Friday, October 31, 2008

Link To The Best Parts In Your Videos

Here at YouTube, we still pride ourselves in listening closely to our community and building what you ask for. In this spirit, we are pleased to announce the ability to "deep link" to YouTube videos. This means you can now not only link to a YouTube video itself, but you can also link directly to a specific time within each video. This is something you have been asking us for and we are happy to deliver.

To create a deep link, append the following to the end of a YouTube video URL: #t=1m15s. This says to link to the time 1:15 - you can replace the numbers before the 'm' and the 's' with anything you like.

As an additional bonus, if you mention a specific time in a video comment, e.g. "haha 1:14 is funny", this will become a hyperlink. Viewers can simply click on the time and the video will automatically jump to the point you are referencing. Pretty cool huh?

Leave a comment here or in our Community Help Forums to let us know what you think. We'll be reading what you all have to say as we think about ways of making YouTube even better.

The YouTube Team

Help Center Video Submission Results

Posted: 29 Oct 2008 11:00 AM CDT

We challenged our fabulous community of YouTube experts (that means you) to come up with some creative videos to accompany a selection of our Help Center articles. And...the results are in!

Congratulations to IceflowStudios, KOHPelord, rewboss and Torley for their awesome contribution to helping the community learn more about the following site features:

Thanks to everyone who submitted a video. If yours was not chosen, or you didn't get a chance to participate this time around, don't fret. We'll be doing another call for submissions soon...

Stay Tuned,
The YouTube Help Team

Link - from YouTube Blog
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