What YouTube (or alternative) Podcasts do you Subscribe to?

Audio podcasts faded into obscurity because their audience wanted video. For all practical purposes, many of the podcasts I watch may as well be audio-only because I'm working on the computer and rarely looking at the screen, but then I listen to movies that way too.
 
Podcasts and channels are often used interchangeably on YouTube, especially in how creators describe their content, with most referring to their "channel" as a podcast. Even those who have come to YouTube from TV networks most often refer to their content as a podcast, from what I have seen. Many of them are basically audio-only, with the video part often a static image or, more frustratingly, an AI-generated video that has little or nothing to do with the subject. For a while, I think the video podcasts were known as vlogs (video blogs), but that is clumsy to pronounce.
 
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Ken Anderson said:
Audio podcasts faded into obscurity because their audience wanted video. For all practical purposes, many of the podcasts I watch may as well be audio-only because I'm working on the computer and rarely looking at the screen, but then I listen to movies that way too.
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As I said, podcast faded into obscurity because of people not wanting to think and imagine. It is easier to watch a movie than read the book. The problem is many times the movie differs slightly from the book. Movies and videos are an easier way to dupe the listener and watcher, where as books and the written word, not so much.

I only listened to a few "real" podcast, and they were ranch related. Baxter Black was one I found interesting and entertaining in audio, but not so much with his videos.
 
I'm curious. Why would you watch a podcast, enjoy either the podcaster or the content, but not subscribe? It doesn't cost anything to subscribe, and it makes it easier to find the stuff again if you want to, and you can always unsubscribe if you tire of it. I unsubscribe to stuff a lot, either because the content becomes too obviously commercial, because the content creator starts to annoy me, or because they don't upload new stuff regularly enough.
 
Sheryl McConnell said:
My husband has those on that do "First Time Hearing This Band" type ones.
I can hear them when I am in the kitchen and have to laugh when they react to a song
they can't figure out what it's about. They come up with some crazy thoughts.
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I've seen a lot of them, and there are a couple that I subscribe to.
 
Ken Anderson said:
I'm curious. Why would you watch a podcast, enjoy either the podcaster or the content, but not subscribe? It doesn't cost anything to subscribe, and it makes it easier to find the stuff again if you want to, and you can always unsubscribe if you tire of it. I unsubscribe to stuff a lot, either because the content becomes too obviously commercial, because the content creator starts to annoy me, or because they don't upload new stuff regularly enough.
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I don't subscribe because once you do, youtube fills up your "feed" with crap they think you want to see. Gotta feed that algorithm, doncha know?
 
I'd rather it fill my feed with stuff that I actually watch than with random crap that I don't care for. Plus, all you have to do is watch a video, and YouTube will do that. If I watch one or two videos about alligators, YouTube will seem convinced that that's the only thing I'm interested in.

To be mean sometimes, I'll subscribe to a bunch of polka channels on my wife's TV, and let some of them play while she's off somewhere. It will take a few days before YouTube finally gives up on feeding her polka. Once, I changed her default language to Swedish, but that's another topic.
 
Ken Anderson said:
I'd rather it fill my feed with stuff that I actually watch than with random crap that I don't care for. Plus, all you have to do is watch a video, and YouTube will do that. If I watch one or two videos about alligators, YouTube will seem convinced that that's the only thing I'm interested in.

To be mean sometimes, I'll subscribe to a bunch of polka channels on my wife's TV, and let some of them play while she's off somewhere. It will take a few days before YouTube finally gives up on feeding her polka. Once, I changed her default language to Swedish, but that's another topic.
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I have a method. After I watch a few videos of my own choosing, I delete my watch history. Boom.
 
I do that sometimes, but not often. Mostly, the algorithm presents the stuff that I am interested in watching, and I'd rather have that than a bunch of stuff I'm not interested in.
 
I do the same thing as @Ken Anderson does, pretty much.
I like it to show me other videos about something I am researching, and when I find a channel that I think is worth watching more of, then I subscribe to it, so it will bring up their new videos.

My son and my oldest grandson both have YouTube channels, so naturally I am subscribed to their channels. I have several channels about food or gardening, and some about Tartaria, and what might be wrong with our history .

When I get tired of a channel, I just unsubscribe, and when I find a new one I am interested in, then I subscribe. I noticed I have several of the same ones that Ken has even.
I really like that if I look up a video on some topic (like rooting rose starts), then I get a bunch more videos about the same thing; so I can find a lot of good information about whatever I am researching.
If I forget the name of the channel, I can find it again in my subscriptions , if it is one that I subscribed to.
 
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