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The YouTube 100 music chart is live
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
We’re introducing the first YouTube chart to track song popularity in user-generated and professional music videos. The
YouTube 100
measures song traffic across official music videos, user-uploaded videos and viral debuts, and uses this data to provide a holistic view of song popularity. The new chart is published weekly, and shines a new light on the YouTube community's engagement and creativity.
This week Katy Perry’s E.T. lands on the Top 10 thanks to
her own gravity-defying video
and views on popular user videos that lay down
rocking guitar solos
,
extra beats
,
sepia-tone allegory
and
other-worldly visuals
(in this case from Brooklyn, not Mars).
Not only does the YouTube 100 give props when fans make original videos for popular songs, it also captures YouTube’s one-of-a-kind musical diversity: irreverent
Nice Peter
ranks on the chart alongside global radio stars, and
Rebecca Black
hits the Top 10.
You can find our new weekly chart at
youtube.com/music
. In the weeks to come, we will archive our charts for future exploration of original recordings, music memes, and pop hits.
YouTube users get into music as fans and original musicians, and our new chart gives the community a better way to find the most engaging music on YouTube.
Chris LaRosa, Music Product Manager, recently watched "
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
."
Release Notes: Seven new languages, four new countries get partner program, and lots more...
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Bits and bobs that’ve gone live since our
last Release Notes
...
YouTube is now available in...:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovenian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese!
Four new countries get YouTube Partner Program:
The Partner Program continued its expansion this quarter, with launches in Argentina, Sweden, New Zealand and the Czech Republic. That makes 21 countries in which people can make money from their videos. For more information about partnerships, click
here
.
Crossfades, wipes and slides:
The
video editor
lets you combine and trim your videos right on YouTube.com, without installing any software. Now you can add transitions, like crossfades and wipes, between video clips. Just select the transitions tab in the media picker, drag the transition and drop it between any two videos in the storyboard.
MySpace Autoshare:
Automatically share your YouTube activities on your MySpace account (you can already do this on your Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, Reader and Orkut accounts). To hook this up, go to Account >
ActivitySharing
and click “Connect accounts” next to the MySpace logo.
More filtering for charts:
YouTube Charts
can now be filtered by categories such as Comedy, Gaming and Pets & Animals, in addition to time and popularity "slices." We also show more results (20) per page.
Improved screen reader accessibility for YouTube player:
One of our engineering interns spent part of his summer improving video accessibility for visually impaired people. If you use a screen reader that supports Flash, we hope you'll find it easier to enjoy videos on YouTube now. We've also added some more captioning features to the
YouTube Data API
. You can list tracks, request auto-timing, and download the speech recognition captions for videos that you own.
Shows in France:
If you’re a YouTube viewer in France, now you can watch full-length TV shows, like
BFMTV: Bourdin Direct
and
Britain’s Got Talent
. Check out the page
here
.
HD and CC badges on search results page:
When you search for a video on YouTube, the search results now show HD and CC (Closed Caption) badges, in addition to the NEW, CHANNEL and PLAYLIST badges that already exist. If you click on the badge, it will filter out results that don’t fall under that category.
“Add-to playlist” widget:
The [+] button on video thumbnails in search results now includes a menu that allows you to add the video to any one of your playlists or start a new playlist. Additionally, the "save to" button below the video is being renamed "add to" and will have the same functionality.
Visited video styling on search results and video pages:
Browsers help people remember links they have previously clicked on by giving them a different color, the standard generally being that links are in blue and visited links are in purple. Many sites, including YouTube, opt to make all links blue regardless of visited state to give a more consistent look to the site and better reflect its dynamic nature. However, having a visited state is specifically useful when exhaustively exploring search results or related videos, and so we are launching a new style for thumbnails and links to videos in related and search results: the thumbnail for visited videos is slightly grayed, and the link color has changed. This should help you explore the site deeper without going in circles.
The YouTube Team
Off the Charts
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
What’s the latest in the all-time most viewed video smackdown between Bieber and Gaga? Is
David After Dentist
pwning
Charlie Bit My Finger
? Who grabbed more subscribers this month,
ShayCarl
or
Annoying Orange
?
These are the big questions on the lips of the YouTube community. To help answer them, we're launching “
YouTube Charts
” to give you a clear view of how your favorite videos and creators stack up against each other. You can sort charts by “today,” “this week” and “all time.”
We’d love to hear your suggestions on which charts you’d like to see. Best newcomer? Most shared video? Fastest to a million views? Let us know right
here
, in the forum discussion on this topic.
Matt Darby, Product Manager, recently watched “
Hot Chip - I Feel Better
.”
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