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To-do list for YouTube:

Include information about and a link to the YouTube Video Editor: http://www.youtube.com/editor
Create and develop a stats section toward the top of the article including referenced number of visitors to site and number of videos offered. It would also make sense to include stats of how many videos are banned or removed, how many comments are posted and possibly how many users have set up their own video channels because they are regular contributors.
add an entry on users "tagging" within youtube. but find source first
Include new link to the External links for http://www.exploreyoutube.com which is a community website for YouTube.

Further information could be added to this passage explaining the extra benefits of registering an account with youtube.com

Quote: "Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos." End Quote.

Could be changed to: Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos and add comments to other registered members uploaded videos.

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[edit] Content Change Request: Statistics

Paragraph five (5) under Company History states that

roughly 60 hours of new videos are uploaded to the site every minute
around three quarters of the material comes from outside the U.S.

This should be:

roughly 48 hours of new videos are uploaded to the site every minute [1]
around 70% of the material comes from outside the U.S.[2]

ImminentFate (talk) 06:03, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

The source given here is YouTube - press statistics. The 48 hours figure given here is out of date, and the latest figure of roughly 60 hours a minute was given by YouTube in a blog post on 23 January 2012. The figure of around three quarters of the material coming from outside the United States was given by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and is broadly in line with the 70% figure in the press office statistics.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 06:31, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Intellectual Property Violations

YouTube is guilty of Intellectual Property violations and profiting from the proceeds of corporate obstruction. Youtube was invented in Canada. Yet American profiteers tried to hijack the business and lock it into American proprietary software and misappropriate assets by using servers in the United States. YouTube has suspected links to Barry From DC as well as Texas, Inc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.226.30.211 (talk) 23:34, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Charlie Bit My Finger?

Charlie Bit My Finger is NOT the most popular video on Youtube. Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris has 707,000,000 views. Here's the link to the video if you need a citation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffacxfA7G4 Peacelovefrenchhorn (talk) 17:16, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

From Talk:YouTube/Archive_19#Edit_request_on_9_December_2011: "Charlie is the most viewed user generated video (ie uploaded by an ordinary member of the public). The pop videos are premium content on Vevo, which is an offshoot of YouTube."--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 17:29, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

[edit] YouTube to launch in Peru

There is a new local version for Chile, and apparently one for Peru coming soon.[3] The localization table in the article is now quite long, and maybe its columns should be adjusted so that it takes up less vertical space.--♦IanMacM♦ ^{(talk to me)} 06:30, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

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[edit] Content Change Request: Statistics

[edit] Intellectual Property Violations

[edit] Charlie Bit My Finger?

[edit] YouTube to launch in Peru

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