Why YouTube is Still a Great Place For Gun & Hunting Video

By Ammoland

Opinion
Charlie Jacoby makes the case why there is still some positive numbers for Youtube inclusion of guns and hunting.

United Kingdom – -(AmmoLand.com)- The new YouTube gun and hunting TV channel ranking is out: Read the full report below or online.

For anyone who thinks that YouTube has pulled all support guns and hunting, it makes a surprising read.

• Our sport has had 12.8 billion views on YouTube from the 500 top-performing channels
• More than 20 hunting and shooting channels are over the 100 million views mark
• One channel has hit a billion views. Hats off to Greg Kinman of Hickock45.

“In a public space like YouTube, that’s an incredible achievement,” says Charlie Jacoby, presenter on UK hunting channel Fieldsports Channel, which compiles the report using figures from Socialblade.com.

Many gun channel owners misunderstood a 2018 update to YouTube’s terms that appeared to ban guns – and moved their channels to other Gun media servers. Some claimed demonetization as a factor, at the same time that YouTube removed its conditions about sponsored content it actively encouraged channels to seek sponsorship and ad deals from its own market places.

“That’s a mistake,” says Jacoby. “You …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand