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Jack Black takes on PewDiePie in YouTube channel debut
Jack Black has launched a YouTube channel dedicated to "games, food, and life". For now, "Jablinksi Games" features just one upload: a 29 second intro vid in which the Hollywood actor jokes that he'll be bigger than Ninja and PewDiePie, two of the site's biggest creators. The clip has already racked up almost 2 million views, while the channel has more than 582,000 subscribers at the time of writing. Black is promising a new video every week to be shot, directed and edited by his son.
BBC announces YouTube original content channels for science, nature
Hot on the heels of YouTube's launch of 60 new original content channels, the BBC has announced that it will be partnering with Google's video service to present two of those. The UK broadcaster said it will introduce a nature channel, with content coming from its BBC Earth Productions unit, and a science channel featuring Top Gear presenter James May "and his crack team of scientists." The new portals will come online in 2013, and "Auntie Beeb" has also redesigned its six current YouTube stations and added new clips from Top Gear (season 18) and other original programs, too. All that comes along at the same time as the refreshed iPlayer -- another way the company's been creative with technology, lately.
YouTube refines homepage feed, adds highlights option
If your channel subscriptions were starting to get a little unwieldy, you might want to tinker with several new feed options rolling out to the site now. Accompanying bigger thumbnails with more detail, users can now hide individual updates, limit them to new uploads or just unsubscribe directly from their feed. Anything that you've already watched on YouTube is grayed out to avoid unnecessary replays, while a new highlight view should ensure over-zealous videomakers don't squeeze out less prolific contributors -- and make some room for the next wave of (heavily-marketed) YouTube channels.
