Youtube Favourites

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Does anyone have particular go to channel on youtube ? I think due to length of time I have been off work youtube seems to be one of my first port of calls

For football chat I enjoy the Longbangers podcasts, for crime sort of stuff I enjoy a lot of Shaun Attwoods podcasts

I also watch a lot of Walk With me Tim where he travels the globe staying at some of the best and some of the worst hotels/resorts and shares his experiences

A lot of the Uk/American crime stories are a good watch and I also felt myself drawn into the often sad stories of the divers in America who try solve missing people cases often pulling cars out of rivers and lakes

Then music galore, can sit for hours watching full new and old concerts

[matty_f]

Have found myself frying sucked into watching loads of Pawn Stars videos, there’s some amazing stuff gets taken into that shop!

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Have found myself frying sucked into watching loads of Pawn Stars videos, there’s some amazing stuff gets taken into that shop!

Ive been watching a lot of that too, I actually had to repeat numerous times to my Wife that Ive been watching a lot of Pawn Stars and not Porn Stars 🫣

I watched one with the Woman who had a wrecked and signed Pogue Mahone acoustic and she wanted x amount of thousands for it to be advised to either keep it or bin it as it was worth nothing😀

[Alfiembra]

Being a biker all my days I watch a lot of motorbike related content. My favourites are Itchy Boots a Dutch female rider travelling around the world on her motorbike some amazing adventures and showing places I’ve never seen before. Another is Marctravels a German biker travelling on an electric motorbike heading for New Zealand currently in India.

I have many others I watch regularly mostly construction, automotive and restoration oriented.

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Have found myself frying sucked into watching loads of Pawn Stars videos, there’s some amazing stuff gets taken into that shop!

Have visited the shop, it’s amazing how small it is compared to how it looks on TV.

[Pretty Boy]

A few channels I watch regularly are:

Atomic Shrimp - A real eclectic mix of content. Scambaiting, gardening, baking, budget food challenges, 'weird stuff in a can' and other assorted stuff. He's just a really wholesome guy clearly doing what he enjoys and if other people want to watch it then great. You get the feeling he was doing it all long before being a YouTuber was a thing and will still be doing it when the world moves on.

Geowizard - A guy who does map reading challenges, guess the location and stuff like that. He also sets himself walking challenges that largely rely on the goodwill of strangers. Stuff like 'walk in a straight line across Wales' or 'walk across Birmingham without crossing a single road'.

Noel Phillips - Total aviation geek. Reviews everything from first class on Emirates to a flight in a tin can across the Australian outback. He can be a bit repetitive but has started doing stuff on trains and Greyhound buses lately which has freshened it up.

Steve Wallis - A guy who does urban camping, wild camping, shelter building etc. He had a pretty hard time years ago and he's documented his journey and it's nice watching him working towards his dream of building a cabin in the woods. He lost his wife unexpectedly a few months back and his honesty about the grief process has been a hard watch.

Ben Parkes - Running coach and a sub elite runner himself. Documents his training, carries a GoPro when he races sometimes, gives show reviews, training advice etc. Pretty niche but he's an affable sort so easy to watch.

The YouTube algorithms are really good so I find if I keep going back to those guys it links to similar content that I can explore. I probably watch more YT now than more traditional TV and streaming services. If there is something you are interested in there is a good chance someone is producing content you will enjoy.

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A few channels I watch regularly are:

Atomic Shrimp - A real eclectic mix of content. Scambaiting, gardening, baking, budget food challenges, 'weird stuff in a can' and other assorted stuff. He's just a really wholesome guy clearly doing what he enjoys and if other people want to watch it then great. You get the feeling he was doing it all long before being a YouTuber was a thing and will still be doing it when the world moves on.

Geowizard - A guy who does map reading challenges, guess the location and stuff like that. He also sets himself walking challenges that largely rely on the goodwill of strangers. Stuff like 'walk in a straight line across Wales' or 'walk across Birmingham without crossing a single road'.

Noel Phillips - Total aviation geek. Reviews everything from first class on Emirates to a flight in a tin can across the Australian outback. He can be a bit repetitive but has started doing stuff on trains and Greyhound buses lately which has freshened it up.

Steve Wallis - A guy who does urban camping, wild camping, shelter building etc. He had a pretty hard time years ago and he's documented his journey and it's nice watching him working towards his dream of building a cabin in the woods. He lost his wife unexpectedly a few months back and his honesty about the grief process has been a hard watch.

Ben Parkes - Running coach and a sub elite runner himself. Documents his training, carries a GoPro when he races sometimes, gives show reviews, training advice etc. Pretty niche but he's an affable sort so easy to watch.

The YouTube algorithms are really good so I find if I keep going back to those guys it links to similar content that I can explore. I probably watch more YT now than more traditional TV and streaming services. If there is something you are interested in there is a good chance someone is producing content you will enjoy.

Nice one PB, might check out Steve Wallis, correct though as Ive got the usual 100 plus channels on tv with a lot of it garbage or repeated stuff whereas with youtube you can pretty much find something thats engrossing

Another Ive followed was Bunch of Amateurs featuring Dorking Wanderers rise through the non leagues, if you can tolerate their owner and manager Marc White then you will enjoy this stuff, I actually thought he was insufferable at first but I grew to warm to him

Its like a budget version of that Wrexham story but without the millionaire actor razzmatazz

[Stubbsy90+2]

Mines is mostly all cooking stuff. I’ve cooked quite a few things by ‘not another cooking show’.

Got a new coffee machine recently and I was watching YouTube videos for tips on how to get it dialled in in terms of grind size, amount of coffee, yield, brew time etc. Now my YouTube home page is filled with videos of people using coffee machines and I end up sitting watching them and finding them very aesthetically pleasing and soothing

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Mines is mostly all cooking stuff. I’ve cooked quite a few things by ‘not another cooking show’.

Got a new coffee machine recently and I was watching YouTube videos for tips on how to get it dialled in in terms of grind size, amount of coffee, yield, brew time etc. Now my YouTube home page is filled with videos of people using coffee machines and I end up sitting watching them and finding them very aesthetically pleasing and soothing

I do a lot of DIY stuff and learned a load from youtube, anyone wanting a house built ? 🤣

I bought one of those twin lined Bosch strimmers and despite reading the instructions ****ed how I could figure out how to replace the line, youtube was my friend 😄

[overdrive]

A lot of mine are gardening channels. GrowVeg is my go to. Epic Gardeninb is good too.

I’m another viewer of Atomic Shrimp. Got into it for the scambaiting. Stayed for the other stuff.

Bit of cooking and ASMR too. Chef James Makinson is probably my favourite food related channel

[Mon Dieu4]

I subscribe to a fair few YouTube channels, I watch more YouTube than actual TV and have done for years now, here are a few channels I really like

Sampson Boat Co, a English guy is rebuilding a 100 year old boat named Tally Ho, he bought it for $1 on the basis he would rebuild it, he's doing it in Washington State, some of the workmanship that goes into it is amazing

Perkins Builder Brothers, a family team of builders in North Carolina building house, easy watching

Kris Harbour Natural Building, dude wanted away from the rat race so bought land in Wales and is trying to live off the grid by building his own house, workshop, hydro electric etc

My Self Reliance, much like the above a guy trying to live off grid, but this time he's in Canada and Building a log cabin by himself with next to no power tools used

D&J Projects, a Nottingham based Fencing and Landscaping business, two videos a week of what they've been up to that week

Kyle Royer Knives, a blacksmith making Damascus blades and swords, his work really is a peice of art

Post 10, he's just some random guy in America and his real passion in life is unblocking drains and unclogging culverts, strangely hypnotic watching him unblock them then seeing the whirlpool start and watching the flooding going away

The B1M, architecture channel about all the mega projects and buildings going on in the world, really fascinating

History Hit, Dan Snows history channel, lots and lots of history documentaries

The people profiles, normally picks famous or important people through history and talks you through their life and what they achieved

[Itsnoteasy]

Quite like the one from May 2016

[O'Rourke3]

Rick Beato. Deconstructs songs in an entertaining way. Gets good interviews and helps ham fisted guitar players like me get better.

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Rick Beato. Deconstructs songs in an entertaining way. Gets good interviews and helps ham fisted guitar players like me get better.

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Ah there's a blast from the past. I used to watch his channel a lot and liked the "what makes this song great" series. The only thing was, when he deconstructed the songs, you'd hear an isolated part that you had no idea was in the song but now that you've heard it, you can't unhear it to the point it becomes annoying.

For example, he did All The Small Things by Blink 182. I had no idea about the synth part that runs through it. It sticks out whenever I hear the song now.

[jamie_1875]

Dale Philip has some good videos as he travels across Asia. He is from Edinburgh and has an interesting background, seems he worked in IT but then became a full time professional poker player for a number of years. Unfortunately he is a current bun supporter but he doesn't talk much about football. Although I think he will be one of those that you either like or hate. He has grown his YouTube subscribers to over 3M now so I assume that's probably a full time salary from advertising revenue etc.

Noel Phillips has already been mentioned, I like his videos and his reviews. Again I think YouTube is his full time job.

Trek Trendy reviews luxury and first class travel around the world, he can be quite smarmy though but interesting to see a world most of us will never see.

[SteveHFC]

Kurt Caz is worth a watch. The South American clips are excellent.

[Zazu62]

Some of Bald and Bankrupts videos are incredible, especially Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Takes you of the beaten track and the smaller villages and it’s quite easy to binge all his videos. I know their was some strange rumours going around about the guy but his videos are awesome

[MagicSwirlingShip]

Big Has for back garden bbq vibes. Cooked loads of his stuff and it’s always top

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Dale Philip has some good videos as he travels across Asia. He is from Edinburgh and has an interesting background, seems he worked in IT but then became a full time professional poker player for a number of years. Unfortunately he is a current bun supporter but he doesn't talk much about football. Although I think he will be one of those that you either like or hate. He has grown his YouTube subscribers to over 3M now so I assume that's probably a full time salary from advertising revenue etc.

Noel Phillips has already been mentioned, I like his videos and his reviews. Again I think YouTube is his full time job.

Trek Trendy reviews luxury and first class travel around the world, he can be quite smarmy though but interesting to see a world most of us will never see.

Noel Phillips posted a video fairly recently answering a few questions and one of them was about if YouTube was his full time job. He said it is and he's now a Ltd company with staff and he pays himself a salary from that. YouTube pays about $10 per 1000 ad views and he's getting anywhere between 200K and 1M views per video (albeit not every viewer will watch the ads) and he has his own personal sponsors as well. I think he'll be making a decent living now. He explained in his video why he got into it in the first place and fair play to him.

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Noel Phillips posted a video fairly recently answering a few questions and one of them was about if YouTube was his full time job. He said it is and he's now a Ltd company with staff and he pays himself a salary from that. YouTube pays about $10 per 1000 ad views and he's getting anywhere between 200K and 1M views per video (albeit every viewer Wil watch the ads) and he has his own personal sponsors as well. I think he'll be making a decent living now. He explained in his video why he got into it in the first place and fair play to him.

I’ve no idea who Noel Phillips is but $2k-$10k per video is nuts. Some folk churn out 2 or 3 a week. Get a solid year of content out and you could be thinking about never working again.

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I’ve no idea who Noel Phillips is but $2k-$10k per video is nuts. Some folk churn out 2 or 3 a week. Get a solid year of content out and you could be thinking about never working again.

I think it is quite hard work being a content creator. You need to be one step ahead of the algorithm to grow your channel and YouTube can demonetize a video for fairly small things. Depending on the type of video you are making, there may be a lot of editing required which will be a barrier to getting the volume of videos out there in the first place in order for it to become your full time job.

Two other categories of video I like that I didn't mention before is Fantasy Premier League and random transport related videos. For FPL, FPL Raptor is probably my favourite channel. The guy is quite an interesting fellow. He was in the Spurs Academy - I'm not sure if he had to quit due to injury or was just released but then moved into academia. He's doing a psychology PhD around decision making in a sports setting and tries to apply phycological decision making to FPL. He's a lecturer so YouTube isn't his full time job but he's mentioned about maybe going full time in the next couple of years.

On the random transport category, I like Jago Hazzard. A lot of his videos focus on the history of London using transport to put it in context.

[Gatecrasher]

I watch a lot of golf on YouTube

Rick Shiels - known as probably the biggest golf youtuber, comes across as very likeable.
Peter Finch - very dry sense of humour and very good at golf.
Bob does sports - a bit like Top gear but for golf where they do challenges and make it very fun and entertaining.

Other channels

I watch superGT - mainly a gamer playing Gran Turismo but has recently joined a real racing team with an ambition to race at the Nurburgring 24hours.
Videogamedunky - a comedy gaming youtuber.

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I think it is quite hard work being a content creator. You need to be one step ahead of the algorithm to grow your channel and YouTube can demonetize a video for fairly small things. Depending on the type of video you are making, there may be a lot of editing required which will be a barrier to getting the volume of videos out there in the first place in order for it to become your full time job.

Two other categories of video I like that I didn't mention before is Fantasy Premier League and random transport related videos. For FPL, FPL Raptor is probably my favourite channel. The guy is quite an interesting fellow. He was in the Spurs Academy - I'm not sure if he had to quit due to injury or was just released but then moved into academia. He's doing a psychology PhD around decision making in a sports setting and tries to apply phycological decision making to FPL. He's a lecturer so YouTube isn't his full time job but he's mentioned about maybe going full time in the next couple of years.

On the random transport category, I like Jago Hazzard. A lot of his videos focus on the history of London using transport to put it in context.

Yeah it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s really tough going.

If you already have a bit of a profile though, think Peter Crouch etc, then it must be an almost sure fire way to make money. Get a podcast on, film it and release 3 a week or something and just sit and talk about football. Little editing required, bung a few of your pals a percentage and you’re laughing.