Jan

28

Political Vlogs Go European

Filed Under Video Sharing Sites


Political vlogs (a la YouTube’s “You Choose”) are going European. The You Choose ‘08 platform from YouTube will take on different accents and different languages when it moves its concept across the pond to the U.K. and Spain.

(See the video above for a message from U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown.)

The major political parties will get an official YouTube channel where they can put out videos and where everyday YouTubians can “interact” with the politicos.

“Interact” comes with quotation marks because, well, LOL and “you suck,” while technically interjections of interaction, don’t really advance the conversation much. But then again, long-winded, self-righteous drivel doesn’t much either. C’est la vie.

Political vlogs and the introduction of user-generated video questions via YouTube for the coming U.S. presidential election were some of the more major movements in the video blogging world last year. No doubt this year will see a major explosion in the form.

LINKS:

The UK Political Channel

The Spanish Political Channel

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