History of Music Videos

History of Music Videos

Ways in Which Videos Can Be Consumed
Internet (YouTube, Google Video) MP4 Players
TV (MTV Base, TMF, Kiss)


MP3 Players (IPod) Mobile Phones


Game Consoles (PS3, Xbox 360)


The way in which customers can watch and listen to music videos has increased over the last 30 years. The way in which this is can be proved is because when music videos where first viewed, they were only accessible on a few TV channels. Some of the channels that played music were BBC1, with the show Tops of The Pops.
This is the logo of the show “Top of the Pops” were different artist came on and performed, and music videos were shown. Also the top 20 songs of that week were listed.

However now music videos can be viewed from various places such as internet, to MP3 Players. The main way to show music videos are on the internet and also television. Using internet to watch different music videos means you can specifically type in which music video you would want to see.
This picture shows the new technology that we have now to watch music videos on the internet. You just type in what you want to watch and it gives you a suggestion list and you can watch it.

Nowadays there are dedicated TV channels in which you can watch a centre type of music genre, such as MTV Base is dedicated to RnB and Channel AKA is dedicated to Grime. This has now made accessing music videos and watching them easier, and now people can be very specific in what they watch.



This picture shows the logo of MTV which is dedicated to playing RnB music videos.



This picture shows the logo of Clubland TV which is dedicated to playing garage music videos.

Music videos can be viewed on game consoles, through the internet watching them on sites such as Google Video and You Tube where the consumers types in and searches for their specific video and gets to choose from various different options ranging in quality and remixes.

Music videos accessible on mobile phones have meant that consumers get to watch and listen to their favourite music videos on the go, whilst travelling from place to place. MP3s and MP4s have a similar effect where consumers get to download songs and then listen to them on the go.
This picture shows a music video of “Beyonce” on the Apple Iphone.