I’m Ben Toone, assistant content producer at the BBC College of Production (CoP) website.

Our site is a free online learning resource for the radio, television and online production community offering videos, podcasts and articles from broadcasting innovators and experts.

Have you heard of Jack Harries? Two million plus subscribers to his JacksGap YouTube channel have made him something of a YouTube celebrity. He, along with Food Tube’s Richard Herd and Earth Unplugged’s Chris Howard gave their advice on how to run a successful YouTube channel in our podcast.

Jack Harries, Richard Herd and Chris Howard chat about running successful YouTube channels

From making the content short and snappy to maintain the audience’s attention to collaborating with other YouTubers, making best use of features such as annotations and playlists and their preferred equipment to use - with YouTube pushing to take on TV and be the place that people come to watch video, TV producers should take note!

From factual short-form content on YouTube to online drama with a culinary twist. Sandy Nicholson talks about how he wrote and produced Comfort Food, the world’s first cooking show with characters and a plot.

The series was funded by crowdsourcing with fans donating towards the production of the series after watching a pilot. It’s a continuing trend with many low budget film-makers turning to the fans to raise funds through sites like Indiegogo or KickStarter and broadcasting on the web rather than pitching to traditional broadcasters.

The added bonus with this approach is that you actively engage with your audience, something that resulted in the Comfort Food team being deluged with pictures of desserts made by the audience as they watched the show!

Comfort Food: the first cooking show with characters and plot

“Keep your profile relevant to the work you want and the professional you are”. Sound advice from our editor Paul Buller as he delivered a workshop on getting your career profile noticed online to a live audience and on Twitter at the Bectu Freelancers’ Fair.

From choosing the right platform to how to present your ideas and content, we’ve storified all the questions and useful tips, not only from Paul but from our ever helpful and resourceful @BBCCoP Twitter followers.

Finally, a quick word on Digital Cardiff: a week-long event looking at digital ideas and innovation for the Welsh creative industries. Welsh broadcaster S4C live streamed from the event with sessions up on YouTube.

BBCCoP and @TheBBCAcademy live tweeted #digitalcardiff from the event and there’ll be some articles to follow. You can find out more about one of the innovative online drama’s featured on one of Monday’s talks, Pobol y Cwm spin off PyC, in our podcast.

Ben Toone is assistant content producer for the College of Production website.