content sharing – create and share

content sharing – create and share

content sharing – create and share
YouTube may be the first content sharing site that comes to mind, but users share images, audio and information as well as video. If it can be created, it can be shared.
There are many sites that facilitate that sharing of videos, images and audio, and they are exceptionally popular. From Flickr to YouTube, they have all tapped into the fact that we love to create content for others to view.

The key word here is free: there are no fees for joining, whether you are uploading content or viewing content (although premium paid for memberships can allow you further features). This means that these sites attract an enormous audience. In fact, according to Alexa rankings, YouTube is the second most visited site in the world! Many of these services also encourage distribution of their content. YouTube allows videos to be embedded easily into other web sites, and Flickr has generated a number of applications and widgets that allows the images to be shown all over the web (and even printed onto cards and stickers via www.moo.com).
Most of these web sites rely on advertising to support the free services they offer and some have a premium paid for membership version which is without adverts.