It’s been a hot week for music videos. Fiona Apple released a gem of a video for “Every Single Night” last week, just ahead of today’s album release -- and we were pleased to feature Givers’ lovely cover of “That Was Your Mother.” We also saluted the dads over the weekend with a playlist of songs that are both inspirational and cautionary tales for wanna-be dads. And of course we couldn’t sleep on the fact that Paul McCartney turned 70 yesterday.
The Sound of Sweden
Swedes have always had some kind of mystical hold on pop music. Yes, ABBA may have forged the way, but more recently, artists like Robyn and Lykke Li have demonstrated that Sweden’s pop domination is by no means over. We scoured the Swedish underground for the next crop of artists who might become pop stars, and present our findings today. But we have to ask: how come they all sing in English?!
A Tall Glass of Lemonade
The indie pop act Lemonade got their start in San Francisco and then moved to -- where else? -- Brooklyn. They returned with a new album last week and a new video today, and they picked an assortment of pleasingly frothy videos to get us in the mood for warm summer nights.
Todd Terje: Inspector NorseThe Norwegian knob-twiddler Todd Terje has been quietly building a following for his neo-disco for the past few years. “Inspector Norse” is a great example of his refreshingly straightforward dance music, but it’s the video that really captivates here. Pulled from a short documentary entitled Whateverest, it follows a stymied, strange wannabe musician in rural Sweden who calls himself Inspector Norse. We can’t really do justice to the good Inspector -- you’ve got to see it for yourself.
Sarah Bardeen, music community manager, recently watched “March Slav.”
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Sunday, 17 June 2012
Customize entertainment for your dad this Father’s Day
This year on Mother’s Day we suggested gifts besides macaroni necklaces and other children’s artwork. So what do we suggest for fathers? Well, Dads can actually be a lot like kids’ art—they are sometimes a little messy, but they bring you joy, and should certainly be appreciated more than once a year.
Whether you’re old man is a finger painted sunset or a clay sculpted football, whether he loves the outdoors or technology you can find YouTube channels that he will love. This Father’s Day, give your dad the ‘no-mess’ gift of entertainment in a personalized playlist that caters to his interests. Here are some suggestions to get you started:
For Mr. Sports Fanatic:
For the Dad behind the grill:
For the Music Lover:
For Mr. Fix it:
Happy Father’s Day!
Jessica Mason, communications associate, recently watched “Military Dad Surprises Daughter at Spelling Bee After She Spells 'Sergeant'.”
Whether you’re old man is a finger painted sunset or a clay sculpted football, whether he loves the outdoors or technology you can find YouTube channels that he will love. This Father’s Day, give your dad the ‘no-mess’ gift of entertainment in a personalized playlist that caters to his interests. Here are some suggestions to get you started:
For Mr. Sports Fanatic:
For the Dad behind the grill:
For the Music Lover:
For Mr. Fix it:
Happy Father’s Day!
Jessica Mason, communications associate, recently watched “Military Dad Surprises Daughter at Spelling Bee After She Spells 'Sergeant'.”
Friday, 15 June 2012
Calling all Beliebers! Ask Justin a question on YouTube Presents
You’ve seen him grow up on camera, transforming from a talented little kid posting videos on YouTube into the star of his own documentary and a global pop phenomenon. Now Justin Bieber is ready to come back to where it all began for an exclusive Q&A with YouTube Presents, and he wants to answer your questions.
What have you always wanted to know about the Biebs? Starting today, and running until midnight ET on June 20, you have the chance to ask Justin Bieber all those burning questions. Head over to youtube.com/kidrauhl and pour your heart out—Justin will hear you! And be ready to tune in to youtube.com/presents on June 21 at 7pm ET to watch the interview -- with none other than Jimmy Fallon -- live.
YouTube Presents gives music fans an opportunity to get more into the music and artists they love with live performances and interviews at venues around the world. Check out recent performances and concerts with artists including Taylor Swift, The Shins, Ziggy Marley, Lenny Kravitz and more on youtube.com/presents.
And remember -- never say never!
Sarah Bardeen, music community manager, recently watched “Justin Bieber’s Backstage Interview at Capital FM’s Summertime Ball 2012.”
What have you always wanted to know about the Biebs? Starting today, and running until midnight ET on June 20, you have the chance to ask Justin Bieber all those burning questions. Head over to youtube.com/kidrauhl and pour your heart out—Justin will hear you! And be ready to tune in to youtube.com/presents on June 21 at 7pm ET to watch the interview -- with none other than Jimmy Fallon -- live.
YouTube Presents gives music fans an opportunity to get more into the music and artists they love with live performances and interviews at venues around the world. Check out recent performances and concerts with artists including Taylor Swift, The Shins, Ziggy Marley, Lenny Kravitz and more on youtube.com/presents.
And remember -- never say never!
Sarah Bardeen, music community manager, recently watched “Justin Bieber’s Backstage Interview at Capital FM’s Summertime Ball 2012.”
YouTube automatic captions now available in Spanish
Cross posted from the Blog de YouTube en Español
Last year, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views, or about 140 views for every person on earth. As the world tunes in to YouTube, we want everyone, in every language, to have the same opportunity to enjoy YouTube. So today, we’re expanding our language accessibility to add automatic captions in Spanish.
When a video has recognizable speech, you’ll see a “CC” button appear in the bottom of the player, which will instantly add captions of the video in Spanish. Just look for this icon and click “Transcribe Audio.”
The hundreds of millions of Spanish speakers in the world are the latest to see the auto-caption feature, adding to other available languages of English, Japanese and Korean. You’ll find auto-captions available on more than 157 million videos, with videos being added every day. We’ll continue to refine our speech recognition technology, and you can learn more about how it works here. See it in action on this video, by clicking the CC:
If you want to see YouTube videos in even more languages, you can combine auto-captions with our auto-translate feature to generate subtitles in more than 50 languages. For creators, upload a Spanish transcript with your video and we’ll automatically create timecoded captions. You can even download the automatic captions, all from your Video Manager.
We’re launching new countries and languages all the time, as we work to make YouTube accessible and enjoyable to all.
¡Nos vemos en YouTube!
Hoang Nguyen, software engineer, recently watched "Casillas: 'Si la Eurocopa hubiese sido en 2011, habría habido más problemas.'"
Last year, YouTube had more than 1 trillion views, or about 140 views for every person on earth. As the world tunes in to YouTube, we want everyone, in every language, to have the same opportunity to enjoy YouTube. So today, we’re expanding our language accessibility to add automatic captions in Spanish.
When a video has recognizable speech, you’ll see a “CC” button appear in the bottom of the player, which will instantly add captions of the video in Spanish. Just look for this icon and click “Transcribe Audio.”
The hundreds of millions of Spanish speakers in the world are the latest to see the auto-caption feature, adding to other available languages of English, Japanese and Korean. You’ll find auto-captions available on more than 157 million videos, with videos being added every day. We’ll continue to refine our speech recognition technology, and you can learn more about how it works here. See it in action on this video, by clicking the CC:
If you want to see YouTube videos in even more languages, you can combine auto-captions with our auto-translate feature to generate subtitles in more than 50 languages. For creators, upload a Spanish transcript with your video and we’ll automatically create timecoded captions. You can even download the automatic captions, all from your Video Manager.
We’re launching new countries and languages all the time, as we work to make YouTube accessible and enjoyable to all.
¡Nos vemos en YouTube!
Hoang Nguyen, software engineer, recently watched "Casillas: 'Si la Eurocopa hubiese sido en 2011, habría habido más problemas.'"
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Have your own YouTube party in Google+ Hangouts
Ever been to a party where you start showing friends your favorite YouTube videos? Compete for the screen to see who knows the latest and greatest hit? Now you can get the same experience even if you’re a world away, with the new YouTube app in Google+ Hangouts.
Create, control, save and even share playlists of videos with your friends—all inside a Hangout. Just start a Hangout, have everyone load the YouTube app at the top of the screen, and start adding videos. It’s like your own VIP table at the world’s coolest YouTube party.
Crowdsourcing awesomeness
Everyone can add videos in the Hangout through a search tool in the app, or remove the videos you don’t like. All your friends in the Hangout can drag and drop videos to sort the order in the playlist, or skip forward or backward to play the next one. Click the “Push to talk” button to chat with the group to give props to the best curator, or to hand out reprimands to the friend who keeps adding the 10-hour Nyan Cat video.
Save and share those precious memories
If you like a video that’s playing, you can share the video with your Google+ circles at any time. Since great playlists are works of art, you can also save the playlist that you and your friends created to your YouTube account as public or private to enjoy later.
So gather the team to watch the last night’s game highlights, hangout with your friends for a haul-a-thon, assemble the audiophiles to review the newest tunes, or come up with a whole new way to enjoy (and let us know!). The new app is available worldwide in 60 languages.
Ullas Gargi, software engineer, recently watched “Ken Block Gymkhana Practice.”
Create, control, save and even share playlists of videos with your friends—all inside a Hangout. Just start a Hangout, have everyone load the YouTube app at the top of the screen, and start adding videos. It’s like your own VIP table at the world’s coolest YouTube party.
Crowdsourcing awesomeness
Everyone can add videos in the Hangout through a search tool in the app, or remove the videos you don’t like. All your friends in the Hangout can drag and drop videos to sort the order in the playlist, or skip forward or backward to play the next one. Click the “Push to talk” button to chat with the group to give props to the best curator, or to hand out reprimands to the friend who keeps adding the 10-hour Nyan Cat video.
Save and share those precious memories
If you like a video that’s playing, you can share the video with your Google+ circles at any time. Since great playlists are works of art, you can also save the playlist that you and your friends created to your YouTube account as public or private to enjoy later.
So gather the team to watch the last night’s game highlights, hangout with your friends for a haul-a-thon, assemble the audiophiles to review the newest tunes, or come up with a whole new way to enjoy (and let us know!). The new app is available worldwide in 60 languages.
Ullas Gargi, software engineer, recently watched “Ken Block Gymkhana Practice.”
Selamat datang, YouTube Indonesia!
Greetings from a very warm Jakarta, where we just announced the opening of a brand new domain for Indonesia at www.youtube.co.id to become the 46th country with an official local version of YouTube.
YouTube is already available in the official language Bahasa Indonesia, and now having a Indonesia-specific homepage means we can bring the 237 million citizens the most relevant videos for Indonesians and highlight great content from our local partners such as Kompas, Aquarius Musikindo, Nagaswara, Trinity, GP Records, and Musica Studios.
To celebrate the launch, we had amazing live performances from some of the top Indonesian music acts, such as rockers Ungu, male pop vocalist Vidi Aldiano, alternative pop band Nidji, acoustic singer-songwriter Sheryl, female-fronted stadium rockers Kotak, singing and dancing boy band XO-IX, laid-back funk band Soul of Magnolia, and giant idol collective JKT48. Here’s a few of these stars and some other special guests:
We’ve already seen new talent in Indonesia using the power of video to build audiences and careers. “Dancing Cop” Briptu Norman turned his popular Bollywood lip-synching video into national fame. Brother-and-sister act Gamaliel & Audrey went from covering Lady Gaga out of their bedrooms, to complicated a capella versions of Chris Brown, to now working in a studio on an album.
If you’re in Indonesia, YouTube will automatically start you on the Indonesia homepage. If you’re out of the country and interested in Indonesian content, just select “Indonesia” in the Location section at the bottom of the page. To all our YouTube viewers and creators from Indonesia and Indonesians around the world, selamat datang!
Krishna Zulkarnain, country marketing manager, recently watched “Transformer-nya Indonesia.”
YouTube is already available in the official language Bahasa Indonesia, and now having a Indonesia-specific homepage means we can bring the 237 million citizens the most relevant videos for Indonesians and highlight great content from our local partners such as Kompas, Aquarius Musikindo, Nagaswara, Trinity, GP Records, and Musica Studios.
To celebrate the launch, we had amazing live performances from some of the top Indonesian music acts, such as rockers Ungu, male pop vocalist Vidi Aldiano, alternative pop band Nidji, acoustic singer-songwriter Sheryl, female-fronted stadium rockers Kotak, singing and dancing boy band XO-IX, laid-back funk band Soul of Magnolia, and giant idol collective JKT48. Here’s a few of these stars and some other special guests:
We’ve already seen new talent in Indonesia using the power of video to build audiences and careers. “Dancing Cop” Briptu Norman turned his popular Bollywood lip-synching video into national fame. Brother-and-sister act Gamaliel & Audrey went from covering Lady Gaga out of their bedrooms, to complicated a capella versions of Chris Brown, to now working in a studio on an album.
If you’re in Indonesia, YouTube will automatically start you on the Indonesia homepage. If you’re out of the country and interested in Indonesian content, just select “Indonesia” in the Location section at the bottom of the page. To all our YouTube viewers and creators from Indonesia and Indonesians around the world, selamat datang!
Krishna Zulkarnain, country marketing manager, recently watched “Transformer-nya Indonesia.”
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
U.S. Olympic Team rolls out new channel on YouTube
In just over a month the Summer Olympics will kick-off in London with thousands of athletes competing for their countries to bring home the gold. While the world will watch the summer games, YouTube will bring a new dimension to the competition.
Today, the USOC is launching their TeamUSA channel on YouTube that will give fans all over the world an inside look into the lives of Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ as they train and prepare for one of the world’s most prestigious sporting events.
At TeamUSA on YouTube, you'll be able to:
Tommy O'Hare, YouTube Sports content partnerships manager, recently watched “Maya Moore: Qualified First Look.”
Today, the USOC is launching their TeamUSA channel on YouTube that will give fans all over the world an inside look into the lives of Olympic and Paralympic athletes’ as they train and prepare for one of the world’s most prestigious sporting events.
At TeamUSA on YouTube, you'll be able to:
- Follow 17 Olympic/Paralympic athletes on their way to potentially making the 2012 Olympic Games in Qualified and the 2012 Paralympic Games Returning Veterans: London Bound
- Learn from Olympic coaches and athletes in Olympic Coaching Tips
- Relive past Olympic memories with Olympians and the Olympic footage with Gold Medal Moments
Tommy O'Hare, YouTube Sports content partnerships manager, recently watched “Maya Moore: Qualified First Look.”
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