Like many agencies which manage YouTube Channels for clients, the Allegravita team has been eagerly awaiting the mass-rollout of YouTube’s March 2012 Channel design improvements. GigaOM has a good overview of the main features introduced this morning to all YouTube Channels.
We immediately implemented a number of the improvements on the OBE Organic YouTube Channel and we’re startled by how good a YouTube Channel can now look. Its a piece of cake to use one of the five different layout options to send a single featured video to the top of the Channel (and, optionally, to set it to auto-play), and to customize playlists and playlist order to give something akin to a free-placement list of links to other videos in the Channel.