Nuseir Yassin

Nuseir Yassin
Born (1992-02-09) February 9, 1992
Nationality Israeli
Occupation Video blogger

Nuseir Yassin (born February 9, 1992) is an Arab-Israeli travel video blogger who creates daily 1-minute videos on Facebook under the page Nas Daily.

Early life and career

Yassin grew up in the town of Arraba in Lower Galilee, Israel.[1] He is in the middle of four children of a teacher, his mother, and a psychologist, his father.[1][2] He grew up learning Arabic and Hebrew,[3] and was raised as a Muslim.[4] After taking a DNA test, he discovered that he has 1% European Jewish ancestry.[4]

Setting his sights on the Ivy League schools in the United States, Yassin applied to Harvard seeking a degree in aerospace engineering at the age of 19 and receiving a scholarship.[2] He stated that he got accepted on account of his application essay that detailed his struggle to achieve his dreams being an Arab born in Israel.[1] He graduated with a degree in economics in 2014 and also studied computer science.[2][3][5] While earning his degree, Yassin co-founded the website Kindify, a pay-it-forward registration service, with Gal Koren and Peregrine Badger in 2011.[6][7]

In September 2014, he started working as a software developer for Venmo, a mobile payment service owned by PayPal where he earned a salary of US$120,000.[8][9][5]

Nas Daily

In 2016, after saving around US$60,000, 20,000 of which is in liquid cash,[9] Yassin quit his job at Venmo and started traveling all over the world.[8][2] He decided to start a Facebook page named Nas Daily, where "Nas" means "people" in Arabic, and committed to creating a video everyday for 1,000 days.[2] The first country he visited was Kenya.[9] One of his first side gigs was to teach five people in Nigeria how to create videos for which he earned US$3,000 per month.[9] His source of income is ad revenue from his Facebook page, selling T-shirts, and consulting for people interested in multimedia.[2] After meeting Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in early 2018, Nas Daily was upgraded to "show" status.[10] As of October 2018, his Facebook page has over 9 million followers.[11]

Yassin stated that his videos are one minute long because viewers are busy and that he posts on Facebook instead of YouTube, where he could be earning more money, because "my friends don't go on YouTube".[9] He also stated that interactions are more personal on Facebook, where user accounts are tied to actual people as opposed to YouTube.[9] Among the people who travel with Yassin and help create his videos are Alyne Tamir, a video maker and his girlfriend from the United States, and Agon Hare, a video blogger and musician from Poland.[10] His videos are shot using an SLR camera with an attached microphone, edited during the night, and then released the next morning.[10] On average, each video takes around six hours to shoot and three hours to edit.[1] He ends his videos with the tagline: "That’s one minute, see you tomorrow!"[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Steinberg, Jessica (2017-03-04). "For Israeli Arab one-minute video blogger, time is of the essence". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Perper, Rosie (2018-05-30). "An Israeli-Palestinian Harvard graduate quit his job to travel the world — and is now one of the most successful creators on Facebook". Business Insider. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 Baker, Luke (2017-03-03). "Palestinian-Israeli covers the world in viral one-minute videos". Reuters. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  4. 1 2 Spiro, Amy (2018-01-18). "Viral Palestinian Israeli Facebook star discovers he's 1% Jewish". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Nuseir Yassin LinkedIn profile". LinkedIn. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  6. ↑ Szaniszlo, Marie (2012-03-04). "'Pay It Forward' inspires Kindify site". Boston Herald. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "Kindify". Crunchbase. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  8. 1 2 Logan, Nick (2018-08-05). "Nuseir Yassin quit his job, started Nas Daily and brought the world to your Facebook newsfeed". Globalnews.ca. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mercado, Darla (2017-04-12). "Facebook video star refuses to cash in via YouTube". CNBC. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Ferrante, Malcolm Scerri (2018-05-06). "Life with the Nas Daily crew". Times of Malta. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "Nas Daily". Facebook. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
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