1. YouTube premium - I wonder why Youtube does not have an ads free, paid subscription version with some added benefits? I am sure there is significant audiance out there who value time more than money and would happily pay for an ads free video watching experience.
2. 'You still there' feature - A lot of times when users are playing videos from a playlist, it is impossible from the application to identify whether users are sitting in front of screen and watching video or left, slept, got busy in something else. A good way to save valuable user internet bandwidth here would be to take a response back from users in case of no click or cursor movement from user for multiple videos. This will also give true value to advertisers and will make sure that there ads are being watched or skipped :) . In case if no response just stop playing and buffering.
3. Video preview - This is again a simple and wildly know practice to show video preview in the form of several stills taken at different time and shown on mouse over on the video. Here YouTube can actually go a step ahead and generate a 2 minute real video preview of a 2 hour movie (like a movie ad) which users can see and make up their mind whether the video is worth spending there next 2 hours or not.
4. Clipping and sharing the clipped video - Ability to select a fixed time interval clip from a specific video and then sharing the clip with friends over social networks. This will address all the usecases where users share a clip and give a comment and say - 'rest of the video is boring but piece between 3rd and 4th minute is amazing'
5. Movie room - One of the great experience of watching movie in a theater is you watch it with your friends/family and you can laugh on every comment you friends are making and make them laugh with your wits in between or ask them on what just happened. Imagine if the same concept can be brought to you on your laptops and gives you a chance to watch movie with your distant friends. You can schedule a movie, invite friends online to watch it together and have all the tools like group chat, voice and video of friends and even advanced editing tools to put a patch on superman's eye in 'Superman returns' or make dinosaurs wear diaper in 'Jurassic park'. Imagine what fun will that be.
6. Topical navigation - Another important aspect which I find missing in YouTube for a UGC (Use Generated Content) site is - Topical navigation. You can browse YouTube by top level channels like music, movie, sports but sub level categorization is still at preliminary stage on YouTube.
7. Official video Downloader - There are a lot of browser plugins/add-ons available which lets you download the videos from YouTube. In this situation would it not make sense for Google to actually launch a YouTube video downloader through which user can download all the royalty free. Also for videos which are not allowed (copyrighted/restricted) for users to download the 'download button' simply should not appear. This will also make users aware of which videos they are not suppose to download
If you have thought of some features which would be good addition to YouTube, please let me know with comments. Also I would love to know of what you think of the features listed above.
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