<p>I've successfully created a YouTube channel with an audience of 11 thousand subscribers. I have also gotten this channel partnered by YouTube, which enables ad revenue. I've done this over the course of last summer with no budget. </p>
<p>YouTube is an incredibly hostile business environment, and my channel is more successful than those of many large corporations. (Yahoo, MTV, FOX) </p>
<p>I've achieved success not through virality (I didn't get lucky), but through demographic study, networking, and cross promotion. </p>
<p>I post footage of video-games, with spoken commentary over the gameplay. This I feel might be a turn-off. My commentaries usually discuss philosophical issues and topics. </p>
<p>Hey, an EC is an EC. If you can demonstrate that you are passionate and involved in it, then colleges will be receptive to it. Seems like you dedicate a lot of time to it. Put it down on your app!</p>
<p>No doubt I am going to put this is my app, I’m just wondering if colleges will see this as something significant or as just another EC. I know the prestigious schools see things far more impressive than this, but to the state colleges will this do anything to set me apart from the other applicants?</p>
<p>I’m definitely not “passionate” about Youtube, I’m passionate about buisiness, viral marketing, and social media. This was a buisiness venture that has allowed me to get out of having to work at Micky D’s like so many of my other friends :p. </p>
<p>I feel like this is an EC that allows for extraction of more specific skill-sets and interests. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?</p>
<p>University of Utah collect a number of students who are passionate about their business development. It is the #1 Entrepreneurial school for this reason and does a lot to encourage and support this…I suspect this school will truly receive your EC as being something special…</p>
<p>Utah has an Honors College where you are partnered with a number of other ambitious students into think tanks, research and even have an opportunity to have your thesis published…this may be a good environment for you.</p>
<p>there is much to look at in making a decision but first I suggest you look for a school the fits…good luck!</p>
<p>“I post footage of video-games, with spoken commentary over the gameplay. This I feel might be a turn-off.”</p>
<p>No, it’s not a turnoff because the focus of your essay isn’t on the video-games - it’s about the entrepreneurship, viral marketing and social media, and why those things are important/interesting to you. Sounds like an interesting and unusual EC.</p>