I’ve spotted that question within the comments section of my YouTube channel more times than I can count. The answer has always been one of two certainties: the overhead view of the Golden Gate Bridge was taken by yours truly while flying into the city for a press trip, or the stunning cityscape frame of Hong Kong Harbour is one of macOS’s included wallpapers.

More often than not, though, the wallpapers I place on my devices are extremely personal - photos of special places or special people in my life. You’ll spot them occasionally within my videos, but they’re certainly not for sharing beyond my screen.

I’m acutely aware, however, that there is a thirst for the wallpapers people see in YouTube videos. Once you’ve tired of those that are included with your device’s operating system and you want something a little less personal on your phone or laptop, finding high quality wallpaper is a bit of a faff. If a YouToober has done the job for you and created a bunch of awesome wallpapers that look beautiful on their devices, and which remain relatively unique, you’ll want a piece of that.

“Where did you get that wallpaper from?” you’ll ask.

I can now definitively answer that question, because I’ve done what a fair few people in my position have already done and created an online repository for the wallpapers you’ll see on my YouTube channels from this point forward. It’s called Dead Pixel Club and, yes, it’s my first-ever digital product store. There’s a free pack on there, of course, but the rest do ask for a portion of your income to be handed over. We’ve made the pack pricing fair and competitive and have, in our opinion, devised a rather generous ‘purchase all now and forever’ option.

As a product, we’ve also gone to town on these wallpaper packs, because I appreciate you needing a reason to hand over your hard-earned.

I didn’t want the wallpapers to be generic, half-assed, AI-generated guff. Instead, I wanted them to be truly unique and maintain some of the personal elements that I’ve always enjoyed about this form of tech personalization. That’s why every wallpaper pack on Dead Pixel Club is derived from a selection of photos I’ve taken. The colours, angles, and ambiance of the source photos are used to inspire the 2D- and 3D-modelled wallpapers which range from the beautifully serene to the more in-your-face. And they come in 14 screen sizes for everything from massive ultra-wides to one-handed smartphones. Oh, and foldables, of course (both regular and passport). That means each pack includes 84 wallpapers, all rendered specifically for the screen size in question (no cropping or resizing).

And if you’re wondering, Dead Pixel Club will indeed be expanding far beyond wallpapers in the future. I’ll keep you posted on that front.

Thanks for reading what was, I appreciate, a rather uncharacteristic sales pitch. Which you can ignore, of course - normal service will resume in the next newsletter (and boy will we have a lot to talk about then) 😉

Visit Dead Pixel Club here 👉 https://deadpixelclub.com/

~ Mark