YouTube UK Gatherings

London and Aberystwyth in September and now Glasgow in November… Gatherings seem to be in vogue across the UK, which is something that gives us here at YouTube the sort of warm, tingling feeling we usually reserve for Pets & Animals videos. This isn’t just because they represent our big chance to buy affection with YouTube freebies – oh no! – it’s also because Gatherings provide concrete proof that the YouTube community is alive and well.

The events in Wales and England offered a golden opportunity for YouTube users to meet likeminded people and, initially at least, talk about a shared interest. Trying to keep track of all the great ideas being bounced around about how to use the site or develop it in future was quite a task, but what was striking was learning the impact that YouTube has had on people’s lives – a theme echoed by this Domeyre79 video:







YouTube is lucky to have attracted such a creative, communicative and proactive group of people – not least in the individuals who organised the Gatherings – and this community is something that sets the YouTube experience apart from any other. So if you can, get yourself along to one of these meet-ups. At the very least you stand a chance of bagging a free T-shirt for your troubles.


Have fun,

Jamie D. aka Clipsniffer

YouTube UK & Ireland