YouTubers. Youtubers everywhere [Travel Bloggers]

[justinbrett]

Parent company Point Hacks seems to be publishing more Youtube content lately: Point Hacks

Content targeting AFF users might be a bit too niche and video editing is quite resource intensive. Publishing videos of the joint AFF/Point Hacks Travel Pointers podcast might be an easy win though.

I don’t know, get a few sparring members from here in the same room and film the discussion - it would be great viewing!

 

[WilsonM]

I don’t know, get a few sparring members from here in the same room and film the discussion - it would be great viewing!

The AFF Thunderdome? Maybe an idea for next years gathering...

 

[JohnK]

Youtubers? Influenzers? Is this a new vaccine?

Have I missed out if I don't know what I am missing?

The Golden age of enlightenment!

 

[RooFlyer]

Youtubers? Influenzers? Is this a new vaccine?

Have I missed out if I don't know what I am missing?

The Golden age of enlightenment!

You can read a bit about it here.

YouTube - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[vdj_145]

I avoid watching these travel vloggers in general. It's typically drawn-out content designed to maximize profit for them. I've personally found the best videos are the ones where the vloggers themselves are not the center of attention but end up showing good places either in the background or through good filming and editing.

 

[TheRealTMA]

I avoid watching these travel vloggers in general. It's typically drawn-out content designed to maximize profit for them. I've personally found the best videos are the ones where the vloggers themselves are not the center of attention but end up showing good places either in the background or through good filming and editing.

IMHO one of the worst inventions in the last 20 years is the selfie stick!

 

[WilsonM]

I avoid watching these travel vloggers in general. It's typically drawn-out content designed to maximize profit for them. I've personally found the best videos are the ones where the vloggers themselves are not the center of attention but end up showing good places either in the background or through good filming and editing.

There's a sweet spot for the youtube algorithm re. audience retainment/ad earnings - they need to draw it out to keep engagement high through longer videos. Mr Beast is the epitome of this, but travel youtubers do it as well.

 

[alexczarn]

Very niche but I watch Japanese Youtubers...to the surprise of no one!
Solo Travel Japan has English subtitles if anyone's interested. Kuga's Travel is another, he has one English channel and another one in Japanese.
Many others but if you don't speak Japanese probably no good...

There's a certain style to the Japanese Youtubers, which is to say I find them much much less annoying than, you know, Sam Chui etc...

Along the same kind of line, I like Jangsu Aviation.(Country bias maybe.)

Steph, Simon, Dennis, Dan and Jayden are my favourites; the rest more annoying than most.

 

[scaredeycat]

I watch way too much YouTube and travel vloggers constitute a lot of that consumption. It has pretty much replaced free to air TV for me and the bonus is that if you have a premium subscription you don't have any ads. The comments of some on these thread remind me of my late father-in-law who was a curmudgeonly old Luddite ("Why do I need email? - If I want to contact someone I just pick up the phone" etc etc). It is a fantastic source of information on an endless variety of topics, one just has to be selective.

 

[Mattg]

I'm personally a fan of Dennis Bunnik and Petter Hörnfeldt (a.k.a. Mentour Pilot, a Ryanair captain based in Andorra who makes excellent videos about air crashes & safety-related incidents).

 

[scaredeycat]

I'm personally a fan of Dennis Bunnik and Petter Hörnfeldt (a.k.a. Mentour Pilot, a Ryanair captain based in Andorra who makes excellent videos about air crashes & safety-related incidents).

Hornfeldt is very polished and could be a TV presenter.

 

[thrillho]

Flight Formula, Pointy End Secrets, Dennis Bunnik, Jeb, TrekTrendy, TFFT, flaps10, loungeindex, Kym Illman, SANSpotter, and Gabe Leigh (from Flightradar24) are probably my picks...

There are a few that overdramatise or (maybe this is my problem) overpolish their content, especially titles, thumbnails, etc. Think Nonstop Dan, Josh Cahill, Noel etc.

Never watched Sam Chui, probably don't intend to.

 

[RooFlyer]

Hornfeldt is very polished and could be a TV presenter.

As he has given up flying (I think for a year), he is pretty much just that!

 

[lorkers]

food & bevies is one of the most important things to me,

Try Loungeindex: often very well filmed, and with very subtle humour describing all the wines and coughtails

 

[Noel Mugavin]

For Japan addicts, I really like Abroad in Japan. He's been there 12 years or so and produces some amazing work. Some not so serious, but has also done some very good clips regards Fukushima and the recovery along the Sanriku Coast.

 

[zainman]

Mentour Pilot is doing click baity stuff now too.. how many different ways are you going to present the problems at Boeing???

 

[elanshin]

The thing to keep in mind with click bait titles is what is the actual content provided. the nature of youtube means that you need to have a flashy click bait thumbnail. But if your content is still good, thats more than fine as it's practically an algorithm requirement to have some level of clickbait title.

Overall as a whole YouTube will probably go down as one of the biggest things to come out of the internet age. It has now become one of the biggest free educational resource on EVERYTHING. Of course some level of filtering is needed but the amount of knowledge and skill being shared is unparalleled.

Aviation and Travel Youtuber are also the same. Whether you like a personality or not, as a whole Youtube is providing a level of information to destinations, airlines, countries that there really is no resource that is close to it. Want to see what its like to visit Svalbard is like (one of the northern most remote places on earth) - there's someone that posts there lives about it along with a bunch of other travellers who's visited.

Closer to home - you see all sorts of tourists talking about their experiences here and for the most part forming a free tourism campaign for Australia (we mostly get good reviews and impressions). Or Japanese explaining how you can earn a lot more money being on working holiday visa in australia than being a salaryman in Japan.

 

[HirafuHeartAttack]

Last night after watching Noel awkwardly bumble about Istanbul airport youtube suggested Patrick Shea to me.
I was hooked, not super polished but very informative and flies some super unique routes with interesting history about the airlines as well. I recommend him to anyone who appreciates insights into routes they'll likely never fly like Dar Es Salaam to Guangzhou... (He does also fly more common/famous routes and seats)

Edit - just realised @MELso mentioned him on the last page in a similar way, sorry!

 

[GarrettM]

There is a social media streamer that got arrested in Korea for streaming some very disrespectful /illegal antics in South Korea. He got ejected from Japan for doing similar. He is giving all the expats and tourists a bad name so the expats there are coming down hard on him. His antics at the Statue of Peace was particularly reprehensible.

Never heard of him until now, thankfully, but sounds like his legal situation is getting worse and worse.
Looks like a highly deserving case of "couldn't happen to a nicer bloke".

My daughter likes Kara and Nate and quite frankly so do I.

 

[MelbFlyer]

I personally don't subscribe to anyone, and watch based on the merits of the way the video is presented.

If there's too much talking and not enough actual content / videos aren't in focus etc, I switch off the video ASAP.

The worst reviews have to be from Josh Cahill though - he is an incessant whiner and I personally can't stand him.

I've tapped on "don't recommend this channel" just to avoid any of his videos in searches.

I also think that many of the vloggers need to put more focus on Economy as this is the bread and butter of most, but I guess that doesn't bring in views and therefore money like business / first class does.