Help please!! Can i use youtube or non-text contents for blogposts?

If you mean can you turn your blog posts and podcasts into YouTube videos, then the answer is yes, absolutely. It's a great idea to do so, as long as you make decent videos. Most YouTube "video articles" that I come across are actually pretty boring. I'll be honest. I don't stick around when all the video article consists of some slides with text and music in the background.

If you are going to turn your blog articles into videos, you should read the article yourself and also augment them with images and very low background music. Make them interesting. I don't think anyone finds some slides with text and music very exciting. As far as podcasts go, most people just want to listen to the podcast, so you can usually just keep the same image all the way through the video, or if you want you can change up the image every few minutes. For the most part, people choose podcasts because they want to listen, so a simple video can work fine for those. People are interested in podcasts for the listening value, not the visual aspect.

On to the second part of your question. I wouldn't just take the captions from a video and post them word for word to your blog. If you want to copy some of the text and read through it to get some ideas for your blog post, then I see no problem with that. When it comes to simply copying the captions, correcting the spelling errors, changing a few words, and then posting it to your blog, that is borderline or actual plagiarism IMHO.

I'm not a lawyer, so I really can't speak to the legalities of it, but it's not something I would do. It's certainly alright if you wanted to grab a few quotes or a few facts and use them in your article, but make sure you cite the original source and give credit to the author.

The whole idea of blogging is so you can put forth your own thoughts and opinions. If you want to curate content for your blog, that's perfectly fine, but just make sure to add your own spin to the material you curate, and always link out to the original article where the material came from.

I don't believe you are violating any YouTube policy, but as I said, I'm not a lawyer so I couldn't tell you if you were infringing on the video owner's copyright or not. If the video is listed as Creative Commons, it may be perfectly fine to use the content any way you wish.

That said, it's not the way that I would go about doing it on my blogs. If I see a video that I believe would add value to my article, I would simply embed the video on my blog and then I would provide my own thoughts and opinions on the video content.

This makes for a much more interesting piece of content as you are sparking a debate with the video author. You might even contact the video owner and ask them to reply to your comments. The idea here is to get your readers involved and invested in the discussion.

If you ever want to use an image, video, podcast, or any other piece of media on your blog that you don't own, try contacting the owner/creator and asking for permission. That's really the best way to go about it.

If you want to be a successful blogger, it's going to take a little more than just re-posting content that you find on YouTube. Create original material and if you curate any content, always add your own spin to the material in your own style.

I read a lot of threads like this where people are always looking for some kind of shortcut. If you cut corners and take shortcuts, the quality of your project is going to suffer. If you cannot provide original and thought provoking content, I would suggest that maybe blogging is not for you, or maybe you could outsource your content creation.

Remember, there are MILLIONS of "cookie cutter" websites and auto blogs out there. Honestly, the last thing the Internet needs is another one. Take the time to thoroughly research your topic, and always give credit whenever you use individual quotes or state facts from other sources. I can't stress this enough. There is a ton of media out there that you can legally use on your blog, but you need to do your due diligence before using anything.

Nice idea I think he is looking for something like voice or speech to text, and wether the text generated by speech recognition or manually is or not plagiarism. I thing it's okay, however, if it was me, I would avoid YouTube because it has an integrated software that recognizes voices in all uploaded videos to convert them automatically to subtitles (You can activate this feature and you see them).

Good luck

I think you should be fine if you don't target hugely popular videos like with over 100k views. If you find small videos in the 50k or less range that fit your subject criteria, I think it would be adding value to manually transcribe it, because transcribing a video takes a lot of effort and you should be rewarded with some seo benefits if you put in that work.

Taking the content of videos (the words) and using them as your own content is something I would have a BIG problem with. How is this NOT plagiarizing. Is it really considered permissible to edit other people's videos to your liking? What am I missing here?

The OP asked:

How is that not plagiarism? Is video content not protected by copyright? Seeing people saying it's OK makes no sense to me. Am I missing something?

That is so true - and an IM reality that is seldom mentioned here these days. More often the talk is about how to rewrite or spin someone else's work.

Youtube says:

If you mean taking someone else's video or podcast, transcribing the text, and using that? Yes, that's plagiarism.

To me, this would be plagiarism.

Why don't you just do research and come up with your own unique blog posts.

Then you can turn these into podcasts and videos and documents, etc.