A couple of weeks ago we quietly launched a new and easier way to share private videos: now you can generate a special URL for your private video and send it to up to 25 people, who, assuming they’re logged in to YouTube, just have to click to view. Th…
Music Licensing: It’s complicated. Let’s face it. But today all of that is beside the point: we are happy to announce that Warner Music Group (WMG)’s artists are returning home to YouTube. Under this new, multi-year global agreement, you will be able…
We talked trash about giving ourselves two months to get more fans on Facebook than some well-known celebs, and though we’re now totaling 3.65 million fans and have gained nearly 600K since embarking upon this journey, we simply could not catch up to A…
We’d like to introduce you to the Creator’s Corner, a new hub for aspiring video-makers. This section of the site brings together all the information a budding artiste could want to know about making videos, including:video tutorials about actions on Y…
Favicon is short for “Favorites Icon” and it is a square icon that often appears in your Web browser’s address bar or in your list of bookmarks.An enterprising blogger at Typophile recently pointed out that our favicon was fairly unreadable in a post t…
This graph fascinated us and so we wanted to share. It shows the number of videos that receive specific star ratings: one star for when you loathe something, five for when you love it. Judging from this chart, it looks like some of you are moved to rat…
We’re back with a rundown of the new features and changes that went live recently:Friend suggestions: As mentioned in a previous post, we’ve started the first phase of the “find your friends” project with a module on the homepage that makes friend sugg…
“Choose a different ending” is an interactive video describing the life of a teenager trying to survive the slums of London. The story, which is shot from a first-person point of view, lets viewers control the hero’s actions (e.g. deciding whether or…
Lots of good news to report since we last spoke about Adopt a Feature v2. This round, the number of submissions to the program more than doubled — 76 videos were made about annotations, tags, Quicklist, mobile uploads, the customized homepage and a fe…
What will watching video be like a few years from now? That’s a question that we ask ourselves a lot here at YouTube. In a recent article in Forbes magazine, we shared a few ideas that we’ve been kicking around. We wanted to share them with you, too, a…
Pop-culture-ridiculing dolls, beautiful backstabbers, andone of the most popular talk show hosts on TV are headed to YouTube,thanks to a new partnership announced today with Time Warner. Throughthis deal, U.S. viewers will get a wide selectio…
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…
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, …
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…
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…