{"id":17231,"date":"2011-05-25T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=17231"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:00:37","slug":"happy-birthday-youtube-our-six-top-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/happy-birthday-youtube-our-six-top-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday YouTube! Our six top tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks <strong>six years since the launch of YouTube<\/strong>. The video site has already thanked its users on the official <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube-global.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/thanks-youtube-community-for-two-big.html\"><strong>YouTube blog<\/strong><\/a> and the post is worth reading for the jaw-dropping stats about the site\u2019s traffic. Our personal favorite was that more than <strong>48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17238\" title=\"youtubeimage\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/05\/youtubeimage.png\" alt=\"YouTube birthday\" width=\"295\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/05\/youtubeimage.png 295w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/05\/youtubeimage-276x300.png 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To celebrate YouTube\u2019s 6th birthday, here are our 6 favorite <strong>YouTube tips<\/strong> from the OnSoftware archives:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-download-from-youtube\"><strong>How to download videos from YouTube<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; It\u2019s a classic question posed by millions of users. Here\u2019s how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/link-to-a-specific-time-in-youtube-videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Link to a specific time in YouTube videos<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 A great tip for sharing just a certain part of a video with someone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/drag-and-drop-your-videos-onto-youtube\"><strong>Drag and drop videos onto YouTube<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Add videos to YouTube just by dragging them onto the page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/stop-autoplay-on-youtube\"><strong>Stop autoplay in YouTube<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Autoplay can be one of the most annoying things about YouTube. Find out how to turn it off!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/youtube-video-editor-now-available\"><strong>Edit videos in YouTube<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Find out how to make slick productions with YouTube\u2019s own video editor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/play-youtube-karaoke-with-greasemonkey\"><strong>Play YouTube karaoke<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Discover how to turn YouTube into your own personal karaoke machine with the help of a simple Greasemonkey script!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks six years since the launch of YouTube. The video site has already thanked its users on the official YouTube blog and the post is worth reading for the jaw-dropping stats about the site\u2019s traffic. Our personal favorite was that more than 48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute! To celebrate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/happy-birthday-youtube-our-six-top-tips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday YouTube! Our six top tips&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2355],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-17231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionyoutube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334265,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17231\/revisions\/334265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17231"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=17231"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=17231"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=17231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}