YouTube has replaced Insight, a tool that let users see detailed stats about their videos, with Analytics, which offers even more in-depth reports and stats. Analytics gives registered YouTube users all the data from Insight in a simpler design, with several nifty new options. What’s new? #1 All reports are unified with a Data Filter, which is a key tool displayed at the top of each report. The Data Filter allows you filter by Content, Geography, and Date. You can select from a predetermined date range, or create a custom range. #2 Most reports have a Line Chart by default, which captures the
Read MoreYouTube has a slick new design with some pretty tight Google+ social integration and content discovery features. Fret over the new YouTube hasn't yet appeared for you, well don't. Folks at The Verge (http://www.theverge.com) have figured out an easy way (via Google+ user Mortiz Tolxdorff) to turn on the new features right the heck now. At present, the trick only seems to work in Firefox and Chrome. Open up your browser’s development tools: For Firefox: Ctrl + Shift + K (Win) | Cmd + Shift + K (Mac) For Chrome: Ctrl + Shift + J (Win) | or Cmd + Alt + J
Read MoreNearly 2.5 million Muslims will officially begin the annual Islamic ritual of the Hajj on November 5, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Hajj represents one of the five pillars of Islam; it requires all Muslims around the world who are able-bodied and can afford it to perform the pilgrimage once in their lifetime. The Hajj is an ancient ritual, but now, through the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information's YouTube channel, millions of people from around the world will be able to experience and comment on the event by tuning in via video. Earlier this year, YouTube worked with the
Read MoreA new feature on YouTube where users can now edit their videos onsite. It enables you to edit uploaded YouTube videos while also maintaining the same video IDs, making it possible to hold onto view counts and comments. Existing links to the video will also continue to work. All you have to do is click “Edit Video” on your video’s page or on the My Videos page. It is meant to help users fix their videos in a less time consuming manner. If you have access to the editing feature, you can stabilize hand-held footage, rotate videos and boost the
Read MoreYouTube introduced Box Office some time back, which lets you stream free Bollywood movies, though there aren’t many new ones that you can stream. The service attracted a huge audience from India, now Yahoo takes a leaf out of Google's page, getting its hand dirty in the game of hindi movies streaming with introduction of MoviePlex. Yahoo MoviePlex is similar to YouTube Box Office i.e. streaming free Bollywood movies. Watch latest Bollywood movies free of cost and that's with your family at home. Yahoo said that it will collaborate with movie production houses to bring thousands of local Bollywood movies online
Read MoreThe following page has two videos embedded from YouTube – the clips are identical but the skin of the YouTube player containing these videos is different in both cases. For the dark (black) player, set the theme value to dark else set it to light for using default colors with the YouTube Player. For Light (White) Player: < iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/S1Q9bAochC0?theme=light" frameborder="0" width="575" height="350"> For Dark (Black) Player: < iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/S1Q9bAochC0?theme=dark" frameborder="0" width="575" height="350"> This new theme option for setting colors is only available for the IFRAME version and not for the old OBJECT based embed
Read MoreWanting to get more visibility for your music videos on YouTube? YouTube’s the video portal has launched a comprehensive guide outlining how content producers should be approaching the platform and which features they can take advantage of. The 70 page guide has a fitting title: The Creator Playbook. It’s really just a well thought-out set of best practices — if your content isn’t any good, optimizing the first five seconds of your video isn’t going to be much help. The document is a hefty 70 pages long. YouTube has broken each of its miniguides into three sections: - Programming & Producing, -
Read MoreYouTube Cosmic Panda experiment does bring the darker UI elements and polished feel of Google+ to the video sharing service. Navigating the site is a much more interactive experience now and you can continue to watch videos as you search and browse provided you're using Chrome. Channel pages have also been completely overhauled with large images for each video, several layout templates, and easier to use customization options. Playlists have also been revamped and now bear more than a passing resemblance to Leanback. The one thing missing at the moment is integration with Google+ and the new navigation bar, but
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Clea.Nr removes ads, comments make it simple and minimalistic
Annoyed of distracting, irritating content surrounding your videos on YouTube, you can hide them with simple browser extension Clea.Nr (free, Chrome,Firefox, Safari). Clea.Nr renovates the entire YouTube interface, making it simple and minimalistic: your video's search results are clean and uncontaminated by anything else, and your video plays in the center of the window without anything else around it. You can dim the lights around your video, click a button to show comments and related videos. So if you want to still use YouTube's other features, you can, but can get them out of the way when you don't. A
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