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About Me
The Creator.
Eduard Simonov
@sedyyfilms
Eduard creates cinematic travel and lifestyle visuals that fully immerse audiences into his world. His content evokes emotion, showcases an aspirational lifestyle, and consistently resonates at scale, built on a foundation of authentic storytelling and a filmmaker's eye for every frame. His work has reached over 700M views to date and earned the trust of some of the world's most recognisable brands.
Chapter 01
Chișinău
I was born in Chișinău, Moldova, and I had a regular life. School, playing outside with my friends, and growing up speaking Romanian, Russian and English. I was around eight years old when I filmed my first few YouTube videos.
Chapter 02
Budapest
At ten my family and I moved to Budapest, and about a year later I started posting gaming content on YouTube every day. It never grew much, but I learned how to make a video, how to edit, and what my own style was. The bigger thing I took from it is that I stopped being afraid to try something new.
Chapter 03
SedyyLive
At around thirteen I started taking gaming content seriously and streamed on Twitch every day. That ran for about three years and it was where I first got a taste of growing an audience and made my first income online. It is also where Sedyy was born. My first videos went viral and I had a real community for the first time. Gaming was never going to be the career, but it taught me how to build an audience, how to stay consistent, and what makes somebody come back.
Chapter 04
SedyyBeats
Around the same years as the streaming I started producing and releasing music, mostly lo-fi and ambient. I gave tracks to my creator friends for their videos and their streams, and I used them in my own content too. Over three or four years that became about a hundred songs across albums and EPs on every platform, with a few hundred thousand streams behind them. I made a lot of content trying to promote all of it, and that is where I learned content creation outside of gaming.
Chapter 05
The Netherlands, and the decision to leave
At eighteen, after graduating, I moved to the Netherlands in August 2023 to study at one of the best business schools in the world. I was still doing music, still making content, still trying to build something of my own. After one semester I dropped out, because I could not imagine my life if I carried on studying towards a career I did not want. I had nothing going for me except a dream and a calling to do something of my own. The purpose was simple. Create to inspire.
Chapter 06
SedyyFilms
That same year, on 24 December 2023, I started @sedyyfilms as a new way to promote my music by filming beautiful visuals. Over time I stopped making music and kept making videos of my travels and my life. I filmed a lot of sunsets, skylines, and things I found beautiful. For months I sat at about seventy followers, and it took roughly eleven months to reach a thousand. I kept taking client work for free or very cheap to get better and to earn even a few hundred euros a month. I lived cheaply and put the money into production quality and the next trip.
Chapter 07
New York
Exactly eleven months into @sedyyfilms, on the day I hit a thousand followers, I flew to New York City for the first time. Visiting New York had always been the dream, and I knew it would be the place where something in my career took off. My family helped cover part of the trip for my upcoming birthday to make it happen. Once I got there I created so much that it covered forty-five days of continuous posting. On the fourth day of posting two videos a day, one of my videos finally went viral. A hundred thousand views overnight, a million inside forty-eight hours, and over ten thousand new followers on TikTok in twenty-four hours. I knew that was the video I needed to snowball my career.
Chapter 08
Three months to 100K
After all the effort that led up to that video, the only thing left was to push even harder once I had my chance. I posted every day for months and started growing a huge audience, hitting a hundred thousand on Instagram just three months after my first thousand. I connected with the people who inspired me most and who I had watched for years. My dreams finally started coming true. I travelled all around the world, made the best content I had ever made, and saw everything I ever wished to see.
Now
Sedyy
I started to see the global influence I was having when my video formats turned into trends, with experienced and aspiring creators alike making videos the same way, the way that built Sedyy into what it is today. With over 500 million people reached worldwide across every platform and partnerships with some of the biggest brands in the world, including Samsung, Sony, Disney, Universal, DJI and Insta360, I can confidently say I have achieved the dream. I see all of this as the beginning of something far bigger. I am branching out into new business ventures and I am still growing Sedyy into more than it is today.
The Globe
Shot globally, reaching over
Shot globally, reaching over
500M people worldwide.
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