Vito Iacopelli States "they" want to close my chanel

[PIZZAYOLOLLC]

This closing channel is just a marketing gimmick - you can easily find hundreds of other YouTubers doing the same. It is also a thing - especially if you have "enemies" - buying fake views from the millions of websites out there and making them watch the videos for few seconds and drop to screw other channels. Not sure who will do that to Vito. Also, when it goes to the pizzeria "teaching" and changing how they do this and that - it's all 100% made up. Vito is a nice guy who has been consistently posting on youtube and for sure he is someone who works really hard. His problem is when calling himself a "maestro" and the masterclass - he is creating expectations that are way higher than what he can deliver as a professional.

His pizzeria in LA "Prova" closed. After that he opened Provami and kinda of sold it - closed too. Putting his name and face on this Provami project where you can still read on the website the "World renowned chef Vito Iacopelli"

The guy is just way too full of himself and sometimes way too scrappy. Good youtuber leveraging the stereotypical Italian (as an Italian like him) with his "funny" accent and way of saying things. The rest is questionable.

[PapaJawnz]

I saw his plea and it felt embarrassing.  Please watch the WHOLE VIDEO GUYS.

I'm sorry, I'll take any pizza making forum members input and influence over this guy.  No offense to the fanboys, I just don't like the presentation and he can't make a new york style pizza.  WTF is up with this 00 flour for everything.

[Timpanogos Slim]

I saw his plea and it felt embarrassing.  Please watch the WHOLE VIDEO GUYS.

I'm sorry, I'll take any pizza making forum members input and influence over this guy.  No offense to the fanboys, I just don't like the presentation and he can't make a new york style pizza.  WTF is up with this 00 flour for everything.

00 flour for everything i can sort of sympathize with as a guy who bought 25lb of CM 00 a year ago and still has at least 5 pounds of it - I live alone and mostly make one small pizza for me, 2-3 times a week.

I go through bread flour a lot faster. Fast enough that although i like the results i am getting with a local product, I'm annoyed enough that i can only get it in 5lb bags that i am considering getting a 25lb bag of Graincraft Power Flour and a Cambro container to keep it in and putting up with the hassle of adjusting my roughly-once-a-week bread process to a new product.

I mostly make a pizza that is romanesque, so i add a little DMP because my temperatures are 725-750ish. But the CM 00 is good flour, and my recipe and process are adapted to it, and i am debating having my nephew who lives 2 blocks from CM bring me another 25lb bag when he comes down for xmas.

Last week i made some detroit style dough with CM 00 and a healthy portion of semolina, or rather CM pasta flour. It worked great. I also used more DMP in that than i do in my 700-degree pizzas.

[The Pontificator]

A drop in the rate of new subscriptions could be nothing but a tweak to the algorithm or even a natural limit in the number of potential new subscribers. Youtube has a long history of making subtle, secret changes that content creators have to decipher and adjust their strategies around or just accept decreased revenue.

This. Just ask Shawn Kelly aka "Corporals Corner" (bushcraft & survival skills). But instead of whining about being on the business end of some sort of conspiracy he's learned to diversify outside of Youtube.

[mosabrina]

I thought about this. Youtube has a click through rate for advertising. For youtubers who are getting less than 10 or so million views a month it would be quite easy to get any youtuber banned just by clicking on too many of their ads in a short period of time. Youtube views this as fraud and the only way to protect yourself is to report it the second you notice it happening.

If you were to catch a youtuber on vacation and then spam their videos, it would not take too many clicks to close someone's channel. Views are even easier. It is shockingly easy to buy 1 million views and it is not that expensive.

I have reported large youtubers (over 20 million subscribers) for community guidelines violations and it cuts them off from uploading for 1 week.

[Timpanogos Slim]

an increased number of short views could just mean that his videos are getting promoted to a broader set of people with the result that lots of them skip it when it comes up in their suggested auto-play.

[Slice]

I really enjoy watching Massimo Nocerino on youtube.

He is a wood fired pizza vendor in London, but still has the right accent. 

Way more laid back. It's fairly similar content to Vito in some regards, except that you can see Massimo actually working in his videos rather than referencing some hyped restaurant etc.
He covers it all with regards to marheritas, starters, doughs, working the oven, no stick the peel, fixing rips etc.

He is essentially the video-mentor that I am going to use to get me going with my WFO and pizza making.

https://www.youtube.com/@massimonocerino/videos

[LucianoButNoO]

I gotta say as a brand new pizza maker I enjoyed Vito's content on Neapolitan until I started to see the inconsistencies in his dough recipe, not measuring ingredients, his over the top entertainment first approach. Look I still think the guy has done a big service to the pizza making community and he's probably harmless as the experienced pizzaiolos are not derailed by his style.

[EatandTweet]

I do YouTube myself. I do like Vito, although like others I really only watched him at the start. YouTube isn't an easy place as it is so crowded. Personally I just do it for fun, but even then my channel has grown from 100+ subscribers to well over 1300 in what feels like no time at all.

I think as long as people love pizza, Vito will be ok. Personally to me, it feels like home pizza making is a fast growing market. When I first started there was a handful of pizza ovens to buy (Gozney/Ooni) and now there seems to be a new one every week.

[punkech]

I find his delivery annoying. I'm sure he's a nice guy.

Places other than this forum i run into people who are asking for help with whatever kind of ultimate crazy pizza crust recipe or method they came across in his videos that isn't working for them and usually they have no baking experience past brownie mixes and i suppose did not want to start with the basics. It's hard to help them because they don't understand what they're trying to do well enough to explain it to me, the recipe or method is pretty weird, and i don't feel like watching videos to try and understand it myself. 

A drop in the rate of new subscriptions could be nothing but a tweak to the algorithm or even a natural limit in the number of potential new subscribers. Youtube has a long history of making subtle, secret changes that content creators have to decipher and adjust their strategies around or just accept decreased revenue.

I watched his videos i never seen any 'crazy' recipe.

[Dustedflourboard]

As an entertainer I would want to see more of him behind the scenes. Because we're cool with it all forsure and appreciative, but these days what does an audience really define?