Well Tubers, thanks to all of your emails and blogging, we have been able to get in contact with Tom from MySpace. Turns out this was a simple misunderstanding, and MySpace has re-enabled all YouTube embeds. Everything should now be back in working order.We [...]
MySpace Re-Enables YouTube Embeds
Diposting oleh Greatest on Sabtu, 23 Desember 2006
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Out From the Underground
Diposting oleh Greatest on Rabu, 13 Desember 2006
If you haven’t heard yet, the Underground contest was a huge success. We had about 2,200 submissions and four great bands rose up: Greenland, Ostrich Head, Pawnshop Roses and Maldroid. Not only are these bands extremely talented, but they are kind, [...]
The Lines Are Open
Diposting oleh Greatest on Senin, 27 November 2006
Since the very beginning user feedback has been critical to us. Without direct feedback from you, we have no idea what features you like, what you don't or when we've just plain pissed you off (because that never happens right?). We get feedback in a [...]
Let's Share Success Stories
Diposting oleh Greatest on Senin, 13 November 2006
I'd like to keep on destroying the myth that featured videos are paid advertisements by continuing to share success stories with you, to show you that we really are watching and listening to what you're doing and that our feature slots are for the best [...]
Dealing With Haters
Diposting oleh Greatest on Rabu, 08 November 2006
Imagine this: you worked on your video for weeks, months, maybe years. You're incredibly proud of your work, and you want as many people as possible to see it. You post it to YouTube, maybe it gets featured, and the comments start flowing in. And in. [...]
Staff Pick of the Week: theresidents
Diposting oleh Greatest on Selasa, 07 November 2006
It's always to neat to find bands using YouTube in creative ways. As you would expect from a group that's been anonymous for 35 years, whose members usually appear as giant eyeballs with top hats and who never grant interviews, San Francisco's the Residents [...]
Election Day + Featured Videos
Diposting oleh Greatest on Rabu, 01 November 2006
Greetings, everyone. How's that candy hangover today?Now that the Halloween revelry is over, it's down to some serious matters. First, Election Day is around the corner in the U.S., so if you're over 18, don't forget to vote. These might be midterm elections, [...]
Staff Pick of the Week: Nerdkiller
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 26 Oktober 2006
I've had my eye on Nerdkiller for a while now and not just because the mildly agitated honking outside his window reminds me of my Manhattan home land. Nerdkiller is an often-shirtless, somewhat spastic twenty-something who seems tragically stuck between [...]
Greetings from the YouTube SQUAD
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 19 Oktober 2006
Hi Tubers,We wanted to follow up on Maryrose’s recent post and talk to you all about what’s going on with our content policies and the flagging system on the site.Our little department administers all of the community areas of the site, from rejecting [...]
Please Be Decent and Kind
Diposting oleh Greatest
We may be peaceniks from the Bay Area (Maryrose has never tasted a hamburger! Can you believe it? -- Mia), but we've seen some comments lately in response to featured videos that have really disturbed us. As human beings.We've got thick skin, so we're [...]
It's Like Niagara Falls Over Here
Diposting oleh Greatest on Rabu, 18 Oktober 2006
My in-box overfloweth. And I love it that way. But it's also making me feel guilty for not being able to respond to each and every one of you who sends in feature suggestions (yes, Casey from Maryland and Clive from England, I mean you!). So I wanted [...]
Thank You
Diposting oleh Greatest on Rabu, 11 Oktober 2006
I was trying to think what I should title this blog entry...'GooTube', 'YouTube is here to stay', 'Who's a moron now Mark Cuban' all came to mind, but I settled on the only thing I really can say - thank you. YouTube would not exist and be where it is [...]
How Flagging Works
Diposting oleh Greatest on Minggu, 08 Oktober 2006
A few days ago I posted that we've been feverishly working on ways to combat both abusive flagging and spamming on the site. We've gotten tons of emails with some really great ideas of things we could implement to help in these areas, so thank you for [...]
Our days are numbered
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 05 Oktober 2006
Last night was our last feature release in this office. That's right, we're moving on to bigger, less rat infested digs next week. I can't even begin to tell you what a crazy ride it's been this past year and moving out of this, our first real office, [...]
Greetings, YouTubers!
Diposting oleh Greatest on Jumat, 22 September 2006
My name is Mia (I won't bother with the 12-syllable last name) and I'm the new czarina of programming. Huh, you say? Basically, that means a big part of my job is making sure we are finding and featuring the best videos in the YouTube universe – your [...]
Underground
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 21 September 2006
We love our indie musicians at YouTube. Their spirit, creativity and often raw talent make for some of the best content on our site. I'm always filled with glee when someone tells me they 'discovered' a new band on YouTube. As a life long music junkie [...]
The Deal with Warner
Diposting oleh Greatest on Senin, 18 September 2006
No doubt you've read the news about the partnership we announced with Warner. This is great news for the YouTube community!Up front, let me say that the details will be worked out with Warner, its recording artists and YouTube over the next few months. [...]
A few new things
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 17 Agustus 2006
We took the site down tonight to do some maintenance and to push out a few new features. The new features are obviously more fun to talk about than the maintenance so here it goes:Custom Channel URLS: Have you ever tried to tell people how to find you [...]
Growing Pains
Diposting oleh Greatest on Selasa, 15 Agustus 2006
YouTube was down today from approximately 7AM to 1PM. There's really no enticing story to tell here, we weren't hacked and we weren't pushing new features. Simply put, our primary database crashed. We did make a very intentional decision to not [...]
Keeping it Real
Diposting oleh Greatest on Selasa, 01 Agustus 2006
Want to know what it's really like to work at YouTube? Check out this video of Chris (our head of BizDev no less) hunting down that stinky smell in the office. The fun never ceases at YouTube! :)For all my fellow animal lovers - we did NOT set up those [...]
Our Terms of Use Clarified
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 20 Juli 2006
You may have seen some of the blogs out there talking about our 'new' Terms of Use that would supposedly allow us to sell any videos our users uploaded to the site. Before going further, allow me to clarify: YouTube has never had the rights to sell, [...]
Comments Restored
Diposting oleh Greatest on Minggu, 25 Juni 2006
Just a quick update for all of you that were affected by the comments bug on our site the last few days. In addition to fixing the bug we have now restored all comments that were mass removed. Again, our most sincere apologies for the inconvenience and [...]
Comments Bug
Diposting oleh Greatest on Sabtu, 24 Juni 2006
It recently came to our attention that there was a bug in our comment code that allowed users to delete comments from videos which were not their own. Unfortunately, by the time we became aware of the issue several users exploited the bug to maliciously [...]
Not Hacked, Just Pushing
Diposting oleh Greatest on Jumat, 02 Juni 2006
Last night we pushed out a bunch of new features, and apparently tricked the online world into thinking we were hacked with our down page message. Sorry if we scared you, we often forget how closely everyone is watching our little 32 person company. [...]
Video Responses
Diposting oleh Greatest on Selasa, 16 Mei 2006
We recently noticed that within many of the different ecosystems on YouTube our users are doing something really cool - they're communicating with each other through their videos. Text comments and messages are great, but our users have once again created [...]
YouTube Goes Wireless
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 11 Mei 2006
The below video of me and Powers (your humble product servants and amateur acrobats extraordinaire) was uploaded directly to YouTube from Dwipal's cell phone. That's right, with YouTube's new mobile uploads feature you can now broadcast yourself to the [...]
Stephen Colbert Goes to Washington
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 04 Mei 2006
By now many of you have seen that the videos posted earlier this week of Stephen Colbert roasting President Bush at the annual White House Correspondents' dinner have been taken down. We know these videos were extremely popular and of immense social [...]
Lots 'O New Stuff
Diposting oleh Greatest on Jumat, 28 April 2006
You'll notice lots of new and redesigned things on the site, much of which is from direct feedback we received from you (special thanks to everyone who participated in our usability studies). Below are just some of the changes we pushed out. Redesigned [...]
Introducing YouTube Director
Diposting oleh Greatest on Senin, 10 April 2006
A few weeks ago I posted about the new 10 minute video limit we put in place. While the main driver of this limit was to help prevent copyright infringement, we also knew it wasn't the best solution for all of you legitimate [...]
YouTube Labs Introduces The Smiley Face Factory™
Diposting oleh Greatest on Jumat, 31 Maret 2006
The most important things to us here at YouTube are 1) listening to our users 2) bringing them the best online video experience with the most cutting edge features and functionality possible. For quite some time our users have been asking us for the [...]
Your 15 Minutes of Fame..ummm...Make that 10 Minutes or Less
Diposting oleh Greatest on Minggu, 26 Maret 2006
The past few months have been phenomenal for us here at YouTube, thanks to all of you. We've been going through unprecedented growth. Most days it seems we can barely catch our breath trying to keep up with everything, and sometimes I sit at my desk [...]
That's Entertainment
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 02 Maret 2006
You’re probably wondering about the MTV2 clip and “official partner” logo on our home page. In addition to all your videos, we are starting to feature entertaining, professional clips such as scenes from the MTV2 Andy Milonakis Show promoting the new [...]
Your Features Have Arrived!
Diposting oleh Greatest on Senin, 27 Februari 2006
Hello members! You may have noticed we were down for a while upgrading the site. We listened to you and added in a few of the most requested features. We also added a bunch of things in the background that will make the site faster.Personalized ProfilesTired [...]
Lazy Sunday
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 16 Februari 2006
Hi Tubers! NBC recently contacted YouTube and asked us to remove Saturday Night Live's "Lazy Sunday: Chronicles of Narnia" video. We know how popular that video is but YouTube respects the rights of copyright holders. You can still watch SNL's "Lazy [...]
It's Hammer Time!
Diposting oleh Greatest on Jumat, 10 Februari 2006
Things are really picking up around here. Not only are we adding servers and bandwidth as fast as we can, we're also pleased to report that last month's kitchen sink upgrade was successfully integrated into the snack area and we hope to have that dirty [...]
More Feature Fun
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 19 Januari 2006
We've just rolled out a bunch of cool new features. Many of these come straight from requests or suggestions from all of you, so please keep those ideas coming. Groups brings Tubers TogetherSure, it's great to send your favorite videos to your friends [...]
YouTube on the Rise
Diposting oleh Greatest on Senin, 09 Januari 2006
Happy New Years, Tubers! We hope you all had a restful and joyous holiday. 2005 went out with bang for us as our traffic has continued to soar to record numbers. However, as many of you noticed, the performance of our video [...]