What YouTube Travel Vloggers Are Doing During Lockdowns
From Alaskan snowy mountains to African safaris, a travel vlog will give you an insight into absolutely any holiday destination you’re dreaming of. 64% of travelers plan their trips under the guidance of travel vloggers. From the comfort of your sofa, discover new places around the world and inspire their future holidays.
There’s no surprise travel vlogging is a booming business. YouTube travel content increased 118% over the past year, making travel vlogs one of the most consumed video content on the internet. With the most successful travel vloggers making as much as $7 million annually from YouTube revenue.
Travel vloggers get to experience amazing holidays whenever they desire, and best of all, are paid to do what they love most. You may have heard of well-known YouTube travel vloggers, Kara and Nate, boasting over 2.63 million subscribers. The American couple gave up their home and spent the last 4 years traveling to over 100 countries. Sharing their fun-filled travel lifestyle with the internet, the entrepreneurial couple created a successful occupation for themselves and built a YouTube family. Their content doesn’t disappoint with even a 4-year-old Peru Sky Lodge travel vlog that has over 8.5 million viewers and counting.
The YouTube travel industry is on the rise and is far from over. But with recent events, watching past travel videos on YouTube is the closest we’ll get to traveling the world for a while (in most countries). Although this recent hurdle hasn’t stopped creators from posting entertaining travel content on their YouTube channels. Travel vloggers can recycle old content, create reaction videos, sit-down chats about past travel experiences, 24-hour challenges, and upload never-seen before holiday footage. There is an endless number of YouTube videos to create to keep their channel alive during lockdowns. Once creators have built a loyal YouTube following, their subscribers will enjoy watching any style of travel content, even if it’s from the creator’s hometown.
YouTube travel vlog channels give creators the freedom and control to publish whatever holiday content they desire, provided that they follow YouTube’s guidelines. YouTube allows subscribers to forget about the world around them and engross in your power of video content. Video helps uplift a viewer’s mood, keeps them entertained, and feel more connected to the creator. While YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine next to Google, with craters uploading over 100 minutes of video per minute, creators can reach a wider audience, faster.
Just like Kara and Nate, anyone with a camera, GoPro, or smartphone can capture beautiful video and become a YouTube travel vlogger. Through constant video uploads, dedication, and an easy-to-use online video editor, anyone can build a YouTube community with thousands of people in no time. With the help of ready-to-use YouTube templates and over 1 million stock video, beginners or online editing pros can create travel vlogs and upload directly to YouTube channels in just a few clicks.
If you’ve finished all your travel books and travel movies on Netflix, head over to YouTube and explore what the travel community is up to. You might even be inspired to launch your own YouTube travel channel and share your holiday videos.