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Music Tuesday: Raphael Saadiq, Jane’s Addiction, PJ Harvey and more

10 Mayıs 2011 Salı

Live music, soul music, war music...this week, we bring you a little bit of everything. Let’s dive in!

Raphael Saadiq’s old soul
Before Amy Winehouse, before Sharon Jones, before a whole slew of singers realized there were still jewels to be mined from classic soul and R&B, Raphael Saadiq got it. The guy had been one third of Tony! Toni! Tone! in the 1990s, but in the years since, he’s reinvented himself, transforming from silky crooner into vintage soul man...and sought-after producer. His new album drops today, and to celebrate, he shares the sounds of kindred spirits, be they The Black Keys, the White Stripes or everybody in between.

Jane’s Addiction...live
We're bringing Jane's Addiction to Google I/O tonight, but no need to hunt for sold-out tickets. You can watch the band perform live tonight at 8 p.m. PT on youtube.com/googledevelopers. And while you're waiting, why not enjoy a few videos hand-picked for you by none other than Perry Ferrell and Dave Navarro? Their introductory video proves their rapport remains strong after all these years.

PJ Harvey “Let England Shake”
Polly Jean Harvey needs no introduction. The woman single-handedly resuscitated rock in the 1990s for a lot of fans; she’s fierce and uncompromising and she never stands still as an artist. Case in point: her new album. “Let England Shake” is a wide-ranging meditation on violence and war, and in commissioning a series of videos for the new album, she certainly isn’t blazing new ground -- we’ve recently profiled album-length films from R.E.M. and TV On The Radio -- but as always, nobody does it quite like PJ. Find out why.

Steve Earle “NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert”
Some may know him for his roles on HBO series like The Wire and Treme, but in fact, Steve Earle is the great unsung troubadour of this generation, a songwriter of uncommon humanity and grit. This live performance in NPR’s offices captures his wit, his irreverence, but most of all his talent.

Sarah Bardeen, Music Community Manager, recently watched “Steve Earle: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert.”

Get more into movies on YouTube

9 Mayıs 2011 Pazartesi

movie trailersScreening Roomlast year we announcedLife in a Dayyoutube.com/moviesCaddyshackGoodfellasScarfaceTaxi DriverInceptionThe King’s SpeechLittle FockersThe Green HornetDespicable Memovies on YouTubeYouTube.com/moviesCamille Hearst, Product Marketing Manager, recently watched "300" and Matt Darby, Product Manager, recently watched "The Matrix."

Welcome to the future of video. Please stay a while.

9 Mayıs 2011 Pazartesi

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This week's Trends: major news, proms, and the dougie

6 Mayıs 2011 Cuma

YouTube Trends

We tracked the reaction across the country following the President's address on the death of Osama bin Laden.

We studied how President Obama's correspondents' dinner remarks were the most watched ever on YouTube.

We catalogued 10 different, creative, and funny ways high school students asked each other to prom.

We looked into the the history of "the dougie" through YouTube searches.

We saw how college kids are celebrating finals week with flash mob dances.

And this "ultimate dog tease" became one of the week's most-shared clips:

www.YouTube.com/TrendsKevin Allocca, YouTube Trends Manager, recently watched "Shower Dudes - Wanton Song."

You old romantics you…72 million live streams in 188 countries for the Royal Wedding on YouTube

6 Mayıs 2011 Cuma

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website37.7 million page views from 13.7 million visitorsThe Royal ChannelCongratulations to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge!
Rachel Ball, partner development associate, recently watched “Best Wishes from Mr. McGrail's United States History Class.”

America’s Got Talent wants you

4 Mayıs 2011 Çarşamba

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youtube.com/agtLiuba Petkova, Marketing Programs Manager Entertainment & Film, recently watched “America's Got Talent YouTube Special - Jackie Evancho.”

CIS Fair Use legal experts answer questions about YouTube

4 Mayıs 2011 Çarşamba

Two weeks ago we offered the YouTube community the opportunity to ask leading fair use experts from Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS) questions about fair use. Using Google Moderator, more than 300 of you submitted 100+ questions and voted almost 3,000 times on the questions you wanted answered.

As expected, the questions varied dramatically, reflecting the diversity of content created and shared by YouTube users. Some of you wanted to know about dubbing over a cartoon, while others asked about adding commentary to video game play and someone else was hoping to create software tutorials using computer screencasts.

This week Anthony Falzone, Executive Director of the Fair Use project, and Julie Ahrens, Associate Director of the Fair Use project, answered a selection of the top voted questions (in the video’s description you can select which specific questions you want to see answered):

Thanks to all of you who submitted and voted on questions and please visit the YouTube Copyright Center if you have more questions.

(Full disclosure: Google provided start-up funding for the Fair Use Project, but has no involvement in the cases or positions that the project chooses to take.)

Will Houghteling is on the YouTube News and Politics team and recently watched “Seth Meyers at the White House Correspondents Dinner.”

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