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  • YouTube Announces January’s On The Rise Nominees

    YouTube Announces January’s On The Rise Nominees

    YouTube’s been doing their part to help their partners (which, as far as I can tell, are business entrepreneurs who’ve posted videos to YouTube in order to showcase their wares) get more exposure through their On The Rise program. YouTube explains the concept better than I’ll be able to:

    For those new to the series, here’s how it works: we identify four YouTube Partners who are steadily growing but haven’t yet hit the 100,000 subscriber mark. You watch their videos, then vote for your favorite in the top right corner of this blog. The channel with the most votes at the end of the week will be featured on the YouTube homepage and videos page. In past months, winners like evmoneyTV and ThePortraitArt have seen growth in their audience and video engagement thanks to your support.

    This month’s partners share a common theme of locomotion: skate boarding, gardening (plants move, y’know), yoga, and travel tips for California (people sometimes move, y’know). The four videos can be viewed below:

    To vote for your favorite video, visit YouTube’s blog and you’ll find a poll in the top-right corner of the page. As of writing this, there are seven days remaining to cast a vote for your YouTube partner of choice.

  • YouTube Starts “On The Rise” Spotlight Program

    Some lesser-known participants in the YouTube Partner Program are about to get a serious leg up when it comes to promoting their channels.  Late yesterday, YouTube introduced a contest-like feature called "On the Rise" which will grant crowd favorites a spot on the homepage.

    The rules are simple.  A post on the YouTube Blog explained, "[E]very month, we’ll pull together a list of partner channels whose subscriber rate has quickly accelerated in the last 30 days but who still have less than 100,000 subscribers.  We’ll winnow that list down to a handful of channels, and then we’ll ask the community to vote on one channel . . ."

    Next, as mentioned earlier, the winner will "be featured on the YouTube homepage and get promoted through our social media channels on Twitter and Facebook."

    The first four contestants are makeup expert emilynoel83, a golf channel, oddball kalebnation, and toy reviewer optibotimus if you’d care to vote.

    Or, if you’re more interested in receiving votes, we’ll mention that it’s possible to nominate yourself for On the Rise in the comments section of the YouTube Blog post.

    Good luck to all current and future contenders.

    A couple programming notes: the first round of voting will end on November 2nd, and November 6th is when the initial winner will be featured on the YouTube homepage.