YouTube ups video limit to 15 minutes

YouTube said Wednesday that 24 hours worth of video are being uploaded to the video-sharing site every minute."What?s next? 30 hours? 36 hours?" YouTube director of product management Hunter Walk said in a blog post."A day's worth of content uploaded to YouTube every minute is a big achievement for our community and speaks to the role video plays in connecting and changing the world one upload at a time," Walker said.Google-owned YouTube announced in May that 20 hours of video were being uploaded to the site every minute, up from 15 hours in January.

YouTube, in a significant development for deaf Web users, extended automatic caption capability to all English-language videos on the video-sharing website on Thursday.YouTube users have been able to manually add captions to videos since 2008 and in November of last year the site began offering machine-generated captions for about a dozen partner channels.Hiroto Tokusei, a YouTube product manager, said in a blog post on Thursday that the automatic caption, or auto-caption, feature was now being expanded to all videos on the site in English.

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YouTube wants users to watch more videos and to make it more like watching television.The Google-owned video-sharing site unveiled a new feature on Wednesday called YouTube Leanback which provides a large screen viewing experience on a computer and will also be integrated into the upcoming Google TV."YouTube Leanback is all about letting you sit back, relax and be entertained," YouTube said in a blog post."Videos tailored to your interests play as soon as you visit the site and they play in full screen and high definition, continuously," it said.

YouTube on Monday began letting advertisers pinpoint videos to which they do not want to be associated.YouTube advertisers have been able to pick which videos they want their messages to accompany but the new tool lets them eliminate specific snippets or channels that might be considered by automated ad-targeting software."One of the most frequently requested features we've heard from advertisers is the ability to exclude individual videos and channels from the campaigns they run on our site," YouTube senior product manager Baljeet Singh said in a blog post.

YouTube users can now edit their own videos online. The Google-owned video-sharing site added an online editing tool this week that allows YouTube users to combine multiple videos, shorten a video or add soundtracks from songs in the AudioSwap library.The newly created video can be published to YouTube directly from the editing site.To edit a video, a user drags a thumbnail of the video they want to edit into an empty timeline. The video can then be trimmed or other videos added to make it longer.

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The online video Web site recently announced that users who create just one viral video are eligible for advertising partnerships with the company. Now, those behind the videos that become the next big thing on YouTube can cash in on their 15 minutes of fame.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us