Troy Carter Quotes

All of my videos, everything I upload is short and edited.

YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn't the only video service, but I think it's the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that's a completely different kind of content.

I am a professional creator of online video and I have had that job since the moment of its existence. I'm also something of a professional advocate for, and follower of, online video.

I want to stick with movies, but I also want to stick with YouTube. I'm never going to give up YouTube. I'm never going to stop making videos for the people who continue to watch them. That's my home base. That's what I love; that's what I know.

YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Video is something that we think is going to be embedded everywhere. And it makes sense, from Google's perspective, to be the operator of the largest site that contains all that video.

Dedicate a lot of your time creating Vines and try to post daily.

It's insanely difficult to ask an audience to go somewhere other than YouTube to watch videos.

If you're going to implement video, do it as well as YouTube does it or don't do it at all.

Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.

We didn't join YouTube until late 2008 because when we first looked at it, honestly, I viewed them as a competitor. But then it grew to the point where if you wanted to be part of the conversation, you had to be on YouTube.

My manager and fellow YouTuber, Mike Lamond, encouraged me to start a YouTube channel as a way to practice speaking, entertaining, and being more comfortable in front of a camera. In the beginning, I used an $80 dollar flip-camera and edited every episode myself.

I don't really follow the rules of like - not traditional, but how everyone does YouTube. And it's kind of made me more cautious and conscious of what I put into my videos.

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

There's a common misconception that if I uploaded a 20-minute video that I just pressed 'record' and put it online. It's not that at all.

I read the viewer comments and that helps me decide what my next video will be.

Being web video 'experts'/'pioneers,' whatever you may want to call us, has us always thinking about content that is outside the box, inherently viral in itself and good for web video audiences, as you can't just put out a good piece of content and expect it to be seen.

I make and watch and think about YouTube for a living. So, when YouTube is launching a new feature I might have any emotion ranging from Christmas-morning enthusiasm to utter terror.

The YouTube industry is quite alien to a lot of people.

Now, with YouTube, the audience decides. You can make something that is 20 minutes long or one minute long.

We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation.

If people really, really like what we make, 10 minutes after we upload it, we start thinking about new videos.

If you have a YouTube account, you essentially have your own channel, and anybody who subscribes, or any of your friends on YouTube, they're your audience.

I would come home after school and begin to create videos, because there was people waiting to see new content from me.

With my YouTube videos, I used to edit a lot of my own videos, so I've gotten used to seeing myself on camera.