How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part One) - Benefits of YouTube Partner

If you have quality original videos and expanding audience on YouTube, you can apply for a YouTube partner to earn money from the plan.

Benefits of YouTube partner
YouTube is the biggest video sharing website in the world. Its traffic is much more than its competitors. (Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is a perfect tool to download and convert videos from YouTube and other websites, click here to read its manual.)

Being a YouTube partner has the following benefits listed below:

1. Revenue

As a YouTube partner, you will be able to enjoy opportunities to create revenue.

• Earn money from the embedded advertisement on your video and advertisement beside your video.

• Share income from your video rental.

• Gain the opportunies of co-marketing and branded entertainment with top brand advertiser.

• Use your own marketing channel to sell your own advertisement

2. Video statistics analytics

Use YouTube's Insight analytics tools to optimize your existing content and create more targeted content to satisfy your audience and advertisers.

• Learn more characteristics of your audience and what they are watching.

• Learn more about how your audience find your video.

• Learn more about how are you and your competitors doing in terms of competition.

• Learn what content you have is the most popular & engaging.

• Tells you where your video is really successful, and where it is not good enough at a video level.

3. Protection

YouTube can protect both of your video content and brand.

• Protects the integrity of your brand through the branded channel options available only to partners.

• In addition, YouTube offers many Content Management tools for copyright protection that anyone may use, regardless of whether they are in a partnership with YouTube.

• Rental of your videos are delivered via secure streaming way, to avoid downloading by other people.

4. Video quality

YouTube will process your uploaded video in reliable way, and display them on YouTube at the highest resolution as far as possible.

• To those videos which are hot and attractive, YouTube will offer HD version accordingly.

• Offers aspect ration of 16:9 for video players.

• Join the ranks of YouTube's other high-quality video providers already in the Partner Program.

YouTube Rentals Beta - How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part Two)

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part Three) - Qualifications & FAQ

How to Download Online Videos

If the online video you come across is played with an Adobe Flash Player, then you may use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download it off to your computer! Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is a free all-in-one video downloader which can download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Dailymotion and other video sharing websites as long as they are played with Adobe Flash Player.

Suppose you are going to download videos with this video downloader, the easiest way is to drag the YouTube video thumbnail to the hover window of Leawo Free YouTube Downloader and then the video downloader will begin the downloading automatically.

Of course, you can also type the URL in the program address bar, this applies to all the video sites, for example, Google Video. Browse videos in its built-in FLV player with high speed, then download them to your appointed folder within just a click, and convert them directly to the format you want for your phone and portable media player.

The tutorial below will take YouTube and Google Video respectively for example to show how to free download video.

Step 1: Launch Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, click settings icon, choose "Show hover window on program startup" in "General" tab from the pop-up window.

Step 2: Browse YouTube videos in IE or any browser, choose the one you want to download, and then drag the selected video thumbnail to the hover window of Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.

Step 3: Click "Video" tab to check the video downloading progress. When the downloading completes, double click the downloaded video, you could play it with the built-in player, or click "Download" button to save the downloaded video to your PC.

Step 4: For downloading Google video and other online videos, type the URL in the address bar and choose one Google video to play. Then repeat the Step 3 shown above.

Source is Leawo Software user guide.

Supported video / audio formats for uploading to YouTube

YouTube accepts a wide range of video formats uploaded by users. The below video formats are all accepted by YouTube. Some of them have the best visual effect on YouTube. You can take a look at them and tune your video formats for YouTube.

List of some well-known formats which YouTube supports:

WebM files (Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codec)
.MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files - (typically supporting h264 and mpeg4 video codecs and AAC audio codec)
.AVI (Many cameras output this format - typically the video codec is MJPEG and audio is PCM)
.MPEGPS (Typically supporting MPEG2 video codec and MP2 audio)
.WMV
.MP4
.FLV (Adobe - FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio)

YouTube accepts all of the above video formats uploaded from users. To most users, we find that the below video settings have the best visual effect:
Video format: H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 recommended
Aspect ratio: Original screen aspect ration without top or bottom black border, for example, 4:3, 16:9
Resolution: 640x360 (16:9) or 480x360 (4:3) Recommended
Audio format: MP3 or AAC Recommended
FPS (Frame per second): 30
Video length limit: 15 minutes (2 to 3 minutes recommended)
Video size limit: 2 GB

Tips:
a. If you think your video won't be accepted by YouTube, you can convert it to video format MPEG4 with audio format MP3 to get the best visual effect.

b. To convert any video format to the 'YouTube supported video formats', you can use some free or paid video converter. Good Freeware for this purpose are FormatFactory or FFMPEG. The former is graphic user interface, while the latter is command line user interface.

c. By default, Windows Movie Maker will save your video item as . MSWMM file. MSWMM is project file, which is not accepted by YouTube on uploading. To upload your Windows Movie Maker video to YouTube, please choose 'save it to my computer' option to save your video project as an accepted video format, and then you can upload the saved video to YouTube.

d. To download videos from YouTube, you can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, which is free and clean.

Is it illegal to download YouTube video?

YouTube becomes the biggest video database in the world nowdays. There are substantial of videos on YouTube. YouTube now exceeds 2 billion views a day and 24 hours of video uploaded every minute. I'm sure a lot of you guys want to download some YouTube videos. Now the problem comes: Is it legal or not to download YouTube video? Is it legal to upload videos to YouTube?

There are different viewpoints toward these problems. Of course, YouTube thinks that it's illegal to download video from itself. Here is YouTube's answer to the question in terms of their Terms of Service -

You shall not download any Content unless you see a "download" or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content. You shall not copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any Content for any other purposes without the prior written consent of YouTube or the respective licensors of the Content. YouTube and its licencors reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to the Service and the Content.

However, this answer is very impracticable and ambiguous. For example, They do not imply it's illegal to download using third-party software like Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, only that the site provides no method to download videos. Second example, if I download YouTube videos just for watching them off line on my own computer or iPod, and not caught with illegal videos by the copyright owner or YouTube, then I can still download video from YouTube.

If copyrighted video was uploaded illegally, then it would be certainly illegal to download it. If you are caught with illegal videos, the penalties will cost much more than if you had just bought the item in the first place.

If you mean to distribute, broadcast, or even sell the copyrighted YouTube video to others without permission from video owner and YouTube, then it's surely illegal. For example, you can't share it with others or post it on your blog or Facebook page without permission, or you'll be banned by YouTube from their services for breaking the EULA terms. Or worst of all you could end up facing criminal copyright infringement charges that have substantial fines and possible jail time (at least in the United States). Depending on who your ISP is there could be issues there as well with their terms, you could get expelled from school or college if using their networks as a student, or get fired from work if using an employer's internet for copyright infringement.

The last thing I want to say is that a lot of people have downloaded videos from YouTube to watch them off line on their compuers or protable electronic devices, and they never get caught. Just remember that you won't reuse, distribute or sell the downloaded YouTube videos, you'll never get caught.

YouTube will launch its paid movie service at the end of the year

Sources say that Google's video site YouTube is being in talks for worldwide paid movie service with all major Hollywood studios. Movies would cost $5 to rent and would be available at the same time as on Blu-ray, DVD and Internet services. YouTube is going to lauch this service at the end of this year, which will compete with Apple's digital movie and TV distribution service.

Given the fact that Google is the the most widely used search engine in the world, and YouTube's traffic is much more than other competitors, major Hollywood studios tend to cooperate with YouTube. Google search and YouTube is widely used all over the world. Its total user amount has been more than any wired or satalite TV provider. It will be 'a huge number' of customers, which has been promising in Google's talk.

Sources say that Google will take advantage of its search and video technique to promote this service. It would launch in the US first, but it would eventually spread to other countries.

This paid movie service makes Hollywood feel excited, because Hollywood is looking for new income to replace the traditional DVD movie selling point. Before this, YouTube also announced that they have been testing rental movie service since January this year.

Tip: You can legally download YouTube videos for personal use. Recommended tool is Leawo Free YouTube Downloader. It's free and safe to use. It can download almost all Flash video from the Internet. What's more, it has the options for video conversion. You can learn more features of this download from its user manual.

YouTube Instant creator accepts the job at YouTube and continue at Stanford

Stanford computer science student Feross Aboukhadijeh took three hous to make himself famous on the Internet. He is the creator of YouTube Instant site. Earlier this month he created the site in just three hours! He just announced two important things on his blog, his YouTube Instant site reaches one million visitors in ten days as well as a new job offered from YouTube CEO Chad Hurley. Aboukhadijeh also revealed that he's currently interning at Facebook, and he will finish his commitment there before starting at YouTube. He will continue his study at Stanford.

What's YouTube Instant? According to Wikipedia -

YouTube Instant is a real-time search engine built by nineteen-year-old college student and Facebook-software-engineer intern Feross Aboukhadijeh of Stanford University that allows its users to search the YouTube video database as they type. It follows on the heels of Google Instant, and has been described as a "novelty toy", a "catchy little title”, a "prototypical digit to tie the "instant" bandwagon as well as a "completely excellent way to waste 15 minutes".

Aboukhadijeh is going to add some new features to his YouTube Instant site, such as video playback controls, keyboard controls, shortened shareable URLs and Facebook integration.

Below is a YouTube video interview of Aboukhadijeh by NBC San Diego (You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download it to your computer. Leawo Free YouTube Downloader can accelerate the loading speed of online video, so that you can view online video smoothly) –

Notable Video Downloader Tools and Sites (Part One)

There are a lot of video sharing websites nowadays, we can enjoy watching all kinds of videos in our free time. But we want more. We also want to download the online videos from the Internet to computer, for watching them off-line. The problem is that most of these websites don’t provide us a video downloader for doing that.

Now I show you some notable video downloaders that are being used by the mainstream web users.

1. SpeedBit Video Downloader
This downloader is a toolbar installed on your web browser. It supports Flash video downloading. There are 3 steps to download Flash video to your computer: Play, Click and Save.


2. Leawo YouTube Downloader
It is an all-in-one browser, video downloader manager, video accelerator, video converter and FLV player. It is a web browser that can download online video, and accelerate the loading speed of online video, so that you can view online video smoothly. It also has options for video conversion. What's more, you can play FLV video in its built-in FLV player.

It can download almost all Flash videos from the Internet as long as they are play through Adobe Flash Player.

Its free version supports comman definition online video download and acceleration while its pro version supports High Definition online video download and acceleration.

You can learn more details about this downloader from this user manual.

3. Video DownloadHelper - Mozilla Firefox Extension
It is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox. It enables users to grab video and images from websites. If you're a Firefox fan, you can use it to download and convert web videos from websites.

4. keepvid.com
It's a website. You can copy and paste video link to its 'URL' box and click 'Download' button to start to download an online video. You can also drag it to your browser's links tool bar to integrate it with your browser. Sometimes it doesn't work after some video sites changes.

5. YouTube downloader of altervista.org
It is a desktop downloader application. It supports video downloading and conversion for YouTube and some other websites.

To be continued..

How to Download Online Video for Free

If the online video you come across is played through Adobe Flash Player, then you may use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download it to your computer! Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is a free all-in-one video downloader which can download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Dailymotion and other video sharing websites as long as they are played with Adobe Flash Player.

Suppose you are going to download YouTube videos with this video downloader, the easiest way is to drag the YouTube video thumbnail to the hover window of Leawo Free YouTube Downloader and then the video downloader will begin the downloading automatically.

Of course, you can also type the URL in the program address bar, this applies to all the video sites, for example, Google Video. Browse videos in its built-in FLV player with high speed, then download them to your appointed folder within just a click, and convert them directly to the format you want for your phone and portable media player.

The tutorial below will take YouTube and Google Video respectively for example to show how to download web video for free.

Step 1: Launch Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, click settings icon, choose "Show hover window on program startup" in "General" tab from the pop-up window.

Step 2: Browse YouTube videos in IE or any browser, choose the one you want to download, and then drag the selected video thumbnail to the hover window of Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.

Step 3: Click "Video" tab to check the video downloading progress. When the downloading completes, double click the downloaded video, you could play it with the built-in player, or click "Download" button to save the downloaded video to your PC.

Step 4: For downloading Google video and other online videos, type the URL in the address bar and choose one Google video to play. Then repeat the Step 3 shown above.

Four YouTube videos about Google Instant

Google have posted four videos about Google Instant on YouTube's Google channel. Let's have a look at this great revolution in search history.

Tip: You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download these videos to your computer hard disk to watch them off-line.

1. Google Instant with Bob Dylan

2. Introducing Google Instant

3. Google Instant Testers

4. The ABCs with Google Instant

Google Instant Brief Guide

Google Instant is a new search way that is just announced Today by Google. While you are inputting keywords in Google Search before pressing Enter, Google Search will instantly list the web pages relevant to the keywords you have just inputted, so you are very likely to get your search result from the list before you have entered all your keywords.



The ABCs of Google Instant:

Am I be able to use Google Instant?

Currently, there are some limitation to Google Instant:
1. Logging in your Google account is a must.
2. You IP address is in United States, Britain, French, Italy, Germany, Spain, Russia
3. You web browser is one of the following: Chrome v5/6, Firefox v3, Safari v5 for Mac or Internet Explorer v8

How to disable Google Instant?

Google offers two ways to disable this Instant search.
The first way – There is a 'Instant is on' drop-down list on the right side of the the search box, expand this drop-download list and choose 'Off' to disable the Instant search feature.

The second way – At the bottom of the 'Search Settings' panel, there is an option for Google Instant, here you can turn it on or off.

How does Google Seach work?

Google Instant will list local relevant pages according to your location. Suppose you are in Washington State, when you input 'hotel' in the Google search box, you can see local hotel web pages listed below the search box, so you don't need to add 'Washington State' to your search words.(Just as the picture shown below, the second result page is a Seattle hotel)



Google Instant is customized search. If you have visited the Seattle Hotel Manaco website several times before, the Instant search will list this website at the top in the result pages. Google also have confirmed that they will customized your search according to your search history.

If your search words are in the range of Google's blacklist, adult, hatred, etc., Google Instant won't work, and you have to input all your keywords and press Enter to get your result.

How does Google Instant impact SEO?

Google confirmed that there will be no change in rankings in Instant search. However, Google Instant will definitely drop visitors that rely on long keyword phrases. For example: If I rely on traffic that searches for key phrase "Used Lamps Indiana", users will see many other sites offering used lamps before the user is done typing the whole phrase. As they type, they will see sites that rank high for "Used Lamps" before they finish adding on the "indiana" to the phrase. Therefore, the webmaster that relied on more refined search phrases, loses customers.

I think that what Google Instant will do is to force webmasters to shorten keyword phrases.

You can view YouTube videos introducing Google Instant here.

Roger Federer Hits Another Astounding Between the Legs Shot

In my last post about Federer, the living legend, he twice shot a metal bottle off a guy's head. This made him became a YouTube sensation. Now, and again, he just sets off another upsurge on YouTube with a astounding between the legs trickshot in his 1st round match in US Open 2010 vs. Brian Dabul.

It brought back memories of a similar shot Federer made in 2009 U.S. Open, late in the third set of a semifinal against Novak Djokovic.

Federer had called that one the most amazing shot of his life. But now he might give the vote to Monday's 'tweener'.

"Maybe in terms of difficulty, maybe this one was harder, because I had the feeling I had to run a longer distance, and I was farther back somehow,'' Federer said. "I had to really give the last big push at the end. I didn't have time to set it up. So I felt like this one was incredible again. I turned around and couldn't believe the shot landed in the corner.''

The YouTube video below shows both of these two trickshots.(Tips: You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download this YouTube video to your computer)