This new YouTube alternative offers one of the best solutions in the video market improving by far YouTube service. Just login into your account and click in the alternative link to use the new software and use this new feature to upload your videos. There are many advantages using the new YouTube interface:

• Now you will be able to add meta tags to write: title, description and labels, as you do in your web pages to improve your video ranking in YouTube and the Internet.
• You will have the chance to upload simultaneously up to 10 videos, and the best feature,
• The file size limit for upload videos has been raised from 100MB to 1GB. allowing you practically to upload a whole film.

The next image shows you the screen that you will see when you try this new feature. You can write all the video information while this one is uploaded.

Via: YouTube Blog

YouTube has added to a new feature with close caption that allows to the spectators one better understanding of the videos in different languages. The subtitles can help people understand the original audio language, for people who speak certain languages or people who do not have the capacity to listen.

In order to add subtitles to your videos, it is necessary to upload a subtitle file at “Titles and Subtitles” menu of the edition page. Also in order to add several subtitles to a video, it is necessary loading several files. If you wish to include foreign subtitles in several languages, you must upload a separated file for each language. There are more than 120 languages to choose and you can add as many subtitles as you wish for each video.

If a video is CC close captioned, you can activate this new feature clicking the button of menu located in the right inferior part of the video player. When doing click in this button it will allows to the spectator to choose the subtitles that he or she wishes to see.

Some of the YouTube Partners are already have begun to use the subtitles to offer one better understanding of the videos, even with audio off. Click in the following links to you see its operation.

BBC Worldwide: captions are provided in five different languages on this clip from Top Gear.
CNET: tech product reviews from CNET’s Crave blog.
UC Berkeley: footage from the Opencast Project Open House.
MIT: full lectures on subjects like Physics.
Gonzodoga: English subtitles on this awesome Japanese animation.

This is a sample of Japanese animation video with subtitles in English language.

Source: YouTube Blog

Apparently Google has heard AdSense user claims from other countries and has decided to expand Video Units in YouTube for more languages & countries. Initially, the program was available only for the United States, Canada & United Kingdom.

Here is the list of all new supported languages.

English
French
German
Japanese
Spanish

And here is the list of all countries where Video Units will be available.

Australia
Brazil
Canada
France
India
Ireland
Italy
Germany
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Poland
Spain
United Kingdom
United States

Mexico has an early advantage, is the only country in Latin America where this new feature will be available.

To take advantage of this feature available in Google AdSense Program, sign in to your AdSense Account and go to AdSense Setup tab to start, be sure to sign in also to your YouTube account to link both Accounts, its an easy step where YouTube confirms your actual record with the next data: your email account, telephone number and zip code. After that, you will be able to customize and embed your video player into your website or blog, and choose between having videos automatically targeted with your content or manually select content categories and content providers. This way, companion and text overlay ads will begin to appear with your videos and you will begin to generate additional earnings for valid clicks on those ads.

Online video advertising will grow faster the next year, that’s why I suppose Google is opening right now the market to more countries and languages. If your country or language is not available now, just be patient, it won’t be long to arrive.

To learn more in how to setup video units take a look to the next video.

Source:Google AdSense Video units available in more countries & languages