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Six Small Changes For YouTube

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' /> Rather then a big splashy make-over, YouTube has been rolling out an ongoing series of changes and improvements that marketers and uses should pay attention to.</p>
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<li><strong>Download MP4 Files of Your Own Videos</strong>: You no longer have to panic when your computer crashes and you lose the original files of videos. Find the video you want in YouTube's
  • A More TV-Like Experience:  One new feature hides the player control bar when viewers are in full screen for a more TV-like experience. You can also "pop out" any video by clicking on a button and it will open in a new window, without any of the surrounding features or videos. This feature won't work when embedding has been disabled.
    • Mobile App in Six New Languages: A few months ago, they launched a new YouTube Mobile Application for video streaming on Windows Mobile and Symbian Series 60 phones. Now they've added in 6 more languages: French, UK English, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch.
    • The Wonder of "Wonder Wheel":  The next time you search for a video on YouTube look for a link on the right-hand side of the page labeled "Wonder Wheel." This beta search option from Google let's you navigate through "also try" suggestions graphically. Wonder Wheel displays related searches rlike spokes on a wheel. You can click on any of the wheel's spokes to see a new wheel with more related topics and browse new relevant video results.
    • Improved Advanced Search: Advanced Search allows you to specify many more details than our normal search, including when a video was uploaded, the location it came from, and its length. 
    • Remaining Time Display on Upload Progress Bar: Just what it sounds like.Useful to us multi-taskers.

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