Lady Gaga Official YouTube Channel Suspended

Lady Gaga's official YouTube channel was suspended hours ago. Gaga has two accounts on YouTube. Except the official channel, she also has her VEVO channel, which has 1.6 billion views and is still available. The removed account, "ladygagaofficial", has 149,010,799 views.

People who visited the channel will get this message: " This account has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's Copyright Policy." YouTube declined to elaborate on the account suspension event.

According to a statement from Time Out Tokyo, Gaga's official YouTube account was suspended because "she posted footage from her recent appearance on the Fuji TV show SMAP x SMAP. The ten-minute performance featured a medley of songs from her new album, Born This Way, laced with Japan-themed ad libs". A Japanese firm titled "Media Interactive Inc." sent the copyright-infringement claim to YouTube and was responsible for the account suspension.

According to YouTube's policy, suspended account can be restored after the copyright-infringement content is removed. So I think Gaga's official YouTube account will be restored sson.

Lady Gaga is one of the most popular artists on YouTube. Gaga was the first person reaching 1 billion views milestone on YouTube's history. Having 1.6 billion views, her videos are the second most-viewed videos on YouTube. Artist who has the most-viewed videos on YouTube is Justin Bieber, having totally 1.7 billion views to date.

YouTube Invites Users to Test Its New Playlist Player

YouTube is going to update its video player with brand new playlist and is asking users to test this new feature. We might be rather familiar with video playlist player, as we've seen video players with playlists on a lot of video sharing websites. And finally, YouTube is also ready to put on this favorable feature.

Jeff Posnick from YouTube API Team announced the above news on YouTube API Blog on July 14, 2011. Posnick said that they've completely rewritten the embedded player to enable users to embed the player on their web pages with the playlist, which consists of a series of related videos. The rendering is shown in the picture below:

To enable the playlist, you need to add "&version=3" to the end of the URL in the embed code. Here is an example:
http://www.youtube.com/p/E46798C874B35B7F?fs=1&version=3

You might have noticed the red switch button under the control bar. If you try to click on it, the thumbnail playlist will hide; click it again will trigger the player to show the thumbnail player again.

Note that it's under test. When the testing period ends on July 20, the playlist will be automatically added to the player. At that time, you don't need to add "&version=3" string to the embed code to activate the video playlist.

What's your opinion about the playlist player? You can write it down in the comment below.

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YouTube Enables YUsers to Create Videos with Third-Party Applications

Nowadays some companies make use of YouTube API to let users to create animations by themselves on web pages, and upload the animaions to YouTube. This is a good idea. YouTube decided to launch a channel, where users can create videos with some third-party applications. The channel is here: http://www.youtube.com/create


For example, Xtranormal Movie Maker lets you to turn anything you type into a fully-animated CG movie. Stupeflix Video Maker enables you to tell a story with your digital content. GoAnimate is a fun app that lets you make animated videos, for free, in just 10 minutes, without having to draw. One True Media is a powerful video creator.

Here is a developer who made and uploaded its own application to the channel and successfully improved traffic:


Developers can upload your own application to the channel in case that the application meet the YouTube requirements which are listed here.

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YouTube Options for Google Chrome™ Disables In-Video Ads

YouTube is the largest video-sharing website on this planet. Chrome is one of the most popular web browser on PC. People like to watch videos on YouTube in spare time. Developers make lots of Chrome extensions for YouTube. What I want to say is a newly released Chrome extension for YouTube called "YouTube Options for Google Chrome™", which disables those annoying features on YouTube, which is very useful and awesome.

"YouTube Options for Google Chrome™" is rather powerful that it offers options for YouTube users to block in-video ads, hide comments, disable annotations, change background color of video page, set all YouTube connections to HTTPS and your preferred viewing resolution. This extension even allows users to download YouTube videos with an added link below a YouTube video.

Besides YouTube, this extension also supports some other video sites, such as Vimeo, DailyMotion, Funny or Die, etc. However, most features of this extension are developed specifically for YouTube.

You can download "YouTube Options for Google Chrome™" extension from Chrome Web Store. The latest version is 1.8.23 and was released on Tuesday, June 21, 2011. This is the link -
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bdokagampppgbnjfdlkfpphniapiiifn#

Note that the above version of this extension can't download YouTube videos. The full version that supports YouTube video downloading is available at the developer's site –
https://spoi.com/software/yto/

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Views of YouTube Movie Trailers Mainly Come from Advertisement

Movie trailers have become one of the most-viewed videos on YouTube. Trailer of a blockbuster can get millions of views. But the fact is that most of the these views come from paid advertising. To promote a movie, movie trailer is one of the way. There are also other ways for the promotion, such as pre-roll ads in a video or paid links. For example, trailer of Conan The Barbarian has garnered 5.5 million views. If you click the "Show video statistics" icon next to the views number, you'll find that 4.98 out of those views come from ads. As the picture shown below:

Similarly, view count of X-Men trailer reaches 2.4 million, but nearly 2 million views are from ad. Another example is Rise of the Planet of The Apes' trailer. Its view count is 7 million, but approximately 5.8 million views can be sourced from ad views.

Not all advertisement can generate traffic, but many of them are efficient: ads on the home page, promoted videos such as teasers, skippable TrueView ads, etc. Compared with the traditional pre-roll video ads, TrueView ads can drive more traffic to the target video page.

Tip:
1.what is TrueView ad?
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YouTube Tests Reactions Buttons

Sources said that YouTube is tesing a new feature for the comment section. This feature enables users to express their opinion about a video without typing any words. The new comment system contains six buttons, including LOL, OMG, EPIC, CUTE, WTF and FAIL. Users just need to press one of the six buttons to make their reactions to the video they just played.

Previously, YouTube has already put links in the comment section to some network spoken words, such as "LOL", "CUTE", etc, so that users can search video comments with the similar words.

Blogspot has a similar feature that was pre-existing. The difference is that blog authors can edit the reactions tags.


YouTube is making progress everyday. The video site constantly launches new features to video viewers and publishers to make it a better place for video sharing. Last week, YouTube launches the BoxOffice channel for Indian people to watch free blockbusters.


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YouTube India Launches BoxOffice - the Exclusive Movie Channel

India movie fans' rejoice! On YouTube, a new movie channel exclusively for Indians called "BoxOffice" just premiered today. If you live in India, now you can watch the latest Indian blockbusters online in the "BoxOffice" channel totally for free! The BoxOffice is here - http://www.youtube.com/BoxOffice

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Previously, there've already been a dedicated Indian movies channel available on YouTube. But the movies in that channel are rather old, which has been far from enough to satisfy Indian people's demand. Different from the old movie channel, the "BoxOffice" channel newly launched today serves Indian people with the latest high-definition movies for free. The first movie on the channel is the latest hit "Band Baaja Baaraat".

The "BoxOffice" will stream one premium movie a month and features other popular movies from the YouTube catalogue of movies which includes over 1500 titles including regional language films. The new channel is available for only Indian users, so other countries' IP will be blocked from viewing the movie content.

The "BoxOffice" movie channel is ad-sponsored. Vendors who sponsor the channel have the channce to showcase their YouTube channel videos, promos and campaigns.

Gautam Anand, Director Content Partnerships for YouTube Japan-APAC is optimistic with the initiative and said:

We wish to create a destination for users which is easily discoverable and also help our content partners get more viewers for their premium content. With over 48 hours of content being uploaded on YouTube every minute, this is our attempt to curate premium and exclusive content which our users enjoy. This initiative also opens up a new window of opportunities for marketers to utilize the platform and engage the YouTube community.

YouTube Editor Launches Creative Commons License for Better Video Sharing and Remixing

Good news! YouTube launches an amazing feature for video creators today.

Stace Peterson, Software Engineer of YouTube made an announcement earlier today in a post of YouTube Official Blog unveiling that the video site launches a new license for user-created videos called "Creative Commons", which gives YouTube users the right to share and remix videos marked with the new license.

What does it mean? Generally, we can directly use part of or the whole videos marked with Creative Common license in our own videos. The Creative Common-license videos can be found in YouTube Editor CC tab section. The link is http://youtube.com/editor.


I found a YouTube video introducing the new Creative Common license. Here it is and you can download it with Leawo YouTube Downloader.


It's really a good news for mashup video creators such as DJ Earworm, the man who made the "Mashup of Top 25 Billboard Hits" video. As it offers users a convenient way to make their own pop videos from others' and don't have to worry about the copyright issues.

So far there are totally about 10,000 Creative Commons-licensed videos in the library, which are established by YouTube, C-SPAN, Public.Resource.org, Voice of America, Al Jazeera and others. Just feel free to remix them to your own video projects.

According to Stace Peterson's post, there are something more about the Creative Commons license videos:

1. Videos incorporated with Creative Commons license content will automatically show the source videos' titles underneath the video player.


2. You are permitted to create Creative Commons-licensed videos so that other YouTubers can remix or reuse your works in their projects. To do so, just choose the 'Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)' option on the upload page or on the Video Description page.


That's all for the Creative Commons license. Have a nice weekend:)

YouTube Tests New Ad Scheme 'First Watch'

Online video giant YouTube is just getting bigger and bigger. More and more companies want to improve their awareness through YouTube. Also, YouTube has been working on its advertising efficiency. It's said that YouTube is tesing a new advertisement scheme called 'First Watch'. So far there have been only two reports about the new advertising program. So I'm going to pick the keypoints from these two reports.

The first report is posted by New York Times. Below are the keypoints of this report:
1. Recently, more and more Internet users' attitude towards 'pre-roll' ad over a video have softened.
2. The new ad program 'First Watch' is to expand the opportunities for advertisers. This kind of ad appears only once when a user views a video on YouTube the first time each day.
3. 'First Watch' is currently rather successful. As Baljeet Singh, senior product manager for video monetization at YouTube said:"The commercials on the youtube.com home page have been "highly successful[..]"
4. The First Watch program is only available to YouTube partners.
5. Here are some advertisers who have been involved in 'First Watch': Tommy Hilfiger, Hotels.com, the Lifetime cable channel, the Macy's unit of Macy's Inc. and Virgin Mobile.
6. The new ad delivery scheme is generating click through rates at about 1 percent, which is higher than normal advertising.
7. The advertisers declined to discuss what YouTube was charging them for the First Watch preroll. But it's "but less expensive" than YouTube YouTube charges normally.

The second report is from the TheNextWeb.com. Generally, it has some similar views with the first report. So I will not go into the detail of it.

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YouTube Journalists Memorial Channel Launched to Remember Journalists Died of Work

Every morning when we spread out newspapers or open news websites to read what's happening all over the world, we're reading news or events covered by journalists, whose job is to find out newsworthy things happen around us and the truth behind these things. We might have got used to reading news and seldom think of the price paid to obtain them. Sometimes journalists have to risk of being arrested or even killed when they try to cover some important events. The fact is that every year there have been journalists got killed or imprisoned on line of duty.

YouTube has been developing rapidly since it was founded. It is the biggest video sharing websites and serves video streams uploaded by people all over the world. YouTube is not only a place where you can find and share interesting short video clips, but also plays an important part in many areas, such as culture, society and Politics with its all kinds of channels.

Steve Grove, Head of YouTube News and Politics announced the official launch of Journalists Memorial Channel on YouTube. Grove made the announcement on YouTube blog yesterday. "This channel will become a digital version of the Newseum's Journalists Memorial, which is re-dedicated annually to honor journalists worldwide who have died during the preceding year. This year, 77 names are being added to the list of the more than 2,000 journalists who have been recognized for their sacrifices since 1837", as Grove said in the post.

Check this if you want to download the video above.

Grove also ask volunteers to find out and submit videos about journalists taking big risk doing their work to the channel, which currently has totally 11,192 views. By this way, the channel can collect more videos about fallen journalists and pay more tribute to them.

YouTube Movie Rental Service Streams 3000 More Movies

Salar Kamangar, Head of YouTube announced that the video site was adding 3000 more movies to its movie rental channel for the users in the U.S.. Kamangar wrote a post about the news on YouTube blog on May 9. From now on, you can watch blockbusters such as The King's Speech at home as long as you open YouTube and pay a few dollars for the movie streaming service.

The newly added 3000 movies are streamed via the new partnership with known studios include Warner Bros, Universal and Sony Pictures. New movies available include Oscar-winner The King's Speech, Inception, The Green Hornet, Little Fockers and Despicable Me.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Rentals at YouTube start at $2.99 for library titles and $3.99 for new releases. Renters have 30 days to watch their chosen film but only 24 hours to finish once they have begun streaming."

"..you're spending just 15 minutes a day on YouTube, and spending five hours a day watching TV. As the lines between online and offline continue to blur, we think that's going to change", Salar Kamangar said.

YouTube wants to elongate users' stay on the site by the movie rental service. YouTube now offers not only full-length popular movies, but also some extras things include free behind-the-scenes videos, cast interviews, parodies, clips and remixes from YouTube's unique community of content creators. You can also view the movie reviews and comments from Rotten Tomatoes in the movies pages so that you can decide which movie to watch.

You can go to http://www.youtube.com/movies now to begin your movie experience on YouTube.

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Press One Key to Transfer Videos from Google Video to YouTube

As I blogged last Sunday, Google Video announced its upcoming ending on April 29 via Email. Users can download their videos from the platform before they would be removed. Based on the users' feedback, Google Video now offers the option for uploading its video to YouTube to simplify the migration. Current links to the videos on Google Video are still be accessible. Google's Engineering Manager Mark Dochtermann said this on YouTube blog two days ago.

Users can find the 'Upload Videos to YouTube' option on Google Video status page. You need a YouTube account associated with Google account, and read YouTube's Terms of Use and Copyright Policies. By checking this option, existing Google Video links continue to function, as Mark said.

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Full-Length Pirated High-Definition Movies Found on YouTube

You know, it's very difficult to see full-length movies on YouTube. Uploading unauthorized movies to YouTube is not permitted by YouTube and is illegal. YouTube has a Digital Copyright Identification System, which can identify the content you uploaded to the site is consistent with those movies and music, if yes, your uploaded content will be terminated.

It seems that someone has found the way to break through YouTube's copyright protection system, as over the past few days 20 full-length high-definition movies has been found on the video site. These movies including Tron Legacy, A Bug's Life, Aladdin, Alice In Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Finding Nemo, Hercules, Monsters, Inc and more are all pirated. You can find them in this 912px Tumblr blog.

Some of these movies were found by Reddit users. 14 hours later, these movies got removed. On YouTube, the first comment to these movies were posted two days ago, which indicates that these pirated movies have been on YouTube at least for for two days.

All of these movies have gone as of this writing. If you click one of those links to these movies, you will get the message "This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's Copyright Policy."

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All Videos on YouTube Now Serves in WebM Format

Last November, I have put down that 80% YouTube Videos were available in WebM Format. This Tuesday, YouTube announced that all videos on the site have been transcoded to WebM format, which is natively supported by the HTML5 web browsers, including the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome and Opera. So we could watch WebM web videos in browsers without any plugin. Users who used Adobe Flash Player to watch YouTube videos could contiune to watch the H.264 videos.

"Given the massive size of our catalog - nearly 6 years of video is uploaded to YouTube every day - this is quite the undertaking", said James Zern, a Google Software Engineer. So far 30% videos that make up 90% of total views have been transcoded to WebM format. All the transcoding works are being made quietly in the background.

The transcoding is also out of conderation for mobile devices. At present Android and iOS devices have provided full support for HTML5. But H.264 coded Flash videos are not popular on those devices.

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Music Streaming More than Downloads, YouTube Tops Online Music Service

According to a new study about online music consumption, more people stream music than download music with payment or for free. The study called 'The Hyper-Fragmented World of Music' was taken by Nielsen from 25,000 people across 53 markets during the end of last year. As a result of this, YouTube beats iTunes and becomes the largest online music service provider.

This is really good news for YouTube and 'cloud' service such as Amazon cloud music player. The picture below shows the percentage of different music activities that people take part in.

From the above illustration, we could find that nearly 60% of people polled watched music videos on computer, and less than 50% participants admitted to downloaded a song from the Internet without paying for it. Only 17% of respondents have paid to download a music track to their computers in the past three months. Most Internet users' just watch online music video for their main music consumption. So music video portal YouTube and VEVO.com are the biggest winners. iTunes Store fails to attract most consumers' attention but remains labels' biggest single recorded-music payout partner.

Google Video Is Shutting Down by the End of This Month

Yesterday, Google has sent its Google Video users an email which saying that Google Video is shutting down by the end of this month and videos uploaded by users will disappear later this month.

This action is assumed to be taken about five years ago. Google Video was launched in 2005, when users uploaded their videos via client-side application, not via web page. Google Acquired video-sharing website YouTube in October 2006; since then YouTube has developed fast and quickly become the world largest online video portal, which rendering Google Video site pretty much useless. Since May 2009 Google Video wouldn't accept new video upload any more and offered a download button which enables users could download their own videos.

Before April 29 videos on Google Video are still could be downloaded. However after May 13, 2011, the download feature will be disabled.

Here's the email Google sent its Google Video users:

Dear Google Video User,


Later this month, hosted video content on Google Video will no longer be available for playback. Google Video stopped taking uploads in May 2009 and now we're removing the remaining hosted content. We've always maintained that the strength of Google Video is its ability to let people search videos from across the web, regardless of where those videos are hosted. And this move will enable us to focus on developing these technologies further to the benefit of searchers worldwide.


On April 29, 2011, videos that have been uploaded to Google Video will no longer be available for playback. We've added a Download button to the video status page, so you can download any video content you want to save. If you don't want to download your content, you don't need to do anything. (The Download feature will be disabled after May 13, 2011.)


We encourage you to move to your content to YouTube if you haven't done so already. YouTube offers many video hosting options including the ability to share your videos privately or in an unlisted manner. To learn more go here.
Here's how to download your videos:


1. Go to the Video Status page.
2. To download a video to your computer, click the Download Video link located on the right side of each of your videos in the Actions column.


Once a video has been downloaded, “Already Downloaded” will appear next to the Download Video link.


If you have many videos on Google Video, you may need to use the paging controls located on the bottom right of the page to access them all.
Please note: This download option will be available through May 13, 2011.
Thank you for being a Google Video user.


Sincerely,
The Google Video Team

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YouTube Finally Launches Live Streaming Portal

Two days back on April 8, 2011, Google-owned video sharing service website YouTube official announced its new live streaming protal. It's not a new thing for YouTube to stream live video. Last year, YouTube has live broadcasted Bon Jovi's concert, some sporting events and interviews. It's just a small step for YouTube, however, it is a big step for mankind.

You could open http://www.youtube.com/live to get a sense of the new live video portal; and if you're a UStream user, you could also compare UStream with YouTube's live stream service and tell the differences between them.

The YouTube Live portal is divided into several sections: Featured Live Events, Live Now, Upcoming, Tomorrow and Next 7 days. Its content include live Sports game, academic conference, music concert, live video streams from trusted YouTube users and more. So you could check out what's being on live and subscribe to the streams to be broadcasted live in the next few days as your liking.

You could also log in to engage with live streamers and the rest of the YouTube community using its live comments feature.

Can live streaming service be as successful as YouTube's recorded video service? Things move quickly on YouTube and we'll just wait and see.

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YouTube Adds New Feature to Video Search

If you're a YouTube fan, today you must have noticed the site's new interface in video search options.

New search options include two main sections: 'Filter' and 'Explore'.

'Filter' section includes multiple filters, which you could select more than one at a time. For example, you can search for long format and HD (High Definition) videos that are available in the WebM format.

The 'Explore' section suggests some other search queries relevant to your original query. If you click the query in this section, your original query will be replaced by the chosen query. A more interesting option is to mouse over a query and click the 'plus' icon: this way, you'll refine your original search.

The new features are unveiled by YouTube as a prototype called "YouTube Topics on Search" and it asked users to try it out on TestTube.

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YouTube Adds New Feature to Video Search

If you're a YouTube fan, today you must have noticed the site's new interface in video search options.

New search options include two main sections: 'Filter' and 'Explore'.

'Filter' section includes multiple filters, which you could select more than one at a time. For example, you can search for long format and HD (High Definition) videos that are available in the WebM format.

The 'Explore' section suggests some other search queries relevant to your original query. If you click the query in this section, your original query will be replaced by the chosen query. A more interesting option is to mouse over a query and click the 'plus' icon: this way, you'll refine your original search.

The new features are unveiled by YouTube as a prototype called "YouTube Topics on Search" and it asked users to try it out on TestTube.

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Nick Pitera One Man Disney Movie Medley Music Video Skyrockets on YouTube

YouTube popular singer and Pixar employee Nick Pitera hits YouTube again with his newly released Disney medley music video 'One Man Disney Movie'. I would say the video is a work of genius. He sings a number of classic Disney song. Each song contains a Heroine, Hero, Villain, Sidekick, and Chorus, and Nick voices all of them. Accordingly, the video is divided into six boxes which allows the different Disney archetypes - all played by Pitera - to react to each other's different songs.

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Early in 2007, Nick Pitera had already been known on YouTube for his cover of Disnay song 'A Whole New World', which has been played 22 million times by the viewers. In that video, he sang both the male and female vocal parts of 'A Whole New World'. This time, he sings all the parts of Disney classic songs, including Belle from Beauty, the Beast, Aladdin, Be Prepared and The Lion King.

This is a new and brilliant form for music mashup. The video is also very well-edited, with excellent interactions between his various "characters" as he sings. It's the most creative video I've seen this year on YouTube. I hope you enjoy it, too.