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Katy Perry bares all as Lisa Nova asks your top questions
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
“Did you really kiss a girl?” “Do you ever laugh at the parody videos making fun of you?” “Are you and Russell planning on having kids?”
The call
was to ask Katy Perry anything you wanted, and you responded with a record-breaking 20,500 text and video questions submitted to
Katy’s channel
via
the Moderator tool
. Over 401,600 votes were cast, and YouTube’s own
Lisa Nova
posed the most popular questions to Perry, who was wearing a Latex getup only she could pull off:
Along with this
exclusive 30-minute interview
, which is highlighted on
our homepage
today, you might also want to check out her hit single “
California Gurls
” and a special behind-the-scenes peek from
Lisa Nova
, of what ultimately turned out to be a relaxed chat between girls.
Want to kick start your own discussion? Join Katy Perry (link),
President Obama
and others by adding Moderator to your channel page.
Michele Flannery, Music Manager, recently watched “
Minnesota Gurls
.”
electionWIRE on YouTube! Report the election your way!
Thursday, 22 July 2010
It’s Election Time! The airwaves are buzzing with politics. Who will win? What do the parties and candidates represent? Who cares?
Today Vibewire Youth Media opened
electionWIRE on YouTube
-- your channel to report the news of the Australian federal election 2010 your way.
Meet the Vibewire Youthscape reporters
-- new recruits who are stationed across Australia,
out on the streets
,
armed with cameras
, guided by your questions and ideas, and supported by a senior editorial team. You can suggest and submit stories and vote on ideas via the
Google Moderator tool
. With your help, these reporters will uncover the untold stories on this year’s election trail.
electionWIRE is calling on citizen contributions from the YouTube community. All you need is a camera and an Internet connection to make your voice heard. Here are some
training videos
for budding reporters, and assistance offered to young Australians wanting to get involved from the
Australian Youth Affairs Coalition
and
Left-Right Think Tank
.
Report it your way. electionWIRE 2010 - Submit Now
youtube.com/electionwire
Posted by Karen Stocks, Head of YouTube, Australia just watched
Life in a Day
Guest post: Fully Sick Rapper's Life in a Day
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
(Editor's note: The is a guest post by
The Fully Sick Rapper
about his involvement in YouTube's special Life in a Day project, announced today).
Life in a Day
is a unique collaboration between
YouTube
, Hollywood (director Kevin Macdonald, producer Ridley Scott) and the YouTube community, to create a documentary that will capture one day in the life of thousands around the world - July 24, 2010.
After being asked to help out, I have
submitted a video
to help promote the launch of this global collaboration, by capturing one day in my own life, and showing YouTube users an example of the kind of thing that they might like to submit.
I suppose my experience as a YouTube user is a unique one, so I tried to capture that with this particular video. For the first six months of this year, I have been living within an isolated negative pressure room in a Sydney Hospital, and have been using social media to stay connected to the world. A large part of this has been through YouTube, as
The Fully Sick Rapper
. This started as a way to give a few mates a laugh, and keep myself busy, but it fast became a way for me to keep myself distracted from the health issues I have been facing, share my experience with the world, bounce positive energy off people going through similar circumstances, and escape the four walls of my quarantined room. Over the six months I spent in hospital, I posted about 12 videos that racked up around 1.5million views on YouTube alone.
My videos before this one have all been comedic, and have been made just as much for my own laughs, as for the laughs of viewers. However, this particular project made me think about what it would be like to show people what a real day in my life involves. Yes, I have fun, and I dress up funny, and try to make myself and others laugh, but that wears off very quickly, and in the times when I'm not dancing around in front of the camera, there is a lot of very quiet, very lonely, me time. I believe that I used this time as best I could for self-reflection and personal development, and I feel as if I have come out the other side of this time in hospital having grown a lot as a man, but it hasn't been easy, and there has been times throughout my stay that I have looked at myself in the mirror and thought that I couldn't handle it any more.
This video captures my 180th day in quarantine, and is set to a poem and a piece of backing music that I wrote and recorded, from within my isolated hospital room. At the stage I made this, I had no clear picture of when I might be going home, and in fact it was only three days later that I was told the wonderful news that I could return home and spend a couple of weeks in isolation within the comfort of my own home, before being able to return to the community.
I have had some awesome support from YouTube viewers, and I plan to continue making videos to share online. In my time in hospital, I have also been working hard on a web-series called the "Fully Sick and the Side Effect Project" with my brother, which we plan to launch on YouTube soon.
Posted by Christiaan Van Vuuren, aka the Fully Sick Rapper
Follow le Tour with SBS and YouTube
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Editors note: cross posted from the Google Australia Blog
The
peloton
is off! As a keen amateur cyclist, the 21 days of the Tour de France is one of my favourite sporting events - brilliance, agony, and drama every year. I’ll be watching the HTC team especially closely - my new bike is the same as that team rides.
There’s a difference in how I’ll follow the race this year -
SBS
have set up a dedicated
Tour de France YouTube channel
. It features specially produced content which shows the
guts and glory of the champions
, the best finishes,
profiles of past winners
, videos about our very own
Cadel Evans
and
Stuart O’Grady
, and of course,
highlights
so you can catch up with this year’s race if you miss the nightly coverage on SBS.
Go the Aussie riders, and check out SBS’s new channel for another perspective on the Tour.
Posted by Jasper Vallance, Google Australia
More choice for users: unlisted videos
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Melinda teaches high school in the Bay Area and recently reached out to us with a problem. Her students just finished a video history project that she wanted to share with their parents and classmates. But she was concerned about posting the videos publicly because she didn’t want the whole world to find them (frankly, neither did her students). Melinda told us YouTube’s private sharing options -- a 25-person cap that’s limited to other YouTube users -- didn’t work for her. She needed a better option to privately share her students’ talent.
Later today, we'll be rolling out a new choice that will help Melinda and other people like her: unlisted videos.
With this feature, you can mark your videos as "unlisted." This means only people who have the link to the video will be able to watch it. It won’t appear in any of YouTube’s public pages, in search results, on your personal channel or on the browse page. It’s a private video, except you don’t need a YouTube account to watch it and there is no limit to the number of people who can view it. You’ll get a link when you upload the video and then it’s up to you to decide who to share it with. Unlisted is the perfect option for that class project, video from last summer’s family reunion or your secret Broadway audition tape.
Just remember, the video can be viewed by anyone with the link, so only give it to people you trust! For more information, check out our
Help Center page
.
Jen Chen, Software Engineer, recently watched “
8-Bit Dr. Horrible (Act 1)
”
Aussie blogger sees video as future of fashion journalism
Friday, 21 May 2010
This year, Australian fashion blogger Helen Lee of
SASSYBELLA.com
turned to YouTube to better share her experiences at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week. Here, she authors a post about what she sees as the future of fashion journalism -- and it involves lots of video.
My name is Helen Lee and I am a fashion blogger. I first started creating websites and blogs as a 16-year-old; I came to video when I was gifted a Flip HD video recorder last year. I’ve been experimenting with the medium ever since.
This year’s Rosemount Australian Fashion Week was my fourth experience at the event, but my first as a 100% independent fashion blogger. I was assigned front row seats at shows for Alex Perry, Camilla and Marc, and up-and-comers Sara Phillips and Saint Augustine Academy. That’s pretty good for a blogger -- the fashion industry is still coming into the digital space.
So what about my coverage? I turned to video this year because I wanted to
show my readers exactly what I saw
:
My videos were undoubtedly amateur and entirely dependent on where I managed to squeeze into a seat (or stand), but it was an important part of my coverage and really enhanced the online ‘brand’ of SASSYBELLA.com.
I wasn’t the only one doing the video thing this year, either. Sponsors like ghd were filming their own clips for their website and Fairfax websites were live streaming certain shows throughout the week on the Sydney Morning Herald website. This is a new trend I noticed during the international shows in February/March: most of the major fashion houses live streamed their fashion shows from their websites. (Burberry even held 3D screenings across the globe to a select group of fashion editors).
Even more interesting was seeing
a guy standing in the media pit holding a laptop
open to
live stream/record the Camilla and Marc show
. It was inspiring to see more people and media outlets explore the video and video streaming options during RAFW, especially in fashion, when watching an item of clothing move is far more powerful than seeing a still image. One blogger said she was granted instant access to a show after the designers heard she wanted to live stream it.
A sign of Australian “gate keepers” opening the door to exposing their clients to as many eye balls as possible, and not just the “right” magazine editors and newspaper journalists? I certainly hope so.
At five years, two billion views per day and counting
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Five years ago, after months of late nights, testing and preparation, YouTube’s founders launched the first beta version of YouTube.com in May, with a simple mission: give anyone a place to easily upload their videos and share them with the world. Whether you were an aspiring filmmaker, a politician, a proud parent, or someone who just wanted to connect with something bigger, YouTube became the place where you could broadcast yourself.
Over time, these aspirations have created a vibrant and inspiring community that helped transform a murmur of interest into something far greater than any of us ever could have imagined. Today, thanks to you, our site has crossed another milestone: YouTube exceeds over two billion views a day. That’s nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major U.S. television networks combined.
What started as a site for bedroom vloggers and viral videos has evolved into a global platform that supports HD and 3D, broadcasts entire sports seasons live to 200+ countries. We bring feature films from Hollywood studios and independent filmmakers to far-flung audiences. Activists document social unrest seeking to transform societies, and leading civic and political figures stream interviews to the world.
To celebrate our birthday, today we’re launching the
YouTube Five Year channel
. There, you’ll find the “My YouTube Story” project which features people from all over describing how YouTube has changed or shaped their lives.
Please add your own story to the mix! You can upload your video
here
-- and it may be selected to appear on the channel’s video wall or map.
The channel also hosts an interactive timeline containing some of the most important moments and memes in our short history. It was tough to pick -- and just scratches the surface of all the amazing things that have happened on YouTube over the years. What else? We’ve asked a handful of luminaries like
Conan O’Brien
,
Vint Cerf
and
Katie Couric
to curate playlists showcasing their favorite videos on the subjects they know best. You can also check out
our Infographic here
; it contains lots of neat facts and figures.
Since we never could have predicted all that happened in YouTube’s first five years, we certainly can’t imagine what the future will look like. But we do know there’s a lot more to be done. For instance, we want to make it even easier for you to sort through and find the videos that matter to you. Although the average user spends 15 minutes a day on YouTube, that’s tiny compared to the five hours a day people spend watching TV. Clearly, we need to give you more reason to watch more videos! And we want to give you all the tools and support to make YouTube both your career and your community. After all, this is only the beginning of the video revolution. We’re just getting started.
The YouTube Team
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