Back in January 2000, a video was posted together with a blog entry by a man named Adam Kontras. The blog was aimed at informing his family and friends of his relocation to Los Angeles in pursuit of finding show business. The marking of this first post is what later on became the longest-running video blog in history. In November of that same year, a video was posted by Adrian Miles. This video consisted of changing text on a still image, inventing the term ‘vog’ to refer to his video blog.
Then in 2004, a video blog was unveiled by Steve Garfield who declared that year as “the year of the video blog”. Miles and Garfield soon joined forces with their online associates Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen, Peter Van Dijck, Jay Dedman, and Christophe Bouten and created a group on Yahoo! Groups devoted solely to video blogging.
2005 saw a large increase in the popularity of video blogging. The same year also saw the membership level of the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group substantially increase in numbers. Founded in February 2005, YouTube is still the most popular video sharing site to date.
As a way to interact more with listeners and viewers, radio stations and television stations are now using video blogging as a means to do this.
Timeline of History for video blogging
• January 2 2000 – Adam Kontras posts the longest-running video blog in history.
• November 27 2000 – Adrian Miles posts a video of changing text on a still image.
• January 1 2004 – Steve Garfield unveils his videoblog and declaration that 2004 would be the year of the video blog.
• June 1 2004 – Peter Van Dijck and Jay Dedman launch the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group.
• January 2005 – the first videoblogger conference, Vloggercon, is held in New York City.
• July 20 2005 – The Yahoo! Videoblogging Group sees its membership level grow to over 1,000 members.
• March 17 2006 – A short video program produced Monday through Friday for one year (March 17, 2006 – March 17, 2007) was launched.
• July 2006 – YouTube becomes the 5th most popular web destination.
• November 2006 — The first annual videoblogging awards, The Vloggies, is held in San Francisco.
• November 2010 – VLOGGERthemovie.net is announced which is a movie made by combining vlogs from real people and virtual avatars.