Description of the Data
Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com and across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs, and email.
Why the data is interesting?
Everyone can watch videos on YouTube. People can see first-hand accounts of current events, find videos about their hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky and unusual. As more people capture special moments on video, YouTube is empowering them to become the broadcasters of tomorrow.
YouTube has struck numerous partnership deals with content providers such as CBS, BBC, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, NBA, The Sundance Channel and many more.
How we can obtain the data?
The data can be obtained by typing in specifically what you want to find in this website in the search box located on the top of the page or click on the tabs, also on the top of the page. You can search from the “most played video” to the “news & politics” category to the channels from popular music artists or even from everyday people who want their shot at stardom through the world wide web. You can also look at the most recent and most popular videos on the site.
We can also take a look at a user’s popularity on youtube with the use of vidstats.com and also by looking http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/08/youtube_by_the_.html and http://www.churchcommunicationspro.com/2007/03/20/some-enlightening-internet-video-statistics-youtube/ for statistics of the site.
What specific questions the data will/can answer?
- How many registered users are there?
- How many people are on this site right now?
- In what part of the world makes up the most YouTube users?
- Can I watch some of my favorite TV shows? Music videos from my favorite artists? Movies?
- What’s the most subscribed channel?
- What’s the most watched video of all time?
- What are people watching right now?
- Is there a track history of the videos I’ve watched from YouTube?
- Can I make my own personal channel and upload videos of myself and my everyday so-called teen angst life? If so, are there going to be a lot of people watching my senseless acts? And can I get famous for doing so?
-Georgia Cruz
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