Since its creation in 2005, YouTube has grown in every way possible. With more than 500 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute finding quality content can be overwhelming. It does not help that most people (kids & adults) are just given Youtube with little to no direction on how best to utilize the platform. I have been using Youtube for over 15 years now as both a content producer and consumer.
Below is a list of Youtube channels I hope my sons and others who love learning will find useful.
Smart People Sharing Knowledge / Viewpoints.
- All-In Podcast: with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
- Cambridge Union
- Ted Talks
- Yuval Noah Harari
- Lex Fridman
- TheMunkDebates
Financial Info
Government
- CSPAN
- Library of Congress
- U.S. Department of State
- UK Parliament
- World Economic Forum
- Christopher Hitchens Archive
Political Non-Profits / Research
- Brookings Institution
- Hoover Institution
- Pew Research Center
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics
Travel Shows
- Bald & Bankrupt: budget travel in the former Soviet land
- Drew Binsky: World traveler
Maps & History
- Johnny Harris: videos about maps and many other things.
- Jay Foreman
- Historia Civilis: Battle strategy
Gardening & Farm Life
- Charles Dowding
- Morag Gamble: Our Permaculture Life
- Flank Farm
- Justin Rhodes
Tech
Music
- Grand Ole Opry
- Mountain Stage
- KEXP
- NPR Music
- The Cypher Effect: Hip Hop Music Network
Law Schools
Young Kid Learning
Older Kid Learning
- MinutePhysics
- MinuteEarth
- CrashCourse
- SciShow
- SmarterEveryDay
- vlogbrothers
- Nature on PBS
- YaleCourses
- MrBettsClass
Outdoorsmenship
- Primitive Technology
- Northmen
- Sigma 3 Survival School
- Primitive Life
- New England Forests
- My Self Reliance
Cooking
Lacrosse
General
Here’s a summary of interesting YouTube statistics as of 2022:
- YouTube has 2.6 billion users worldwide.
- 62 percent of global consumers use YouTube.
- YouTube viewers watch over a billion hours of video on the platform every day and generate billions of views.
- YouTube is localized in more than 100 countries and is available in 80 languages.
- Every day, people watch one billion hours of video on YouTube.
- 62 percent of businesses use YouTube as a channel to post video content.
- 63 percent of YouTube watch time comes from mobile.
- 90 percent of people say they discover new brands or products on YouTube.
- 90 percent of US digital video viewers use YouTube, the most popular channel for digital video consumption.