The Thinking Man's Guide To YouTube

The Thinking Man's
Guide to
YouTube
20 Hobbies & their YouTube Channels

About The Document
This guide has been created by Vidooly to help anyone who wishes to find/master a
new hobby through Youtube. From guitar lessons and cooking shows to hunting tricks
and computer tutorials; you can learn a lot through YouTube videos.
But finding the right channels can be difficult since YouTube is like an ocean with
millions of videos. However, not when you have this guide! It lists down over 150
YouTube channels segregated into 20 categories of hobbies that most people like.
Subscribe to them and start sharpening your skills right away!
Reading Animation
Family Minecraft
Movies Sewing
Fishing DIY
Computer Guitar
Contents
Yoga Psychology
Gardening ASMR
Hunting Cards
Travel Cooking
Sneakers Dessert
Table of
READING
PolandBananasBooks
Viewership - 468,02,957
Subscribers - 3,44,514
Christine Riccio loves comedy and reading fantastic books. She makes funny videos every
Tuesday and other days of the week about books and book related pop culture stuff.
ABookUtopia
Sasha is a book-o-holic (and proud). On this channel, she talks mostly about every aspect of
reading from book/movie reviews and tags to sketches and event vlogs.
Katytastic
Kat O’Keeffe loves books, coffee, Korean dramas, and the internet. She loves great stories,
travel the world, and have fantastic adventures and tries to put up two videos a week, some-
times more if she is feeling vloggy.
PeruseProject
Regan loves books hauls, wrap ups, and has reviewed more than 40 books on her YouTube
channel. She is 11th most followed reader on Goodreads.com and is ranked 69th best Go-
odreads reviewers of all time.
Little Book Owl

Catriona loves reading and sharing her passion for books within the wonderful BookTube
community. She enjoy long walks through bookstore and cuddling up in bed with a block of
chocolate.
Family
FamilyFunPack
Viewership - 8,381,462,631
Along with their 5 kids: Alyssa, David, Zac & Chris, and their baby brother Michael, they orig-
inated the “costume runway” series on YouTube.
Bratayley
Bratayley is a popular family vlogging YouTube channel. Starring: Caleb, Hayley and Annie.
These adorable kids share their “daily” life. Annie and Hayley are in gymnastics and Caleb
plays baseball.
Daily Bumps
Viewership - 1,535,171,157
Daily Bumps are a Southern California family of 4 that likes to live life to the fullest. Their
YouTube channel is all about sharing their honest day-to-day life in video form for you to
enjoy.
RomanAtwoodVlogs
Viewership - 3,044,395,625
This is his Roman Atwood’s family YouTube channel where he documents his life through
vlogs along with his wife Brittney Smith and two sons Noah and Kane.
SHAYTARDS
Viewership - 2,592,670,340
Shay Carl Butler is a vlogger who recently completed their 6th year of vlogging on YouTube
and are considered as one of the most popular YouTube family in the community.
Movies
Screen Junkies
Viewership - 1,548,087,001
Home of the epic Honest Trailers and The ScreenJunkies Show, it’s the ScreenJunkies You-
Tube channel where you will enjoy their take on film & TV with a steady stream of pop-cul-
ture parody, original series, and thoughtful commentary.
Mr. Sunday Movies

The research and analysis done for each review and series are just amazing. With playlists
like “Kill counts and Supercuts”, “Easter Egg videos”, “Things you missed breakdowns” etc,
are great examples of how you make effective presentations.
CineFix
CineFlix is the place every movie buff would love to visit every day. They have a wide range of
content which provides a lot of entertainment and information about certain movies.
Jeremy Jahns
Jeremy Jahns is one of the most subscribed YouTube movie review channels with more than
1 million subscribers.
Channel Awesome
His movie reviews are straight, funny and with the long point of view for almost every movie
(especially the bad ones).

Fishing
BlacktipH
BlacktipH Fishing brings you some of the most exciting fishing videos on the web. Their host,
Josh Jorgensen, is an extreme angler who has an adrenaline seeking appetite for monster
fish!
Chew On This
The most Legendary Fishing Channel on YouTube featuring Captain Ben Chancey who has
some great Fishing featuring Chew On This Saltwater Fishing Show.
Wired2Fish
Subscribers - 96,609
Wired2fish is the most-popular, fishing site for fishing videos, fishing tackle reviews, fishing
tips, and more. they are a top destination for all sorts of freshwater fishing questions, tech-
niques, tackle and industry news.
TAFishing
TAFishing is run by father and son Graeme & Mike Pullen. They provide weekly HD fishing
videos packed full of tips to help the average angler catch more fish and specialise in all-
round fishing.
Addictive Fishing
Their videos generate huge viewers’ attention and the antics of the energized host keeps
you strapped in for 30-minutes of entertaining, addicting saltwater television.

gadgets
UNBOXTHERAPY
Subscribers - 6631823
While Lew, the guy behind Unbox Therapy did not create the category of unboxing, he clear-
ly turned it into an art form and elevated it. He is the most subscribed and viewed Unboxing/
Review YouTube channel at present.
LINUSTECHTIPS
Linus Gabriel Sebastian is best known for creating and hosting three technology-oriented
YouTube channels Linus Tech Tips, Techquickie and Channel Super Fun.
EVERYTHINGAPPLEPRO
This channel provides Phone unboxings, iPad, iPod Reviews, Drop Tests, Comparisons, Jail-
breaks, Tweaks, Tutorials among his 989 videos.
CNETTV
CNET is the leader of online tech reviewing websites famous for their unbiased reviews, vid-
eos, podcasts, software downloads, and How-Tos.
MARQUESBROWNLEE
MKBHD is a one-man tech video production powerhouse. Former Senior Vice President, So-
cial for Google, Vic Gundotra, called Brownlee “the best technology reviewer on the planet
right now”.
yoga
FitnessBlender
You’ll find Over 450 free workout videos here, generally between 10 to 40-minute work-
outs, and also short videos answering your fitness questions.
Blogilates
Cassey Ho is the queen of POP Pilates. Her super-hot body and the fun personality inspires
you to keep going for hours.
BeFit
Fitness channel from Lionsgate offers new workouts every day. There are 30-day programs
to focus on certain areas, fun dance fit sessions, fat burn cardio, strength-building sessions,
and even Pilates.
XHIT Daily
They offer a new workout video every day, the main selling point of this channel is their Ce-
lebrity and Victoria’s Secret Model workout sections where videos range from The Beyonce
Butt Workout to How to Get Legs like Jennifer Lawrence.
POPSUGAR Fitness
Tons of full-length workouts, sorted by time and type. Includes cardio, strength training, Ta-
bata, yoga, pilates, and more. Also, try out their 2-week clean eating plan on their site.
Gardening
GrowingYourGreens
Growing Your Greens is the most watched gardening show on YouTube. It’s a fun and en-
lightening show on how to grow food at your home and beyond.
California Gardening
Subscribers - 94017
California Gardening introduces you to the joys of gardening and growing your own vegeta-
bles, fruits and flowers. It is currently the best organic gardening channel on YouTube which
helps you do gardening at your best!
Gary Pilarchik
Subscribers - 87021
Gary Pilarchik’s YouTube channel is dedicated to tomato and vegetable gardening. He blog’s
and make HD videos about all aspects of vegetable gardening from seed starting to harvest-
ing and tries to make videos short and to the point.
Justin Rhodes
Every day the Rhodes family puts out a high-definition video blog that records daily activity
on their homestead. After studying permaculture and pastured livestock under the likes of
Joel Salatin, Justin practices what he preaches
MIgardener
Subscribers - 96751
MIgardener is a YouTube channel that produces videos that are 100% Organic Gardening,
Self-Sustainability, Healthy Recipes and much more for the gardener of today.
Hunting
TarraDarraBros
TarraDarraBros is a YouTube channel with two good bros who loves Camping, Wildlife,
Hunting, Cooking and Eating stuff from the Aussie bush and ocean.
Team Wild TV
Team Wild TV is the worlds leading online hunting and outdoor sports channel. New videos
are uploaded daily featuring a range of entertaining and educational shows.
Fieldsports Channel
Fieldsports Channel showcases the best hunting, shooting and fishing through weekly TV
shows, free to watch – more than 2,600 films including weekly shows on sport hunting, clay
shooting, air gunning and angling.
Miller Wilson
Miller Wilson is just 14 years old, and is going to bring you closer to nature, from cute little
creatures to downright DEADLY snakes, and all animals in between.
National Shooting Sports Foundation

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) is the trade association for the shooting,
hunting and firearms industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and
the shooting sports.

Travel
DEVINSUPERTRAMP
He is the king of adventure and extreme sports videos on YouTube. Devinsupertramp is the
top Subscribed traveling YouTube channel specializing in Vlog and traveling.
FUN FOR LOUIS

Louis is the poster boy for all the newbie backpackers on YouTube. He is regarded as one of
the top subscribed YouTubers who started off his career by eating live insects on camera.
MR. BEN BROWN

He is the British kayaker, who recently filmed his own car crash on a GoPro camera. His vlog-
ging series called Visual Styles is the reason why he is on our top travel vlogging list.
HEY NADINE
Nadine Sykora is always high on wanderlust. Her YouTube channel shows a traveller’s how
to travel solo, pack your backpacks, travel hacks, and many other videos made only for trav-
ellers.
EXPOZA TRAVEL
This is the perfect YouTube channel for backpackers and travellers who need to rain check
their locations before visiting it. This travel channel provides video guides series for exotic
countries like Europe, North/ South America, Asia, Africa etc.

sneakers
KickGenius
KickGenius is known for their performance test. They also drop a Sneaker News segment ev-
ery other week, detailed looks on newly released sneakers, and 1-on-1 with J.Jones through-
out each month.
BULL1TRC
This is the sneaker head who showcases some of the most trending sneakers and also tells
how to identify the OG’s from fake ones. Everyone seems to love this guy for his no bullshit
attitude.
QrewKicks
This Channel is about SNEAKERS AND FASHION. Daily videos. Un-Boxings. Reviews. Pick-
Ups. and more.
Jacques Slade
Jacques Slade posts daily updates and reviews on sneakers + sports, music, entertainment,
technology and all the cool stuff I can find.
SC00P2O8
He is one of the hottest sneakers reviewers on YouTube. Every video is an unboxing of some-
thing new. Also, never send him broken box of new sneakers.
animations
MondoMedia
Viewership - 2,266,829,036
MondoMedia is a channel where frowns and sadness go to die and animated series like Hap-
py Tree Friends, Dick Figures and Deep Space 69 sip champagne and eat the finest mermaid
sushi. Warning: Mondo is not for children or big babies.
How It Should Have Ended

Viewership - 1,562,666,203
How It Should Have Ended (HISHE) is a place for animated parody alternate endings to ma-
jor motion pictures.
Explosm Entertainment
Viewership - 1,548,096,780
ExplosmEntertainment makes Cyanide & Happiness animations and comics, as well as the
Joking Hazard Card game.
Simon’s Cat
Simon’s Cat is an animated series featuring the mischievous and often hilarious antics of a
fat white cat and his owner Simon. One of the most popular animated channels on YouTube,
this is definitely a channel to subscribe to!
sWooZie
Adande Thorne won the 2016 Streamy Awards in Best Animation in a Web Series category
for his work in this YouTube channel.

Minecraft
TheDiamondMinecart
Viewership - 7,465,962,338
The second most Subscribed Minecraft YouTube channel with more than 3000 videos. The-
DiamondMinecart’s Mod Showcases are popular among his viewers due to his involvement
with his fellow players.
PopularMMOs
Viewership - 5,980,737,036
Patrick Julianelle, or Pat is known for the series like Lucky Block Hunger Games (Minecraft),
Lucky Block Race (Minecraft), The Challenge Games (Minecraft) among others.
StampyLonghead
Viewership - 5,240,756,829
He is favoured by many parents for their children when we consider the type of formal tone
he uses in his Minecraft videos. He was known as Stampylongnose before changing it in 2012.
YOGSCAST
Viewership - 3,381,940,408
YOGSCAST is the one of the most successful network of YouTube broadcasters who special-
ize in creating content for Let’s Play videos and Minecraft survival multiplayer videos.
Sky Does Minecraft

Viewership - 3,284,308,963
Member of the famous Minecraft group “Team Crafted”, Adam Dahlberg “sky” is an Ameri-
can YouTuber with the Minecraft username “SkythekidRS”.

sewing
ThreadBanger –
ThreadBanger is a YouTube channel where you can suggest him a pin from Pinterest, and he
will recreate the exact. This is one of the best place to learn sewing and their DIY options.
Professor Pincushion
From sewing small stuff like keyhole cut-out, applique seam to an hour long detailed tips for
sewing Butterick and Kwik sew patters, her step by step video tutorials will teach you every-
thing about sewing.
MADE Everyday
Dana is a 39-year-old mom of 3 kids living in Austin. She loves to sew pajama pants, teach
you how to cut straight and curve lines, and got her own “learn to sew” playlist for beginners.
Q2HAN
These two girls from Korea will teach you DIY fashion techniques, have great upcycle videos
where they use old clothes to make new ones.
Pinkchocolatebreak
Pink’s sewing tutorials are easy and dummy proof because she is not an expert herself but is
in love with the craft. So instead of going for the conventional, complicated way she DIY’ed
her sewing method to fit her needs.

DIY
SaraBeautyCorner
This channel is all about DIY, comedy, makeup tutorials, nail art and other awesome ideas
that pop on my mind. Lately, she makes mostly DIY, comedy and lifestyle videos.
LaurDIY
Lauren is DIY-obsessed is all about creativity, glitter & petting dogs.Check her out for some
tips, look books & Fashion Videos, Skincare Tutorials and Tips, and everything Beauty and
Cosmetics related because she love to try new things.
Wengie
On her channel you can get Hacks, DIYS, Simple/Everyday Makeup Tutorials and Tips, Morn-
ing and Night Time Routines & Fun Tags, Hauls & Favourites, Hair Tutorials, Diet & fitness.
IdunnGoddess
IdunnGoddess youtube channel is dedicated to creativity, How To and How-to :), DIY (Do-It-
Yourself), Crafts, Recycling Handmade Stuff, Life Hacks, Tricks and Tips.
SoCraftastic
SoCraftastic is a YouTube channel for arts & crafts of all sorts - home decor, jewellery, fash-
ion, baking, drawing, polymer clay & tons more.

Guitar
GuitarJamz
Viewership - 5,016,05,320
Subscribers -1766665
GuitarJamz is internet’s leading guitar instruction resource with an all-star roster of teach-
ers, including Marty Schwartz, Bret Papa (aka “Papastache”), Tim Pierce, John Konesky.
Jared Dines
Jared Dines posts 60+ hours of work very week into making videos for his YouTube channel.
his channel gives music facts, guitar learning videos of all kinds of music genre.
Rob Chapman
Rob Chapman is a guitarist from Brighton, UK and is the founder of Chapman Guitars. He
is also the frontman and guitarist for Dorje, and loves making videos about guitar tuition,
demonstration, and album reviews.
Rockongoodpeople
This YouTube channel teaches all levels - beginner, intermediate, and advanced as well as all
genres of music. So, if you want to learn rock, blues, country, jazz, metal, shred, gypsy jazz,
surf, rockabilly and more, then do visit this YouTube channel.
JustinGuitar
JustinGuitar is one of the leading online guitar instructors at present. over 35,000 people a
day learn guitar from his website, and many of his premium videos are available on his You-
Tube channel.
psychology
TheHonestGuys
These guys create high quality Guided Meditations videos that are freely viewable on You-
Tube. They have been creating this content since 2009.
Big Think
Big Think is the leading source of expert-driven, actionable, educational content -- with
thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, we help you get
smarter, faster.
Michael Sealy
Michael Sealey’s YouTube channel specializes in Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Guided Medita-
tion, and Sleep Relaxation.
Actualized.org
This YouTube channel got 100+ hours of advanced personal development concepts. Actu-
alized.org is all about REAL, results-driven personal development without fluff, bullshit, or
hype. The viewer will find true life purpose which will help users stay on track of their life.
Practical Psychology
Practical Psychology is dedicated to giving high-quality and informative videos to everyone
who wishes to learn. This channel will upload animated book review, inspirational and moti-
vational videos, as well as tutorials on many topics.

ASMR
Gentle Whispering ASMR
Christine Riccio loves comedy and reading fantastic books. She makes funny videos every
Tuesday and other days of the week about books and book related pop culture stuff.
MassageASMR
Dmitri - the creator of this YouTube channel started his career on this platform as a desire to
make massage video’s turning into him making ASMR video’s for his online audience.
Heather Feather ASMR

In this ASMR focused channel, you’ll find 50+ role plays, Sound Assortments, Guided Med-
itations, original stories, Pure Sounds, Tingle Blitzes, & Sound Slices. According to her fans,
she is a specialist for insomnia related problems.
Ephemeral Rift
This creator is lovingly considered as a mad scientist working in his underground laboratory
using a combination of ASMR, relaxation, art, humor, satire, nature, philosophy, food, and
video games.
ASMRrequests
Ally (creator of this YouTube channel) is well known in the ASMR community. She uses all
kinds of stuff to recreate the soothing sounds for which ASMR is well known for.
POKER
PokerStars
PokerStars is the world’s largest online poker room & the biggest tournaments anywhere
online. $600 deposit bonus for new players. This YouTube channel generates the highest
viewership among its poker based YouTube channels.
Doug Polk Poker

Subscribers - 55138
The creator of this YouTube channel - Doug Polk is an American professional poker player.
As of October 2016, his total live tournament earnings exceed $5,000,000.
PokerStaples
Subscribers - 33831
Jaime Staples is a Canadian poker player from Alberta. With over 73,000 followers on Twitch,
Jaime is one of the biggest poker streamers. As of 2015, his total live tournament winnings
exceed $9,000 and his online tournament net cashes exceed $550,000.
The Poker Guys

Subscribers - 19378
These two brothers take every televised world of poker every week every week for the past
30 or 40 years and they break it down we analyse it we have a lot of fun with it.
joeingram1
Subscribers - 22893
He is ChicagoJoey also known as Joeingram1 which is also the name of his YouTube channel.
In here, he does podcasts with guests from the high stakes world, Poker Life series which
focuses on online and live poker players including people involved with poker.
Cooking
LAURA IN THE KITCHEN
Laura made it her mission to make recipes that can be followed by everyday cooks. With
1000-plus YouTube cooking videos viewed more than 300 million times, she is definitely the
queen of online cooking channels.
GORDON RAMSAY
He is the chef who needs no introduction. The host of Gordon Ramsay show, hell’s kitchen,
MasterChef America, and his restaurants have been awarded 16 Michelin stars in total.
JAMIE OLIVER
Jamie Oliver is ranked among world’s best chefs and was named the most influential person
in the UK hospitality industry. His YouTube channel uploads the best cooking instructions
for more than 1000 recipes around the world.
ROBJNIXON
Nicko’s Kitchen has been delivering simple family classic meals since 2008 on his YouTube
channel. So cook affordable and easy recipes for your desserts or traditional American cui-
sine through this channel.
MAANGCHI
If you are getting cravings for Korean lettuce salad, Kimchi Stew, Taro Soup or want to make
Korean rice liquor “Makgeolli”, then is your go-to channel.

DESSERT
Rosanna Pansino
Viewership - 1,816,049,463
She is the cupcake queen of YouTube. Her channel Nerdy Nummies is dedicated to cook
baked items resembling characters and objects from video games, television shows, books,
and films.
How To Cook That

If you want to cook Instagram-themed cakes, then look no further. Ann Reardon has been
featured in many international magazines like Forbes, and The Huffington Post. This You-
Tube channel mainly features cakes decorated with cartoon characters, social media logos.
Cookies Cupcakes and Cardio

This channel is dedicated to do-it-yourself baking from scratch, and decorating cakes and
cupcakes. From her rainbow themed cakes to homemade pumpkin spice latte, Jenn Johns
can bake word class cakes with a homemade touch.
My Cupcake Addiction
Elise Strachan has been empowering novice bakers with clever tips and techniques since
2011. Initially, she was in the cupcake business for 10 years before her decision to go digital.
Simple Cooking Channel

Straight from Australia, Jason Pinder is on his verge to join one million subscriber club in no
time. He used to be a counsellor before he started cooking and baking in his own YouTube.
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20 Hobbies & their YouTube Channels

times more if she is feeling vloggy.

odreads reviewers of all time.

Little Book Owl

inated the “costume runway” series on YouTube.

ture parody, original series, and thoughtful commentary.

Mr. Sunday Movies

are great examples of how you make effective presentations.

(especially the bad ones).

some great Fishing featuring Chew On This Saltwater Fishing Show.

niques, tackle and industry news.

you strapped in for 30-minutes of entertaining, addicting saltwater television.

Review YouTube channel at present.

breaks, Tweaks, Tutorials among his 989 videos.

eos, podcasts, software downloads, and How-Tos.

outs, and also short videos answering your fitness questions.

you to keep going for hours.

and even Pilates.

Butt Workout to How to Get Legs like Jennifer Lawrence.

lightening show on how to grow food at your home and beyond.

helps you do gardening at your best!

ing and tries to make videos short and to the point.

Joel Salatin, Justin practices what he preaches

are uploaded daily featuring a range of entertaining and educational shows.

shooting, air gunning and angling.

creatures to downright DEADLY snakes, and all animals in between.

National Shooting Sports Foundation

the shooting sports.

top Subscribed traveling YouTube channel specializing in Vlog and traveling.

FUN FOR LOUIS

MR. BEN BROWN

countries like Europe, North/ South America, Asia, Africa etc.

out each month.

Ups. and more.

technology and all the cool stuff I can find.

sushi. Warning: Mondo is not for children or big babies.

How It Should Have Ended

jor motion pictures.

Joking Hazard Card game.

this is definitely a channel to subscribe to!

for his work in this YouTube channel.

with his fellow players.

Sky Does Minecraft

can YouTuber with the Minecraft username “SkythekidRS”.

thing about sewing.

where they use old clothes to make new ones.

her sewing method to fit her needs.

Cosmetics related because she love to try new things.

ion, baking, drawing, polymer clay & tons more.

demonstration, and album reviews.

surf, rockabilly and more, then do visit this YouTube channel.

Tube. They have been creating this content since 2009.

Michael Sealey’s YouTube channel specializes in Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Guided Medita-

tion, and Sleep Relaxation.

Practical Psychology is dedicated to giving high-quality and informative videos to everyone

vational videos, as well as tutorials on many topics.

Heather Feather ASMR

she is a specialist for insomnia related problems.

viewership among its poker based YouTube channels.

Doug Polk Poker

As of October 2016, his total live tournament earnings exceed $5,000,000.

The Poker Guys