a blog about youtube
youtube is the website of the moment, it’s all everyone wants to talk about. I am even going to talk about it for a bit.
First, my personal view on youtube, is that it is a reflection of a political movement that is happening all across the internet at the moment. The idea of democratizing media, and making it accessible for all or at least more people to tell their story (Stray Cinema very much embraces this idea). I believe that youtube is just an off-cut of this political movement in the film sharing space. It is other things too
Youtube will soon be sharing revenue with their users. As per an earlier blog i wrote, there are already many different websites that allow you to share a profit from the advertising revenue they make on your film. Youtube are just bringing this idea to the masses.
On the flip side of sharing advertising revenue, perhaps this will mean that the quality of content uploaded to youtube will be alot better. Yes in a way that’s great, but I think one of youtube’s strengths is it’s openness to people uploading everyday things, and allowing it’s everyday users to communicate via the powerful medium of film. Now we may see an influx of more professional films on this site, which detract from the everydayness (I’m really sorry I promise I won’t use the word ‘everyday’ again) of youtube’s typical footage, and may cut out a whole branch of their participating community?
By michelle, 5 years ago