GloZell Quotes

When I first started YouTubeing, the idea was, 'Oh, YouTube is going to be a stepping stone to get to other places,' and I just totally don't agree with that. I think YouTube is amazing. The digital space is amazing.

The exciting thing about today with the Internet, streaming, and YouTube, is you can just go do it. You can go make a short and put it up, and it, very well, may be seen. You can create your own Internet series and just put it out there. It wasn't like that when I was in my 20s. People weren't doing this sort of thing - now they can and they should try it.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

TV has been my goal since before I started YouTube.

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.

The first videos I uploaded on my own personal channel were videos of dogs.

Your YouTube channel is your show. I think it's a wonderful platform for anyone who wants to have stronger creative control over their content, their message, their vision and their branding.

I think that we're gonna start seeing more and more people who started as a YouTube personality and now have their own studio, and they're gonna start creating things: story-driven stuff, longer-form stuff that people have an opportunity to enjoy.

I carry my camera with me everywhere. I'm a vlogger!

When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component.

You basically do have a TV show when you're making stuff online. You have an audience that you make stuff for regularly.

I started a YouTube channel called Days of Dre. There's a lot of content on there.

When I started in 2007, YouTube was just a fun hobby for others and myself.

I create videos for my YouTube channel Chescaleigh and for 'Decoded,' a series with MTV.

I got started on YouTube when I was a freshman in college. I was a broadcast journalism major, and I already had a lot of experience with video editing and photography.

Eight years ago, if I wanted to do a YouTube video, I broke out my camera and filmed everything myself and learned how to edit and kind of become a one-woman studio. But we're living in an era now, thanks to ICON, where any creator who is online, they can create in their own space.

Ever since I was a little kid, I got bored, so I learned to sing, and I started singing lessons. And then anytime I was bored, I would start writing and start messing around on my computer, making beats. Then I got bored and started making YouTube videos; that changed my life in a big way.

People forget that YouTube is the second-largest search site on the Web. It just tells you the power of how many people live on YouTube.

One day, I can come up with 50 content ideas, and I'm like, 'Boom, I want to do this idea, this idea, this idea.' I have a YouTube notebook, and I write them all down. Then other days, I'm like, 'I have no clue what I want to do today.' I rarely have days like that.

I'm a professional maker of online video and I love platform diversity of every kind.

As someone who started in the digital background, it's an easier, better, faster platform to bounce off of. You already have so much momentum, and you already have the experience. You're already comfortable being in front of the camera.

With social media, if you have a viral video people can like what you do and it's homegrown and very organic.

I think the advent of things like YouTube have made it possible for creators to tell stories cheaply and efficiently and to have a built-in audience.

The thing to keep in mind is that's how I started long before MTV and Twitter and Facebook. I studied at broadcasting school so I could learn how to shoot and edit videos, and tried to create my own television show so we could see through these wacky visions we had of funny bits we wanted to shoot.