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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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
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
I’d thought maybe, after her help with the vlog interview and her encouraging support, that she’d be here.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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’s not the one who vlogged a dead body in a Japanese forest — that’s his older brother, Logan.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2018
In April, creator Ty Turner tweeted that his channel received a strike after he vlogged about picking up testosterone that was prescribed to him.
From The Verge ● Jun. 4, 2018
And the country's president, who likes to document his day on YouTube, has vlogged their lunch.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2017
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
While Latifi leaves readers to make their own conclusions about the ethics of family vlogging, she takes a hard stance on the seriousness of her subject: “It’s not silly, and it is work.”
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
And, he said in a video explaining the decision to end “TryPod,” that the demands of video podcasting on top of vlogging were making it harder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
I started this in 2020, 2021 — I put out my first song then, and I was still an influencer, vlogging, doing all those things.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
It shows two girls in niqab, vlogging, accompanied by really simple, ugly white doodles and words scratched on top of almost every image.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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