Among some of the top videos on YouTube was Antoine Dodson met the Auto-tune the News guys. It was a viral hit that really swept away the audience globally. The video was superb hit all over and is still one of the best videos on YouTube. The Its Gets Better message video by columnist Dan Savage took the world by storm as he released this video of suicide by gay teenagers on YouTube. The campaign was really viral and even Obama was forced to participate in it. Greyson Chance was also among the top videos on YouTube for quite a time. The Yosemite Bear emotive footage of a spectacular rainbow was certainly one of the best videos of all time in 2010.

Among the most watched music videos on YouTube was Justin Bieber by Baby featuring Ludacris. Since World Cup was hosted in 2010 South Africa the Waka Waka video also made it among the most watched music videos on YouTube where Shakira moved her belly with African music group Freshlyground. Eminem took the third and the fourth spot on the list with Love the Way You Lie and Not Afraid respectively. While Rihanna took the fifth spot with her single Rude Boy, Justin Bieber took the sixth and the seventh slot with Never Say Never and Never Let You Go respectively. Among the movie trailers The Twilight Saga – Eclipse remained the hottest movie trailer that people enjoyed watching on YouTube around the world.

Initially when Skype came out with their new software for Symbian devices it was not up to the mark and many users were disappointed with it. People who are using Nokia N8 and C7 were always depending on a new update by Skype which would cover all the problems that were found in the earlier Skype software. With the new release it feels like that people have really got what they were waiting for as the latest version of Skype is really good and includes SILK audio compression technology.

With the help of this new software people can make free calls directly from their cell phone using the Skype or even go for instant messaging through Wi-Fi or 3G networks available in their locality. People can now make cheaper international calls using Skype credits. The installation part is simplified as well. People who are interested in this software can go to their phone’s web browser and download the software from Skype official site. The new updated version of YouTube allows people to enjoy videos with larger screens that will give them better clarity and video experience.

To start away with this the things that will be covered up instantly is increasing the awareness of respective videos – metadata, discovering the categories which have been defined as metadata by YouTube and further go through the ways for coming up with the new descriptions or tags.

More and More Words

Today on the search engine race YouTube ranks 2nd, so it’s the best media for letting people find everyone out. The algorithms are decent, but people will only be able to read, but will not be able to watch the customized videos which people want them to watch. Therefore in order to properly configure or sort the videos and optimize them for search the following things can be done.

Things To Do:

• The basic understanding of indexing the search results so that the posting person could scroll through and index the videos. For this one could use the tools available for the video advantage.
• Proper titles or tags having heavy descriptions categorized as per metadata will help in improving the discoverability.
• Inclusion of more words means that the chances of getting discovered by the searchers are higher, which means the larger the number of audience more is the potential to earn.
• The keyword tool could be used in order to expand or update the tags which gives a person pretty good suggestions for different queries.
• Just including tags won’t do any good while uploading a video rather one needs to update the tags regularly if it is a popular video.  Each day online search behavior needs to be changed so it needs to be customized with the changing needs regularly.
• If a person uploading a video has transcripts the he should make sure of turning on the captions which would certainly help in improving the discoverability as it provides more data points for the index of the video uploaded.

Things to be avoided:

• Everybody hates spam, be it the users or Google, users hate spam. Though the spammy tags tends to increase the views for short term but for long term the algorithm would catch hold of the up loaders and punish them for the spam.
• The uploaders should keep in mind of not repeating the words of their descriptions; rather they could use variations which might help to improve the search for the uploaded videos.

These tips and suggestions would surely go a long way in helping YouTube partners in their campaigns.

Improvements have also been made to the like/dislike ratings system. Information regarding the number of people who liked/disliked the video will be made available to you when you like a video. There is also a new housing area called “Videos I Liked” where, as the name suggests, you can store all of the videos that your liked. Additionally, “liking” a video will no longer add it to your “favorites” which you can save separately in different playlists. Among other ways, “Most Liked” video is a way to bring to your notice the video that is most popular with users. YouTube welcomes your feedback on their changes so that they can improve it further to the users benefit.

YouTube has officially launched a brand new application for Windows Mobile phones as well as Nokia S60 smart phones, a lot like the previous greatly popular YouTube application that had been released by them. However this is the latest 2.4 version of the application and it is faster and cooler with all new features.

The new version is offering a better interface for smart phone users that are meant for larger screens and of course this version is way faster than the previous version. Also, you can view your favorite lists and your playlists on YouTube on your handset wherever you are which means accessibility all the more easy. Also, the search box itself has been easier to operate on your mobile phone where typing in text input might not always be easy.

The downloading of this new application for YouTube itself is pretty easy. All you have to do is visit their official website youtube.com/appin through the browser on your phone and you can just download this latest application on your phone. This new version therefore has all brand new features that were lacking in the last version of the application, so download and enjoy!

This has become a global platform with short noticed chances to be caught up in the thick of events along with YouTube captivation. This is all about bringing new media organizations brought up to look good in a certain way. This is about the common citizen reporting in a big way as well. There are wholesome footages being brought as well as larger audience directly caught into focus.

This is one of the reasons how YouTube Direct can be brought to bring media organizations on request. This is all about bringing broadcast requests directly through YouTube clips being brought through direct YouTube users. There are definite customized users that come to YouTube for specific, direct, open and honest reports.

So now You Tube has been rejigged to fit into smartphones so that users can easily load, up load and even watch videos with the streaming done rather quickly. Video sharing through mobile phones had never got easier than this. The access to a rudimentary version of You Tube has also been part of the plans since the launch of the smartphones back in 2007.

There is better browsing capabilities coming with these phones and according to You Tube manager, Dwipal Desai, there are now more smartphone checking options than ever due to people’s demands.

The You Tube news site even gets easier with their possibilities of checking mails, visiting web sites and even accessing the net or watching You Tube videos or uploading the latest in then. This makes a mobile browser extremely important.

Source: techradar

According to YouTube, it will help the news journalists how to report new in this new digital age. This new resource is going to feature many media experts and top journalists that will share tips and instructional videos and they will also offer their advices for better reporting.

More than 34 videos have been uploaded to this channel until now, and it has featured people like Randi Zuckerberg, Marketing Director of Facebook that offer 8 tips for maximizing YouTube video distribution on the social networking sites. Similarly, legendary journalist Bob Woodward explains how to be an investigative reporter and how to conduct an impressive interview.

No doubt, this is a nice idea and it will prove very effective for citizen journalists all around the world. It will provide them an opportunity to get a better understanding, the way things work in the news world and they will be able to polish their skills as journalists.

Source: techcrunch