YouTube BlogLatest Announcements From YouTubeTrendspotting Tuesday: Awesomely Annotated- September 16, 2008 Back in June, we launched Video Annotations, a feature that allows you to add background information, create branching ("choose your own adventure" style) stories or add links to any YouTube video, channel, or search results page -- at any point in your video. Being the creative lot you are, we should have anticipated all of the amazing uses that you would have found for this feature: you are putting it to work to create elaborate narratives and games, teaching tools, promotional enhancements,.http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=1jZQsyfafTo Animated Mondays- September 15, 2008 Stretching the limits of our imaginations and endlessly wowing us with their dazzling visuals, animators constitute one of the most creative -- and sprawling -- communities on YouTube. That's why we're devoting every Monday's Film & Animation spotlight to a YouTube animator in a feature we're calling "Animated Mondays." We figure there's no better way to start the week than with a healthy dose of mind-twisting storytelling, as only YouTube's finest can provide. Kicking things off, funymony...http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=57fwBqHX9Vg Rise of the "Staycation"- September 14, 2008 The summer of 2008 might be remembered more for where people didn't go than where they did. Rising gas prices and sluggish economies forced many people to give up their originally ambitious vacation plans in lieu of options that weren't so hard on the wallet. Enter the "staycation." As the YouTube community so often proves, it's all about how creative you can be with the resources available to you. Finding and forging adventures in their own backyards, countless users documented just how...http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=buYCsLPHjVo Help Center Videos Made By You: Call for Submissions- September 13, 2008 YouTube is, well, a video product. So we thought, why not use videos to provide help to our users That's where you come in... We know you know how to make informative, creative videos -- the site's full of them. We're asking you to use your skills to create videos that we can embed in our Help Center. If selected, your video will be seen by many of the 1 million+ users who visit the Help Center each day! To participate, here's what you need to do: 1. Decide which Help Center entries you'd...http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=HcVT-1cXfbM New Features For Channels: Category Browsing & Comments Moderation- September 12, 2008 New features for channels we hope you dig: BROWSE CHANNELS BY CATEGORY All channels are now categorized so you can more easily find your favorite creators and videos. On the Channels page, under All, you can browse for channels uploading videos to categories like Film & Animation, News & Politics, Sports, etc. You can also use this functionality to filter your results to show Partners only. MODERATE COMMENTS ON YOUR CHANNEL Now you can moderate all comments other users leave on your channel.http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=JLC3auqqYTs |