On YouTube, there’s a right-wing extremism funnel. You start by watching a college student ranting about how dumb feminism is. It’s wrong, but it’s not especially sinister. And then, three suggested videos later, you’re hearing about why we need a white ethno-state to save the race from a third-world invasion.
Shooting on location and dressing locations in Los Angeles is shockingly expensive, especially when you’re talking about webseries-level budgets, so the opportunity to build our sets in YouTube’s space gives us a lot more room in our budget in being able to create the world of ‘VGHS’ properly.
I’m pretty sure I’m going to fall in my GaGa shoes one night on tour and I’m hoping it becomes a Youtube sensation.
I’m really happy that YouTube is as complete and successful as it is, to the point where, when things do go wrong, they’ll hear about it from every direction.
I would go on the iTunes chart and see the hottest songs, then I’d cover them. People would go on YouTube and search for those songs. That’s how I got my views. I’d post two or three songs a week.
I don’t want to be a Snapchat star. I barely want to be a YouTube star.
I always believed in the YouTube community and myself. I saw something there. The most difficult thing was others not believing in me. I had a lot of friends in Los Angeles who really thought I was crazy for leaving a steady acting job to start on YouTube.
I just said, ‘I need to do something because staying up and watching YouTube and late night TV is not cool,’ so I just decided to write a script.
I check out my MySpace. I’ll go on sites to see what’s funny on YouTube.
It’s funny to think of Dave Chappelle’s show and how popular it was and he was before YouTube. I would imagine ‘Chappelle’s Show’ would be even more giant if there was a chance to put his stuff online and pass it around.
The best thing about YouTube is that anyone can do it, and that’s exactly what I did.
I’ve never had WiFi at home. I’m too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.
I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.
We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments – or watching them slip away down the cracks of a thousand YouTube clips.
I think of our YouTube experience very much like a gym. We were practicing and getting stronger with each rep.
But yeah, YouTube started for me straight out of high school, so 2009, because everyone was going to college except me.
I don’t really have time to watch too much, but I like ‘Family Guy’ and ‘Entourage.’ I’m also obsessed with the YouTube series ‘Balls of Steel.’ It’s hilarious.
I love Madonna! If you want to see the Madonna I know, just go on YouTube and you’ll see those early interviews before the record came out. She was giddy and wonderful and giggly and happy and so excited looking towards the future.
I don’t really watch TV; YouTube is far more entertaining. But I have tuned in to ‘X Factor’ – I like trash and nature programmes.
People started noticing my singing on YouTube, and then I came to L.A., and I lived on a studio couch. I wrote songs every single day with whoever I could write songs with.
From our experiences with the site in Japan, we’ve come to ask, ‘What can we learn about syndicating content from mobile devices and getting it up on YouTube?’
There’s very little you can do these days about having any impact at a launch for a record unless you keep it very secret, because communications are so immediate, and YouTube and everything else kind of spoils the party.
So many things that I was excited about as a kid were about proximity. The idea that somebody could grow up in rural Iowa and be into break dancing because of YouTube – that was a really simple, profound idea.
The worst advice I’ve ever received was ‘Don’t post on YouTube. It’s dying.’
People told me I was nuts when I went to sign an act from YouTube – and now, that’s one of the most conventional things you can do as an agent or manager.
I still love my little home on YouTube, really.
To me, mass media is when you are able to use a platform to reach an audience on a large, global scale, and I think YouTube has certainly achieved that and is still finding ways to bring a wider range of content to its audience.
I try to use my influence and empower my community to always question the status quo – whether it relates to broader policy issues or YouTube gossip.
If you can’t stop singing as you walk through the halls of your house, or you love performing in your local talent show, YouTube is such a good platform to share that side of you. It’s a place for people who have passions, and the audience is people who appreciate those passions.
I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They’ve financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.
I spent five years watching every Noel Gallagher video that was on YouTube.
Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.
As an industry, YouTube and digital content have a huge upside to creation and virally reach fans, and there’s a multi-billion dollar business of advertising attached to that.
I had this one producer who sent me tracks because he saw my YouTube videos that were popular and got a couple million views.
On YouTube, I’ve stayed very limited with what I’ve been willing to share, so it’s been very surface-level with Miranda.
Hosting and surfacing legacy media content isn’t all about YouTube trying to abandon its core, it’s about inviting a broader variety of viewers to the platform.
I’d always loved watching YouTube videos, and that’s what inspired me to make them myself. Initially I was drawn to makeup tutorials – I learned everything I know about makeup from YouTube.
I’m having a lot of fun playing myself out there on YouTube and showing who I am and getting to do projects that make me happy versus satisfy what people think a girl should be doing.
I’m sure there’s some awful video of me singing when I was, like, 13 or 15 at my old school that my dad didn’t take down off YouTube.
I’ve been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
My 11-year-old thinks I’m cool because he watches things I’ve made on YouTube.
YouTube is a place for everybody to get together and interact and share their love for Babymetal.
Before an interview, I’ll go down a rabbit hole of research – it’s amazing how many little nuggets you can pick up from watching YouTube videos.
Whether it’s Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are getting daily directives from the government telling them what kinds of content they cannot allow on their site and what they need to delete.
Before starting my YouTube career, I used to play music at a restaurant. YouTube was never a part of my plan.
Growing up with videos and YouTube, being able to see content from the ’90s – music and games – that really helped me stay connected with the time before me.
Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube.
YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed – and better spelled – via a simple thumbs-up or down.
I’d wanted to be a director since I was five and had been making videos since I was a kid. Then YouTube came around during high school. I was making videos, and it was just a place to put them, like storage.
Whenever I have free time, I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies. Just basically do nothing.
It makes me feel so amazing to know there’s people out here that support me and follow me on Twitter and watch my shows on YouTube and come to my concert, so I’m very thankful.
It’s hard to sell merchandise off YouTube.
YouTube is very culturally recognized. When we started in 2007 YouTube was very relevant, but completely unrecognized.
Yes, DVDs are gone, but there is this wonderful Internet platform out there called YouTube.
I was uploading on YouTube and stuff, and they were liking it or whatever. I just kept elevating and elevating. I had little setbacks, but I used them as stepping stones.
