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The world of entertainment has changed dramatically in the last few years.
娛樂界在過去這幾年間有了巨大轉變。

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The screen stars of today aren't just from film or from television. They're gaining fame on the Web.
如今螢幕上的明星並非只出自電影或電視，他們也從網路上得到知名度。

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Jim Boulden shows us how people are making a living from posting their video.
吉姆．波登要告訴我們，人們是如何靠著在網路上張貼影片來營生。

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Fast cars on cramped streets.
疾速車行駛在擁擠的馬路上。

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It may be hard for these rare supercars to get a head of steam on London's streets, but they still grab the attention.
或許這些珍貴的超級跑車很難在倫敦街頭上施展身手，但它們仍然很吸睛。

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As a teenager, Paul Wallace decided to post videos of these cars.
保羅．華勒斯還是個青少年時，就決定要在網路上張貼這些車子的影片。

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At the age of 15, I literally... I just uploaded it to YouTube and showed my friends,
我在十五歲的時候，我其實……我就是把影片上傳到 YouTube 秀給我朋友看，

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and so it's really sort of gone on from there.
整件事可以說就是從那時候開始的。

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And people are obviously searching to find that sort of stuff.
顯然大家會搜尋去找像那一類的東西。

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There are now some 700 videos and more than 58,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, Supercars of London.
如今他的 YouTube 頻道 Supercars of London 共有七百支左右的影片，還有五萬八千多名訂閱者。

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I think from day one, there was an instant sort of attraction to seeing these cars on the road,
我認為打從一開始，大家立刻就會被吸引住，想看這一類的車子在路上跑，

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because normally, they'd seen them in magazines and on TV shows, like Top Gear.
因為通常他們都是在雜誌和電視節目上看到這類車子，例如《英國瘋狂汽車秀》。

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So, it was sort of... I was bringing them to life sort of thing.
所以這有點像……我只是讓它們在真實生活中呈現出來。

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And within sort of a few months, there was sort of a thousand views on one video.
在大約幾個月內，其中一支影片的點閱率好像就達到一千次。

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Through Google AdSense, Paul now gets a cut of every ad that runs ahead of his videos.
透過谷歌的 AdSense 廣告計畫，保羅現在可以從他的影片前播放的每則廣告中抽成。

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He says he's now making $2,500 a month.
他說他現在每個月賺兩千五百美元。

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I think it was when I really put a business plan to Google, when I applied for the Google AdSense partnership.
我認為整件事是那時候我真的向谷歌提出商業企劃，我向谷歌 AdSense 提出合夥關係的申請。

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Me and my friend at the time, we wrote a business plan and sort of told them how much money and time we were gonna be investing.
當時我和我朋友寫了一份商業企劃，並且就是告訴谷歌我們打算投入多少資金和時間。

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Paul still goes into central London most weekends seeking out a rare auto,
保羅大多數週末仍舊會前往倫敦市中心尋找罕見的汽車，

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leaving behind his own Audi R8 sports car, recently bought with his YouTube earnings.
獨留他自己最近利用在 YouTube 的收入買下的奧迪 R8 跑車。

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A lot of people would think now that I've got a supercar, that's it.
很多人會以為現在我已經有了一台超級跑車，那就這樣啦。

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I still go to London by train and film these supercars with all of my friends that I've met over the past five years.
我還是會搭火車到倫敦跟我過去五年間認識的所有朋友一起拍攝這些超級跑車。

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I'd like to think that I'm sort of a mini business entrepreneur.
我比較想要把自己當成一個小型企業創業家。

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These cars normally ply the streets of the Gulf states.
這些車子平常都穿梭在波斯灣國家的街道。

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As the summer comes in and I'm there more, you do meet a lot of Arabs.
隨著夏季到來，我就愈常去市中心。你會認識很多阿拉伯人，

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And they're all very friendly and very polite, and some of them even study at university now and become good friends.
他們都非常友善而且很有禮貌，他們有些人甚至現在在大學就讀，然後就變成好朋友。

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They love it, so I'm taking them up and down here...
他們愛死了，所以我帶著他們在這裡晃晃……

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They're quite excited by being in a Ferrari.
他們坐在一台法拉利裡面會覺得很興奮吧。

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They love it, video it, put it on Instagram, start following, and everyone kind of just meets up at the weekend. I think it's quite good.
他們很愛這種車，會拍下來，放到 Instagram 上，開始追蹤，大家都會在週末碰面，我覺得這樣挺好的。

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Paul also handles the social media for a high-end auto repair company in Watford outside London, mixing his passion with business sense.
保羅還替倫敦郊區沃特佛鎮的一家高級汽車修理公司經營社群媒體，結合他的熱情和商業頭腦。

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I found something very early on and I was lucky, lucky enough to find something that I enjoyed doing very early on, and it just so happens that it earns money.
我很早就發現了一些東西，而且我很幸運，足以早早就找到我有興趣做的事，而剛好這件事可以賺錢。

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I always had an ambition; I wanted to own a Lamborghini by 25.
我一直有個野心，我想要在二十五歲之前擁有一輛藍寶堅尼，

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So, an Audi R8 at 23 is like a step there.
所以二十三歲擁有一台奧迪 R8 可以算是往那目標踏出的一步。

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So, he's got two years and a lot more uploading to reach his goal of perhaps filming his own Lamborghini on the streets of London.
所以他還有兩年時間，並且要上傳更多影片，或許才能達到在倫敦街頭拍攝他自己的藍寶堅尼的目標。