Reply To: Beasts of War – OnTableTop – Phase III: Time for speculations and conspiracies

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I first found BoW back when it was just a YouTube channel and the first video I watched was John doing a Halloween skit. This was waaaaaay before the website was a thing. Way before Wayland, and way before GW copywrite striking all the YouTube content.

Back then there was Miniwargaming and as far as I can remember that was about it on YouTube for hobby stuff so BoW caught my attention as it was a more “British” hobby channel that I could relate to.

I think one of the main issues now is that YouTube is totally saturated with hobby content now and a lot of it is high quality as well. Beasts of War has kind of become a victim of its own success as it has helped to inspire so much competition.

Personally I think that BoW needs to lean into what actually attracted so many people to the channel in the first place which is the personalities that featured on the videos. I was sad when Darryl and Andy and Sam (and John for a while) and Romain disappeared one by one but Im sure there were very good reasons why this happened so wont go into that now.

I think that BoW should try to do some collaborations with some of the UK YouTubers out there to gain some traction, its probably the main thing that I can say BoW doesn’t do that seems kind of obvious. I think BoW could be in a good position to make itself as some kind of centralised hub for British hobbiests which I feel is what it was initially aiming. At the moment it feels like a kind of news aggregator site and I dont really think that is what the market is demanding. Ironically I feel that over the years BoW has slightly lost its way and its identity and its showing.

However if that sounds like Im being really negative Im not trying to be, I still regularly visit BoW and will continue to do so, Im more trying to explain why I think BoW isnt as big as it really should be.

Basically less GW reveals as you are just ****ing into the wind there (GW does these themselves now along with 50,000 other YouTubers), more community engagement and collaborations with other big UK channels.