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“Super Tuesday” Reporting, Powered by YouTube Direct

Monday, March 5, 2012

It’s Presidential election season in the United States, and YouTube’s News and Politics team is partnering with Storyful to highlight timely political videos from across the country. With that in mind, we’re excited to announce that citizen journalists can now submit videos documenting the election process by using the new Android and iOS mobile applications powered by YouTube Direct and released by Storyful. Both applications are based on the open source code examples we’ve released for Android and iOS, and submit videos to the instance of YouTube Direct that Storyful curates.

Tomorrow is “Super Tuesday,” when 10 states will hold their primary elections. If you live in one of the Super Tuesday states, we encourage you to install the Storyful Direct mobile application and shoot some footage documenting your political experience—a selection of videos will appear on YouTube and google.com/elections throughout the day. Even if you don’t live in a state that’s holding a primary tomorrow, the Storyful Direct apps can be used to document your experience during the runup to the Presidential election in November.

And if you’re a developer who isn’t yet familiar with the YouTube Direct platform, you can find all the information you need to get started with the web and mobile platforms at the Google Code project page.

Cheers,
—Jeffrey Posnick, YouTube API Team

Google

Labels: android , ios , mobile , storyful , youtube direct

Resources for Mobile Development with YouTube

Friday, September 24, 2010

The importance of mobile applications in our day-to-day lives continues to grow. We can now do so many things with our phones that would have been impossible not too long ago. While watching videos on mobile devices has been popular for quite some time, mobile uploads to YouTube grew by 160% last year. Mobile application developers can take advantage of this growth by incorporating different types of functionality. Many interesting YouTube projects combine video capture, uploading, sharing and playback, with application logic executing both on the mobile device and in the cloud. With that in mind, we've compiled this article to help developers quickly get up to speed on what is involved in building one, please let us know what you think!Update:article

YouTube 移动应用程序开发参考资料
YouTube 行動應用程式開發資源
携帯端末向け開発リソース YouTube
YouTube를 통한 모바일 개발 도움말
Recursos para desenvolvimento de aplicativos para celular com o YouTube
Ресурсы для разработки мобильных приложений, интегрированных с YouTube
Recursos de desarrollo para móviles con YouTube

Thanks,-Jarek Wilkiewicz, YouTube API Team

Google

Labels: android , iphone , mobile , youtube direct

YouTube Direct for Mobile, and Other Updates

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Since launching YouTube Direct last November, our team has been hard at work adding new functionalities, fixing bugs, and answering developer's questions. We wanted to take a momentary break from all that to share some updates.Separate from but related to the main YouTube Direct project are two other Google Code projects: video capture and YouTube Direct upload applications for the Android and iPhone operating systems. These two projects are basic implementations that we hope will inspire organizations to add video capture and YouTube Direct upload functionality to their Android or iPhone applications.We've been gradually, and quietly, checking in various bug fixes and enhancements to the current release's Subversion repository on Google Code. One recent change is especially important, as it adds support for the new video page URLs that will start becoming more common. Periodically, we package the current release into a new "tagged" release, and generate release notes summarizing what's new. If you haven't updated your YouTube Direct codebase recently, we strongly suggest that you read the release notes and perform a sync with our code repository. Starting with the next YouTube Direct release, we will send email announcements to the low-traffic, announce-only Google Group. We recommend that all developers using YouTube Direct sign up to the group — actually, all YouTube API users should sign up to receive periodic important notifications.Many organizations, in addition to our launch partners, have deployed YouTube Direct on their websites since our launch, and we wanted to highlight a few here.Gannett rolled out a company-wide initiative in honor of Black History month, in which they ask people to interview civil rights heroes via video. Al-Jazeera invited the community to share their thoughts and experiences around Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrammage to Mecca. And if you have news videos around any of the big stories of the day, ITN News wants them. Even Tufts University is using YouTube Direct to solicit personal videos from the community called "You, in One Minute".As always, the best resource for developers looking to embed YouTube Direct functionality on their website is our Getting Started Guide. If you have any technical questions about YouTube Direct, our YouTube API Developer's Google Group is the place to turn.Cheers,-Jeff Posnick on behalf of the YouTube Direct Team