YouTube Video Supplement to College Application

Tufts University start accepting YouTube videos as a supplement from its applicants this year. About 1,000 out of 15,000 applicants submitted a YouTube video supplement; some of them are very nicely edited, some of them look like they have been edited by me. The New York Times have nicely compiled a bunch of these applicants videos. Check it out yourself here. Make sure you watch Betty Quinn's video application. That's the best one. She probably aced her media studies class.

With the technology that are available today, I'm sure there are a lot of other universities and colleges that would follow Tufts University's footstep. I could also see companies accepting video resume from their applicants since most of job applications are done online. This could potentially gives the organization a better judgement before giving applicants an interview.

What do these mean for YouTube? According to one of YouTube's well known users, Mr Chi City who exposed how YouTube generate their revenues, YouTube are actually losing money from casual YouTube users. Everytime a video is uploaded and not getting enough viewers, all it does is costing money for YouTube; they have to get a bigger servers to store these videos. For more information about this, check it out here.