Sunday, June 1, 2008

U tube popularity

The widespread popularity of u tube video clips, with the help of new distribution channels, has evolved into clip culture. It is compared to lean-back experience of seeing classic movies, refers to an internet activity of sharing and watching a short video, usually less than 15 minutes per video clip.

The video clip culture started about the same time as the development of broadband network, but it seems the culture has boomed since 2005 when websites for uploading utube clips are emerging on the market, including shockinghumor, YouTube, Google video, msn video and yahoo Video.

These video clips often show moments of significance, humour, oddity, or prodigy performance. Sources for utube video clips include news, movies, music video and amateur video shot. In addition to the clip recorded by high-quality camcorders, it is becoming common to produce clips with digital camera, webcam, and mobile phone.

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