Online Video Content Quotes

Really study what types of formats have been working online that you resonate with: get a feel for what works in the current ecosystem of online video. Sometimes, that passion-project you really want to do is not the way to start.

I first discovered YouTube while browsing the web, and then I found people just talking into their cameras. I never even knew it was a thing you could do. William Sledd was my first YouTube obsession. He was so unapologetically himself, and just had fun talking to his audience about things that interested him. I thought - if he could do it, why couldn't I?

If YouTube had existed in 1999, I wouldn't have had a show. And if YouTube had existed in 1999, I wouldn't have wanted to do the show, because I couldn't imagine clips from it following me a decade later.

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

I think that the instinct that people have when they see a beautifully produced web series is that they think it must have been made for television and they just chopped it up and put it online.

YouTube didn't really start to hit its stride until 2006.

It's not going to be too much longer before Xbox Live produces programming.

A lot of people think most YouTubers are just untalented kids who film themselves for four minutes, and that's all they do for their week.

PewDiePie's a smart guy.

I just made random videos with my mom's camera, before YouTube even started. It was just my family and friends in a few spoofs of scary movies and mock talk shows. And then I found out about YouTube so I posted a ton of those videos on there.

YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.

I don't know how long 'The Vlog Squad' will last, but I think for YouTube, as long as you adapt it can last a while.

You can be in Ohio and shoot your own web series, if you want. If this had been around when I was in high school, I can guarantee you that my friends and I would have been shooting our own television shows and putting them online and trying to get as many hits as possible.

With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.

My 11-year-old thinks I'm cool because he watches things I've made on YouTube.

YouTube is, at the end of the day, a search engine... that's why Google bought it.

I did a lot of short films online, so I come from that background where a lot of people see your stuff.