The uniqueness of YouTube video hosting

The famous website YouTube, which has many views, whose name translated into Russian means “TV for yourself,” is a service for posting and promoting video materials of registered users.

On it, any Internet consumer can freely upload their own footage, download videos for personal use, and also leave personal comments and ratings.

Among many similar video hosting sites, YouTube rightfully occupies a leading place.

Historical facts about the creation of YouTube video hosting

Every Internet user knows that YouTube is distinguished by the high quality of posted video materials with likes and comments. This characteristic does not decrease even when uploading mini-sized videos. It is for the possession of such a feature that video hosting YouTube has earned its place as a leader amongentertainment sites.

Today, he rightfully ranks fourth in the world in terms of the number of fans. Its resource contains an incredible amount of amateur video materials and professional films of various genres.

Few people know that the YouTube service was originally developed as a site for dating and communication. But, compared to other social networks, it had the technical ability to download videos and post them on user pages.

In 2005, the history of the implementation of the YouTube video hosting project began, the creators of which were Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Javaid Karim. In the process of creating a new Internet portal, they used the new, at that time, Flash Video technology for the first time. The names of these three talented people will forever go down in the history of the development of the Internet.

The first video was presented to the public on April 25, 2005. And in November 2006, the YouTube service wasbought by the owner of the famous company Google for 1.65 billion US dollars.

Prior to this business deal, the famous Internet giant used a proprietary video service called Google Video. For the information of many readers, it is still in operation today due to its strong reputation.

The Russian version of YouTube was published on November 14, 2007. The first video posted on the Russian-language portal was a clip of the musical genre, authored by Peter Nalich.

The genius of the YouTube video hosting project is that watching videos does not require additional installation of a special player on your computer.

In addition to everything, Internet users have gained a unique opportunity to search for interesting video materials using keys (keywords), as well as select videos based on the required topics.

All found videos, clips andusers can rate films and leave comments, which, in turn, significantly increases the rating of the video product.

How the service works

The principle of operation of YouTube video hosting is quite simple and understandable for the most ordinary Internet user. It is based on the fact that the visitor can download video material consisting of avi or mpeg files.

The service itself, after a brief analysis, converts the downloaded information into the Flash Video format, which makes viewing available online.

To download selected video material from this site, there is a set of special services, such as SaveTube, or VideoDownloader, often used on the FireFox browser.

Recently, it has become possible for users to withdraw an information resource for personal use directly from its location and save it without the help of any additionaltools.

Thanks to its convenient operating principle, the YouTube website has gained enormous recognition among bloggers, media developers and social networking enthusiasts. For them, the portal has become an indispensable mechanism for using video resources for certain purposes.

Today, it is almost impossible to find a person who would not use this site. Even a child knows about this famous portal all over the world and can easily use it.

Algorithm for gaining fame

Many people believe that fame and celebrity directly depend on lucky patterns and fortune. But few people think that these criteria can be acquired through purposeful, carefully thought out and consistent actions.

One of the most useful tools to help a person achieve success in life is YouTube video hosting.

To achieve success on this popular site you need to do two things:important actions:

• Create a high quality video. This means that you need to think through the idea of ​​the future material in detail. The public perceives staged videos well.
  
  For example, having certain abilities in singing or dancing can be submitted to the Internet audience for consideration. The higher the talent in this direction, the greater the chances of receiving a huge number of positive approvals in the form of ratings and comments.
  
  Also in high demand among video lovers are footage showing unusual tricks, sports records and magic tricks, in a word, all the extraordinary abilities of people that can surprise and cause admiration.
  
  Sometimes purely accidental footage containing funny moments and secret events from life become successful. This includes filming about the mysterious life of animals.





• Correct technical supportfootage. It consists of the necessary filling with high-quality sound and special effects. It is also very important to carry out the editing procedure, which consists of the process of removing unnecessary frames and diluting them with an additional connection.
  
  After registering with YouTube video hosting, you can begin the process of posting a finished video product. To do this, just upload the video from your computer to the website resource and do not forget to leave access to it open for the audience.
  
  When downloading, it is important to remember that there is a title for the video, with a colorful and attractive tone and, of course, the name of the author.

Don't just sit back and expect success to happen on its own when there is such an ideal and accessible opportunity like YouTube.

The only thing left to do here is to create your own video product and interest a huge number of people in it.visitors.
To begin with, you can use an audience consisting of relatives and close friends as spectators. On their pages on social networks, you must place a link to the video for approval, in the form of ratings and comments.

If the material provided is worthwhile, it will quickly spread among many other Internet users. The principle of “word of mouth” will simply work.

Registration procedure

The registration process on YouTube is easy and accessible even for a novice Internet enthusiast. To do this, strictly observing the order, perform the following steps:

1. Use your browser's search engine to find the main page of the site and go to it. In the upper right corner the “login” icon lights up, which you need to click.
2. On the registration page that opens, you need to again pay attention to the upper right corner. There will be a “create account” icon that you need to click.
3. BIn the window that opens, fill in the fields and enter the requested data.
4. After entering all the requested information below, click the “next” icon.
5. In the window that opens, information will be provided that a letter has been sent to the email address, with the specified link to confirm your actions. The service asks you to go to your mailbox.
6. Open the letter in the mail and click on the link confirming registration.
7. On the registration page on the service, where the link will direct you, you can optionally upload a photo.
8. This practically completes registration on the site.

Then the page will display a greeting and an invitation to select the desired category of video product, and will also offer to use several well-known channels.

Here it is not necessary to give preference to any resource, since in the future it will be possible to create your own channel onYouTube.

Procedure for creating your own channel

To start creating a channel, you need to go to the service page and left-click in the upper right corner next to the name. A window will pop up - a menu in which the “my channel” option is selected.

This action will open another window where the channel name is entered. Otherwise, it will bear the username specified during registration. If a channel is created for personal purposes, then the option of matching its name with the username is quite acceptable.

But, when it is created for a site, you need to come up with a name that fully matches the information filled in.

After naming the created channel, you need to start designing it. First of all, in this direction the question rests on photography. If during the registration process it was not installed on the profile, it means it will not appear on the created channel.

BIn this case, you will have to download it. To do this, click on the photo frame and click on the pencil icon that pops up. In the window that appears, indicate to the system the location where the photo is located on the computer. Next, the service itself will download it and install it in its place.

The next step in creating your channel is to design the header. The brighter and more interesting it looks, the more interest it will arouse among visitors.

For all this, the developers of YouTube video hosting have provided users with a unique tool that opens after clicking on the “add channel design” button. The following options are offered here:

1. upload your own pictures or images according to selected sizes
2. create the design using already uploaded photos and pictures
3. use the image gallery services on the service
4. load ready-made designs for channel headers createdprofessional designers

Establishing links and brief information about a site or blog on the channel header

After the creative process of designing the header is completed, the address bar of the hosted site or blog on the channel is filled in.

The link itself will be located in the lower corner of the title. To achieve this goal, you need to hover the cursor over the pencil and select the “edit link” option in the highlighted window. A page will appear before your eyes, offering to place different addresses of websites and social networks.

It is necessary to fill in the fields and save all configured data.

Under the title there is an “information” option, which allows you to set more detailed information about the channel being created. The more detailed and colorful the information, the more visitors will watch the created resource, and, therefore, the popularity rating will increase.

For this you needclick on the indicated button and just show extraordinary creativity.

To make the connection more informative for visitors, there is an additional function for downloading a trailer. To do this, you need to click on the same pencil under the header and select the “channel settings” option.

After this, a navigation window will open, where in the right corner there is an “enable” button, which allows you to download the trailer.

When trailer loading is not required, to confirm this action you must perform the following steps:

1. click on the pencil under the header
2. select the “channel settings” option
3. in the menu that opens, set “default settings”
4. fill in all other fields.

After completing these steps, you can set keywords for search engines and determine the visibility of advertising banners. To perform this actionYou need to find the “advanced” section in the same window, go there and carefully set the required settings.

In addition to everything, here you can recruit subscribers.

Thanks to the described simple functions, YouTube video hosting has an incredible rating among Internet users, most of whom strive to have their own channel.

This unique opportunity helps them quickly promote their own video product and make money from it.