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Today is the biggest day in the U.S. presidential primary race so far, and you can follow all the action right here on YouTube. Check out our Super Tuesday platform to see videos from voters, candidates, and news organizations from around the country. We’re featuring some of the best ones on our home page all day today. Here’s a highlight reel: Come back to our Super Tuesday channel throughout the day as videos pour in from the 24 states holding primaries. Add your own video to the mix to have your voice heard alongside everyone else’s. If you’re looking for ideas on the kind of video to make, we’ve got some suggestions here. But most importantly — get out and vote! Yours, Steve G. YouTube News & Politics
Viral video 101
James Murray, the genius behind the popular Cooties PSA, teaches a class in New York City about the theory and production of viral videos. I thought this was pretty cool, so I asked him to describe the program: The class is a combination of theory and production. The first four weeks, I teach the students what makes a video go viral, how to write and produce professional content with the best chances of hitting online, how to turn online viral success into real world cash and opportunities, how to license videos, etc. The students bring new sketches in every week, and I choose 4 with the best chances of going viral. Then we produce the sketches, and launch them online. Cooties is just one of the videos that came out of the class. Murray is also behind the sketch comedy group The Tenderloins, whose work has graced the pages of Yahoo! video.-Kent, Yahoo! video Team
New Face, No Significant Increase in Hair
Hi YouTubers, I’m very excited to introduce myself. I’m your new Comedy Manager, Mark Day. Some of you might know me as a bald guy ranting in front of a yellow wall, in what some believe to be “a pretend Scottish accent.” But given the countless number of users on the site, I’ll be a new name to many of you. Either way, I’ll be doing everything I can to bring you the full range of comedy available on YouTube today — from the best sketch groups and the latest movie parodies to up-and-coming stand-up comedians and the kind of videobloggers who love to make their subscribers laugh. I’ve been a YouTube user since March of ‘06, and I’ve been lucky enough to meet and even collaborate with many talented people since then. I know just how much work people put into creating original content, and I’m looking forward to helping our finest comedic talent find the spotlight to shine. Now that I’m part of the YouTube team, you won’t be seeing much of my big bald head any more (which is, perhaps, a blessing). But I do want to thank everyone who made it fun for me to get in front of a video camera in the first place. Now I hope I do my part to encourage more users to post their own rants, skits and amusing opinions. As for my yellow wall, it’s currently hoping to film its own sitcom pilot as soon as the writers’ strike is over. Cheers, Mark D. YouTube Comedy
Fringiest Friday
Hello Readers, Here we are, another Friday, another fringe-y film. When I look for content for Fringe Fridays, I dream of finding something as weird, funny, and well-animated as what I found today. Be warned, my friends, this one is weird. If you’re at all squeamish about bugs, blood, or marital melodrama, you shouldn’t watch it. Anyone still there? Good! The Ballad of Mary Slade I wish I knew more about the animator, Robin Fuller. But the film did win the prestigious Slamdance film Festival’s prize for animation. And it’s the perfect video for the day before Edgar Allen Poe’s birthday. -Kent, Yahoo! video Tea
Fringe Fridays: Have a GOOD Super_Bowl
So, maybe the the Super Bowl is all about the ads. Well, the awesome folks at GOOD Magazine have brought us another one of their amazingly great transparencies, this time taking on Sunday’s ad extravaganza. Check out what they have to say about the business of the ‘Bowl. Then tune in to Yahoo! video beginning Sunday afternoon, for a giant-sized dose of instant commercial replays. GOOD Magazine: 2008 Super Bowl XLII -Kent, Yahoo! video Team
A New Blog for the New Year
To coincide with the start of the new year, we have decided to give our blog a new home and a whole new look. You can bookmark it here and grab our RSS feed for your reader or My Yahoo! page here. We know the change may take some time to get used to, so we’ll continue to update our 360 blog (http://blog.360.yahoo.com/y_video_team) for a while. So what do you think? Let us know, and of course we’d also like to know what else you want to see here and on Yahoo! video. Thanks for being our friend on Yahoo! 360, and keep reading us at our new home. -Randall, Yahoo! video Team
Stuck in Chad, and YouTube is the Communication Line
On Saturday, when around 1500 rebel forces attacked Chad’s capitol city of N’Djamena, the American organization Stop Genocide Now got stuck in the middle of the fighting. Sequestered in a Hotel just a few hundred yards from the presidential palace, the group turned to YouTube to broadcast reports back home. The video are powerful. With gunfire in the background and personal commentary from the group’s leader, Gabriel Stauring, you get a real sense for the gravity of the situation as the Chadian government tries to beat back the rebel forces. Friends, famliy, and supporters tuned in via their YouTube channel and blog. Stop Genocide Now had been reporting from refugee camps on the Chad/Sudanese border, where hundreds of thousands of refugees remain displaced from the genocide taking place in neighboring Sudan. Gabriel and team had been filing YouTube dispatches from their trip every day, until the rebel invasion of the capitol left them stuck in their hotel in the city. It wasn’t the first time the group had used YouTube to bring attention to the situation in Darfur - the video question they shot from a refugee camp was used in the CNN/YouTube Democratic Debate back in July: Lucky for the group, they were evacuated from their hotel to a French Military complex on Sunday. But the fighting continues in Chad - French troops have been sent to beat back the rebel forces but progress has been limited. The conflict in Darfur and Chad is one of the most tragic on the planet, and it deserves our attention. Keep your eyes on YouTube channels like Stop Genocide Now to keep learning more about what’s happening there, and what we can do to help. Yours, Steve G. YouTube News & Politics
Experience Fashion Week Firsthand
This week marked the start of the fall fashion season with New York Fashion Week 2008, seven days of runway shows, parties, after-parties, parties after the after-parties, and all-around fabulousness. If your schedule doesn’t allow you to jet off to the Apple, darling, our Fashion Week 360 channel is the one place where you can experience New York Fashion Week from all angles. For starters, we’ve got our very own freewheeling fashionista William Sledd in New York giving you the play-by-play: In addition, Elle Magazine brings you into shows by top designers like Diane Von Furstenberg, Malandrino and Carolina Herrera; Ford Models takes you backstage where designers and models are furiously suiting up for the catwalk, and NylonTV takes in-depth looks at the hottest new talent like Erin Fetherston, Yigal Azrouel, and Rag & Bone. Here’s just a sampling: The FashionWeek360 channel is updated daily, so check back to get the latest from the Big Apple. And it doesn’t stop there: we’ll have Fashion Week video from London, Milan, and Paris through March. (Air) kisses, Sadia H. YouTube Howto & Style
YouTube Partner Program: Now in the UK
When we announced the expansion of the YouTube Partner Program late last year, our goal was to offer some of the most popular and prolific original content creators in the YouTube community an easy way to generate revenue from their videos on the site. (For a quick recap of how the program works, see our previous blog post.) Like the Internet itself, the YouTube community crosses borders and cultural boundaries. As part of our ongoing plan to reflect international user contribution to our service — we’ve already localized our service for 18 countries — we’re excited to announce that once again we are expanding the YouTube Partner Program, this time by rolling out the program internationally. First stop, the United Kingdom. Now anyone living in the UK can apply to become a partner at uk.youtube.com/partners. The program has grown significantly since its initial launch, with millions of video views each day earning revenue for our partners. We look forward to bringing the YouTube Partner Program to more international users in the near future. To where will we expand next? Stay tuned The YouTube Team
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