Editing Vlog (section)

===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=631–645|doi=10.1177/1440783315573613|s2cid=147535146|issn=1440-7833}}</ref>