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You and Leanback - This Time It’s Personal
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
When we
launched Leanback
in July we wanted to create a simple, easy-to-use YouTube interface for the big screen. Since then we’ve
graduated Leanback out of TestTube
, added the ability to place ads to bring in more partner videos, and launched a
YouTube Remote
that lets you control your YouTube Leanback experience from your Android mobile phone. In our latest iteration, we’re enhancing the video discovery experience in Leanback with a new feature called Personalized Channels.
Personalized Channels is built to tackle one of the big challenges for our users: what should I watch next? It's a bit like having your own personal video delivery butler, serving you relevant videos that reflect what you like, or find interesting. For instance, if you create a ‘fail’ channel, it will start out showing the best fail videos we can find, and then gradually start branching out to pranks, funny commercials and other related topics. It will also adjust itself based on how you interact with the videos shown and get better the more you watch and interact with them.
Here’s how it works. Start by signing in to your YouTube account and go to
YouTube.com/leanback
and select “Create Channels”. We’ll suggest personalized channels to you based on the videos you have watched in the past. To create a new personalized channel, choose from the suggested channels or just type in a topic, like “cooking.”
We’ve put together a short video introduction to Personalized Channels, below, to get you started.
Like all products we launch, we’re eager for you to try it out and then give us suggestions on how we can make it even better. This project is still in its early stages and your participation and feedback will help us improve it (you can let us know your thoughts in
the forum
). Have fun and share with us in the comments below the personalized channels that would reflect you the best.
Christina Ilvento, product manager, recently created a personalized channel around “meerkats”, and Ben Liebald, Software Engineer, recently created a personalized channel on “marathon training”.
Celebrating curators: "As seen on" comes to the video page
Thursday, April 8, 2010
"As seen on" surfaces videos popular elsewhere on the Web, and now it also lives on the video page. In other words, if a blog or site is responsible for driving a significant amount of a video's views, that site will be credited on the page, as so:
What this means is that you can get recognition for sourcing videos that your readers love and helping those clips become popular on YouTube. It's another way all that hard work you put into building your readership can pay off and generate even more traffic for your blog or site. You might even get your site in front of a whole new audience via people who encounter it for the first time on YouTube.
We're currently experimenting with this functionality on a range of popular videos and plan on making it a permanent feature soon.
Dylan Trotter, Software Engineer, recently watched “
Cycles
,” and Adam Winkler, Software Engineer, recently watched “
Chatroulette Endmost Piano Ode.m4v
.”
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