SOURCE: YouTube
June 19, 2008 09:00 ET
YouTube Homepage Gets Makeover With Personal Touch
Personalized Homepage Offers Enhanced Interaction and Navigation
SAN BRUNO, CA--(Marketwire - June 19, 2008) - YouTube™, the leading online video
community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally
created videos, today introduced Personalized Homepage. The customizable
homepage features new interactive modules that can be moved around, removed
and replaced, in order to create a more personal and comprehensive video
discovery experience.
Alongside homepage regulars like Featured and Most Popular videos, the new
homepage will include personalized recommendations (an algorithmically
selected set of videos based on past views and favorites), the latest
videos from subscriptions and an easier way to see what friends are
uploading, favoriting and rating.
In addition, the new personalized homepage features a dashboard that
includes stats about the user's Inbox and information about their videos.
The new display also showcases stats such as total views, number of
subscribers and more.
"YouTube users now have a simple answer to the question 'what should I
watch today?' as the personalized homepage makes it easy to find the
content and people they care about," said Hunter Walk, YouTube Product
Director. "We're excited to give our community more tools to customize the
world's largest video site to their tastes."
The YouTube Personalized Homepage was first tested in February on a group
of users selected at random and was enhanced based upon feedback. YouTube
users who are logged-out and visitors without accounts will not have access
to the YouTube Personalized Homepage. The mobile YouTube experience will
remain the same.
About YouTube
YouTube (www.youtube.com) is the world's most popular online video
community allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share
originally created videos. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect,
inform and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution
platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.
YouTube, LLC is based in San Bruno, Calif., and is a subsidiary of Google
Inc.