YouTube Partner Articles

Online Video Viewing Dips Slightly, Average Length Up Again in May

It's time once again for comScore's monthly estimates of the online video viewing numbers. I say estimates because, as we all know, they have a particularly quirky way of counting up videos and views in general. I guess the major milestone this past month was ...

YouTube Ponders Solution to Partner Discoverability Concerns, Video Ad Dollars Rise, and More... [Reel Web #43]

This week on The Reel Web we're going to be cover a few online video industry news items from the past week including more research that shows an increase in advertiser/marketer spending towards online video. We'll also be taking a look at a recent YouTube ...

Jakatak69, Cooking With Jack, is YouTube's On The Rise Winner for May: Here's Why

Could there be anything more popular on YouTube than how-to videos, especially cooking?  YouTube's On The Rise winner for May is Jakatak69, and his Cooking With Jack channel features over 200 videos and over 7 million views with nearly 30,000 subscribers.  So it looks like ...

Obama and Romney Missing Out on Online Video Voter Gold? Here's 5 Video Tips for the Presidential Campaigns

Nielsen put out a report last week that talked about presidential candidates and how they preferred TV for their advertising. That got me to thinking, with 178-180 million Americans watching online video, they might be missing the target audience. Nielsen reports that major presidential candidates ...

YouTube Statistics 2012: A Year Later - More Jawdropping Growth

Last year, we took a look at some amazing YouTube statistics.  And now, we can see that over the past year, those amazing statistics from last year look awfully small compared to what YouTube is doing now.  In general, we know that 800 million people ...

April is Another Record-Breaking Month for Video Advertising: 9.5 Billion Online Video Ads Served

Holy mackerel! That's a whole lotta online video ads man! In fact, it's actually 20% of all videos viewed online roughly. That is if you remember that those ads are actually intersecting pieces of video content which then gets tallied as multiple videos by comScore. ...

Ray William Johnson is Laughing All the Way to the Bank & We've Discovered His Formula for Success

We’ve cracked the code.  We’ve been studying Ray William Johnson, "an alcoholic garden gnome with a taste for comic books and hip-hop music," and have discovered his secret formula for success. Who is "we"? I’m not using the royal "we".  Queen Victoria may have said, ...

YouTube Brandcast to Help Marketers Get the Most Out of YouTube

Google will hold their first ever upfront today, highlighting a bevy of star-packed channels and releasing exciting findings from a comprehensive study of YouTube trends.  The online video behemoth, which shows 3 billion hours of video to over 800 million users, will be able to ...

YouTube Sends Envoys, Plays and Money to Push Video Advertising

This morning, Baljeet Singh, YouTube group product manager, introduced a number of new products, resources, and tools aimed at helping “even more businesses play big with video.”  In other words, YouTube is sending envoys, plays and money to boost video advertising via Google AdWords for video. ...

Video Ad Impressions Reach Record Numbers in March 2012

Toot the tooters and clink the clinkers, honk the honkers and hoot the hooters, it's comScore video metrix time again. OK, maybe skip the hooters. Did you know that 181 million Americans watched video online in March? Did you know that online video advertising impressions ...

Free Views for YouTube Partners, Vloggers, Link Building, Xbox & More [The Reel Web #33]

This week on the Reel Web, we cover 10+ minutes worth of online video news and trends from the past week including, a new program for YouTube partners that aims to provide free promotion, Google+YouTube integration, research on the power of video for link-building, Xbox, ...

Online Video Monetization – What Are Your Options?

So you’ve gotten pretty good at this online video thing, and now you want to start thinking about monetizing your content. But that can act as a roadblock for many video creators and businesses who aren’t sure what all their options are for making money ...

How To Create Custom YouTube Thumbnail Images For Non-Partners - Creator Tip #27

The ability to upload a custom thumbnail image for your videos is a feature limited only to YouTube Partners. However, this little YouTube hack will show you how you can get your own custom thumbnail for your video even if you are not a partner. ...

181 Million Americans Watch Over 40 Billion Videos Online In January

Big numbers continue to accumulate for online video according to comScore who say some 181 million Americans watched more than 40 billion videos in the month. Good for us! In the standard charts there's little movement, like always. Video lengths are up to 6.1 minutes ...

Rebel Brings Us Version 2 Of The YouTube Creator Playbook

Over the weekend, a rebel sympathizer smuggled me a new copy of Version 2 of the YouTube Creator Playbook. To protect him/her from any repercussions, I won't disclose this rebel sympathizer's name, other than to say he/she works at a media company that bridges the ...