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A video blog or video log, sometimes shortened to vlog^[1] (pronounced 'vlog' or 'v-log') is a form of blog for which the medium is video,^[2] and is a form of web television. Entries often combine embedded video or a video link with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts. It is also a very popular category on YouTube.

Video logs (vlogs) also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using either the RSS or Atom syndication formats, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers (See video podcast).

History

On January 2, 2000, Adam Kontras posted a video alongside a blog entry aimed at informing his friends and family of his cross-country move to Los Angeles in pursuit of show business, marking the first post on what would later become the longest-running video blog in history.^[3][4][5] In November of that year, Adrian Miles posted a video of changing text on a still image, coining the term vog to refer to his video blog.^[6][7] In 2004, Steve Garfield launched his own video blog and declared that year "the year of the video blog".^[8][9] In an effort to fulfill this prediction, Miles and Garfield soon joined their online colleagues Jay Dedman, Peter Van Dijck, Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen, and Christophe Bouten in creating a group on Yahoo! Groups devoted to video blogging.^[10]

Former President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev's videoblog posted after his visit to Latin America in November 2008

Vlogging saw a strong increase in popularity beginning in 2005. The Yahoo! Videoblogging Group saw its membership increase dramatically in 2005.^[11][12] The most popular video sharing site to date, YouTube, was founded in February 2005. By July 2006, it had become the 5th most popular web destination, with 100 million videos viewed daily and 65,000 new uploads per day.^[13]

Many open source content management systems have enabled the inclusion of video content, allowing bloggers to host and administer their own video blogging sites. In addition, the convergence of mobile phones with digital cameras allows publishing of video content to the Web almost as it is recorded.^[14] Radio and television stations may use video blogging as a way to help interact more with listeners and viewers.^{[citation needed]}

Miscellaneous video blogging events

• 2005, January - Vloggercon, the first vlogger conference, is held in New York City.^[15]
• 2006, March 17 - the show with zefrank is launched. A short video program produced Monday through Friday for one year (March 17, 2006–March 17, 2007).^{[citation needed]}
• 2006, November — Irina Slutsky created and hosted The Vloggies, the first annual video blog awards.^[16]
• 2007, May and August — The Wall Street Journal places a grandmother on the front page of its Personal Journal section.^[17] In August 2007, she was featured on an ABC World News Tonight segment^[18] showing the elderly now becoming involved in the online video world.

See also

• Blog
• History of blogging
• Lifecasting (video stream)
• Photoblog
• Video podcast
• YouTube

References

External links

• A Certain Tendency in Videoblogging and Rethinking the Rebirth of the Author, academic essay on videoblogging
• A Post-Cinema of Distractions: On the Genealogical Constitution of Personal Videoblogging, academic essay on videoblogging
• ASL Vlog & Video Directory