What is YouTube
And Why All the Hoopla?

Hi everyone. This is Kim from Manifest-Passive-Income. This page is all about how YouTube can help you on your quest for online success. Part social networking website part viral marketing tool and part just plain fun YouTube is more a phenomenon than an ordinary topic.

One of the most famous and widely known websites today is YouTube.com. It is a site where users can upload and post their videos. These users have the choice to make their videos public or to limit access to a designated group. YouTube has a wide variety of user generated content available for viewing.


What is YouTube / Millions Strong

Registered users are allowed to upload an unlimited number of videos. Unregistered users can only view content. Videos with potentially offensive content are available only after a disclaimer and only to users over the age of 18.

The statistics regarding Youtube’s success is astounding. Youtube claims that they have over 100 million videos on their servers. The daily upload rate is 65,000 videos. Youtube boasts an enormous viewer base of 20 million views a month.


What is YouTube / Viral Marketing

YouTube is one of many forms of internet viral marketing. In fact if YouTube is not part of your viral marketing campaign many may think you are behind the times. Just like free social networking sites, and blogs and forums, YouTube has captured the web surfer's attention in an astronomical way.

And if you want to increase online traffic to your site, you should know the amwer to "What is YouTube?"

Why Is YouTube So Popular?

The story of how Youtube started begins when founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen experienced difficulties when they tried to share their videos on the pre-Youtube internet. YouTube gave the public a taste of things to come when they conducted a beta test in May of 2005.

Youtube was an instant hit. The site grew so rapidly that the growth was almost exponential. July of 2008, the site already had 5 billion views! YouTube is the dominant providers of online videos in the United States today. In 2007, the bandwidth consumed by YouTube was as large as the entire internet in 2000.

How Can Participating In YouTube Manifest Passive Income?

Even large media organizations such as the BBC and CBS post videos in YouTube because of the enormous audience that YouTube has access to. TV and movie clips are also posted on the site. Large organizations upload their videos to YouTube to gain access to the site’s widely varied user base. The wide range of users that participate and patronize YouTube is a testament to its popularity.

There are a number of user groups in YouTube that encourage the production of videos by the members of that community. Contests also generate a lot of videos because of the cash prices at stake. This makes YouTube a true global community in every sense of the word.

This viewer interest can be used to manifest passive income when these YouTube users become guests of your website when they become interested and intrigued by the videos you posted. The value that you give freely will come back to you multiplied many times over in accordance with Universal Law.

Although posting videos with advertisements is prohibited by YouTube’s terms of service uploading and participating in YouTube can still bring traffic to your website when the viewers realize that your website is offering value. YouTube has turned video sharing into one of the most iconic elements in internet culture.

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