Sponsored by HP, Fox Searchlight and YouTube, the main judge is award-winning director Jason Reitman — director of Thank You for Smoking (excellent film, by the way).
It looks like Metacafe has given itself a makeover, changing the appearance of its video pages and adding features.
Dailymotion, YouTube’s competition from Europe, announced recently that you can now access their video on an iPhone.
YouTube has teamed up with hip-hop artists 50 Cent, Common, and Polow da Don for a contest that will award the winner a single’s deal with Interscope and G-Unit Records, a gift card of $10,000 from Guitar Center, and a featured spot of the winning video on YouTube’s homepage.
There are a few YouTube updates some may be interested in. Check them out in the video above.
MetaCafe has recently added the ability to send and receive messages, including videos. There are some other updates as well.
In case you haven’t heard, YouTube Canada has launched.
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 Oprah is doing YouTube. And vice versa.
It looks like YouTube has already reversed its decision to splatter a garish red all over their pages after negative feedback from users.