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YouTube highlights – 11/18/2010
November 18, 2010
This is the latest in our series of YouTube highlights. Every couple of weeks, we bring you regular updates on new product features, interesting programs to watch, and tips you can use to grow your audience on YouTube. Just look for the label “
YouTube Highlights
” and subscribe to the series. – Ed.
Since our last update, we’ve reached a new milestone in video uploads, seen new comedy and music programs launch, and shared a new, more “cinematic” YouTube viewing experience with Google Chrome. Read about all of it below.
35 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute
Remember in March when we shared that more than 24 hours of video was being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, our users continue to amaze us, and as of last week,
35 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
. If we were to measure that in movie terms (assuming the average Hollywood film is around 120 minutes long), it’s the equivalent of more than 176,000 full-length Hollywood releases every week.
Laugh along with us and Comedy Thunder
NextNewNetworks
, the YouTube partner responsible for bringing original content like
Obama Girl
and
Key of Awesome
to YouTube, recently launched a new series called “
Comedy Thunder
.” Eight comedy teams and comedians will each post a video based on a specific theme that changes every week. Here’s one of the latest videos:
Do you love K-POP?
Korean pop music or “
K-POP
” has earned millions of fans around the world. MBC, a major TV network in Korea, has joined with YouTube to search the world for the
next big K-POP talent
. Check out some of the top Korean music labels like
YG Entertainment
,
SM Entertainment
and
JYP Entertainment
for inspiration before submitting an audition video. Don’t worry if you don’t speak Korean;
you can audition
in any language.
The Mexican Revolution on YouTube
November 20 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Mexican Revolution and we’ll
observe that anniversary on YouTube
by celebrating a new revolution: Mexican film-making. Thanks to YouTube partner
Mubi
, we’ll present feature film
Revolución
, made up of 10 individual shorts that explore the topic of Mexico’s revolution from celebrated filmmakers such as Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna, Carlos Reygadas, Rodrigo Garcia and Patricia Riggen. You’ll also have the opportunity to get your questions answered by the filmmakers using Google Moderator for YouTube.
Google Chrome browser extensions for YouTube
For you movie buffs out there,
we did some research
and found a few handy
Chrome extensions
that can make your YouTube viewing experience more “cinematic.” For example,
Window Expander for YouTube
maximizes YouTube videos to fill your entire browser. With
Turn Off the Lights
, you can make the entire page outside the video fade to dark like you’re in a movie theater. The
OpinionCloud
extension summarizes comments on YouTube, so you can quickly get the crowd’s overall opinion.
The Google Chrome team also recently released an extension called
YouTube Feed
, which notifies you whenever new videos are available in your YouTube homepage feed. You can directly access, rate and like videos—right in your browser.
Give YouTube Topics on Search a whirl
We know that sometimes people come to YouTube looking for a specific video, but at other times, they have only a rough idea of the kind of videos they want. We’ve been there too, and have been thinking for a while about this challenge of searching when you don’t yet know exactly what you’re looking for.
Here’s
our take on how discovery for videos could work on YouTube in the not-too-distant future. Find out what happens when we search for [LOL] and [cat] to find funny cat videos.
YouTube marketing tips for advertisers
Many businesses use YouTube to get the word out about their company, launch a new product or connect with customers.
Orabrush
has earned 13 million video views from
a video made for just $500
about its tongue-cleaner, and has used YouTube along with
Google AdWords
to achieve more than $1 million in sales. The Orabrush team offered five tips for success in this
recorded webcast
with AdAge.
And finally—if you missed the
live-streamed Bon Jovi concert
, you can still catch it on the band’s YouTube channel. To stay-up-to-date on YouTube news and events, visit us on the
YouTube Blog
.
Posted by Serena Satyasai, Marketing Manager, The YouTube Team
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