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Posted by Amit Paunikar, Product Manager

We hope your videos find the audience they deserve. Take a look at our help content for Video Publishers and Webmasters to get started.

Posted by Michael Cohen, Product Manager

Posted by Sapna Mehta, Online Operations Associate

Our Google Video Help Forum now has a new home! You may have already heard of (or tried out) the new Google Help Forums. Today, our Google Video Help Group will be moving to this new platform.

The help forum is still an area for users to come together to discuss and share their knowledge of Google Video- only now it has a new look. It’s integrated with our help center, which makes it even easier to jump into the forum while you’re browsing the help center. You can search for content across both the forum and help center articles as well.

There are a lot of new features that make the forum an effective resource for users. You can vote on which responses you think answer a particular question, and even mark a response as a “best answer” to a question that you’ve asked. The new system will also recognize contributions from helpful posters.

If you haven’t checked out our help forum before, now is a great time to come take a look. Post a question if you have one, or take a few minutes to answer one of your fellow Google Video users. You can find us at http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/video?hl=en

Posted by Sapna Mehta, Online Operations Associate

Have you ever wondered if anyone watches the videos you’ve uploaded? Or perhaps you’ve uploaded a video presentation and want to be able to illustrate its success with some numbers? We’ve added Insight to Google Video so that you can capture some of this information, and use it to optimize your videos.

With the launch of Insight, we’re now offering more statistics for your uploaded videos. You can access this feature by clicking on the ‘Reports’ tab on your Google Video account page. The first tab gives you a convenient summary of the data.

From this summary, you can access specific data pages by clicking on the links for Views, Downloads or Popularity. You can also access these specific pages by clicking on the corresponding tabs at the top. Here, you can change the date range or focus on a specific region of the world to see how your videos are doing.

Rest assured you will still be able to see the statistics that were previously available through Advanced Reports (Views & Downloads). This information is now available right from your Video Status page. You can also click on the ‘Stats’ link, next to your individual video’s status, to view the stats for that particular video.

Hopefully this feature will offer you some new Insight into your uploaded videos and reveal some interesting facts about your viewership.

Posted by Steve Gerding, Software Engineer

One of our favorite aspects of TV view is that it provides an uninterrupted viewing experience. You can browse through multiple results pages and sort, filter or refine your search – all without interrupting the video you’re watching. Videos need to be playable on Google Video in order to provide this seamless experience, and while most videos are, some are not. In order to make it easier to identify playable videos, these videos are marked with the playable icon as shown below:

Videos that cannot be played directly in the TV view can still be watched by following the link to the original hosting site. If you want to see only videos that are playable on Google Video in your search results, you can restrict your search to playable videos using the radio buttons under the search box:

We hope this new feature enhances your video search and viewing experience on Google Video. If you are a webmaster and would like your videos to be playable on Google Video, check out our Video Sitemaps Help Center.