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Image from Pexels<\/a><\/p>\n YouTube first came to our screens in February 2005, founded in California in the United States. The site is known as the world’s most popular online video platform, with millions of people using the site to upload their own content as well as enjoying the features on offer. The platform allows musicians to distribute their music and therefore gain exposure and popularity in the music world. With 300 hours<\/a> of videos uploaded to YouTube every minute and approximately 1.3 billion users<\/a>, there is definitely a lot to talk about.<\/p>\n Personally, I use YouTube to watch new music videos from my favourite artists, to listen to songs that are not available on other streaming sites and to watch vlog channels such as The Nasey Family.<\/a>As YouTube offers so much content in one place, you can find a new artist or vlog channel almost every day, its a never ending cycle as there is always something to watch. Through a poll conducted on the Sounds Like Streaming Twitter<\/a> page, 50% of those involved said that they mainly use YouTube to watch vlog channels and 25% said that they use the site to watch music videos. As streaming sites are available free of charge as well, people are more likely to use these sites on the go, for example I use Spotify at the gym and have a gym playlist as I would not really watch music videos in the gym. However I do use fitness tutorial videos from YouTube channels, a benefit of YouTube as it offers not only music based content. Streaming services and YouTube can work together hand in hand and both be used for different purposes.<\/p>\n The site has been used by aspiring stars to post videos of themselves singing in order to share their talent with the world. We’ve all heard of Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes and The Weeknd, right? They are household names and extremely popular in the music industry. They all had to start somewhere and where did they begin their journey? YouTube. Through the power of the internet and streaming, these small, unknown artists were able to gain significant popularity.<\/p>\n<\/h4>\n
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