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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.

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.

AIM at Melanoma Foundation

Video recordings of the symposia are available at AIMatMelanoma.orgYouTube.

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.

Amar Mitra Peddireddy

His work consisting of a montage of visuals from the Bangalore Queer Pride parade, November 2011, brought him to light on various blogs as the video went Viral on YouTube.

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.

Balaji Mohan

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

BART Police

Eyewitnesses gathered direct evidence of the shooting with cellular video cameras which were later submitted to social networks such as YouTube in addition to media outlets.

Benjamin Cook

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

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.

Chap Petersen

She also claimed that Petersen's campaign uploaded a video to YouTube which brought up her daughter's armed robbery conviction of several years ago.

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.

Creative Vado

The program only runs off the Vado device itself, and provides simple video editing functions, as well as the ability to upload to online video sharing services, most notably YouTube and Photobucket.

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.

Damien Walters

On YouTube he is one of the most watched Freerunners, with his videos having a total of over 80 million views.

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.

DIscovery And Launch

DIAL, an acronym for DIscovery And Launch, is a protocol co-developed by Netflix and YouTube with help from Sony and Samsung.

Dr.Fill

Videos of the program solving the problems from the tournament are available on YouTube.

East Bridgewater High School

Below, you can view the YouTube video of the proposed new high school's layout and appearance.

Elizabeth Bennet

Elizabeth has been portrayed by Greer Garson in the 1940 film adaptation of the novel, by Elizabeth Garvie in the 1980 BBC mini-series, by Jennifer Ehle in the 1995 television series, by Keira Knightley in the 2005 film adaptation, and by Ashley Clements in the online modernized YouTube adaption.

Eric Limeback

His official YouTube channel has tutorials on how to solve a Rubik's Cube blindfolded.

February 2008 in Pakistan

February 24: Pakistani censors cause most of the Earth's Internet users to lose access to the Internet site YouTube for up to two hours.

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.

Forward Intelligence Team

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

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But in 2014, VTV stopped release DVD, work with CNC and Technology Police (also known as C50) to prevent the show from uploading to YouTube.

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.

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.

Hsin Ting

In 2011, Hsin Ting launched a personal Facebook page as well as a YouTube channel for the purposes of reaching out to younger Buddhists.

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.

Irfan Essa

Most recently, Essa has worked as a Researcher / Consultant with Google to develop a video stabilization algorithm alongside two of his doctoral students, Matthias Grundmann and Vivek Kwatra, which now runs on YouTube, and allows users to stabilize their uploaded videos in real-time.

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.

Jefferson Han

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

Jeremy Arel

Jeremy Arel aka “The Gerbil” is a North American grappler in the sport of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu who is well known for his blog on living and training in Rio de Janeiro as well as his YouTube tutorial channel.

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.

Ken Fairweather

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.

KUTA-LD

Local news and sports are produced by KUTA and also released online via the website and YouTube.

Lee Barden

Barden's video company, Black and Blue Productions, provides some of the nunchaku content on YouTube.

Lee Hurst

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

Lehman's Hardware

Their YouTube channel has more than 100 videos, including one of a store employee churning butter that has received more than 47,000 hits.

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.

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.

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.

Mesh Flinders

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

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.

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.

Nattawut Saikua

On 22 June 2013, a music video surfaced on YouTube featuring Nattawut singing about and promoting grocery stores.

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.

Norman North High School

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

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.

Owen Hargreaves

Hargreaves posted YouTube videos in a bid to convince potential suitors of his fitness, and in August 2011, Manchester City offered a one-year contract to Hargreaves, which he accepted.

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.

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.

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.

Re: Woyzeck

The play explores modern society's obsession with murder, while exploring modern military practices, the medical profession, religious doctrines and the constant surveillance provided by video phones and video sharing sites such as YouTube.

Rebecca Worthley

The acoustic version of Worthley's song "Consumed", which is recorded on both CDs, was used that year on a YouTube video about sweatshop labor.

Rhetorical circulation

Books can be loaned; Internet memes can be shared; speeches can be overheard; YouTube videos can be embedded in web pages.

Rick Spleen

However, when it is revealed that an advertising agency wants to use the duo's song "Tragic", which was put up on YouTube, Rick changes his mind and starts enjoying the music.

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.

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.

Rukkle

The website is divided into three parts: rukkle.com (blog), rukkle.fm (radio station) and rukkle.tv (YouTube video channel).

Ryan Farish

A Farish song, "Pacific Wind," was featured in a popular YouTube video, entitled "Remember Me," created by a 15-year-old high school student named Lizzie Palmer.

Sad Singalong Songs

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

Salar Kamangar

On October 29, 2010, it was announced that Salar "SK" Kamangar, who was in charge of day-to-day activities, would replace Chad Hurley as CEO of YouTube.

Samsung SGH-T919

The Samsung Behold features the music video "Somewhere Else" by YouTube celebrity, Jodie Rivera a.k.a. VenetianPrincess.

Shaun Wilson-Miller

Shaun remains a true inspiration to over three million people who viewed his accidental My Final Goodbye video 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.

Tarah Toohil

In late 2012, an unknown person posted a photo montage on YouTube, entitled "Pizza Party," showing Toohil at a party ten years earlier.

The Conway Sisters

However, she does have an active MySpace profile and YouTube channel.

The Museum of Innocence

Pamuk said he used YouTube to research Turkish music and film while preparing the novel.

The Oregon Duck

Due to the agreement with Disney in place at the time, the creators had to take the video down from YouTube.

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.

They Can't Take Away Our Music

Like most of the other studio tracks recorded by Eric Burdon & War, the song was banned from YouTube in the early years.

Tom DiCillo

DiCillo also directed "Weeping Willow", a sixth season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, was inspired by the lonelygirl15 videos on YouTube.

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.

Wachusett Regional High School

Brooke "Brookers" Brodack, believed to be the first performer discovered on YouTube and offered a contract by mainstream media

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.

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.

WTWW

Testing frequencies used were 5755 kHz and 9480 kHz, and recorded by several listeners who uploaded the audio to 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.

Yuval Harari

YouTube Video clips of Harari’s lectures on the history of the world

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.


Age of Conan: Unchained

The music accompanying the propaganda video which the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, Anders Behring Breivik uploaded to video sharing sites including YouTube at the same time that he published his manifesto, comes from the Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures soundtrack.

Alex Désert

In 2011, Désert starred as Wise in the YouTube web series The LeBrons.

Andover Estate

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

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.

Animal Planet

In November 2012, Revision3, the Discovery-owned online video network, entered into a partnership with Fishbowl Worldwide Media to distribute and sell advertising for its pets-focused YouTube programming, as well as to fund development of new shows, on its YouTube channel PETSAMI, run by FishBowl Digital Studio senior vice president and general manager David Beebe.

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.

Delaney Gibson

In June 2011, Delaney was chosen as one of two musicians to take part in IdeaJam, a collaboration between Ashton Kutcher co-founded Katalyst, Intel, and Google/YouTube.

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.

Eating live animals

A YouTube channel called "Food for Louis" shows videos of Louis Cole eating live animals.

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.

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.

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.

Jerzy Płaczkiewicz

On YouTube, as jurek46pink, he maintains extensive library of Polish and Central European songs, including old tangos and interviews with Wiera Gran.

Keo Nozari

In 2010, Nozari announced work on the final stages of a brand new album Love Boutique which he documented on his namesake YouTube channel.

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.

Lisa Donovan

In a Forbes magazine article, YouTube founder Chad Hurley highlighted Donovan's success as an example of the changing paradigm of entertainment.

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.

Marta Del Sol

Viewing YouTube vlogs of young people with the condition's "highs (mania) and lows (depression)" helped her to understand that there was "a very large range of this disease".

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.

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.

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.

Project Vulcan

In addition to the data release, establishment of the Vulcan website and a press release, a video of various aspects of atmospheric transport was released on Purdue University’s YouTube website and portions of the Vulcan inventory are available on Google Earth.

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.

Robert Tanitch

He has written and directed several revue sketches for YouTube, some starring Timothy West and Prunella Scales.

Sarah Elizabeth Foster

Creative Commons allows people to remix Foster's songs and sync them to YouTube videos without asking permission.

Say When!!

A portion of this footage was used on both NBC's Most Outrageous Game Show Moments and VH1's Game Show Moments Gone Bananas; the full version is available for viewing on YouTube.

Scott Stanford

Stanford also makes appearances in Zack Ryder's weekly Z! True Long Island Story YouTube series.

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.

Strange Company

The most recent Strange Company release is a short film adaptation of a Lord Byron poem entitled, "When We Two Parted.", which was featured on the front page of YouTube UK upon its release.

Tamagotchi

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

The Luke Walton Band

Luke Walton rose to internet fame by asking country artist Taylor Swift out on a date via YouTube.

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.

Wendy Sulca

In April 2010 Sulca released the song "En tus Tierras Bailaré" (In your land I shall dance) with the "YouTube stars" Delfin Quishpe and La Tigresa del Oriente.

You Need Me, I Don't Need You

Rizzle Kicks uploaded their remix of the song to YouTube on 14 August 2011.

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.