CODY SIMPSON - RISE TO STARDOM VIA YOUTUBE
Cody Simpson was a regular Gold Coast twelve year old.. until he posted a YouTube clip of himself playing music online. The clip had hundreds of thousands of views in a few weeks. A record producer in the US viewed the clip & invited the young boy to the US to record. Within a few short months Cody has been shot to stardom, has recorded a music video with the famous artist FLOWRIDA and is said to be the next JUSTIN BEIBER. All of this demonstrates the immense power of YouTube and internet videos.
Cody's original single he posted online, 'One' can be seen below:
Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ZuRlvggMo
ABC's Australian Story covered his rise to stardom & the power of internet films in this episode:
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2s5Gh9lWXs
The video Cody recorded in the US "IyIyIy" has had a whopping 2,918,654 views on YouTube to date:
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAHDtzeC_AU
6,000,000 VIEWS ON A HOME VIDEO?!
You don't have to be an aspiring star to have huge exposure on the internet.. the parents of this toddler have had over 6,000,000 views of their funny home video.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCOPNuuGeKA
MY EXPERIENCE MAKING AN INTERNET VIDEO
I had some experience making a digital video in a sociology course 'Youth in Society' last semester. This is the video we made:
Source http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hb0mSfFIh8
So are these videos good? Well... the answer is they don't have to be. Internet videos have to the power to reach such an incredibly huge audience that if your exposure is great enough, someone out there will. As you can see in the 'Cody Simpson' example his first video was not fantastic quality but he gained the right exposure to launch a career.
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