YouTube is launching what the company calls the biggest redesign in its history today, including sweeping changes to its homepage and channel pages. The goal is better personalized video discovery and viewing, with a notable emphasis on social features. Think of the changes as the latest example of Google’s campaign to create a unified social layer for all of its products. The new homepage looks a lot like ...

Ooh la la! YouTube just got what it's referring to as a "fresh coat of digital paint," and that's making quite a difference. The newly redesigned video-sharing site sports a cleaner, simpler layout with a focus on channels — which makes it feel more TV-like than ever. According to the official YouTube blog, the new design is supposed to make it easier to find and follow channels, browse recommendations, cus ...

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This is great news, the original 10 minute limit on videos uploaded to YouTube has now been increased to 15 minutes. It was very time consuming to split an hour video into 6 separate parts, now it only has to be done 4 times. YouTube stated that an increase in the time limit for videos was the number 1 most requested feature on YouTube. They want you to take advantage of this new change by uploading your 15 ...

When streaming videos of random people uploaded for free isn’t enough, Google has geared up again for world domination. Getting millions of hit hourly doesn’t seemed to satisfy Google’s hunger for domination of online digital movie content, and they’re preparing to join the battle with Netflix, and Apple’s upcoming movie-rental service. YouTube-parent Google is negotiating with major Hollywood studios to st ...

YouTube officially announced support for videos shot in 4k over at VidCon 2010 conference. Er… what’s 4k? 4k refers to a resolution of 4096 x 3072. This is the standard resolution used in professional video recording, before getting it recorded. That’s why it’s called ‘Original’ size for videos. Kinda like raw in photography. This proves that YouTube is light-speed ahead in the online video portal for now, ...

On Thursday, several previously sealed documents in the ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit by Viacom against YouTube were made public. At the same time, both YouTube and Viacom posted their own views on the matter. Zahavah Levine, YouTube Chief Counsel, wrote a blog post that:   For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its pr ...

The original "rickroll" video has been removed from YouTube, after managing over 30 million hits. The reason was the typical "Terms of Use violation" meaning copyright infringement, but one has to ask: it was up so long; why do so now? For those unfamiliar with the term "rickroll," it is a term used when one intentionally redirects users to a video of "Never Gonna Give You ...

On Wednesday, Google's YouTube announced it was starting to rent videos. The video rental service, for now limited to five films from the Sundance Film Festival (three world premieres at this year’s festival and two audience favorites from last year’s), went live on Friday. ...