Mobile phones with integrated video cameras have become ubiquitous tools that people use both to document everyday surroundings and to express themselves artistically. In this paper we report the findings of a user study on user created mobile videos, where the actions of 11 active mobile video users were documented for 2 weeks, the collected material including diaries, device logs, and altogether 255 videos. We describe the patterns related to the creation, sharing and consuming mobile videos, revealing characteristics of both context and content of the video material. Categories and Subject Descriptors