Travel With These 12 YouTubers
Kara and Nate
Hey, y’all! We are a husband and wife from Nashville, Tennessee traveling to 100 countries by 2020. It all started with an idea to take 1 year off before our lives got to serious, and we thought daily vlogs would be a fun way to document it. We left home with 2 carry-on bags on January 10, 2016, and halfway through we KNEW we didn’t want to stop traveling the world anytime soon!
Why you should travel with Kara and Nate: Great storytellers, quality video, and intriguing adventures and Airbnb’s. This traveling couple has been to over 100 countries and when the pandemic hit, adapted with an RV creating new stateside adventures.
2.18M subscribers: 348,404,517 views
Perhaps it s no surprise, then, that vlogging is becoming a big business. Though many vloggers make only $20 a day (barely more than $7,000 a year), the most successful are raking in as much as $7 million annually. One especially successful vlogger who often plays in the travel space, Casey Neistat, even built a spinoff app to help creators share their videos, then sold it to CNN last November for $25 million as part of the network s push to compete with YouTube. Travel creators are poised to steal the spotlight on these video platforms, just as they have on Instagram. By and large, their influence is being wielded on YouTube. According to a study that was run in part by Google (YouTube
This is great insight, Meubelen!
Some vloggers are intentionally using Youtube to monetize and establish a carrer while others happen to stumble into it; the opportunity is there to earn a stable income.
On page 11, I showcased the Vagabros, and they began as phone-held-travel-vloggers growing to having their own broadcast television show on Hulu and Tastemade.
The success of Yotube and it’s creators will bring competition (if they can survive) and this will lead to new and innovative platforms for creators of all types.