News: YouTube has a beta version out for viewing videos on YouTube. The player itself is slightly larger, so is the font. There’s no banner ad at the top, so everything fits close to one screen shot. Also, the video’s creator’s Channel is now viewable prominently on the right hand side over the “Related videos” feature. More thumbnails for each are viewable as well. Also, this might be unrelated, but now I’ve just noticed that there are only 5 pages of Recent Videos available (instead of 10).
Old look is here versus the new look (beta) here. I’ve put a reduced-sized screen shot of the new look below, compared to the old.
Analysis: Bigger, better.
New Look
Old look
[...] of YouTube next Tuesday in what appears to be a soon-to-ramp-up international strategy. It is also testing a new bigger video player on YouTube [...]