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YouTube glitch: autoplay feature on user channels

Friday, August 14th, 2009, 327 views
by Richard van den Boogaard

Apparently, the programmers at YouTube have managed to mix up functionality between user and partner/brand channels. Normally, brand and partner channels have autoplay on the selected video, when users visit their channel page. User channels, instead, require users to click the video in order to play it (clik-to-play).

Right now, selected videos on user channels have autoplay, while videos on brand and partner channels feature click-to-play.

How long this glitch will be live is unknown.

Update: 11:45 PM – The bug is now fixed by YouTube. All things back to normal.

Upgrade your YouTube user channel design

Friday, February 27th, 2009, 771 views
by Richard van den Boogaard

Branded and partner channels on YouTube differentiate themselves by having more design options. Although you are pretty limited with design options for a user channel, you can make some adjustments. Even companies like Philips use YouTube’s built-in limitations to maximum leverage.

Although a user channel doesn’t feature all the good stuff, it doesn’t mean either that you should settle for bad design. The good news is dat HouseHoldHacker now offers a PhotoShop template document that enables you to quickly and precisely design your own background image. Only problem is that the file size is limited to 256kB. Below is the instructional video: