YouTube: What Is It? YouTube is what is known as an online video website. Video websites are websites that allow internet users to make, upload, and share their videos with other internet users. Many of the videos found on YouTube are homemade videos, made by everyday individuals.
YouTube: Why It Is So Popular In addition to being free, YouTube is also popular because it is easy to use. You do not have to be an experienced internet user to enjoy online entertainment. With easy to use categories and search features
If you visit YouTube.com - where close to half of all online video is
seen - the power-to-the-people motto "Broadcast yourself" appears at the
top of your browser. Lately, though, it's hard not to wonder if the "you"
in YouTube doesn't increasingly refer to "them": the Big Kahuna media
companies whose video wares have been gaining more notice both on YouTube
and elsewhere on the web.
BBC Must Drop $100 Million Local Video Plan; Would Hurt Commercial
Rivals (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)
The BBC has been blocked from beginning a £68 million , four-year
program to add video bulletins to its 65 local UK websites - a proposal
that had been vigorously contested by concerned commercial publishers.
