YOU Need THESE YouTube Channels | 9-Minute Guide

Today I'm going to share the 5 kinds of channels that I watch daily on YouTube. Hi, I'm Evan Carmichael. I believe in entrepreneurs. And not too long ago, I made a video showing the websites that I check out every day in my business to start my day. And I got a question from one of my YouTube viewers— love you guys— David Zhang, who wrote in to say, "Great video post. I'd love a YouTube channel list." Happy face. So it's a great question, and over the past year I've gotten more and more and more into YouTube, and there are 5 main kinds of channels that I look at every single day. Number 1 is entrepreneurial channels, and there's really only one channel that I watch religiously. Every episode that comes out I have to watch, and that's Gary Vaynerchuk's channel. If you don't know Gary, he's a social media expert, a business building expert. He's written a couple books like Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook, Crush It!, The Thank You Economy. He is a brass He's in your face, he's opinionated, he's not afraid to let loose, you know, what he's thinking. And if you are interested at all in building an online business, he is one of the best resources that I feel are out there to learn from. Out of all the entrepreneurial channels, he's the only one that I watch religiously, right? I watch every single episode that comes out and there's always a nugget that you can pull. So if you haven't checked out Gary Vee's channel, you should do so. Number 2 are YouTube channels, and these are channels that I use to learn how to get better on YouTube, how to improve what I'm doing with my videos, and how to have a bigger impact with the videos that I'm creating. There are two channels that I subscribe to and again religiously watch every single video that comes out. The first is Video Creators, and that's by a friend of mine named Tim Schmoyer. He puts out content a couple times a week, and it's sharing advice, news, tips. He takes questions from readers. He will go out and interview people, and there's just a lot of great information. And Tim is also a down-to-earth, genuine guy, and I connect with him easily because he wants to make the world a better place. You know, he wants YouTubers to help spread their message out there. And so again, every single video that comes out by Tim, I'm watching it and usually commenting on it. The other is Derral Eves, and Derral is like Tim. He's got a lot of advice on how to build his channel and how you can build your channel and get more views and have a bigger impact. He doesn't post as frequently as Tim does, and it's easy to stay on top of his stuff. It's easy to digest information he's sharing. It's easy, kind of step-by-step, here's what to do. Again, Derral's someone that's easy to connect with his message and what he's saying, and I just like having the variety. So Tim has his views, Derral has his views, and you're getting, you know, two sides of the coin and more strategies on how to help build your YouTube channel. So if building a YouTube channel and growing it is on your list of things to do, definitely check out Video Creators and Derral Eves. Number 3 are learning channels, and these are channels that I want to learn from, right? It's gonna help me in something I'm doing in my business or my videos or one of my companies, and I'm studying something. I'm not necessarily interested in the topic, but I'm studying something in how they're creating their videos. So the first one for me in this category is TED Talks, and there are a lot of great TED Talks, but there's a lot even more more not so great TED Talks. And my main goal with the TED Talks is to become a better speaker, right? These are supposed to be some of the best speakers in the world on display sharing their thoughts, and they have a challenge in that it's a really tight commitment where you can only speak for X number of minutes. There's a lot of content that goes up on TED, and if you are watching those every day all the way through, you're gonna basically spending a lot of time in front of the computer watching TED's channel. And quite frankly, a lot of the topics aren't really of interest to me, and a lot of the speakers aren't very good sorry to say. And what I'm looking for is how can I be a better speaker by modeling success, right? It's part of what I do is model success. So can I learn from some of these speakers? So often what I'll do is I'll play a video and I'll listen to the first 30 seconds, and if the speaker has hooked me and I'm interested in their topic, then I'll stay for as long as I want to stay until I get bored, and then I'll bounce. And usually I rarely make it through more most of the videos. Uh, and most of the time I'll bounce in the first 10 seconds because the speaker's already lost me. So if you can't keep me for the first 10 to 30 seconds, I'm out. You know, hopefully gonna learn from the guys who are keeping me there for longer. The second one in this category is Casey Neistat. I hope I pronounced that properly. I'm pretty new to Casey's channel. He was featured on Gary Vaynerchuk's channel, so I subscribed to him. He does a lot of vlogging, and I really love the way that he does his vlogs, and I've done a few vlogs and travel videos, and I'm just learning his style, the different camera angles he's using. You know, when he's running, he'll show himself going for a run, and what he does is he puts his phone down and then runs back, and then just to record him doing this running scene, and then he'll run back and pick up his phone just to get that 5 seconds of footage. And so it's, uh, I'm learning from his style. It's interesting to see how he lives his life. It's not that it's super interesting for me to want to, you know, be like him, but I'm learning from his techniques of how he's shooting his vlogs. My fourth category are friends. These are people who are friends of mine, they're posting to YouTube, and I'm a huge believer that you need to support your friends, and I watch their videos religiously. I leave comments on all of their videos, and I just like being a supporter. So the first one here is Richard Jagudilove, and he has an inspirational channel that has a lot of interviews. I've been featured on the channel a couple times. And he posts videos a lot now about fear, how to break out of your fear and strategies to use, and interviewing inspiring people. The second is Much, which is run by Jennifer Price, another friend of mine. She's a copywriter. She posts videos about her journey of writing her book, as well as effective strategies on how to be a good copywriter. If you're writing a website or a brochure or any marketing materials, the things you need to think about in your headline, your call to action, the text. So if you want to improve your copywriting abilities and sell more with your words, she's a good channel to check out. And the third friend I'd like to give a shout out to is xoxo cooks. This is a channel run by a friend of mine named Adrienne. It's a cooking channel. I rarely cook. I am not good at it. I don't enjoy it. But Adrienne, I started watching just to support her and give her feedback and give it a like and, you know, add that little extra boost. But now I genuinely look forward to her videos because they're funny, they're educational. I'll often watch them with my wife. And it's a good channel to check out. And the 5th category are personal videos. These are just things that I like to watch for fun and channels that I really enjoy the content they're putting out. The first one here is Jamie Gaming Curios, and he makes videos about League of Legends. It's a game that I enjoy playing in my spare time, and I like learning how to get better and just the informative information that he shares there. Informative information, can you say that? I guess information should be informative, right? A lot of great information about League of Legends and how to get better better, so I enjoy that channel. The second is Ulises McLaren, and he has a salsa channel, so turn patterns, new moves that you can learn. Always, you know, as a salsa dancer, you are never tapped out of moves. You can always learn more moves, and so he has a great channel that he posts to regularly with new moves that he's come up with that I like to try out. And then there's Zap2Spyon, which, it's a silly channel, shows a bunch of people doing funny things. It might be stupid animal tricks or fails, and they have a regular video series that comes out, and it's a good channel to watch to unwind at the end of the day. And my wife and I will often— I actually never really watch it on my own. It's more watching it with Nina to watch her reaction to it, because watching her laugh at something makes it funny for me, where otherwise I wouldn't normally watch fail videos. But anyway, those are the channels that I watch in the personal category. So those are the 5 kinds of videos that I enjoy watching. I'd love to hear from you in the comments what your favorite channels are. Maybe I'll learn something new and gain some new channels to subscribe. So if you have a favorite channel, the channel that you watch every day, you're, you're religious, every new video that comes out you have to see what they're putting out, leave it in the comments below. I'm really curious to see what you're gonna write there. And if you like this video, you want to see more, don't forget to subscribe to the channel and in newsletter. Thank you for watching another Tech Tuesday video, and continue to believe. I needed to hop back on for one more second because the, the way that YouTube's watch later function works is broken and super inefficient, and I was so frustrated with it that staying on top of my favorite channels and making sure I didn't miss a video from someone like a Gary Vaynerchuk would, would upset me so much. And so I devised a hack for how to make sure you stay on top easily of all your favorite channels. And if you guys are interested in learning more, if you're frustrated with the Watch Later function, let me know and maybe I'll make a separate video. Cheers, guys!