YouTube is an American video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
YouTube is a free to use service and a can be a great space for teens to discover things they like. For many young people, YouTube is used to watch music videos, comedy shows, how to guides, recipes, hacks and more.
This is the first YouTube video ever uploaded — it was posted 10 years ago today. Jawed Karim at the zoo. Screenshot/YouTube Ten years ago today, a guy named Jawed Karim posted the first-ever video to YouTube.
YouTube is a video platform that’s driven by two types of users: Video creators (people who have channels and upload videos to them) Video viewers (people who watchvideos, interact with videos and subscribe to channels).
It allows learners to make their own YouTube videos.Finally, asking your learners to be involved in a video production, as part of an online group assignment, will help them not only ensure that they can use the important information they have learned, but also develop and enhance their visual literacy and creativity.
In 2017, estimates said that if YouTube were a stock, it would be worth some $75 billion dollars at least. This makes it five times the cost of Twitter, that has an estimated marketvalue of $14.52 billion. The purchase of this website has truly paid off for Google.
Here’s a quick look at the new YouTube features:
- Improved Comments. …
- Subscriber Notifications. …
- New Types of Cards. …
- Easier Access to the Subs Feed. …
- A Faster, More Useful Creator Studio App. …
- Video Management on the Go. …
- 360-Degree Videos. …
- Better Live Streams.
YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2005. The three founders knew each other from working together at another Internet start up, PayPal.
YouTube incorporates features that let businesses promote their videos to people who might be interested in them, targeting customers by demographics, topics or interests. Advertisers pay each time someone views their video.
Benefits in using Youtube App
GIVE THE AUDIENCE MORE CONTENT
One really good reason to add video and a YouTube channel to your site is to give the audience more content. When people get a lot of good content that is solving their problems, they stay longer and like to come back and visit more often. We have seen lots of engagement that we wouldn’t have otherwise seen without the added video channel and we are only 7 months and 50 videos in.
EXTRA SOURCE OF TRAFFIC
A nice side effect of adding the extra content is that it drives more traffic. People can now find you on YouTube and on your site. Right now, we still drive more traffic from our site to the YouTube channel than the other way around, but we are starting to see some come the other way. In the beginning, if you only have a food blog, this will probably be your results as well, especially if you start putting videos on your most trafficked posts like we did. Another cool side effect is it grows your brand. Having video someplace else gets your brand out there in another location which starts to grow the level of awareness and expertise that you have.
CLOSER PERSONAL CONNECTION
One thing we have noticed with video is it encourages a level of familiarity that helps with building a community. You can create a much more personal connection with people and let them get to know you and see how you act/react to certain situations. There is something about watching a video where you can feel like you are with somebody working on a problem or, in our case, cooking :). The people I trust and like learning from usually have video and I like learning and engaging in that manner.
ANOTHER SOURCE OF REVENUE
It can also add another source of revenue to your blog. Whether through YouTube ads or through a video course on your site, it creates more content or a product that gives you another income source which is always good.
ANOTHER SOURCE OF REVENUE
It can also add another source of revenue to your blog. Whether through YouTube ads or through a video course on your site, it creates more content or a product that gives you another income source which is always good.
CREATIVE OUTLET
It gives us a good creative outlet. Lacey gets to do something different than her pictures and actually get in front of the camera a little bit. It’s nice to see her sense of humor poke through and her desire to make everything easy for people come across. Plus, Sean gets to film and edit and he really enjoys that. It is fun to experiment in different ways, like the pirate episode. This would be really hard to pull off in a blog post with photos.
GET OUTSIDE YOUR COMFORT ZONE
One of the best things about video is that it really pushes you outside your comfort zone. I feel like we do our best learning if we are always pushing ourselves just a little further than we feel comfortable with. Adding video has definitely done that for us and we feel like we are creating some of our best content and hopefully solving our audience’s problems with our video series.
Try this app now!😊☺
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