With it being Halloween season and all, we've got an especially spoooooky edition of Release Notes for you. First-ever user-designed Doodle: You may have noticed that once in a while, we change our homepage logo to match [...]
Release Notes: Community-designed Doodle, global Halloween films, easier bug reporting, virtual keyboard...
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Slamming the boring, old tech demo
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Tech demos. They’ve been around as long as... well, technology. They’re helpful. They’re useful. They’re also a little boring. That’s why tech demos often go overlooked by so many people. Unfortunately, it’s generally the people who could benefit most [...]
Should quality matter in web video?
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Heather Menicucci, Director, Howcast Filmmakers Program, is writing weekly guest posts for the YouTube blog on filmmaking in the digital age. You can catch up on previous posts here.Since I started working in web video, the most common misconception [...]
1 billion subscriptions and counting
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Early on (we're talking '06 here, people!), the yellow subscribe button made its debut so the latest videos from your favorite channels could make a beeline to your YouTube homepage/eager eyes. Today, the button that’s been immortalized as a throw cushion [...]
Future Shorts - Future Creative People
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Futureshorts is one of the largest short film aggregators in the world. In this guest blog post, founder and creative director Fabien Riggal talks about curating shorts on YouTube, including a selection from their new live event series, Future Shorts [...]
Promoted Videos hit half a billion views
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When we announced our first performance-based video ad format, Promoted Videos, nearly two years ago, the first campaign was “Penny Pranks” by Office Max.Since that time, thousands and thousands of advertisers have taken advantage of this ad format to [...]
On the Rise: Pick which YouTube upstart goes on the homepage
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More and more of our YouTube partners are hitting subscriber numbers in the 100,000s and even in the 1,000,000s. We want to help more of you to get to those kind of subscriber numbers, which is why we’re starting a new monthly feature called “On the [...]
Download Facebook Account 's Information and Pictures
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OK. So you are an active Facebook User. Imagine, just imagine, some grieved enemy of your reports your posts, and Facebook ends up deleting your account. How would you feel?Ruined?Well not now. Facebook, the most popular [...]
Trip Report: Google and YouTube in Iraq
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Earlier this month, a small team from Google and YouTube spent a week in Iraq on a trip arranged by the Department of Defense’s Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO). Our goals were to explore opportunities for Google in Iraq, to understand [...]
AFI Fest 2010
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The American Film Institute's AFI Fest, featuring a world class selection of short and feature films, is only a week away. In this guest blog post, AFI's Bob Jennings and Lane Kneedler discuss the festival and the treasure trove of short films they find [...]
Tricking and treating with Disney this Halloween
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We’d like to welcome today’s guest blogger, Annjanette Isorda, Senior Manager of New Media Business Development at the Walt Disney Company. Annjanette works with Disney Consumer Products, a division that extends the Disney brand to merchandise ranging [...]
Individual Video Program, one year later...
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What if Michelangelo had sculpted the David and that was his one and only masterpiece? What if Francis Ford Coppola had shot one scene of The Godfather, then called it quits on a film career? What if Jim Henson had only given the world Kermit the Frog, [...]
Digital bootcamp with Ingrid Kopp
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Heather Menicucci, Director, Howcast Filmmakers Program, is writing weekly guest posts for the YouTube blog on filmmaking in the digital age. You can catch up on previous posts here.Today being a filmmaker is more and more about using tools other than [...]
Jury selection for YouTube Play revealed at last
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Today we announce the jury selection for YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video with the Guggenheim.It was our goal to reach the widest possible audience, inviting individuals from around the world to submit a video for consideration. While our original [...]
Tips for partners: LockerGnome reveals how he built his brand and audience
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In our Tips for Partners series over the last month, we have certainly covered a lot! Beyond our suggestions, our partners have given their own tips on these topics as well. Specifically,Bettyskitchen discussed metadataZackScott talked about annotations [...]
Live 24-hour webcast from Conan O’Brien HQ: Dancing tacos! 80's aerobics! Intern Twister!
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As Conan O'Brien's crew plans for their 24-hour marathon live stream on YouTube, in what promises to be a kooky peek into life at Team Coco HQ, we thought it was best for them to tell you about it themselves. Here's Aaron Bleyaert, the blogger for the [...]
Tips for partners: Ask and you shall receive
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Over the last few weeks in our 'Tips for partners" series, we’ve shown you tips on:metadata annotations and playlists finding your niche and using InsightsOur partners have given their own tips on these topics: [...]
Musicians Wanted: Now Worldwide
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Today, the YouTube Partner Program for Musicians, aka Musicians Wanted, extends beyond the U.S., meaning that musicians in Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, The Netherlands, Spain, the U.K., Sweden, the Czech Republic, Argentina and New Zealand now [...]
YouTube Leanback officially launches -- on Google TV
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Back in July, we announced the launch of YouTube Leanback in beta. If you didn’t get a chance to check it out, Leanback is a new way to experience YouTube on a big screen. We named it “Leanback” so you could do just that: kick back and, with as little [...]
Use your video-making skills to make sanitation sexy
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Eyeglasses, the bicycle, the latex condom...What everyday products or services have changed the world as we know it and solved some of the world’s biggest problems?For the past month, this question has been posed through a website called Search for the [...]
Watch country duo Sugarland LIVE from New York City!
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Tonight the award-winning country act Sugarland performs in Times Square, marking one of the final stops in their 2010 tour. The show will be live streamed at 9 p.m. (ET) at www.youtube.com/sugarlandvevo and will be directed by Kenny Ortega, whose notable [...]
A digital filmmaker’s map to the web
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Heather Menicucci, Director, Howcast Filmmakers Program, is writing weekly guest posts for the YouTube blog on filmmaking in the digital age. This is her third post. Every time I talk to a filmmaker, I learn about a new (often, just new-to-me) website [...]
Viewers say 'You have our undivided attention'
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How much television did you watch yesterday? A half hour? Three? If you're anything like the average American, you watched for five hours (according to a Nielsen study). Five. Hours. For some, that's 30% of your waking day. In truth, 'watching' is a [...]
Tune into YouTube Play: Live at the Guggenheim on October 21
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Next week the YouTube Play jury will announce the top 25 videos that it selected from the 23,000 submissions received. We’re busy working with the Guggenheim to make sure that this announcement is like no other. Right now we can’t tell you who those [...]
Tips for partners: LinusTechTips shares how he found his niche
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In our series of partner optimization tips, we covered metadata with Betty from BettysKitchen, how to use playlists and annotations with Zack from ZackScott, and how to find your niche and analyze the performance of your videos. Now, we’re excited to [...]