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Creating Specialty Accounts
Are you a musician, celebrity, celebrity-wannabe, or a reasonable facsimile
thereof? If so, YouTube likes people like you. In fact, they let you create spe-
cial accounts. Yes, Virgina, the special accounts are still free, and your videos
appear in the appropriate channel. For example, if you sign up for a Comedians
account, all of your videos are found in the Comedians channel, which makes
it easy for people who need a good laugh to find your material. Talk about
having your cake and eating it too. Specialty accounts come in four flavors:
 Comedians: The hot spot to be if you’re a performing comedian or an
aspiring comedian. It’s also the place to visit if you want a good laugh.
These guys and gals will leave you in stitches. It’s their job. Figure 1-9
shows the first page of people who have Comedians accounts.
 Directors: The hotspot if you’re a videographer, aspiring actor, or a
director wannabe.
 Gurus: The hotspot if you’re a brainiac, and you want to pass your
knowledge on to other Tubers. This is also an excellent place if you’re
an instructor of some sort and want to drive traffic to your Web site.
Figure 1-8:
Give yourself
credit when
you create
videos for
the Tube.
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