Take Advantage of the YouTube Redesign By Creating Content with Fairfax Video Studio

As part of the Google redesign efforts, changes have been made to the YouTube homepage and Channels design. Most notably within the changes is the further integration of social networking applications into the site. Users can easily link their YouTube account to the Google+ and Facebook accounts; doing this creates a feed of your social network contacts’ videos on your YouTube homepage.


Aesthetically, the design layout is darker than the “old” YouTube layout. The homepage background is uniform gray color, and the subscription and channel sidebar is black. Each channel on the homepage features many more suggested videos than on the old setup.

Using the new YouTube format, users can create a customizable channel setup on their homepage and browse similar channels recommended by the site. Here’s an overview of some of the new features you can utilize on your updated YouTube account:

Top 10 Channels: users can pick their top 10 channels and insert them in the left sidebar to get the most recent videos and social activity from these channels.

Channel Opt-In (or out): Users can opt to use the new channel setup or stick with the old setup, learn how to easily change this setting here.

Uploads Only: users can opt to see “uploads only” under their main subscription bar on the homepage. Otherwise, the homepage shows the latest in not only videos, but comments and other features as well from the channels you are subscribed to.

Social Interactivity: users can link their YouTube account to their Google+ and Facebook accounts to stay updated on their social network contacts’ video uploads.

Despite all of these helpful features, there is a substantial amount of negative feedback coming from users who feel the layout (specifically for the channel pages) doesn’t meet their needs – the main comment being that the new channel layout calls for way too much scrolling. A notable limitation is the subscription box-- the subscriptions displayed are only the top 100 channel feeds, so if you have more than 100 channel subscriptions, certain channels will get bumped out of the lineup.

One particular user comment references the volume of video content from certain channels. Channels you are subscribed to that post content very regularly will get a lot of time on subscription feeds- therefore, to get the most views possible, it remains in your best YouTube interests to continue posting content consistently.

A great way to get started posting your content is with a homepage video for both your website and YouTube channel – call Fairfax Video Studio at 1-877-477-STUDIO to schedule yours today!