Introducing YouTube Slam
Have some free time this week? Think you can find the next singing sensation, viral video like Charlie bit my finger or Surprised Kitty?
Then come play YouTube Slam—a video discovery experiment we cooked up with folks from Google Research. Each week a new crop of videos battles head-to-head in Comedy, Cute, Music, Bizarre and Dance Slams, where your votes determine who wins the Slam and gets featured on the leaderboard.
Earn points for predicting the crowd favorites, and see how you stack up against other players at the end of each week. Get your daily dose of the most talented, hilarious, adorable or weird videos on YouTube, and you could help uncover the next big thing.
You can also subscribe to our Slam channels to see each week’s video leaderboards: Comedy, Cute, Music, Bizarre or Dance. Pick a Slam and start playing!
Tomas Izo, Software Engineer, recently watched “Brick By Boring Brick: Paramore (Storm Kaden Cover)” via YouTube Slam.
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9 comments:
Fantastic I love the idea!
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Great feature, just wrote about it here http://www.trendslate.com/2011/12/27/youtube-slam/
Super.............
How make my video to take part in this Slam?
I want people to vote for me too!
We launched a Dance Battle 'Slam' for Pioneer STEEZ last week.
http://www.youtube.com/pioneersteez
I LOVE it!!! Out of curiousity, how do y'all pick which videos you put head to head? That's a brilliant idea - I know in years gone by I participated in a lot of music contests like that, putting songs head to head and having people vote on them. Are youse gonna have a dedicated page for this or what?
reminds me of a novelty site from years ago called whatsbetter.com. I always thought it was a good idea to crowdsource ranking through an ELO or similar rating system. They were mentioned in major media like the New York Times then faded away but we can look back at it through internet wayback machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050305095309/http://www.whatsbetter.com/
and the original algorithm they were using:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020806212754/http://www.whatsbetter.com/faq.pyt
Youtube slam is a great idea, makes youtube more fun and interactive http://youtu.be/NTjRMaqbtjc
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