Wednesday 2 March 2011

Youtube


YouTube

What are the implication of the YouTube motto, "Broadcast Yourself"?
The implication of the YouTube motto that is is personal and
Motto: a phrase meant to formally described the general motivation or intention of a social group or organisation. It can be a rule or slogan someone follows, or lives their life by. YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view other people videos.

How has the wider entertainment industry responded to YouTube? Opportunity? Or threat?
The wider entertainment industry have responded to YouTube as a phenomenal. Youtube posted they first video April 23, 2005 from then on 8 million video was watched a day. by the end of 2006 it was 100 million video view per day. ($ 1.65). This has widened our industry by bringing new things to entertain people and encourage people to socialise with new people. this can be an opportunity and a threat, you don't want your daughter or son talking to random people or posting their video that shouldn't be on. It could also be an opportunity because this is a way to socialise and interact with other and get feedback from people they don't know. Privacy is a key issue that is raised over and over again with people identity through a combination of their IP addresses on the sites. Youtube have also faced criticism over the offensive content in some of it video posted by some of the users. the uploading of video containing defamation, pornography and material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited by YouTube's terms and conditions.
http://www.viralblog.com/research/youtube-statistics/

How does the audience interact on YouTube?
The audience interact on Youtube by posting video, either for entertaining or trying to get somewhere in the media. e.g Jessie J, Justin Bieber. Justin Bieber was discovered in YouTube and now is a singer-songwriter and actor.
Posting the video are there to also get comments on your video, if its good or not so good. we ofter find good insight into what your fans liked and didn't about your video. you can also subscribe and like or dislike the video. YouTube's status possible will be active because of the type and the way in which they advertise, promote and more and more people logging in to YouTube. YouTube is available in 34 languages.

What new media forms have been encourage by Youtube??
  • Google inc. are also subsidiaries owners of Youtube. Google encourages people to use because the computer software is used world wide and easy to access.
Total number of YouTube videos -- over 120,000,000

Number of videos uploaded per day -- about 200,000

Time required to see all the videos -- over 600 years

Number of videos watched daily -- over 100,000,000

Amount of content uploaded every minute -- 13 hours

Number of accounts onYoutube -- over 300,000,000

whereas google logs 2 billion searches a day approximately.

2 comments:

  1. good descriptions, and good in depth analysis :-)

    however, use more media terminology and could be a bit longer

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  2. Good use of description and you used a lot of statistics. - like i said to ayesha remember to reference otherwise you wont get marks for it in your exam :)

    Maybe include more media terms - like henna said.
    S.H.E.P - include related examples.
    Example: social - what youtube tells us about society we live in and the way in which people behave? How is youtube influencing groups in society?

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