Online Video Sharing Quotes

Starting in the mid-1990s, the end-to-end ubiquity of the Internet, combined with its cheapness, spontaneously combusted to give us Napster - a site that revolutionized the music industry overnight. We got P2P file swapping in the film and TV industry as well.

YouTube's growth exploded in 2006. Ian and Anthony of Smosh, who began uploading in late 2005, were among the platform's top native stars and they defined a lot of what it meant to be a 'YouTuber.'

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

Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

I work in a studio with lots of young people, most of whom are my former students. We delight in trading YouTube videos! We all stop working to watch them. I'm totally addicted to anything with kittens and puppies, but 'Very Scared Kid' is one of my favorites.

I make funny videos of me playing video games, and I share those moments.

YouTube is a free service that is extremely easy to use. There are no downloads, and hundreds of audio and video formats are instantly converted to Flash, which makes it fast and easy for the community to watch and share video.

Hosting and surfacing legacy media content isn't all about YouTube trying to abandon its core, it's about inviting a broader variety of viewers to the platform.

I check out my MySpace. I'll go on sites to see what's funny on YouTube.

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

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