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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.

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).

Aaron Downey

On the flip side, Downey became a YouTube sensation after his 16 April 2006 non-fight with Ottawa Senator Brad Norton.

Aida Nikolaychuk

After Nikolaychuk's retirement from X-Factor, the video of her performance at the casting show reached a record number of views through the Web video company YouTube.

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.

Andover Estate

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

Animal Logic

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

ANTHM

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

Arnold Amet

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.

Balaji Mohan

Among his works, Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Yeppadi was most popular and went viral on YouTube, garnering overwhelming response.

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.

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.

BriTANicK

The group's videos have been featured on major internet video sites including YouTube, CollegeHumor, Cracked, Break, and FunnyOrDie.

Burlington Township School District

In September 2009, B. Bernice Young Elementary School became the center of controversy when a video showing a teacher directing schoolchildren in songs celebrating President Barack Obama was posted on YouTube.

Celluloid Dreams

As well as that, they have their own YouTube channel CelluoidDreams, and have uploaded the trailer to the award-winning animated The Secret of Kells.

Continental Championship Wrestling

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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.

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.

Demetrius Crawford

After spending a year out of football, Crawford put out a motivational video with amateur film-maker Eric Gomes on YouTube entitled #DreamChasersNeverSleep.

Dial-A-Poem

Eventually, all of them were eclipsed by the internet, most particularly by YouTube.

Diljit Dosanjh

The single, composed by Badshah, received over one million hits on YouTube just within a fortnight of its release.

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.

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.

Festus Baise

The video was featured on the website of the British newspaper The Sun and was viewed over five million times on Internet site YouTube.

Ford Nation

Councillor Ford stated that the brothers passed on those offers, but have taken an interest in suggestions by videographers for an online program that would retain the Ford Nation title and be posted weekly on YouTube.

Forward Intelligence Team

Footage that they have recorded has also been uploaded onto YouTube in an attempt to catch people they believe have reoffended.

Giuliano Stroe

Stroe performed the stunt in front of a cheering live audience on an Italian TV show, and has become an internet sensation as hundreds of thousands of people have watched the clip of him performing the stunt on YouTube.

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.

Hikaru Koto

Since retiring from the adult industry, Koto has become one of Japan's most popular YouTube personalities under the name "cotorich" and is known for her frequent use of "Ohayō. Konnichiwa. Konbanwa".

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.

Indira Radić

The song achieved huge success, collecting over 100,000 views on YouTube within the first 24 hours of its release and after a week got seventh place of most commented YouTube videos worldwide.

Indira Weis

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

Ivan Cheparinov

The handshake incident was recorded on video, and posted by chess website Chessdom on YouTube, where it was viewed over 200,000 times.

Iván Hernández González

On March 2012, an audio was leaked to YouTube in which Hernández is heard chastising municipal employees for their lack of support to activities of the campaign of the New Progressive Party and Luis Fortuño.

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.

Jefferson Han

TED released the video online 6 months later and it spread quickly on YouTube.

Johanna Quaas

Quaas rose to prominence in 2012 when several YouTube clips showed her training at age 86 during the Turnier der Meister in Cottbus.

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.

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.

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.

Koichi Toyama

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

Lalit Goel

In 2006, Goel became a YouTube celebrity after someone uploaded a five-minute snippet of one of the his lectures to the site, in which he mentioned humorous comments about him made by second-year students who had attended his circuit analysis classes.

Lee Hurst

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

Lewisburg Area High School

Opponents of the policy argue that this excuse only justifies the blocking of social networking sites and not sites with potential educational value such as YouTube and Google Docs.

Logan Sama

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

Manuel José Macário do Nascimento Clemente

In 2008 was the first Portuguese bishop to convey the message of Christmas through YouTube.

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.

Masami Hisamoto

She has become something of an internet meme on video sharing websites such as Nico Nico Douga and rarely YouTube (due to most of them usually being removed from YouTube by Shinano Art (sometimes called "Shiano Art" or "Shinano Kikaku")), where users create MAD movies out of videos of her television appearances.

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.

Mesh Flinders

Beckett had the idea to tell a story about a videoblogger on YouTube, and Flinders had the perfect character.

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.

Natalie Hoover

In 2009, she created a YouTube account that gained a mass following instantly, with multiple self-made videos that showcased her voice and singing.

No Deliverance

First news of the album came with a few videos posted onto YouTube from a fan who had apparently sneaked into the band's rehearsal space.

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.

Orson Welles' Sketch Book

He fosters an intimate, even conspiratorial tone that makes him an impeccable embodiment of the medium's proverbial status as a guest in the front room … To our digitally accustomed eyes, the one-to-one timbre of the programme comes off like a monochrome forebear of Skype or YouTube.

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.

Patrick Boivin

Many of his films have been viewed more than a million times on YouTube.

Pepsi Tate

In the summer of 2006 a series of videos appeared on YouTube depicting a fictional band called The Pepsi Tate Jazz Band.

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.

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.

Ramy Essam

It became internationally known through YouTube, and is referred to as the anthem of the revolution.

Ray Chi

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

Robert Jennings

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

Roma Acorn

Roma Acorn (in Russian Рома Желудь, real name Roman Kerimov) is a Russian YouTuber turned pop singer who became popular in 2011 due to YouTube.

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.

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.

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.

Shin Soo-ji

In 2013 Shin gained global fame for the gymnastic-style ceremonial first pitch she threw at a baseball match between the Doosan Bears and Samsung Lions at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul, which went viral 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.

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.

SL-1

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

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.

Tamagotchi

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

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 Sweet Sound of Smosh

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

The Unexpected Items

One of their sketches, Gap Yah, became a YouTube sensation in 2010, and the Gap Yah catchphrase gained popularity in schools and universities around the country.

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.

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.

Wrestle Talk TV

The show was originally released monthly on YouTube from September 2011 to March 2012, before moving to its current home on Challenge in the United Kingdom in August 2012.

WUBE-FM

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

Yasashii Kimochi

As of December 10, 2009 the music video for Yasashii Kimochi has been viewed more than 846,000 times on popular video-sharing website YouTube.

Zoran Krušvar

DVD distributed with the book contains music video soundtrack to the novel, and the trailer for the book was released on YouTube a month before its publishing.


André Walker

Robert Bobbin, a fellow passenger on a commuter train from Waterloo station, recorded the conversation and placed it on the YouTube along with a picture he took of Walker in his seat.

August Rigo

10. Produced and featured songs on YouTube sensation D-Pryde's Mixtape "MARS"

Benjamin Cook

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

Brandon Hardesty

In November 2008, Brandon participated in YouTube's first live show: YouTube Live.

Chongalicious

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

Count von Count

His first performance of the Count was in a YouTube video called "Counting the Yous in YouTube", a song about the celebration of Sesame Street's YouTube channel reaching 1 billion views.

Fitzrovia News

Like many hyperlocal media the Fitzrovia News makes extensive use of freely available digital media: blog software Wordpress and social media Twitter, Facebook; location-based social-networking Foursquare; and visual media Flickr and YouTube.

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.

Girl/Girl Scene

It premiered on Blip and YouTube on 6 September 2010 and revolves around the lives of 4 diverse friends as they traverse the various problems they encounter.

Glentoran F.C.

Burrows won the ESPN goal of the season and Sky Sports goal of the season, achieved almost 5 million views on YouTube and went up against world famous player Lionel Messi for the FIFA goal of the season award.

Global Digital News

As of August 4, 2009, the network's YouTube channel was linked to from an ad on YouTube's homepage for "A Perfect Getaway", an upcoming movie, causing many people to suspect that the entire network is only a marketing scheme for the movie.

Google Web Designer

The advertising feature set is more complete with components to add Google Maps, YouTube videos and more, as well as automatically including the tracking code events for DoubleClick and AdMob.

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.

Humboldt Gymnasium

In 2009, the school won the 361-Degree Tolerance competition, which was started by YouTube, and which had the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, as patron.

Jimmy Conrad

He hosted a weekly radio show, The Jimmy Conrad Show, about the Wizards with Wizards play-by-play man, Sean Wheelock, and is currently one of the hosts on the popular YouTube channel KICKTV.

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.)

Lia Marie Johnson

Her family eventually settled in California, where she got the opportunity to work with the Fine Brothers on their Kids React series, then eventually move on to Teens React which led to her YouTube fame.

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.

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.

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.

Norman North High School

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

P4A

Project for Awesome, a community-driven charitable movement on YouTube

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.".

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.

Sad Kermit

The video first appeared on YouTube in March 2007, showing a store-bought Kermit puppet performing a version of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" in a style similar to Johnny Cash's version.

Sad Singalong Songs

On December 27, 2012, Anouk released the song "Stardust" via her own YouTube-channel as a preview to her new sound.

Sekretagent Productions

The company eventually produced two 3D spots, one of which was a joint effort with Coca-Cola Zero, Mentos, and Eepybird of YouTube fame.

Shah Faesal

He has earlier written middles for Kashmir-based English dailies but his command over the philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal has particularly fetched him intellectual recognition across the Country and many of his inspirational speeches are available on YouTube.

So Seelisch, So Schön!

A low-budget music video was made for the song and is available at YouTube.

Thaer Al-Darraji

As well as his personal phone conversations with clerics as well as with political personalities (such as Mohammed Hayef AlـMutairi), and some actors (such as the Egyptian actress Hala Sarhan), and he has been recording his calls, and then upload it on YouTube.

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'.

Tom Cosm

Users are able to access a multitude of regularly updated tutorials for free in standard, YouTube-style format, or high-definition through a monthly subscription.

Uniontown Ninja

The day after the initial burglaries, a video appeared on YouTube with a man purporting to be the Uniontown Ninja, appropriately dressed as such, demanding that police cease their investigation and demanding a case of Milwaukee's Best.

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.

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.