Celebrating YouTube’s community by gathering their stories 📹 Sara Pollack of YouTube's "Life in a Day"

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GUEST: Sara Pollack

COMMUNITY: YouTube's "Life in a Day"

HOSTS: Bailey Richardson & Kevin Huynh

“The film was made in this amazing period in YouTube’s history where we were focused on how we could demonstrate the ways in which technology can be both innovative and net positive—how it was driving new ways of storytelling and building community.” —Sara Pollack

Show Notes

On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to create Life in a Day, a cinematic experiment to document a single day on earth.

All in all, 80,000 submissions containing over 4,500 hours of footage from 192 nations were edited into one 90-minute film of raw, first-person scenes from real people around the globe, echoing the experience of YouTube itself.

Since the film’s debut on the site in 2011, more than 15 million people have watched Life in a Day.

How did YouTube come up with the idea for the film? Why did they invest in such an ambitious undertaking? How did they get the word out to YouTubers and to the world?

We called Sara Pollack, YouTube’s first film community manager, to find out.

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