Google Chrome's new video takes over

A couple of weeks ago the Google Chrome team launched Artist Themes for Google Chrome, a project where leading designers, artists, illustrators and musicians used the browser as their personal canvas for designing interesting themes. It's been exciting to see how people have responded to these designs and we're even hearing unique and interesting stories about how these themes have resonated with Chrome users around the world.

To continue celebrating this collaboration of engineering and art, the Google Chrome team has launched a new YouTube video (with a surprise ending) that more fully showcases the beauty of these themes. Check it out at youtube.com/googlechromethemes.


To create this experience, they recreated an entire watch page using a Flash gadget and embedded it on their channel homepage. With a couple nifty Flash tricks, the themes not only extend outside of the video, but users can interact with the content in the video to dynamically affect the background of the site.

This isn't the first time a channel owner has used a flash gadget to make a video "pop" -- Nintendo created a similar experience last year at youtube.com/wariolandshakeit2008.

We look forward to seeing more creative uses of the watch page!

Posted by Mark Sabec, Associate Product Marketing Manager