vlog
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of vlog
First recorded in 2000–05; v(ideo) ( def. ) + (b)log ( def. )
Explanation
A vlog is an online video journal or website. Your friend might be filming you singing karaoke just for fun — or she might be planning to post it on her vlog! Vlog is a distinctly 21st-century word, coined from a combination of video and blog, a shortened version of weblog. These days, some vlogs are found on personal websites, but most are videos posted on a social media platform or YouTube. If you want to start a vlog, you could make short videos of your cooking adventures or interactions with your cat, edit them, and post them online for your followers to see.
Example Sentences
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“The second best time to vlog … is after 48 hours of work and travel with no sleep,” he joked in one late-night video, “I think that’s how the saying goes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
While she had filmed the birth experience, she has yet to publish a vlog, or video blog.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Fisher-Becker also used his final vlog to advocate for fat acceptance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
Molly-Mae she is now starring in a new TV series which explores her life behind the vlog camera.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2025
After Mom leaves for work, I sit my laptop on her bed and look up the doormat vlog again.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
Before TikTok, the twins were known for their YouTube page, where they vlogged about their life at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and proved their makeup skills with transformation videos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
Kircher: “It’s everyday bro” is also Jake Paul’s motto, in that he vlogged every day.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2021
Others vlogged that, in addition to sunburns, some people even passed out.
From The Verge ● Jun. 26, 2018
That same year, Hank and John Green — YouTube grandfathers, at that point, having vlogged since 2007 — organized the first inaugural conference for video creators, called VidCon, at which some 1,400 people showed up.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2015
The singer live vlogged the labour in a series of videos described as "bizarre" on social media.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2014
For the next 13 hours, Barrera waited, vlogging her entire experience as temperatures dipped into the 40s and a brief morning rain washed over the crowd.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
With commercial tourism, social media and vlogging much of today’s world feels overexposed and overexplained, with seemingly every destination photographed, every experience reviewed and all hidden gems channeled into content.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Individual brand deals can go for $25,000, while the most popular family vlogging YouTube channels earn an estimated $200,000 a month.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
These days family vlogging is at the heart of a multibillion-dollar influencer industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
We watch the back episodes of the vlogging Niqabi Ninjas.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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