Introducing a NEW LV TEMPLATE!

Just in time for St. Patrick's day, it's the brand spankin' new SHAMROCK template!

Share a little luck o' the Irish, get ready for spring, or just make your friends green with envy when you choose the Shamrock template for your channel background. It's easy! Here's how:

• Go to "Edit My Channel"
• Under "My Channel Admin", select "Edit Channel Template"
• Click "Select" next to the Shamrock template
• Your channel will automatically be updated to display your new background!

Who knows, maybe a little channel change will lead to a pot of gold.

Happy Vlogging!
-The LV Team

Group Your Friends!

Now you can put your friends in groups so you can easily find them! (Because we know you have a lot of friends.) Make groups like “Work Friends”, “Funny Friends”, “Favorite Friends”, or “Big Nosed Friends”.Categorize them however you like—nobody will know what group(s) your friends are in but you.

Here’s how to make a group:

• Log in and go to "Edit My Channel"
• Click on "Edit Friends Group" under My Channel Admin.
• Click on "Add New Group", enter the name you want the group to have (ex: Dog Lovers), and hit save.

To add friends to a group:

• Go to “My Friends”.
• Click on “Groups” under a friend’s name.
• You may then select the group(s) (a single friend may be in multiple groups), and click on “Update”.

Ta dah! But wait, there’s more!

Extra special bonus: A fun new feature that lets you chose who you suggest a video to!
So you don’t accidentally suggest that sexy bikini video to your mom…

Now when you want to suggest a video to your friends, simply click on “Suggest to Friends” next to the video.
An address book will pop up with a list of all of your friends.
Here, you may sort them by group, check only the friends you wish to suggest the video to and click on “Send to Suggested”, or click on “Send to All” to suggest the video to all of your friends.

Happy Vlogging! -The LiveVideo Team

Now you can manage all of your comments at once!

Make sure you've turned on the Preview Comments function located under"Edit My Channel>My Channel Admin>Edit Account. On the bottom of the page, click on the boxes to preview comments for your videos, photos, and channel.

Next: Moderate your comments! Go to "Edit My Channel", then under the "Shortcuts" heading on the left, go to "Manage Comments".

Click to approve or delete all of your comments on your videos, photos, and your channel! Ta dah!

Note: Should you decide later to delete a comment you approved, simply go to your channel, scroll to the section the comment is located in (i.e. Videos, photos, or general comments) and click on "Delete"

Enjoy managing your comments! Now it's so easy, you should never have to worry about having a comment you don't approve of made public!

Happy Vlogging! Love, Live Video

Now everyone can put their photos and videos in albums to share with their friends, family, and the world.

Just log in to your account, go to Edit My Channel and select Edit Albums under My Channel Admin.

Once your album is created, it's easy to add your photos or videos to it.

If you want to add videos to your new video album:

• go to My Videos
• click on Edit Info/Thumbnail under the video you want to add to the album
• select the album you want your video to be a part of
• click Update at the bottom of the page, and your photo will be placed in that album!

To add photos to a photo album:

• go to My Photos
• click on Edit Info under the photo you want to add to the album
• select the album you want your photo in (just under the tags/keywords section)
• click update at the bottom of the page, and your photo will be placed in that album!

Everyone can now view your albums by going to your channel, and selecting an album from the drop down menu under your My Videos and Photos sections! Sweet!(Just make sure the videos/photos you've placed in your album are Public, or else they won't show up on your channel!)

What is LiveCam?

LiveCam lets you upload video directly from your WebCam! Stream video directly from your computer to LiveVideo!

What do I need to use LiveCam?

All you need is a WebCam. Turn it on, and you're seconds away from broadcasting your thoughts to the universe.

Why should I use LiveCam?

Want to make a quick video comment? Do it in seconds, without the hassle of busting out your fancy camera; save it for your future Academy Award winning vlog epic:

• It's got all the features of traditional uploading, and takes a fraction of the time!
• You can still REVIEW your video before you post it, so no embarassing slip-ups (hey, who farted?) will be broadcast (unless, you know, you're proud of your flatulence.)
• It's a great way to stay connected! Make a quick video comment, then get on with your own vlog...or go play outside.

Click here to get started using LiveCam right now!

We now support posting a video to your WordPress blog. If you've already got a WordPress account, you can add your account by going to your Blog Settings. If you do not have a WordPress account, click here to sign up and get started. Take advantage of this feature to quickly and easily post videos to your text-based blog.

Have you ever been patiently waiting for a file to upload, and all the sudden you lose your internet connection, ruining your upload and causing you to start all over again? If you have, we have the remedy for you. Even if you haven’t, there’s still plenty to keep you interested in LiveVideo Xpress.

You get all the functionality of the traditional web based upload page, yet you get the added simplicity of an upload manager to cut down on the work you have to do to get a video on your channel. Click here to download LiveVideo Xpress.

We're very proud to announce the launch of a very exciting new feature - Photos! Now you can upload your favorite images alongside your favorite videos. I'm here to show you how to use the photo feature so you can get your photos up as soon as possible.

Important Note: If you have added or removed sections on your channel, you will need to manually enable the photo section on your channel for it to appear. If your layout has not been altered from default settings, the photos section will automatically appear on your channel, underneath the "Our Videos" section.

We've worked very hard on this feature, so we hope everyone here in the LiveVideo community really embraces it and starts using it right away.

A lot of people have been writing in asking how to upgrade to a director account. All you need to do to upgrade your account is to navigate to edit my channel and then click the upgrade button under the "My Channel Admin" panel.

A director account provides producers of original content a way for others to recognize them as producers of original content on top of providing more flexibility for uploading large files. If you are producing your own content, consider making yourself a director. And as everything else on LiveVideo, it's totally free.

If you've been harassed via the LiveVideo messaging system, we now allow you to block a sender directly from the offending message. Click the "block sender" button to send that sender into the black void of blocked channels. After they are blocked, they will not be able to view your channel, send you any messages, or leave comments on any of your videos. If you later feel guilty about blocking them, you can always choose to unblock them by navigating to their page and hitting the "unblock" link on the information section of their channel.

Ever find yourself wondering if anyone has left a reply to a comment you've left on a video? Well now you don't have to, simply navigate to your edit account page and check the box for the "send new profile comment" and "send new video comment" notifications. You'll now receive an email every time someone replies to a comment you've left on a profile or video.

Another feature a lot of people have requested is the ability to disable the autoplaying of videos in director accounts. We now provide you with the option of enabling or disabling this feature depending on your preferences. Disabling autoplay will stop your videos from automatically playing when someone navigates to your channel (if you have a director account). This is just more proof that your suggestions are taken seriously around here, so keep them coming and we'll keep rolling out the features you want most.

Have you been wanting to customize your profile but don't know a lick of CSS? No worries, just visit LiveVideoLayouts.com for tons of customized layout codes for your channel here at LiveVideo. Once you get the code, copy and paste it into the StyleSheet Customization box of your Edit Channel Appearance page.

How many other video hosting sites out there give you a 2500 character limit for comments on videos? As of now, the only ones I know of give you a measly 500 characters to work with. We even include a counter that tells you exactly how many characters you have left, as you are typing. Enjoy the extra space. Have fun, and take advantage of this feature to keep the community alive and well.

You asked for it, and we have delivered. If you don't want people to be able to embed your video on another site, we now give you the option to disable embedding when you upload your video. All you have to do is click "no" on the "Allow Embedding" section of the upload form, and voila, the embed code will not show up on your video.

Happy New Year to everyone out there in LiveVideo land. We're rolling out a very cool new feature for the new year. It's a way to help you take a video you really love and spread it all over the web. All you need to do is hit the new "Spread This Video" button, and then click on the title of the website you want to send the video to. We do all the hard work for you, all you need to do is hit a couple of buttons and the video is ready to be forwarded to any one of the sites on the list. It's a great way to expand the audience of a video you really think is worth sharing, and all it takes is a couple of clicks. Check it out, it's a great feature, and we think you'll love it.

All you fellow developers, I've got good news for you. LiveVideo offers open access to key parts of the LiveVideo video repository and user community, via an open API interface. Using our APIs, you can easily integrate online videos from LiveVideo's rapidly growing repository of videos into your application. After you've created a developer profile, you'll be ready to tap into the power of LiveVideo.

To create a developer profile, you must first sign up for a LiveVideo account, sign in, and then fill out your developer profile.

For more information, check out the documentation.

Hi everyone, it's Ash, the self-proclaimed employee-of-the-month here at LiveVideo. Are you feeling like your channel needs a little something to make it stand out, but you don't know what it is? Or maybe you're just tired of your current layout? Either way, check out these two new channel templates for a remedy.

Essentially, forums are discussion boards where you can create a topic, and have other users of LiveVideo post replies. LiveVideo’s forums are set up a little differently than the forums you might be used to. Only those with a director or entertainer account are able to host the forums on their channel. While any visitor of the channel can view what has been posted in the forum, topics on a specific forum on a director’s channel can only be created by the owner of the channel, a crew member, or a friend of the channel. After a topic has been created, replies can be posted by anyone who has an account and is logged in, and is not blocked from posting by the owner of the channel. The forums give you another way to build and interact with the LiveVideo community, so participate, and most of all enjoy yourself.

By the way, if you're a director or entertainer and you've changed the layout of your page, you have to manually enable the forum section on your channel.

Here’s how to do it:

Step 1: Navigate to your channel
Step 2: Click on “Edit My Channel”
Step 3: Click on “Edit Channel Sections”
Step 4: Check the box next to “Our Forums”