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Just watched the first two episodes of this new channel, its been lingering in my recommendations for a few days but ignored it as I thought it was just going to be a rant/tale of sorrow about being rejected by Grand Designs. Decided to give it a watch as its only 6 minutes and looks like it has potential to be a decent long term series. (and it wasn't a rant, just ended with an invite to Kevin to pop in for cuppa!)
Creative? Tick
Big Machines? Tick
Mic'd up? Tick
Shared Oopsie's? Tick
Animal Sidekick? Woof
https://www.youtube.com/@RejectedbyGrandDesigns
Some of my favourites in no order
SuperFastMatt - clearly clever bloke making questionable engineering choices.
Wris****chrevival - watch servicing, I find automatic watches fascinating for some reason.
Finnegans Garage - Redneck car and boat builder.
C90 adventures - This guy’s seen a lot of the world on the back of a Honda c90. Childish sense of humor.
Babish - New York cooking fella
Superfast Matt is funny in a dry way. However, I am very much in his camp for "good enough" when it comes to most projects. He's also good for finding out how you should probably not doing things.
If you like cars as art, Larry Chen's channel is pretty good. He gets to see a lot of very nice cars around the world.
I wish I could think of a good idea for a YouTube channel. It seems like a potentially fun way to make a living as long as you don't commit to a gruelling weekly upload schedule that sees you constantly repeating yourself. (most UK mtbers)
It's also completely tapped out. Literally anything you can think of is already on there.
Gosforth Handyman https://www.youtube.com/@GosforthHandyman
And his 'gardening' channel: @AndyMac"> https://www.youtube.com/ @AndyMac
Others have already mentioned some of the channels I follow. I do like some of the content on Always Another Adventure (plus he used to work with my dad at the Beeb): https://www.youtube.com/@alwaysanotheradventure
I have been known, occasionally, to stumble upon a particular gravel related channel, that may, or may not, have been mentioned previously... 😉 <wink emoji>
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Retropower
M539
Harry's garage
Jay Leno's garage
And also Hackshop Garage
(you may have guessed it's all mainly about cars?)
Stick to football/The overlap is very funny, as is the 'Roy and Mica ' series ( On Skybet YT sadly, but very funny nonetheless) IMHO
I wish I could think of a good idea for a YouTube channel. It seems like a potentially fun way to make a living as long as you don’t commit to a gruelling weekly upload schedule that sees you constantly repeating yourself. (most UK mtbers)
It’s also completely tapped out. Literally anything you can think of is already on there.
seems like a lot of hardwork if you want to actually make money from it - you pretty much need to do the video a week thing to make it viable. Someone I met who had 70k subscribers said for each 1 min of content he had at least 1hr of filming/prep/set up and at least 1/2hr of editing. Then admin/marketing/promo stuff on top. After 3 yrs said basically minimum wage - unless you do patreon etc
I wish I could think of a good idea for a YouTube channel.
Honesty, it looks like a hellish treadmill to me. I get that some folks make a good go of it, but the burnout rate must be insane, and if you're reliant on it for your income, then there's probably a truly terrifying moment of leaving what you're doing in order to have more time to create more content in the hope of attracting more views to your channel in order to get paid well enough to leave what you're doing in order to make more content...until you drop dead of mental exhaustion.
It's noticeable to me at least that had you asked this forum a couple of years back what we were watching; many of us would list some of the POV mountain biking channels, that they don't really exist anymore - or are both fewer and generate less output than they did, tells me how precarious it must be.
I'm hooked on this channel at the moment - it's very easy "slow" TV.
He's bought a ruined chateau and is rebuilding it - looking at the quantity of materials and machinery needed I've no idea where the money's coming from, but it's nice to watch. There's loads of "episodes", but they're mostly in 10min chunks so easy to watch here and there.
https://www.youtube.com/@escapetoruralfrance
I’ve tended to to follow the van life ones tbh but just think that the whole ‘wild’ camping thing is a bit off and overly freeloading when applied to some of the park ups and I’ve lost the love.
I’ve been watching a lot of Quad-bike videos but apart from the bloke rebuilding them (Michael Sabo)they can be annoying.
(In Spain the Suzuki LTZ-400 is very popular although you can’t buy a new one so a young one is 2008, they did an updated efi version but I’m not sure if ever seen one here for sell.)
as per @z1ppy
IFarm WeFarm – Irish diary farmer
Marty T – NZ guy who fixes plant kit, usually where it’s been abandoned for 20 years.
Both very good and strangely relaxing.
Watch Wes Work - US car mechanic
2Vintage - guy fixes motorbikes
JC Smith projects - bloke builds and repairs trucks, welds a lot
SuperTruckerDan - American HGV driver - delivers things in a big lorry.
One I forgot on my list is
Good Bloke Outdoors
Bloke from Bradford (my old home town) . Couple of years ago gave up drugs/city life and now goes walking / wild camping. He’s quite funny in an awkward kind of way.
Very well produced and edited
c90adventures
Drew Builds Stuff
The Late Brake Show
This is pretty interesting!
True Blue Travellers is also worth a look - a likeable couple converting vans and then travelling in them
This crowd-funded North West Passage series is interesting, four parts so far. If you like bears then you're in for a treat.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fMj7ncNA1E
Part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xrMBgMPjHM
The Late Brake Show
I really enjoy the Barn Finds.
I’m currently watching those happy days - they are vanlifers going to Lapland for Xmas for some no real reason other than getting into off-road , they have a demountable on loan complete with ford ranger double cab and imho pretend to live in it full time but utterly clueless .
Zero experience of driving 4x4 or any mechanical sympathy or ability so I’m sure it’ll all be fine.
I’m not sure if it’s actually fair sport to watch them for the fail IMHO but sometimes watching stupid just sucks you in.
(I think they found that being clueless with a tuk tuk in India generated the views as opposed to their usual overnighting in ldl car parks )
I find this guy doing helicopter jobs in Canada strangely fascinating viewing:
I wish I could think of a good idea for a YouTube channel. It seems like a potentially fun way to make a living as long as you don’t commit to a gruelling weekly upload schedule that sees you constantly repeating yourself. (most UK mtbers)
It’s also completely tapped out. Literally anything you can think of is already on there.
I think the main thing is writing a plan and a script and doing the necessary research in advance of the filming and then the editing. There's huge amounts of total shite on there from people who say umm and ahh every other word, who clearly haven't researched their topic or who can't select the required highlights and who post a 30 min video with about 2 minutes of actual interesting stuff in amongst the fluff or who simple cannot present for love or money, people fumbling with kit ("is this on?" / ""is this working?" / "yep, just checking my mouse is working..." )
That's the kind of crap you expected in the early days of MS Teams from the IT-clueless employee, not something you should ever see from a supposedly professional content creator.
If you can do all of that first bit and come up with a proper well-put-together video (sorry, *edit*), you'll already be near the to of the tree, regardless of if there's a dozen other channels doing the same thing.