People who use YouTube to promote their website (and people who have shunned the idea because so many YouTube videos are shoddy-looking) should take note: YouTube’s upped the limit on file sizes that you can upload.

A post on the YouTube Blog explains the rather big change.  “We’re happy to announce that the size of standard uploads has doubled from 1GB to 2GB.  The increase means you can upload longer videos at a higher resolution as well as large HD files directly from your camera.”

And if you want to take advantage of these opportunities, the process is easy.

“To share a link to the HD version of your video, simply append &hd=1 to the end of the URL,” the post states.  “To embed the HD version of a video on a website or blog, click the ‘customize’ button to the right of the embed box on the video page.”

Since everything looks more appealing when the clarity increases (think of the VHS to DVD to Blu-ray evolution), this change could have a serious impact on marketing efforts.  Get out a bigger-than-usual camera memory card and see what it can do for you.

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