When people talk about today's most popular social sharing websites, YouTube often gets left out of the conversation in favor of sites like Facebook and Twitter.
1) You can create a link that starts a YouTube video at a certain time.
2) You can easily see the written transcripts of people's videos.
3) You can help your video get found in search by editing or uploading a transcript.
4) You can use YouTube to easily get free transcriptions of your videos and audio files.
5) You can create, share, and collaborate on video playlists.
6) You can save videos to watch later.
7) You can create your own custom YouTube URL.
8) You can add clickable links to your videos.
9) You can also add an end screen or cards to promote content.
10) YouTube has a big library of high-quality, royalty-free sound effects and music you can browse and download.
11) You can easily create photo slideshows and set them to music.
12) Play YouTube videos in the background on mobile devices.
13) You can live stream videos to YouTube.
14) You can upload and watch 360-degree videos (live and pre-recorded).
15) YouTube ads target you based on an algorithm similar to Google and Facebook.
16) You can remove ads from YouTube videos (and watch videos offline) for 10 bucks a month.
17) You can use Google Trends to explore and compare popular YouTube search terms over time.
18) There's a "safer" version of YouTube available for your kids.
19) You can now clear your YouTube History.
20) You can learn about YouTube's copyrights terms from a cast of ridiculous puppets.
