Google now aims to let your YouTube channel turn into your dream job, and for that its activating full features that allows you to earn money out of it. Last year they  launched the Merch Store, teaming up with Amazon, iTunes, Topspin, Songkick and Google Play to help indie musicians on YouTube promote licensed merchandise, music downloads, and concert tickets on their channels. Selling merch isn’t just for musicians, so starting today the Merch Store will become available to all YouTube partners Continue Reading

    The first video on YouTube, uploaded at 8:27 PM on Saturday April 23rd, 2005. The video was shot by Yakov Lapitsky at the San Diego Zoo. The video, which features YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, telling about his visit to the zoo. Enter video caption here And today every household with the internet knows about YouTube. Check out some amazing stats below: 60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second. Continue Reading

    Last year Google kicked off a beta feature that let creators convert YouTube videos into 3D with a click, and since then hundreds of video creators have converted hundreds of thousands of videos to 3D. Today Google is expanding the beta to all of you by adding automatic 3D conversion for short-form videos uploaded in 1080p. Meaning, you can select 3D viewing in the Quality settings (click on the gear icon) on the YouTube player, then pop on your 3D glasses and see YouTube in another Continue Reading

Years ago YouTube created a way to link to a certain moment on a video, which let you find, share and comment on just your favorite parts. Now they are expanding that control even more. Over the coming weeks, you’ll be able to see an image preview or a series of thumbnails with three new features of the YouTube video player. So whether you’re sneaking a peek ahead, scanning backwards, or using a thumbnail to find where you stopped watching a video, you’ll soon have three options to instantly Continue Reading

  As Chris Anderson, founder of TED, said, “Tomorrow's best teachers will be global stars reaching literally millions of kids”. We believe that the next generation of great teachers will come from all walks of life - they might be popular vloggers, lifelong educators, popular scientists, or journalists - and we’re working hard to get them sharing their knowledge on YouTube EDU.  To highlight the breadth and depth of awesome educational content on YouTube, the company has worked Continue Reading

    While you may have heard of Brazil’s Carnival (or Carnaval), not everyone will have the chance to fly to Brazil to experience what are arguably the largest annual street festivals (+ music concerts + dance parties + culture fests) in the world.   Every year, Brazilian cities compete to be the country’s top Carnival destination: This year, Google is bringing you the sights, sounds and energy of Brazilian Carnival directly from the streets of Salvador (Brazil’s Continue Reading

  Material girl and the queen of techno pop rock is back and if you are her die hard fan, you can get an early taste of the show with Madonna’s music video premiere for “Give Me All Your Luvin” featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A on her official youtube.com/Madonna channel this Friday and on the YouTube Ad Blitz channel pre-game on Sunday. You can pre-order her deluxe album right there in the video description.   "Give Me All Your Luvin'" is the first single from Madonna's Continue Reading

      YouTube streams 4 billion online videos each day, more than one for every other person on Earth and a 25% jump over eight months ago. YouTube, a unit of Google, attributed the growth to iterations of the website on smartphones and TVs that have encouraged more use, according to Reuters. The number of uploads on the platform is also staggering: about 60 hours of video is now added to the site every minute, compared to 48 hours a minute in May.       One Continue Reading

From trick shots and game clips to commentary and live events, sports has always been one of the most popular categories on YouTube. And to promote even more ports Channels into the limelight, YouuTube is kicking off a new lineup of action sports Channels that bring great original content to you: Alli Sports: Whether you want tips from your favorite athlete on how to pull off their signature trick, a behind the curtain look into the lives of the biggest and fastest rising stars in the sports, Continue Reading

So you love watching videos on YouTube, yet alone are searching for something cute, funny or even crazy? Think you can find the next singing sensation, viral video like Charlie bit my fingeror Surprised Kitty? Then you have come to the right place and Google has launched something for you. Introducing YouTube Slam—a fresh new video discovery platform built along with the Google Research team. So now you can discover talented amateur singers, the most adorable clips and the craziest videos on Continue Reading

In this age e-learning, videos have become a major source fro visually understanding a subject. We have ample examples of success such as of Khan Academy etc.  Sight, sound and motion have always had the power to engage students and complement classroom instruction by bringing educational topics to life. For School Admins: YouTube has a lot of educational content, but as a teacher you might think students will be distracted by the latest music video or a video of a cute cat, or a video Continue Reading

With a new design launched recently, YouTube is giving tools to video makers to manage their channels and videos more effectively. In todays release of a new Video Manager, below are the new things are introduced: Simplified top and left navigation bars to help you get to the tools you need more quickly Icons to indicate privacy status, if monetization is enabled and scheduled publish status Badges to indicate whether videos are HD, Creative Commons and/or captioned Editing tools Continue Reading

YouTube has today overhauled its main page, brining more focus on social integration with Google+ and channels subscriptions. So here is what's new. 1. A new homepage Now you can view great Channels when you arrive, right from the home page. On the left side of the homepage you can create your own, personal, customizable YouTube Channel line-up. Then you can browse recommended Channels; customize your homepage’s feed; even link your YouTube account to Google+ and Facebook to see what your Continue Reading

YouTube is one of the biggest web properties around, over a billion videos viewed and uploaded daily and not to mention the gluing up of the audience to watch funny viral videos, songs and what not. So how do you channel owners measure the audience which is viewing your videos? In comes YouTube Analytics which has replaced the old YouTube Insights, which you channel admins can use to measure your fan engagement, age, analytics and what not. In a beautiful infographic, the YouTube team has shared Continue Reading

Google+ is on the run and as the lections near up, Google+ is gearing up musicians via Google Music and Google+, and now attracting politicians to gain traction for the elections. We also covered about President Obama joining Google+ this November. And today Google+ came up with a complete guide guidelines for politicians, political organizations, governments, activists and campaigners to leverage the power of Google+ and connected Google properties.   Sharing more with voters and constituents Continue Reading