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YouTube's 4th Annual DoGooder Video Awards is up and running. Non-profits who made a video, or even individuals who made a video in the effort to improve the community, or the world in 2012 are invited to submit their winning entries. Submission deadline is March 22.
It's doubtful when Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla started SMOSH they thought they'd have 8 million subscribers, but the long-time YouTubers keep achieving milestones and breaking records in 2013, being the first to achieve the 8 million mark.
Google has added a Sign Language Interpreter to Hangouts, so even more people can enjoy Hangouts now. The ability for everyone to be able to communicate with each other makes for a better Hang, and no one has to be left out because of technological limitations. The app allows the hearing impaired to invite interpreters to the Hangout.
Vimeo introduced a new addition to their Enhancer today called "Looks," a video filter system that allows you to try on different kinds of looks to your video to give it a more professional-looking quality. Partnering with Vivoom, Vimeo now has video and music options on site for creators looking to enhance their videos a little more cheaply than buying expensive software to do the job.
Ads Worth Spreading, a joint effort from TED and YouTube, has selected the ads that blew other advertising experts away and will be featured at this year's TED. Ads were picked in categories representing Talk, Social Good, Cultural Compass, Creative Wonder, Brand Bravery, and Education. A couple of these ads you've probably seen before, but many are great ads that you may not have.
Giving the viewer choice in which ad they want to see, if they really have to, increases the goodwill towards those ads. Hulu has been doing it for a couple of years, and now we're seeing YouTube experimenting with it on long-form content. Could a full-blown implementation of "viewer's choice" ads be popping up soon?
Google is set to release Google Glass, their multi-tasking voice-controlled video headset, by the end of 2013. The price will run around $1,500. With all the features that you know from Google built in, and constantly analyzing, you too can be a Terminator. It only took 30 years.
YouTube is teaming with professional services Gengo and Translated.net to bring strong foreign language translation capabilities to your videos. After you upload English captions, you'll have the ability to "Request Translation" in your Video Manager, and you can either invite friends to translate or go with the pros.
Billboard will now be using YouTube views as part of the equation for determining their Hot 100. With YouTube having basically become many people's main source for music and music discovery, it's natural for Billboard to want to include YouTube's data. YouTube will be partnering with Nielsen to share the data.
Wochit has started a platform by which web publishers can get fresh, constantly-updating videos to their website. And generate revenue. With partnerships from Grab Media to Reuters, Wochit is looking to become a major source for video news by hooking up partners with their new platform.
Today, many, many YouTubers noticed that they couldn't edit anything on their channel. Could the new channel design be right around the corner for all users? Seems like that's what's happening. And the new changes will be met with the usual please, please, please don't change this! But you don't have much chance of getting this turned around anytime soon.
The Russian meteor event became an instant viral sensation, as the aggregate amount of views for over 400 videos amassed over 100 million views in record time. No video in the history of videos is close, with KONY and Red Bull Stratos now taking a backseat to the phenomenon.
The 3rd Annual Streamys were awarded last night. Philip DeFranco and Grace Helbig were big winners, as Epic Rap Battles, Burning Love, and Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn continued to take home trophy after trophy in their respective categories. And oh yeah, Larry King was there!
We interviewed Nan Dawkins, founder and CEO of Social Snap, a service that measures unique metrics such as True Twitter Network Size, Average Engagement per Facebook Post, and Blog Comment to Post Ratio as well as YouTube Total Post Likes.
YouTube keeps opening Spaces in the biggest cities in the world. The latest lucky participant is Tokyo, the largest metropolitan city in the world, where lucky creators can now visit and shoot professional-quality videos and collaborate with their peers.
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