vlog
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
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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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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
In another vlog, Ruby’s talking to the camera when one of her younger daughters sits on her lap and starts to talk over her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
Thus common words like tiktokeur, vlog, smartphone and émoji – which are all in the latest commercial dictionaries – do not exist in the Académie book.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024
From there, Ashlee went on to vlog her journey on the prescribed drug in a series of TikTok videos, offering a raw insight into the mental and physical side effects of the medicine.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024
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
He vlogged his life every single day for a long time, fame, money got to his head.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2018
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
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
Shari, who has been campaigning against family vlogging, says she will never talk to her mom again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
He’s still vlogging from Chokecherry, but I wouldn’t watch that if you paid me.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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