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[mino]

Generally speaking, I like the idea of education videos with greater depth. However, I also cringe at the notion of influencers/content creators doing what you note here - and I think of it as a coffee professional.
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By "influencers" I had in mind the likes of Peter Parfitt, Peter Millard (he is the first one who comes to mind here) or Scott Brown from down under.
People who can do narration yet are explicitly not Festool insiders nor professional non-woodworking filmmakers who have no touch with the trade nor professional woodworkers who would take too much information for granted.

Basically, contract PM for 2 years full time video production with pre-agreed scope and schedule. Have an actual production shop in UK allow him to shoot at their premises over weekends/evenings, give him access to Festool engineers AND the retired Festool engineers so he can add interesting scoops and task him to go at it.
Separate the contract into three separate deliverables: The footage /which can be later re-cut/, the live acting and the post-production/narration.

I am no tuber, yet know how I would approach this. I am sure someone like PM or Scott Brown would be more than capable to build-out their own concepts.

 

[cpw]

I think what they need is the presentation of Brent (who unfortunately was let go) with topics like Festool live. Not him building something, but actually educating on a specific tool. A deep dive on the tool, without fluff that you need to watch at double speed and skip names/etc. Also if you don't do it live, you can cut/recut to get it right and save your viewers time. The videos FT europe posts usually don't actually educate you enough to use the tool as effectively as possible. Sedge's own channel is much more informative and paced than the FT live was. He has a personality on Sedgetool, but it doesn't take over the presentation.

As far as battery chargers; I think it makes sense to reduce SKUs. I've bought into the Festool and Dewalt 20V systems. I have more chargers than I know what to do with. Probably also batteries at this point. With my usage, I basically divide my Festool batteries into bluetooth and not blue tooth more than capacity. Having a battery slot in the systainer is nice so everything stays together. As long as they offer batteries and a charger at reasonable prices (preferably without the additional cost of a systainer), I think the change makes sense. For people getting their feet wet with one tool, you could even just have a package deal like they used to with the CTs.