Crew members work on a costume at the Maker Studios in Culver City, Calif., on Dec. 16, 2011. The $100 million investment by YouTube in 96 new channels starting in October has sparked a flurry of activity in Hollywood's independent producer community. (Associated Press)
A screen capture of a video of Newt Gingrich and Hillary Rodham Clinton attending a 2005 policy forum is seen here. The video was uploaded to YouTube by Andrew Kaczynski.
** FILE ** This image made on Jan. 12, 2012, from an undated video posted on the Internet by a YouTube user self-identified as "semperfiLoneVoice" shows men in U.S. Marine combat gear, standing in a semicircle over three bodies. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta branded as "utterly despicable" the video purporting to show four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. (Associated Press)
Siblings Gustavo (left), Angie and Abelardo Vazquez of the Vazquez Sounds posted a cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" on YouTube drawing more than 20 million views. (Associated Press)
In this image made from video, a police officer uses pepper spray as he walks down a line of Occupy demonstrators sitting on the ground at the University of California, Davis on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. The video - posted on YouTube - was shot Friday as police moved in on more than a dozen tents erected on campus and arrested 10 people, nine of them students. (AP Photo/Thomas K. Fowler)
In this image made from video, a police officer uses pepper spray as he walks down a line of Occupy demonstrators sitting on the ground at the University of California, Davis on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. The video - posted on YouTube - was shot Friday as police moved in on more than a dozen tents erected on campus and arrested 10 people, nine of them students. (AP Photo/Thomas K. Fowler)
The YouTube channel page for Pomplamoose shows video of the Northern California indie duo performing and offers for sale downloads, T-shirts and concert tickets. (YouTube and Associated Press)
Comedian Remy Munasifi sings his "Occupy Wall Street Protest Song" that is a parody set to Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a Changin'." The Arlington resident explained, "I thought the protesters were overlooking the fact that money isn't necessarily wealth." (YouTube)
YOUTUBE Maddie Briann Aldridge, niece of pop legend Britney Spears, was caught singing her aunt's song "Up N' Down" last week. Miss Spears tweeted a YouTube video of the performance Friday.
