YouTube examines how creators greet their audiences

YouTube looked at the most common ways creators greet their audiences.

"Hey, guys!" YouTube is out with a new report examining "what's up" with the most common greetings popular creators use on the platform. According to the company's analysis of over a million YouTube videos, viewers are most likely to hear vloggers introduce videos with "hey, guys." The phrase was the most-used YouTuber greeting last year, followed by "what's up?" and "good morning." The report looked specifically at videos with more than 20,000 views and channels with at least 20,000 subscribers. Chris Stokel-Walker is a technology journalist and author of the book "YouTubers: How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars." He says the popularity of the phrase "hey, guys" shouldn't come as a shock. "Yeah, it seems pretty obvious. There is that stereotype, that trope that we have of the 'YouTube voice' where you get really excited and you start a video with 'hey, guys! What's up?' and things like that," Stokel-Walker says.