You Choose '08 Spotlight: Chris Dodd

In this week's You Choose '08 Spotlight, Senator Chris Dodd says he's tired of the mainstream media's coverage of the election. He wants to use YouTube to "bypass the traditional media filter... to insure that the important issues get the attention they deserve."



His video asks YOU to take political action by contacting your senator to show support for the Dodd Amendment to end the Iraq war.






Senator Sam Brownback ended his week in the Spotlight in the same way he started it -- by filing video dispatches from his campaign bus. In this video response to a user question about adoption, Brownback provides great context to his answer by including his two adopted children, Jenna and Mark.







Yours,

Steve G.

YouTube News & Politics

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Category Browsing is Back in Effect

The browse by category functionality is back up and running. Thanks again for your patience and please accept our apologies for any frustration that this temporary removal caused. We will continue closely monitoring your feedback to ensure that everything went well across the board.



Many of you also requested we put back the total number of video views, which used to display on the homepage. This statistic is now shown on your account page. You'll see the "Video Views" count in the blue rectangular box near the top of the page.



Take care,


The YouTube Team

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Sketchies - Vote Now!

Out of the thousands that entered our sketch comedy contest, only ten have made their way into Round 2. Their second video submissions are up for your viewing pleasure, but you have only TWO days left (until June 28) to decide which five will advance to Round 3. Those five finalists will then submit a new video and, starting July 6, you have the power to determine which of them will be crowned the first-ever YouTube Sketchies winner.



So watch and vote. Someone's future depends on it!



Sara P.

YouTube Film

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Categories - We're working on a solution!

Hi everyone,



We wanted to officially address the current situation of category browsing having gone missing from the site after the latest update (which also affected search for channel honors). We want to apologize for the upset and frustration that this has caused you. We wholeheartedly understand and we have been listening to the overwhelming feedback from all of you to "bring them back!"



It was actually not our intention to take this helpful function away from you. There were technical reasons this had to happen in the short-term, but the good news is that we're working hard on a solution to bring it back. More news when we have it, and thanks so much for your patience in the meantime.



Yours,

The YouTube Team

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