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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

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

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

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

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