Originally this post was on my Paragraph blog website for the gaming brand. However with the changes to the app I didn't care for, and the lack of growth on that endeavor.

It seemed wise to bring it back into the fold a bit, where I can keep the blog posts together here on the OmniBlog. The PolyInnovator Gaming brand is still technically separate, its just there wasn't a need for the website to be.

This post will start off with the original post copy, then I'll add more news to the end of it.

How do I Separate my brands as a Polymathic Creator?
Managing multiple brands under the umbrella personal brand is an information architecture nightmare. This is how I think about it going forward, and I wanted to process some choices via writing. Let’s dive in.
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The 2023 Version of the Post

Introduction

I've always pursued my content in the idea of "phases", which are the "main focus of the time period". Meaning how modular education was my first phase, interviews being the next, and swimming after. While I still consider the swimming to be my main phase right now, there were a couple more that needed to be worked on.

One of those being Gaming, as since it was something I did regularly for decompression. It was viable to turn into a side series. However it seemed that posting gaming content on the main feed that I had on YouTube, or even on my Instagram. It seemed too out of place, even for a polymathic personal brand.

The Vision of PolyInnovator

This is the vision of innovation, making a change, and exploring the realms of polymathy. With that in mind, while gaming is a part of my life, and PolyInnovator is MY personal brand or life. It just didn't fit in the context of a content channel. While it is a part of the ecosystem of content I create, it doesn't have to be on the same channel.

That was something it took a while for me to fully accept.

Birth of PolyInnovator Gaming

The idea of the channel is that of gaming as a whole, and so not just one particular game or style of content. Since I'd be taking a generalist-like approach to my gaming content from the get go. It made even more sense to make it into a separate channel.

Rather than a separate series.

This is because the main PolyInnovator channel is already divergent enough with the various types of content on there. In addition, the various types of content I'd make for gaming, would be pretty divergent on their own channel. Making it already different than most gaming channels anyways. Having two similar polymathic channels, but with different niches makes total sense.

Deciding to Separate

I always saw the YT channel or podcast feed as sources of PolyInnovator. Regardless of the niche of the content. It was more of the source, than the topic itself.

Although between search engine optimization, and just organization of the information architecture of the content ecosystem. It makes more sense to formulate different, but related trees.

Conclusion

My issue does arise when it comes to time allocation, as this year I haven't been able to allocate much time to this endeavor. Thus the channel hasn't grown, and I haven't posted a full video in quite some time. It is frustrating, although I am hoping now that I have a more planned out system in Capacities.io, then things will be better!

The 2025 Update - No longer separated?

Well at least, as much!

I had already brought in the Phasevos content into the gaming site, and now I'm bringing all of that into here. This is just because I don't see a point in having a separate site anymore. I wasn't doing a whole lot of content, and when I do it will most likely be video or streaming focused anyways. Any of the blog type works can just be housed here. I'll actually write more often that way, as it is less context switching between tools.

Eventually when I make my Phasevos game that will need its own site, but that is down the line. The rest of the gaming content is welcomed back here. I already wrote 🎮 PolyInnovator Gaming tag content here anyways.

I still think there is a point to having a separate channel, and maybe for some creators out there even separate websites. However I plan on having all my links I need like for Twitch or Kick easily accessible regardless.