Is vacation planning giving you your first case of the summertime blues? With gas prices and airfares skyrocketing, embarking on an exciting/bank-breaking getaway is probably the least appealing thing on the thrifty traveler's mind.Some travel gurus [...]
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Budget Travel Tips on YouTube
Diposting oleh Greatest on Jumat, 30 Mei 2008
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It's National BBQ Month
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 29 Mei 2008
As summer officially approaches (at least here in the U.S.), it's time to move the cooking outside. Luckily, your fellow YouTubers have no shortage of advice on how to blow everyone away with your grilling skills. You'll find a plethora of videos on [...]
23 Days: Euro 2008 on YouTube
Diposting oleh Greatest on Rabu, 28 Mei 2008
On June 7th, the UEFA Euro 2008 Football Championships (that's soccer to us Americans) kicks off with Switzerland – who share hosting duties with Austria – taking on the Czech Republic in Basel. Over the following 23 days, the 16 finalist countries will [...]
Accuracy Restored to Subscriber Counts
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If you notice a significant change in your subscriber count within the next few days, don't be alarmed - this is due to a fix we are running to rectify a bug which has affected subscriber counts on some users' channels. Normally, when a user subscribes/unsubscribes [...]
Trendspotting Tuesday: Robots are Like Kittens for Nerds
Diposting oleh Greatest on Selasa, 27 Mei 2008
Domo arigato, YouTubers, especially those who love all things robotic. We hope you'll enjoy this week's Trendspotting Tuesday, for which we can truthfully say, "The robots are taking over!"Robots are running rampage through pop culture these days, from [...]
Tribeca Film Festival on YouTube
Diposting oleh Greatest on Sabtu, 24 Mei 2008
This week, the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival kicked off its seventh year in lower Manhattan. Like YouTube, the festival is known for its eclectic mix of content, with a little bit of something for everybody. Which is why we're excited to let you know [...]
Win a trip to the GOP Convention
Diposting oleh Greatest on Jumat, 23 Mei 2008
It may be three months away, but the GOP has been planning the Republican National Convention for some time -- and YouTube is a key part of their strategy. The Party plans to use the site to help you to get involved in the action, and they're starting [...]
Voting Begins for Film Scholarship
Diposting oleh Greatest on Rabu, 21 Mei 2008
The challenge: To create a short video addressing the theme, "What Matters to You."The prize: A scholarship to an internationally renowned film school.After parsing through hundreds of amazing entries, Vancouver Film School has narrowed down the field [...]
Trendspotting Tuesday: How to YouTube
Diposting oleh Greatest on Selasa, 20 Mei 2008
Do a quick search for "how to YouTube," and you'll find thousands of videos offering advice, tricks and tips on the art of online video. This week, Trendspotting Tuesday is dedicated to those 'Tubers who want to give back to their fellow users by offering [...]
Dialogue with Sen. Lieberman on terrorism videos
Diposting oleh Greatest on Senin, 19 Mei 2008
Last week, Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) contacted us to voice his concerns about seeing videos from several Islamic terrorist organizations on YouTube. We appreciated our dialogue with Senator Lieberman and his staff and wanted to explain to the YouTube [...]
Meet the new YouTube News Manager
Diposting oleh Greatest on Minggu, 18 Mei 2008
Hey, YouTube!My name is Olivia, and I'm the new News Manager here at YouTube.Thanks to better, cheaper, and easier access to video equipment, there's an amazing amount of news being reported on YouTube every single day by citizens in all corners of the [...]
China's Earthquake Captured on YouTube
Diposting oleh Greatest on Sabtu, 17 Mei 2008
According to the Chinese state media, there are nearly 600 million cell phone users today in China, resulting in a corps of citizen journalists equipped with the technology to give eyewitness accounts without a moment's notice. Last week's devastating [...]
New Features For Search, Contacts and Inbox
Diposting oleh Greatest on Jumat, 16 Mei 2008
Hey 'Tubers, it's time for another round of site updates. We added some new features to improve searching for videos, inbox and managing your contacts on YouTube. Check it...QUERY SUGGESTIONS FOR SEARCH A query suggestions option is now available for [...]
YouTube's Living Legends: The Rolling Stones Respond
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 15 Mei 2008
The Rolling Stones were the first official Living Legends to join the program that connects luminaries with the YouTube community – they asked for questions, you heeded their call, and now they've responded with gusto. Here's a sneak peek:The questions [...]
Demographics Now Available in YouTube Insight
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When we first announced YouTube Insight, our free video analytics tool for YouTube, we were excited to see just how users, partners, and advertisers might creatively use information about the viewing trends of their videos. We've since learned that some [...]
Cannes 360
Diposting oleh Greatest on Rabu, 14 Mei 2008
Generally speaking, Cannes is considered the grand-mère of all film festivals. For 11 days every spring, the cinematic world descends on this beach town in the south of France to celebrate everything film, from the lowest-budget student shorts to the [...]
Trendspotting Tuesday: Helmet Cam POV
Diposting oleh Greatest on Senin, 12 Mei 2008
Over the past couple years, more internally-powered, easily-mounted micro video cameras have come on the market for consumers, and the result has been a ton more first-person point-of-view sports footage available on the net. Sports enthusiasts now use [...]
Cannes Film Festival on YouTube
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 08 Mei 2008
The Short Film Corner at Cannes is one of the world's premier destinations for shorts. But you don't need to make the trip to France to see the best of what the festival has to offer, thanks to the National Film Board of Canada's Online Film Competition [...]
Raising Awareness for Disaster in Myanmar
Diposting oleh Greatest on Rabu, 07 Mei 2008
Last Saturday's devastating cyclone in Myanmar has so far claimed the lives of over 22,000 people and that toll continues to rise. Yet in what has become the largest natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami that ravaged Sri Lanka, aid to Myanmar has had [...]
New Inbox And My Contacts Features Are Live
Diposting oleh Greatest on Sabtu, 03 Mei 2008
Updates made to the Inbox and My Contacts features are now live for all YouTube users. After announcing the beta launch for these features a couple of weeks ago, we made some changes to the Inbox based on your feedback. Now mini-thumbnails appear on [...]
What Is Parkour, Anyway?
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 01 Mei 2008
In case you hadn't noticed the athletes sprinting, crawling and vaulting all over our homepage today: we're happy to present videos of the growing sport of parkour, selected by Julie Angel aka SlamCamSpam. Julie is a London-based filmmaker who has been [...]