Raney Aronson-Rath Quotes

People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape - you absolutely need to have fast-moving news online, but if you want to build a large audience over time, you absolutely have to take a risk on the big challenging stuff.

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.

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 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.

It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

The Internet is far more engaging as an interactive medium than broadcast. Barriers to creating content are going away; they're almost gone. People are taking control of their entertainment. People are Tweeting, posting on Facebook and YouTube.

'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

I love seeing the way in which young people embrace video, and the YouTube vlogger is a fantastic phenomenon.

My oldest grew up on Disney, but my youngest is all about Snapchat and YouTube.

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

I want to tell Miranda's story more broadly than what I have been in these five-minute videos on the Internet. She can live in a longer format.

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

I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.

YouTube is an amazing platform to talk about social issues because it gives people the ability to tell their own stories and reach audience around the world who may otherwise never be exposed to these people and conversations.

There was a long stretch of time where I was making these videos, and everyone just thought I was a weirdo because I was making videos in my apartment instead of, like, going out, you know. And so I, like, it's hilarious now because everyone gets YouTube now. But, you know, in 2006, when I started making videos, like, no.

The reason I created a YouTube channel was because I can connect on a more personal level and be more detailed, within 10 minutes, of my life and what I do on a daily basis.

We started recording videos around our house, like, doing dumb stuff. Going four-wheeling or whatever. Then we found out about YouTube and fell in love with it and started uploading our videos.

I've just always been making videos. And then I just put them online and, luckily, they all took off.

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.

I want to get in on how the media business is changing, how people are telling stories in new ways.

I make sort-of funny videos for the Internet that are watched by a handful of people.

I was doing Facebook comedy videos; then I moved over to Instagram, and then I hopped on Twitter. That is where I really was a master. That was the first place where I could go viral.

We brought what we liked from the real world into our videos.