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Football, hot wings, cars, commercials

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Garlic Ginger Chicken WingsAd Blitz Pre-Game programNFL Playoff coveragetrash talkrecipesAndrew Bangs, Sports Manager, recently watched "Onion SportsDome".

Music videos now on YouTube app for Android

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

VEVO’sNexus S

Music videos are now clearly marked with a ‘music note’ badge

While enjoying the video you can read ‘artist bio’

It’s easy to discover more tracks from the same artist using ‘artist tracks’ tab

You’ll find similar cool bands on the ‘related artists’ tab

In addition to these features, tens of thousands of YouTube partner videos will also now have pre-roll ads appear on the YouTube 2.0 app for Android. This not only expands distribution opportunities for partners like VEVO, but also opens up more revenue to partners distributing their content to mobile. Although we’ve tested ads on mobile over the years, this is our largest step in mobile monetization to date.
surpass $1 billion

As the world goes mobile and more people watch videos on their smart phones, we expect more partners will take advantage of these new mobile advertising capabilities and make more of their content available across more devices.

Our next step is to let partners run ads more broadly across other mobile platforms, beyond Android native apps.

Andrey Doronichev, YouTube Mobile Product Manager, recently watched “Zaz, la toy session : je veux”

Meet the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011

Monday, January 10, 2011

336 finalists selected last monthMichael Tilson Thomas and composer Mason Batesvuvuzela-fixated trombonistArizona-based clarinetistGuzheng player from China

We called for auditionsthe channelYouTube Symphony channelApple App StoreSynergy: Unsung Heroes

On the Rise: Help these users get on the homepage!

Friday, January 7, 2011

On the RiseYouTube homepagevideos pageFacebookTwitteremilynoel83justjesse197Michael ArandaLuke ConardTori Kelly Josh SundquistMia Quagliarello, Community Manager, recently watched “Taylor Momsen escapes paparazzi.”

The ad your ads could look like: Looking back at the best YouTube ads of 2010

Friday, January 7, 2011

YouTube RewindOld Spice "The Man Your Man Could Smell Like"Old Spice’s Twitter response campaignExperts sayAdWeekLesson learnedNike "Write the Future"Lesson learnedTipp-Ex "NSFW. A hunter shoots a bear!"Burger King Subservient ChickenExperts saymashableLesson learnedHell Pizza, “Deliver Me to Hell“Experts sayNewTeeVeeLesson learnedvideo annotationsToyota "Swagger Wagon"Lesson learnedToy Story 3, “Lots-o-Huggin' Bear Commercial” Experts sayClickZLesson learnedEric Meyerson, Video Business Marketing Lead, recently watched "Complete History of The Soviet Union, Arranged to the Melody of Tetris."

A sneak peek at “Life in a Day”

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Life in a Day2011 Sundance Film Festival

Life in a Day channelTim Partridge, Product Marketing Manager, recently watched Homeless Man with Golden Radio Voice."

Your window into the 112th Congress

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Just after Representative John Boehner was sworn in as the 61st Speaker of the House earlier today, he and new House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa made an early move to make the activities of the House of Representatives more accessible to citizens via YouTube. Starting in this 112th Congress, all committee hearings of the House Oversight committee will be available on YouTube, on a new channel called HouseResourceOrg. This is the first congressional committee to ever put all of its hearings online, and the new Speaker hopes it’s the first step towards getting all House committee hearings available to all citizens on the web.

This was made possible via a Google Project 10^100 grant made to Carl Malamud at PublicResource.org, who will be working with the House to access and upload all of the hearings that the Oversight Committee holds each week. PublicResource.org will also upload hundreds of hours of archived content. Where transcripts are available from the House, they'll be uploaded along with the videos, using YouTube's auto-timing capabilities to automatically create accurate captions through voice recognition. Thanks to the reuse of these uploaded transcripts, PublicResource.org videos with captions will be fully searchable, and the captions can be auto-translated into over 50 languages.

Here’s an example of the types of videos you’ll see on the new channel – if you go to the video page, you can see the interactive transcript in the upper-right hand corner of the clip:

As always, you can access the individual channels of Members of Congress at youtube.com/househub and youtube.com/senatehub.

Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, recently watched “U.S. Policy towards Iran.”

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