I watch all of my television on TV, so I end up using a lot of Hulu and YouTube. However, like many of my classmates, I find that I use them for different things as they are very different websites.
I usually watch most of my shows on their network websites, as long as they work well for me. I decided to watch an episode of Glee on Hulu. I actually always watch Glee on Hulu rather than Fox, basically because I've found the viewer to be user friendly and work better than that on Fox's website. I watched my episode, and it was done. After that I thought I'd watch a little bit more, so I found a random clip from SNL. This lead me to watch a few more that were listed down at the bottom. Still, all that was suggested to me were more SNL clips.
On YouTube I watched a clip that somebody linked of me of some cool Halloween lights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUAV_1jBJB4- check it out. The suggestions lead me further and further away from the original video. I was able to check out a few other videos added by the user, which included lights with different songs. This eventually led me to watching a bunch of different videos with the song "This is Halloween" played over different movies and all sorts of stuff. (Halloween is my favorite holiday, apparently I'm not ready for it to be over yet). Still, by continuing to click through, I was eventually connected to videos of SpongeBob Squarepants, to random joke videos, to the Lion King. I'm not even certain how some of these things get suggested, but the way YouTube is set up I could end up spending hours discovering new videos.
I think this is possible with YouTube because of the diversity of content. As many others have pointed out, anybody can upload videos to YouTube, whether they are professional or amateur. With this any person can have a hit video or become a famous YouTube star. Professional content tends to not show up on YouTube as often as Hulu. This is due to the fact that Hulu has agreements with all of the owners....some seem to on YouTube, yet there are countless times where I will try to access a link somebody sends me on YouTube, only to find that it has been removed due to copyright infringement. That can be another problem with YouTube- where individuals can claim ownership of certain videos even when they do not have it. Overall, I'd say Hulu is where I go when I want to watch a show, and I often go to YouTube for entertainment, watching music videos, finding long lost content such as shows I watched when I was younger or that I know will not be uploaded by the actual owner, or sometimes even to find certain shows that I know Hulu does not have.
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