YouTube School

The regular Sunday session dedicated to watching and talking about online video expands to a weekday evening which will revisit any and all of the themes covered so far: channels, advertising, contagion, music, news and celebrity. A recap of what was discussed at past sessions will be combined with clips screened for the first time.

Newcomers will also be welcome to introduce a video of their choosing, or will be free to make an appropriate request on the spot — as long as they have something interesting enough to say about it.

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Metaviews presents a regular series dedicated to watching, thinking about and contributing to the largest of online video platforms.

Sessions will consist of discussion and screenings of some of the popular viral clips of the moment, some personal favourites of past and future — and discovering buried treasures along the way.

YouTube School will also provide insights into how viewership is accrued, with input from producers who have leveraged its reach, along with inspiration for anyone to do the same. Consider the flavours of social media sharing between the walls of the Academy of the Impossible.

Fame will be the focus of the next YouTube School, as we look at how established celebrities have tried to adapt their image for the online audience, how fandom is expressed through online video and the new culture of stars established through the platform itself.

Curated clips from the past will also be screened and discussed, as usual, along with any other points of inspiration about how celebrity status is currently cultivated.

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Join our Google+ group to participate in the making of each session:
https://plus.google.com/113810566919113105097

Metaviews presents a regular series dedicated to watching, thinking about and contributing to the largest of online video platforms.

Sessions will consist of discussion and screenings of some of the popular viral clips of the moment, some personal favourites of past and future — and discovering buried treasures along the way.

YouTube School will also provide insights into how viewership is accrued, with input from producers who have leveraged its reach, along with inspiration for anyone to do the same. Consider the flavours of social media sharing between the walls of the Academy of the Impossible.

Music videos have been a cornerstone of YouTube from the start — even if it was initially left to VHS archivists to upload their personal collections without permission — and now about 40 per cent of all views on the site are song-driven.

The next edition of YouTube School will romp through a range of music clips, from vintage MTV to webcam karaoke, from Bollywood to K-Pop, and a look at the sort of acts which have been established or revived through popularity through viral viewership. Naturally, we'll play a few requests, too.

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Join our Google+ group to participate in the making of each session:
https://plus.google.com/113810566919113105097

Metaviews presents a regular series dedicated to watching, thinking about and contributing to the largest of online video platforms.

Sessions will consist of discussion and screenings of some of the popular viral clips of the moment, some personal favourites of past and future — and discovering buried treasures along the way.

YouTube School will also provide insights into how viewership is accrued, with input from producers who have leveraged its reach, along with inspiration for anyone to do the same. Consider the flavours of social media sharing between the walls of the Academy of the Impossible.

Join us on the one day each year when television commercials are considered more important than the programming. YouTube School's own Super Bowl pre-pre-game show will look at how advertising plays a role in online video through the use of viral marketing clips, assorted forms of user monetization and curators dedicated to preserving bits of broadcast history — 30 seconds at a time.

Facebook page for this event

Sessions will consist of discussion and screenings of some of the popular viral clips of the moment, some personal favourites of past and future — and discovering buried treasures along the way.