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

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

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

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

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

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,

The YouTube speech is spoken by George Saunders for the class of 2013 at Syracuse University. Saunders focuses on some important things in life like the need for kindness and the importance of love, dreams, and hope. Saunders begins by taking us through a throwback of his regrets, saying that he doesn 't regret the poverty or the jobs that he has done, not even the embracing moments either. The thing that Saunders regret the most in his life is not being kinder to people. Saunders then questions

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

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

A discourse community is a group of people that have a common goal who use lexis, genres and other forms of communication to achieve this goal. Within in the community there are members of hierocracy that can provide expertise. Clubs, teams, organizations and even your friends and family can be consider as a discourse community. I personally didn’t want to choose a team or a club because I am not involved or interested in any at the moment. Something that I am interested is minimalism. It’s something

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

Love and Hate If you want to see some intensely emotional videos, just go on YouTube and write "Soldier Homecoming" and look at one of the most emotional videos you can find on YouTube or anywhere else. The videos are filled with happiness, tears, surprise, and other positive feelings. And as you watch the video (or videos) it is difficult to hold your tears, and you just get happy because someone (a father, mother, brother, sister, wife, husband, son, etc.) meets with their beloved (which is also

and notify a higher staff member when one gets on. Indirect advertising: If someone is indirectly advertising, i will warn them, if they continue they will be muted. Hacking: If i catch somebody hacking i will record them, and then upload proof on youtube and let a higher staff member ban them. Spamming: If someone is spamming chat, first i will warn them, followed by a temp-mute. Chat Flooding: If someone is spamming chat, I will warn them and then perm-mute them. Suspicious Links: If someone sends

After watching a wedding video on Youtube about a couple (Sarah and Kevin) and reading chapter 8 in our books. I was able connect some of the key themes to this couples wedding. To start off with the most obvious was religion. Before the wedding the mothers of bride and groom both lite a candle together, this was followed by the bride and groom taking both candles and lighting one larger candle. This is known as a unity candle, it has become a tradition for Catholics and Christians in the United

Parikh Rahul begins his essay by explaining why he thinks dangers for teens online are exaggerated. Parikh Rahul believes, the internet is a place that helps kids mature, “providing them a platform for self-expression, connecting with others, and social and political activism.” He explains that kids, who are on the internet, connect with people they know, rather than total stranger. Rahul is a physician who works with kids, teens and adolescent. His opinion on this article is important because he

The Different Arguments on the Hijab (Head Scarf/Veil) Hijab is a piece of material that most Muslim women wear on their heads to hide their hair and “beauty” from the public. The wearing of head scarves varies from person to person, it can be as extreme as hiding all of the hair, face, eyes, the forehead, ears, neck and upper region of the breast, or as casual as just cover the backrest of the head or as people say in Kurdistan “they are simply covering their hair clip”. Inside the Muslim society

Bob Ross: The Modern Painting Phenomenon If you 've ever watched PBS, you likely at some point have heard of Bob Ross. A painter born in Florida, Bob hosted The Joy of Painting, a half-hour show that run from 1983 to 1994, in which he painted a picture and encouraged the audience to paint along with him. It was a simple, but effective idea to get people excited about painting, and it was a very successful show. Sadly, Bob passed away due to a diagnosis of lymphoma in the early 1990s, which forced