YouTube Art News July 2012
Channel: Merrill Kazanjian
Date: 2012-07-16

YouTube Art News is a monthly video show that communicates relevant news to YouTube artists while highlighting the talent of the Visual Arts Community on YouTube. New Episodes on the 15th of every month on http://youtube.com/user/kazanjianm

Intro by Adrian Castillo ( http://youtube.com/artistic323 )

Change your channel name to your own name- http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/06/choosing-how-youre-seen-on-youtube.html

Spacepainter on the Rise- http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/

Tyler segment: Ghost Art Channels- MacPulenta, Williamsshamir, EclecticAsylumArt http://vidstatsx.com

Thad Segment- (LeilaniJoy) http://youtube.com/MissLeilaniJoy

Josh Segment- http://youtube.com/MaximGruninArt

Yoz Segment- 
1.) http://youtube.com/thepaulzart
2.) http://youtube.com/zetesbaby
3.) http://youtube.com/arlakir

WE NEED A VISUAL ARTS CATEGOTY PETITION- http://www.change.org/petitions/create-a-visual-arts-category-on-youtube

Art News FB Page- http://facebook.com/youtubeartnews

MatthewKeeney Segment- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbvSms-1yj4

END CREDITS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Kazanjianm
HOST: Pablo Van Warhol
UNDERRATED ARTIST FEATURE BY: http://youtube.com/YOZcreative
THE GHOSTS OF YOUTUBE ART SEGMENT: http://youtube.com/TylersArtShack
3D & CONCEPTUAL ART BY: http://youtube.com/matthewkeeney
2D ART FEAUTURE BY: http://youtube.com/Thadtaylorart
VIRAL ART VIDEO REPORT: http://youtube.com/Joshwaddey16
SUBSCRIBER RANKINGS: http://youtube.com/orangemonkey92

Hello YouTube Artists, artsy dogs, hipster cats and expressionistic elephants. Weve got a great show for you today. Thad, Matt and Josh will highlight the Art of LeilaniJoy, PhilinTheCircle and MaximGruninArt and Yoz will try to uncover YouTube's hidden art talent. Another artist has been featured in On The Rise. Could there be more art friendly changes coming to YouTube in the near future? As always, OrangeMonkey brings us subscriber rankings but first Tyler is going to tell us about the Ghost Channels. Lets take a look. 

Thank you Pablo. We have HUGE NEWS for you tonight folks. Some would call it the YouTube Art Story of the Month. And who has it? Anderson Cooper? No! YouTube Art News does. 

Quick, do a YouTube search for the word Drawing. What youll find is something new and interesting.  Lets take a look. 

You'll find an auto generated channel with more than 21.000 subscribers. This channel has millions of videos in total but features a set of what is considered to be the 30 best drawing videos on YouTube. If you scroll all the way down the page you will see an interesting link that says, " The selection and placement of videos and channels on this page were determined automatically by a computer program." and then another link that says "Learn more"

It seems that YouTube is categorizing its massive inventory of videos.  Perhaps other groups other than artists have felt left out An auto generated channel is created when YouTube algorithmically identifies a topic to have a significant presence on the site. YouTube algorithmically determines the central topics in a video and then uses that information to develop great collections of videos for any topic of interest. follow the normal best practices for discovery of a video - select really good title and description. Remember to focus on quality of tags rather than the quantity.

This month for the second month in a row an artist is featured in the on the rise competition. YouTube Art Veteran SpacePainter is up against 3 other channels. And is currently getting his butt kicked! Hey art community. Lets do something about that. You have until 

Last month was the PBS show Art21 lost by a narrow margin to another non profit called World Food Program.

Do you have a confusing channel name that nobody can remember......like kazanjianm. Well now YouTube is allowing its users to go by their real name. You might not become more searchable if your name is as common as Joe Smith or as un fricking spellable as Merrill Kazanjian. But if you have a unique name or if you want to go by your own name rather than your channel name, you can do that now. We linked to the story in the video description. Up next is the 3D segment with Matthew Keeney. 

And last but not least, Yoz has highlighted three amazing channels who are not getting the viewership that they deserve. If you wish to be considered for this feature, please post your work with a link to your channel on the YouTube Art News Facebook page.