While internet access and storage is getting cheaper and easier all the time, it is still prohibitively difficult and costly to host video, to the point that very little of the media that could be available online is. This is particularly true in disadvantaged and/or non-English-speaking communities, and the Global South. In addition, what work there is online is not cross-referencable.

There is a need and opportunity for a common effort to provide resources and tools that are otherwise out-of-reach for the many organizations that serve young media-makers worldwide.

The following factors keep most youth-made media off the web, most dramatically in developing countries and other disadvantaged communities:

#Cost - video is the most bandwidth intensive medium, requiring more disk space for storage, and more bandwidth for viewing, than anything else.
#Image Quality - because of cost, those who do make their pieces available often can only afford to do so with low-resolution versions.
#Search - there is no one system through which all such media is submitted, meaning that one cannot search across the entire collection
#Standard interface - of the several services that do provide hosting, all have different metadata standards, forms for submission, etc.
#Rating and Curating - the Internet in general lacks the means to highlight quality media and separate it from the pack. Tools are needed to make it easy for users to contribute their opinions, and for respected curators to provide the value of their opinions.
#Language barriers - most options for hosting are English only.