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Although many people feel that YouTube is primarily a pastime for internet users looking for a quick laugh, YouTube can be a useful platform for those that use it properly. It is hard to ignore that the popularity of the video-sharing community is due to the 2-3 minute entertaining videos such as the one with the cat playing the piano or the one with the funny dancing guy. For that reason alone, it is not unexpected for someone to doubt that YouTube is being used to make lives easier for many people around the world. Many viewers jump on YouTube to listen to music. A lot of people, as stated earlier, simply like to watch comedic videos and share it with their friends. Yes, millions of people love YouTube for the entertainment provided, but for the open-minded, this website can be used for advantageous purposes as well.

The average 16-year-old girl may not be able to afford bespoke shoes, but that doesn’t mean that teenagers can’t help promote a site that makes them. Earlier this month, etailer Shoes of Prey reached out to a young teenage vlogger from Tennessee to try out their product and enter her viewers into a contest to win a pair of shoes.

The site had 700,000 visits. 500,000 of those came in the week after Fowler posted her video. Previously, coverage by TechCrunch and Springwise brought the site its record of 17,092 views in a week. But Fowler’s YouTube video brought in 197,104 views in the same time period. Read the rest of this entry »