Youtube releases "Dashboard" and Youtube Trends features

Youtube has released a few features that I really like.

The first is a new tab to your channel controls, the Dashboard. It basically has a snapshot of all the latest information about your channel such as recent comments, subscribers and views.

The other feature is the Youtube Trends Dashboard which tells you what videos are trending right now.  This tool has a lot of potential to be incredibly useful to those who are trying to "ride the wave"; if you upload videos with similar keywords and titles as a trending video you might gain some of the search traffic being directed at that video or appear in the related videos feeds of these videos. You can also post a video as a video response to these videos.