How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part One) - Benefits of YouTube Partner

If you have quality original videos and expanding audience on YouTube, you can apply for a YouTube partner to earn money from the plan.

Benefits of YouTube partner
YouTube is the biggest video sharing website in the world. Its traffic is much more than its competitors. (Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is a perfect tool to download and convert videos from YouTube and other websites, click here to read its manual.)

Being a YouTube partner has the following benefits listed below:

1. Revenue

As a YouTube partner, you will be able to enjoy opportunities to create revenue.

• Earn money from the embedded advertisement on your video and advertisement beside your video.

• Share income from your video rental.

• Gain the opportunies of co-marketing and branded entertainment with top brand advertiser.

• Use your own marketing channel to sell your own advertisement

2. Video statistics analytics

Use YouTube's Insight analytics tools to optimize your existing content and create more targeted content to satisfy your audience and advertisers.

• Learn more characteristics of your audience and what they are watching.

• Learn more about how your audience find your video.

• Learn more about how are you and your competitors doing in terms of competition.

• Learn what content you have is the most popular & engaging.

• Tells you where your video is really successful, and where it is not good enough at a video level.

3. Protection

YouTube can protect both of your video content and brand.

• Protects the integrity of your brand through the branded channel options available only to partners.

• In addition, YouTube offers many Content Management tools for copyright protection that anyone may use, regardless of whether they are in a partnership with YouTube.

• Rental of your videos are delivered via secure streaming way, to avoid downloading by other people.

4. Video quality

YouTube will process your uploaded video in reliable way, and display them on YouTube at the highest resolution as far as possible.

• To those videos which are hot and attractive, YouTube will offer HD version accordingly.

• Offers aspect ration of 16:9 for video players.

• Join the ranks of YouTube's other high-quality video providers already in the Partner Program.

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part One) is over. In the next part, I'm going to tell you the YouTube video rental plan and how to become a YouTube partner.

Source is YouTube World.

How to Download Online Videos

If the online video you come across is played with an Adobe Flash Player, then you may use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download it off to your computer! Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is a free all-in-one video downloader which can download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Dailymotion and other video sharing websites as long as they are played with Adobe Flash Player.

Suppose you are going to download videos with this video downloader, the easiest way is to drag the YouTube video thumbnail to the hover window of Leawo Free YouTube Downloader and then the video downloader will begin the downloading automatically.

Of course, you can also type the URL in the program address bar, this applies to all the video sites, for example, Google Video. Browse videos in its built-in FLV player with high speed, then download them to your appointed folder within just a click, and convert them directly to the format you want for your phone and portable media player.

The tutorial below will take YouTube and Google Video respectively for example to show how to free download video.

Step 1: Launch Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, click settings icon, choose "Show hover window on program startup" in "General" tab from the pop-up window.

Step 2: Browse YouTube videos in IE or any browser, choose the one you want to download, and then drag the selected video thumbnail to the hover window of Leawo Free YouTube Downloader.

Step 3: Click "Video" tab to check the video downloading progress. When the downloading completes, double click the downloaded video, you could play it with the built-in player, or click "Download" button to save the downloaded video to your PC.

Step 4: For downloading Google video and other online videos, type the URL in the address bar and choose one Google video to play. Then repeat the Step 3 shown above.

Source is Leawo Software user guide.

Supported video / audio formats for uploading to YouTube

YouTube accepts a wide range of video formats uploaded by users. The below video formats are all accepted by YouTube. Some of them have the best visual effect on YouTube. You can take a look at them and tune your video formats for YouTube.

List of some well-known formats which YouTube supports:

WebM files (Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codec)
.MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files - (typically supporting h264 and mpeg4 video codecs and AAC audio codec)
.AVI (Many cameras output this format - typically the video codec is MJPEG and audio is PCM)
.MPEGPS (Typically supporting MPEG2 video codec and MP2 audio)
.WMV
.MP4
.FLV (Adobe - FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio)

YouTube accepts all of the above video formats uploaded from users. To most users, we find that the below video settings have the best visual effect:
Video format: H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 recommended
Aspect ratio: Original screen aspect ration without top or bottom black border, for example, 4:3, 16:9
Resolution: 640x360 (16:9) or 480x360 (4:3) Recommended
Audio format: MP3 or AAC Recommended
FPS (Frame per second): 30
Video length limit: 15 minutes (2 to 3 minutes recommended)
Video size limit: 1 GB

Tips:
a. If you think your video won't be accepted by YouTube, you can convert it to video format MPEG4 with audio format MP3 to get the best visual effect.

b. To convert any video format to the 'YouTube supported video formats', you can use some free or paid video converter. Good Freeware for this purpose are FormatFactory or FFMPEG. The former is graphic user interface, while the latter is command line user interface.

c. By default, Windows Movie Maker will save your video item as . MSWMM file. MSWMM is project file, which is not accepted by YouTube on uploading. To upload your Windows Movie Maker video to YouTube, please choose 'save it to my computer' option to save your video project as an accepted video format, and then you can upload the saved video to YouTube.

d. To download videos from YouTube, you can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, which is free and clean.

Source is YouTube World.