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Get more into what you love on YouTube with our new look

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 01:30 PM PST

From your favorite sports highlights and dance competitions to make-up tutorials, science experiments and great movies, there's a ton of great stuff on YouTube — over three billion views worth per day by last count. More and more, behind every great video is a great Channel, and with our announcement last month that more of them are coming to YouTube, we want to make it easier for you to find and keep tabs of what you want to watch.

So, today we're introducing a new homepage, Channel design and a fresh coat of digital paint. Here are three ways these updates will improve your life on YouTube:

1. A new homepage
The YouTube homepage is your gateway to a vast entertainment universe. To help you get more into YouTube, we're making it easier to find and follow great Channels when you arrive. On the left side of the homepage you can create your own, personal, customizable YouTube Channel line-up. Sign-in, or create a YouTube account. Then you can browse recommended Channels; customize your homepage's feed; even link your YouTube account to Google+ and Facebook to see what your friends are sharing. The new homepage feed we launched earlier this year is now front and center on the homepage. You can switch between feeds by clicking on different Channels on the left.

For step by step instructions on using the new YouTube homepage, you can go to our help center.

2. Simpler, customizable Channels
Given the homepage's new focus on helping you find and organize your favorite Channels, we would be remiss if we didn't update the look and feel of the Channels themselves. Today we're launching an improved Channel design focused on what matters most: helping users find great videos. As different uploaders have different goals, we've created new Channel templates to meet your needs whether you produce one video a week or have thousands of videos for a fan to browse. Some partners have even uploaded videos talking about the features, or giving tips on how they're taking advantage of the new design. To learn how to opt-in to and test this new Channel design, check out our help center.

3. A new overall design
To bring the new homepage and Channels designs together we've also applied a fresh coat of digital paint across the whole site. In July, we unveiled an experimental design called Cosmic Panda. We've used your feedback to improve our overall design, and today, we're presenting a cleaner and simpler YouTube, with a consistent gray background, bigger video thumbnails and a more streamlined watch page.

Ready to get started? Your new YouTube is already shipped and waiting for you at YouTube.com, and like every new toy, we included an instruction manual (and video) to help.



Our recent Channels expansion, our grants and educational programs, and this new design are all focused on helping you discover a broader range of entertainment on YouTube. We're always innovating and testing new stuff out to make the experience the best it can be for you. We rely on your feedback to figure out when we've gotten it right and when it needs further tweaks. So let us know what you think.

The YouTube team

Turkish President Abdullah Gül answers your questions on YouTube World View

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 10:35 AM PST

In the last 10 days, users from all around the world asked 2,692 questions and cast 98,038 votes to determine the most popular questions for the Turkish President Abdullah Gül. You can now head over to www.youtube.com/worldview to watch the President answer a selection of challenging questions ranging from Turkey's involvement in the current affairs of Syria and the Middle East, the issues of Kurdish minorities, the soaring unemployment rates in the education sector and how he feels he has changed as a person since he became the President. The World View interview was shot in the glamorous reception hall of the Çankaya Presidential compound, with Oğuz Haksever from local media partner, NTV, acting as the moderator.




Zeynep Inanoğlu, Head of Consumer Marketing, Google Turkey, recently watched, "Fighting for an AIDS Free Generation by 2015."

Bringing Japanese and Hollywood full-length films to YouTube in Japan

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 08:04 AM PST

Japan has a long and revered history of cinema. Masters Ozu Yasujiro and Kurosawa Akira have made a lasting influence on the art of filmmaking. Moreover, the Japanese nation is well-known for its voracious appetite of films both local and global.

So we have some great news for all the film buffs in Japan — YouTube will now offer Japanese and Hollywood releases for rent at youtube.com/movies.

We're starting off with a few hundred titles — both new releases and classic films — from two of the biggest Japanese studios Bandai and Toei, as well as from Hollywood studios Warner Brothers, NBCUniversal, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. We have the latest "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2", as well as classic animations like "Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn: Day of the Unicorn" and tokusatsu action film "Kamen Rider x Kame Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010."

Over time we'll be adding additional videos and features to the Movies page, as well as featuring titles from additional studios. Japanese users should check back often on youtube.com/movies to see what's new.

Yuhei Mizuno, Director of Content Partnerships, Japan, recently watched "AK 100:25 Films by Akira Kurosawa - The Criterion Collection." 

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