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How YouTube’s updated platform has successfully embraced emerging consumer behavior

When the latest YouTube redesign was launched in December 2012, it was greeted with surprisingly little discussion. A vocal handful of users complained about the revised search and increased importance of subscriptions, while restrained welcome was given to the cleaner design. But conversation quickly faded, and few questioned the motivation for the update and who [...]

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Tags: brands, content marketing, TV, YouTube

THNKR

Channeling the power of big ideas

As has been suggested on the blog before, we’re witnessing a flourishing of the “mass intelligent”. Podcast lovers, computer science devotees and people who thrive on big ideas are coming out of the closet, proudly proclaiming their allegiance to all things a little nerdy. And now a new YouTube channel, THNKR, has come along, designed [...]

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Tags: ideas, nerds, TED Talks, THNKR, video, YouTube

Interview with YouTube's Alex Carloss

YouTube channels and the art of discoverability

Last December, YouTube underwent a redesign that wasn’t merely about changing the look of the YouTube website, but about changing how viewers conceive of the video sharing service. YouTube had grown to be a dizzying maze of videos that seemed unhinged from context or connection. You went to YouTube because someone had sent you there, [...]

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Tags: channel, Reuters, tablet, video, Wall Street Journal, YouTube