In the last two years their has been a boom of youtube channels in the maker community including our own small channel. This is an awesome thing to see, it means the maker community is truly alive and kicking across the board and around the world and that is just awesome to see. It is the reason I started my channel, to simply to inspire others to go and make something. It could be crafting or woodworking or metal, or what ever… the point is you are making something.
However with this growing number of maker channels it is harder to get noticed and get those subscribers up. But I will say this before we go to far. There is no magical number where your channel will instantly grow. There is no magical formula to making a hit video that will go viral, and even if you do, it doesn’t automatically mean you will get the subscribers. There is no easy path to take, it is a lot of work that goes into running a channel.
The only formula that actually works, is doing the hard work and keeping at it. There is the planning process of the project, and the making of the project while filming it, this alone can make a project 3-5 times longer to do in the making process… setting camera, lighting audio, remembering you have a camera and changing the angles coming up with new angles… and at the moment you not even a third done of the process. You now have to go and edit your video… and depending on your style and planning this can take any from 3 – 8 hours and up for a 10 minute video. I have had one or two videos that took nearly 20 hours to edit… but on average mine take about 5-6 hours if I am not distracted.
Once you are happy with your video you are still not done, uploading it to youtube, and sorting your description, keywords and thumb nail etc and any links you mentioned in your video etc… Once the video is uploaded and processed by youtube, you then need to sort any annotations if you need them and cards and the you can publish your video…
Now believe or not you have done the easy part and this is what this article is about. The hard part is getting people to watch your video without you blatantly spamming every one… and if you spam you simply turn off people from wanting to watch your video. You can use your other social networks to help like FaceBook, Twitter, Pintrest, Google+ etc and any other forums you are on to spread the word of your video. But don’t spam. Once your subscribers grow it does become easier but you still have to keep at it and it can be a lot of work.
So the whole point of this article is to spread the word of other youtubers like myself, channels that have put in the hard slog and deserve more subscribers. The list below is only scratching the surface of the number a great channels out there. They are in no particular order.
| Chris Cute Chris is a very humble guy hardly ever promotes himself. He is on various youtube shows like the Maritime Makers and always is promoting a someone else’s channel. He is a lot of fun to watch and he has quite a few tips and tricks. The channel is over all fun to watch. Chris has a lot of energy and passion for the maker community. |
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| Martin Family Creations Lonnie has been doing his channel for a couple of years now and the thing that I love about his channel is that he is calm even when things don’t go as planned, he explains what he is doing not only that does imperial and metric.He builds easy to understand projects to the slightly more technical but explains nicely how and what he is doing and the with some tips and tricks. |
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| Make Crazy Days Aaron and his wife Elizabeth both are having a go. Projects, mostly woodworking related from wood turning to making an archery bow. The relaxed format is good… and explains what he is doing. |
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| Houtje Boom From the Netherlands … and I could be wrong on this next part so please forgive, a teacher? Houtje Booms channel has a lot of very creative ideas. “My channel is for everyone who like to make stuff… And mine is basically for making things from wood. I want to share my ideas to anyone who is interested.” This is what it is all about sharing ideas and inspiring others. |
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| Ken Reighard Kens channel is a lot of fun, “Can Ken make it…” sometimes yes, sometimes I hope so… Ken has a lot of fun doing his videos and it shows with his enthusiasm. |
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| Trevor Carter Trevor does a mostly scroll sawing but he does do other projects as well he has some creative ideas and projects turn out great. Trevor is also a regular on the Maritime Maker Show. |
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| Not Just Sawdust Not Just Sawdust, is the name of a little woodworking / recycling workshop on a lonely hill in the rural heart of Portugal. He has a twin that sometimes shows up … he doesn’t always help… 🙂 A lot of recycling which is also great and very creative. |
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| Willmore’s World Paul is pretty new at wood working and has only being doing it a couple of years. So it is one of those channels you can watch him grow in experience and help him along in his journey. |
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| Tommy G Workshop Tommy does range of projects and has started turning pens… He also has a series on restoring metal bandsaw. His first video shows why got into woodworking so you can follow his journey as well. |
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| Andrew Setters Andrew loves tinkering and just making stuff… not always wood working, but it is fun and well he is a geek. And that is not a bad thing because making the deathstar from a globe and painting a Nerf Chewbacca Bowcaster… I mean how can you not enjoy that. |
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| Donald Vlogsify’s Wood Shop You want to watch how a redneck does things in a wood shop. Donald is a self proclaimed redneck with a sense of humor and bad dance moves but its a fun channel. |
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| Ty Moser The first thing you have to check is Ty chain saw… need we say more… well he does do some great wood working projects as well… but damn that chainsaw! |
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| BCdesign Another beginner woodworker that you can follow his journey in the craft. |
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Wood By Wright
Want to see things made by just hand tools. Well James at Wood by Wright is that channel. |
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| Braxton Wirthlin Dtay at home dad / woodworker from Las Vegas Nv. I have always enjoyed making videos and decided to combine my love of woodworking with my love of filming and editing. I’ll be uploading videos on the projects I’m currently building as well as some how to’s, tips & tricks, and as well as some metal work. |
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| Sumo’s Projects Dirk has some awesome projects and explains pretty well how and what he is doing. A few things I have seen him do I may try later on myself. And he throws in a few jokes |
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| Jason Rausch One of the videos you need to watch is the Micky Mouse bowl… Jason does a variety of projects and is informative. |
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| Mighty Wood Daniel is from Germany and he has a range for great projects for your entertainment. |
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| Shanes Hobby Shop Shane is down to earth and also does shout out Saturday. He has regular projects and has fun doing it. |
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| Cactus! workshop A workshop on the top of a building, cheap tools, stuff and some stupidity… that’s his words not mine… but he has made some awesome projects mixing wood and metal a like… |
