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What Is YouTube?
YouTube is a video-sharing and social media platform that allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. Users can search for and watch videos of interest, including movie clips, TV show clips, music videos, educational videos, and amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. YouTube offers features such as video recommendations based on user interests and viewing history, live streaming capabilities, and ways for video creators to monetize their content. The platform has policies in place to help protect the community and foster a responsible environment for its users, creators, and artists.
Who Uses YouTube?
YouTube users, video creators, artists, advertisers, businesses, developers.
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Reviews of YouTube
Top and Best Platform for Video sharing and Steaming
Comments: YouTube experience was amazing, from uploading new videos to live streaming. It help companies to reach wider audience for their specific niche. Live streaming is like free Webinars, just sharing the link is enough, customers or audience are very familiar with how YouTube works, so it helped us a lot to save time for explaining things like how to join, which platform to join, how to interact with streaming person and more. User experience was just top notch, everything works smoothly with no issues.
Pros:
YouTube is an excellent platform for both large Firms and small creators, to showcase their new or unique ideas to ever increasing audience. YouTube has so much userbase, that videos easily gets large amount of views. To meet this requirement their are also a wide variety of consistent YouTube creators who fullfill all the searches in YouTube. Businesses have been getting many customers from running Ads in YouTube. More the audience or views, more will the chances of getting leads or sales. One of the biggest advantage is YouTube is free. If I continue to explain more the list will be too much, So I would suggest whoever thinking about getting into YouTube either for business or as a creator to go for it, since it's free and versatile.
Cons:
Their is nothing I don't like about YouTube. Didn't got any issues while using it.
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YouTube is a site that has become indispensable for all
Comments: I use YouTube both as a major tool for the organization I lead, as well as personally with my avocation. In addition, as a consumer, I am generally viewing YouTube more than any other website and often I use YouTube to search something before I search through Google.
Pros:
Ease of creation and publishing and access to such a treasure trove of content
Cons:
At this time, I do not have any cons that are worth mentioning. In the past, I have run into issues of needing to appeal a decision that was made regarding copyright that was inaccurate, but those have been resolved.
Good platform but limited function
Comments:
I used Youtube for many years for both hosting videos and watch videos.
It's hard to make a living as content creator, it's more than a full time job and one person team.
I wish YouTube has a function that we can replace the video with new edit without changing the link.
YouTube video quality is poor, even 4K, the compression need to be improved.
For the age restriction, the platform needs to explain a bit better, can't be "Is it the video make for minors." A lot of content is PG, but it doesn't mean that's for minors.
Way too much commercials but not enough sharing fee with artists.
Pros:
1. Youtube has a lot of audience and it's easy to access. 2. It's free to host videos. You can show your video editing via YouTube to director and producer. You can share videos with the community. 3. A lot of content.
Cons:
1. You can not replace the video with the same link when you update the edit, Vimeo has that function. 2. The compression of the video is not good, the quality is poor. 3. Too much commercials, very annoying. 4. It's hard to make a living as content created, it's more than a full time job. 5. A lot of content, but also a lot of garbage, you need to be careful with the content suggestion.
Cooperation
Comments: The experience is good...we have a great cooperation...I have a YouTube profile, but unfortunately it is not yet monetized, but I post content regularly and so far I am doing well
Pros:
I liked everything...they have a very rich medical content...I literally liked everything
Cons:
So that not everything can be set from the content
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The way I see YouTube
Comments: Easy to upload and maintain a social standing
Pros:
It is real life and real amateurs trying to impress
Cons:
There is some really dumb annoying videos that aren't worth watching and commercials that are adult-minded, not kid-friendly, or altogether scary. I won't let my children watch YouTube unsupervised because of that.