What I Think Youtube.com is ?
Posted on July 21, 2008
Found Inside the Life Box-> Computer and Internet |
It’s almost been more than one year and I am going for two.
I love the site not just because it has high traffic; bunches of users, but it has great features that makes it easy to make friends, show your work, get feedbacks to improve works, but also you can watch great contents from partners who create great videos often making me think that TV someday might be less watched.
Based on my experience is what I thin youtube is.
- It’s a video sharing sites among many others.
- You can upload your work.
- You can’t please everybody
- You will never ever know which video you make will be the most watched
- Comments often are short and don’t related to the contents; good work, nice video, five stars are often the most comments although the video creator would love to get constructive comments that would further help him or her learn and more better videos
- Allows you to do video responses, so you don’t need to think about a story. someone already made a video with a storyline, you just copy it and make your own.
- Not all video responses seem like a response at all.
- Spammers are still on youtube
- Less and Less Vulgar has gone from the site
- Many youtubers use their profile image as a tool to get clicks; i.e. provide a picture of something strange, perhaps pics of partial n-u-d-i-t-y
- Getting featured on youtube is nothing more than a LUCK. It’s Luck. It’s Luck. Period.
- Not all featured videos are worth watching.
- Funny, Crazy, Strange, Daring, Dangerous, Courageous videos seem to be watched more.
- Its easy to win honors even with a few comments on videos under the category pets and animals and “Travel and Events”
- Parters have “auto play” feature while others don’t. It could be that youtube would like all of its users to become partners are share revenue. After all, running the #1 site on earth costs money, Just imagine how much they would be paying for bandwidth ?
- One of your video could bring you the LUCK - getting bunches of subscribers.
- As youtubers become famous, they hide (i.e. Make it private) their old videos (the learning videos I would say) - That’s kind of sad, don’t you think so ? I believe one should keep their videos as a history, it would show to your viewers from where you came from; a tiny useless video to a good now now…
- More Video collaborations occur with so called “Big” guys or famous youtubers.
- Some youtubers just watch rather than creating videos. They just love it and don’t bother creating any videos at all. It seems to be their choice, and for some, they don’t have time.
- When making videos about “Religion” you can expect to lose some of your subscribers simply because you have no way of knowing whether they believe in God or which religion they follow. Your religious video could turn them away.
- Videos made by yourself, with your own ideas live longer than those copied from TVs of Films
- Youtube is highly addictive. You knew it… didn’t you ?
- You can easily disclose your personal information such as phone and address, which isn’t bad unless you know the person. So it’s worth reading the “Safety Guide” line posted on the youtube site. Once you have constant email back and forth with person, person becomes like a next door neighbor. I once had a friend who wanted my phone number. I told her to be safe on youtube and never ever give-out personal information.
- You need time. Equipments. Story. To create something watch-able and perhaps get tons of subscribers, you need a plan and not all of us have that. Those who are fully dedicated to their entire time for making videos do better; yeap, they got the time.
- There are two types of subscribers (active) and inactive. Some subscribers will just subscribe to you and will watch or not watch your work but will never rate/comment on your work thus you won’t be getting any feedbacks. There are others who actively give you feedback so you can improve your work.
- Watching videos from around the world, gets you more exposure than just watching videos from one region. So try watching videos from other countries such as Australia, India, UK, Ireland and so on. One way to do this is to simply add the country name when you are searching for a video with a keyword. E.g. “Kitties Australia”
- You can get views by watching other’s work. You watch theirs, they might (just might) come back to your channel and even leave you a comment on your work. There is no guarantee but you can request, perhaps send a message
- Being polite helps gain trust, build a good network. Be polite. I don’t mean to say, be a down-to-earth person, but at least, show some respect for people’s work. Don’t write rude words like 4 letter words etc. They will ban you, and things can get ugly.
- If somone call you by bad name say A W, don’t get mad. Go to his or her channel and write a nice comment such as “Thank you so much for watching my work and I wish you and your channel the very best” Kill people with kindness and it works, believe me.
- There are many duplicate videos on youtube. So what you are seeing might have been recorded, or downloaded then uploaded by another user. How you can tell this? Read description and find-out when that video was added. If that video was added later, it’s a duplicate. Or I could be wrong. You decide. There is nothing wrong watching a duplicate video and leaving comment either.
- You can make lots of friends on youtube. Remember this : A friend is just a friend. Don’t get toooooooooo personal, asking about details like age, where do you leave? Oh, I miss you talking you so much… etc etc…. Think of friends as “youtubers” on a universe with a purpose - watch each other’s work. I like to call videos or films as work. In many ways, they are - We go out with our camera, spend time and what could it be ? It’s our work. We have spend our time, perhaps some of have spend more for this WORK.
- Many youtubers think that becoming a partner is very hard. But it is not. There are loads of info on the youtube on what youtube wants from you. Follow them and you can apply. But don’t expect immediate money coming at you next month nor do you show-off your partner “crown” to your friends with words like “Hey, I am better than you!” On youtube, everyone’s just the same - and I call it “Just another youtuber”, Partners aren’t different than the rest in any way.
- Lots of people have subscribers - the number of subscribers not necessarily means that channel is the best or will live long - in fact, there is no way to tell you just how long a channel will live on youtube.
- Read youtube blog. Specially those who write blogs, you can’t afford to read something out of the team.
- Watching videos sent by your friends can help you get views of your work. You watch theirs and they will watch yours.
- Use bulletin board wisely. Don’t use it toooooooooo often. Imagine somone having just one friend had has a bulletin board on his channel. You could be filling-up the his entire bulletin board and to him or her you would look like nothing more than a SPAMMER. Believe me. He or she might leave your channel, quit your friendship.
- Watch new videos (I have always said this time and again) New videos need more attention on youtube than those featured in fact. It’s just a matter of days or months how the front page of youtube might change (who knows, may be featured won’t be there anymore rather, just new videos on the main screen. Take the step that youtube hasn’t - encourage new youtubers. Watch their work, leave comment and rate based on the video content. Also be sure to read the description which many of us don’t even read. Do watch the video, but also read description for links or more information on the video.
- Youtube needs to increase video size from 320×240 to 640×360 or other formats. Size is too small. Also it needs to tell us more than the size, a bit details on video encoding. Web design ? I should fill-up the space on left and right. (just like CNN does, yahoo does) Right now, It’s wasting the space on the screen and making users scroll down. But then again, not all of us have the big screen, do we ? So I guess youtube = Accessibility. But then again, yes, again ? Youtube seems to ignore blind people in its commenting system (there is no such thing as click here to listen to the words in that CAPTACH, makes me sad that youtube thinks there aren’t keyboard designed for blind-people. Is youtube for people with eyes? No way! )
- It’s nice to watch videos, but create your own videos too. Once you start creating one, you will be on your way to creating two, three and so on. Then you will be in love with youtube more than ever - hooked for life!! ha ha!! Then you will start watching more and more of youtube, doing less and less of your other stuff like watching the real TV.
Did I miss anything here?
I would love to hear from anyone who have used youtube for sometime.
[It’s late now, 3:02, didn’t do proof reading, sorry guys. Gotta goto work early tomorrow. I am guessing 3 hours sleep tonight and I still got to watch a few youtube videos. Would you believe it. That’s youtube love!
C U ALL
:) RUBEN
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