Last month we took video submissions from the YouTube community to be included in our Help Center. We received a ton of creative, informative videos and have embedded six of them in our Help entries. Check out the Round 1 selections in the Favorites section of the YouTubeHelp channel . Based on such great success last month, we are opening the floodgates for Round 2! We're asking you again to use your skills to create videos that we can embed in our Help Center. If selected,

Is Katy Perry really going to dress as a tube to sing "Hot And Cold" ? Who are The League of Extraordinary Dancers , and what is their mission? Has Tay Zonday unwittingly stumbled upon the solution to The Economic Crisis? The answers to all these questions and more lie but three days away' This coming Saturday, November 22, YouTube hosts YouTube Live â€" the first ever live streaming event on the site, designed to celebrate our extravagantly talented user community.

Since the launch of Project: Report , aspiring journalists from around the world have produced video reports on issues not covered by the traditional media. Voting for Round 2 is complete, and the panel of journalists from the Pulitzer Center is in the process of tallying the final counts. Tomorrow, we will announce which five of the 10 semi-finalists will advance to the final round of competition and one step closer to the $10,

Lionsgate's new film The Spirit is hitting theaters everywhere this Christmas, and to honor the occasion, the YouTube Screening Room is going graphic. Graphic novel that is. Directed by Frank Miller and based on the comic by Will Eisner, The Spirit tells the story of a rookie cop who returns from beyond the grave to fight evil in Central City. So, for the next two weeks we'll be featuring four shorts that reflect the film's spooky subject matter and comic book roots.

The YouTube flagging system works best when you take the time to understand our Community Guidelines before you flag a video. Then, if you come across a video that you think may not belong on YouTube, it will be easier for you to let us know the reason you flagged it, whether it be for hate speech, nudity, violence, or another Guideline violation. Once a video is flagged, we review it quickly, and if we find that it shouldn't be on YouTube, we remove it within hours.

When we first started YouTube, our vision was to create a platform that would allow everyone to broadcast themselves. So when it came to developing an approach to online advertising and marketing, we had a similar goal: everyone should benefit from the experience, whether you're a user, advertiser, or content partner. We've been fortunate to have grown so quickly.

Project: Direct , YouTube's annual short film competition, is back to offer another talented filmmaker a chance to be discovered! This year we've partnered with AOL Moviefone and The Sundance Film Festival to bring you this challenge: direct an original short film incorporating three specific props.

Today Project: Report , the journalism contest YouTube is holding in partnership with the Pulitzer Center , moves into the voting phase. Submissions for Round 2 are in, and now you can help decide which of the 10 semi-finalists should take a step closer to winning the $10,000 fellowship to report on a story abroad. The 10 semi-finalists , chosen by a panel of Pulitzer Center journalists, have just turned in their assignments,

In high school gyms , small-town churches , and McDonald's drive-throughs across America, over 130 million Americans voted in this week's presidential election. Thousands of citizens documented their experiences on camera and shared them with the world here on YouTube to commemorate this historic event. Marking the end of an epic and exhilarating election season, the videos on the homepage today include clips that chronicle the excitement of the big day ,

As YouTube grows, more and more people from all parts of the world are communicating and connecting. We want to make it easy for you to reach out and learn from each other, while you engage only in those conversations you choose. That's why we've developed the Help and Safety Tool to help you manage communications with other community members. Using the tool is easy: Once you are logged into your personal account,

The holiday season is quickly approaching. For all the fun that ensues, there are always lots of things to do and sometimes a little stress. Well, YouTube is here to help. This year we've teamed up with Lowes Home Improvement and created the Holiday Solutions Center to help with your holiday hassles and share some great ideas for the special season. This YouTube checkpoint is built to get you through the holidays without a hitch. From cooking to decorating and gift giving,

You don't have to be on the YouTube site to watch videos. The YouTube player can be added to virtually any website, giving website creators and web surfers infinite access to the YouTube library. With close to 44 percent of our views coming from embedded videos, we're committed to constantly refining the player. Today, we are pleased to announce four new features: High-quality start images )thumbnails( â€" Before you press play on embedded YouTube videos,

After thousands of campaign stops, tens of thousands of speeches, and billions of videos viewed on YouTube, the 2008 Election is finally here. What began almost two years ago - when seven of the 16 primary presidential candidates announced their campaigns on our You Choose '08 platform - is finally coming to a close as Americans turn out to vote for should lead the country these next four years.

Is there something happening where you live that you think the world should know about? An important story you want to share that others around the world might relate to? Now is your chance to tell that story for the chance to win technology prizes from Sony & Intel . In Round 2 of Project: Report , the journalism contest YouTube is holding in partnership with the Pulitzer Center ,

In August, we added captions and subtitles to YouTube videos to help uploaders reach a wider audience. While we've been working to offer captions in as many different languages as possible, there are often only a few translated versions available. To solve this problem, we added a new "auto translate" feature. Google Translate adds real-time machine translation to any caption tracks you upload. Now you can enjoy this video spoken in Italian,

If you're someone who scares easily, is afraid of things that go bump in the night, or is terrorized by the prospect of monsters hiding in your closet, then please consider yourself warned: the four horror films lurking in the YouTube Screening Room are not for you. Seriously, this is some scary stuff. In " The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello ," a disgraced aerial navigator confronts an unspeakable evil, and finds that it is much closer than he thinks.

Last year, heavy metal frontman Rob Zombie turned up on YouTube's doorstep to deliver the tricks and treats. This year, our nightmares were answered when legendary horror film director Wes Craven offered to host the holiday - immediately proving that the father of Freddy Krueger and the Scream trilogy certainly knows his way around scary movies. He personally introduces his top selections here, a combination of sheer terror,

A month ago, we launched "In My Name," a global effort to raise awareness around the United Nations Millennium Development Goals )MDGs( and hold world leaders accountable for the promises they made in the year 2000 to end global poverty. The program launched with the help of celebrities like Will.I.Am, Scarlett Johansson, Fergie and John Legend: Hundreds of you from around the world have already answered the call to action,

Here at YouTube, we still pride ourselves in listening closely to our community and building what you ask for. In this spirit, we are pleased to announce the ability to "deep link" to YouTube videos. This means you can now not only link to a YouTube video itself, but you can also link directly to a specific time within each video. This is something you have been asking us for and we are happy to deliver. To create a deep link ,

We challenged our fabulous community of YouTube experts )that means you( to come up with some creative videos to accompany a selection of our Help Center articles . And...the results are in! Congratulations to IceflowStudios , KOHPelord ,