Senator of the Week: Your Votes Are In

Last week, Senator Cornyn (R-TX) kicked off the YouTube Senator of the Week program with this video in which he asked for your thoughts about the recently-passed economic stimulus package.You responded through the Senate Hub's Moderator gadget with [...]

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Francis Ford Coppola Vlogs on YouTube

From Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) solving a Rubik's cube with his nose, to Jason Reitman (Juno) documenting his on-stage film festival experience, to Jon Chu's (Step Up 2: The Streets) dance battle with Miley Cyrus, renowned [...]

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New Video Submission Module in Our Help Center

Well, you've done it. After two Calls for Submission in our Help Center, and hundreds of video entries, you've proven that you want to use your video-making skills to help each other use YouTube. We liked your videos so much that we've decided to make [...]

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The Oscars Live on on YouTube

On Sunday evening, the Academy Awards were handed out, and SlumdogMillionaire swept the field with eight wins, including Best Picture. The world is still reacting to Hollywood's biggest night -- and posting many of those reactions here on YouTube.For [...]

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Today in History: Warhol Dies, A Miracle Happens on Lake Placid

In 1987, artist Andy Warhol dies in New York after gallbladdersurgery. Warhol is best remembered for his distinctive appearance and talent for blurring the boundaries between art and pop culture – both of which are in much evidence in his short experimental [...]

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Celebrate the Oscars on YouTube

As you might have heard, the 81st Annual Academy Awards are taking place this Sunday in Los Angeles. To celebrate, we're featuring a mix of funny, nerdy, and emotional videos dedicated to Oscar on the YouTube home page this weekend.Today, we're spotlighting [...]

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Today in History: Malcolm X is Assassinated, Peace Gets a Sign

In 1965, Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New YorkCity by members of the Nation of Islam. Earlier this year, ahref="http://www.youtube.com/thenewyorktimes">New York Times movie critic A.O. Scott revisited Spike Lee's eponymous1992 [...]

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Introducing Collaborative Annotations

When we launched annotations last June, we had a hunch you'd find creative ways to use them and, sure enough, you put them vigorously to work, pushing the limits of information sharing, interactive games and storytelling.Today, we are excited to bring [...]

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Today in History: Kurt Cobain Is Born, John Glenn Orbits the Earth

Kurt Cobain, front man for Nirvana, is born in 1967. Fast Focus TV posted this live performance of Nirvana's "Lithium," filmed at the Reading Festival in England just two years before Cobain's untimely death at the age of 27:The Metropolitan Museum of [...]

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Pluto is discovered 79 years ago and is then declared not a planet in 2006. Lonelygirl15 ponders this and helps the celestial body "adjust to a new peer group":







Huckleberry Finn is first published in the U.S. in 1885. Tommyandtimmy condense the novel into a four-minute Lego masterpiece – clearly not your father's Mark Twain:







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Your Thoughts on the Stimulus? Here's Your Direct Line to Congress

A month ago, we announced that Congress has come to YouTube - you can now find your Senator's and Representative's YouTube channels at the Senate Hub and the House Hub. Now, we're making it even easier for you to engage with your leaders and tell them [...]

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Today in History: The New Yorker and Paris Hilton Enter the World

The New Yorker is founded by Harold Ross and Jane Grant in 1925. The most popular video on their YouTube channel, NewYorkerDotCom,accompanies a 2008 piece about a man getting caught in an elevator for 41 hours:Paris Hilton is born in 1981. itn asks her [...]

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Today in History: Fidel Comes to Power, LeVar Burton Is Born

It's Presidents' Day in the U.S., and we thought we'd use this historical holiday to test out a new series in this blog: "Today in History." Every day this week, we'll serve you three videos from our partners highlighting something interesting that happened [...]

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The YouTube Symphony Orchestra: Let the Voting Begin!

You can now cast your votes for your favorite musicians auditioning for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, the world's first collaborative online orchestra and summit. Anyone can vote on the 200 semi-finalists through February 22, 2009.The YouTube Symphony [...]

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The Black List in the YouTube Screening Room

Two weeks ago, we kicked off a month of programming, sponsored by Grey Goose, in the YouTube Screening Room to celebrate Black History Month. Today, we're proud to reveal the next four videos in our lineup: excerpts from the critically acclaimed documentary [...]

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HD/HQ and Widescreen Options on Embedded Videos

You now have the option to watch embedded videos in high quality or HD (when those formats are available). The widescreen option is also available when you embed a video. You can use our handy how-to guide on optimizing your uploads to look their absolute [...]

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YouTube Goes Offline

We are always looking for ways to make it easier for you to find, watch, and share videos. Many of you have told us that you wanted to take your favorite videos offline. So we've started working with a few partners who want their videos shared universally [...]

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Guru Challenge: Baked with Love

In our latest Guru Challenge, Duff Goldman and his Ace of Cakes crew asked you, the YouTube community of bakers, to show off your best cake creations for Valentine's Day. You baked countless cakes with love and the resulting videos blew us and the Food [...]

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New Music Featured Every Tuesday

Did you know that each Tuesday a new or buzzworthy music video is highlighted in our music section? And this week we've got an extra special treat: THREE exclusive session recordings from New Pornographers band member A.C. Newman's second solo album, [...]

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Last Weekend for Valentine's Day Guru Challenge

Valentine's Day is getting close, but the end of this month's Guru Challenge is getting closer. We teamed up with Duff Goldman and the Ace of Cakes crew to find creative bakers in the YouTube community. We want to see your Valentine's Day-inspired creations [...]

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Doritos Wins Top Super Bowl Ad on YouTube

Our annual Ad Blitz program showcasing the best Super Bowl advertisements came to an end yesterday. There were over 2.6 million votes on ads in the program; you chose "Free Doritos!" as the top spot:The ad was created by Joe and Dave Herbert, two unemployed [...]

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Ad Blitz: Last Chance to Vote

As part of YouTube's Ad Blitz program, our users have cast over a million votes and counting on the 53 commercials from last Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast. There are a few hours left to view and vote -- head over to the Ad Blitz channel to make your [...]

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Underwater Geo Tag for Your Videos

***UPDATED with video tutorial and an invitation to explore the Ocean using Google Earth, narrated by Sylvia Earle, "Explorer in Residence" at National Geographic.Today, Google Earth 5.0 launched, and one of the most exciting features is Ocean, which [...]

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Vote on the Top Super Bowl Ads

Anticipation is running high for today's Super Bowl clash between the Pittsburgh Steelers, who are seeking their record sixth NFL Championship, and the upstart Arizona Cardinals, who are looking to continue their unlikely -- some would say destined -- [...]

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