Ooook! This was one of the more exhausting videos to finish. Took forever, we spent so much time on all sorts of details. Tried a few new animations, hope you like them! As I said in the last post, universal basic income is next. But we might do a shorter automation bonus video (shorter in this cont...
2017-06-08 16:34:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody! I want to give you a short Kurzgesagt update and what is going to happen in the next few months video wise.
So right now we are probably going to hire more people. Another producer/project manager and an office manager to take care of all the back office stuff. Because, h...
2017-05-30 05:32:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Everything will end. Even the universe. But in a future so far away that it defies description, there will still be light and therefore a chance for life. It will be around White Dwarfs, the corpses of stars. But even they will fade one day..
In light of the ongoing mess that is the Ad-pocalypse on Youtube we thought it might be a good time to share our thoughts about Patreon and why we consider it the most important part of our income.
I wrote about this here before but it might still be interesting to some of you. As always, th...
2017-04-26 13:24:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This video will probably not make everybody happy. Probably for completely opposite reasons. Some people want less political and economic integration, some want more of it. Some want to stop immigration, others want better integration instead. Some want an EU army, others want to disband Nato. And m...
2017-04-13 12:01:40 +0000 UTC View Post
As you might have noticed, we never put ourselves in the foreground a lot. We never did a face reveal or a behind the scenes video and we never talked that much about how we work – even though this would probably made our lives much easier. Especially in the beginning, people thought we were some ...
2017-04-12 12:43:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody!
This Patreon will soon be updated (Soon in Kurzgesagt time – 3-4 months probably).
We'll make a new Patreon video (which will probably also double as a "how we do Kurzgesagt" video) And we want to phase out some of the old rewards and offer new ones.
S...
2017-04-03 09:23:18 +0000 UTC View Post
This was certainly one of the most complicated videos we ever made. Took much more time than usually. We know that this is a sensible topic for many people so we collected all our sources. If you are interested they are in the description and comment section!
Hey everybody!
A few days ago we posted a screenshot from a scene that we had to cut from a video. It turned out that many people asked for it as a wallpaper. So we made a bonus wallpaper for all Patrons, as a mini thank you for being with us.
Three sizes for desktop, tablet and phone....
2017-03-21 12:35:25 +0000 UTC View PostSo we want to share what is going on behind the scenes a bit because I feel we are doing a bad job at communicating with all of you. It is kind of hard to accept for my brain but today we are neither new nor small. Kurzgesagt is one of the biggest science channels and we are one of the biggest earne...
2017-03-06 17:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post
What shall we do once machines become conscious? Do we need to grant them rights?
Thank you all for the support!
2017-02-23 13:36:54 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody, I just wanted to give you an update on what we are up to.
Right now we are doing a huge amount of work behind the scenes, we are finally tackling a few topics that are so big that we just can’t fit them into „normal“ videos.
The biggest video by far this year will be „...
2017-02-21 10:20:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Ohhhh boy. This was a hard one. We bascially had it completely finsihed when we showed it a few people and were told that we did explain something crucial in a really confusing way. So we took another week to rewrite, rerecord and reanimate about 60 seconds of the video. It works SO much better now....
2017-02-01 13:37:43 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patrons! I feel we owe you a short report what your investment in us got you as a return this past year!
Have I ever introduced myself by the way? I’m Philipp, and started Kurzgesagt three years ago. My main job is deciding the video topics and to write and research the scripts. I also ...
2016-12-31 17:04:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Our last video for this year. Thank you so much for supporting us. We'll make a "Patreon Report" for you guys before the end of the year!
2016-12-22 13:41:57 +0000 UTC View Post
It is time to reframe how we think about our past.
We need a new year 0 for humanity. But which one should we choose and why?
2016-12-07 17:10:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Patrons. We did something special and since it is limited we want to let you know two days in advance. (We trust you that you don’t post this anywhere on social media until Wednesday.)
So in two days a new video will be out. The topic is „A new history for humanity“. It...
2016-12-05 21:28:13 +0000 UTC View Post
There are a group of parasites extremely disgusting and mean. Humanity declared war on them.
Hope you like it – this video was horrible to research but great to illustrate : D
2016-11-30 13:51:24 +0000 UTC View PostDear Bird Patrons! The Bird Perk is about to change very soon and I want to inform you in advance – first of all: NOTHING WILL CHANGE FOR YOU!
We need to make this perk more expensive for new Patrons. When we started our Patreon, doing the birds was a great idea – it was maybe five birds...
2016-11-28 07:41:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Wooo, new video. If everything goes as planned there will be another one in November. But hey, who knows.
2016-11-11 08:44:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patreons,
we thought we let you know that we are doing a very limited run of Kurzgesagt Socks together with Bakdrop. They will be available for exactly 7 days and then never again until the heat death of the universe. Maybe slightly earlier but not a lot.
This really is a jus...
2016-11-07 13:35:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody! I would like to talk to you about pressure today. Kurzgesagt had its best year ever in 2016 (well, ok, there have only been two other years, BUT STILL!). We gained two million subscribers, we made what I think are some of the best videos we ever published. We got an amazing ...
2016-11-01 22:39:36 +0000 UTC View Post
What if there is a way to destroy the universe so fundamentally that life as we know it will be impossible forever?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFm6DxNVyI
THANKS A LOT TO ALL OF YOU LOVELY PATRONS FO...
2016-10-21 15:21:23 +0000 UTC View Post
The amount of work that we put into this video is insane. I’m extremely proud about the team for pulling it off. It is amazing to work with a bunch of people that talented and dedicated.
You know, doing kurzgesagt videos has almost become normal to us. We don’t work late that often and...
2016-08-10 12:15:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Many people asked for a wallpaper from the thumbnail of the video yesterday. Here it is (see attachment!) A variant for phones/tablets will follow in about a week or so and will be available to the wallpaper patterns : )
2016-08-01 13:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-07-31 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hey everybody, it has already been a few days but we reached the $15K goal on this Patreon. Thank you so much for your support!
This is a lot of money and we can say without a doubt that Patreon has become one of the major ways we finance the youtube channel. (if you care to know, it covers abou...
Hey everybody! We need your feedback – in the next two to three months we’ll relaunch this Patreon, which means there will be new perks, new rewards and a redesign (all of you will have access to the new rewards too!).
And we’ll do a new Patreon video ( in which we show how a video is m...
2016-07-22 14:26:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We are working on something that is way more work than usual. It might be absolutely not worth it. This is a strange feeling because everything we work on is too much work. Kurzgesagt never wast hat goal oriented in the first place. When I started the channel nobody thought that investing hundreds o...
2016-07-12 09:28:26 +0000 UTC View Post