In the last two years their has been a boom of youtube channels in the maker community including our own small\u00a0channel<\/a>. This is an awesome thing to see, it means the maker community is truly alive and kicking across the board and around the world and that is just awesome to see. It is the reason I started my channel, to simply to inspire others to go and make something. It could be crafting or woodworking or metal, or what ever… the point is you are making something.<\/p>\n However with this growing number of maker channels it is harder to get noticed and get those subscribers up. But I will say this before we go to far. There is no magical number where your channel will instantly grow. There is no magical formula to making a hit video that will go viral, and even if you do, it doesn’t automatically mean you will get the subscribers. There is no easy path to take, it is a lot of work that goes into running a channel.<\/p>\n The only formula that actually works, is doing the hard work and keeping at it. There is the planning process of the project, and the making of the project while filming it, this alone can make a project 3-5 times longer to do in the making process… setting camera, lighting audio, remembering you have a camera and changing the angles coming up with new angles… and at the moment you not even a third done of the process. You now have to go and edit your video… and depending on your style and planning this can take any from 3 – 8 hours and up for a 10 minute video. I have had one or two videos that took nearly 20 hours to edit… but on average mine take about 5-6 hours if I am not distracted.<\/p>\n Once you are happy with your video you are still not done, uploading it to youtube, and sorting your description, keywords and thumb nail etc and any links you mentioned in your video etc… Once the video is uploaded and processed by youtube, you then need to sort any annotations if you need them and cards and the you can publish your video…<\/p>\n Now believe or not you have done the easy part and this is what this article is about. The hard part is getting people to watch your video without you blatantly spamming every one… and if you spam you simply turn off people from wanting to watch your video. You can use your other social networks to help like FaceBook, Twitter, Pintrest, Google+ etc and any other forums you are on to spread the word of your video. But don’t spam. Once your subscribers grow it does become easier but you still have to keep at it and it can be a lot of work.<\/p>\n So the whole point of this article is to spread the word of other youtubers like\u00a0myself<\/a>, channels that have put in the hard slog and deserve more subscribers. The list below is only scratching the surface of the number a great channels out there. They are in no particular order.<\/p>\n