August 18th, 2009 | by Nate Weinstein | published in Youtube
Is there anything better than kicking back to a great movie with a bucket of popcorn and a few of your closest friends? How about kicking back to a great movie with a bucket of popcorn and a few thousand of your YouTube buddies? This Wednesday night, A…
YouTube Gear for Sale
August 18th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
We are pleased to announce that finally there is a way for you to get YouTube swag! Our new online store has just launched at http://www.googlestore.com/youtube, and it’s stocked with T-shirts, hats, hoodies, notepads, and more. Big favorites around th…
The Facebook Challenge: Day 14
August 14th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
It’s been two weeks since we started talking trash here about whooping some celebrity butt on Facebook. Nearly 140K of you have joined our group since the announcement. That’s pretty good! But our celebrity foes’ followings are growing alongside ours, …
August 13th, 2009 | by Nate Weinstein | published in Youtube
Update (8/15) Thanks to everyone who voted. Here are the final results of the poll. +++This summer marks the 25th anniversary of the film that put “crossing the streams,” Gozer the Gozerian, and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man on the map. An instant quo…
August 13th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Do small changes make a big difference? In the world of landing page testing, they certainly can. A few weeks ago, we ran one of the largest multivariate experiments ever: a 1,024 recipe experiment on 100% of our US-English homepage. Utilizing Google W…
"Just-in-Time" Learning About Flagged Videos
August 13th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
Sometimes it happens. You’ve read the Community Guidelines, you think you understand the rules, and you upload videos that you believe comply with them. Then one day you receive a message from us informing you that one of your videos has “been disabled…
Masthead Undergoes Redesign
August 12th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
You may notice something looks a little different about our masthead (top navigational area on the homepage) today, and that’s because we’ve done a bit of housecleaning. We’ve streamlined and simplified the design to focus on the primary experience of …
August 6th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
As more and more people are using the browser on their smartphones forchecking email, visiting websites, and even accessing YouTube, we wantto make sure that we provide the best possible YouTube experience on yourmobile browser. Today we released a new…
August 4th, 2009 | by Nate Weinstein | published in Youtube
Reservoir Dogs, Requiem for a Dream, and Half Nelson topped critics’ lists when they came out, but before they achieved this recognition, they were all workshopped at the Sundance Directors Lab. Since its inception, the world’s most famous film worksho…
August 3rd, 2009 | by Steve | published in Youtube
News is nothing without context, and video is no exception. Helping you discover and watch news videos that are relevant to the stories of the day or to the issues unfolding in your neighborhood is one of our big goals when it comes to YouTube News &am…
August 1st, 2009 | by Ramya | published in Youtube
Tough economic times haven’t stopped some of YouTube’s most recognizable faces from giving back to organizations they care about; many YouTube partners are donating time and money to ensure that nonprofits thrive during the recession.For example, KevJu…
July 31st, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
OK, Ashton might have more followers on Twitter thanwe do, but we’re not going quietly into the night. Let’s take afriendly celebrity tussle to Facebook, shall we? where we’ve got the 12th most popular Product/Celebrity fan page(thankyouverym…
July 30th, 2009 | by Andrew Bangs | published in Youtube
The world’s premiere action sports event, X Games 15, starts today in Los Angeles with a slew of competitions, including street park and vert ramp skateboarding, BMX, motocross, rally car and more — and we’ll have all the jaw-dropping, mind-exploding…
Can You "Express Yourself" Without Showing Your Face?
July 27th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
YouTube offers manydifferent routes to self-expression, with countless individuals sharingtheir lives on our site every day. While creativity can be its ownreward, it never hurts to receive a little recognition for yourefforts. HP’s You on You project …
ComicCon Gets Collected
July 25th, 2009 | by Mia | published in Youtube
If you’re a fan of superheroes, blockbuster movies and eye-popping sci-fi costumes, San Diego’s ComicCon is something of a big deal — big enough that YouTube users Charlieissocoollike and communitychannel traveled all the way from England and Australi…