YouTube creators at NEXT WEEKEND film festival, presented by Sundance Institute

Cinephiles, take note: this weekend will go down in YouTube history as the first time a major film festival has curated and screened a short...

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The Social Star Awards live on YouTube

Social media has dramatically changed the way we get to interact with our favorite musicians, actors, artists and athletes, so it makes sens...

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New ways to support great content on YouTube

We’ve been building a YouTube partner program since 2007 that enables content creators to earn revenue for their creativity. We’ve watched ...

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Follow the audience...

It has been an exciting year of growth for YouTube and its partners. We recently announced that YouTube hit an incredible milestone of 1 bil...

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Congress, now live on YouTube

Video plays a powerful role in bringing us closer together, especially when it connects people in real time. By transcending borders, empowe...

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YouTube wins case against Viacom (again)

Today is an important day for the Internet. For the second time, a federal court correctly rejected Viacom’s lawsuit against YouTube. This...

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Coachella 2013 - Live on YouTube

Every April, tens of thousands of the world’s most avid music fans flock to Southern California to kick off music festival season at Coachel...

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YouTube Contest Submissions Closing Tomorrow at Midnight

To our incredible YouTube community, When we started out in 2005, we focused on rapidly increasing user engagement. We wanted an inventive w...

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YouTube Hits a Billion Monthly Users

In the last eight years you’ve come to YouTube to watch, share and fall in love with videos from all over the world. Tens of thousands of pa...

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TED’s Ads Worth Spreading 2013 Winners

Today’s guest blog post comes from Ronda Carnegie, Head of Global Partnerships from TED. For the third year , TED and YouTube teamed up on A...

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Context Is King: Share Your Story

From artists to activists, teachers to students, kids to grandparents, YouTube is a place for people all over the globe to share their stori...

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A new look to help you to subscribe and watch channels on YouTube

Update 12/12: The team that designed and built the recent YouTube update will answer your questions in a Hangout on Air Thursday 12/13 at 4...

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YouTube on iPad, and sweet updates for iPhone 5 and iPod touch

You love watching YouTube on the go—in fact—more than 25 percent of all YouTube watching happens on mobile. This past September you got the ...

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Improving Content ID

*Updated on 10/4: In the third paragraph we've clarified that potentially invalid claims are manually reviewed by the content owner .* I...

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Introducing a new YouTube app for your iPhone and iPod touch

For all you diehard YouTube fans out there who can’t get enough YouTube on your mobile, we’ve got some great news: starting today, you can d...

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How November Will Be Won: By the Numbers

Did you know that 1/3 of people who see a campaign ad on YouTube have not seen it on TV? We recently shared this on our Politics & Elect...

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Google Video content moving to YouTube

Later this summer, all remaining hosted video on Google Video will be moved to YouTube . Google Video stopped taking uploads in May 2009 an...

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Choosing how you’re seen on YouTube

Maybe you’ve outgrown that username cutepuppies99, which seemed like such a good idea at the time. Or perhaps your friends are missing out o...

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It's YouTube's 7th birthday... and you’ve outdone yourselves, again

In May 2005 we first shared YouTube with the world. Seven years later, you’re the ones doing the sharing! We’re so honored that you’ve used ...

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You asked for it! Here are your 16 Next Vloggers...

Since launching, YouTube Next Creator has helped chefs cook up better videos, trainers get more people into shape and non-profits extend th...

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