is sort of the eternal struggle, right? What do you tell new creators these days? I feel like you've become sort of the like Yoda of the creator space. You're in everybody's video where they're like, I'm going to YouTube. How do I do this?
You just did this with our friend Joanna Stern not that long ago. Like- People who are coming to you trying to break into this space, I assume the biggest thing most people are trying to do is figure out in some way, how do I become a thing, right? How do I make people care about me as a person? What do you tell those people?
First of all, I'm surprised that people still come to me for advice. It's because my advice is antiquated and I stand by it. But My general feeling now on YouTube is that, you know, first of all, I, I, I, I dislike, I admire it, but I dislike, it's not my thing.
How most of, at least from my anecdotal experience, how most people approach the platform, which is primarily data-driven, retention rates, engagement, length of video. It's a game to be won. All of these things are a game to be won now. And to me, that is so antithetical to the creative aspect of it.
And whether it's me doing it daily or anything I've done in the media space, television, film, everything, it's always been creativity first. And why I champion YouTube historically and why I continue to champion YouTube is because there's no barriers to entries. The top of the funnel is so wide.
You can quite literally introduce any version of creativity to this platform and do your thing without any obstructions.
I spent a decade plus working in the formal media space, whereas you have executives and you have channel leads and you have all of these people, all these filters, the people that select what gets into a film festival, distributors, all these filters between you, your creativity, and your audience.
And what's so amazing about YouTube is for the first time in the history of media, it's reduced that to zero. Like what you create and what you determine is what you want it to be is what exactly the audience will see. And that's like a romantic vision that I fully subscribed to back in the day. It's what I fully subscribed to today.
And most conversations that I have start from a place that I could give, like, I could give not two shits about, which is about, you know, how do I maximize engagement? And like, should I be making shorter stuff so more people will watch it? And And it's just completely uninteresting to me.
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Chapter 4: What challenges did Casey face during his 800 days of daily vlogging?
I don't know.
But the short answer is I've tried very half-heartedly. Okay. But like I've sought out the person that's like unicorn or leprechaun, like a person you hear about a lot but you're not sure actually exists. And how I framed it to several very smart, capable people was like, I cannot have my process be affected at all.
And what my process is, is a total disregard for engagement or like in the first 10 seconds, you have to hook them. And then it has to be like, I refuse to consider any of that stuff. I hate it. I just want to make my video that I think is good. And then that's it. And then put it out there.
And what I want to do with you, Mr. Leprechaun, is give you that asset, that video, and you figure out the best thumbnail, the best title, the best, I mean, are tags still a thing? I don't know. You figure out how to chop that down or re-edit it so it works in a vertical form. And I've put like a medium amount of effort into it with a couple of people. And it's never...
it has never been one fruitful or two like yielded something that i think is even worthy of putting out there and i think it speaks to the nature of the content like i i know how to sort of say something that works that makes sense for me in a six to eight or ten minute format i don't really know how to do it in a 20 or 30 second or 90 second format Have you ever really tried?
Did you ever really go hard at, I want to be the short-form vertical video guy? Never? No. Just didn't feel right to you?
No, because I don't like that kind of engagement as a consumer, as a consumer of content. I think that this is language I made up, but it's like there's lean forward consumption and lean back consumption. And I refer to lean forward consumption as sort of a passive consumption. Like I have some time to fill, so I'm filling it with this, whatever it is.
Lean back is when there's a deliberate decision made to engage with this content. So like obviously streaming content or popping in a DVD, if anyone does it anymore, like that's lean back. But I also think like YouTube minus YouTube shorts is still that. Like I'm a big like history guy.
And every day when I like get my lunch here in the office, I like play a YouTube video that might only be six minutes long. But it's very much so lean back. Like I'm choosing to watch this video and I click play and I watch it and I'm engaged with it. And I know what I take from that.
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