User-generated content
Videos
User-generated content, alternatively known as user-created content, is content generated by users of the Internet such as images, videos, audio, text, testimonials, software, and user interactions. O
An example of user-generated content, a personalised sign and objects in the virtual world of Second Life
The content of Wikipedia is written and generated by its users; therefore it can be called user-generated content.
YouTube
Videos
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen who were all former employees at PayPal. Hea
User-generated content
…several of which were based on user-generated content, including Wikipedia (2001) and Flickr (2004). User-generated Internet video was popularized by YouTube, an online video platform founded by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Steve Chen in April 2005. It enabled the video streaming of MPEG-4 AVC (H.264…
Chad Hurley
Jawed Karim
YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, California, April 2017
Jordan Hoffner at the 68th Annual Peabody Awards accepting for YouTube