I lost my blogging job. Should I bet on my own blog now or do vlogging?
I lost my blogging job a few weeks ago on the grounds that it was no longer a fruitful activity for my employer, thanks to AI and all the video stuff. I wanted to make videos for them but somehow things couldn’t work out.
I have a few options:
1- Start a new blog in the same niche my job was about - WordPress tools, reviews and guides. Plus make videos for the same. Use based candid reviews on a select WP and AI tools that I can use and talk about. But I’m not sure if AI has left any room for such recommendations or not.
2- Revive a dormant blog which I quit almost 6 years ago. It has some ranking and domain authority. It’s about mobile phones (reviews, camera tests and battery test) but I lost interest in this niche so I quit it and moved on. I recently checked that it captures around 150 users (organic) a day on a variety of posts. It also has an associated YT channel with 48K subs that I used to run at that time. But, I no longer find myself good enough to create the content for it which the mobile audience would love. I used to get phones from brands for review but that’s not a great model if you want to be true to your audience. Brands influence a lot especially if you’re a smaller platform.
I think experienced bloggers can help me get a start. Advice needed!