Plan to run a marathon in 2012? Go back to school? Ask your secret crush on a date?
It’s easy to come up with a resolution and enter the new year with high hopes, but the hardest part is often sticking to it throughout the year. To help you stay with it, we’ve got an idea — put your resolution on YouTube and share it with your friends using the #awesome2012 hashtag.
We’ll also be looking for five of the most interesting videos to feature on our homepage in January. Follow the instructions below and your resolution could inspire millions of viewers.
Make a video sharing what you want to accomplish in 2012
Outline your strategy and describe the steps you’ll take to reach your goal
Upload it to YouTube by January 2 at Noon PT and tag it with #awesome2012
Need help getting started on your #awesome2012 action plan? One of our YouTube partners is here to help:
Cheers to an #awesome2012!
Danielle Paquette, Social Media Manager, recently watched all the videos on YouTube Rewind.
But the most-viewed video of the bunch, and thus the winner of this edition of AdoptaFeature, was MikeandToneRP's exploration of tags, featuring an off-kilter "Megan Fox," viewed nearly 80K times. Congratulations, Mike! Look out for a YouTube T-shirt headed your way.
In addition, many current and past AdoptaFeature videos have found permanent, loving homes in our Help Center, where they can "give back" by enlightening anyone looking for more info. The list below covers just some of the places you'll find your tutorial videos helping other users out:
Recently, we announced that a new set of features was in need of your loving care. Over 50 of you heeded round 1 champion thecomputernerd01's call to help -- that is, to make a video explaining to the YouTube community how annotations, tags, Quicklist, mobile uploads and/or the customized homepage work. Almost 50% of the group chose to "adopt" annotations, and tags and Quicklist also received a decent amount of attention. You even made videos about a few features not on the list, like captions, the new channel design and widescreen viewing. So far, the videos submitted for this round have been viewed over 34K times and already there are some choice tutorials out there, such as...
...MikeandToneRP's explanation of tags, starring Megan Fox (um, not):
...LaughingLeaf's video on Quicklist, complete with a blooper reel:
...AJCShow's fast n' easy overview of sending a video from your phone to YouTube:
We'll be showcasing some of the best submissions on the homepage on Thursday, July 30, beginning at 6am PT, so it's not too late for your moment in the sun. Simply make a video about any or all of the features listed at the start of this blog post, and include the name of the feature and "adoptafeature" in the tags. Share your video far and wide -- our autoshare feature will help a lot with that -- and try to build views for it. It's one of the factors we'll use to decide who makes it to the homepage and who takes the crown for this edition of the program.
Anyway, it's almost the weekend, so go forth and adopt (a feature)!
Josh took a break from ribbing his grandpa to tell you why you should get involved with Adopt a Feature v2.
In case you're still buzzing from Josh's high-energy onslaught, here's what you need to know: Make a video about any or all of the features on the list below (click on the name of the feature to get more information about it). Include the name of the feature and "adoptafeature" in the tags -- this is important; it's how we'll locate your video for inclusion on our channel and possibly on the YouTube homepage.
