This series is hosted on the Vonage Dev YouTube channel and aims to share knowledge in bite-sized chunks. The goal of this video series is to demonstrate how to send SMS messages using Node.js with the Vonage Messages API. To get started, one needs to create a Vonage account, install Node.js and the Vonage CLI beta, set up the Messages API on their dashboard, generate a public and private key, and install the necessary dependencies. Once these steps are complete, one can use the Vonage server SDK to send an SMS message by specifying the recipient's phone number, the sender's phone number, and the content of the message.