Bon Jovi lived on a prayer: that you would determine the set list for their concert tonight. And you heeded that call: 1,494 of you submitted 1,733 questions and cast nearly 25,000 votes to determine what those songs would be. So tune in to www.youtube…
Howcast is changing it up this week, and Heather Menicucci’s weekly series on filmmaking in the digital age will resume next Friday.Help Howcast find our first video blogger! We’re looking for someone to produce, edit and host our new video blog tak…
Well, we know Will.i.am does after he called out the Korean girl group 2NE1 on YouTube earlier this year. If you are not familiar with K-POP, check out some of the top Korean music labels like YG Entertainment, SM Entertainment and JYP Entertainment, t…
Meet Emilynoel83, a morning news anchor who’s also a “makeup addict” who loves to make videos about beauty products. Today she’s on our homepage. And you put her there. Last week, we announced a new initiative to give rising channels greater visibi…
Heather Menicucci, Director, Howcast Filmmakers Program, is writing weekly guest posts for the YouTube blog on filmmaking in the digital age. You can catch up on previous posts here.Last week, we made some arguments for why quality matters in web video…
Next Wednesday, November 10, at 8 p.m. ET, Bon Jovi will give an exclusive performance at New York’s Best Buy Theater, streamed live to the world on the band’s YouTube channel: www.YouTube.com/BonJovi. With the help of YouTube’s Moderator tool, f…
Freddie Wong and his production partner, Brandon Laatsch, describe themselves as “just some cool dudes making sweet vids with rad FX!” And if you’ve ever seen their action-packed, colorfully explosive videos, you know this to be true. Wong is sta…
Footage of natural wonders can be awe-inspiring, but many of our planet’s most striking environments are at risk. Our new Planet Inspired program, presented by The North Face, gives you the opportunity to celebrate the natural world and highlight envir…
With it being Halloween season and all, we’ve got an especially spoooooky edition of Release Notes for you. First-ever user-designed Doodle: You may have noticed that once in a while, we change our homepage logo to match a special occasion — for examp…
Tech demos. They’ve been around as long as… well, technology. They’re helpful. They’re useful. They’re also a little boring. That’s why tech demos often go overlooked by so many people. Unfortunately, it’s generally the people who could b…
Heather Menicucci, Director, Howcast Filmmakers Program, is writing weekly guest posts for the YouTube blog on filmmaking in the digital age. You can catch up on previous posts here.Since I started working in web video, the most common misconception I …
Early on (we’re talking ’06 here, people!), the yellow subscribe button made its debut so the latest videos from your favorite channels could make a beeline to your YouTube homepage/eager eyes. Today, the button that’s been immortalized as a throw cu…
More and more of our YouTube partners are hitting subscriber numbers in the 100,000s and even in the 1,000,000s. We want to help more of you to get to those kind of subscriber numbers, which is why we’re starting a new monthly feature called “On th…
Heather Menicucci, Director, Howcast Filmmakers Program, is writing weekly guest posts for the YouTube blog on filmmaking in the digital age. You can catch up on previous posts here.Today being a filmmaker is more and more about using tools other than …
Today we announce the jury selection for YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video with the Guggenheim.It was our goal to reach the widest possible audience, inviting individuals from around the world to submit a video for consideration. While our ori…