History Of A Music Video - Miss Georgiou

History Of A Music Video

MTV is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by the MTV Networks Music & Logo Group. It was first launched on August 1, 1981; 32 years ago, and as of August 2013,  97,654,000 American homes (85.51% of households with television) receive MTV and was the first music channel on TV. MTV's first video that was aired was video killed the radio star - The Buggles.

Youtube is a video sharing website created by three former PayPal employees in 2005 and owned by Google in 2006. The website contains  user-generated and corporate media video content, including video clips, TV clips, and music videos, and amateur content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. The most viewed video on the site is Gangnam Style - Psy which has 2,022,376,481.

An average music video costs around  $1,000 to $100,000 to make and the list of the production crew and how much on average they would get paid to be a part of creating the music video. Music videos cost a large amount of money to produce as the production company has to pay a

Music has evolved greatly over the past years and developed a list of popular music genres which are seen in the music videos featured on the website. These genres include: African, Asian, Avant-Garde, Blues, Caribbean, Comedy, Country, Easy Listening, Electronic, Folk, Hip Hop, Jazz, Pop, Rhythm and Blues, Rock, Ska, Other, Exclusions, R&B, Reggae. These genres have developed over the years and YouTube has helped this development as it provides a place for aspiring musicians and artists to create new music and genres.

Youtube's target audience are on average white males aged 45-54 with children. This is not typically the age group that most people would typically think of when they think of youtube's target audience. But recently they have been aiming at the older generation by having more educational and more appealing videos to that age group.

Doing this research will benefit me in creating my own music video as i have now gained background information on them. This will help me as i now have a better understanding of what i should include in my video as i now know how much it would cost to create one and have better knowledge on music channels which would distribute my video once it is created.