by Jessica Klein
There are many reasons why the video tutorial is the most effective way to learn how to DIY. You get the steps broken down for you and laid out before you, so you can actually see the right way to connect part A to part B (often better than even a clear-cut Ikea diagram can manage).
Thus, it’s no surprise that YouTube has become a major hub for “how-to” videos, with related searches on the video platform increasing 70 percent year over year, according to a report from Google called “I Want-to-Do Moments: From Home to Beauty.”
Millennials, who tend to be particularly familiar with YouTube’s content offerings, are largely in agreement with the platform’s usefulness for DIY. Sixty-seven percent of them say they can find a video on the platform for “anything” that they want to learn.
Of course, “anything” is a pretty broad category, and a lot of things people want to learn how to do come up while they’re out of the house. That’s where mobile comes in. While completing a given task, 91 percent of those surveyed said they look to their smartphones for input on how to get it done.
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