YOUTUBE featured video

TheVoiceless · #1 12-13-2010, 02:41 PM

So, I got a message today from a band member saying our live video of our cover of "Burning Down the House" was selected as a YOUTUBE feature video. Now I had to ask him to please confirm and he confirmed by saying, " when you click on our video of Money Changes Everything, the Burning Down the House video is in the right hand column with the tag "featured video" under it".

Now from what I can tell, to get a featured video it needs to be hand picked by someone at YOUTUBE. Please confirm or let me know on the contrary.

I am including the link to the video I am referring too. We have some other videos on there if you would like to check them out also. We have videos of " Burning Down the House, Money Changes Everything, Promises in the Dark, and a very good video that I got cut out of for She Blinded Me With Science".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ3D3o6YGdQ

TheVoiceless · #2 12-14-2010, 12:23 PM

So, does anyone have information on how videos are selected as "featured videos" on YouTube? And what that really means? Thanks,

pointbass · #3 12-14-2010, 01:36 PM

Featured videos on YouTube are selected by you on your channel. Go to your YT Home page (your channel) and hit the "Video's and Playlists" menu .... scroll down and you'll see the "featured video" selected for your page ...

TheVoiceless · #4 12-14-2010, 01:45 PM

Cool, Thanks!!

TheVoiceless · #5 12-14-2010, 02:05 PM

Ok, now I am totally confused. Pointbass is saying that the person who posted the video selects it as a "featured video" but when I Googled the question I get a different response. This is saying that its hard to have a feature video and is a big deal. Really confused.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2031106_have...-featured.html

pointbass · #6 12-14-2010, 02:46 PM

Two totally different things ....

Each YouTube "Channel" (our own pages where we upload videos) has a featured video from our own channel. Whenever someone sees one of your other video's, they will likely see a link on the right hand side that says "featured video", simply meaning that it is the video you selected to be the first one they see if they go to your channel.

I believe that is what your bud is talking about.

To become a site-wide YouTube selected feature, there is a submittal process as outlined in the link you provided. If either you or someone else that controls your videos did not go through that process, then all you are seeing is the 1st paragraph "featured video", namely the one you select to be seen first on your own channel ....

TheVoiceless · #7 12-14-2010, 02:52 PM

Thanks again Pointbass.