Youtube published today the comscore.com results for the January audiences, and they are both impressive and incredible: 100 million viewers in the United States alone, with 6.3 milion videos being viewed.
That is to surpass by 91% the last years’s results.
Searching with Google about how to extract Youtube.com thumbnails and use them with your website video sections may push you to start learning about Youtube APIs and Tools, this being a good thing anyway!
In fact this is only the result of recently(?) closed youtube.videos.get_details function (API Function Reference) for new sign-ups.
I know. For most people, some of the above terms should be used in wars to fast-kill any innocent college student but this introduction was only to demonstrate in the end that extracting youtube thumbnails solution I have found and used (there is an example also! :-P) is simple as counting to 10.
Using youtube thumbails with downloadwin.com
We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them. This new, wider player is in a widescreen aspect ratio which we hope will provide you with a cleaner, more powerful viewing experience. And don’t worry, your 4:3 aspect ratio videos will play just fine in this new player.
Source youtube blog.
For 2-3 years we heard more and more about wide. Hardware (as in laptops, monitors and teleisions) is going widescreen. Many online tvs are talking and imprementing the wide format. DVD Movies are wide. Even Adobe Premiere is working with wide formats! :-)
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Youtube Live event just ended few minutes ago. Even that as a user that watched the show live on the internet, I was warned about the fact that I will see something that I have never seen online, I can tell you now that those guys did not lied!
I don’t know about you but I think this is historical. Registered on 15-Feb-2005 Youtube succeeded to be one of the top3 world wide websites, based on Alexa’s reports.
Youtube Live Page
So this must be a great opportunity for any blogger around the world.
Last month we took video submissions from the YouTube community to be included in our Help Center. We received a ton of creative, informative videos and have embedded six of them in our Help entries. Check out the Round 1 selections in the Favorites section of the YouTubeHelp channel.
said Youtube.
Youtube - broadcast yourself
