YouTube Creator Blog: Four tips to hook your viewers on YouTube

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YouTube Creator Blog: Making messages and comments easier to use

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YouTube Creator Blog: Look ahead: creator features coming to YouTube

Look ahead: creator features coming to YouTube

VidCon is the place where thousands of creators and fans come
together every year to share their passion for YouTube and online video.
We came to Anaheim today to offer them a sneak preview of new features
and updates we’re releasing in the coming months. Here’s a look at the
things we’ve been working on to help you make more your videos even more
awesome, to reach global audiences and grow your businesses on YouTube.

• YouTube Creator Studio: Did you know that after Rebecca Black
  uploaded “Friday,” she went on a school trip, not knowing for several
  days the video was going viral? To help you manage your videos on the
  go, the new YouTube Creator Studio app lets you see analytics, manage
  your videos and more. The app is available now on Android and launching
  on iOS in coming weeks and you’ll see some redesign of the Creator
  Studio on desktop too.

• Audio Library, now with sound effects: You’ve used the hundreds of free songs in the Audio Library
  on millions of your videos. But until now, you’ve had to go through
  extreme lengths to make your own zombie screams and fighter plane
  sounds. To make your lives easier and videos better, from today you now
  have thousands of royalty-free sound effects at your disposal. We’ve
  also added more tracks to the Audio Library.

• 60 (yeah, six-zero) frames per second: Your video game
  footage with crazy high frame rates will soon look as awesome on YouTube
  as it does when you’re playing, when we launch support for 48 and even
  60 frames per second in the coming months. Take a look at some preview
  videos on the YT Creator Channel. Make sure you’re watching in HD!

• Fan Funding: Your fans aren’t just watching your videos, they’re also helping support your channel through services like KickStarter, IndieGogo, Patreon
  and more. We’ll be adding another option for you, where fans will be
  able to contribute money to support your channel at any time, for any
  reason. A handful of creators are testing this feature soon on desktop
  and Android, including Dulce Delight, Fitness Blender, The Healthcare Triage, The King of Random, Soul Pancake, Steve Spangler Science, The Young Turks, and Thug Notes. If you’re interested in trying it on your channel, sign up here.

• Creator Credits: Collaboration is a key to great videos on
  YouTube. You’re already giving your collaborators shout outs in your
  video descriptions. But what if those text-based shout outs were tags
  that let viewers click through to their channels, or let you search for a
  collaborator based on their work and location? That’s our vision for
  Creator Credits, stay tuned for more. 

• Subtitles contributed from fans: More than a billion people
  watch YouTube each month, but not all of them speak the same language
  and some are deaf or hard of hearing. Automatic speech recognition and
  automatic translation on YouTube can help, but your fans can do an even
  better job. In the coming months, your fans will be able to submit
  translations in any language based on the subtitles or captions you’ve
  created, helping you reach even more viewers. You can try this out now
  on Barely Political, Fine Art-Tips, Got Talent Global and Unicoos. 

• Info Cards: Annotations are useful, but not as ridiculously
  good looking as say, Blue Steel. In the near future, you’ll see our new
  interactive information cards with a clean look, which you’ll beable to
  program once to work across desktop, phones and tablets.

• SiriusXM & YouTube: We love supporting artists, and so do our friends at SiriusXM. That’s why we teamed up to launch “The YouTube 15,” a weekly show on SiriusXM’s Hits 1 hosted by Jenna Marbles and featuring the biggest names and rising stars in music from YouTube. 

• More ways to playlist: Along with playlists analytics we
  recently added to analytics, expect to see more ways to create
  playlists, so that all the time you spend building them translates into
  easier discovery for viewers and better results for you.

We take your feedback seriously, which is why we’re focusing on these
areas that you’ve told us are most important for you. So keep your
comments coming on Google+ or Twitter. We’ll be working closely with you to bring these features and more to the creator community in the future.



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YouTube Creator Blog [DE]: #YouTubeRewind 2014: Jahresrückblick auf eure Werk...

 

2014 steckte voller Momente, die sich in die Geschichte der Popkultur katapultiert haben: Ein Spinnenhund spielte uns einen Streich. Wir lernten, wie es sich anfühlt, als Frau 10 Stunden auf den Straßen New Yorks unterwegs zu sein und wir sahen zu, wie wildfremde Menschen einen ersten Kuss teilten. In 2014 haben wir viel gelacht, geweint und natürlich auch zu Let It Go mitgesungen.

Um die Menschen und Momente dieses besonderen Jahres zu feiern, haben sich für unseren bisher größten internationalen Jahresrückblick
über 100 Videomacher aus aller Welt versammelt. Darunter aus
Deutschland Sami Slimani, daaruum, LeFloid und ApeCrime. Weitere Creator
aus Japan, Israel, Mexiko, Frankreich und vielen anderen Ländern sind
ebenfalls vertreten. Schaut euch das Rewind Video 2014 an:

 

 

Wir wollen euch nicht länger auf die Folter spannen: Das sind die Top
Trending Videos aus 2014 (gemessen nach Aufruf, Teilen, Kommentaren,
Gefällt mir usw.). Dieses Jahr spiegelt die Liste der Top Trends die
tolle Vielfalt an Kreativität wider, die jeden Tag auf YouTube
eingestellt wird: soziale Reportagen, Videos von etablierten
Videomachern und traditionellen Medienunternehmen sowie schadenfrohe
Scherze und Werbung sind dabei. Zusammen haben diese 10 Videos mehrere
hundert Millionen Views. Sie stammen von Creatorn, die gemeinsam über 21
Millionen Abonnenten haben. Die meisten davon besuchen die Kanäle
regelmäßig, um sich die neuesten Kreationen der Videomacher anzusehen.

1. Mutant Giant Spider Dog (SA Wardega) von SA Wardega
2. Nike Football: Winner Stays. ft. Ronaldo, Neymar Jr., Rooney, Ibrahimović, Iniesta & more von Nike Football
3. FIRST KISS von Tatia PIlieva
4. The Voice IT | Serie 2 | Blind 2 | Suor Cristina Scuccia - #TEAMJ-AX von TheVoiceOf Italy
5. iPhone 6 Plus Bend Test von Unbox Therapy
6. Bars & Melody - Simon Cowell's Golden Buzzer act | Britain's Got Talent 2014 von Britain's Got Talent
7. Budweiser Super Bowl XLVIII Commercial -- "Puppy Love" von Budweiser
8. Devil Baby Attack von DevilsDueNYC
9. Goku vs Superman. Epic Rap Battles of History Season 3. von ERB
10. 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman von Street HarassmentVideo

Auch
in diesem Jahr haben wir für euch wieder Listen aus Deutschland,
Österreich und der Schweiz angefertigt. Diesmal stellen wir euch die
Kanäle vor, die in 2014 den größten Zuwachs an Abonnenten erhalten
haben.

Kanäle, die in Deutschland in 2014 den größten Zuwachs an Abonnenten erfahren haben

1. Dner
2. BibisBeautyPalace
3. ApeCrime
4. Dagi Bee
5. ungespielt
6. LeFloid
7. Gronkh
8. ungefilmt
9. PewDiePie
10. iBlali

Kanäle, die in der Schweiz in 2014 den größten Zuwachs an Abonnenten erfahren haben

1. PewDiePie
2. NORMAN
3. Cyprien
4. Dner
5. BibisBeautyPalace
6. ApeCrime
7. SQUEEZIE
8. ungespielt
9. ungefilmt
10. Dagi Bee

Kanäle, die in Österreich in 2014 den größten Zuwachs an Abonnenten erfahren haben

1. ApeCrime
2. Dner
3. ungespielt
4. PewDiePie
5. BibisBeautyPalace
6. Dagi Bee
7. LeFloid
8. ungefilmt
9. iBlali
10. Gronkh

Auf dem offiziellen YouTube Rewind-Kanal könnt ihr euch weitere Top Videos des Jahres aus aller Welt anschauen. Checkt auch nächste Woche unbedingt google.com/2014.
Hier veröffentlicht Google die Menschen, Orte und Ereignisse, die 2014
die Aufmerksamkeit in aller Welt auf sich gezogen haben.

Post von Kevin Allocca, Head of Culture & Trends, und dem YouTube Rewind Team, die sich vor kurzem “YouTube Rewind: Turn Down for 2014” angesehen haben.

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Add Google Official Contact Form Widget to Blogger?

Contact Form Widget is used to send mails to the Blog owner from the
visitors/users. Do your blog looks anything missing?. I think a Contact
Form is an important widget that was missed for long time. Are you using
Contact From in your blog? If so, it will not Google's Official contact
Form. That may be from other hosted providers. Here Google released its
brand new Contact Form Widget for Blogger Users. It helps to send
e-mails to blog owner without Sign In to Google or any other account.
Anyone can send mails by providing a valid e-mail address and Message.
This Contact Form can add to any blogger blogs that hosted in Google's
Server.





 It have three Fields- Name,e-mail and Message and a Send Button. E-mail
and Message field are mandatory. It also have e-mail validation, checks
whether the e-mail address provided is valid or not. And a notice or
message will appear to show the status of sending e-mail, Shows success
message it it delivered to user,otherwise shows error message.  There is
no CAPTCHA (Used to prevent Spam) in the Contact Form, but Google
implemented its effective Spam detection mechanisms. The problem exist
with the Contact Form is it can only use as Widget (in Sidebar or 
Footer or Under Posts). In many popular websites/blogs they use a page
for Contact Form. By default this Contact Form can used as widget, we
introduce a technique to use Google Official contact Form on Blogger Static Pages

Advantages

• Send e-mails to Blog owner without Sign In to any Accounts.
• E-mail validation is provided.
• Spam detection Mechanism.
• Show status message of sending.

Disadvantages

• Use only as Widget (in Sidebar/ in Footer)
• No CAPTCHA

Add Google Contact Form to Blogger

• Sign In to Blogger Dashboard
• Select Layout -> Click on Add a Gadget
•  Select More Gadgets in Left Side and Select Contact Form
• Give the Title and Click Save

 

• You have done please check your blog.

When visitor drop a message it goes straight to your inbox. One copy of the message will send to each Admin.

I hope this Contact Form will help your blog to get Suggestions and queries from visitors.

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Related Posts Blogger Widget and LinkedWithIn for Blogger

Related posts Widget, as the title says , this Widget will generate the
list of related posts. this Widget can be added either in homepage
(under each posts) or inside the post. By placing this related posts
Widget, there is chance the spread the other posts to visitors and they
may have a tendency to take that post from the list, it will reduce the
bounce rate of your blog and will keep your visitors from suddenly quit
from your blog. Let's see how to add related posts widget to Blogger

To view demo see this Related posts Widget

This can be done using two ways

• Using LinkedWithIn [Simple Website providing the Widget]
• Add the Related posts widget to Blogger Manually

Using LinkedWithIn Widget

• It is very simple to add LinkedWithIn Widget
• Go to LinkedWithIn website and follow the simple instructions
• Give e-mail id, blog url, select platform as Blogger and select number of posts should be displayed.

 Add Related Posts Manually to Blogger

•  Sign In to Blogger Dashboard
• Go to Template -> Edit HTML
• Find </head> 
• Copy the below code above </head>

<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Scripts Start-->

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> /* remove this */

<style type='text/css'>

#related-posts {

float:center;

text-transform:none;

height:100%;

min-height:100%;

padding-top:5px;

padding-left:5px;

}



#related-posts h2{

font-size: 18px;

letter-spacing: 2px;

font-weight: bold;

text-transform: none;

color: #5D5D5D;

font-family: Arial Narrow;

margin-bottom: 0.75em;

margin-top: 0em;

padding-top: 0em;

}

#related-posts a{

border-right: 1px dotted #DDDDDD;

color:#5D5D5D;

}

#related-posts a:hover{

color:black;

background-color:#EDEDEF;

}

</style>

<script type='text/javascript'>

var defaultnoimage="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoOy0iFLOUoyAgkH3RCMtwNpTl_LGlMEZLRsSz7yeYetIZ_MEszlwXMLko6-QSgVy3ywq4ax76H0FaDxoeO6rKsUdYlOoS5d01YPKxiz8ZAw1yFPCaS26dDn0PL1so_NEAwi9DQJCurIc/s400/noimage.png";

var maxresults=5;

var splittercolor="#DDDDDD";

var relatedpoststitle="Related Posts";

</script><a href="http://netoopsblog.blogspot.com" style="font-size:0pt">Blogger Widgets</a>

<script
src='http://netoopscodes.googlecode.com/svn/netoops-related-posts-with-thumbnails-blogger.js'
type='text/javascript'/>

</b:if> /* remove this */

<!--Related Posts with thumbnails Script End-->

Customization

• RED marked - remove red marked portion to add this Widget to Homepage
• Brown - place the URL of the image in quotes to display if there is no image in the post.
• maxresults=5 - change the value to change the number of posts to be displayed.
• splittercolor="#DDDDDD" - change the color of splitter line between posts. Check here to see color codes selector
• relatedpoststitle="Related Posts" - Change the Name of title.

 Add to Post Footer

•  Find <div class='post-footer'> and copy the below code above it

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>

<div id='related-posts'>

<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>

<b:if cond='data:label.isLast != &quot;true&quot;'>

</b:if>

<script expr:src='&quot;/feeds/posts/default/-/&quot; +
data:label.name +
&quot;?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=related_results_labels_thumbs&amp;max-results=6&quot;' type='text/javascript'/></b:loop>

<script type='text/javascript'>

removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs();

printRelatedLabels_thumbs(&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;);

</script>

</div><div style='clear:both'/>

</b:if>

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'><b:if cond='data:post.isFirstPost'>

<a href='http://netoopsblog.blogspot.com'><img alt='Blogger
Widgets'
src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqRV-1wpOxyj6dTJfmGgI4CUlzKH2SSFXQOV5psjX3v6AKuEDWx4oUzECc0LRo1pVtkpLcpCOm4DQlza1yTBWe5tmtDViztqz-PAhTSk7K9ghQwluI7HwGbFGN5dLRXaXWgt8ErB9sMdQ/s1600/1x1juice.png'/></a>

</b:if></b:if>

• Remove Orange marked to add related posts to homepage too.
• Change RED marked to change the number of posts should be displayed

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