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Your Product.
Their Next Obsession.

We don't do reviews or ads. We build ambitious projects that inspire — and your product becomes the hero of the story. Your audience doesn't skip it. They share it.

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Lifetime Channel Views

3.9K

Subscribers

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On YouTube Since

Brands Featured Across Projects And Collaborations

ZENDURE
CENTROID
MAKERA
GWEIKE
LUSINTUN
ALIEXPRESS
AMAZON
PCBWAY
JLCPCB
CREALITY
ZENDURE
CENTROID
MAKERA
GWEIKE
LUSINTUN
ALIEXPRESS
AMAZON
PCBWAY
JLCPCB
CREALITY
The uncomfortable truth

The Sponsorship
Dilemma

CNC machines cost tens of thousands. Workshop builds take months. Materials, tooling, prototyping — the costs behind every video are enormous.

Without partnerships, ambitious content
simply doesn't get made.

But here's where most creators get it wrong.

What doesn't work

The 60-second ad read

Viewers reach for the skip button. You've trained them to tune out.

The desk review

Unboxing on a table. No context. No story. No reason to care.

The forced integration

Product shoehorned into unrelated content. Audience trust evaporates.

The viewer skips. The creator loses trust. The brand gets associated with the exact kind of content people scroll past.

Lose. Lose. Lose.

Unless you flip the model

What if the sponsorship was the content?

We build ambitious projects that happen to feature your product. The audience watches because the project inspires them — and your product becomes the tool that made it possible.

Everyone wins

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The Creator

Funding to sustain the channel and tackle more ambitious builds. The partnership enables the project — it doesn't interrupt it.

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The Brand

Your product solving real engineering problems on camera. Months of organic reach instead of a 60-second spot that gets skipped.

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The Viewer

Inspiration. Real techniques. When they're ready to build their own version — they know exactly what to get.

Content people actually watch. Products people actually want.
Win. Win. Win.

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"People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it."

Simon Sinek — Author & Speaker

The Ecosystem

Your brand integrates across every touchpoint — from long-form video to real-time community discussion to evergreen web content.

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YouTube

566K+

Lifetime Channel Views

3.9K subscribers · 64 public videos

Long-form maker, CNC, and workshop videos published over years of real projects. Public channel totals are stable, easy to verify, and built for evergreen discovery.

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Discord Community

1000+

Discord Members

Discord gives partnership projects a place for follow-up discussion, build questions, and community reactions, with a community of more than one thousand members.

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Web Properties

Evergreen SEO

Blog + Search Footprint

theyieldpoint.com and related technical writeups keep partnership projects discoverable after the first video spike, especially for specific machines, tools, and build questions.

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Lifetime Views

3.9K

Subscribers

64

Public Videos

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Channel Founded

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"The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife."

David Ogilvy — Father of Advertising
Case Study 01

Makera Z1

A desktop CNC machine that raised $10M+ on Kickstarter. Makera needed to build hype and drive sales before the product even shipped. Smaller channel. Outsized results.

2.4×

more views than FliteTest — a channel with 2.15M subscribers (550× our size)

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54K Views
The Yield Point 3.9K subs 54K
Teaching Tech 575K subs 30K
Frengen Engineering 82K subs 26K
FliteTest 2.15M subs 22K
Making for Motorsport 75K subs 18K

Views at ~3 months post-publish. YouTube, March 2026.

View-to-Subscriber Ratio

1,345%

Our 54K views came from just 3.9K subscribers. Industry norm is ~30%.

lightbulb Why It Worked

A unique angle nobody else was doing.

Every other creator ran unboxings and first cuts. We built an entire CNC workstation around the Z1 — a project viewers wanted to replicate. The machine wasn't the video. The build was the video.

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Others: unboxing & first test

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Us: full workshop build project

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92
48% purchase-intent comments 5.2% like ratio 2.1× avg watch time

Viewers ask "where can I buy this?" — not "cool vid." The signal that separates inspired audiences from casual ones.

FliteTest has 2.15M subscribers — 550× our size. Our Makera Z1 project still outperformed theirs 2.4×. For a product that needed pre-release buzz to convert a $10M Kickstarter into actual sales, that's the difference between hype and hardware on workbenches.

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"Nobody reads ads. People read what interests them. Sometimes it's an ad."

Howard Gossage — Advertising Pioneer
Case Study 02

Centroid CNC Hickory Retrofit

A professional CNC controller released with no real advertising strategy. Centroid builds excellent hardware — but had virtually zero YouTube presence for the Hickory. We changed that.

90%

of all YouTube exposure for the Centroid Hickory controller comes from our content

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90% Our Content
Our Kitamura Rebuild Series 71K
CentroidCNC (official) 5K
All other Hickory content 3K

YouTube + blog + forum data, March 2026.

Content Breakdown

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Main Retrofit Video

Full teardown, retrofit, and first cuts

51K
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Wiring Deep-Dive

Technical wiring tutorial for the Hickory

20K
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Blog + Forum + Shorts

theyieldpoint.com + CentroidCNC forum thread

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Multi-Channel Impact

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YouTube

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Blog Posts

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Forum Thread

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Evergreen Search

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"Content is fire. Social media is gasoline."

Jay Baer — Marketing Strategist

Western-Market Fit

This is the regional market framing we use for partnerships: the audience is concentrated in North America and Europe / UK, with Australia / NZ as a smaller but still relevant secondary pocket.

Core western markets

73%

North America

49%

Europe / UK

24%

Australia / NZ

8%

Regional Audience Mix

Positioned for partner planning around western-market reach

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Global audience reach visualization by region

North America

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Europe / UK

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Australia / NZ

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Rest of World

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Core western markets account for 73% of the audience when combining North America with Europe / UK. Australia / NZ adds another 8% as a smaller but still relevant secondary region.

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Western Markets

49%

North America

24%

Europe / UK

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"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself."

Peter Drucker — Father of Modern Management
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Our Ground Rules

Trust is the only currency that actually compounds. These aren't guidelines — they're non-negotiable.

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Full Editorial Independence

We write the script. We control the edit. You can review for factual accuracy — never for tone, opinion, or editorial direction. The audience trusts us because we've earned it, and that trust is what makes your partnership valuable.

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We Use What We Feature

Every product on this channel goes through real projects under real workshop conditions. If we wouldn't buy it with our own money or recommend it to a friend, it doesn't belong in our content. No exceptions.

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Transparent by Default

Every partnership is clearly disclosed to the audience. No blurred lines, no hidden deals. When viewers know exactly where we stand, they listen closer — and that benefits your brand more than any clever placement ever could.

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Honest Means Honest

If your product has limitations, we'll mention them. Audiences can smell a sales pitch from the first frame. Honest coverage — including what could be improved — builds more credibility and purchase intent than any polished review ever will.

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Right to Walk Away

If a product doesn't perform or the partnership doesn't feel right, either side can walk away — no hard feelings, no obligations. We'd rather return a product than compromise our credibility.

These rules protect your investment as much as our reputation. Audiences that trust the creator trust the brands they feature — and that's the entire value proposition.

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"The best marketing doesn't feel like marketing."

Tom Fishburne — Marketoonist Founder

How It Works

From concept to multi-channel launch. A proven process that turns your product into the hero of an ambitious story.

1
We Talk
Understand your product, goals, and target audience. What problem does it solve? Who needs it?
2
We Plan a Project
Design an ambitious build where your product plays a starring role. Real engineering challenges, real solutions.
3
We Build & Film
The project happens. Real workshop, real tests, real results. No scripting. No fake drama. Just authentic engineering.
4
Multi-Channel Launch
YouTube video + blog post + Discord discussion + newsletter feature. Your product gets exposure everywhere at once.
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Ongoing Exposure
Evergreen content can keep attracting views, searches, and follow-up questions long after launch. Compound effect across community and web.

Partnership Options

Every integration is authentic. We only feature products that genuinely belong in the workshop and solve real problems.

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Technical Deep-Dive

Multi-part series exploring your product's capabilities through real engineering challenges. Long-form, in-depth, authoritative.

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Affiliate Partnership

Ongoing organic mentions across video, blog, Discord, and newsletter. Long-tail revenue from an audience that trusts our recommendations.

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Custom Campaign

Multi-channel strategy tailored to your goals. YouTube, website, Discord, and newsletter — all working together for maximum impact.

Let's Talk.

Tell us about your brand and goals — we'll put together a custom proposal that makes sense for both of us.

Prefer email? Reach us directly at thijs@theyieldpoint.com

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