The New YouTube Look

Watch a discussion about YouTube's new look that rolled out on December 6th, 2012.

You'll see the team that designed, and built, the update answer questions from you -- the YouTube community.

If your question isn't answered, join us for a Reddit IAmA on Tuesday, December 18th 2012 at 10am PT / 1pm ET

Click the links below to skip to a specific question within the video:

1:07 - "What motivated you to make the change? What advantages do you think come with the change?"

3:14 - "After the new layout was released, I have been receiving far fewer views on my new uploads than normal. Is this behavior intended, or is it an unintended oversight?"

5:25 - "Why was the list of Trending Videos removed? Now, I have to go to Reddit to find out what videos are trending on YouTube."

7:42 - "The default is "what to watch". People subscribe to channels so they can see those channels' videos. So the default should be uploads from subscriptions -- why isn't it?"

11:33 - "Formerly, when I was viewing a video and I wanted to view another video from this user, there was a drop-down menu that allowed me to see their other uploads. Why did you remove this when it was one of the handiest features?

14:01 - "Why not scrap the "guide" and bring back the "add/remove modules" function on the homepage -- everybody was happy with that, and we could get all the videos that we wanted to see.

18:12 - "Why is the video title at the bottom, with the "Guide" and "More Results" tabs near the top?"

20:41 - "Why is the layout not centered?"

22:00 - "What happened to the "use old embed code" option that was there when you shared a video? I use that option all the time to link to ebay and now it's not there -- this is detrimental!"

23:15 - "You dumbed down advance search -- badly. You can't filter by things like view count and upload date. What's the deal? "

24:15 - "Why isn't there a button that I can click on to go directly to my inbox from the homepage? I have to click on too many links to get to there. I should only have to click once."

24:58 - "Why did you take away the browse button? It makes it more difficult to discover new videos."

26:49 - What's next? Should we expect to see anything else in the coming months?

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  Science & Technology

[Noahaschiffman]

GOODBYE.

[Noahaschiffman]

and what's with all of this copyright infringement 'fuck' you guys used to say Broadcast Youself! I don't see that here anymore!! in fact i never see it.... what happened as soon as you (Google) bastards got corrupt and bought it out and started mingling with the president of the usa that's i classified things as "ENDGAME" The only people i trust on youtube now are my friends and Anonymous. Because if the rumor is true and you do want to pass legislation that we should pay a yearly sum of $20.

[Noahaschiffman]

no seriously do the math youtube...

[Noahaschiffman]

I heard youtube will start charging us money about 20 dollars a year for watching!!!! do the math if you don't use the currency i do.. NO BUT SERIOUSLY DO THE MATH YOUTUBE!!!!!! YOU DRUNK RETARDED ILLUMINATI. IF YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT YOU MADE ENOUGH MONEY ALEADY WITH YOUR CONSTANT CHANGES THAT MIGHT I ADD WE ALLLLLLL HAAAAAATE!!! YOU SAID IT YOUR SELVES (to piss of your users) THEN YOU MIGHT AS WELL PUT APPLE I CHARGE AT LEAST THEY CARE AND AREN'T CORRUPT LIKE YOU AND SONY!!! i speak the truth.

[TheJeiceWolf]

Attention all users who have seen the message pop up about GoogleTube being ready to force the new changes in two weeks..do not log in anymore. Dump your accounts and move to other sites. The more we leave this shithole of a site, the more Google will lose income and revenue. Do not upload, watch, rate, comment, share, or do anything else.

[TheJeiceWolf]

Please tell us how these changes are good? Because there are more bad reasons then good reasons.

[exhypercube]

NOBODY WANTS TO CHANGE THEIR CHANNEL LAYOUT!

[MrGlitchish]

YOUTUBE PLEASE GO BACK TO THE OLD HOMEPAGE BECAUSE THE NEW ONE FUCKING SUCKS SO CHANGE IT FFS!! SO FUCK YOU GOOGLE FOR FUCKING UP YOUTUBE EVERYONE HATE YOUTUBE AND FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS FUCK YOUR NEW HOMEPAGE LAYOUT AND ONE CHANNEL LAYOUT!!!!

[Fac3lessJo3]

STOP TELLING ME I HAVE TO USE THE NEW DESIGN! I don't even like the current design but at least it's tolerable! THE ONE CHANNEL DESIGN IS JUST AWFUL!

[Z2ZZ22 .]

You think ???? I don`t think so LMAO