Is YouTube Capable of Having It All?

YouTube has been around for a while now and everyday it becomes more and more popular. Anyone could find just about anything on it. If you want to laugh, search up a funny video. If you want to learn a new dance move, search up a tutorial for it. If you want to learn how to cook something search that up as well. Anything that you can possibly think of, you could probably find it on YouTube. You find anything from movie clips, music videos, and sometimes even full episodes of shows. YouTube is like a source of entertainment.

Whenever I’m bored I usually look up YouTube videos. Sometimes friends recommend videos, but I always forget to watch them. If I have nothing else to do, why not look up one of those videos. Aside from that, one of the really good things about YouTube is the suggested links on the side, so whenever I search one thing, I could find others videos related to what I had first looked up.

Additionally, YouTube is extremely accessible and anyone can add their own videos for everyone to watch. In today’s music business, just about everyone has heard about Justin Bieber and Greyson Chance. These are two up and coming artist who had no record label or any type of musical connection with anyone who could make them famous until they posted videos of themselves singing on YouTube and soon enough they were famous. They became a YouTube phenomenon and caught the eyes of many fans just through YouTube. Justin Bieber’s intentions weren’t even to become well known, but for his family to be able to see and hear him perform through at a contest that they couldn’t make person. People subscribed him and asked him to make more videos and then he was soon discovered by a record label. Geryson Chance was recorded performing Lady Gaga’s, “Paparazzi.” From then on he became a YouTube phenomenon with one million views. Now he is signed to the talk show host, Ellen DeGeneres’ record label.

YouTube is just one of the most popular websites nowadays. Businesses are even using it for advertisements. In Claire Cain Miller’s article, “What It Means When YouTube Gets Small, and Big” she writes, “so YouTube shows brand advertisements that try to tell a story, as opposed to ones asking someone to make a purchase right away, and often shows them in the video stream.” It is a great to put your products out there for people to see basically when ever. So now, is YouTube capable of having it all?