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Share and share alike: we’ve acquired Fflick

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Shiva Rajaraman, Group Product Manager, recently discovered “Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic - Smooth Criminal” on Twitter.

On the Rise: Pick which YouTube upstart goes on the homepage

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

TwitterFacebookemilynoel83 golf kalebnation,optibotimus Mia Quagliarello, Product Marketing Manager, recently watched “The Giants Win The Pennant!”

Release Notes: Playlist Bar, music listings, annotations upgrades...

Friday, August 6, 2010

What's new on YouTube since we last met? Let us count the things..."Playlist Bar" launch:hereLocal music listings: our revamped music page

Annotations upgrades:Redesigned video manager: My_Videos pageherePromotional badges: badges

New way to embed videos: this blog postBuzz videos on your homepage:the Facebook feed importconnected to BuzzHQ Webcam uploads: Free previews on rentals:Kick-AssThe YouTube Team

It’s official: YouTube is more popular than music ;)

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

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rock those vampiressweep by the Preztopple Lady Gagathis pageMia Quagliarelly, Community Manager, recently posted “Jane Austen’s Fight Club” to Facebook.

Release Notes: processing status, share to Buzz, and more

Friday, July 2, 2010

Processing progress status:

AutoShare to Buzz:here

Results badging:

New captions feature: Captions are a key part

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More choice for users: unlisted videos

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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New video page launches for all users

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

first unveiledlatest set of changesadditionsOverall look and functionalityDiscoveryPlaylistsRatingsfive-star ratings systemCommentsforumsTwitterIgor Kofman, Software Engineer, recently watched "Pantyraid - Beba," and Shiva Rajaraman, Product Manager, recently watched "Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improv #2."

Release notes: Facebook Connect, real-time sharing, subscriber stats

Saturday, March 27, 2010

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Invitation to Facebook Connect: You've been able to connect your YouTube account to your Facebook account for a while now in order to AutoShare or to find friends to subscribe to. Less known is that the YouTube homepage can show you the YouTube videos your friends are sharing on Facebook; we've kept this under the radar while we've ramped up support. But now, when you log in to your YouTube account, you'll get a prominent invitation in the Recent Activity module (see below) to connect to Facebook, which we highly recommend that you do. In fact, we hope to integrate more social networks with YouTube going forward: knowing which videos your friends are sharing on social platforms is one of the best ways to discover those clips that you, in turn, just might feel compelled to pass along. That's how we found this gem, a lovely virtual choir.

Real-time sharing: AutoShare lets you effortlessly share videos from YouTube to Twitter, Facebook or Google Reader. What you might not have known is that until recently, it took about 10 minutes for those items to get pushed out from YouTube to these platforms. Now these actions happen instantly, in real time.
Partner Program expands again: Exciting! Users in Israel and Mexico can now become members of the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). To sign up, click here.

Subscribers tab in Insight: The number of subscribers you have is an important metric for many YouTube users, as it indicates how many people love your videos so much that they want to be sure never to miss one. (Speaking of which, we commend Nigahiga, who recently hit 2 million subscribers to become YouTube's No. 1 most subscribed channel of all time. But, we digress.) Insight, YouTube's analytics tool, recently added data about the evolution of your subscriber numbers over time, broken down into new subscriptions and unsubscriptions per day. Head over to your account's Insight area to check it out.
Planning our April Fool's Day joke: What joke? :) We just wanted to see if you were reading this far.

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YouTube Interviews: Pelosi, Boehner, Reid Answer Your Top Questions after Health Care Summit

Friday, February 26, 2010

CitizenTubeNancy PelosiJohn BoehnerHarry ReidYouTube Interviewhealth care proceedings become more transparent1. What is the explicit reasoning behind mandating the purchase of healthcare services?
- Chris, University of Florida

2. Do you believe that healthcare is a right, or that health insurance is a right?
- Brian, Student

3. Thompson Reuters had performed a study in which they concluded that 40% of healthcare waste was from unnecessary care. Unnecessary care is primarily a result of a fear of being sued, aka malpractice. What is being done to address malpractice?
- JatPat, Chicago, IL

4. Why not quit artificially limiting the market? Stop tying health insurance to employers and increase the market dramatically. Allow insurance providers to sell across state lines and increase it even more. The larger the market the lower the price.
- crodgers1981, Lincoln, NE

5. All people voting on these bills should be required to personally read the entire bill before being allowed to vote on it. It is ridiculous that these bills are thousands of pages long. Bills should be written in clear language.
- Blinn, Illinois

YouTube has become the place where leaders can connect directly with citizens around key events in the political process. That opportunity for meaningful dialogue makes politics feel more personal, more democratic, and opens up Washington in exciting new ways. Stay tuned for more YouTube interviews, and let us know in the comments who you'd like the chance to speak with on this platform.

Steve Grove, YouTube News and Politics, recently watched "White House Health Care Summit Part I."

YouTube 101: Educational Series for New Users Launches

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

YouTube channelshare a video privatelycustomize their channelhow to upload a videofull HDHappy Tree Friends

Help CenterCreator's CornerMia Quagliarello, Community Manager, recently watched "A Pluto Song."

#subsaturday: Join Us on Twitter!

Friday, February 5, 2010

first #subsaturdaynews updatetouched one soulMia Quagliarello, Community Manager, recently watched "YouTube 101: Private Sharing with Ask a Ninja."

Release Notes: Subscription News, Product Ideas Page, youtu.be Links for One-Off Sharing...

Friday, January 15, 2010

More subscription news:multiple subscription-related announcementsProduct Ideas for YouTube:"Product Ideas" pagepre-spring cleaninghereyoutu.be links for one-off sharing:announced youtu.be links

YouTube Partner Program opens to users in the Netherlands and Italy: celebrated its second birthdayhereThe YouTube Team

Make Way for youtu.be Links

Monday, December 21, 2009

It's all the rage: link shorteners to ensure that those useful URLs you're sharing don't take up too much precious character count while also giving you an inkling of what you're about to click on. Well, we've just launched youtu.be as a shortener for YouTube video links -- and nothing but YouTube links -- so you can rest assured that when you see a link with this URL, you are indeed about to click on a YouTube video. (Also, because the link contains the ID of the video you're going to see, developers can do interesting things like show you thumbnails, embed the video directly, or track how a video is spreading in real-time.)To see this feature in action, use AutoShare to link up your YouTube account to social networks like Twitter and Google Reader. Then, whenever you favorite a video on YouTube, for example, that action will get syndicated out to your network, who will see this shortened edition of the video's URL.To use youtu.be manually, simply take a URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdeioVndUhs and replace the"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" with "http://youtu.be/" to get: http://youtu.be/FdeioVndUhs Plug that shorter URL into a browser, and you'll see it redirects to that video.Vijay Karunamurthy, Engineering Manager, recently watched "Suzy Snowflake" again, thanks to Diablo Cody.

Facebook Feeds Begin Showing Up on YouTube's Homepage

Friday, December 18, 2009

You might have noticed that YouTube's been getting a lot more social lately. We've launched several features in the last few months that let you better connect with the platforms that matter most to you (and discover new videos you're likely to love in the process). In addition to linking your YouTube account to social networks like Twitter and Facebook via AutoShare, friend suggestions and easier private sharing options, you can easily find the YouTube accounts belonging to your friends on Facebook, Yahoo! and Gmail. Then, once you've subscribed to someone, you might start seeing their public actions (things like favorites, ratings and comments) in your Recent Activity module on your homepage (assuming they've set these preferences).this pageoff

Facebook: 46.2 years of videos watched a day

Orkut: 12.7 years of videos watched a day

MySpace: 5.6 years of videos watched a day

Hi5: 1.2 of years of videos watched a day

Chris Testa, Software Engineer, recently watched "I'm Yours(ukulele)," which his friend Jason posted into his Recent Activity via Facebook

Release Notes: Find Facebook Friends, Total Video Views & More

Monday, December 14, 2009

Find your Facebook friends and Yahoo contacts on YouTube:AutoShareallowed themselves to be found by their email address

Total video views: Cosmetic change to playlist display in search:

Recent Activity grouping/expansions: hereNew moderation options in Groups:GroupsKeyboard Cat fansNine Inch Nails enthusiasts

why not create a group todayThe YouTube Team

How We Think About Social

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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friend suggestions based on your Gmail address bookconnecting your YouTube account to social networksAutoShare feature

Over one million people are AutoSharing videos to Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader

Each AutoShared Tweet you send out from YouTube turns into an average of seven new sessions on YouTube.com

Over a million people have found and subscribed to at least one friend on YouTube based on our Friend Suggest feature

Most Tweeted video yesterday? Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance"

More than one million new subscriptions are created every day

herehereBrian Glick, Product Manager, recently watched "Michael Jackson - Beat It,"and James Phillips, Software Engineer, recently watched "New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less."

The Facebook Challenge: Day 60 - The End!

Monday, September 28, 2009

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Ramya Raghavan, Nonprofits Manager, recently watched "George Clooney Wants to Hear From You."

Release Notes: 9/17/09

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Friend suggestions: a previous postActivity subscriptions:

Trending Topics: our browse pages

Sticky HQ:

Effortless "More Comments":

New Discovery Features in Insight: InsightBiz Blog

Resume where you left off:

Subscriptions comes to Shows, Movie Trailers:movie trailers page

Poster art in Movies:our forum

The Facebook Challenge: Day 46

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

the race for the most Facebook fansFacebook groupearlier blog posthereRamya Raghavan, Nonprofits & Activism Manager, recently favorited "President Clinton Wants You to Submit a Question."

Coming Soon: Finding Your Friends on YouTube

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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Elizabeth Windram, Senior User Experience Designer, recently watchedFolding-Time at Burning Man 2005: One Month at The Man."

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