Building a YouTube Channel for Science Communication

Sharing results of research projects with the public and transferring solutions into practice is part of research projects. Typical ways are scientific publications, presentations at industry events, or project websites. However, in the last one and a half years, we have created videos and shared video material on our YouTube channel as a new way of disseminating results in our project setting. We have observed that many research projects do not follow this path, do this only with a very limited number of videos, or provide rather poor quality of the videos. In this article, we want to share our experience and our first steps, together with open issues for new and more videos we are planning to produce. We would also like to encourage discussions in the research community on whether this is a worthwhile direction to pursue further in the future.