The following paper discusses the history of YouTube, the impact of YouTube ontoday's public speaking audience, and the use of YouTube to enhance public speaking curriculum. Within the investigation 77 undergraduate students taking the introductoryspeech course at Daytona Beach College (DeLand, Florida campus) were surveyed about the use of YouTube technology in the classroom.


YouTube, the latest gift/threat, is just a free video-sharing Website that has rapidly turn into a wildly popular way to upload, share, view and comment onvideo clips. With increased than 100 million viewings a day and a lot more than 65,000 videos uploaded daily, the views kopen Web portal provides teachers with a growing amount if visual information tell a classroom filled with young multimedia enthusiasts. (Dyck, 2007) Based in San Mateo, YouTube is a small privately-funded company. The organization was founded by Chad Hurley and Steven Chen. The company raised over $11 million of funding from Sequoia

Capital, the firm who also provided initial venture capital for Google, The founders initially had a contest inviting the posting of videos. The contest got the attention of the masses and Google, Inc. In October 2006, Google acquired the company for 1.65 billion in Google stock.

Since spring of 2006, YouTube has come to put up the leading position in online video with 29% of the U.S. multimedia entertainment market.YouTube videos account for 60% of videos watched online...Your website specializes simply speaking, typically two minute, homemade, comic videos produced by users. YouTube serves as a fast entertainment break or viewers with broadband computer connections at work or home. (Reuters, 2006)