YouTube Essays

In September 2016, YouTube made what seemed like a policy change to the monetization on videos but it was actually a notification change of a policy that had been in effect for years. The changes revolve around an attempt by YouTube to make the platform more advertiser friendly. YouTube’s terms of service state what kinds of videos they won’t monetize. Most make sense, but the last one is causing a lot of controversy with content creators on the site. • Sexually suggestive content, including

YouTube. This is a website where people go to watch videos. Watch time grew 60% on YouTube between 2014 and 2015. The average viewing session on a mobile device is more than 40 minutes. (google, 2015) FINCA International use YouTube videos to feature clients from different affiliates, for example, FINCA International empowering women (Empowering Women, 2013) You Tube video, uploaded by Delaina Miller Below are the advantages of YouTube when used for customer retention: Build Email List. With YouTube

Will Youtube over take TV? With over 1 billion visits each month and 1000’s of new videos being posted each day, Youtube has been growing rapidly over the past 7 years and the website shows no sign of slowing down. With Youtube, anything goes. From the latest music videos, to animals playing various instruments, make up tutorials and sketch shows, Youtube is home to the weird and wonderful. However Youtube has also rocketed a new group of young people into a celebrity like status, “The ‘Vloggers

Free and Premium Video Hosting Platforms Youtube is certainly the most popular video sharing tool on the internet but has its downfalls when it comes to promoting your business through Youtube. Even though the website offers a huge pool of visitors, it can wipe off the professional look from your video by adding advertisements to it. The irrelevancy of the ad will be a set back to your video promotion idea. Also Youtube adds its logo to every video which can bring down your name a little. To host

YouTube has been, by farthest, the best influential online home sharing service. Not only does it introduce a new way for people to express themselves, but it also forms a new way to bring awareness to every single community out there. YouTube can encourage people by addressing current issues, leading viewers to create their own response and keep alive creative discussions. It allows one to find videos on pretty much any topic one can imagine, such as, music, comedy, beauty, fashion, sports, technology

Twitch along with YouTube are both online platforms which can stream or display optimum video content. Both of these companies were created in the US, YouTube was released in 2006 and since then has been bought by Google and is worth over 40 Billion dollars. Twitch on the other hand was originally called Justin TV until it was bought by Amazon in 2012 and is now known as Twitch. Nowadays both of these platforms have become massive online platforms for gaming content with over 67 million views and

fortune” is arising. A type in which entertainment videos are posted on a website called YouTube. People often say YouTube a career because it “Requires no skill” or “Does not take any effort.” However, YouTube is a valid career. YouTube is a credible career because it presents in a social setting, provides a significant profit, and teaches skills that open up many other career oppurtunities. YouTube is a valid job because it presents a social setting. VidCon, a social convention that started

The “Youtube Effect” I agree with Moises Naim’s observations on the “Youtube Effect” because his ideas and observations are still as accurate as his observations were about 12 years ago. As an avid youtube user myself, I can vouch for his observations because not only do I use youtube for entertainment purposes like most young adults my age, I also use youtube to find out about serious issues that are going on in the world. youtube allows millions of people to watch and post all sorts of videos

difficult but it has become easier thanks to Twitch and YouTube. Twitch is a website where you can stream live feed of yourself and YouTube is one that you can post videos that are not restricted anything in particular, with few exceptions, from playing videogames to daily blogs about everyday life. They both have similarities and differences in how they do things and their restrictions of what can be done on their services. In reality, Twitch and YouTube have their differences and similarities in how people

Youtube is Right for Taking Down Peoples Videos Youtube is quickly becoming one of the biggest sources for news, education and entertainment for many people. However, many have criticized Youtube for not doing a good enough job of taking down content that violates its own guidelines.  I disagree.  Youtube does a great job managing its content.   There is simply no excuse for uploading content to Youtube that is against company guidelines. This is because on the Youtube website, the Youtube guidelines

THE LAUNCH OF YOUTUBE Did you know that around 5 billion videos are watched each day? Youtube has affected people by how we watch videos today. It affects many people because it has widely impacted today’s society, contributed to following sensations, and is still being used today. Youtube had a huge impact in the world. “In june 2007, the site eventually launched in the UK as well as in 8 other countries” (Belanger 1). “5 billion videos are watched each day”(Belanger 1). “Google also bought

virtual communication available, it becomes easy for one neglect YouTube as a main platform of social media. Since the site launched in 2005, it has become useful to the average person in any household. Typical mothers can use it to find a new recipe for dinner, fathers can use it to find out how to change the oil in a car, even children can use it to watch a video on how to calculate the mass of the sun for their projects. But YouTube has become much more interactive than simply watching a video,

Dawson effectively validates her argument that celebrities greatly influence videos that go viral by having a well-balanced approach to rhetorical strategies. In this article, Lia Dawson discusses how certain YouTube videos have gone viral while some have not, even though they follow the same pattern as the popular videos. There are copious factors that can contribute to a video’s popularity, including: “the ability to parody it, its unexpectedness,” etc., but she contends celebrities are the most

appeals to a wide demographic of users. In the article Confessions of a Radical Eclectic: Reality Television, Self-Branding, Social Media, and Autonomist Marxism, Alison Hearn defines the role of an influencer in the industry of self production, like YouTube. Hearn states “self-production is now directly mined for value by capital and the culture industries are at the epicenter of this shift, providing templates for the communicative and image skills required for profit-generating self-performance in

You’ve most likely heard of viral videos such as Gangnam Style, or famous people such as PewDiePie and Smosh. If you have, then you most likely heard of YouTube. YouTube was created by three people, one of them Steve Chen. Steve Chen is a very significant figure whose technological creations are used internationally. He helped innovate technology by creating numerous advances in technology. Steven Shih Chen was born on August, 18th, 1978 in Taipei, Taiwan. As a child, Steve always found computer

mine to create and share is what drew me to YouTube, the website built for me. On YouTube anyone could upload anything and potentially get a fan base allowing for a wide range of creative and diverse content. The site sparked my interest and I was inspired to create my own channel, Fioresi Films. Once my channel was created, it marked the beginning of a journey that would shape who I was. I created the channel as a kid, unaware of how important YouTube would eventually become. My videos revolved

How does this happen? Hesmondhalgh suggests, “companies have to compete with each other… and so they attempt to outstrip each other to satisfy audience desires for the shocking, the profane, and the rebellious.” (5) On YouTube there are thousands of videos in the beauty genre alone, and it is so easy for videos to get lost in the sea of other videos. Content creators must generate new, exciting, different content in order to grab audience’s attention. If there were only

Lilly Singh is a famous YouTuber. She has about ten million people that watch her videos on YouTube. She is Canadian, but her parents are from India. Her story is different from any other person. Her perspective is different by the way she was raised. Now that she has a big voice she uses it to her for good. She tries to tell people that you're aren’t alone in whatever you're going through. Lilly is here for you to make your day. To make the audience happy and forget what happened during the day

Tyler Oakley and Ricky Dillon, two comedians with millions of viewers on youtube. In Tyler Oakley's debut book Binge and Ricky Dillon´s debut book Follow Me. Both Binge and Follow Me, deal with struggles that they both had to overcome to become the stars they are today. In Binge by Tyler Oakley the author uses a lot of humor to tell his life stories. The book is about his life and how it was difficult for him to get through it. He grew up in a tough family, his parents both got divorced and

Fragosa Senior Capstone 1A 11/5/17 How Can Youtubers Sustain A Living A “YouTuber” or “content creator” is someone who post any type of content on the YouTube platform. YouTube has been around for years and will continue to be here for a long time, the platform is only getting bigger as it is adding and extending their platform. Through Youtube, the number of successful people will only continue to grow. Also at the same time, because of the growing number content creators, it is becoming a lot