People paying close attention to some of Brian Christopher’s videos may notice that a member of the team is sometimes snapping photos:
So recently I have noticed that usually someone on Brian’s team as well as other creators take pictures of jackpots. Specifically of the dollar amount won. Is this for tracking purposes for when they are waiting for payouts (ex. delete the picture when jackpot is paid) Or is it used as proof for taxation? To be clear this is not the picture taken with a creator such as for a thumbnail but sometimes you see Raymond sneak in and take a snapshot. Is this something that you should practice yourself anytime you hit a jackpot? Thanks!!!
Melissa A.
The picture is generally related to the complexity of content creation nowadays moreso than tax proof. Because the casino will give you paperwork, that’s all the proof you need of the jackpot – that same paperwork gets filed with the IRS, so it’s about as official as you can get.
Snapshots of jackpots above and beyond what is needed for a thumbnail can be helpful for things like social post carousels as opposed to static images, or for sending out to certain people internally to make them aware of what’s happening. At the time Brian won his biggest jackpot, there was multiple recordings going along with the Rudies live stream, in both horizontal and vertical formats, to make sure we had the content.
Increasingly these steps are taken so there’s more flexibility when something happens that’s unexpected, like his biggest jackpot – the fact we had a horizontal and vertical recording was helpful because we could share the vertical as a short right after it happened, while still having the full fidelity horizontal recording for use down the line in compilations or other contexts.
Sometimes photos are also snapped for other purposes. For instance, some of them end up right here on Flip The Switch! So it also helps us build a library to leverage, given the fact that we illustrate each article with a picture.
Long gone are the days where Brian would just film his play, edit some segments together and put them out there – social media platforms and fans each have levels of expectation of what they will or should find, and we didn’t grow our audience by not learning and listening to both for best practices.
So that’s what you’re seeing – photos and video tend to be shot, especially in certain scenarios to help with the various needs across our websites, videos and social media outlets.
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