Most Popular Go YouTube Channels

yebellz · March 31, 2021, 2:00pm

I was curious what the most popular Go channels were. Subscriptions counts are an easy (but not perfect) way to measure this, so I created a list of every Go channel that I could find with greater than 1000 subscribers (but feel free to expand the list beyond that if you wish).

This post is a wiki, so feel free to add more!

Channels are English unless marked with a flag. The flag is used to mark multi-lingual channels. I’ve tried to translate some of the non-English channel names, but there may be mistakes.

嘉嘉老師GO [Go Pro HeiJiaJia’s channel] 192K
프로연우 [Go Pro Yeonwoo’s Korean Channel] 162K
바둑 BADUK TV 116k
囲碁将棋TV -朝日新聞社- [Go Shogi TV, Asahi Shimbun] 115K
이현욱TV[프로바둑9단] [Lee Hyun-wook TV, Professional Go 9 Dan] 76.6K
바둑랩 강좌 [Go Lab Course] 72.5K
K바둑 [K Baduk] 59.6K
Go Magic 53.4K
日本棋院囲碁チャンネル【公式】 [Nihon Ki-in Go Channel (Official)] 51.5K
プロ棋士柳澤理志の囲碁教室 [Go Pro Satoshi Yanagisawa’s Go class] 43.1K
Nick Sibicky 33.0K
바통령[김영삼프로바둑9단] [Kim Young Sam Pro Go 9 Dan] 32.4K
dwyrin 29.3K
rido channel 29.1K
New York Institute of Go 28.2K
女流棋士・飛田早紀の囲碁チャンネル [Saki Tobita’s Go channel] 26.2K
KB국민은행 바둑리그 26.1K
Sunday Go Lessons - Videos on the Game of Go! 25.1K
In Sente 23.5K
Michael Redmond’s Go TV 23.1K
高川格 22.7K
小小林圍棋 [SSLin (小小林圍棋菁英班) Go School/Class channel run by 林耕平(amateur 6d)] 21.3K
棋樂園 19.4K
囲碁棋士柳時熏のGo Channel [Go Channel of Ryu Shikun] 19.2K
貓劍客圍棋道場 18.2K
Go Pro Yeonwoo 17.9K
围棋TV [Weiqi TV] 17.8K
The Official AGA Youtube Channel 16.2K
海峰棋院 [Haifong Go Academy Taiwan professional Go players’ association official channel (transferred from Taiwan Go Association since 2024)] 15.9K
Go Go先生 [Mr. Go-Go (amateur 7d) Go club channel] 15.0K
Haylee’s World of Go/Baduk 14.8K
Jian Jian將將好 Jian Jian Good, Go Game World 13.8K
키바바둑TV KIBA BADUK TV [Weiqi TV] 12.6K
星合志保の囲碁実況局 [Shiho Hoshiai’s Live Go Channel] 10.8K
潘潘圍棋 10.8K
明玥談棋 10.5K
Fulgurogo 10.2K
Baduk Doctor 10.1K
囲碁棋士木部夏生・べっきーの電波塔 [Natsuki Kibe 2p / Bekki’s radio tower] 8.30k
Go Inside 8.29K
김수담 [Kim Soo-dam] 7.75K
Go Commentary 7.41K
囲碁プレミアム [Go Premium] 7.23K
三村囲碁ちゃんねる [Mimura Go Channel] 6.95K
つるりんチャンネル [Tsururin Channel] 6.92k
朱瑞斯7段圍棋直播 [Churaazego (amateur 7d) Go Livestream channel] 6.69K
Russian Go Federation 6.17K
Yoon’s Baduk Cafe 5.89K
Shawn Ray (Clossius) 5.55k
Go Game Videos 5.09K
Andrew Jackson 4.76K
Telegraph Go 4.71k
C哥鋒哥圍棋- Leon & Andy’s Live Go [Go Pro Chen Xi 5p (Leon) & Chen Feng 5p (Andy) brothers’ channel] 4.45K
Brady Daniels 4.07K
Igo Weiqi Baduk/baduk1 3.95K
Yunguseng Dojang 3.65K
ネット藤澤塾/YouTube囲碁講座 [Fujisawa Juku / YouTube Go Course] 3.61K
【囲碁初心者向け】名人の龍虎塾 [Shibano Toramaru and Shibano Ryunosuke channel] 3.59k
Luciano Zinni 3.59K
中根囲碁道場 3.3K
GoGameGuru deprecated 2.81K
囲碁教室・碁円 2.79K
みやれー (miyare) 2.78K
Yunguseng Dojang 2.47k
Yoonyoung Kim 2.43k
Cyberoro ORO 2.36K
TritonBaduk 2.32k
君子游网上围棋教室 2.27K
おバブちゃんねる [Obabu Channel] 2.06K
xhu98 2.03K
BenKyo Baduk 2.73K
Contraband Go 2.15K
BJ동동 [BJ Dongdong] 1.87K
纹枰论道 1.84K
Cho’s Go 1.84K
依田紀基チャンネル [Yoda Norimoto Channel] 1.76K
Weiqi master 1.69K
Fédération Française de Go 1.65K
Jay Strategy 1.58K
Littlelamb Go 1.55K
London Go Centre 1.52K
Nihon Kiin Go Channel for overseas 1.44K
Takumi Go Academy 1.42K
Here We GO 1.27K
Strugglebus Go 1.18K
Joshua Lee 1.17K
FJ Dickhut 1.2K
BadukMovies 1.1K
Kanin’s Go 1.06K
Go Games Series 1.02K
InGoWeLoved棋如人生日日新 1K

Note regarding editing: Keep all of the items in the list numbered with “1.” and Discourse (the forum software) will automatically fix the numbers.

shinuito · March 31, 2021, 2:11pm

I’ll try add a few (Brady Daniels - kind of inactive but still) and the French Federations go channel are above 1000 subs

Added the

russian Go federation channel too.
some channel that replays game sgfs called Go Game Videos.
GoGameGuru deprecated
키바바둑TV KIBA BADUK TV
바통령[김영삼프로바둑9단] --? [Kim Young Sam Pro Baduk 9 Dan] (google translate)

yebellz · March 31, 2021, 2:13pm

Note: this post is now a wiki as well. Please feel free to use this as scratch space, and to catalog channels with less than 1000 subscribers (we can merge these into the main list as well, but this is just space to reduce the risk of editing conflicts).

There were some efforts to get the channel of the London Go Center to 1000 subs, but they are still not there yet.

shinuito · March 31, 2021, 2:15pm

The EGF channel is on 962. If forty ish people sub we can maybe add them to the list

bugcat · March 31, 2021, 2:16pm

It might be more informational to bring the baseline down to 500.

Also, I added Clossius.

yebellz · March 31, 2021, 2:16pm

The DeepMind channel has several videos about AlphaGo, but it is mostly about their more general AI development.

shinuito · March 31, 2021, 2:18pm

There’s also a European Professional Online Go League channel only on 176. I feel like they need more iterations of the league, and to add more of the Twitch Vods

bugcat · March 31, 2021, 2:21pm

Added Yoonyoung.

Added Go Commentary as well.

yebellz · March 31, 2021, 2:21pm

I would love to see the list go even further, but it just becomes a lot of work to search at that point. However, I would welcome efforts to expand the list and it is a wiki after all…

bugcat · March 31, 2021, 2:26pm

The British Go Association only has 85 subscribers, ouch…

I guess they’ve decided that the London Go Centre channel will transmit their main content.

shinuito · March 31, 2021, 2:30pm

Actually I think that BGA channel is new, since the BGA online congress I thought. That’s what I thought the email said.

The videos are only a week old

yebellz · March 31, 2021, 2:32pm

Need to add this at some point (even thought it is no longer active, it still has some interesting videos), but holding off since someone else was editing at the same time, and I wanted to avoid the edit conflict.

Think we can get the list down far enough to reach them?

I just checked and saw that https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCckMYOJCDJqXM_EHAN_rujg (@le_4TC) has 84 subscribers. Almost as many as an entire association!

By the way, the OGS Go Resources page also lists some other smaller channels that I omitted.

shinuito · March 31, 2021, 2:34pm

Is there a way to see who’s editing the post?

I added the Go game guru one.

There’s a couple of tricks one can do to find more channels. The obvious is just filter youtube results to channels, but you’d have to hit a keyword.

Another is some channels eg Yoon’s baduk cafe etc, link channels when you navigate to channels tab eg
https://www.youtube.com/c/YoonsBadukCafe/channels

yebellz · March 31, 2021, 2:36pm

It noticed that an “edit conflict” warning popped up near the bottom of the edit box, so I just cancelled my edits.

antonTobi · March 31, 2021, 2:41pm

That’s one way to make me feel better about my low numbers

teapoweredrobot · March 31, 2021, 2:46pm

benjito · March 31, 2021, 2:50pm

Wow didn’t realize Yeonwoo was so popular! Ahead of Kbaduk!

bugcat · March 31, 2021, 2:51pm

Side note: can’t believe JosekiFarm still exists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEDcs5Vh914 Nick on JF, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NALKiRIBGNo Sophia on JF, 2020

when you realise that this site outlasted GoGameGuru

yebellz · March 31, 2021, 2:55pm

txwolf · March 31, 2021, 3:44pm

This is the most comprehensive pro games channel, commented by Chinese 5-9P. Recently, they started live broadcast some of the top pro games as well. But you have to understand chinese.

I am a paid VIP subscriber of WeiqiTV.

http://weiqitv.com/v/1157288

Those are systematic teaching videos by Chinese 5-9P. But again, unless you understand chinese, they are useless. The youtube weiqitv channel might be an outdated version of its main site. I am not sure.