YouTube just rolled out a re-design of their channel pages. It's radically different from the old channel design, so the recent site wide roll out has generated a lot of usage questions.
I've been using the "beta" for almost a year and thought I'd scratch up a little tutorial on them now they they have rolled out to everyone.
Most everything on the new channel design can be changed without leaving the channel now. No need to go to different places around in your account settings to change various aspects of the channel like you did with the old design.
Monday, October 19, 2009
New Tutorial: How to Use the New YouTube Channels
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hey erik - is there a way to use a youtube video in a school that blocks youtube? i mean i can do it via other sites - but then doesn't that take the hits away from you guys?
Question,
Under the You Tube Profile. There are Channel Views and Total Upload Views. What is the definition of these numbers? (ie: Channel views = people see channel)
What are Total Upload Views?
These numbers all differ from actual video views, when looking at individual video.
@Justin Wright
Channel views are the number of times that someone, anyone, even yourself, looks at your channel. The number itself is not in real time, and may jump suddenly from day to day.
The Total Upload Views is an accumulated total of all the views on all your videos...which may not necessarily accurately match the number of views of all your video views if you were to manually add all the totals from your "My Videos" listing or look at the "video views" stat listed on your account page... The last I checked, mine was around 2000 views off. Now the difference may be that I have around 173 videos uploaded, but only about 34 are public, as I upload a lot of test videos to test various problems and encoding settings. So could be that the number displayed on the channel is only counting public views, while the number on the account dashboard is both public and private videos.
In any event, one of the problems with YouTube is that they are very secretive about how things are counted so as to prevent gaming the system. The other thing is that much of the data displayed is stored on a variety of different servers and they don't always sync and almost always are not in real time (which causes a greater performance hit on the servers).
Which is why videos take a while to show up in search results, why the views displayed in search results often don't match what is displayed on the channel, why there are differences between the same number displayed in different places.
They don't really make it easy.
The best source for really understanding where you views are coming from and what your audience is watching is the Insight tool. Spend a few hours going through it and checking out the various information it supplies. Some of your more active videos will have other interesting data such as "Hot Spots", which shows where people may be "rewinding" the video to watch parts again (hot) or where they might be losing interest or dropping off all together (cold).
Erik, thanks for taking the time to answer the question. Sounds like there will be some unknown variables, but oh well, just like my heart beating who knows why it wants to work so hard.
You did give another good idea which is to make private videos, for academic reasons, and aesthetic fixes. Thank you for all your help and I hope you have a great new year. Happy New Year!
Hi,I just wanted to thank you on your answer at my question about Youtube broken share option with the Blogger sites,well,thank you for your time.Im trying to keep up the good work with my blogs and my Youtube channel and I hope it is safe to copy and paste stuff cause I did have problems with hackers.
Anyho,have a great day,greetings from Holland, Aleksandra
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