The YouTube Scriptwriting Playbook · Content Creation · YouTube · Copywriting · United Kingdom
George Blackman is a YouTube scriptwriting consultant who has written for channels such as Ali Abdaal's and sells The YouTube Scriptwriting Playbook, a course priced from $397 with a $1,499-a-year community tier.
George Blackman is a consulting YouTube scriptwriter. According to his own website and newsletter, he started writing YouTube scripts in 2021 as a full-time scriptwriter for Ali Abdaal and later went freelance, writing or consulting for channels including Mike Shake, Film Booth (Ed Lawrence), Creator Science (Jay Clouse) and ConvertKit. His storefront describes him as based just outside London. Business Insider published a first-person piece with him on January 17, 2023, in which he was 25 years old and said he had been freelancing since summer 2022 and earned about $5,000 a month from scriptwriting.
He publishes a free weekly newsletter, Write On Time, which his site puts at 5,000 to 6,000 subscribers, and a YouTube channel (@GeorgeBlackmanYT) with 5.29K subscribers and 38 videos as read on September 14, 2026. He also co-hosts Making It, a podcast roundtable with other YouTube producers and writers, whose channel (@MakingItPod__) showed 1.84K subscribers on the same date. He has been interviewed on the Creator Science podcast (episode 162, August 29, 2023), Rogue Startups, 1of10 and Gillian Perkins' podcast.
His main paid product is The YouTube Scriptwriting Playbook (YTSP), a self-paced course with five modules, script templates, 100+ examples from published videos, exercises and a retention-graph module. The sales page lists four tiers: Essential at $397 one-time, Essential + AI at $497 one-time (adds custom GPTs and prompts), Community at $1,499 a year (adds a community with weekly office hours, monthly retention graph reviews, hotseats and group writing sessions), and a VIP tier from $2,399. It offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. Separately, he sells 1-1 coaching calls (one hour) and two three-month packages, Consultant and Partner, which were listed as sold out with a waitlist; no prices are published for these services.
The figures about his business come from his own material and have no independent source: his site claims 130+ creators helped, 50m+ video views and 600+ course students (the sales page says 500+), and his newsletter says he launched the course, a community and an agency in January 2024, closed the agency in March 2024 and generated over $100k in the first three quarters of 2024.
On reputation: we found no press coverage reporting a dispute or complaint about him, and no FTC action under his name (ftc.gov search, September 14, 2026). The press we located is the Business Insider piece and podcast interviews, which are not critical reviews. A UK Companies House officer search for his name, done the same day, returns several people named George Blackman, and none could be tied to him with certainty, so no company is listed here. Mentor Explorer shows user reviews on this page and does not summarize third-party review sites.
Not confirmed: his exact date of birth, the legal entity that sells the course, what the VIP tier includes, and the price of the Retention Hub he mentions on his site.
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| Program | Type | Published price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| The YouTube Scriptwriting Playbook – Essential Self-paced course: five scriptwriting modules, templates, 100+ examples, exercises and a retention-graph module, with lifetime access. | Course | $397 Checked Sep 14, 2026 | View |
| The YouTube Scriptwriting Playbook – Essential + AI The Essential course plus custom AI GPTs and prompts built for the system. | Course | $497 Checked Sep 14, 2026 | View |
| The YouTube Scriptwriting Playbook – Community Annual tier with the course plus a creator community, weekly office hours, monthly retention graph reviews, student hotseats and group writing sessions. | Community | $1,499 Checked Sep 14, 2026 | View |
| 1-1 Coaching One-hour call covering brainstorming, script feedback and channel strategy. Price not published. | Mentorship | Not published Checked Sep 14, 2026 | View |
| Consultant and Partner packages Three-month engagements with one or three deliverables a month (coaching, script review or retention analysis). Listed as sold out with a waitlist; price not published. | Mentorship | Not published Checked Sep 14, 2026 | View |
Prices are those published by the mentor on the date checked and may change. “Not published” means we couldn't find a public price.
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A YouTube scriptwriting consultant who, according to his website, began as a full-time scriptwriter for Ali Abdaal in 2021 and has since written or consulted for channels such as Mike Shake and Film Booth. Business Insider gave his age as 25 in January 2023.
The YouTube Scriptwriting Playbook sales page lists Essential at $397 one-time, Essential + AI at $497 one-time, Community at $1,499 per year and a VIP tier from $2,399, with a 30-day money-back guarantee (read September 14, 2026). Taxes may apply depending on location.
Five modules on scriptwriting, templates in Notion, Docs and Sheets, 100+ script examples, exercises, a retention-graph analysis module and lifetime access. The Community tier adds weekly office hours, monthly retention graph reviews, hotseats and group writing sessions.
What can be checked: Business Insider published a piece with him in January 2023, he has been interviewed on Creator Science and other podcasts, and no FTC action appears under his name (searched September 14, 2026). Student counts and revenue figures come from his own website and have no independent source.
The testimonials on his sales pages are selected by him. We located no press coverage reviewing the course independently.
Yes. His Work With Me page lists one-hour 1-1 coaching calls and two three-month packages, Consultant and Partner, the latter two shown as sold out with a waitlist. No prices are published for these services.
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