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It’s official: YouTube is more popular than music ;)
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Today our
Facebook page
hit an important milestone: over 10 million of you have clicked that “Like” button, making us more popular than
Cristiano Ronaldo
and -- whoa --
music
?! Here’s a special message to anyone who’s ever clicked the thumb’s up button on
our page
:
Now, that’s pretty awesome, but honestly we won’t rest until we
rock those vampires
,
sweep by the Prez
and
topple Lady Gaga
. Help us get there by liking
this page
, writing on our Wall and sharing the videos and news we post daily. And, of course, a huge thanks to anyone and everyone who’s already said they "Like" us. It's most definitely mutual!
Mia Quagliarelly, Community Manager, recently posted “
Jane Austen’s Fight Club
” to
Facebook
.
Release notes: Facebook Connect, real-time sharing, subscriber stats
Saturday, March 27, 2010
In addition to some changes to our new video
page
, which we reported in a separate post, here are some things that have launched recently:
Invitation to Facebook Connect:
You've been able to
connect
your YouTube account to your Facebook account for a while now in order to
AutoShare
or to find friends to subscribe to. Less known is that the YouTube homepage can show you the YouTube videos your friends are sharing on Facebook; we've kept this under the radar while we've ramped up support. But now, when you log in to your YouTube account, you'll get a prominent invitation in the Recent Activity module (see below) to connect to Facebook, which we highly recommend that you do. In fact, we hope to integrate more social networks with YouTube going forward: knowing which videos your friends are sharing on social platforms is one of the best ways to discover those clips that you, in turn, just might feel compelled to pass along. That's how we found this
gem
, a lovely virtual choir.
Real-time sharing:
AutoShare lets you effortlessly share videos from YouTube to Twitter, Facebook or Google Reader. What you might not have known is that until recently, it took about 10 minutes for those items to get pushed out from YouTube to these platforms. Now these actions happen instantly, in real time.
Partner Program expands again:
Exciting! Users in Israel and
Mexico
can now become members of the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). To sign up, click
here
.
Subscribers tab in Insight:
The number of subscribers you have is an important metric for many YouTube users, as it indicates how many people love your videos
so much
that they want to be sure never to miss one. (Speaking of which, we commend
Nigahiga
, who recently hit
2 million subscribers
to become YouTube's No. 1 most subscribed channel of all time. But, we digress.) Insight, YouTube's analytics tool, recently added data about the evolution of your subscriber numbers over time, broken down into new subscriptions and unsubscriptions per day. Head over to your account's
Insight area
to check it out.
Planning our April Fool's Day joke:
What joke? :) We just wanted to see if you were reading this far.
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