A media revolution is taking place, and most people over 35 years of age are not tuned in.
Millennials and their successors are shunning old-school television in favor of watching what they want whenever they wish on Google-owned YouTube or other video platforms like Dailymotion or Facebook.
“Young people don’t really watch TV anymore; they watch online videos that are shorter and more talent-driven,” said Fabienne Fourquet, a former executive at A&E Television and France’s Canal+ who now heads the multichannel network 2btube. “They don’t want to be Hollywood stars when they grow up, they want to be YouTubers. There is this whole other world.”
The new multichannel networks, or MCNs, are talent agents of sorts for creators of videos shared at online venues.
They help creators, often referred to as YouTubers, with video production and promotion along with finding partners or sponsors in return for a percentage of revenue.
Fourquet said popular subjects include music, comedy, sports, video games, fashion and beauty.
She said that three-quarters of her viewers were younger than 34 years of age, and half were under 25.
“There are very few of us old people,” Fourquet aqdded.
Self-described YouTuber Caroline Artiss has been a chef for 20 years, but opted out of restaurants and went to work for herself in catering in 2008. Then, a friend showed her how simple it was to make videos for YouTube.
“It was just me and a tripod in my kitchen,” Artiss said. “Then people starting tuning in from all over the world.”
She recounted cooking her way across the US for a multi-episode show after catching eyes at BBC America and a television network in Malaysia.
Artiss said she approaches her cooking videos from the perspective of a single mom — short on money and time, but needing to feed a family.
She was signed on by a video network that describes itself as being tailored for a mobile generation and focused on “tastemakers” sharing passion for food and travel.
Artiss teamed with other chefs to open Gorgeous Kitchen restaurant at London Heathrow Airport. She has a cookbook due out later this year and works with Youth Policy Institute to raise money to get fresh produce to low-income families.
Naturally, she did a video. It can be seen online at app.mobilecause.com/vf/YPIFRESH.
An annual Vidcon gathering in Southern California has become a hot venue for YouTubers to connect with business opportunities and ecstatic fans.
Some 25,000 people were reported to have attended this year’s Vidcon, which took place last month.
“With the onset of digital video platforms and the fact that everyone has a smartphone in their pockets, we have democratized being a creator,” said Paladin cofounder James Creech, whose California company specializes in technology for finding budding stars in a vast universe where anyone can post content online.
“A 17-year-old in his or her own bedroom can compete with the likes of CBS and build an audience that would rival a major media company,” Creech said.
Keys to hit online videos include being creative and regularly posting content, Creech added.
Amateurs can outshine polished professional content with authentic connections that make viewers think of them as friends, he said.
“Regular TV is about cartoons and YouTube is about real people and the games I like,” 11-year-old California boy and online video fan Henry Crawford said. “Television is tomfoolery.”
Paladin indexes millions of channels, providing analysis that can narrow down videos by popularity, topic, language and more.
The YouTube channel with the most subscribers is that of Swedish videomaker and comedian PewDiePie, who provides captivating commentary while playing video games.
Hot online video trends include “unboxing,” in which people film themselves or others opening packages with unknown contents.
A popular YouTube channel called Hydraulic Press features videos of things being crushed by just that piece of equipment.
Amazon-owned Twitch on Friday announced that it is experimenting with a new “social eating” category in which people streaming broadcasts on the service socialize with viewers over meals.
Traditional media companies would be wise to be worried by the trend, Creech said.
“It’s a huge disruption,” Creech said. “We are in the midst of a revolution in media and it is very exciting.”
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