Experts' Expert: YouTube Trends Manager Kevin Allocca's Favorite Channels

Kate Murphy interviewed Allocca for a short piece that appeared June 9 in the New York Times; an excerpt follows.

Naturally, most of my "watching" takes place on YouTube. The idea is to track videos people are talking about, and with 72 hours of video uploaded per minute, it's a lot. I also have around 20 channels I subscribe to for my own personal viewing time. C.G.P. Grey and Minute Physics are my favorite brainier ones. CitizenTube [top] collects really incredible news footage from around the globe. For the offbeat entertainment part of the day, I like, in increasing order of weirdness ImprovEverywhere, EpicMealTime, and Nathan Barnatt. And pretty much everything Devin Graham and Pogo create is some level of amazing.

Fair warning: there goes the day.