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==History== {{See also|History of blogging}} In the 1980s, New York artist [[Nelson Sullivan]] documented his experiences travelling around New York City and South Carolina by recording videos in a distinctive vlog-like style.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Remembering New York's Downtown Documentarian Nelson Sullivan|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/remembering-downtowns-documentarian-nelson-sullivan/|last=Colucci|first=Emily|date=2014-07-07|website=Vice|language=en|access-date=2020-05-02}}</ref> 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.<ref name="kontraspost">{{cite web|url=http://www.4tvs.com/Journey/Pages/J1200.html |title=Talk about moving in the 21st Century... |last=Kontras |first=Adam |date=January 2, 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010127090400/http://www.4tvs.com/Journey/Pages/J1200.html |archive-date=January 27, 2001 |access-date=June 3, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="nakedlens">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=grhR1eYswPkC&pg=PA37|title=Naked Lens: Video Blogging & Video Journaling to Reclaim the YOU in YouTubeβ’|last=Kaminsky|first=Michael Sean|publisher=Organik Media, Inc.|year=2010|isbn=978-0-9813188-0-6|page=37|access-date=April 9, 2010}}</ref><ref name="kapusomo">{{cite web|url=http://blogs.gmanews.tv/kapuso-mo-jessica-soho/2009/02/11/video-blog/|title=Pinoy Culture Video Blog|author=Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho|language=fil|publisher=[[GMA Network]]|date=February 7, 2009|access-date=February 28, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302103140/http://blogs.gmanews.tv/kapuso-mo-jessica-soho/2009/02/11/video-blog/|archive-date=March 2, 2009|author-link=Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho}}</ref> 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.<ref name="milesvideo1">{{cite web|url=http://vogmae.net.au/vog/2000/11/welcome/ |title=Welcome |last=Miles |first=Adrian |date=November 27, 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040108152653/http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/vog_archive/000082.html |archive-date=January 8, 2004 |access-date=June 3, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="milesvideo2">{{cite web|url=http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/12.2000/27.11.00.html |title=vog |last=Miles |first=Adrian |date=November 27, 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010723205211/http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/12.2000/27.11.00.html |archive-date=July 23, 2001 |access-date=June 3, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Filmmaker and musician [[Aux Raus|Luuk Bouwman]] started in 2002 the now-defunct Tropisms.org site as a video diary of his post-college travels, one of the first sites to be called a vlog or videolog.<ref>{{cite web|title=vlogging: collaborative online video blogging at tropisms.org|url=https://boingboing.net/2002/12/26/vlogging-collaborati.html|website=boingboing|access-date=7 February 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208064155/https://boingboing.net/2002/12/26/vlogging-collaborati.html|archive-date=8 February 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Seenan|first1=Gerard|title=Forget the bloggers, it's the vloggers showing the way on the internet|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/aug/07/travelnews.travel|access-date=7 February 2018|work=The Guardian|date=7 August 2004|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208123405/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/aug/07/travelnews.travel|archive-date=8 February 2018}}</ref> In 2004, [[Steve Garfield]] launched his own video blog and declared that year "the year of the video blog".<ref name="garfieldyearoftheblog">{{cite web|url=http://homepage.mac.com/stevegarfield/videoblog/year_of.html |title=2004: The Year of the Video Blog |last=Garfield |first=Steve |author-link=Steve Garfield |date=January 1, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041231011613/http://homepage.mac.com/stevegarfield/videoblog/year_of.html |archive-date=December 31, 2004 |access-date=June 3, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="garfieldyearoftheblog2">{{cite web |url=http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2004/01/index.html |title=2004: The Year of the Video Blog |access-date=April 25, 2011 |last=Garfield |first=Steve |date=January 1, 2004 |work=Steve Garfield's Video Blog |publisher=Steve Garfield |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510085851/http://stevegarfield.blogs.com/videoblog/2004/01/index.html |archive-date=May 10, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ===YouTube=== [[File:Vlogger greeting viewer.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|A YouTube vlogger greeting his audience]] Vlogging saw a strong increase in popularity beginning in 2005. The most popular video sharing site, [[YouTube]], was founded in February 2005. The site's co-founder [[Jawed Karim]] uploaded the first YouTube vlog clip ''[[Me at the zoo]]'' on his [[YouTuber|channel]] "[[Jawed Karim|jawed]]" in April 2005.<ref>{{cite news |title=YouTube created a FOMO viewing culture over the past 13 years |url=https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/23/17272402/first-youtube-video-anniversary-13-jawed-karim |work=[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]] |date=April 23, 2018}}</ref> The ordinary "everydayness" and "dry aesthetics" of ''Me at the zoo'' set the tone for the type of amateur vlogging content that would become typical of YouTube, especially among [[YouTubers]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Duplantier |first1=Aaron |title=Authenticity and How We Fake It: Belief and Subjectivity in Reality TV, Facebook and YouTube |date=2016 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company|McFarland]] |isbn=9780786498499 |page=122 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdPIDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA122}}</ref> By July 2006, YouTube had become the fifth most popular web destination, with 100{{nbsp}}million videos viewed daily and 65,000 new uploads per day.<ref name="usatoday100million">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-07-16-youtube-views_x.htm|title=YouTube serves up 100 million videos a day online|work=USA Today|publisher=Gannett Co. Inc.|date=July 16, 2006|access-date=July 28, 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060814024104/http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-07-16-youtube-views_x.htm|archive-date=August 14, 2006}}</ref> The [[Yahoo!]] Videoblogging Group also saw its membership increase dramatically by August 2005.<ref name="businessweek_pioneers">Those darn video blogging pioneers [http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2005/08/those_darn_vide.html BusinessWeek] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717022559/http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2005/08/those_darn_vide.html |date=July 17, 2007 }}</ref><ref name="wired_vlogging">Blogging + Video = Vlogging [https://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2005/07/68171 Wired News] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411002100/http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2005/07/68171 |date=April 11, 2008 }}</ref> Many [[Open-source software|open source]] [[content management system]]s 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.<ref name="journalism_mobile_blogging">{{cite web |url=http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/530925.php |title=Mobile blogging for journalists |publisher=Journalism.co.uk |date=January 15, 2008 |access-date=December 17, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120235543/https://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/530925.php |archive-date=November 20, 2015 }}</ref> [[Radio station|Radio]] and [[television station]]s may use video blogging as a way to help interact more with listeners and viewers.{{Citation needed|date=July 2011}} Throughout the lifetime of the YouTube platform, vloggers have developed large social communities by expressing emotions of vulnerability and encouraging their viewers to do the same. The effect of this emotional exchange between strangers has been documented, for example, in the popularity of bereavement vlogs, in which grieving individuals reassure each other through friendly comments.<ref name=":23">{{Cite journal|last=Gibson|first=Margaret|date=December 2016|title=YouTube and bereavement vlogging: Emotional exchange between strangers|journal=Journal of Sociology|volume=52|issue=4|pages=631β645|doi=10.1177/1440783315573613|s2cid=147535146|issn=1440-7833}}</ref> ===Miscellaneous events=== <!-- Please do not add anything to this list. Rewrite it in prose and include it in the article proper, above. --> * 2005, January β Vloggercon, the first vlogger conference, is held in New York City.<ref>Watch me@Vlog [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/City_Supplements/Delhi_Times/Watch_meVlog/articleshow/msid-1184088,curpg-1.cms The Times of India] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014104849/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/City_Supplements/Delhi_Times/Watch_meVlog/articleshow/msid-1184088,curpg-1.cms |date=2007-10-14 }}</ref> * 2006, November β [[Irina Slutsky]] created and hosted The Vloggies, the first annual video blog awards.<ref>A Night at the Vloggies [http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=19588&hed=A+Night+at+the+Vloggies Red Herring]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> * 2007, May and August β ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' places a grandmother<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117880450303898581?slide=5 |title=Today's WSJ in Photos: May 10, 2007 - WSJ |access-date=2017-08-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809132231/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117880450303898581?slide=5 |archive-date=2017-08-09 }}</ref> on the front page of its Personal Journal section.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117876177359697968?mod=googlewsj|title=Using YouTube for Posterity|first=Jessica E.|last=Vascellaro|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|page=D1|date=May 10, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809131826/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117876177359697968?mod=googlewsj|archive-date=August 9, 2017}}</ref> In August 2007, she was featured on an ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]'' segment<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3459908|title=The Elderly YouTube Generation|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|date=August 8, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821191244/http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3459908|archive-date=August 21, 2012}}</ref> showing the elderly now becoming involved in the online video world. <!-- Please do not add anything to this list. Rewrite it in prose and include it in the article proper, above. --> ===Guinness World Record=== In May 2019, [[Charles Trippy]] was awarded the [[Guinness World Records|Guinness World Record]] for the "Most Consecutive Daily Personal Video Blogs Posted On YouTube", having recorded 3653 consecutive videos to his ''Charles and Allie'' YouTube channel over the previous ten years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Most consecutive daily personal video blogs posted on YouTube |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-consecutive-daily-personal-video-blogs-posted-on-youtube/ |website=Guinness World Records |date=May 2019 |access-date=26 March 2022 |language=en-gb}}</ref>
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