There are many new form of media publishing such as online newspaper, e-book and YouTube. YouTube is one of the booming new media publishing recently. It has the highest level of viewers in the world that give the best services for public media. According to Frommer (2008), approximately 100 Millions of US internet users have viewed YouTube, due to the US Election in 2008. YouTube is a website that allows people to watch, share and upload videos in a very simple way. Besides, we can also leave a comment on a video to giving some feedback. It was released in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Steven Chen. They are the employee of the PayPal online payment service. YouTube was purchased by Google for 1.65 billion dollar. Videos that available in YouTube are entertainment, marketing, advertising, infomercials, learning program, aggression, politics, personal videos and many other choices. In the other hands, YouTube have no censor about political side and it makes YouTube is one of the best places to get the latest information about politics. YouTube did not target their audience, everyone from any ages, race, education, social level and gender can watch and upload videos. Moreover, the other reason why YouTube is so accepted is because it is free to use and anyone can use it.
List of references:
Rankin, B 2007, What is YouTube?, Ask Bob Rankin, viewed 10 June 2009,
http://askbobrankin.com/what_is_youtube.html
Frommer, D 2008, “YouTube Hits 100 Million U.S Viewers, Hulu Surges (GOOG)”, The Business Insider, viewed 10June 2009,
http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/12/youtube-hits-100-million-viewers-hulu-surges
YouTube Company Profile, CrunchBase.com, viewed 11 June 2009, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/youtube
Dakss, B 2006, YouTube Phenomenon Keeps Growing, CBS news, viewed 12 June 2009, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/04/earlyshow/contributors/tracysmith/main1864812.shtml
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