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YouTube: Video Creators Know When and Where Clips Watched

nytimes.com — In a move to provide better data to its users, YouTube formally announced late Wednesday that it had added a free feature that will show video creators when and where viewers are watching their videos.

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  • VeniceCA, on 03/28/2008, -2/+68I'll stop bringing my laptop into the bathroom.
  • ElbertF, on 03/28/2008, -3/+17Why don't you marry it then.
  • inactive, on 03/28/2008, -1/+10Idiot ! don't use uuiU ... it is way too obvious.
    and plus, that was a terrible setup.
  • ionbattle, on 03/28/2008, -0/+8You never return to the scene of a rickroll.
  • kidlax, on 03/28/2008, -2/+9Because then he'd be cheating on his true love, misplaced apostrophes
  • andycr512, on 03/28/2008, -0/+6Someone already thought of it. http://xkcd.com/351/
  • Jeffler, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4Except when you do it for instant diggs on any thread
  • hollyminkowski, on 03/28/2008, -7/+11Now Rick Astley will find out where his real fans are :-)
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  • buddamus, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3Will they ever get together?
    The digg soap opera continues
  • pault107, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3I was thinking the other day - does Rick use the internet? And if he does, does he occasionally get Rick Rolled? How freaky would that be?
  • ringo380, on 03/28/2008, -2/+5Please tell me you've never been forced to state the obvious because of mass idiocy. Particularly if you've ever dealt with computers. Because I will call you a ***** liar immediately thereafter.

    Please don't tell me Youtube commenters are migrating to Digg as well. I don't care about being dugg down, but honestly, Captain Obvious and O RLY jokes?
  • tempusrob, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/03/r ...

    Doesn't say whether he's been rickrolled ... but he's pretty amused (if not somewhat confused) by the whole idea of it.
  • Bersy, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3Still lost as to where we're supposed to access this feature.
  • youri, on 03/28/2008, -1/+3Go to my account my videos and click "About this video", right now it shows a map and a time graph.
  • daveisfera, on 03/28/2008, -0/+21) Login to your YouTube account
    2) Click on "Videos, Favorites, & Playlists" under "Manage My Videos"
    3) Click the "About this video" button for the video that you're interested in
  • daveisfera, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2I couldn't find out how to access this in any of the articles I read, so here's instructions:

    1) Login to your YouTube account
    2) Click on "Videos, Favorites, & Playlists" under "Manage My Videos"
    3) Click the "About this video" button for the video that you're interested in
  • vonskippy, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Hopefully it will show all the videos being watched for 5 seconds before being canceled so that most of the YouTube authors will realize exactly how much their Videos SUCK.
  • theaceoffire, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2I thought (Before reading the F*in article) that they were going to let you see when and on what web site you were watching the videos, and I thought that would be sweet.
  • inactive, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2Pretty much every website does this already anyway. Though, for some reason I keep getting marked as Louisville instead of Lexington, KY. Guess I'm a step ahead of Big Brother.
  • antdude, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1They already did long ago.
  • Bersy, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1thanks.
  • gordonp, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2I've been using www.vidstats.com, but wanted something more integrated..
  • surKaz, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Canada here... Although I'm far from it.. *Ninja* ..
  • TinternAbbot, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2What's the big deal? This is basically Google Analytics., but with fewer features
  • EdwardsNH, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1"...data to" data too.
  • inactive, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1but they didn't have an excuse to give it to others - that's the problem
  • agentem, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2The internet will certainly get a lot more interesting as the DEA and BATF start flooding the YouTubes with entrapment videos.
  • slantyeyed, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1When are the privacy zionists going to pipe in?
  • ringo380, on 03/28/2008, -3/+3This is just as much knowing "where" your viewers are as it is tracking an IP address (or profile entry), and just as accurate. This is not wire tapping, this is not any invasion of privacy that's not already occurring, it most definitely cannot tell if you're in the bathroom or not.
  • ModestoRealtor, on 03/28/2008, -0/+0Web 2.0 marketing with (trimmed down) Google Analytics - good marketing tool for real estate, REO, short sales, foreclosures.
  • silvernymph, on 03/31/2008, -0/+0so much for watching you tube at work!
  • RomulusX86, on 03/28/2008, -15/+14You can see it below the video (if 'broadcasting' is switched on an accountant that watched the video). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
  • buddamus, on 03/28/2008, -2/+1His mum, thats about it really
  • inactive, on 03/28/2008, -3/+1um, privacy, plz?
  • BeyondDGrave, on 03/28/2008, -3/+1I didn't know videos like this still existed beyond the 90's... you know... the type where the narrator/main teacher tells "funny" jokes that only the people in the audience laugh at, but you and I don't care about because they are not funny at all...
  • CAPITALLETTERS, on 03/28/2008, -3/+1Thank you captain obvious.
  • RomulusX86, on 03/28/2008, -4/+1Yeah, so... I should probably get some sleep (dam midterms), or hire someone to proof read my comments before posting. account*
  • ThePirateParty, on 03/28/2008, -6/+3So now Youtube has an excuse to log all of our data to.
  • inactive, on 03/28/2008, -5/+1I dugg it, lit-en up people.
  • ApolloXLII, on 03/28/2008, -7/+2i guess not...
  • Hangly, on 03/28/2008, -6/+1Um, no *****?
  • ItsMeSnakes, on 03/28/2008, -7/+1You know the government is gonna pounce on this. Straight slipping the guy wiring up the thing twenty bucks to add one extra "security" line. Simple as that.
  • inactive, on 03/28/2008, -8/+2This is so depressing.
    Now I'll know intimate data about the dumb M.F.'s who watch my stupid videos.
    The end is near!
  • thechosen, on 03/28/2008, -8/+1Report:
    Video: The Miley and Mandy Show
    Location: Basement, lights off, with the door locked.

    I'm ***** aren't I?
  • chandan333, on 03/28/2008, -12/+3I love'd this comment.
  • ApolloXLII, on 03/28/2008, -14/+4Rick Roll stopped being funny a long time ago.
  • ApolloXLII, on 03/28/2008, -22/+3This is actually pretty cool. i would be pretty interested in seeing what my demographic is the most though... although you could probably tell by the comments you receive.

    oh and ***** THE RIAA!! apparently that's instant diggs on any thread!

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