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100 unusual facts about YouTube


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The film was released worldwide on February 17, 2012 as video on demand on the IDream Motion Pictures YouTube Channel.

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In January 2014, the YouTube series Numberphile produced a video on the series, which gathered over 1.5 millions views in its first month.

1909 VFL Grand Final

The near-complete silent film can be viewed on the National Film and Sound Archive's YouTube channel (see external links).

Alexa Goddard

On 13 March 2010, Goddard registered a YouTube channel under the username "AlexaMusicTV" with her manager and producer Stewart "Stew Mac" McLean.

Alexander Perls

As a consequence of YouTube introducing a system called Audioswap (which replaces the audio of copyrighted soundtracks with something else), a number of songs from 009 Sound System, particularly "Dreamscape" and "Trinity", became widely prominent on many YouTube videos; some YouTubers have declared one or the other song as the unofficial "national anthem" for YouTube.

Animal Planet

In November 2012, Revision3, the Discovery-owned online video network, entered into a partnership with Fishbowl Worldwide Media to distribute and sell advertising for its pets-focused YouTube programming, as well as to fund development of new shows, on its YouTube channel PETSAMI, run by FishBowl Digital Studio senior vice president and general manager David Beebe.

ANTHM

Additionally, he has released a variety of freestyles and a number of music videos on YouTube.

Anthony Adams

In the summer of 2012, Adams produced a series of videos on YouTube about life as an NFL free agent.

Anthony Graber

On March 10, Graber posted the video of the encounter on YouTube.

Balaji Mohan

Among his works, Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi was most popular and went viral on YouTube, garnering overwhelming response.

BART Police

Eyewitnesses gathered direct evidence of the shooting with cellular video cameras which were later submitted to social networks such as YouTube in addition to media outlets.

Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra

He frequently posts tutorials and walk-through videos on his primary and secondary YouTube channels and is known to go into great depth about the processes and tools he uses to create his music.

The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra, also known simply as The Synthetic Orchestra, is the pseudonym for a British video game music composer and orchestrator Blake Robinson, who has developed a substantial following on YouTube, primarily for his orchestrations, recreations and remixes of popular video game music.

BriTANicK

The group's videos have been featured on major internet video sites including YouTube, CollegeHumor, Cracked, Break, and FunnyOrDie.

Burlington Township School District

In September 2009, B. Bernice Young Elementary School became the center of controversy when a video showing a teacher directing schoolchildren in songs celebrating President Barack Obama was posted on YouTube.

Chap Petersen

She also claimed that Petersen's campaign uploaded a video to YouTube which brought up her daughter's armed robbery conviction of several years ago.

Craig-James Moncur

Recent productions include "The Banker" which has recevied viral status and over 200,000 YouTube views and premiered at the 2011 Myrtle Beach International Film Festival.

Cudworth, Saskatchewan

They posted a video on YouTube showing them illegally shooting ducks and grebes out of season and from a vehicle, creating widespread public outrage.

Dale Buggins

A documentary made with Buggins, Mud Sweat and Gears, by Douglas Stanley and Nomad Films was never released in Australia and appears to be "lost", though short clips of it can currently be found on YouTube.

Dino Zamparelli

The video of the incident quickly went viral and was viewed over 600,000 times within the first two weeks after being uploaded to YouTube.

DIscovery And Launch

DIAL, an acronym for DIscovery And Launch, is a protocol co-developed by Netflix and YouTube with help from Sony and Samsung.

Elcho Island

The performance was recorded and uploaded to the popular video sharing website, YouTube.

Elizabeth Bennet

Elizabeth has been portrayed by Greer Garson in the 1940 film adaptation of the novel, by Elizabeth Garvie in the 1980 BBC mini-series, by Jennifer Ehle in the 1995 television series, by Keira Knightley in the 2005 film adaptation, and by Ashley Clements in the online modernized YouTube adaption.

En Busca de un Ídolo

The matches took place exclusively on the Friday night Super Viernes shows and as the first round they could only be seen on radiocmll.com and on CMLL's official YouTube channel.

February 2008 in Pakistan

February 24: Pakistani censors cause most of the Earth's Internet users to lose access to the Internet site YouTube for up to two hours.

Festus Baise

The video was featured on the website of the British newspaper The Sun and was viewed over five million times on Internet site YouTube.

Giuliano Stroe

Stroe performed the stunt in front of a cheering live audience on an Italian TV show, and has become an internet sensation as hundreds of thousands of people have watched the clip of him performing the stunt on YouTube.

Hatteland Group

AutoStore has a YouTube channel that have videos of the operating robots and concept.

Hong Kong Kids phenomenon

On the 9 July 2011, a video entitled Tai Po Impolite Kong Kid Scolding Parents (大埔超級城無禮小學雞當街鬧父母) was filmed by witnesses of the incident, posted on websites like YouTube, and was reported by the media.

Indira Radić

The song achieved huge success, collecting over 100,000 views on YouTube within the first 24 hours of its release and after a week got seventh place of most commented YouTube videos worldwide.

Indira Weis

Against her will the video premiered in its entirety on YouTube on November 6, 2009 and received harsh criticism.

Ivan Cheparinov

The handshake incident was recorded on video, and posted by chess website Chessdom on YouTube, where it was viewed over 200,000 times.

Iván Hernández González

On March 2012, an audio was leaked to YouTube in which Hernández is heard chastising municipal employees for their lack of support to activities of the campaign of the New Progressive Party and Luis Fortuño.

Jeannemarie Devolites Davis

Devolites Davis also claimed that Petersen's campaign uploaded a video to YouTube which brought up her daughter's armed robbery conviction of several years ago.

Jerzy Płaczkiewicz

On YouTube, as jurek46pink, he maintains extensive library of Polish and Central European songs, including old tangos and interviews with Wiera Gran.

Johanna Quaas

Quaas rose to prominence in 2012 when several YouTube clips showed her training at age 86 during the Turnier der Meister in Cottbus.

Jon Gomm

One of these, Passionflower, garnered considerable attention on YouTube in early 2012, gaining over 2 million views after a tweet by Stephen Fry and reports in The Daily Mail and the Telegraph.

Kimmo Wilska

Wilska received much support from viewers after the incident, and the clip of the gag became an Internet meme amongst Finnish YouTube users.

Lalit Goel

In 2006, Goel became a YouTube celebrity after someone uploaded a five-minute snippet of one of the his lectures to the site, in which he mentioned humorous comments about him made by second-year students who had attended his circuit analysis classes.

Larry Sonsini

He has also worked for the well known Internet firms Google, Netscape and YouTube.

Lee Barden

Barden's video company, Black and Blue Productions, provides some of the nunchaku content on YouTube.

Lee Hurst

Screaming "I’m fed up with you fucking people filming me and putting it on YouTube.

Lehman's Hardware

Their YouTube channel has more than 100 videos, including one of a store employee churning butter that has received more than 47,000 hits.

Lewisburg Area High School

Opponents of the policy argue that this excuse only justifies the blocking of social networking sites and not sites with potential educational value such as YouTube and Google Docs.

Logan Sama

His shows are now also captured on video and streamed as YouTube clips which have proved very popular.

Lupe Fuentes

In 2013, a second official YouTube account, "xgfmusic," was created, apparently as a mirror of the still-active original account ("xgfparty") – it contains duplicates of the main content, and was possibly intended to counterbalance the high ratio of dislikes to likes in the virally promoted music videos.

MacX YouTube Downloader

MacX YouTube Downloader is implemented as a web video downloading program which downloads videos from YouTube in different resolution and formats for Mac OS X.

Mermaiding

The early 2000s saw many performers and artists of varying ages, genders, body shapes, and ethnicities uploading videos and photographs of tails and underwater performances to YouTube and personal websites.

Mesh Flinders

Beckett had the idea to tell a story about a videoblogger on YouTube, and Flinders had the perfect character.

Metal Wolf Chaos

Despite not receiving a Western release, Metal Wolf Chaos gained cult status after a series of YouTube videos depicting the game's cheesy voice acting and nonsensical plot were released.

Michael Jagmin

On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Jagmin released his debut single entitled "Sometimes" on his YouTube channel and on iTunes.

Michel Daerden

Excerpts of his post-election interview on RTBF and on local television RTC-TV Liège, where he appears intoxicated, were circulated widely on YouTube.

Mingle Media TV Network

Mingle Media TV Network publishes their content through its web syndication network, including iTunes, Blip.TV, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, DailyMotion, Roku, Boxee and via the Stickam.com mobile app.

More Than a Feeling

Former Boston band member Barry Goudreau made appearances with Huckabee both live and on YouTube stating that he was of the band Boston, though he had been out of the band for over two decades.

Museum of Consciousness

A snippet of the album's early form was shown in a YouTube video by Simon Posford.

Natalie Hoover

In 2009, she created a YouTube account that gained a mass following instantly, with multiple self-made videos that showcased her voice and singing.

Network2.tv

Where YouTube and other sites are video sharing sites and hosting sites that organize around the video clip level, Network2 offers a guide to shows with characters or hosts that repeat from episode to episode, and shows that are the original work of the content producer.

No Deliverance

First news of the album came with a few videos posted onto YouTube from a fan who had apparently sneaked into the band's rehearsal space.

Orson Welles' Sketch Book

He fosters an intimate, even conspiratorial tone that makes him an impeccable embodiment of the medium's proverbial status as a guest in the front room … To our digitally accustomed eyes, the one-to-one timbre of the programme comes off like a monochrome forebear of Skype or YouTube.

Owen Hargreaves

Hargreaves posted YouTube videos in a bid to convince potential suitors of his fitness, and in August 2011, Manchester City offered a one-year contract to Hargreaves, which he accepted.

Owen Schmitt

Schmitt attracted media and YouTube attention in the aftermath of a game during the 2009 NFL season during which he smashed his helmet against his head until he opened up a large gash.

Pablo P. Garcia

His son, Byron, the former security consultant for the Cebu provincial government, gained attention in 2007 after instituting a program of choreographed exercise routines for the inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) and uploading the routines on YouTube, including the popular Thriller viral video.

Peekvid

Video hosting sites that were linked to Peekvid included YouTube and Dailymotion.

Phil Pressey

In high school, several YouTube videos of him dunking (often over much taller players) became popular.

Polina Semionova

Appearing in Herbert Grönemeyer's music video "Demo (Letzter Tag)", which was later uploaded to the popular video site YouTube, brought her to the attention of both the dance community and the general public.

Port of Tacoma protests, March 2007

Throughout the protests, PMR organizers made use of Internet media, especially the website YouTube.

Pro Wrestling X

Several gameplay videos have been uploaded to YouTube showing the game's progress so far, as well as several screenshots of the game being uploaded to Facebook.

Ramy Essam

It became internationally known through YouTube, and is referred to as the anthem of the revolution.

Rick Howard

In March 2013, Howard and Johnston conducted a video interview with the Active mail order company's YouTube channel, explaining the innovation of Howard signature model shoe that had been manufactured with a cup sole, as opposed to the vulcanized sole that Howard had preferred over the preceding five years.

Rick Spleen

However, when it is revealed that an advertising agency wants to use the duo's song "Tragic", which was put up on YouTube, Rick changes his mind and starts enjoying the music.

Robert Jennings

Robert Jennings (YouTube celebrity), a YouTube celebrity known for being part as cast and crew of the The Annoying Orange.

Roma Acorn

Roma Acorn (in Russian Рома Желудь, real name Roman Kerimov) is a Russian YouTuber turned pop singer who became popular in 2011 due to YouTube.

Rubén García Rey

In the 2012 summer, after playing two years with CD Alhaurino, one in Tercera División and the other in the regional championships, Rubén signed for Scottish First Division side Cowdenbeath, after his agent sent YouTube videos to club manager Colin Cameron and the player impressed in a subsequent trial.

Ryan Farish

A Farish song, "Pacific Wind," was featured in a popular YouTube video, entitled "Remember Me," created by a 15-year-old high school student named Lizzie Palmer.

Ryan vs. Dorkman

In mid-2006, the short became a viral video after being posted on such websites as eBaumsworld, CollegeHumor, and the front page of YouTube as a "Featured Video."

Sad Singalong Songs

On December 27, 2012, Anouk released the song "Stardust" via her own YouTube-channel as a preview to her new sound.

Sean Godley

Since December 2008, he has been building up a YouTube channel as a chess commentator (user name: SeanGGodley).

Shahrzad Rafati

Shahrzad Rafati is the founder and CEO of BroadbandTV Corp., a leading digital entertainment and technology company that operates one of the world’s largest entertainment networks on YouTube.

Shin Soo-ji

In 2013 Shin gained global fame for the gymnastic-style ceremonial first pitch she threw at a baseball match between the Doosan Bears and Samsung Lions at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul, which went viral on YouTube.

SignWriting

It is the only system in regular use, used for example to publish college newsletters in American Sign Language, and has been used for captioning of YouTube videos.

Sisse Marie

The song went straight to number 1 in Denmark and the music video was on the release day the 8th most watched on YouTube in the world.

SL-1

The video was subsequently released and can be viewed at The Internet Archive and YouTube.

So Seelisch, So Schön!

A low-budget music video was made for the song and is available at YouTube.

Tamagotchi

Tamagotchi, and began streaming it on YouTube in both English and Japanese, with captions for up to 7 other languages.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

YouTube clips of vampires committing suicide are popular, and Midnight has a popular blog and vlog site.

The Museum of Innocence

Pamuk said he used YouTube to research Turkish music and film while preparing the novel.

The Oregon Duck

Due to the agreement with Disney in place at the time, the creators had to take the video down from YouTube.

This Is Water

However, the full 22 minute long audio of Wallace’s speech may still be found on YouTube.

Tomasz Schafernaker

A clip of his shocked and horrified facial expression has received more than 5.5 million hits on the video sharing website YouTube.

ToyWatch

The Guardian reported on March 5, 2012 that actress Sandra Bullock is suing the watchmaker for an ad seen on YouTube which represents the Swarovski-crystal encrusted watch she wore in the Oscar-winning movie The Blind Side as identical to the company's white band watch encrusted with synthetic mineral glass stones.

Wachusett Regional High School

Brooke "Brookers" Brodack, believed to be the first performer discovered on YouTube and offered a contract by mainstream media

Winnebago language

So far, he’s worked up a language quiz game based on the show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?} and has been using Facebook and YouTube videos to get young people engaged. "The world is moving so fast with technology, and our youth are the ones who are going to carry the language on,” he said.

WLOX

The station's front website banner also incorporated a "CBS - coming soon" link to the advertisement on YouTube suggesting a future digital subchannel with a schedule from the network for the market would be offered through WLOX.

WLUM-FM

Airchecks of WLUM's "Hot 102" days, including clips from a 1991 television program that they co-produced with WCGV-TV, can be found on YouTube.

Wrestle Talk TV

The show was originally released monthly on YouTube from September 2011 to March 2012, before moving to its current home on Challenge in the United Kingdom in August 2012.

WTWW

Testing frequencies used were 5755 kHz and 9480 kHz, and recorded by several listeners who uploaded the audio to YouTube.

WUBE-FM

A video with audio of a WCPO-FM legal ID can be seen on YouTube.

Yasashii Kimochi

As of December 10, 2009 the music video for Yasashii Kimochi has been viewed more than 846,000 times on popular video-sharing website YouTube.

You Don't Like the Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo

According to the Montreal Gazette the film-makers, Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez, also produced a series of short YouTube videos as a companion to the feature length documentary.

Zoran Krušvar

DVD distributed with the book contains music video soundtrack to the novel, and the trailer for the book was released on YouTube a month before its publishing.


Aaron Downey

On the flip side, Downey became a YouTube sensation after his 16 April 2006 non-fight with Ottawa Senator Brad Norton.

Andover Estate

Ms Widdecombe is refusing to watch the 10-minute video, which is posted on the YouTube website.

Arnold Amet

The exchange, which had been filmed, was posted on YouTube, and made front page news in the Post-Courier, the country's largest-selling daily newspaper.

Basil Chivers

Better known from the well known site YouTube for uploading videos of events that he attends around the country.

Benjamin Cook

Benjamin Cook (journalist) (born 1982), English journalist, Doctor Who author, YouTube personality

Brandon Hardesty

In November 2008, Brandon participated in YouTube's first live show: YouTube Live.

Continental Championship Wrestling

YouTube clips are included to show the Possible Forerunner To ECW? section is not based on original research.

Count von Count

His first performance of the Count was in a YouTube video called "Counting the Yous in YouTube", a song about the celebration of Sesame Street's YouTube channel reaching 1 billion views.

DaCast

Unlike platforms such as YouTube or Livestream, the service requires broadcaster to purchase bandwidth (through pay as you go or a monthly plan) to stream.

Eating live animals

A YouTube channel called "Food for Louis" shows videos of Louis Cole eating live animals.

Elizabeth Gillies

Gillies has a YouTube account called LizGilliesOfficial, where she uploads covers of popular songs including: "Wild Horses" by The Rolling Stones, "You and I" by Lady Gaga, "For No One" by The Beatles, "Jealous Guy" by John Lennon, "Father and Son" by Cat Stevens and "One and Only" by Adele.

Evan Jackson Leong

He also co-Directed, with Michelle Phan, the Paris-shot Rouge in Love, which has accumulated close to 3 million views on YouTube and was scored by George Shaw.

Fitzrovia News

Like many hyperlocal media the Fitzrovia News makes extensive use of freely available digital media: blog software Wordpress and social media Twitter, Facebook; location-based social-networking Foursquare; and visual media Flickr and YouTube.

Glentoran F.C.

Burrows won the ESPN goal of the season and Sky Sports goal of the season, achieved almost 5 million views on YouTube and went up against world famous player Lionel Messi for the FIFA goal of the season award.

Koichi Toyama

He gained notoriety with his provocative 2007 Tokyo gubernatorial election speech, which was posted on YouTube.

Matt Fishel

On 2 June 2013, an official music video for "When Boy Meets Boy", Fishel's sixth single from Not Thinking Straight, was released on Fishel's YouTube channel.

Nar Williams

In 2012 his feature screenplay about YouTube, rocket science, and the occult was sold to Fox Digital Studio.

Nattawut Saikua

On 22 June 2013, a music video surfaced on YouTube featuring Nattawut singing about and promoting grocery stores.

Norman North High School

Ray William Johnson- A YouTube Comedian/Personality, who had the most subscribed channel in the world (Now 2nd most).

NuvoTV

Video entries were judged by the public and a panel, including CNN anchorman Rick Sanchez, actress Rosario Dawson, Craiglist's Craig Newmark, former Texas congressman Henry Bonilla, YouTube's Steve Grove and Danny Vargas, chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly.

Pink Man

In 2012, Pink Man was also mentioned briefly in a short video by Lev Yilmaz entitled "Coffee Shop Customers" which appears as part of his YouTube series "Tales Of Mere Existence.".

Project Vulcan

In addition to the data release, establishment of the Vulcan website and a press release, a video of various aspects of atmospheric transport was released on Purdue University’s YouTube website and portions of the Vulcan inventory are available on Google Earth.

Rhetorical circulation

Books can be loaned; Internet memes can be shared; speeches can be overheard; YouTube videos can be embedded in web pages.

Robert Tanitch

He has written and directed several revue sketches for YouTube, some starring Timothy West and Prunella Scales.

Roelof Botha

He previously sat on the board of directors of Meebo and YouTube before they were each acquired by Google.

Sad Kermit

The video first appeared on YouTube in March 2007, showing a store-bought Kermit puppet performing a version of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" in a style similar to Johnny Cash's version.

Sahand Quazi

In 2008 Quazi released his first solo song entitled ham hameh, despite being banned by several television stations for showing the modern day Flag of Iran the song was well received with honors on YouTube and has since been collectively viewed a quarter million times.

Salar Kamangar

On October 29, 2010, it was announced that Salar "SK" Kamangar, who was in charge of day-to-day activities, would replace Chad Hurley as CEO of YouTube.

Sarah Elizabeth Foster

Creative Commons allows people to remix Foster's songs and sync them to YouTube videos without asking permission.

Say When!!

A portion of this footage was used on both NBC's Most Outrageous Game Show Moments and VH1's Game Show Moments Gone Bananas; the full version is available for viewing on YouTube.

Shah Faesal

He has earlier written middles for Kashmir-based English dailies but his command over the philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal has particularly fetched him intellectual recognition across the Country and many of his inspirational speeches are available on YouTube.

Student life at Brigham Young University

In February 2012, a YouTube video called "What do you know about black history?" of students at BYU surfaced, exemplifying some students' knowledge about Black History Month and African Americans in general.

The Conway Sisters

However, she does have an active MySpace profile and YouTube channel.

The Luke Walton Band

Luke Walton rose to internet fame by asking country artist Taylor Swift out on a date via YouTube.

The Scientist

Labs using YouTube, Wikipedia, JoVE, and other tools to best collaborate, communicate, and research were nominated by readers around the world.

The Sweet Sound of Smosh

The Sweet Sound of Smosh is the fourth album by YouTube comedy duo Smosh, released on November 30, 2013.

Tom Cosm

Users are able to access a multitude of regularly updated tutorials for free in standard, YouTube-style format, or high-definition through a monthly subscription.

Utau

This song was made popular with the YouTube video of "Nyan Cat".

Vi Hart

Victoria Hart, commonly known as Vi Hart, is a self-described "Recreational Mathemusician" who is most known for her mathematical videos on YouTube.

Zach Sobiech

Rainn Wilson's YouTube channel SoulPancake released a documentary about Sobiech, directed by director-actor Justin Baldoni, a part of its online reality series, My Last Days.