Every second, one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube.
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 10:48 am by Jason Cartwright
What an amazing statistic, every single second that goes by, more than one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube. If you every thought you’d watch every video on YouTube, forget it, that reality passed a long time ago.
Google have created a site http://onehourpersecond.com to visualise this milestone. There’s some great data like ‘In 24 seconds of uploads to YouTube, one full day elapses, and the nyan cat says “Nyan” over 345,600 times.’
YouTube Channels get a facelift
Posted Friday, December 2, 2011 at 6:10 pm by Jason Cartwright
Along with pretty much every other Google property, YouTube Channels also now have a new lick of pixels. YouTube Channels are the home for videos that you create. The new design brings consistency with the rest of the YouTube redesign that started rolling out earlier in the week.
Owners of channels can now set a featured video at the top of their channel, similar to the cover at the top of your Facebook timeline, it’s just this one is video. There’s now some interesting choices that channel owners have, including the option to set that featured video to autoplay. I’m begging you, please don’t do this and turn YouTube into the next MySpace.
The new design also features 3 tabs at the top of the page, Featured which is the default, Feed and Videos. The Videos tab provides a fantastic thumbnail view for visitors and subscribers to get a quick overview of all the videos you upload.
While the redesign of Google Reader was heavily criticised, I think the new UI for YouTube should be commended. Over the past few days I actually find myself engaging in new behaviour, visiting YouTube as a destination. Something that used to be reserved as a ‘sometimes activity’ to fill in time, YouTube videos are now presented in a way that allows users to catch up on what’s new.
In some ways YouTube now feels like it has the makings for a DVR replacement. After subscribing to your favourite content, it is now surfaced to the top making sure you never miss an episode.
Also don’t forget to subscribe to techAU on YouTube.
How to get the new YouTube now!
Posted Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 10:32 pm by Jason Cartwright
Following on from Google’s continued interface redesigns from G+ to Google Reader, now YouTube seems next on the list. The new design is being rolled out, but if you want to check it out right now, you can. Simply follow the instructions below and you will get to the new redesign.
Unfortunately this only sets a temporary cookie which is removed when you close the browser. That issue aside, after spending a few minutes with it, I’ve got to say I like the redesign. The left navigation panel is clean and simple, videos from your subscriptions or YouTube trends list in the middle and related or recommended videos on the right. It’s clean, simple and works really well.
Even the accounts section got a UI overhaul to match the new design. The only complain i have is that it doesn’t take advantage of widescreen monitors to display more content.
Instructions
1. Go to http://www.youtube.com/
2. Press Ctrl + Shift and J in Chrome to open the Developer Tools
Press Ctrl+Shift+K in Firefox
3. Click on the "Console" Tab and enter
document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=ST1Ti53r4fU";
4. Reload the website and enjoy the new layout.
Update
The trick also works with IE9, just hit F12 for the developer tools and pull up the Console tab, then follow the rest of the steps.
Can YouTube take on television ?
Posted Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 3:48 pm by Jason Cartwright
YouTube just announced with a blog post, that they are bringing loads or new original content via new YouTube channels. The new channels will be created by well-known personalities and content producers as well as some of the most innovative up-and-coming media companies and some of YouTube’s own existing partners.
The first of these new original channels will appear on YouTube starting next month and continuing over the next year. They’ll be available on any internet-connected device, with all the normal interactivity and social features of YouTube built right in.
While no details of financial arrangements between YouTube and content creators has been detailed, Google do reference their partner grants program announced in July. So is this the IPTV platform to challenge traditional over-the-air broadcast and Pay TV services ? For more information and to sign-up for updates, head to http://www.youtube.com/creators/original-channels.html
Portal: No Escape video sweeping the internet by storm.
Posted Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 9:12 am by Jason Cartwright
Created by Dan Trachtenberg of Totally Rad show fame, a new video titled Portal: No Escape is sweeping the internet by storm. This just got posted and has only 302 views right now.. expect this to grow extremely fast over the next few days.
Update
There is a bug with the YouTube view count which is making the number inaccurate.
It’s recommended you view this one in HD kids, so if your internet isn’t up to it, let it buffer, then enjoy.
40 Million views, Rebecca Black–Friday
Posted Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 10:54 pm by Jason Cartwright
Some people call it the most annoying song in history, with lyrics written by a 6 year old. Say what you will, but the Rebecca Black – Friday video is about to reach 40 Million views on YouTube. There’s no denying that this is a runaway success for all the wrong reasons. Add to the view count more than 283,000 comments and you get a sense of just how insane this video has become, all in 13 days.
In comparison, the most viewed video of All Time on YouTube is Aerosmith – I don’t want to miss a thing video clip with 75,872,782 views. The difference is those 35 million extra views have taken 4 years to achieve. Thanks to YouTube’s advertisement program, the creators of the video should be filling a few piggy banks with the proceeds.
Even parody videos are reaching great success with this (probably the best) metal version has more than 1.2 million views.
