United Kingdom – The hunt makes a great TV narrative. It has drama, excitement – even comedy – and a great ending.
Although abandoned by mainstream TV channels over the last 60 years, it is a story that has been told and retold for not thousands but tens of thousands of years. Cave paintings of hunting scenes are an early version of Outdoor Channel.
A new report covers multiple aspects of the broadcast industry, where it can be useful to companies, organizations and brands in the shooting sports industry, from the largest networks to the solo operators who can create a good-looking brand channel. The new report provides a snapshot of broadcast at a moment in time. Television can take of at any moment. A cable channel can find the next Duck Commanders – but a YouTube channel can upload the next viral hit. We undertook the research at the end of December 2017 and the beginning of January 2018
Which companies dominate shooting sports and hunting TV? A new report lists the winners.
Among the firearms manufacturers, Ruger has the biggest YouTube channel, pushing Beretta’s two YouTube channels into second place and Sig Sauer into third.
The report shows the changing face of TV, with YouTube audiences exceeding traditional cable and satellite TV audiences many times over.
Federal has the top channel among the ammunition companies and Hoyt has little competition as the master of bowhunting content on YouTube. Brownells takes the prize for retailers and Aimpoint in the world of optics.
The two companies that dominate YouTube are Cold Steel and Realtree. Cold Steel’s well-set, well-lit demonstration videos have built it the largest YouTube audience of any brand in the industry. It has nearly half a million subscribers. Realtree toyed with a hunting streaming service on its own server but has now sensibly moved to YouTube, where it has earned an incredible 130,000 subscribers.
You can see the complete report online here: https://bit.ly/huntingtv2018
Gun and Hunting TV Channels and the Shooting Sports Industry 2018 by Charlie Jacoby on Scribd
If you feel a channel has been left off the list, please contact us for consideration in the 2019 survey.
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DEMOLITION RANCH!!!!!
I would love to see a complete list of the Gun Channels you looked into for my company. Would you send me an email? Thanks!
Demolition Ranch!
DEMOLITION RANCH definitely should have been on the list.
You forgot the best one Demolition Ranch.
For entertaining hog hunting check out Lone Star Boars. The guy is awesome when it comes to killin hogs. AR platform in all calibers, night vision, thermal vision, suppresors. Not only does he hunt but he also does excellent reviews and equipment testing on his channel. His channel should definitely be on a list of guys to watch.
Yeah you guys left out Demolition Ranch. He has almost 4.5million subscribers and over 600million views since 2011. Not to mention his other channel Off the Ranch. That has over 1.5million subscribers and 180+ million views. Not a pure firearm channel but does firearm related content probably every other episode.
Damn can’t believe how Hickok just dominated the #1 ranking. Good for him! Funny though I never make it to the end of his videos.
Where’s Royal Nonesuch?
Hi – thanks for this. The report is about channels that attract sponsorship from the gun trade. Royal Nonesuch does an excellent job but we could not see a way it could be sponsored by a shooting sports company. However, as the market matures, we may see gun companies widening their sponsorship base.
Yankee Marshal?
The guy is a clown! If you dare to disagree with IT, he’ll slam, shame and use words that will make your mom blush on ya. The boy don’t even shoot. He just buys guns (using money YOU gave him, and his wife’s) sticks crap on them to look purdy. WTF?
Yankee Marshal?
The guy is a clown! If you dare to disagree with IT, he’ll slam, shame and use words that will make your mom blush on ya. The boy don’t even shoot. He just buys guns (using money YOU gave him, and his wife’s) sticks crap on them to look purdy. WTF?
The irony of Forgotten Weapons not being on this is not lost on me
Hi – thanks for this – amusing point. The report is about channels that attract sponsorship from the gun trade. Therefore, we decided not to include Forgotten Weapons
Forgotten Weapons is not on the list??? That is the one I watch the most.
Hi Mike – thanks for your comment. The report is about channels that can or do attract sponsorship from the gun trade. Therefore we decided not include Forgotten Weapons
Not surprised to see Hickok45 at the top. Best variety, completely honest, and most entertaining.
I thought the Quinn brothers of Gunblast.com were from Tennessee not Texas.
Hi – thanks for this comment. You are right – our mistake. We will correct it in next year’s survey
Lol
AK operators Union
Forgotten Weapons
GY6 vids
Nutnfancy (the channel listed above is the B channel)
Paul Harrell
Reid Henrichs
Tactical Rifleman
The late Boy Scout
The Gun Collective
Tiborasaurusrex
And Thunder Ranch….you listed some of the best, sadly missed in the article. Also James Yeagar is back , love him or hate him, he does defend all of us.
Thanks very much for this. We have updated the document to include the omissions.
FPS Russia?????
FB & YT are both over a year old. Remember, he got caught being terminally stupid by the Feds.
Surprised that Demolition Ranch wasn’t listed.
I think you forgot Demolition Ranch.