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My wife and I have stopped watching food/travel shows. Instead, we just put on some of our favorite food channels on YouTube - like FoodRanger (Trevor James) or

My wife and I have stopped watching food/travel shows. Instead, we just put on some of our favorite food channels on YouTube - like FoodRanger (Trevor James) or Migrationology (Mark Wiens). I don't even get what TV channels are doing anymore. Trevor James' video on street food in Mumbai has around 8.5M views. He is also awkwardly affable and a great, gracious host. Why aren't TV execs giving people like him TV deals is beyond me. Here, you have a guy who has nearly 700,000 subscribers, is fun to watch and averages over a million views for each video...and you hire some no-name moron to host your TV travel shows instead?

unicornporn 10y ago
Thanks a lot. Trevor James was fantastic! Do you have more recommendations?
- puranjay 10y ago
  Try the StrictlyDumpling channel for Japanese and Chinese food
- matthewrudy 10y ago
  I'm a big fan of Hellthy Junk Food.
unprepare 10y ago
Maybe these people do get offers but prefer to work on their own schedules and without cumbersome contracts. If you were making really good money making youtube videos, why would you want to sign on with food network (who probably demands things like good behavior clauses and stuff in their contracts), have to shoot a real tv show on the networks schedule, doing reshoots and promotional events, etc at the beck and call of some executive? I absolutely agree that these youtubers are underpaid for the value that they create/the audiences they have accumulated; im just not as surprised that we arent seeing them convert into tv and movie personalities
- hayd 10y ago
  > If you were making really good money making youtube videos, why would you want to sign on with food network because they'd pay you even better money!
  - josephb 10y ago
    > because they'd pay you even better money! That's assuming money matters :-) Often people who are running their own world and in control of their own destiny are happy to stay that way regardless of better money.

unicornporn 10y ago

Thanks a lot. Trevor James was fantastic! Do you have more recommendations?

puranjay 10y ago
Try the StrictlyDumpling channel for Japanese and Chinese food
matthewrudy 10y ago
I'm a big fan of Hellthy Junk Food.

unprepare 10y ago

Maybe these people do get offers but prefer to work on their own schedules and without cumbersome contracts. If you were making really good money making youtube videos, why would you want to sign on with food network (who probably demands things like good behavior clauses and stuff in their contracts), have to shoot a real tv show on the networks schedule, doing reshoots and promotional events, etc at the beck and call of some executive? I absolutely agree that these youtubers are underpaid for the value that they create/the audiences they have accumulated; im just not as surprised that we arent seeing them convert into tv and movie personalities

hayd 10y ago
> If you were making really good money making youtube videos, why would you want to sign on with food network because they'd pay you even better money!
- josephb 10y ago
  > because they'd pay you even better money! That's assuming money matters :-) Often people who are running their own world and in control of their own destiny are happy to stay that way regardless of better money.