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  • YouTube Now Lets You Add a Subscribe Button Anywhere on the Web

    In order to promote channel subscriptions (and to make it easier for channel owners to gain more subscribers), YouTube has just launched a subscribe button that’s embeddable on any site on the web.

    “The YouTube Subscribe Button lets you add a one-click Subscribe button to any page. The button lets people subscribe to your YouTube channel without having to leave your site to either log in to YouTube or confirm their subscriptions,” says YouTube on their developers page.

    YouTube nows offers 6 different button formats – three for free channels and three for their new paid channels (which may be off to a slow start). When people click on the subscribe button on your site, it’ll automatically subscribe them to the specific channel. This is a bit different for paid channels, where clicking on the subscribe button will take the user to the channel on YouTube, where they can choose whether or not they want to pay to subscribe there.

    Here are the 6 button options:

    The new subscribe button is easily embeddable on any site, and YouTube only has a few rules concerning what channel owners can’t do with the button. First, they can’t offer rewards in exchange for subscribing to a YouTube channel. Second, the buttons must be “fully and clearly visible.” And lastly:

    You may not use a Subscribe Button to track any data about a user related to the user’s actions or browsing activity, including without limitation whether or not a user clicks on a YouTube Subscribe button. This prohibition includes but is not limited to using pixels, cookies, or other methods of recognizing when a user clicks on a YouTube button.

    For more info on how to add a YouTube subscribe button to your site, check here.

  • Facebook Subscribe Button For Sites Launched

    Facebook Subscribe Button For Sites Launched

    After reports that Facebook was set to unveil a subscribe button for websites, the company has now made it official and available.

    “The Subscribe button for websites works just like the button on Facebook; once clicked the user will begin seeing the public posts of the person they have subscribed to in his or her News Feed,” says Facebook’s Stoyan Stefanov. “The subscribe action is also shared — allowing others to subscribe directly via the News Feed stories, and further increasing viral distribution.”

    “Similar to the Like button, the Subscribe button can be easily added using XFBML or an iframe,” he adds.

    If you go to the actual plugin page, Facebook says:

    There are two Subscribe button implementations: XFBML and Iframe. The XFBML (also available in HTML5-compliant markup) version is more versatile, and requires use of the JavaScript SDK. The XFBML dynamically re-sizes its height according to whether there are profile pictures to display and gives you the ability (through the JavaScript library) to listen for subscribe events so that you know in real time when a user clicks the Subscribe button.

    Facebook subscribe button for sites

    Facebook has a page set up where you can see sites that already have the button implemented. You can browse around and see how it’s already in use.

    The button is an extension of the subscribe button for profiles launched not too long ago. The feature gives users the ability to follow public updates from individuals without having to actually have friend requests accepted. In effect, it makes Facebook more able to be used like Twitter and Google+.

    Go here to get the code for the button.

  • Facebook Subscribe Button For Publishers On the Way

    Facebook reportedly announced on stage at the LeWeb conference that it will soon be launching a Subscribe button for publishers.

    This will apparently be one of the company’s social plugins, which include: the Like Button, the Send Button, Comments, the Activity Feed, Recommendations, the Like Box, the Login Button, Registration, the Facepile and the Live Stream.

    Back in September, Facebook launched the Subscribe button – a button on people’s Facebook profiles that allows users to subscribe to their public updates even if they are not friends, effectively making Facebook more usable in a Twitter-esque or Google+-esque kind of way.

    Facebook Subscribe

    According to Matt Brian at TheNextWeb, Facebook’s Joanna Shields said on stage that the button will allow Facebook users to subscribe to updates from anywhere on the web – basically like Facebook’s version of Twitter’s Follow Button. He shares the following statement from Facebook:

    “We will soon launch the Subscribe plugin, an extension of the Subscribe button, that publishers and other developers can add to their web sites to make it easy for people to connect to reporters and public figures in one click. We have no further details to share at this time.”

    It’s interesting that Facebook is launching more tools around individual content authors, as opposed to just organizations – a similar emphasis to what Google has been doing around authorship in search.

    Essentially, this is just another way for readers to easily follow the content authors they care about without having to be actual friends or even having to worry about finding them on Facebook.