YouTube has announced the winners of the Next Vlogger 2013 contest. 15 lucky winners will now receive $4,000 in production stuff, a Google+ Hangout workshop series with experts in the field, and the chance to collaborate with a whole bunch of other vloggers around the world.

YouTube Creator Academy starts up on June 3-June 16 with a course called "Maximize Your Channel." The free online course is open for registration all the way through to June 16. The course is designed to maximize the features of YouTube's One Channel design.

YouTube is tinkering with a new kind of shoppable ad system on the Tresemmé channel. The best part for me: you can actually stay on the channel while you watch videos

Content marketing is ever-changing, and lately video content is trumping text. Learn how to adopt a system for video content marketing. Develop skills to create an effective video strategy in business, and become aware of what the public is looking for in a compelling online video

There is now real evidence that cord cutting is happening with actual net subscriber loss. Pay TV lost 80,000 subscribers over the past year, which sounds awful for cable companies until you realize they still have nearly 100 million. But hey, capitalism rules, and I'm sure there's some panic.

How can certain networks that are successful on cable figure out this YouTube thing?

YouTube is announcing 100 hours of video uploaded every minute. It tells us that YouTube continues to grow and that's great. But more content being uploaded to YouTube means it will require more effort to get noticed, and you need to be prepared to do the work.

Google and Microsoft have been facing up to each other all week over the Windows YouTube app which has yet to be settled - although Google's 'Cease & Desist' letter might hasten Microsoft's decision about whether to allow ads and prevent downloads. In other news, YouTube's 'Comedy Week' starts tonight - we can't wait!

Chris Hadfield's "Space Oddity" highlights Fun Video Friday. But we have a ton more in store: ducks stop a police chase, Epic Meal Time reaches into their horror bag again with a Bacon Arachnid, and Abercrombie & Fitch get their just desserts.

Google wants their new VP9 codec to be royalty-free, but patent disputes could prevent that from happening. Meanwhile, VP9 is supposed to have double the image quality using half the compression of H.264.