YouTube Original Channel Initiative

A YouTube Original Channel (german YouTube Channel Original ) was a YouTube channel, which was financially supported by YouTube. The end of 2013 the program was apparently set. Although the company Youtube has published no official announcement of this kind, but all indications were removed on the program from the Youtube web pages.

The support of the original channels was able to be paid directly to the owner of the channel or the production company. This supported and partially over the end of the program also continues existing channels usually processed certain topics, such as comedy, health or sports. This made YouTube the switching of advertising before the video, as viewers were more easily assigned to a region of interest. With this project, YouTube wanted to exploit gaps in the market of television entertainment by its own account. Beginning of 2013, capital expenditures by Google $ 100 million.

On October 22, 2012 started with Ponk the first original channel in Germany. At times, there were 13 German original channels (as of September 3, 2013 ).

Original channels in Germany

  • Boneless
  • ENTR berlin
  • Happy & Fit
  • High5
  • HuHa
  • Motorvision
  • Uncle Berni's World
  • Ponk
  • Shortcuts
  • The Survival Guide
  • True stories, True Crime
  • What's for ( b ) eats
  • Zqnce
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