Video Blog

Video Blog (also known on YouTube as a vlog) is a type of video in which a person records themselves doing certain events, going to a special place, or just everyday-life.

History


Before YouTube came along in 2005, vlogs were not very common, due to lack of home video. A man named Nelson Sullivan from South Carolina living in New York in the 1980s regularly recorded vlog-type videos on his VHS camera. His last video was on July 3, 1989, the day before he died of a sudden heart attack. A YouTube channel called 5ninthavenueproject uploaded all of his videos from the 1980s, and is often known as the "original vlogger".

YouTube saw a surge in modern-day vlogging around 2007.

Today
Today, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, Charles Trippy of Internet Killed TV, holds the record for most consecutive days of vlogs, which lasted 11 years (Link). Casey Neistat, Roman Atwood, Logan Paul, and PewDiePie are among the most popular vloggers on YouTube as of 2018.