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Take a virtual trip to Jazz Fest New Orleans this weekend

Posted: 04 May 2012 03:51 PM PDT

New Orleans is always alive with music, from the bars of Bourbon Street to the jazz clubs of Frenchmen Street. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival—"Jazz Fest" to its friends—is an annual celebration of the unique music and culture of New Orleans, taking over the Fair Grounds Race Course each Spring.

For the first time Jazz Fest will be live streaming the festival, presented by DELL and in partnership with YouTube Presents! The broadcast will combine live music from across the next three days with pre-recorded highlights from last weekend.

It may be Jazz Fest by name, but it's not entirely jazz by nature. The diverse lineup this weekend includes Bon Iver, Tom Petty, Trombone Shorty, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, My Morning Jacket and many more. We're adding artists all the time, so check-out the official Jazz Fest channel for the latest schedule.



The stream begins at 12pm PT today and runs through 6pm this Sunday. Enjoy!

Tim Partridge, music marketing manager, recently watched The Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn

Kabul explosion, Cairo sit-in protest attack, Giant hail storm in Maryland

Posted: 04 May 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Everyday on the CitizenTube channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Each week we post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week, as seen through the lens of both citizen-reported footage and professional news coverage.

  • We watched President Obama make a short trip to Afghanistan on the anniversary of Bin Laden's death, only for seven to be killed in a Kabul explosion just hours after he left.
  • We saw a sit-in protest in Cairo come under attack by unknown assailants, leading to nine deaths.
  • We monitored labour groups hold marches across the world to mark May Day, or International Workers' Day.
  • We viewed a shining beacon of light in the United Arab Emirates, but not in the way anyone would have liked, as a fire enveloped the Al Tayer Tower.
  • We followed the GOP candidates on another memorable day on the US campaign trail, as Newt Gingrich released a YouTube video announcing his withdrawal.
  • We observed police in Malaysia use tear gas and water-cannons to confront protesters calling for reform.
  • We saw shock in the French city of Toulouse as an F1 tornado landed nearby, damaging roofs and uprooting trees.
  • We witnessed a tragic death in St. Louis as the city endured a powerful storm that brought baseball-sized hail.
  • We watched Edward Munch's world famous painting, "The Scream", break records with a $119 million sale at a Sotheby's auction. 
Come back to watch the news unfold on YouTube. 

Olivia Ma, YouTube News & Politics, recently watched "Large Hail Hits Maryland Heights 04/28/12".

Finding and following new channels you love

Posted: 04 May 2012 04:37 PM PDT

If you're interested in aerial silk or Rubik's Cubes or anything in between, we want YouTube to have a channel ready and always updating for you.

In our goal to help you find great channels and videos you care about, we created Topics on Search to narrow your search results using commonly-used phrases. We took this a step further by auto-generating whole channels of topics in the 'Top YouTube Collections' tab, giving you constantly updated and uniquely-focused channels. Now, you'll start seeing these channels more broadly available around YouTube, like in 'Recommended for You' section of our channels page and on a video watch page.

So if you're into surfing, you could find the Big wave surfing channel, get introduced and subscribe to the NetworkA channel, and then enjoy this video of Garret McNamara surfing one of Poseidon's finest. Here's what the channel looks like:



Lots of complex algorithms are working behind the scenes to give you the channel you're looking for, for example, being able to tell when the word 'Chicago' means the music band and when it means the movie/musical. We're still tweaking everything to make sure it works just right for you, so let us know what you think of the channels or learn more in our help center.

So when you see a channel "auto generated by YouTube" around the site, give it a browse to find whole collections of channels and videos you might like, updated everyday with the freshest and finest videos you're sharing on YouTube.

Mur Viswanathan, product manager, recently subscribed to the Parkour channel and Palash Nandy, software engineer, recently subscribed to the Brickfilm channel.

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