Friday, December 30, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube-- North Korea holds two days of funeral ceremonies for Kim Jong-il, Arab league monitors arrive in Syria, and Nordic storm "Dagmar" batters Scandinavia


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Thursday, December 22, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--North Korea's "dear leader" dies, Egyptian women protest after beatings, and dozens killed in Iraq after US troops leave


Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week:

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

The Top Political Videos of 2011

From candidate ads to pundit debates, speeches from the White House to impassioned pleas from the American heartland, this year’s most-viewed political videos show us that a message that resonates can come from anywhere -- and anyone.

Surpassing the President and various presidential hopefuls in views, the #1 video on our list comes from a young man in Iowa speaking candidly to his government. This video of Zach Wahls speaking about gay marriage has been viewed more than 18 million times.



Three candidates for 2012 made the most-viewed political videos list. Gov. Rick Perry's highly-covered "Strong" ad was uploaded just this month, but has already racked up 7 million views (another one of his ads, “Proven Leadership” is also on the list). Herman Cain, who recently suspended his bid for President, showed that quirky gets views. President Obama reached an audience of millions on YouTube as both commander in chief, and stand up comedian.

Here’s the full list of the most-viewed political videos from the YouTube News and Politics category:

1. Zach Wahls speaks about family
2. President Obama at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
3. Strong [Rick Perry ad]
4. President Obama on death of Osama bin Laden
5. Brother, can you spare a trillion? Government gone wild!
6. Seth Meyers remarks at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
7. Rick Perry - Proven Leadership
8. Jon Stewart Goes Head-to-Head Bill O'Reilly
9. Now is the time for action! [Herman Cain ad]
10. President Barack Obama's First Ad of 2012 [NRSC Ad]

In all, the videos on this list account for over 50 million views, demonstrating that there is significant interest in political video on YouTube before the primaries have even begun. For all the key moments in online political video during the coming election, visit YouTube.com/Politics. For more of YouTube’s most-viewed videos of 2011, visit YouTube.com/Rewind.

Friday, December 16, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--The war in Iraq officially ends, post-election violence in Egypt, and a tragic attack in Belgium


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Friday, December 9, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Horrible deja vu for Virginia Tech, Mass sectarian killing in Afghanistan, and Russians protest election

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

This Week's Top News on YouTube: Egyptians voting, Clinton in Burma, and #OWS kicked out in LA and Philly

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Egyptians go to the polls, Secretary of State Clinton goes to Burma, and Occupiers in LA and Philadelphia go away

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Friday, November 18, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Occupy protests, a deadly storm rips through the US south, and Italians cheer at Berlusconi's demise

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Friday, November 11, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--A huge Penn State scandal, a busy US campaign trail, and the Eurozone economic crisis claims more victims.

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Thursday, November 3, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--An economic and political Greek roller coaster, Occupy protests heat up, and an incredible emergency airliner

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Monday, October 31, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Tunisia makes history, Turkey gets leveled, and #OccupyOakland gets violent.

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Tunisia makes history, Turkey gets leveled, and #OccupyOakland gets violent.

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week:

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Chancellor Angela Merkel takes your questions on new German government YouTube channel

From the Philippines to Israel, Mexico to Iraq, governments from around the world have created YouTube channels and are using the site to communicate with their constituents. Today, the German government launched their YouTube channel to provide regular updates to German citizenry.

Better still, they want to hear from you. Chancellor Angela Merkel will be taking questions from citizens through YouTube. You can vote on the questions you'd like to see asked and she'll answer the top ten questions in a three-part video series on the new channel.



What questions do you have for the Chancellor? Upload them now.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Nonprofits use video to drive action on World Food Day

Cross-posted on the YouTube Blog.

Today is World Food Day and we wanted to highlight some of the ways we’re seeing nonprofit organizations around the world are sharing stories of the over one billion people who are living in hunger.

Organizations like the ONE Campaign are employing famous faces like Bono, George Clooney and Jessica Alba to help raise awareness about the issue:



Others like LinkTV are using this important day to highlight the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, which has affected over 11.5 million people thus far:



A collection of videos related to World Food Day are featured on the YouTube homepage today. Watch them to learn more about the global hunger crisis and to see how you can help.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Live Conversation with Jeffrey Immelt (CEO of GE) on jobs and the economy

With unemployment at 9.1%, Jeffery Immelt, Chariman and CEO of GE and Chairman of the President’s outside panel of economic advisors, faces a daunting task: to figure out how to get American firms hiring again. In a recently published October report, Immelt and staff laid out recommendations for President Obama and Congress, including the formation of a new government “financing institution” to invest in alternative energy and manufacturing projects, among others. Dubbed “The Jobs Czar”, Immelt stands front and center of issue number one in the mind of the American voter: jobs, jobs, jobs.

Beginning 8:30 (EST) on Monday October 17, Thomson Reuters will explore the jobs agenda in a conversation with Jeffrey Immelt. The event will be held in New York City at the Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event, moderated by Thomson Reuters Digital Editor, Chrystia Freeland.

To watch the conversation, please visit the Reueters YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/reuters. The event will air live at 8:30 EST on Monday October 17th.

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--tensions in Egypt, New Zealand's oil disaster, and global Blackberry outages

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Friday, October 7, 2011

"What's your story?" video challenge

The White House recently launched a creative initiative asking Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) to record their personal stories via short YouTube videos:



A select number of videos will be posted to the White House website and exceptional AAPI leaders will be invited to the White House for a special gathering. To learn more, or submit your own video (deadline November 1st), visit WhiteHouse.gov/WhatsYourStory.


Tuesday, October 4, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Michael Jackson's doctor goes on trial, Typhoon Nesat rips through the Philippines and China, and the passing of the first African woman Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week:

Monday, September 26, 2011

This week on YouTube

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Palestinians make history at the UN, a highly controversial death penalty case, and Republicans square off in their seventh debate.

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week:

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

DADT Officially Over; Soldier comes out on YouTube

Following the official end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, one soldier who has been anonymously posting videos on his channel about being gay in the military finally showed his face. The 21 year-old Air Force serviceman filmed a heartfelt call from Germany coming out to his father, who assured his son "I still love you. It doesn't change our relationship."

Since April, the US soldier has gained close to 10,000 subscribers and describes himself via his Twitter account as a "Military member in the closet, using social media to build up the courage to come out to family, girlfriend, friends, and coworkers." He has done just that and more. His video, posted less than 48 hours ago, has almost 2,000,000 views and 22,000 likes.



Ferris Salameh, YouTube Policy, recently watched "Fox News Google Debate"

Friday, September 16, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--A brazen twenty-hour Taliban attack, a hi

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Saturday, September 10, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--A tragic Russian plane crash, extreme US weather, and fresh violence in Syria.

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Friday, September 2, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Libya is overthrown, a rare earthquake rattles the US East Coast, and Hurricane Irene slams the Caribbean on

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Video Edifies Case Against Pakistani Rangers

How did one video change the paradigm in a Pakistani courtroom? The footage (WARNING: graphic content) of a group of military rangers dragging out and shooting a young man at point blank provoked outrage in Pakistan. The clip is raw and visceral. An onlooker caught the incident and released it to TV media and within hours it was ubiquitous. Citizens took to the web and the streets to show support for Sarfraz Shah and his family: protesters hung the ranger in effigy, bloggers broadcasted the incident to the world and discussed a series of recent extrajudicial killings, and tweeters called directly on Chief Justice of Pakistan to take measures against Shahid Zafar. Earlier this month the court convicted the shooter, Zafar and the other rangers involved.

This post was written by Nicole McDonald, YouTube Policy.

Friday, August 26, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Tragic music festivals, lots of protests, and a fired up US campaign trail.

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