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Muppets YouTube Channel — The Muppets YouTube channel.

YouTube is a video sharing website which allows users to upload and share videos. Created in February 2005, YouTube is now owned and operated as a subsidiary of Google. The site hosts a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media companies including The Jim Henson Company, Sesame Workshop and The Muppets Studio have uploaded materials to the website.

Appearances

Youtube Rewind's Video of 2013 features cameos from various Sesame Street Muppets. Cookie Monster appears following a "Harlem Shake" scene, devouring the YouTube Rewind logo. Grover and a camel appear during a short scene with Macklemore, filmed during his time on the Sesame Street set. The Two-Headed Monster also appear during the credits, referred to as "Horn and Hardart."

The Muppets

Virals — A promotional slide of the then upcoming YouTube videos, shown at the D23 Expo in 2009

See Muppet viral videos

The Muppets Studio started posting a series of original web videos online in 2008 (many exclusive to the site). The first sets of videos were posted on YouTube accounts created for individual characters, including Sam the Eagle, Gonzo, Beaker, the Swedish Chef, Statler and Waldorf, Fozzie Bear, Rizzo the Rat and Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. In 2009, the videos were posted under a central Muppets Studio account on YouTube. Additional promotional videos have been posted to the channel as well.

On November 10, 2011, The Muppets Studio channel was hacked. Their account picture and profile name were both changed for several hours, although the videos remained intact.

YouTube channels

Sesame Street

Youtube-elmo-20100924 — Elmo appeared in the logo on September 24, 2010

Sesame Workshop maintains their own YouTube channel featuring various clips from Sesame Street. In July 2008, Sesame Workshop launched their own YouTube channel under the user name SesameStreet (which was registered in 2006).^[1] As of 2010, the channel features over 700 officially released videos clips, with new clips being added regularly. Many of the clips feature segments or excerpts from Sesame Street episodes, home videos and other related productions. Several exclusive YouTube videos have been released, it has been the home of the Put Down the Pacifier initiative, along with exclusive interactive "Ask Elmo" sessions.

On September 24, 2010, an image of Elmo graced the official YouTube logo site-wide.

On October 16, 2011, the channel was hacked, with all its videos replaced with pornography. Due to the incident, the channel (and its videos) were unavailable for several hours.

In February 2013, the channel started a campaign to become the first non-profit organization and the first US children's company to receive one-billion total video views on YouTube. The goal was reached on March 6, 2013; to celebrate, the channel released the music video "Counting the "You"s in YouTube" staring the Count.

In June 2013, a new paid subscription channel debuted, featuring select episodes from Sesame Street (seasons 35 to 38), The Electric Company (2009 revival) and Plaza Sésamo.

YouTube channel

Sesame Street (SesameStreet)

Sesame Workshop

YouTube Sesame Street Classics — The Sesame Workshop channel's "Sesame Street Classics"

In June 2012, select episodes of Sesame Street (from season 40 to 42) were made available to purchase, as well as classic episodes.

Episodes

YouTube channel

Telly is apprehensive of the site; learning that he's going to be on the site via 5Facts, he blurts out "you know the kind of stuff they have on YouTube? Ahhhhhhhh!"

International

Sesame Workshop also hosts a channel for international versions of the show. Plaza Sésamo's (while the account has been registered since September 2006) officially uploaded videos in July 2011. A channel for Sesamstrasse debuted in January 2013.

YouTube channel

YouTube ads

In September 2012, Sesame Street released a series of YouTube ads that would play before various third-party sponsored videos on the site. The videos promoted the Sesame Street YouTube channel and featured Bert, Grover and Cookie Monster.

Sesame Street Bert on YouTube

Sesame Street Grover on YouTube

Sesame Street Cookie Monster on YouTube

The Jim Henson Company

Youtube-timepiece-featured-aug2-2011 — *Time Piece* featured on the YouTube home page in the Spotlight section on August 2, 2011.

The Jim Henson Company also has a channel that showcases special videos and clips from their various productions. Exclusive full-episode previews of The Simian Undercover Detective Squad and Alt/Reality were first posted to the company's YouTube channel. Video episodes of the Henson.com podcast have also been released on the channel.

The company is part of The Nerdist Channel, one of the upcoming channels on YouTube Original Channels.

YouTube channels

Jim Henson Family TV

Jim Henson Family TV is a paid channel from The Jim Henson Company. The channel features ad-free full episodes of Henson Company shows, including Sid the Science Kid, Fraggle Rock, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Construction Site, Mother Goose Stories, Animal Show, The Hoobs, The Skrumps, Pajanimals, Mopatop's Shop, The Secret Life of Toys, and The Henson.com Podcast. The channel launched on May 9, 2013. Launching on the same day, Jim Henson TV para la familia en espanol provides similar content in Spanish.

YouTube channels

File:Jim Henson Family TV Trailer

References

The viral video "Beaker's Ballad", lampoons the site's video annotations.
In the viral video "American Woman", Sam the Eagle prepares a pie chart to show the current content of YouTube: videos of ninjas, sleeping puppies and pirated music videos.
In an insert for Season 41 of Sesame Street, Elmo appears in a video in "U Tube" doing "The Elmo Slide."
In Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet, an allusion is made to "YouTood", a spoof of YouTube.
A 2012 episode of Sesame Street features a spoof of the website, "Me Tube."

Sources

↑ Hulu, YouTube, iTunes take a walk on Sesame Street

Notes

Muppet Wiki does not maintain articles about fan videos posted to YouTube.

External links

Muppet Wiki on YouTube

[1] Hulu, YouTube, iTunes take a walk on Sesame Street

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