Google To Sell Out YouTube?
If you are only watching YouTube to replace your AFV addiction then it’s time to stop being a luddite. There is a wealth of user-generated content that represents either the future of entertainment, or the future generation of entertainers … depending on how YouTube evolves. With the recent announcement that YouTube will change its homepage focus to content that is more ad agency friendly (pronounced “commercial”), even more people are likely to miss the user-generated content since it is assuredly less attractive to Madison Ave.
The guy who wrote YouTube: An Insider’s Guide to Climbing the Charts offers this advice to Google. I hope they listen to him, because I sincerely believe in this medium as powerful up-and-coming mojo. It is Eudora of 1990, Mosaic in 1993, or PowWow in 1995. It is a forward-thinking technology that (sooner than later) will be widely used. It would be a shame to let it slip into another company’s hands.
Here’s a list of my favorite comedians and vloggers. Many of them skew young (college and high school) simply because they’re the ones who adopt online technology the quickest.
- Wheezy Waiter – A Chicago based former-waiter, current web-designer, and comedian. Be sure to catch Free Bagel Friday, his amazing time travel journeys, and his foul-mouthed coffee-drinking mother in the window.
- College Humor – Originally a juvenile outlet for takin’ it in the nuts, now a sketch group that along with…
- Barats and Bereta – …deliver the funny just as good as Andy Samberg’s The Lonely Island or Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die.
- Molly Lewis – A ukulele-playing songwriter who made the top views lists with songs about the future of MySpace, and a certain astronaut stalking naval officer. Now, she’s a top contender for Masters of Song Fu along with Hank Green, one of the…
- Vlog Brothers – Originally two brothers, one writer and one musician, using only YouTube to communicate for all of 2007, now they’ve expanded to include a nerd support community called “NerdFighters” that works to combat World Suck.
- Five Awesome Girls – Each taking a day of the week, five friends that met through YouTube and Harry Potter conventions, posted a video each weekday of 2008. Two of the girls (Kristen and Lauren) are popular Wizard Rock singer-songwriters…well, as popular as Wizard Rock bands can get.
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