What’s new on YouTube since we last met? Let us count the things…”Playlist Bar” launch: Last week, we introduced the “Playlist Bar”: when you view a playlist, recommended videos (from the homepage), your subscriptions or your favorites, you’ll see a …
While we enjoy looking ahead and thinking big, we also take to heart the famous quote from George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” That’s why for this week’s session of YouTube Summer School, we’re takin…
Today our Facebook page hit an important milestone: over 10 million of you have clicked that “Like” button, making us more popular than Cristiano Ronaldo and — whoa — music?! Here’s a special message to anyone who’s ever clicked the thumb’s…
We want YouTube to be the best place to upload video. Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. We’ve heard you, and today we’re pleased to announce that we’ve increased the upl…
Get your eyeliner sharpened, your mascara pumped, your hair ready to be oh-so-carefully tussled — today, we’re launching our first-ever beauty program, “Destination Beauty,” sponsored by L’Oréal Paris. The year-long initiative will feature a constant…
Welcome back, life-long learners! We’re in our third week here at YouTube Summer School and today we’re shifting gears again. After our lovely stroll through the art gallery of YouTube EDU, we’re headed to the hall of mathematics and will be crun…
As you could probably guess, we’re really excited about the imminent launch of Google TV. You can learn more about this initiative here, but it’s basically a new way to watch TV by seamlessly integrating the Web and TV into one incredible viewing exp…
On behalf of Ridley Scott, Kevin Macdonald, LG, the Sundance Film Festival and all of us at YouTube, thank you to everyone who took part in “Life in a Day.” Using the footage you shot, Kevin will now begin to build the world’s largest user-genera…
Hello, music lover, meet “Unstaged,” a new five-part concert series brought to you by YouTube, American Express and VEVO. Each performance will not only be streamed live on YouTube, but it will also have unique on- and offline components to enterta…
Alright, alright…settle down, class. It’s time for another session of YouTube Summer School.You’ll remember that the semester started last week with a deep-dive into physics; now we’re on to a loftier subject — art! Our educational platform, Y…
“YouTube Answers” is a series we began in April to introduce you to a variety of people who work here and give you the chance to ask us questions about a broad topic relevant to the site. Camille Hearst and Shenaz Zack bravely went first, to answer…
School’s out for summer, but around here we’re (nerd alert) still pretty excited about numbers, facts and learning in general. And it looks like we’re not alone. More than half a million people are now subscribed to YouTube EDU channels, and sinc…
Following YouTube’s acquisition by Google in 2006, new YouTube signups were given the choice between two different account systems to power their YouTube experience: the original YouTube account system (built in 2005) or the Google Account system.In …
Wow. Let’s hope vlogbrothers Hank and John Green are somewhere tropical right now, resting up after the coup they just pulled off in Vidcon 2010. The sold-out online video conference took over L.A.’s Hyatt Regency Century Plaza from July 9 -11 in a…
Today at the VidCon 2010 conference, we announced support for videos shot in 4K, meaning that now we support original video resolution from 360p all the way up to 4K. To give some perspective on the size of 4K, the ideal screen size for a 4K video is 2…