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YouTube Mix Suggestion Attempts to Get You Hooked Even More on YouTube

YouTube Mix is a new experimental video discovery option on YouTube that shows up on the right-side suggestion box column. Now, YouTube is generating playlists of all those videos you click through one-by-one and streamlining the process.

HOW TO: Use Annotations to Increase YouTube Views, Rankings, and More [Creator's Tip #74]

On this week's Creator's Tip, we collaborated with Matt Ballek of VidiSEO to share with you some of the top reasons why you should be utilizing annotations regularly in your videos and to show you several tips and tricks to use YouTube's annotations effectively to increase video views, subscribers, and rankings.

Teacher's Extra Credit - 10 Steps to Create Your Educational Channel on YouTube : The EDU Playbook

YouTube recently released a new playbook, the YouTube EDU Playbook Guide.  They are beginning to narrow down their playbooks into more specific areas.  The last one was for brands, and it was a sort of mini-Creator Playbook.  All playbooks are going to take pages from ...

YouTube Wishlist - Who Else Wants YouTube to Launch These New Features? [Reel Web #55]

This week on the Reel Web, we once again give a quick update on some of the new features launched in the past week at YouTube.  We also discuss some recent chatter around whether or not video creators should jump ship from YouTube. Finally, we discuss several ...

Custom YouTube Thumbs Finally Roll Out, Mood-Based Video Recommendations, & More [The Reel Web #54]

This week on the Reel Web we look at the updates YouTube has made in the past week including the roll-out (finally) of custom thumbnails for all monetized users, some experimenting with mood-based video recommendations, their new politics destination channel and more.  Additionally, we cover ...

Custom YouTube Thumbnails for All, Rewards, and More HUGE Features Coming to YouTube [Reel Web #46]

This week on Reel Web, we take a look at a lot of real exciting changes and updates coming to YouTube, many of which were announced only at Vidcon last week.  We have been talking to a lot of YouTube people and we sat in on some ...

E3, Live Streaming Gamers, YouTube Playlists, Vimeo Music, and More [The Reel Web #42]

This week on The Reel Web, we take a look at some new statistics for online video viewing which show a drastic change in consumption of long-form video. We also discuss changes Youtube is making to its playlists and embeds, recent enhancements by Vimeo to ...

YouTube Auto-Generated Channels Appearing Everywhere, Including YouTube Search Results

Nearly a year ago, YouTube rolled out their “auto-generated channels,” which are channels created to curate content based on relevant topics. Think of them as YouTube-created playlists. When they first appeared, auto-generated channels were strictly limited to the “Top YouTube Collections” tab and intended for ...

Does it Make Sense to Create Multiple YouTube Channels? [Creator's Tip #37]

On today’s Creator’s Tip video, we address the question of whether it makes sense to create multiple YouTube channels or house all videos under a single YouTube channel. We recently received an email from a ReelSEO subscriber with the following question around if : “...I have ...

Vzaar: An Affordable, Customizable Business Video Platform

Two years ago, I took a look at Vzaar, an online video hosting & delivery platform, and gave them a fairly good write up. But a lot of things can change in two years, just look at ReelSEO for example, and so, I thought it time ...

The YouTube Creator Playbook Index: ReelSEO's In-depth Review

The YouTube Creator Playbook is an awesome guide to follow when making your videos.  Covering every section of it was enlightening and maddening all at once.  The Playbook offers great information, and then forgets that not everyone can do some of the things they suggest ...

Old Spice Man Returns For Christmas Gift-Giving Video Spree

The Old Spice Man is back. Yes, he's still in a towel, but because it's Christmas season, he's also wearing a festive scarf. And he's traded the bathroom as a setting for something that is either a cabin in the woods or a sauna (or ...

YouTube On Google TV Upgraded, Photos App Improved As Well

The Google TV team dropped an update on a couple of apps for the software before they cut out for the long Thanksgiving weekend. As I'm on the verge of doing the same, I thought I would pass along the information which includes a new ...

How To Optimize Your YouTube Channel Page--The YouTube Creator Playbook

Your channel page on YouTube is where you can brand your videos through attractive packaging.  It creates an insular experience for your videos, one without all the distractions of suggested videos and that plain YouTube white background.  A channel page is invitation into your home ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Google Plus Edition

Last week saw an unusual amount of big online video news stories. Google Plus integrated YouTube (finally!), and then rolled out Google Plus Pages for businesses and brands--they're also using Google Plus relationships to power video suggestions on the YouTube home page. YouTube announced a ...