This is a very interesting new feature coming from YouTube. It’s basically just a little change in the privacy settings. Before that you had the choice between sharing your video with the world or with up to 25 people of your choice. So, basically the choice between on and off.
With the new option you can share your video with as many people as you like but choose to not publicly display it on YouTube. I think this could be quite interesting for edupreneurs.
YouTube's new unlist option
This feature is one you normally have to pay for. For example on blip.tv I need a pro account to set my video on private only which then allows me to still embed the video on my blog but other people won’t be able to grab the code or the original video URL. This enables you to have control on where your video is displayed and hence where the traffic is going to.
YouTube is still the number one video portal and I think this will stay a while this way. The player is working well, if you are a YouTube partner you can monetize your content with ads, soon you will be able to rent your videos as an additional revenue stream and the captions tool is pretty useful for language learning videos. I am using them a lot for my German lessons.
In a nutshell, this option allows you to upload your videos on YouTube without the negative effects like trolling, down rating etc, basically all the reasons why TeacherTube was built.
Read the full announcement on the YouTube blog | Visit TeacherTube
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