Users can subscribe to channels or other users on Youtube, which has the effect that they will receive notifications in their account if a new video has been posted on the video portal. That’s a great way of keeping up to date with videos that are produced by specific users or channels, and to make sure that no video is ever missed.

Subscriptions are shown in the user profile, which makes them a bit uncomfortable to work with.

YouTube Subscription Monitor offers an interesting alternative for Youtube users who use Chrome to access the site.

Once installed it can be used to monitor the subscriptions of one Youtube user. One great aspect of the extension is that it is possible to monitor the subscriptions of any Youtube user, not just the subscriptions of the own account.

Before subscriptions can be accessed, the account that should be monitored needs to be added to the program’s settings. This is done by right-clicking the Tube icon in the Chrome status bar and selecting Options for the context menu.

The options contain several additional settings, including the interval of the update checks and the number of videos that are displayed by the extension. The option to display new video notifications is enabled by default, and can be disabled in case that is not needed.

It is now possible to left-click the icon in the header of the Chrome browser to display the latest new videos in a menu.

Each video is displayed with a small thumbnail, the video title, playtime, uploader and date it was uploaded. A left-click on a video opens the video in a new tab in the web browser.

Youtube Subscription Monitor is an interesting option for Youtube users who make use of the subscription feature and use the Chrome browser to view the videos on the video site. The extension can be installed directly on the Google Chrome Extension’s website.

© Martin for gHacks Technology News, 2010.