The YouTube Next Up initiative has helped foster and train fledgling online video talent with promise, but not necessarily the training, means, or production skills to elevate their status from mild-mannered online video amateur to paid entertainment professional. First, the good people at YouTube bestowed a $35,000 check, entry into an exclusive four-day YouTube Creator Boot Camp, and the title of NextUp Winner upon 25 burgeoning new media content creators. Next, YouTube selected 16 trainers and 16 chefs to participate in the YouTube Next Chef and YouTube Next Trainer programs, which included three months of virtual classes held on Google+ Hangouts, as well as an equipment kit worth more than $5,000, filming and editing lessons, more than $10,000 worth of promotion on YouTube, and mentoring from some of YouTube’s finest content creators, including DeStorm, FreddieW, Michelle Phan, Chow.com and Billy Blanks. YouTube Global Creator Initiatives Manager Bing Chen notes “there are still millions of...
- 2/7/2012
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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