This week in Howcast’s ‘Modern 101 for emerging digital filmmakers’ we’re pleased to welcome guest lecturer, Professor Compressor. Professor Compressor is one of the most revered thinkers in web video and is renowned for his ability to compress and upload [...]
Uploading 101 with Professor Compressor
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Wong Fu film premieres on YouTube
Diposting oleh Greatest on Selasa, 23 November 2010
In May 2010, Wong Fu Productions (Wesley Chan, Ted Fu, Philip Wang) and Ryan Higa started talking about doing a special project: a high-quality, long-form film that would be released just on YouTube for fans. Well, the moment is here: the film is now [...]
Q&A with Chef John of Food Wishes
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Chef John Mitzewich is the voice behind YouTube’s most subscribed cooking channel, Food Wishes. Chef John today posted his 500th video to YouTube, and he recently took time out to answer a few questions about how he makes his videos and the trends he’s [...]
YouTube Holiday Solutions Center to the rescue
Diposting oleh Greatest on Minggu, 21 November 2010
With Thanksgiving around the corner, another holiday season moves into full swing. Every year at this time, we see searches for cooking videos and turkey recipes surge on the site, and it’s one reason we’ve aggregated many great culinary videos on a [...]
Happy Birthday Automatic Captions! Celebrate with more videos and higher quality
Diposting oleh Greatest on Jumat, 19 November 2010
Today marks exactly one year since we launched automatic captions. We started with just a few partner channels in November 2009, and soon after turned on auto-captions for everyone. As we explained back then, we like to [...]
How producing for the web can fit into a filmmaking career
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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.After a little break last week, we’re back today to share a post I’ve [...]
Chrome Extensions for YouTube
Diposting oleh Greatest on Minggu, 14 November 2010
I’m a movie buff, and love getting excited for upcoming releases by checking out trailers on YouTube. It’s easy and convenient to watch the trailers online, but I’ve often wished I could get closer to the theater experience [...]
Next New Networks shares the spotlight with YouTube comedians
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Next New Networks has developed, produced or promoted some of the most popular web series on YouTube, including “The Key of Awesome,” “Obama Girl” and “Auto-Tune the News.” They recently launched a new series, “Comedy Thunder,” to help introduce you [...]
Why Facebook uses Blue Color?
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 11 November 2010
When you open Facebook, the first thing that you notice is the blue color it uses. Ever wondered why is Facebook so blue in Color and not upgrading its theme.Ever since they started as 'thefacebook', Facebook has sticked [...]
Give YouTube Topics on Search a whirl
Diposting oleh Greatest on Rabu, 10 November 2010
We know that sometimes people come to YouTube looking for a specific video, but at other times, they have only a rough idea of the kind of videos they want. We’ve been there too, and have been thinking for a while about this challenge of searching when [...]
Change Facebook Theme Color, Appearance, Skin, Style or Template
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Facebook is a social networking site which enable people to connect with friends and people around. That's how Facebook is usually introduced but Facebook is beyond the requirement of being introduced as almost everyone [...]
Great Scott! Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube
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Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: you’ve increased the amount of video uploaded to YouTube to 35 hours per [...]
Tonight! Watch Bon Jovi perform their greatest hits, live from NYC
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Bon Jovi lived on a prayer: that you would determine the set list for their concert tonight. And you heeded that call: 1,494 of you submitted 1,733 questions and cast nearly 25,000 votes to determine what those songs would be. So tune in to www.youtube.com/bonjovi [...]
Howcast vlogger wanted!
Diposting oleh Greatest on Selasa, 09 November 2010
Howcast is changing it up this week, and Heather Menicucci’s weekly series on filmmaking in the digital age will resume next Friday.Help Howcast find our first video blogger! We're looking for someone to produce, edit and host our new video blog taking [...]
Control YouTube on the desktop, or the TV... with the YouTube Remote app for your phone
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If you’re like me, you love watching YouTube on your smartphone. My phone is always with me, which means my favorite YouTube videos are never more than a few taps away. Sometimes though, mid-watch, I wish I could get a big-screen [...]
Do you love K-POP?
Diposting oleh Greatest on Sabtu, 06 November 2010
Well, we know Will.i.am does after he called out the Korean girl group 2NE1 on YouTube earlier this year. If you are not familiar with K-POP, check out some of the top Korean music labels like YG Entertainment, SM Entertainment and JYP Entertainment, [...]
Emilynoel83 wins the first “On the Rise” spotlight
Diposting oleh Greatest on Jumat, 05 November 2010
Meet Emilynoel83, a morning news anchor who's also a “makeup addict” who loves to make videos about beauty products. Today she's on our homepage. And you put her there. Last week, we announced a new initiative to give rising [...]
Great videos on a budget: how to fake a zombie attack
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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.Last week, we made some arguments for why quality matters in web video, [...]
The Mexican Revolution on YouTube
Diposting oleh Greatest on Kamis, 04 November 2010
November 20 will mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the Mexican Revolution and we’re looking forward to observing that anniversary on YouTube by celebrating a new revolution that’s taking place in Mexico today: a cultural revolution that has [...]
YouTube to give love a bad name (aka Bon Jovi live!)
Diposting oleh Greatest on Rabu, 03 November 2010
Next Wednesday, November 10, at 8 p.m. ET, Bon Jovi will give an exclusive performance at New York’s Best Buy Theater, streamed live to the world on the band’s YouTube channel: www.YouTube.com/BonJovi. With the help of YouTube’s Moderator tool, fans [...]
Longboarding around the world with YouTube
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Today’s guest blogger is Scott Imbrie, CEO and Co-Founder of Original Skateboards. His passion is longboarding, a popular new form of skateboarding that also blends elements of surfing and snowboarding. Scott started Original with his brother, Brad, [...]
Freddiew’s "Roadtrip" teaches amateur filmmakers tricks of the trade
Diposting oleh Greatest on Selasa, 02 November 2010
Freddie Wong and his production partner, Brandon Laatsch, describe themselves as “just some cool dudes making sweet vids with rad FX!” And if you’ve ever seen their action-packed, colorfully explosive videos, you know this to be true. Wong is starting [...]
Election results and trends, live on YouTube tonight
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It’s been a memorable campaign season on YouTube, but the time for persuasion and debate is over -- now it’s time to vote. As polling results come in from across the country, we’re partnering with CBS News to live stream election results and highlight [...]
Video the natural world for National Geographic
Diposting oleh Greatest on Senin, 01 November 2010
Footage of natural wonders can be awe-inspiring, but many of our planet's most striking environments are at risk. Our new Planet Inspired program, presented by The North Face, gives you the opportunity to celebrate the natural world and highlight environmental [...]
The 2010 election on YouTube: By the numbers
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In these 2010 midterm elections, campaigns, voters and interest groups have continued to innovate new ways to share their political opinions on YouTube. Because YouTube allows anyone to post and share videos globally, you’ve [...]