This Week’s Trends: Rebecca/Rebekah, movie trailers, and the Marine Corps ball

Each weekday, we at YouTube Trends take a look at the most interesting videos and cultural phenomena on YouTube as they develop. We want take a moment to highlight some of what we've come across this week:

• We savoured both Rebecca Black’s new video and the Rebekah Brooks’ “Friday” parody
• We highlighted hits from four corners of the globe
• We searched for eyewitness footage from the dramatic stage collapse incident during the Cheap Trick Show in Ottawa
• We watched the “Dark Knight Rises” trailer, along with other summer blockbuster teasers
• We saw the latest round of celebrity date video invitations to the Marine Corps ball

Here, PFC Hart asks Miley Cyrus to be his guest for the ball:



Olivia Ma, YouTube News Manager, recently watched "Wendy Deng Murdoch Smacks Pie-Throwing Protester."

Check back every day for the latest about what's trending on YouTube at: www.YouTube.com/Trends

What We Did On Our Vacation

We went to Heritage Park in Alberta. It's an amazing park that is designed like an old town--one of my favorite places to go! Wish I could post all of the photos here for you, but if I did, this post would go on forever. Instead I'll post a few of my favorite ones!

The town is bustling with people in costume and character.

This is one of the big houses. Of course I loved it inside and out!

Ladies having tea in one of the houses.

A woman in the kitchen.

This was the most breathtaking part of the day. It started to pour outside and we rushed in to keep dry from the rain. While we waited a woman sat at the piano singing "Amazing Grace."

I would love this livingroom.

It rained about 20 minutes and then the sun returned again. I might be getting old, but I could never outgrow this room.

This was the doctors house. Apparently operations were done on the dining room table.

Woman playing hymns in a church.

A teacher in the schoolhouse talking to the substitute

Teacher explaining the leather strap to Nathaniel. We LOL'd over that one!

Here is Nathaniel, Graham and Maddy with the conductor of the old train.

We got to go on a train ride. Hi Graham!!

Maddy waiting for the train to leave the station

The boys were excited.

Waiting for the boat to arrive. We got a train ride and a boat ride at this park!

Michael teaching Graham to use his big camera

The candy store was amazing! Four long counters of candy to buy. I like butterscotch flavored sticks.

Nathaniel is fascinated by rocks. He picked up a bag of stones from the mercantile and some fool's gold at another store.

They also had an old-fashioned amusement park. I'm on a swing behind the boys. :)

Stopping for a lunch at the vintage-style hotel restaurant

Michael and I at lunch. Madison took this photo. She also took the last one of the horse drawn carriage. She's quite the budding photographer.

Loved this table and couldn't wait to show you!
There is a place below for flour on one side and sugar on the other.
The top opens to store pies or bread.

Nathaniel watching a lace maker.

Graham, Nathaniel and Maddy resting on the steps.

Loved these guys, especially the one at the back. He had such an attitude!

Nathaniel watching the chickens

The beauty of eggs. What a variety.

Madison loves horses

And they love her.

Hope you enjoyed our vacation pics, and I just might have a few more!

You are loved by an almighty God,

Darlene

For comments or questions, contact me at:
darlene[at]darleneschacht.net

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Hometown love for the SF Giants

Since the postseason win and ensuing celebration of the World Champion San Francisco Giants last year, we’ve seen many more shades of orange and black around the YouTube office. We’ve even seen a growth of beards inspired by “certified ninja” Brian Wilson.

So when Showtime said they’d be airing the first episode of The Franchise for a limited time on YouTube, we wanted to share our excitement with you. Check it out:



There’s a lot to love about baseball—fans, highlights and rituals—and after a 56 year wait for a trophy, we’re still celebrating!

Elizabeth Ferdon, YouTube Content Partnerships, just watched “Willie Mays on AirForce One.”

Tickets available for Life in a Day screening in 90 U.S. cities this weekend

Life in a Day, the documentary directed by Oscar-winner Kevin MacDonald, produced by Ridley Scott and made out of thousands of YouTube clips, has been inspiring audiences from the Sundance Film Festival to the Berlin Film Festival to the Sydney Film Festival.

On July 24, one year after thousands of you submitted videos to be a part of the film, many of you across the United States will finally have a chance to see the finished project on the big screen! Check out the channel for a list of the 90 U.S. cities where the film will play this weekend, ranging from Los Angeles, CA to Louisville, KY to Providence, RI to Dallas, TX.

Critics have called the film “ingenious and warmhearted,” an “amazing compilation of videos…[that] is one for the ages” and “a spellbinding montage depicting a day in the life of the planet Earth.”

If you don’t see your town listed, don’t panic. You can still vote to bring the film to a theater near you after its theatrical release on July 29 and the folks at National Geographic will do their best to get it to you.

This is your film, and now’s your chance to see a piece of film history!

Sara Pollack, Entertainment Marketing Lead, recently watched “Cobra vs. Mongoose.”

shop is now open and a GIVEAWAY!

It is official! The new online shop is open for business. Please note that there could be some bugs to work out at first so I appreciate your patience.

Update your bookmarks with www.shopalisaburke.com or use the shop link in the left column.

And to celebrate today's opening I am giving away 3 $50.00 shopping sprees in the shop.

Just leave me a comment below-

tell me how you started your morning

You have until Friday and then I will draw three names and announce the winners!

Auto-Captions now available in Japanese

Cross Posted from the YouTube Japan Blog.

Last March we offered everyone the ability to automatically create captions on your videos, and the response has been exciting to see: auto-captions have been generated on nearly 40 million videos, and the number of manually-created caption tracks has more than tripled. We’re eager to see more videos captioned in more languages, so we just rolled out this feature to a new language — Japanese.

Now on any video with a clear Japanese speech track, a red “CC” button will appear at the bottom of the player, where you can click it to generate automatic captions from the speech. We’re also working closely with the the Japan Federation for the Deaf to improve this technology and make it more useful.

Here’s an example of how it works from our partner ANN News Channel:



And if you really want to get multilingual with YouTube videos, when these auto-captions are combined with our auto-translate feature, you’ll be able to generate subtitles into more than 50 languages.

Keeping up with our Japanese partners just got that much easier.

Brad Ellis, Product Manager, YouTube Japan, recently watched “手話あいらんど手話教室入門コース.”

new online shop launches this week!

I have been working around the clock fine tuning and finishing up the last few details for my my new online shop. If you missed the news back in January I have brought my mom on board to create a brand new online shop full of our handmade goodies- handmade designs, ceramic goodies, supplies, accessories, artisan kits, art prints, greeting cards and more. Our site will be starting small and inventory will grow and change with the seasons, include limited editions of handmade items, unique kits and more!

This project has been a labor of love- especially since we have been doing everything ourselves (design, photography, production, etc.) Due to both of our insane schedules we've had to change the launch date a couple of times but looks like we are ready to go live TOMORROW!

So check back tomorrow for the new link and a fun giveaway in the meantime here is another peek at things to come....