Do you enjoy watching videos on YouTube? Even if you have never visited YouTube before, we urge you to do so, as you will likely find it fun, exciting, and very entertaining. YouTube is a video sharing website which allows internet users, just like you, to upload and share videos that they have made and socialize with each other. Perhaps, the greatest thing about YouTube is that it is free. Plus currently, it ranks as the number 2 most popular website out of the 20 million that Alexa keeps track of-behind only Google themselves. Oh, did we also mention that YouTube is owned by Google, which may have something to do with their success?

While at YouTube watching some of the greatest video clips on earth, and some of the most retarded, you will find that you can browse around for free. However, there are a few benefits to having an account at YouTube–besides it being free–such as the following.

Besides being an easy process to do, signing up for a free YouTube membership account can be done in just a few minutes. You’ll only be asked the simple questions like, name, age, gender, how much you weigh–just kidding about that last one, lol–, and your location along with your desired username and password. Some of this information is to feed you video suggestions and sponsored ads based on your criteria. Additionally, if you end up uploading your own videos for free after you sign up, YouTube will show you detailed statistics for what type of people watched your video. Neat huh?

Right after signing up for the free YouTube account for yourself, you can immediately begin to enjoy the many other benefits of having a YouTube membership. One of those benefits is the ability to rate videos that you watch, as well as leave comments. As it was previously mentioned, you can watch videos on YouTube without having a YouTube account, but you cannot rate videos or leave comments for the video owner. This is ideal if a video is of interest or offensive to you. Rating YouTube videos also gives other YouTube members an idea as to which videos are high in demand, and in turn, can lead to more of your favorite videos being found on the YouTube site. That is just one of the many reasons why you should not only sign up for a free YouTube account, but also rate YouTube videos that you watch or leave comments.

Another great feature along with commenting and rating other videos on YouYube, is that you will have the ability to also share your own with others. Non-registered YouTube users are unable to upload and share any videos that they would like to. If you have never shared videos online, you may want to think about doing so, if you have the desire to be famous for a moment to the rest of the world. Many of the videos currently found on YouTube are comedy related shorts, video blogs aka vlogs, and prank videos. All you really need to have is a video recording device, such as a cell phone, webcam, or camcorder, and a movie editing software program if you with to fancy it up, which now comes standard on most computers, and you will be online showing off your skills in no time.

If you are looking for ways to promote yourself, your music, your business or orginization, then you better believe that YouTube is a marketing tool that you need in your toolbox. YouTube has perhaps more people visit the site in just a few days, than we have in America voting for our Presidents. Crazy, but true! So why not get your message out in front of this large audience? Simply point a video camera at yourself, press record, and don’t forget to take the lens cap off to begin capturing your commercial in a video. A little tip though, don’t be uptight and boring. YouTube members are there to be entertained, so be entertaining and have a little fun.

Perhaps the most rewarding benefit to owning a YouTube account, is the money you could be making. What? Did I just say you can make money at this free service? Yep, I certainly did. You have to have a few other ingredients to make this work though. First you should own or have access to a website that you have rights to so that you can put videos on the site. And secondly, you need an AdSense account. I won’t explain what an AdSense account is in this article, but click on the link in the previous sentence to learn more. You can monetize your website by not only have basic AdSense ads on your site, but with YouTube and AdSense, you can also provide fancy video ads of your own or ones that other people have dedicated to the ads. You can access the YouTube ads through your AdSense account.

So there you have it. Creating a membership account with YouTube is free and it should only take a few minutes of your valuable time. If you enjoy using the Internet as a source of entertainment or marketing, you will not only want to visit YouTube, but you will also want to take the few minutes needed to register for a free account. In the end, you will likely be pleased with your decision to do so as millions of other people have been.

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