4.4M+
Total followers across active channels
Prepared by Dennis Yu
Dunk Camp 2026 · Salt Lake City
Dunk Camp 2026 · Salt Lake City
Digital Authority Audit & Growth Blueprint
Dunkademics:
The Lighthouse Strategy
How Billy Doran turns 4.4 million followers and 918 million views into owned authority — a knowledge panel, a real website, and a 10-agent marketing team that costs $20 a month.
918M
Lifetime YouTube views (969K subscribers)
1.4M
TikTok — the largest single account
0.2
Domain Rating of dunkademics.com (the gap)
30
Point authority model used throughout
Executive Summary
Famous with fans. Invisible to machines.
Dunkademics is already the media hub of the freestyle-dunk world. The problem isn’t reach — it’s that almost none of that reach is owned or citable. Fix that, and Billy becomes the lighthouse for the entire dunking community.
What’s working
A near-billion-view YouTube library (969K subs, US #452 in Sports), 1.4M on TikTok, 1.45M on Facebook, ~628K on Instagram. Dunkademics owns the YouTube search category for “dunk session” and “best dunkers,” posts daily, and has a proven viral formula: short dunker + freakish vertical (the “5’6" / 50-inch vertical” clip hit 26M on TikTok). Billy sits at the center of a who’s-who of elite dunkers.
What’s broken
There is no real website — dunkademics.com is a “Launching Soon” placeholder with a Domain Rating of 0.2 and zero organic traffic. There’s no Wikipedia page, no Google Knowledge Panel, and the name collides with a retired MLB player (“Bill Doran”). Dunkademics is absent from the sources AI trusts — ESPN’s definitive pro-dunker feature and the new Shaq/TNT “DUNKMAN” league press both skip it. All the fame lives on platforms Billy doesn’t own.
“The #1 growth lever isn’t more views — it’s converting fan-fame into citable authority that Google, ChatGPT, and sponsors recognize.”
The Move
Own the home base
Launch a real Dunkademics site (this preview shows how) — the hub for Greatest Hits, dunker profiles, a media kit, and schema that finally makes Billy a machine-readable entity.
The Move
Win the knowledge panel
Disambiguate “Billy Doran (Dunkademics),” wire up Wikidata + authoritative citations, and become the entity AI quotes when someone asks “who covers dunking?”
The Move
Connect the community
Interlink every dunker we build for — Cam Hazzard, Donovan Hawkins, Hoopin Nate and more — through Dunkademics as the hub. One rising tide lifts the whole sport’s SEO.
◆ The big idea
Make Dunkademics the ranking body of freestyle dunking. Publish the Dunker Authority Index — the 30-point scores in this report, productized as an owned, link-worthy, AI-citable asset. It connects every dunker, earns links and citations, and crowns Dunkademics as the authority. That’s how a lighthouse gets built.
What’s Inside
Contents
01 Who is Billy & what is Dunkademics
02 The 30-point authority scale
03 Channel inventory & leaderboard
04 The people — dunk community roster
05 Greatest Hits & what ranks
06 Search & AI visibility (SEO/AEO)
07 The growth strategy
08 The $20/month marketing team
09 The Friday 10-minute meeting
10 The 90-day roadmap
11 How we set up Claude for Billy
12 Recommendations & open questions
02 The 30-point authority scale
03 Channel inventory & leaderboard
04 The people — dunk community roster
05 Greatest Hits & what ranks
06 Search & AI visibility (SEO/AEO)
07 The growth strategy
08 The $20/month marketing team
09 The Friday 10-minute meeting
10 The 90-day roadmap
11 How we set up Claude for Billy
12 Recommendations & open questions
01 — The Foundation
Who is Billy & what is Dunkademics
Before we grow it, we have to define it — clearly enough that a person, Google, and an AI all describe it the same way. That clarity is the first 10 points of our authority scale.
The Person
Billy Doran (“WhiteFlight”)
Los-Angeles-based creator, born Feb 10, 1987. A 5’11” dunker himself — he won the 2009 YouTube Dunk Contest and was featured on ESPN — who built a career filming the best dunkers alive. Before Dunkademics he produced for Ballislife, Hoopmixtape, Mars Reel, and the Drew League. Today he’s the filmer, host, and connector at the center of the sport, self-described with a wink as a “39-year-old washed-up dunker.”
5’11” · former contest dunker
2009 YouTube Dunk Champ
Ex-Ballislife / Hoopmixtape
Based in Los Angeles
2009 YouTube Dunk Champ
Ex-Ballislife / Hoopmixtape
Based in Los Angeles
The Brand
Dunkademics — “The Dunk Destination”
The dominant independent media brand of freestyle (non-NBA) dunking — effectively the ESPN of the sport. Dunkademics discovers, films, and distributes the world’s best dunkers, then ranks them by vibe. A single Dunkademics feature is a career-maker: one Tyler Currie clip is literally what pulled Donovan Hawkins into the sport. Founded around the YouTube channel in 2007 and the dunkademics.com brand in 2011.
~4.4M total followers
918M YouTube views
Daily posting
Sponsor: Accelerator Energy
918M YouTube views
Daily posting
Sponsor: Accelerator Energy
How the empire is structured today
| Property | Handle | Audience | Role in the system |
|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube — Dunkademics Official | @dunkademicsofficial | 969K subs · 918M views | Flagship library & search engine |
| TikTok | @dunkademics | 1.4M · 49.5M likes | Biggest single account · virality engine |
| /Dunkademics | 1.45M | Largest raw audience (declining) | |
| @dunkademics | ~628K | Reels mirror of TikTok | |
| Instagram — personal | @billydunkademics | ~110K | Billy’s face & brand deals |
| X / Twitter | @dunkademics | 12.6K | Under-used |
| YouTube — legacy | @dunkademics | 38.3K (dormant) | Duplicate — causes confusion |
| Merch store | creator-spring | $22–$45 items | De-facto commerce link |
| Website | dunkademics.com | DR 0.2 · placeholder | Missing keystone |
Audience figures: SocialBlade & third-party trackers, June 25, 2026. The website row is the entire reason for this report — everything above is rented land.
02 — Methodology
The 30-point authority scale
Every channel, person, and piece of content in this report is scored on the same three questions. It’s how we decide where to invest — and it’s the model we’ll turn into Dunkademics’ own public ranking.
10
Who it is
Identity strength. Is the person or brand clearly named, credible, and distinct from namesakes? Bio, photo, credentials, consistent handle, and — at the top end — a Wikipedia entry and Google Knowledge Panel.
10
Where it is
Distribution & footprint. How many places, how big, how authoritative? Platform reach, geography, backlinks, third-party citations, and presence inside sources that AI and journalists trust.
10
What it is
The body of work. The signature content or achievement that makes them known — the 50-inch vertical, the 11’8″ dunk, the daily library. Quality, volume, consistency, and distinctiveness.
▲ How to read the tiers
Add the three for a score out of 30. We bucket every entity into four tiers — and the whole strategy is about moving Dunkademics and Billy from Established into Lighthouse.
Lighthouse 24–30 — the authority others orbit
Established 18–23 — strong, not yet definitive
Emerging 12–17 — real but thin
Nascent 0–11 — untapped
Established 18–23 — strong, not yet definitive
Emerging 12–17 — real but thin
Nascent 0–11 — untapped
03 — Inventory
Channel leaderboard
Ranked by authority score. Two channels are already Lighthouse-grade. The website scores a 4 — and that single gap is holding the whole system back.
| # | Channel | Audience | Cadence | W·H·W | Score | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | YouTube — Dunkademics Official
@dunkademicsofficial
|
969K · 918M views | ~Daily | 8·9·9 | 26 | Lighthouse |
| 2 | TikTok
@dunkademics
|
1.4M · 49.5M likes | ~Daily | 8·9·8 | 25 | Lighthouse |
| 3 | Instagram
@dunkademics
|
~628K | ~Daily | 7·8·7 | 22 | Established |
| 4 | Facebook
/Dunkademics
|
1.45M | ~Daily | 7·8·6 | 21 | Established |
| 5 | Instagram — personal
@billydunkademics
|
~110K | Weekly | 6·6·6 | 18 | Established |
| 6 | X / Twitter
@dunkademics
|
12.6K | Sporadic | 5·4·4 | 13 | Emerging |
| 7 | YouTube — legacy
@dunkademics (dormant)
|
38.3K | None | 4·4·4 | 12 | Emerging |
| 8 | Website
dunkademics.com
|
DR 0.2 · 0 traffic | — | 2·1·1 | 4 | Nascent |
■ Fix #1 — Build the keystone
The website is the only property Billy owns, and it’s a dead placeholder (DR 0.2, zero traffic). Every other channel is rented. The real site — like this preview — is what makes the knowledge panel, the media kit, the course, and the Greatest Hits hub all possible.
▲ Fix #2 — Kill the channel confusion
Two YouTube channels and a stale “30K subscribers” listing on famousbirthdays mean trackers (and AI) have a muddled picture. Consolidate to one canonical channel, retire/redirect the legacy one, and make every bio point to the same home base.
04 — The Community
The dunk community roster
Dunkademics isn’t a channel — it’s a network of people. Here’s the who’s-who, scored on the same 30-point scale. Billy’s superpower is that he’s connected to all of them. That’s the raw material for a community lighthouse.
Established · target: Lighthouse
Billy Doran — the hub
The connector at the center. He scores 23/30 today — strong on where (4.4M reach) and what (he built the category), but capped on who by the missing entity: no Wikipedia, no knowledge panel, name-collision with a retired MLB player. Close that one gap and Billy becomes a Lighthouse. This entire plan is engineered to do exactly that.
23OUT OF 30
Who 7 · Where 8 · What 8
★ Lighthouse dunkers (24–30) — the names AI already knows
Jordan Kilganon
Sudbury, Canada · 6’1″ · 49.5″ vert
27/30
Widely called the GOAT. 270+ original dunks, the “dunk in jeans,” won Shaq’s DUNKMAN ($200K) — and the only dunker here with a Wikipedia page and a signature shoe.
Who9Where8What10
Guy Dupuy
Bobigny, France · 6’4″
24/30
“The Real Frequent Flyer” — one of the first full-time pro dunkers and a pioneer NBA contest dunkers credit. Won The Dunk King S2, Quai 54.
Who8Where7What9
Jonathan Clark
Fresno, CA · 6’3″ · “J Clark the Jumper”
24/30
Holds the outdoor world record — an 11’8″ dunk. Ex-Globetrotter, UCLA All-American, and a full-time science teacher who dunks in a shirt and tie. A press-magnet story.
Who8Where7What9
● Established (18–23) — strong, ready to be amplified
Chris Staples
Los Angeles · 6’3″ · 44″ vert
23/30
Four-time dunk champ, ex-Harlem Globetrotter, and star of the film Slamma Jamma. Runs Global Dunk Empire.
Who8Where7What8
Anthony Hamilton Jr.
Lawndale, CA · 6’2″ · 52″ vert
22/30
Actor-dunker with a role in the White Men Can’t Jump remake; featured by ESPN, Forbes, SI. A comeback-from-injury story.
Who7Where7What8
Cam Hazzard
Little Elm, TX · 6’2″ · 50″ vert
20/30
50-inch club, signature 360-under-both-legs, DunkMan League. Already in our orbit (camhazzard.com) — a model for what we’ll do for Billy.
Who6Where6What8
Donovan Hawkins
Las Vegas · 6’4″ · 50″ vert
20/30
“2K-animation” creativity, DUNKMAN final four. The other half of Billy’s “head above the rim” raised-rim clips. Got into dunking because of a Dunkademics video.
Who6Where6What8
Dylan Haugen
Spring Lake Park, MN · 18 · 5’11”
19/30
Billed as the youngest pro dunker; hosts The Dunk Talk podcast; 100M+ views; DunkMan League. A natural content partner.
Who6Where6What7
Tyler Currie
Los Angeles · ~24 · 5’11”
19/30
Dunked over Shawn Marion at the NBA China Games; tied 3rd in DUNKMAN. The clip that started Donovan’s career.
Who6Where6What7
Hoopin’ Nate
Omaha, NE · 5’7″ · Nathan Kenney
19/30
The “King of the Mini-Hoops” and a low-rim master. Featured by Gatorade (with Jordan) and Google Pixel. Won Dunk Camp 2025’s 8-ft division.
Who6Where6What7
Ty Jackson
USA · 5’4″ · @tyy2.0
18/30
FIBA-recognized shortest pro dunker in the world; finished 2nd in DUNKMAN. Pure novelty-meets-elite-bounce — built for virality.
Who6Where5What7
◆ The connection play
We already have admin on Cam Hazzard, Donovan Hawkins, Hoopin’ Nate and others. If every one of those sites links to — and is ranked by — Dunkademics, the entire community’s SEO and entity-authority rises together. Dunkademics becomes the hub node; each dunker becomes a spoke that points back. That’s a moat no single channel can buy.
Roster notes: Guy Oliver (50″ vert) scores Emerging at 14 — light public footprint to build out. “McDeezy” (≈10) we could only loosely tie to a school-assembly freestyle clip — identity needs confirming. A dunker named “Dean” did not surface in research; if he’s in the circle, send a handle and we’ll add him. The “head-above-the-rim at 10’5″/10’8″” pair you mentioned is Cam Hazzard + Donovan Hawkins; the all-time highest-dunk record belongs to Jonathan Clark at 11’8″.
▲ Right place, right time — Dunk Camp 2026
This report lands during Dunk Camp 2026 (June 22–25, Sandy, UT) — Kilganon, Isaiah Rivera, Jonathan Clark and the whole community in one gym. It’s the perfect launch moment: film the founders, capture the testimonials, and debut the lighthouse while everyone’s together in person.
05 — Content
Greatest Hits & what ranks
The catalog is full of proven winners. The opportunity is to stop letting them disappear down the feed — and instead pin them to an owned hub where they rank forever and feed every other channel.
Top performers (verified)
| # | Title | Views | Why it worked |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chicks Dig the Dunk! 6’1″ Reemix Breaks Hoop!
YouTube · Apr 2023
|
18.8M | Drama + breakage + a story hook |
| 2 | 5’6″ Dunker Has 50-Inch Vertical
YouTube 7.5M · TikTok 26.1M · Oct 2021
|
33.6M+ | The signature formula: small guy, freak hops |
| 3 | Highest Jump of All Time — Darius Clark, 51″ Vert
YouTube · Jun 2025
|
4.6M | Record-claim + number in the title |
| 4 | He SPIKED the Dunk! Brendenn O’Neil
YouTube · Sep 2024 · 172K likes
|
3.3M | Best like-rate in the catalog |
| 5 | Waka Flocka Posterizing Randoms
YouTube · Nov 2025
|
2.1M | Celebrity crossover |
| 6 | Insane Free-Throw-Line Dunk by a High Schooler
YouTube · Feb 2023
|
1.2M | Age/underdog angle |
| ★ | The 70-million-view Instagram clip
Instagram Reel — the single biggest moment on record
|
70M | Proof the IG/Reels engine can go nuclear |
✓ Search categories Dunkademics owns
On YouTube, the brand is the category for:
dunk sessionbest dunkersfreestyle dunkhighest vertical50 inch vertical
✗ Categories it’s losing — the goldmine
Huge demand, Dunkademics nearly absent:
how to dunkhow to increase verticaldunk contestvertical jump program
“How to dunk” is the keystone gap — it’s the most-searched dunk intent, it’s owned by training channels, and it’s the natural on-ramp to a paid course.
The repeatable formats (the “show” Billy already runs)
Height vs. vertical reveals
Dunk sessions (named dunkers)
Raised-rim / above-the-rim challenges
“Score this dunk 1–10”
“Name this dunk”
Dunk-offs & HORSE
Contest & event coverage
NBA dunk-score reactions
Dunk sessions (named dunkers)
Raised-rim / above-the-rim challenges
“Score this dunk 1–10”
“Name this dunk”
Dunk-offs & HORSE
Contest & event coverage
NBA dunk-score reactions
◆ Greatest Hits engine
Every proven format becomes an evergreen hub page on the site (e.g. /greatest-hits, /50-inch-club, /highest-dunks), embedded with the original videos and marked up with schema. One winning clip then gets re-cut for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok automatically. Nothing dies in the feed — it compounds.
06 — Visibility
Search & AI visibility
This is the gap that matters most in 2026. Dunkademics dominates the feed but is nearly invisible to Google’s and ChatGPT’s understanding of who covers dunking.
Domain Rating reality check
0.2
dunkademics.com
the placeholder
47
dennisyu.com
this preview’s host
60
ballislife.com
the adjacent giant
18
thedunkcamp.com
a peer event
Source: Ahrefs Domain Rating, June 25, 2026. A DR of 0.2 with zero organic keywords means dunkademics.com contributes nothing to Google today — despite a brand watched by millions.
■ The AI-visibility gap (AEO)
Ask ChatGPT “who covers freestyle dunking?” or “who is Billy Doran?” and it has almost nothing authoritative to pull from:
- No Wikipedia page for Dunkademics or Billy Doran (Jordan Kilganon has one — proof it’s earnable).
- No Google Knowledge Panel, and the name collides with a retired MLB player, “Bill Doran” — so the entity actively gets confused.
- Absent from the sources AI trusts: ESPN’s definitive “life of a professional dunker” feature and the Shaq/TNT DUNKMAN league press both skip Dunkademics — DUNKMAN even names House of Highlights as a media partner instead.
- Stale third-party data (famousbirthdays still says “30K YouTube”) means even the few facts AI finds are wrong.
An AI today would call Dunkademics “a popular dunk account run by Billy Doran” — and might confuse him with a baseball player. We’re going to make it say “the authority on freestyle dunking.“
07 — The Plan
The growth strategy
Nine moves, in priority order. The first three build the foundation everything else compounds on. Read them as: own it, get recognized for it, then monetize it.
1
Launch the owned home base
A real Dunkademics website (this preview is the proof of concept) — the hub for everything below and the only asset Billy actually owns. Foundation
2
Win the knowledge panel
Schema (Person + Organization), a Wikidata item, a consistent “Billy Doran (Dunkademics)” entity to beat the MLB collision, and citations that earn a Wikipedia page. Foundation
3
Publish the Dunker Authority Index
Productize this 30-point model into the sport’s official ranking — an owned, link-worthy, AI-citable asset that crowns Dunkademics the authority. Signature
4
Greatest Hits hub + repurposing
Pin every proven clip to evergreen pages, then auto-recut each winner into Shorts, Reels, and TikToks. Nothing dies in the feed.
5
Capture “how to dunk” → a course
Own the biggest untapped search intent with instructional content, then convert it into a paid vertical-jump / dunk program. “Class is in session.”
6
Connect the community
Interlink every dunker site we run (Cam, Donovan, Hoopin’ Nate…) through Dunkademics as the hub. The whole sport’s authority rises together.
7
Put Billy on LinkedIn
Zero presence today. Position him as a creator-economy entrepreneur — the room where sponsors and media partners actually live.
8
Build the monetization stack
A live sponsor media kit, the course, upgraded merch, athlete affiliates (shoes/insoles/Accelerator), and clip licensing.
9
Channel hygiene + email
Consolidate the two YouTube channels, unify link-in-bio to the site, and launch a newsletter — “The Dunk Download” — to finally own the audience.
08 — The Engine
A full marketing team for $20 a month
Ten always-on Claude agents, each owning one job a human marketer would. They wake up every day, do the work, and report back. This is what runs the strategy above without Billy lifting a finger.
1
Daily Scout
Performance Scout
Every morning, pulls what’s up and down across YouTube, TikTok, IG, and Facebook and flags the day’s breakout.
2
Repurposing
Greatest Hits Editor
Turns each winning clip into platform-native cuts, titles, descriptions, and hashtags — ready to post.
3
SEO / AEO
Authority Agent
Owns schema, Wikidata, entity consistency, citations, and monitors how AI describes Dunkademics.
4
Publishing
Website Producer
Keeps the site alive — dunker profiles, Greatest Hits pages, event recaps, the Authority Index.
5
Optimization
Title & Thumbnail Coach
Proposes A/B headlines and thumbnail concepts using what’s proven to convert in the niche.
6
Network
Community Connector
Coordinates cross-links, tags, and collabs with the other dunkers’ sites and agents.
7
Revenue
Sponsorship & Media Kit
Keeps the media kit current with live stats and drafts sponsor outreach and brand-deal one-pagers.
8
Personal brand
LinkedIn Ghostwriter
Builds Billy’s thought-leadership feed — the founder story, behind-the-scenes, sponsor-facing posts.
9
Product
Course & Funnel Agent
Builds and maintains the “how to dunk / add inches” course, landing pages, and email follow-ups.
10
Strategy
Friday Briefing Agent
Compiles the week into a 10-minute brief: what’s working, what to improve, what to repurpose next.
✓ What it replaces
A social manager, an editor, an SEO specialist, a web producer, a sponsorship rep, and a strategist — roughly a $15–25k/month team — running daily for the price of one Claude subscription. Billy stays the talent; the agents do the marketing.
09 — The Rhythm
The Friday 10-minute meeting
Optional, but it’s the magic. Ten minutes a week where Billy learns what’s working, makes two or three calls, and the agents execute. He gets smarter about digital marketing every Friday — by example.
The weekly agenda (auto-prepared)
- What’s working — the week’s top clip and why it hit.
- What’s resonating — themes, comments, and audience signals.
- What to improve — a headline to rework, a thumbnail to swap.
- What to repurpose — the next Greatest Hit to multiply.
- Where we’re missing — a gap (e.g., LinkedIn) and the fix.
The daily report (every morning)
A short message Billy can read on his phone:
▌DUNKADEMICS — Mon Jun 29
📈 Top: “5’4" Ty Jackson” Short +312K (24h)
🔥 TikTok repost of #4 → 1.1M, trending
🌐 New profile page live: Donovan Hawkins
🤝 Cross-link added from camhazzard.com
⚠️ FB engagement down 6% — testing new format
✅ 3 clips queued · 1 sponsor reply drafted
10 — Sequencing
The first 90 days
From this preview to a self-running lighthouse.
NowApproval
Billy reviews this preview
- Approve the look, feel, and direction
- Point DNS for the site once approved
- Grant the agents read access to the channels
Days 1–30Foundation
Own it
- Launch the real Dunkademics site (home, about, Greatest Hits, dunker profiles)
- Person + Organization schema; “Billy Doran (Dunkademics)” entity + Wikidata
- Consolidate YouTube; unify every link-in-bio; launch “The Dunk Download” newsletter
Days 31–60Authority
Get recognized for it
- Publish the Dunker Authority Index (the link/citation magnet)
- Cross-link the community; pitch DUNKMAN/press; seed citations toward a Wikipedia page
- Stand up Billy’s LinkedIn; ship the sponsor media kit
Days 61–90Monetize
Earn from it
- Launch the “how to dunk / add inches” course funnel
- Upgrade merch; activate athlete affiliates and clip licensing
- Lock the Friday rhythm — the team runs itself
11 — Implementation
How we set up Claude for Billy
The whole team runs on one $20/month Claude subscription. Here’s the exact setup — and where Dean, Dylan, and the rest of us in the community plug in.
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| 1 · Subscribe | Billy gets Claude Pro ($20/mo) with Cowork — the surface the agents run on. |
| 2 · Workspace | We create a “Dunkademics” project folder Claude can read and write — scripts, brand assets, and the site live here. |
| 3 · Connect | Read access to the channels (YouTube, Meta/IG/FB, TikTok, the website) so agents see real numbers. Billy stays the only admin. |
| 4 · Install agents | We load the 10 agent configurations and the publishing toolkit (the same one that built this preview). |
| 5 · Schedule | Scheduled tasks fire the agents — daily scout each morning, the briefing each Friday. |
| 6 · Guardrails | Agents draft and queue; nothing posts publicly or spends money without Billy’s one-tap approval. |
| 7 · The humans | Dean, Dylan, and the community review and add the taste only insiders have — we know the dunks, the names, the culture. AI does the volume; we do the judgment. |
▲ Who’s best positioned to run this
The people who already get the dunk community are the ones who should wield these tools. That’s the model: insiders + AI. We set it up once, train a couple of community members, and Dunkademics becomes the template every other dunker can copy.
12 — Over to You, Billy
Recommendations & open questions
A few things we’d add that weren’t on the original list — plus the handful of decisions only you can make.
Things we’d add (you may not have considered)
- Trademark “Dunkademics” before the brand gets bigger.
- Pitch to be a DUNKMAN media partner — Shaq’s league is routing authority to House of Highlights; you’re the real incumbent. Cover the Summer 2026 league hard.
- Capture Dunk Camp 2026 now — founders, testimonials, the launch story, while everyone’s in one gym this week.
- The Authority Index as a product — make Dunkademics the body that ranks dunkers, not just films them.
- Newsletter “The Dunk Download” — turn the placeholder’s email box into an owned audience.
- Accessibility + clean schema on the site — brand-safe and AI-friendly from day one.
Questions for you
- #1 goal? Sponsors, a course, or pure authority/knowledge panel — so we weight the plan.
- Domain: rebuild on dunkademics.com, or a fresh domain?
- Consolidate the two YouTube channels?
- Course appetite? “How to dunk / add inches” is wide open.
- Up for a little press + LinkedIn? It’s what earns the Wikipedia page.
- Confirm the roster — who’s “McDeezy,” and is there a “Dean” we should profile?
- A standing Friday 10 minutes? Pick a time and we’ll build the rhythm around it.
Let’s make Billy the lighthouse.
The goal is bigger than one channel: prove that great dunkers can be public figures, entrepreneurs, and role models — not just athletes chasing a higher rim. Do the website right, the way we teach, and Billy becomes the example the whole community follows. The dunkers rise together — and so does Dunkademics.
Prepared by Dennis Yu · June 25, 2026 · Dunk Camp 2026, Salt Lake City
Sample preview at dennisyu.com/dunkademics · Data: SocialBlade, Ahrefs, ESPN, FIBA, public sources (June 2026)
Figures are point-in-time estimates from third-party trackers; authority scores are an analytical model, not an official metric.
Sample preview at dennisyu.com/dunkademics · Data: SocialBlade, Ahrefs, ESPN, FIBA, public sources (June 2026)
Figures are point-in-time estimates from third-party trackers; authority scores are an analytical model, not an official metric.