Are big players like MSN getting into vlogs already?

YouTube recently announced what they call a “Community Council.” Essentially, it’s a group of five volunteers from the YouTube commnunity who will be providing feedback about the site and its features over the next six months. When the six months is up, another group rotates in.

It looks like Metacafe has given itself a makeover, changing the appearance of its video pages and adding features.

There are a few YouTube updates some may be interested in. Check them out in the video above.

Yahoo’s biggest move in this strategy to catch up to YouTube is allowing users to add videos on Flickr – the ultra popular photo-sharing site which they now own.

Revver has just announced that they have now paid out $1 million in revenue to its video creators and sharers. The site has also just hit its one-year anniversary. Says Steven Starr, founder of the video sharing site: The time and place to be an independent creator is right now, online. Smart advertisers are financing an online economy that supports these creators, and the top talent will build fortunes. This is historic: It is the birth of a sustainable art form, and it’s happening before  [...]

YouTube has come out recently with a slew of improvements. You can see some in the video above.

YouTube has just announced they will now have a “YouTube News” video to keep users abreast of the latest news from the site. The vlog is hosted by Peter Zottolo. And while it’s a step in the right direction, it lacks some key essentials that would really make it useful.

There are some interesting numbers about the increasing numbers of “how to” searches and “how to” videos in a recent article at TVWeek.

Political vlogs (a la YouTube’s “You Choose”) are going European. The “You Choose ’08″ platform from YouTube will take on different accents and different languages when it moves its concept across the pond to the U.K. and Spain.