Abstract
Thanks to the two-way interaction between source and receiver, information can be produced by users in social media, which is rapidly increasing in popularity. YouTube, a social media platform whose content is produced only by its users, emerges as a medium where videos are shared. Individuals present the videos they create through their personal experiences on YouTube to the service of other users. Since the number of users is high on YouTube, where users are also content producers, promotional videos have an important place. Introductory videos on cultural heritage are one of them. In this context, the information included in the content of cultural heritage promotional videos is important for the effectiveness of the promotion. The purpose of this study is to analyze the content of the videos on the YouTube search engine about cultural heritage protected by UNESCO and to determine which features of cultural heritage are brought to the fore. In the study, the names of 18 cultural heritage in Turkey, which are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, were searched in the YouTube search engine as they were listed, and the results were subjected to the limitation of videos shorter than 4 minutes and relevance, and the auditory content analysis of the top 3 videos was made. As a result of the study, it was observed that the similarities of the information given in different videos belonging to the same cultural heritage were low.