 Dskill's new Ripjaws 4 series is their ultimate DDR4 memory with speeds of up to 3,333 MHz available. Click now to learn more. So this is it. Today we passed the 1 million subscriber mark. But without getting too wrapped up in the excitement about, you know, gold YouTube play buttons and that kind of stuff, there are some other really cool numbers too. 200 million views, 4.8 million likes, 1.8 million comments, 100,000 members of the Linus Tech Tips community site, 2,500 videos, over 1,300 years of collective time spent watching Linus Tech Tips videos, 7 members of the Linus Tech Tips Linus Media Group production team, and 3 channels now with daily, bi-weekly, and weekly content. We have come a long way and it is all thanks to you guys, our amazing viewers. So I've put together some pretty awesome giveaways to celebrate, but first it's old man reminiscing time. So when I first started this channel, I was working at NCIX. It's an awesome computer store in Canada. And Linus Tech Tips was meant to be complementary to the official NCIX YouTube channel that I'd already been working on for over a year. Basically, I wanted somewhere to put stuff like leaked information about unreleased products or products that really didn't deserve their own dedicated video on the main channel and where I could let my personality out a little bit without worrying too much about how it would reflect on the company image. So the initial format lasted for a matter of like weeks because, and I legitimately don't remember whose idea this was, but I got a new performance target and the goal was to do daily videos. I mean, it's totally insane now that I look back at it. So early in the process, I remember cameraman and I, the original cameraman, taking an entire week's worth of content. In this case, it was like six P55 motherboards from MSI and Gigabyte and unboxing them on a park bench in one afternoon outside the office. So that day in August 2009, just over five years ago, the one take policy was devised as a way for us to achieve that daily video goal. And then from then on, we tried to do every product unboxing in one take, mostly to save on editing time. Sometimes it hurt the quality of the video. I'd make a mistake or forget something or the product demo wouldn't work. But I think it added a charming human element and some unpredictability to what was otherwise pretty dry subject matter. I wish that I could say that I was some kind of YouTube genius who premeditated all this stuff, but honestly, half the time, I didn't know what was going to happen in a Linus TechShips video. Here's an SSD that I unboxed standing on top of my then girlfriend, now wife's bed because the weather sucked outside and there was nowhere else to film. And I had a video due that night. Anyway, that went on for some time until almost two years ago. Now I realized it was time to leave NCIX and start my own company dedicated to just Linus Tech Tips and my other video projects. Linus Media Group was born. So real talk time, my team and I went all in on Linus Media Group. The first two members of my team, Luke and Edzel, both changed their education plans to do this with me. And I spent just about every penny that I had saved over the previous six years supporting the business for the first three to four months until it started being able to stand on its own. But the investment paid off with more time to spend on making videos and a team that has since grown to include seven people as I alluded to before, we've been able to produce what I think is some of the highest quality technology content on YouTube and we've done it without ever compromising on that daily upload schedule. So I'm extremely thankful to my team for helping us get to this milestone. But even more than that, I'm thankful to you guys. I mean, the viewers out there who are watching this right now, without your support, we would not have made it. I knew I was going to have to find ways to monetize our content beyond Google AdSense so that I could pay people a living wage and cover my own overhead. But I didn't know how you guys would react. And I'm so thankful that you've continued to be supportive all this time because thanks to you guys, I think I have one of the coolest jobs in the world and I get to work with the coolest group of people in the world. And I guess speaking of sponsorships, before I reveal the big giveaway, this is a great time to also thank our sponsors because without them, this whole thing also wouldn't work. So today's sponsors audible.com. Recently I talk about how they have over 150,000 audiobooks and Gone Girl by Jillian Flynn is a seriously mind screwy but awesome ride. I actually just finished it and how you should go to audible.com slash Linus and sign up for their monthly audio book membership and all that stuff. But I mean, come on, you guys know what audible is. So if you want to listen to an audio book, go there. They have like everything. No, today I'd rather talk about the way that they've supported Linus Media Group as well. They were the first non PC hardware sponsor that began working with us. And that relationship actually opened up a lot of doors for us to other non PC sponsors who saw what audible was doing and thought, hey, maybe this could work for us too. So today is more about thanks audible.com from the bottom of my heart. I appreciate what you guys have done and I hope my viewers feel the same way and recommend audible to their friends and family for allowing small business owners like me to do what we love. All right. So with all that out of the way, like tear up your, what am I giving away to celebrate a few different things? Actually, first up is the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 that I reviewed in this video here. Austin's got it right now. I think he's working on something with it, but as soon as he's done, it is one lucky winners new notebook tablet Surface thing. Next we've got a full blown gaming rig. We're talking core i7 4770K 16 gigs of RAM, 40 gigs worth of solid state storage, gigabyte wind force R9 290, the custom painted one that we had in our razor machine. And you may have noticed that I don't actually have the computer here. Great point. Keen observation. That one will be built and shipped to you by me personally. And the case will be graffiti by me and the rest of the Linus media group team, including signing it and writing whatever we want on it. It might totally look like ass when we're done, but for one lucky winner, it'll at least be your ass. And finally, the Linus tech tips.com forum has been asking me for a community exclusive giveaway for a long time. And since nobody claimed the G five 50 J gaming notebook that we gave away to commemorate our Highlander Guinness world record LAN party, I am making this one for a member exclusive. So we will keep drawing from the thread guys. You got to check the thread for details on how to win all this stuff until we reach someone who we feel has been a positive contributing member of the community. It won't be based on joint date. It won't be based on post count. In fact, we're not going to tell you what it's based on. I'm just going to say that it's going to be someone who really sets a great example of the positivity and helpfulness that we strive to maintain on the board. So to win any of this stuff, like I just said, check out the main video description link to the giveaway. Follow the instructions very carefully. Thank you again for all of your support and good luck with the giveaway guys. Like this video if you liked it. Like it if you disliked it. Leave a comment letting me know. I'm going to read all the comments on this video. So just let me know, you know, what do you, what do you think of what we've been doing? Yeah, I think that's pretty. Oh right. Yeah. In the video description, you'll find links to support us so you can give us a monthly contribution that helps us out a lot. You can buy a sweet t-shirt like this one. That helps us out a lot. And then you can even just change your Amazon bookmark to one with our affiliate code. So we get a small kickback whenever you buy stuff. All that stuff helps us out a lot. And again, thank you. Can't say it enough times.