home “suggested for you”
- structure
the site reminds user’s searches and his interests
home
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site graphics reduced to skeleton to leave space to contents
search and access for logged users
advertising
the page header proposes contents’ search and access for logged users
http://www.youtube.com
YouTube suggests to user videos that could be interested in upon previously viewed ‘videos videos
Home page presents an advertising space (variable space) proposing advertisements chosen upon user’s searchers
shown in this moment’
YouTube proposes the most viewed videos in the last time (thousands views in few days)
sponsored videos “featured videos”
advertising does not bother the contents fruition
YouTube proposes the most commented videos in the last time this section proposes videos which are sponsored by owners
‘the most popular’
news on YouTube
info and contacts
graphic and contents proper of the site are almost invisible to leave space to users’ contents
YouTube heralds innovations as soon as implemented on its site, inviting users to test them
video page
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search and access for logged users
source channel
user may begin a new search at any moment
information on video source, possibility of logging in and connection to all videos proposed on the channel
info
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home
possibility to follow a video programming without any further contact with the computer
automatic playback
http://www.youtube.com
presence of tag system
possibility to activate an automatic video playback in a sequence offered by the author or other users
informations on video, tag, connection for buying on iTunes (in case of legal issue), number of views videos with more views present advertising which hide a large part of the video itself
all videos are conceptually related through the “tags”
related videos
possibility to vote the video, to add it to “preferred” list and to share it in social networks
sharing utilities
in this section YouTube automaticatically proposes videos similar to the one being played; the similarity is obtained upon the tags enclosed to videos
lack of ‘like of facebook sharing utility through social and “like” button
form for comments video responses comments videos proposed by other users as “video response”; the proposal must be approved by the video owner
in this section are proposed users’ comments: other users may declare the comment’s quality through a “like” or a “don’t like” or reporting its illegality
info and contacts in this page too, graphics and contents proper of the site are almost invisible to leave space to users’ contents
channel page
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log in
possibility to log in the channel possibility of sharing video, addding it to a “preferred list� or a playlist
sharing utility
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header
http://www.youtube.com
videos of the channel videos issued by the channel in time order (from the latest)
sharing utility for social networks possibility of subscription
channel subscription
comments on the channel
channel description user may log in a channel, then becoming friend and so receiving all updating and signalling of new videos as soon as issued
data relating to channel: proposed contents, channel views, official site
space dedicated to comments on the entire channel (not only to a single video)
comments advertising channel’s advertising area (YouTube sells this space to the channel)
members in this space are shown the last users that become members
insight
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channel search and access
menu possibility to know detailed statistics on own channel
account
search form and possibility to access/disconnect to the channel
possibility to upload own videos
total overview
navigation menu inside the YouTube account navigation menu inside the statistics supplied by Youtube
visualisations
http://www.youtube.com
total overview on all accesses; user may choose the time fragment in which all underlying data will be calculated
‘my videos’
number of channel views vs time (segment chosen by user) visualization percentage of a single video with “attention” level alongside the entire video
popularity in the world
demographic data
detailed statistic
possibility of downloading a detailed statistic report (uptated each 24 hours) about the visualisations of the own channel
info, contacts and general setting global distribution of the visits
YouTube supplies detailed data on users (logged in YouTube) that visited their channel graphic and contents of the web site are almost invisible to give place to user’s contents