YouTube has partnered with PBS to ask Americans to share their Election Day voting experiences on a new YouTube video channel, Video Your Vote. The initiative hopes to educate voters on the entire process and a wide array of issues associated with voting in America, while enabling the world to watch pivotal moments in this […]

The McCain/Palin campaign has found itself caught in a DMCA/Fair Use YouTube battle, after having campaign videos pulled from the site because of their use of copyrighted material. The campaign’s letter, embedded above, makes a great against the over-zealous enforcement of DMCA claims. Let’s hope that politicians getting ensnared in the DMCA/Fair Use battle will […]

Ever want to embed a YouTube video, but skip the boring parts? Here’s how you can do it.  YouTube’s embedded player has a parameter that you can use to specify the number of seconds that should be skipped before starting to play the video. Just add &start=[number of seconds from the start of the video] to […]

Google has announced that it’s shifting gears and testing full-length programming on YouTube.

This is a result of the problem we identified earlier this year: 97% of YouTube’s content is deadweight, financially, and Hulu is close to overtaking the site, as a result.

  I Want My Three Minutes Back is a new documentary film from Chuck Potter that looks into the world of online video. The film examines the phenomenon of online video through the stories of YouTube video creators, from Tay Zonday and his viral hit “Chocolate Rain”, to Judson Laipply’s “Evolution Of Dance”, the most viewed […]

YouTube has announced another option that it plans to use to make money off of its video library – “click-to-buy” links: Today, we’re taking our first steps to providing YouTube users with this kind of instant gratification, by adding “click-to-buy” links to the watch pages of thousands of YouTube partner videos. Click-to-buy links are non-obtrusive […]

YouTube today announced YouTube Alive, “a celebration of the site’s vast user communities; everyone from bedroom vloggers to world-famous rock stars, musicians, comedians, athletes, artists and more. Part concert, part variety show and part party, the event will bring to life many of the amazing videos and talent that YouTube viewers have already made popular […]

Google today announced updates to YouTube Insight’s analytics, adding a new feature, “Hot Spots”, that shows you the hottest scenes in your videos and also what’s not so hot.  The Hot Spots tab in Insight plays your video alongside a graph that shows the ups-and-downs of viewership at different moments within the video. Google determine […]

YouTube has announced an updated video uploader and bumped up the maximum file size for uploads. A random sample of YouTube users have already been using the beta version. YouTube is opening up the streamlined uploader to everyone; just login to your YouTube account and click this link to opt in. The new video upload […]

The Pulitzer Center has announced Project: Report, a citizen journalism contest intended to encourage non-professional journalists to use YouTube tell stories not covered by traditional media.  In each of the three rounds of Project: Report, reporters will be given an assignment to complete. Winners of each round will receive technology prizes from Sony VAIO & […]