Video clips refer to mostly short videos, which are usually silly jokes and funny clips, often from movies or entertainment videos such as those on YouTube. Short videos on TikTok and YouTube often influence popular culture and internet trends. Such clips are usually taken out of context and have many gags in them. Sometimes they can be used to attract the public to the user's other accounts or their long-form videos. The term is also used more loosely to mean any video program, including a full program, uploaded onto a website or other medium.
A vlog, also known as a video blog or video log, is a form of blog for which the medium is video. Vlog entries often combine embedded video with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts. Unlike a more general video diary, vlogs are often recorded depicting the maker throughout.
YouTube (YT) is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second-most visited website in the world, after Google Search. As of January 2024, YouTube has more than 2.7 billion monthly users, who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos every day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and as of 2021, there were approximately 14 billion videos in total.
Google and its subsidiary companies, such as YouTube, have removed or omitted information from its services in order to comply with company policies, legal demands, and government censorship laws.
Cory Williams, also known as Mr. Safety, is an American YouTube personality who currently resides in Oklahoma.
Ruptly GmbH is a Russian state-owned video news agency specializing in video-on-demand, based in Berlin, Germany. It is a subsidiary of the Russian state-controlled television network RT. Ruptly owns the media channel Redfish and is the major shareholder of the digital content company Maffick. Its chief executive is Dinara Toktosunova. Upon Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the company faced a staff exodus. In January 2023, Toktosunova was sanctioned by Ukraine.
A beauty YouTuber is an individual who creates content for YouTube, publishing videos in the realm of cosmetics, fashion, hairstyling, and nail art. In 2016, there were more than 5.3 million beauty videos on YouTube, with 86% of the top 200 beauty videos created by individual beauty vloggers, as opposed to marketers using the platform to promote cosmetic brands.
Wil Dasovich, is a Filipino-American television personality, model, and vlogger. He is known for his vlogs on YouTube. He has appeared on various television shows but most notably on Pinoy Big Brother.
Nuseir Yassin is an Israeli-Palestinian vlogger, known as Nas Daily, from the name used on his Facebook, TikTok and Instagram pages for his over 1,000 daily, one-minute-long videos.
Drew Goldberg, known by his online alias, Drew Binsky, is an American travel blogger and vlogger who has visited every country in the world. Binsky documents his travels on his YouTube channel and other social media accounts. He holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to pack a suitcase. Until 2021, he also held the record for the Most (12) UNESCO World Heritage Site visits in 24 hours, a record now set at 23.
Li Ziqi, is a Chinese video blogger, entrepreneur, and Internet celebrity. She is known for creating food and handicraft preparation videos in her hometown of rural Pingwu County, Mianyang, north-central Sichuan province, southwest China, often from basic ingredients and tools using traditional Chinese techniques. In February 2021, she received the Guinness World Record for "The most subscribers for a Chinese language channel on YouTube."
Basel Manadil, also known as The Hungry Syrian Wanderer, is a Syrian-born Filipino vlogger and content creator, noted for his positive views on the Philippines and work to provide aid to victims of natural disasters. He is of pure Syrian descent and he obtained his Filipino citizenship via naturalization in 2019.
Adam Beales, known as Adam B, is a YouTuber, actor, and television host from Derry, Northern Ireland. He is a former co-presenter of the CBBC shows The Dog Ate My Homework and Blue Peter. Beales has over 4 million subscribers on YouTube and has collaborated with Disney.
Mark Wiens is a travel and food blogger, vlogger, YouTube personality, television host, and restaurateur based in Bangkok, Thailand.
Chloe Ting is a fitness personality YouTuber based in New York. She is known as the most subscribed fitness content creator on YouTube, and for her workout programs, particularly her "Two Week Shred Challenge" which went viral on TikTok and YouTube during the pandemic in 2020.
Aljoscha Wendholt, professionally known as Josh Cahill, is a German aviation vlogger, airline critic and blogger who presents airline reviews primarily through his YouTube channel.
Eva zu Beck, officially Ewa Bianka Zubek, is a Polish travel blogger and vlogger. She hosted TRT World's show, A Place Called Pakistan, and presented a Euronews YouTube miniseries called Rerouted: The Balkans. She has also partnered with National Geographic and Deutsche Welle. She has travelled to 60 countries including Pakistan, where she lived for over a year, Afghanistan, Yemen and Iraq. She went viral after a controversial dance video in 2018 that was believed to have disgraced the national flag of Pakistan. She joined BBC's The Travel Show as a presenter, reporting on the clean-up of the Mexican wetlands from the canals of Xochimilco and a 450 dog-sled race in Yukon in Canada marking the 125th anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush.
Jixian Wang is a Chinese programmer in Ukraine known for video blogging his war experiences during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Wang's accounts differ from how events have been portrayed by state media in China. He has had his content targeted by censors. His WeChat had been suspended following several interviews with several media outlets in March 2022, and had been briefly cut off from his family in China. Wang was temporarily suspended from YouTube over reports of inciting violence because of showing the war related information. After that, Wang Jixian continues to tell the story of Odesa to Sinophone audiences.
Matthew Tye, also known as Laowhy86 or C-Milk, is an American YouTuber, political commentator, travel and vlogger. He is a commentator about political and social issues in China. According to the Associated Press, Tye is a "vocal critic" of the Chinese government.
Shloime Zionce is a Hasidic Jewish journalist, podcaster, and YouTuber, well known for his traveling and storytelling that brings Jewish culture and ideas to a broader audience. At 28 years old, he has visited over 40 countries, engaging in cross-cultural exchanges while spreading the teachings of Judaism. Notable destinations in his travels include Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Azerbaijan.
