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What is Vlogging: why vlog?

If you’re here, you might be curious to know about the word VLOG and what it is all about. Well, now you have it, you are at the right place.

Here we go.

In pronunciation do not mistake the word VLOG for FLOG...Lol

Vlog is a derived term of blog. Vlog Short for “video blogging,” Vlog: "Vlog" is video log for short and mostly refer to as a form of visual content. The term "vlog" originally comes from blog. Blogging is pure text based, you explain everything with text while Vlogging is video blog where you use video to explain everything or mixture of video & text sometimes.  Blogs are usually more popular but with YouTube available, people who are more interested in more action than just reading words, they turn to vlogs. But in my opinion, Some people prefer blogging because when you read their words it's truly from their heart whereas when people are in front of the camera they tend to fake reality and also more self-conscious about how they look and things like that, so their vlogging material may turn out to be 80% acted out. But yet I would conclude that the decision is yours to make based on what you want to achieve.

Visual content offers consumers a simple way of accessing and understanding information, not to mention that it usually allows companies to create a unique voice or personality that can further attract masses and create engagement. In today’s modern era of information technology, having a solid online presence has become critical to reaching out to target audiences, creating engagement, and building a reputation. And yes brands and companies are looking for such individuals to help market their product and get it across, Users tend to share their video experiences with others. As such, your content will likely be visualized by more pairs of eyes if you deliver it in this form via social media-integrated video platforms like YouTube. With content marketing trends changing in 2016, a lot of companies are now re-allocating budgets to other forms of content including videos, which seem to acquire more popularity due to the huge number of consumers using video distribution platforms like YouTube.

YouTube vlogs are no longer simply hobbies or diversions. If you are serious about creating and marketing high-quality video posts for your small business on a regular basis, then you could start making money from the ads Google places on your videos. Building your vlog's reputation and viewership to the level where you are making serious money from Google's revenue sharing will take time. Starting down this path, however, is as simple as creating a Google account for your YouTube vlog, creating an AdSense account to handle your payments and uploading your first vlog post to YouTube.

In fact, there are loads of multi-millionaires, both young and old, who are full-time video bloggers. Yes you heard me multi-millionaires, People get confused to if they can actually make money thru Vlogging. Yes, you can definitely earn money through vlogging. You need to link Google adsense account to your blog or youtube channel for that. Only thing which you should be aware of is that you should not copy content from somewhere else on the internet and add it to your blog or download someone's video and upload it to your channel. All content in your blog or youtube channel should be created by you. Also don't click on ads shown on your blog or youtube channel on your own otherwise your Google adsense account will be disabled forever. We would discuss further on How to Monetize Your Vlog later in this article.

Vlogging; the Summary

To vlog is to record a video just like you are writing content for a website article or page. People like to make videos about interesting topics, their opinions and points of views or just recording their daily life - Vlogging.

Vlogging is all about recording a video that delivers information similar to how you would write an article or blog post. Remember when they say “Put your words in action” BLOG is the word and VLOG is the action.

In a nutshell, you take the task of recording a video and blogging an article and mix the two together in one format called, Vlogging. It is a video that carries your message over to your end user.