14 DAY TRIAL // Since the Google acquisition in October 2006, YouTube was the online video sharing service that managed to attract an important number of users with its homemade content. Today, this type of content is updated again after new reports sustained that viewers are now attracted by the Detroit fires clips posted on the page. It seems like the idea belongs to a local firefighter who decided to attach a small camera on his helmet and record the fight with the fires. According to Detroit Free Press, the results were quite impressive because the clips recorded numerous views.
"After fire fighters arrive at one blaze, you hear someone yell, "You want us on the roof?" Sure enough, ladders rise against the burning home, then you see Glaub's hands and feet scramble onto the icy roof, and he begins swinging an ax, chopping a hole through the shingles. At another fire, the viewer is taken right through a door into the smoky chaos of a burning house interior," the publication tried to describe one video.
Before starting criticizing me for not publishing the clips, you should know the videos were removed by the fireman after the media publications started to talk about them and attract the spotlights on the Detroit Fire Department.
In the past, YouTube proved the user-generated clips are the most attractive for all the visitors as there were a lot of views recorded for this kind of content. As you surely know, the company recently hosted 2007 YouTube User Awards, an event especially created to honor the most viewed clips uploaded by its members. The homemade videos were also praised by the Google officials just after the Viacom removal was confirmed, the search giant sustained it was the one that helped Google survive after the hit.