You may have noticed some recent changes in the number of views on your videos and channels. This is happening because we’re simultaneously changing how we count channel views and fixing some problems with counts on individual videos.
Your channel views will reflect what people can watch: We recently changed how we display total views on a channel. In the past, we’d count all the views of all your videos, even for videos that you may have deleted or made private. To make this less confusing to viewers, we’re transitioning to only displaying the total views of videos that are publicly available on the channel. So if you’ve deleted videos or made them private or unlisted, those views have been (or soon will be) removed from your channel total.
We’re cleaning up bugs: You may have noticed a spike in views from mobile devices on Jan. 11-15, 2013. That was a bug on our end, and we’re going to fix that today on the video page, and you’ll see the correct view counts in YouTube Analytics over the next few days. You may also have noticed that some of your video views look low for Jan. 25-27, compared with the number of comments, shares, and likes on your videos. That was due to a one-time error in how we verify legitimate views, and we’re going to restore those views over the next several days.
You are more than the sum of your uploads, and so is your YouTube channel. Your channel is your brand and identity on YouTube. Your channel is where viewers who don’t know what you are all about go to learn more and where subscribers go to find what to watch next. Channels are the library where viewers can dig deeper and browse your full video archive.
Over the last year, we have been evolving our product to make channels a central part of every YouTube visit. We tested the waters over a year ago by adding a subscription Guide to the homepage. This small change resulted in the number of new subscription per day doubling, so late last year we placed the Guide throughout the site and on our mobile apps.
These changes have made channels ever more important and subscribers even more valuable. After all, with the Guide on every page, subscribers can see your channel every time they visit YouTube.
But what happens when they click on your channel in the Guide? Today, viewers see a plain feed view of your channel instead of the branded version that you have curated. This is because today’s channels don’t incorporate the Guide. Soon, we will be rolling out a version of channels which will allow every click from the Guide to take the user directly to your channel. New channels will also give you more flexibility around how you organize your content, a more personalized experience for your visitors and, most importantly, a consistent experience across all platforms – TV, mobile, tablet and desktop. This will allow subscribers to access your channel page seamlessly, as you have designed it, from any page on YouTube on any app.
What can you do now? Well for starters, we recommend holding off on re-skins or branding changes to your current channel. That time will be better spent building what you need for your new channel. We are excited to share the specs and start unveiling the product over the next few weeks.
Congratulations to Elise Strachan, the master chef for this month’s “On The Rise” featured partner channel, MyCupcakeAddiction. Not only is her channel the first featured in 2013, but it’s also the first Australian channel we’ve featured in the program, and Elise was recently appointed as one of the 15 Next How-To Gurus! MyCupcakeAddiction hosts tutorials on how to decorate and make cupcakes, cake pops and other sweet treats, and is in the spotlight on YouTube’s own channel today. Check it out to see some of Elise’s delicious creations!
Elise’s kitchen is based in Queensland, Australia, where she’s been cooking up sweet treats for several years. She often bakes for private events and weddings, on top of selling her cupcakes at a local market twice a week. In October 2011, she decided to expand beyond her Gold Coast clientele by producing videos on YouTube to inspire bakers worldwide. Now, no matter where you live, you can find do-it-yourself tips and tutorials for fun creations like Elise’s Angry Birds cake pops, stiletto heel cupcakes, or even a giant cupcake pinata!
Here are a few words from Elise:
This is an exciting accolade for our little channel, and a huge thank you goes out to the best subscribers in the world for your votes and support throughout voting week. We aim to provide high quality, step-by-step instructional videos showing you how to create the weird and wonderful out of cupcakes and cakepops. MyCupcakeAddiction has something sweet and stunning for any occasion. Make sure you head over to our channel to catch all the latest uploads: now bringing you 3 new tutorials each week!
If you’ve enjoyed this monthly On The Rise blog series, and want to see more rising YouTube partners, check out our Google Hangouts with past featured partners on the Partner Support channel.
You can participate and help us surface YouTube talent by nominating a YouTube partner to be considered for the “On The Rise” program. Feel free to submit nominations for your own channel, or for channels you follow that you think deserve more attention or could be the next YouTube sensation. We’ll continue to feature promising partners who have fewer than 100,000 subscribers and produce engaging content on a regular basis. See you next month!
Try as he may, Google’s co-founder has a difficult time trying to blend in with other folks who ride on New York City subways. His attire was inconspicuous. His hat, facial hair, and position as the least well-known of the Page-Schmidts-Brin Google trio would make it easy for him to walk the streets without being accosted by paparazzi. He forgot on thing – the mythical Google Glass specs that sat on his nose gave him away and made for a fun Tweet:
Yeeeah… I just had a brief conversation with the most powerful man in the world. On the downtown 3 train. Nice guy. twitter.com/noazark/status…
While UAVs have joined spy satellites as an indispensable part of America’s military operations—especially in delivering timely, accurate intel to troops on the ground—they are not the end-all-be-all perfect solution, even in coordination. That’s why DARPA plans to supplement these unmanned intelligence gathering platforms with jet-deployed constellations of micro-satellites. Soon, every grunt will have access to a real-time battlefield mini-map just in like video games. More »
Mark this down as technological idiocy. It isn’t just that the “Make Me Asian” app (and it’s lesser-known cousins, “Make Me Indian”, “Make Me Russian”, “Make Me Frankenstein”, and “Make Me Fat”) used stereotypes to encourage racist humor. It isn’t just that the apps themselves were not that good at delivering what they promised. No, the real idiocy comes in the form of effort: why would anyone put in an ounce of effort to create something that they should have known with an absolute certainty would be removed?
You can’t chalk it up to infamy. The username, “KimbereyDeiss”, does not appear to be real. No, this was simple idiocy at its finest.
In an interview with NPR’s Allison Keyes, WSJ columnist Jeff Yang said that the races targeted were selected based upon a lack of clout.
“There is less inherent social and political power associated with these groups,” he said, so the consequences often aren’t as serious “if you parody, satire or mock or offend these communities.”
Tell that to the Asians and American Indians who were offended.
The French were not able to maintain their 75% tax on the super rich, so now they’re aiming for the super, super, super rich by going after companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Their latest scheme: an Internet tax that will affect those collecting personal data from French citizens. This concept emerged late last week in a report commissioned by President François Hollande that details the unfair ways that large American internet-based companies are able to circumvent the French tax system and still remain relevant to its citizens.
According to the report, personal data is the “raw material” that many internet firms use to generate revenue.
“They have a distinct value, poorly reflected in economic science or official statistics,” the report said.
This is part of a long line of creative ways the French government has tried to get many companies, Google in particular, to pay up. Their attempts to create a “link tax” fell apart earlier. French companies balked at a proposed “Google Tax” a couple of years ago because it would hurt them more than the search giant. If at first (and second, and third) you don’t succeed…
The 200-page report is currently being reviewed by Google. Their initial response: “The Internet offers huge opportunities for economic growth and employment in Europe, and we believe public policies should encourage that growth.”
On the other hand, there are other wings of the French and European governments that want to block Google’s and other companies’ abilities to collect data in the first place. If both elements get their way, we could see a tax levied on data that is not allowed to be collected.
