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In January 2014, the YouTube series Numberphile produced a video on the series, which gathered over 1.5 millions views in its first month.

Alex Shane

Beginning life as a YouTube series created by Shane in October 2011, the format was quickly spotted by TV executives and signed for a terrestrial spot after appearances from big name stars such as Hulk Hogan.

Alexa Goddard

On 13 March 2010, Goddard registered a YouTube channel under the username "AlexaMusicTV" with her manager and producer Stewart "Stew Mac" McLean.

Amar Mitra Peddireddy

His work consisting of a montage of visuals from the Bangalore Queer Pride parade, November 2011, brought him to light on various blogs as the video went Viral on YouTube.

Amr Ellissy

Some of his interviews and investigative documentaries are uploaded on YouTube, under the title of "Egypt Journalist Amr Ellissy".

Animal Logic

The film was first released through YouTube in December 2012, followed by a worldwide international cinema release.

Animal Planet

In November 2012, Revision3, the Discovery-owned online video network, entered into a partnership with Fishbowl Worldwide Media to distribute and sell advertising for its pets-focused YouTube programming, as well as to fund development of new shows, on its YouTube channel PETSAMI, run by FishBowl Digital Studio senior vice president and general manager David Beebe.

ANTHM

Additionally, he has released a variety of freestyles and a number of music videos on YouTube.

Anthony Adams

In the summer of 2012, Adams produced a series of videos on YouTube about life as an NFL free agent.

Anthony Graber

On March 10, Graber posted the video of the encounter on YouTube.

Antonio Martínez Luna

In May 2007 a video uploaded to YouTube and released to the media portrayed José Ramón Velázquez, a drug dealer working for the Joaquín Guzmán Loera (a.k.a. "El Chapo") criminal gang, accusing the governor and Martínez Luna of protecting drug dealers.

Basil Chivers

Better known from the well known site YouTube for uploading videos of events that he attends around the country.

Benjamin Cook

Benjamin Cook (journalist) (born 1982), English journalist, Doctor Who author, YouTube personality

Bobby Holcomb

Tahitian television made some videos of Holcomb performing his tunes in the 1980s, and some of those videos can be found on the internet, on sites such as YouTube.

Creative Vado

The program only runs off the Vado device itself, and provides simple video editing functions, as well as the ability to upload to online video sharing services, most notably YouTube and Photobucket.

Cudworth, Saskatchewan

They posted a video on YouTube showing them illegally shooting ducks and grebes out of season and from a vehicle, creating widespread public outrage.

Dale Buggins

A documentary made with Buggins, Mud Sweat and Gears, by Douglas Stanley and Nomad Films was never released in Australia and appears to be "lost", though short clips of it can currently be found on YouTube.

Dino Zamparelli

The video of the incident quickly went viral and was viewed over 600,000 times within the first two weeks after being uploaded to YouTube.

DIscovery And Launch

DIAL, an acronym for DIscovery And Launch, is a protocol co-developed by Netflix and YouTube with help from Sony and Samsung.

Dywane Thomas, Jr.

MonoNeon's YouTube bass cover videos of Sonic The Hedgehog Green Hill Zone Theme and the theme song to the Martin Lawrence Show were featured on NoTreble.

East Bridgewater High School

Below, you can view the YouTube video of the proposed new high school's layout and appearance.

Elcho Island

The performance was recorded and uploaded to the popular video sharing website, YouTube.

En Busca de un Ídolo

The matches took place exclusively on the Friday night Super Viernes shows and as the first round they could only be seen on radiocmll.com and on CMLL's official YouTube channel.

February 2008 in Pakistan

February 24: Pakistani censors cause most of the Earth's Internet users to lose access to the Internet site YouTube for up to two hours.

Gricel Mamery

Media outlets like El Vocero de Puerto Rico published a photo sequence of the incident; a video of it was also published through media outlets and YouTube.

Håvard Rugland

On September 16, 2012, Rugland posted a video titled Kickalicious™ onto YouTube, under the name "bighdeluxe".

Hong Kong Kids phenomenon

On the 9 July 2011, a video entitled Tai Po Impolite Kong Kid Scolding Parents (大埔超級城無禮小學雞當街鬧父母) was filmed by witnesses of the incident, posted on websites like YouTube, and was reported by the media.

Hsin Ting

In 2011, Hsin Ting launched a personal Facebook page as well as a YouTube channel for the purposes of reaching out to younger Buddhists.

Indira Weis

Against her will the video premiered in its entirety on YouTube on November 6, 2009 and received harsh criticism.

Irfan Essa

Most recently, Essa has worked as a Researcher / Consultant with Google to develop a video stabilization algorithm alongside two of his doctoral students, Matthias Grundmann and Vivek Kwatra, which now runs on YouTube, and allows users to stabilize their uploaded videos in real-time.

Jeannemarie Devolites Davis

Devolites Davis also claimed that Petersen's campaign uploaded a video to YouTube which brought up her daughter's armed robbery conviction of several years ago.

Jon Gomm

One of these, Passionflower, garnered considerable attention on YouTube in early 2012, gaining over 2 million views after a tweet by Stephen Fry and reports in The Daily Mail and the Telegraph.

Jorge Uliarte

In 2010and 2011 he realized a successful tour with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra through China and Moscow, also in Orvieto/Italy and in 2012 the international music festival in Ushuaia was transmitted for the first time via live-stream on YouTube - worldwide.

Keepon

Keepon achieved popularity with the March 2007 YouTube release of a video in which the robot was depicted dancing to the song "I Turn My Camera On" by the band Spoon.

Keith Kerr

On November 29, 2007, Kerr submitted a YouTube video that was used as a question in the Republican Presidential Debate in St. Petersburg, Florida on CNN.

Ken Fairweather

The exchange, which had been filmed, was posted on YouTube, and made front page news in the Post-Courier, the country's largest-selling daily newspaper.

Kieran O'Neill

He started one of the first video sharing websites, similar to YouTube, when he was 15 and sold it aged 19 for $1.25M.

Kimmo Wilska

Wilska received much support from viewers after the incident, and the clip of the gag became an Internet meme amongst Finnish YouTube users.

Koichi Toyama

He gained notoriety with his provocative 2007 Tokyo gubernatorial election speech, which was posted on YouTube.

KUTA-LD

Local news and sports are produced by KUTA and also released online via the website and YouTube.

Larry Sonsini

He has also worked for the well known Internet firms Google, Netscape and YouTube.

Lee Hurst

Screaming "I’m fed up with you fucking people filming me and putting it on YouTube.

Lehman's Hardware

Their YouTube channel has more than 100 videos, including one of a store employee churning butter that has received more than 47,000 hits.

Logan Sama

His shows are now also captured on video and streamed as YouTube clips which have proved very popular.

MacX YouTube Downloader

MacX YouTube Downloader is implemented as a web video downloading program which downloads videos from YouTube in different resolution and formats for Mac OS X.

Marija Ugrica

Marija Ugrica (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Угрица) (born July 27, 1995 in Belgrade, Serbia) is a pop singer well known by her strong live performances and YouTube music covers.

Marta Del Sol

Viewing YouTube vlogs of young people with the condition's "highs (mania) and lows (depression)" helped her to understand that there was "a very large range of this disease".

Mermaiding

The early 2000s saw many performers and artists of varying ages, genders, body shapes, and ethnicities uploading videos and photographs of tails and underwater performances to YouTube and personal websites.

Metal Wolf Chaos

Despite not receiving a Western release, Metal Wolf Chaos gained cult status after a series of YouTube videos depicting the game's cheesy voice acting and nonsensical plot were released.

Michael Jagmin

On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Jagmin released his debut single entitled "Sometimes" on his YouTube channel and on iTunes.

Michel Daerden

Excerpts of his post-election interview on RTBF and on local television RTC-TV Liège, where he appears intoxicated, were circulated widely on YouTube.

Mingle Media TV Network

Mingle Media TV Network publishes their content through its web syndication network, including iTunes, Blip.TV, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, DailyMotion, Roku, Boxee and via the Stickam.com mobile app.

More Than a Feeling

Former Boston band member Barry Goudreau made appearances with Huckabee both live and on YouTube stating that he was of the band Boston, though he had been out of the band for over two decades.

Nattawut Saikua

On 22 June 2013, a music video surfaced on YouTube featuring Nattawut singing about and promoting grocery stores.

Network2.tv

Where YouTube and other sites are video sharing sites and hosting sites that organize around the video clip level, Network2 offers a guide to shows with characters or hosts that repeat from episode to episode, and shows that are the original work of the content producer.

Norman North High School

Ray William Johnson- A YouTube Comedian/Personality, who had the most subscribed channel in the world (Now 2nd most).

Occupy Buffalo

On November 17, 2011 filmmaker Michael Moore spoke directly to members of Occupy Buffalo in a YouTube video encouraging them make their voice heard and not to pull back on their efforts despite the winter weather approaching.

Owen Schmitt

Schmitt attracted media and YouTube attention in the aftermath of a game during the 2009 NFL season during which he smashed his helmet against his head until he opened up a large gash.

Pablo P. Garcia

His son, Byron, the former security consultant for the Cebu provincial government, gained attention in 2007 after instituting a program of choreographed exercise routines for the inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) and uploading the routines on YouTube, including the popular Thriller viral video.

Phil Pressey

In high school, several YouTube videos of him dunking (often over much taller players) became popular.

Polina Semionova

Appearing in Herbert Grönemeyer's music video "Demo (Letzter Tag)", which was later uploaded to the popular video site YouTube, brought her to the attention of both the dance community and the general public.

Port of Tacoma protests, March 2007

Throughout the protests, PMR organizers made use of Internet media, especially the website YouTube.

Pro Wrestling X

Several gameplay videos have been uploaded to YouTube showing the game's progress so far, as well as several screenshots of the game being uploaded to Facebook.

Ray Chi

That project would lead to the collaborative creation of ZeroTV.com, a precursor to YouTube and MySpace.

Re: Woyzeck

The play explores modern society's obsession with murder, while exploring modern military practices, the medical profession, religious doctrines and the constant surveillance provided by video phones and video sharing sites such as YouTube.

Rebecca Worthley

The acoustic version of Worthley's song "Consumed", which is recorded on both CDs, was used that year on a YouTube video about sweatshop labor.

Rhetorical circulation

Books can be loaned; Internet memes can be shared; speeches can be overheard; YouTube videos can be embedded in web pages.

Rick Howard

In March 2013, Howard and Johnston conducted a video interview with the Active mail order company's YouTube channel, explaining the innovation of Howard signature model shoe that had been manufactured with a cup sole, as opposed to the vulcanized sole that Howard had preferred over the preceding five years.

Rick Spleen

However, when it is revealed that an advertising agency wants to use the duo's song "Tragic", which was put up on YouTube, Rick changes his mind and starts enjoying the music.

Romain Mesnil

The video, posted on YouTube, was an attempt to attract attention to his quest for a new sponsorship deal.

Royal Württemberg State Railways

The comic song "Auf der schwäb'sche Eisebahne" (On the Swabian railways) has been sung by many artists, and versions can be seen on YouTube.

Rubén García Rey

In the 2012 summer, after playing two years with CD Alhaurino, one in Tercera División and the other in the regional championships, Rubén signed for Scottish First Division side Cowdenbeath, after his agent sent YouTube videos to club manager Colin Cameron and the player impressed in a subsequent trial.

Rudy Marconi

Marconi's campaign has made use of the website YouTube in order to discuss his campaign and address political issues as well as to text.

Ryan vs. Dorkman

In mid-2006, the short became a viral video after being posted on such websites as eBaumsworld, CollegeHumor, and the front page of YouTube as a "Featured Video."

Salar Kamangar

On October 29, 2010, it was announced that Salar "SK" Kamangar, who was in charge of day-to-day activities, would replace Chad Hurley as CEO of YouTube.

Samsung GT-B7330

From this device's default home screen, the user can check the weather, play songs, update CNN headlines, view photos, configure device settings, and go to social-networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, and YouTube.

Samsung SGH-T919

The Samsung Behold features the music video "Somewhere Else" by YouTube celebrity, Jodie Rivera a.k.a. VenetianPrincess.

Sean Godley

Since December 2008, he has been building up a YouTube channel as a chess commentator (user name: SeanGGodley).

Shahrzad Rafati

Shahrzad Rafati is the founder and CEO of BroadbandTV Corp., a leading digital entertainment and technology company that operates one of the world’s largest entertainment networks on YouTube.

Shoutlet

is a leading provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS), enterprise-level social media marketing platform that enables marketers to publish, engage, and measure social marketing campaigns and activities on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Shraga Simmons

This video garnered over 200,000 views on Aish.com and YouTube.

Sisse Marie

The song went straight to number 1 in Denmark and the music video was on the release day the 8th most watched on YouTube in the world.

Spamigation

Viacom's recent lawsuits against YouTube and Google, in which over 100,000 DMCA takedown notices were sent, used a system of spamigation that sent notices to videos if they contained selected phrases of material under Viacom copyright.

Tarah Toohil

In late 2012, an unknown person posted a photo montage on YouTube, entitled "Pizza Party," showing Toohil at a party ten years earlier.

Tera Kya Hoga Johnny

In January 2010, the film faced controversy, when a major chunk of the film was released online in 5-6 parts over the online video sharing website, YouTube.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

YouTube clips of vampires committing suicide are popular, and Midnight has a popular blog and vlog site.

The Conway Sisters

However, she does have an active MySpace profile and YouTube channel.

The Museum of Innocence

Pamuk said he used YouTube to research Turkish music and film while preparing the novel.

The Sweet Sound of Smosh

The Sweet Sound of Smosh is the fourth album by YouTube comedy duo Smosh, released on November 30, 2013.

They Can't Take Away Our Music

Like most of the other studio tracks recorded by Eric Burdon & War, the song was banned from YouTube in the early years.

Tomasz Schafernaker

A clip of his shocked and horrified facial expression has received more than 5.5 million hits on the video sharing website YouTube.

Tommy Duckworth

In August 2013, producers discovered that Fountain had appeared in numerous videos on YouTube as his alter-ego "The Phantom", rapping about raping a girl and committing acts of extreme violence.

Vi Hart

Victoria Hart, commonly known as Vi Hart, is a self-described "Recreational Mathemusician" who is most known for her mathematical videos on YouTube.

Wachusett Regional High School

Brooke "Brookers" Brodack, believed to be the first performer discovered on YouTube and offered a contract by mainstream media

Washington Civil War Association

The above three events are major battles that have been featured on television, YouTube and local newspapers.

Winnebago language

So far, he’s worked up a language quiz game based on the show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?} and has been using Facebook and YouTube videos to get young people engaged. "The world is moving so fast with technology, and our youth are the ones who are going to carry the language on,” he said.

WLOX

The station's front website banner also incorporated a "CBS - coming soon" link to the advertisement on YouTube suggesting a future digital subchannel with a schedule from the network for the market would be offered through WLOX.

WLUM-FM

Airchecks of WLUM's "Hot 102" days, including clips from a 1991 television program that they co-produced with WCGV-TV, can be found on YouTube.

WTWW

Testing frequencies used were 5755 kHz and 9480 kHz, and recorded by several listeners who uploaded the audio to YouTube.

WUBE-FM

A video with audio of a WCPO-FM legal ID can be seen on YouTube.


1909 VFL Grand Final

The near-complete silent film can be viewed on the National Film and Sound Archive's YouTube channel (see external links).

Alex Désert

In 2011, Désert starred as Wise in the YouTube web series The LeBrons.

Andover Estate

Ms Widdecombe is refusing to watch the 10-minute video, which is posted on the YouTube website.

Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra

He frequently posts tutorials and walk-through videos on his primary and secondary YouTube channels and is known to go into great depth about the processes and tools he uses to create his music.

Chongalicious

Radio station Power 96 said that it was one of their most requested songs after being discovered on YouTube.

Craig-James Moncur

Recent productions include "The Banker" which has recevied viral status and over 200,000 YouTube views and premiered at the 2011 Myrtle Beach International Film Festival.

DaCast

Unlike platforms such as YouTube or Livestream, the service requires broadcaster to purchase bandwidth (through pay as you go or a monthly plan) to stream.

Delaney Gibson

In June 2011, Delaney was chosen as one of two musicians to take part in IdeaJam, a collaboration between Ashton Kutcher co-founded Katalyst, Intel, and Google/YouTube.

Eating live animals

A YouTube channel called "Food for Louis" shows videos of Louis Cole eating live animals.

Evan Jackson Leong

He also co-Directed, with Michelle Phan, the Paris-shot Rouge in Love, which has accumulated close to 3 million views on YouTube and was scored by George Shaw.

FreeCharge.in

In May 2013, the company in association with TheViralFever.com (TVF), an online youth entertainment network, launched a video on YouTube which was a spoof of Emotional Atyachar, a TV show.

Grippers

Grippers come in a range of strengths, suitable for everyone from beginners to World's Strongest Man winners such as Magnus Samuelsson whose YouTube video clip closing the No. 4 Captains of Crush Gripper has been viewed over 1,600,000 times.

Jerzy Płaczkiewicz

On YouTube, as jurek46pink, he maintains extensive library of Polish and Central European songs, including old tangos and interviews with Wiera Gran.

Keo Nozari

In 2010, Nozari announced work on the final stages of a brand new album Love Boutique which he documented on his namesake YouTube channel.

Kung Fu Bear

(Some versions of the video were eventually taken down from YouTube, due to copyright-infringing use of Carl Douglas' song "Kung Fu Fighting"; its popularity is greater than its currently displayed viewer counts indicate.)

Lisa Donovan

In a Forbes magazine article, YouTube founder Chad Hurley highlighted Donovan's success as an example of the changing paradigm of entertainment.

Lisa Foiles

In 2013, Foiles recently guest starred in the fifth podcast of the Re-Open Nickelodeon Studios Facebook Page and YouTube channel with three administrators from the channel.

Mason Musso

On September 25, 2011, Mason released a second song, "Closer and Closer" on SoundCloud and YouTube with Blake Healy.

Matt Fishel

On 2 June 2013, an official music video for "When Boy Meets Boy", Fishel's sixth single from Not Thinking Straight, was released on Fishel's YouTube channel.

Mc Kresha

He is one of the most popular music artists in Kosovo who rose to fame after releasing "Lyrical Warfare" and "Lej Flleshat", both of which has had over two million views on YouTube.

Nar Williams

In 2012 his feature screenplay about YouTube, rocket science, and the occult was sold to Fox Digital Studio.

NuvoTV

Video entries were judged by the public and a panel, including CNN anchorman Rick Sanchez, actress Rosario Dawson, Craiglist's Craig Newmark, former Texas congressman Henry Bonilla, YouTube's Steve Grove and Danny Vargas, chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly.

Pink Man

In 2012, Pink Man was also mentioned briefly in a short video by Lev Yilmaz entitled "Coffee Shop Customers" which appears as part of his YouTube series "Tales Of Mere Existence.".

Punggol East Single Member Constituency

There were 2 rounds of rallies in this by-election, Workers' Party's rally drew the most audiences amounting to over 5,000 and 12,000 audiences, with Singapore Democratic Alliance using the social media and technology to draw audiences via a series of videos posted to YouTube.

Renee Paquette

Young began co-hosting the World Tour segments, which is a segment detailing the city they are filming in, showcasing various tourist attractions, before later being promoted as a third main presenter on The JBL and Cole Show, which is shown on YouTube and WWE.com.

Robert Jennings

Robert Jennings (YouTube celebrity), a YouTube celebrity known for being part as cast and crew of the The Annoying Orange.

SL-1

The video was subsequently released and can be viewed at The Internet Archive and YouTube.

Student life at Brigham Young University

In February 2012, a YouTube video called "What do you know about black history?" of students at BYU surfaced, exemplifying some students' knowledge about Black History Month and African Americans in general.

Tamagotchi

Tamagotchi, and began streaming it on YouTube in both English and Japanese, with captions for up to 7 other languages.

The Luke Walton Band

Luke Walton rose to internet fame by asking country artist Taylor Swift out on a date via YouTube.

Timethai

Timethai was discovered in 2010 by Kamikaze's casting staff who came across Timethai's videos on a YouTube channel named 'Dharmthai'.

Utau

This song was made popular with the YouTube video of "Nyan Cat".

Volvo FM

In November 2013, Volvo released a viral advertisement on YouTube to promote the FM's dynamic steering system.

Zach Sobiech

Rainn Wilson's YouTube channel SoulPancake released a documentary about Sobiech, directed by director-actor Justin Baldoni, a part of its online reality series, My Last Days.