Potentially. Keep in mind however, these guys get a LOT of email from fans asking them to talk about various things (One of the more funnier examples was a group I am in on FB for fans of english prog band Cardiacs decided to try and launch a campaign to get music youtuber Rick Beato to talk about the band. He was spammed so hard with fans that he apparently lost his temper at them. Needless to say, Mr Beato has not covered Cardiacs). Possibly a smarter approach would be to approach their management whos jobs are to handle this sort of stuff , you might get a better result. Also, don’t forget the social media channels. Twitter , uh X or whatever its called this week, does offer a conduit where directly approaching media figures is a little more normalized.
Agreed, chance of success when cold emailing busy people is low, and spamming them is bad. And there are alternate approaches that may work better, depending on the person and their setup—some Youtubers don’t have a manager or employees, some do. I also think being able to begin an email with “Hi, I run the DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team” was quite helpful here.
Potentially. Keep in mind however, these guys get a LOT of email from fans asking them to talk about various things (One of the more funnier examples was a group I am in on FB for fans of english prog band Cardiacs decided to try and launch a campaign to get music youtuber Rick Beato to talk about the band. He was spammed so hard with fans that he apparently lost his temper at them. Needless to say, Mr Beato has not covered Cardiacs). Possibly a smarter approach would be to approach their management whos jobs are to handle this sort of stuff , you might get a better result. Also, don’t forget the social media channels. Twitter , uh X or whatever its called this week, does offer a conduit where directly approaching media figures is a little more normalized.
Agreed, chance of success when cold emailing busy people is low, and spamming them is bad. And there are alternate approaches that may work better, depending on the person and their setup—some Youtubers don’t have a manager or employees, some do. I also think being able to begin an email with “Hi, I run the DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team” was quite helpful here.