YouTube’s 7th birthday.

May 20th 2012: In May 2005 we first shared YouTube with the world. Seven years later, you’re the ones doing the sharing! We’re so honored that you’ve used YouTube to share how-to tips, political moments, home videos, comedy, music, and so much more. Last year to celebrate our birthday, we wrote you, the YouTube Community, a thank you note for making our first [...]

YouTube Opens Partner Program to Everyone

YouTube‘s Partner Program, previously opened only to producers of very popular content, is now open to all content creators from the 20 countries where the program is available. To become a YouTube Partner, you need to enable your YouTube account and successfully monetize at least one of your videos. YouTube’s guidelines for successful monetization are here, but in [...]

New YouTube comes with new Features and Content:

YouTube is partnering with Ashton Kutcher, Amy Poehler, Shaq, IGN, The Wall Street Journal and dozens of others to launch a slew of premium video channels. The channels, which have been in the works for months, is a big and risky play to get premium content onto its servers. Google (YouTube’s owner) is reportedly spending $100 million to secure [...]

YouTube Now Allows Music Partners To Sell Merchandise, Digital Downloads And Event Tickets

We already know that YouTube is seeing 3 billion videos viewed per day day, but now the online video giant is now seeing a whopping 800 million people per month visiting the site, Google revealed in its third-quarter earnings report last week. And today, YouTube is also announcing the ability to sell merchandise, tickets and more via the site. [...]

iPhone 5 ‘Concept Features’ Draw Millions of Views

The iPhone 5 might not be out yet, but that hasn’t stopped Apple fans from seeking out supposedly “leaked” videos of the device and video makers from creating futuristic concept videos. Searches for “iPhone 5″ have risen dramatically in the past two weeks and over 5,000 various iPhone 5-related videos have been posted in the past month. [...]