YouTube booms with clips ...

Just a few minutes to know the reason why YouTube.com goes straight to the "superstar of the Web" position - the clips recorded the dance "tears", the 79-year-old old man remembers the scene of his wife scolded, a bus battle in Hong Kong and especially a cow caterpillar . dragged on the floor.

It took less than a year and a half, YouTube went from an anonymous name to a website that provided the world's largest "homegrown" video clip. Every day, this website posts over 100 million clips of all kinds. Undoubtedly, YouTube is the focus of online culture at the moment.

YouTube is so famous that even traditional media must welcome it. NBC Television signed a cooperation agreement with YouTube, after discovering the "Saturday Night Live" comedy clip posted on YouTube reached a higher rate than the original channel.

Attractive hard to resist

Source: AFP " YouTube is in the same position as MySpace. It is the king of online video ," said analyst Phil Leigh of Inside Digital Media. With 60% market share in hand, YouTube surpasses all giants like Yahoo, MSN, Google and AOL.

Opened in February 2005 by several seasoned warriors in Silicon Valley, the number of visitors to YouTube has increased fourfold in the first five months of 2006 alone.

By mid-July, they had reached the milestone of 100 million video views every day, thanks to the participation of extremely funny, funny, even crazy video clips.

For example, a tape that lasted for nearly ten minutes recorded the argument of "shooting like a gun" in Chinese with the title "Uncle's bus in Hong Kong" or the dancing stage drunk for 6 minutes by real dancers. Judge Jud Laipply . has topped the clip "chart" on YouTube with a high rate of hits.

Thanks to this unexpected success, Laipply became a celebrity. His clip attracted more than 31 million viewers, becoming the "most popular" clip in YouTube history, riding tens of thousands of other clips on his head.

Another extremely expensive clip is the Zinedine Zidane player's famous clip of the head butt. From this clip, many other clips followed, variations of style and made viewers laugh with tears.

Change stereotypes

Welcome everyone to post clips, YouTube's criteria of operation are extremely simple. " Success comes from the sense of humor and creativity of everyone involved, " Leigh said.

Just open a free account, anyone can easily post a "homemade" clip on YouTube in less than 10 minutes. Viewers can search for clips by subject or style. They can also score for that clip.

" You provide rich content that attracts many viewers. Many people see it attract more and more people to post content. It's a closed loop, " Standard and Poor's Scott Kessler said. know.

YouTube's unbiased strength was evidenced by a contract with NBC: Initially, this channel insisted that YouTube must remove all "Saturday Night Live" clips from its website on the grounds that "no right to show them". But now NBC found out, it was YouTube that helped their program become more popular.

Therefore, NBC decided to introduce a series of popular shows on YouTube, in exchange for a link to YouTube that will appear on NBC's website.

New king of communication?

What is remarkable about YouTube is that this website not only gathers video clips of mistrust, ignorance and entertainment. Many people have come here to share their creativity, journalism and even politicians have tried to promote themselves with YouTube.

For example, Democratic Party politician Nancy Pelosi posted 116 clips to her speech as well as other Democrats.

Wall Street also considers YouTune as a new generation communication platform like MySpace - the largest virtual social network in the world today - and Skype, the world's No. 1 free Internet phone service provider.

" YouTube reminds me of Skype. Both lead the way in their field, both are very famous brands, and benefit from the Internet. They are all popular because of the simplicity of their technology. provided and attracted a lot of positive, loyal users . "

" See how much money Skype has made from its business model. It's Skype that doesn't appeal to YouTube ," Kessler said.

Although there is no grandfather who has ever bought YouTUbe yet, the New York Post predicted that the value of this website would fluctuate between $ 600 million and $ 1 billion.

Trong Cam