The YouTube Effect
June 25th, 2008 Justin Posted in Technology and Science | 
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How many hours have you spent on YouTube watching super short clips of funny, stupid or otherwise entertaining video clips? How many of your friends have sent you a link to YouTube Human Tetris?
YouTube has filled in the gaps between professional journalism — but what hapens when the people at YouTube decide to allow longer videos; will YouTube replace journalism all together?
The company outlined the new policy in a memo emailed to content partners last week:
Long Form Content
You now will be able to upload and monetize videos in your account that are longer than 10 minutes. This feature is exclusively for partners. Independent Film makers that partner with us will now be able to upload their feature films on our site. Please note that for long form content, the maximum file size is 1GB.How much is a one gig? A lot: Almost enough space for a full-length, standard definition movie. Most full-length films on iTunes, for example, are 1.1GB to 2GB. A standard-def copy of “Semi-Pro” runs an hour and 38 minutes and consumes 1.1GB.
I do not think that professional news has anything to worry about, as they have built up their credibility; most of the videos on YouTube and homemade ‘Americas Funniest Home Videos’ that have no real creditble source.
YouTube has done some very interesting things to our society; instead of going outside for a walk, we post or watch videos on YouTube. The video website has become a place for people to try to become noticed. Are these people being noticed or are they just using an outlet thinking someone will notice them. When we spend time watching a baby crawl towards a cobra or a sneezing Panda (Google “Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil YouTube episode), that says something where our society put its priorities.
I think that the longer videos on YouTube will be quite beneficial to those who are able to use the function. It will allow artists to create longer videos that will keep people on the website for longer.
Smart move on YouTube’s part; traffic should be going up for them.
Justin
Tags: journalism, lewis black, media, online, root of all evil, Video, YouTube
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